First Photo

Elijah Charles

Born 7:35 am
8 lbs 15 oz
20 inches

Eviction Notice

This post is mostly to put my mom's mind at ease.... I know she's been waiting for a phone call to hear about the newest grandbaby - who still hasn't made an appearance. However, as a friend of ours put it, the child has been served an eviction notice. He or she has until Tuesday to make an appearance by choice. Then it's off to have a baby for sure. So if you don't hear from me before then, be sure to swing by for an update on Tuesday!

My Bags are Packed...

Yesterday was the day I woke up feeling just kind of icky and unwieldy and really ready to have the baby out rather than in.

Some friends of ours from Japan once told us (when we were expecting our first baby) that we needed to invite the baby to come when we were ready. At the time I was overdue with Leah and we were willing to try anything - and it worked!

So... now that we are back in our house with some semblance of order, we've gotten the important paperwork out of the way to finalize our refinance (and closing looks to be about a week away), I've finally packed a small hospital bag, found the car seat, set up the bassinet, and my doctor is on call this weekend...

We would like to issue an official invitation to our little one to come join our family! We can't wait to meet you!

Criminal Masterminds

This is a map.

This is a map made by my children to show their latest master plan. I've labeled it to make it easier for the non-secret agent to understand.

The plan is to have Lincoln create a distraction so Leah will have time to hide my books (which books, I have no idea). The goal? When I discover the missing books, apparently I will yell so loudly that Andrew will be able to hear me at work.

I'm still not sure how disturbed to be by this secret plan... especially since Leah was very distressed when she heard that Andrew had shown me the map.

In other news...

We moved back into our house last Wednesday - Hurray!! They were able to get the foundation up to within 1/4" of where they wanted it and my dad and brother were nice enough to come up and spend Monday and Tuesday fixing cracks and laying our floor back in place. Now we just have a lot of cleaning and organizing to do as we put all our furniture back in place and prepare for the new little one. We have many other projects in the works now that our foundation is more stable, but I think we'll wait until the baby arrives before we tackle those.