you gotta write these things down...

ethan and caroline have come down with a little cold, and we're doing our best to keep the germs away from baby amelia. (and praise the Lord for breastfeeding and the wonderful immunity it provides!!) well, tuesday night, ethan woke up at about 3 AM complaining of a hurting ear. after doing everything i could to try to get him to go back to sleep, he ended up in our bed. (i must also mention that amelia had woken up to eat at 1:30, so i had just gotten back to sleep in the last hour when ethan woke up.) anyone who has shared a queen sized bed with a restless, sick child knows how the rest of our night went. i really don't think ethan slept at all that night. i know i didn't. well, brian's alarm went off around 6:45, and as he crawled out of bed on very little sleep, ethan sprang up in the bed for about the 600th time. i told him, "ethan, you have got to go to sleep if you want your body to feel better..." and he adamantly proclaimed,

"but mom! it is so hard to go to sleep with people in the bed!"

well, what do you say after that?! :) after ethan was given more room in our bed, he happily slept till 11:00 yesterday and is thankfully feeling much better.


in cute baby news, amelia had her newborn checkup yesterday. she weighs 9 lbs, 9 oz and is 21 1/2 inches long. so her weight is in the 50th-75th percentile and her height is in the 90th percentile. the 90th! it will be interesting to see if she ends up being our tall child. (it wouldn't take much!) and i'm very hopeful that her feet will stay long and skinny so she can fit into all those shoes that caroline's chubby feet would not. (insert imagery of cinderella's wicked step-sisters trying to cram their feet into the glass slipper...)

i know i should have tons of pictures to post of our daily life, but i honestly haven't really taken that many these days. i know, you don't believe me. but it's true. amelia is still sleeping so much of the day (to quote ethan, "she's going to sleep again?!"), and she is doing so well falling asleep on her own in her bed. so most of the day, she's not available for photo shoots. :) she is starting to look around and brighten up those eyes when we talk to her, and i've even seen her sneak a couple of adorable smiles. so maybe i can catch a smile on camera soon. the kids are doing so well dealing with having to wait for my help if i'm busy with amelia. i was thinking today that one of the benefits to having a small house is that even if i'm in another room changing a diaper or feeding amelia, the kids don't feel too far away from me. i can usually still deal with a fight breaking out or a request for something without having to stop what i'm doing since there's no "other side of the house". :) of course, there's some drawbacks to having a small house, a sleeping newborn, and two very vocal children... but that's what white noise machines are for!

and the topic of the month seems to be "who does amelia look like?" the general consensus is that she looks like ethan, but every now and then, she will look like caroline. so the other day, my mom and i were in the living room with the kids, and i said to my mom, "see? right now, she kind of looks like caroline." and i followed that comment with, "no, she looks like amelia!" and without missing a beat, ethan replied, "that's because she IS amelia!" thanks for clearing that one up, son!

here are a few pictures from the last couple of weeks at home...

ethan and caroline greet amelia with great excitement every morning. here they are on a lazy saturday morning in our bed. the bed with all the people in it. :)


amelia made her church debut at 10 days old. it was so wonderful to introduce her to everyone who had been eagerly waiting her arrival! even if half of those people just talked to her instead of me. :) ha! here we are at church on amelia's first sunday.


the kiddos have their favorite things they like to do with amelia... ethan loves to rub her head, and caroline insists on pushing her swing (that is already swinging, of course). here are the kids at their posts!



i wish i had a camera on my forehead to capture those wonderfully sweet moments with just me and amelia. the way she sleeps on my chest after a good meal is forever ingrained in my mind--her chin resting on her little folded arms... and those precious looks she gives me right before i lay her in her crib, as if to say, "nighty night, mommy!" well, i obviously don't have a camera attached to my forehead, but here is one shot of "my view" of amelia. oh, i could just eat her!


and who can resist a baby sleeping on her daddy?!?!?!


here are a couple of pictures from amelia's first bath at home a couple of weeks ago. the kids were a little confused when we didn't just plop her in the bathtub!



and here's our sweet baby girl showing off the adorable hat and blanket that aunt kristie made for her...



we continue to praise God for His goodness in our life. these children are a blessing, even when they do hog our bed. :) have a great weekend, y'all!