Memorable Weekend

This weekend was jam-packed with things to do. Friday night we visited the Roanoke Festival for the first time. Jude rode on a carousel for the first time and we enjoyed some good ol' fattening fair food!

Saturday I enjoyed pedicures for Mother's Day w/ my Aunt, Mom, and Sister...oh and of course, Olivia! She thoroughly enjoyed the massage chair.

Sunday we celebrated Jude's 2nd Birthday (a tad early). Bubbles, Big Trucks, and Elmo --that pretty much says it all!

Memorial Day was spent w/ the Meiss family. Jude loved these head-phones! Below is Olivia and Moses--1 1/2 week apart! Moses was totally bored w/ Olivia!

Dr. Knows Best

So, I took Olivia for her almost 3-week check-up yesterday and she weighed in at a whopping 9lb 80z! Seriously, the girl is a great eater! She's in the 75th percentile for weight and height! She's a growing girl!

photo by Joy Ruggard

I also mentioned to the Dr. about Jude not sleeping through the night. She advised that we NOT lay next to him at all, especially not in the middle of the night, because if he does wake up, he expects that he'll see us there and then when we're not, he freaks out. So, last night we left him in there, didn't lay with him. He cried for about 10 minutes and then it was silent and he slept through the night! Praise the Lord! I peeked in on him in the am to make sure he did make it into his bed...and he had! I told Abe, "what if he like hit his head and knocked himself out and that's why he's not crying anymore?", but thankfully that was not the case.



Olivia had her best night too! Slept 4 hours straight! Now, we'll see what tonight brings!

Spoke too soon!

Ok, so I previously reported that Jude appeared to be sleeping through the night...no such luck. Since that night, he's been up once, if not twice a night! Luckily, Abe's been able to get him back to sleep fairly easily..but still, it's interrupted sleep for both of us! Continue to pray for us!

Here is Jude w/ his Gree!! We visited she and Grockey this weekend!

Olivia is growing...we go tomorrow for her (almost three-week) check up. I'm guessing she's gained at least a pound. Her little cheeks are so full! I love it! She's a great eater...now if we could just get the "sleep thing" down!

Sleeping Beauties

So, you can see...the two have become quite close. That is, Jude wants to be close to her a majority of the time! He's learning gentleness.

And Praise the Lord! Jude slept through the night last night for the first time in a week!! Olivia was up every 2 hours, but that's ok...at least we got one of the two back on schedule. This is Jude passed out on the living room floor this morning. Stayed there for 2 hours. The cable guy came to switch out one of our receivers and didn't see him laying there. All of a sudden he kind of jumped and was like "oh my goodness". He said, "Your son scared me, all of a sudden I heard snoring!" Yep, snores like his dad!!

Update on the Fam of 4

So, here's baby Olivia at one-week old... She's quite the eater. We took her in for a 4-day check-up...When we left the hospital on Sunday, she was 7lb 3oz and on Tuesday she was 8lb! "No need for a one-week weight check-up" they told us...She's gaining just fine.

Big brother Jude is adjusting as expected.. He wants to "hold baby" quite often and give her kisses and touch her eyes. After a few minutes he realizes she's pretty boring and he goes back to whatever he was doing. The only real issue so far, is, he's decided to wake up in the middle of the night and not want to go back to sleep. I took him in to have his ears checked for infection but turns out, no infection...could be the big adjustment to life with a sibling. Other than that, we're managing!

Baby Olivia Has Arrived

Baby Olivia was born Friday evening at 6:51pm. She weighed in at 7lb 9.5 oz and 20.5 inches long. She is a little doll an exact look-a-like of Jude when he was first born. We are all doing well...and Jude is SLOWLY adjusting to life with a baby... It looks as though it may take a while!

This picture is Jude when he was first born...They look just alike!