siblings

susannah loves evan and we are so thankful for that. she wants to help with everything and continues to shower him with kisses. here is a picture of her "holding" evan.

our little snoozer

Evan is quite the snoozer. he's actually more accurately known as the snack n' snoozer. he likes to eat a little sleep a little . . . and then repeat. grimes and I finally figured out that the little guy has the worst case of jet lag possible to man. he came from the womb which is pretty timeless into the world, where his parents would like him to sleep during this thing called night. he would rather continue to run on his own clock of getting up every hour or so to eat. a friend put me onto a plan to keep him awake more during the day and see if we can't kick this habbit. let's hope it works!

visit from auntie

Aunt Michele came to visit last weekend and we had a great time. here are some pictures from the pumpkin festival that we went to. we walked through the corn maze, let susannah pick out a few little pumpkins to complete her collection and drank hot apple cider. Evan slept the whole time.

loving being a big sister

susannah is taking very well to her new role as a big sister. the first word out of her mouth this morning was Evan. Here she is snuggling with him and examining his tiny little fingers.

projects around the house

Susannah has taken her love for art to the next level. she got some new art supplies for her birthday and has a number of projects going at any one time. The cute apron was a birthday gift made for her by her friend - thanks Wendy, what perfect timing!




helping dad sand the toy chest he is making for her and evan.

Baby Care

Susannah has taken her baby care to the next level. grimes even saw her burping her baby the other day.

life with two kids

Susannah is very interested in Evan and is constantly looking after him. he probably gets ten to twenty kisses an hour and lots of hugs too. I have to say that it is exhausting not only taking care of both kids very different needs, but also protecting Evan from his often well meaning sister.

question for those who have multiple children - did you come home with your second child to discover that your first had experienced a massive growth spurt while you were gone? I always thought susannah was so little and she seems huge now - especially when she is leaning over Evan to give him a kiss.

September 28th

September 28th was a wonderful day. I had been experiencing "latent labor" for about a month, but this morning I woke up feeling a little bit different. I suggested to grimes that we go ahead and celebrate susannah's birthday since I had a feeling we wouldn't be able to celebrate on the 29th. susannah got to choose the breakfast menu and ordered eggs. she opened a present at breakfast and then got to celebrate with her nursery friends at church. we had these great plans to take susannah to the kids fest at the civic center after her nap where she would meet elmo, and had invited some friends over for dinner and cake. I was so excited about the day, but fortunately didn't tell susannah all that was in store.

susannah woke up a little early from her nap and I was anxious to get going. grimes wanted to see if she'd fall back asleep. I think I knew that we were running out of time even though true labor had not yet begun. grimes went ahead and got susannah up and dressed while I called our friends who were going to keep susannah to let them know they'd have an overnight guest and we'd drop her off after her party. ten minutes later I call again and say we are on our way over.

we timed our first contraction of the pregnancy at 3:36 pm and Evan was born at 6:03 pm, right about when we were planning to have susannah's birthday dinner. needless to say, labor was short but sweet, and we made it to the hospital 18 minutes before Evan's birth. the doctor did make it to the delivery (after running up 6 flights of stairs due to a broken elevator), but Grimes caught Evan - it was an amazing day for all of us.

Susannah got to meet her little brother on her real birthday and had been enamored with him ever since.

celebrating her birthday on Sunday morning.

home from the hospital.

Evan with his big sister's "kiki".