he’s here

Lincoln.  6 lbs 4 oz.  19 1/2 inches.  9/10/11 at 12:16 PM.  Perfect.

Doesn’t he have a cool birthday, it will make it easy to remember.  Anyways, we are just loving our new little man.  We have been busy adjusting and recovering but we are all doing well.  I can’t believe it has taken me so long to make a post about his arrival.  I think I will be making lots of posts in the next few days because there is lots to catch up on.

Lincoln was delivered through a scheduled c-section.  The surgery was scheduled to start at noon and Berret and I were supposed to be at the hospital at 10 AM.  We were a bit late to the hospital but there was still tons of time waiting around.  Preparation for the surgery seems like such a slow process but part of that might be how anxious we felt.  Once in the O.R. though things seem to go really fast.

   

Then I was taken to a recovery room and Lincoln was taken to the nursery.  They wanted to watch him for awhile while he coughed out some of the fluid in his lungs.  For about about 45 minutes or so Berret went back and forth between Lincoln and me.  Lincoln was brought to me before leaving the recovery room and he started eating right away.  He eats like a champ which is so nice.  When Hallie was born we struggled for weeks with nursing.  We had to hang out in the small recovery room for quite awhile because all of the rooms were full.  The rooms were pretty nice though and big.

 

Lincoln has his 2 week check up tomorrow so we’ll get to see how much he weighs and such.

Check back soon because I’ll be catching things up here. 

more sidewalk chalk

 

The sidewalk chalk we got was a 3-D set with glasses.  It was really cool to look at the drawings with the glasses.  This is the set we got, I only paid a $1.50 though at Winco.  It is softer and leaves deeper colors but this makes it much messier.  With how messy the chalk was it was nice that Hals wasn’t wearing much, she just took a shower afterwards.

  

In the left picture Hallie noticed a jet and the “clouds” it was making.

 

Here Berret is finishing up a drawing of Gossie and Gertie from one of Hallie’s favorite books, Gossie.

ready to work

This is the outfit Hallie wanted to wear for working in the yard, a tutu and rubber boots.

  

horse swing

Hallie is so lucky to have a fun yard to run around and play in plus cool things like this horse swing.  Papa Wes put this up shortly after we moved in.

  

first bike

Hallie is one amazing kid.  She was a champ through the whole moving process.  We decided to have something special for her when we arrived in Washington.  Her new Kazam bike was waiting for her when we got in.  When we took her to ride it for the first time she kept saying “good girl. my bike.” over and over.

She certainly isn’t able to ride it like the kids in this video but she does have fun walking around with it.  I think next summer she’ll be old enough to use it a little better.

  

ward campfire

Last Friday we went to a ward activity.  It was a beautiful night and had a good time.  Before the activity Hallie burnt her finger and had a fit about it even though it really wasn’t that bad.  The first few picks she is trying to show off her burn.

 

Hallie played with sidewalk chalk for the first time and became completely enthralled.  We have since bought her a set that is already almost used up.

     

She made Papa Wes chase her all around.  Then everyone settled down a bit around a campfire for songs and Hallie danced her little bum off.