Now that Leah is six weeks old, we have officially gone six weeks with little to no sleep or silence! She rarely sleeps more than three hours at a time and when she's not sleeping, she is screamin her hairy little head off! That in itself if a whole post on it's own, so for now I will just focus on the positive...
I absolutely Love, LOve, LOVE how these pictures turned out. If you don't fall in love with these two little girls there's something wrong! I love how awake Leah is in some showing off her big blue eyes, and sound asleep in the others. I think she looks so different from one to the next.
Enjoy!
This was her birth announcement
Monday, November 9, 2009
Our (sleep deprived) Two Weeks in Review....
She looks innocent enough, but don't be deceived.....she parties all night long!
Brooklyn was thrilled to finally be able to feed her baby sister her very first bottle!!! She's been a little disappointed that her "baby sissy" isn't a little more fun. She rarely takes a bottle and refuses a binky, all the things Brooklyn was so excited to give her when she came.
While Brooklyn throws a fit if her dad messes up her hair, she hates, hates, hates, puffy, girly clothes! It was a lot of fun talking about being Tinkerbell, but when she saw the fluffy costume coming towards her, she told me "maybe I don't want to go trick-or-treating. Let's just stay home." So we settled for a t-shirt underneath and she was a little happier. My favorite touch was the flowers on her braces!
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Welcome Home Baby Leah!
Leah (still working on/arguing about the middle name) Fisher
Born Monday October 26th, 12:50 p.m.
7lbs. 9oz. 21 inches
The Labor and delivery was less than 4 hours and just what I had hoped for. It took us almost a full day to decide on a name and finally settled on Leah. When I was only two or three months along Brooklyn told me she was going to have a sister and her name was Leah. I had another favorite name in mind but at the end of the day I had to admit that Leah fit her perfectly. I guess she knew something we didn't!
I loved that first night with her. It was just me and my new baby. I was so excited that I couldn't even sleep, I just kept staring at her. Finally I had the nursery take her at 2:30 for a few hours so I could sleep just a little.
That night I kept thinking how blessed I was to have this perfect little girl at my side. I didn't get to hold or feed Brooklyn until she was four days old. I know that that made me so much more grateful for my first night with Leah (even if I did finally send her to the nursery!)
First Bath...and a New Hair-do
In Her First Outfit Goin' Home!
No one 18 years or younger is allowed to visit in the hospital, so it was more than a full day before Brooklyn got to see or hold her new baby sister. And since then Brooklyn has pretty much ignored her!
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Parks and Pumpkins
About a month ago I was reading in my readers digest about a woman who put together a community project to build an "all access park" in her hometown. Jonny and I have always wished we lived near a wheelchair friendly park and have talked about how we could get one built here. Well the article inspired us to do a little research on the topic. Jonny has called many people and started the long process to see how to get one here in our town.
We found out that 2 hours away such a project had just been completed so we took a day to visit this brand new park with Brooklyn, her cousins, and of course to test it's claim to be "wheelchair friendly." (notice there is no rocks or bark, only soft ground....I love it!)
There are very few places that Brooklyn can take her wheelchair besides maybe the mall or church, so she was thrilled to cruise around this park. She loved keeping up with her cousins and shrieked with happiness the entire time. Anytime we helped her with her wheelchair we were screamed at that "she could do it herself!" When really she was flying down the ramps at a very unsafe speed!
"Look I can do it myself!"
Even the swings are made extra big so it was easy to get her in and out with her braces on. I don't know how many times I have struggled getting her out that I have almost had to go find help!
Before you continue reading..... this is my disclaimer:
This was not my idea
I resisted the whole time
If you knew my mom, you would know how this all happened........
Which of these things is not like the others? One of these things just doesn't belong....(you know the tune)
You have to admit that my mother, the artist, did a pretty good job making it look so real
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Since it's been almost 3 months since my last update I feel like there is so much to catch up on, but I just decided to put up a few pictures of my favorite 3 year old. Without her there really isn't much to talk about!
I briefly thought about posting a pregnant picture of myself then figured I didn't need to publicly humiliate myself anymore than necessary, so I deleted it. With just a few weeks left I am getting really excited but also really nervous. Though I probably complain more than I should (sorry Jonny) I feel so blessed to have made it this far in the pregnancy so on the other hand I am thrilled to be as wide as I am tall since that means the baby is getting bigger too!
First Day of Preschool!!!
I decided to do a Pre-school with four other moms in my neighborhood. I was sure my clingy little Brooklyn would never let me leave her at a new house every week, but she LOVES it! I am grateful for the other sweet moms who carry Brooklyn where she needs to go during their turn having her at their home.
NEW BIKE!
My mom found the cutest bike at a yard sale and Brooklyn was SOOOO excited to try to ride it. Try is the key word. After switching her special pedals and shoes to this bike, we realized it was just a little too hard for her to do. Jonny had to walk behind her and pedal her legs for her. It wasn't long until his legs started to burn and he switched everything back to her old bike. Maybe next summer those cute legs will be strong enough (Brooklyn's I mean, not Jonny's)
NEW STAIRS!
So every morning Brooklyn wakes up and screams for us to get her out of her bed. During the day she also loves to play on her bed but she needs help getting up and down from it so her Handy Daddy built her the cutest stairs to help her get up and down. This was her the first time just waking up and crawling down them. Though she has gotten better, she is still so excited about them that instead of doing it all alone, she demands that we watch proudly EVERY time she gets up or down.
The stairs are also a little toy box. Now Brooklyn can finally reach all of her toys
Friday, July 24, 2009
Bear Lake
A few weeks ago we took a little family vacation to Bear Lake. We stayed in a beautiful beach home and enjoyed four sun filled days on the beach.
Brooklyn was quite the Beach Bum and loved playing in the water and sand all day. She was a little too fearless in the water and tried crawling in up over her head a few times
We rented a jet ski which was alot of fun until Me, Jonny, and Brooklyn tipped on it going about 2 miles per hour. After that Brooklyn didn't even like to talk about the jet ski let alone sit back on it! It ended up breaking down the last day and now we are all splitting the $500 dollar bill to fix it. We are all blaming eachother for who "actually" broke it........
My crazy grandpa joined us for most of the trip and towed the kids in his louder than life riding lawn mower around the neighborhood and down to the beach. The only problem was the exhaust pipe would blow right in the poor kids faces. Carbon monoxide poisoning anyone?
Brookie loves to be like her Nana
The Big Sister
The Little Sister
Leah
6 months
Brooklyn
Four years old
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