Kate's first week

Two thanksgiving turkeys! Connor LOVES Kate. He likes to feed her, burp her, hold her, rub her face, and he is so good at sharing his trucks with her! We were leaving for church this morning and she was crying in her car seat and he said, "Baby Kate cry. Baby need truck." Then he went to the living room, got a truck and set it on top of her in the car seat. I almost started crying it was so sweet.

The ride home from the hospital started out a bit rough.....

but it got better :)

Kate is here!!

Our sweet baby Kate is finally here! She was born at 10:51 am on Saturday, November 19th. She was 7 pounds, 3 ounces and 19 1/4 inches long. She is doing really well and is so sweet! Here are a few pictures.

Here is a picture of Connor on his birthday, too! Such sweet siblings!!

Kate's Room

Here are some pictures of Kate's room. It is all ready, so all we need is a sweet little girl to put in it! In approximately 71 and a half hours we will have arrived at the hospital for the C-section! We can't wait!!

gymnastics

Connor and I went to gymnastics last week. He had a great time!

Climbing up and over!

He loves the little trampoline - look at him jump!

The foam blocks are always a hit! He did the rope swing and dropped into the pit! So brave!

This was his first time on the balance beam and he loved it! When the extra padding ran out he needed me to hold his hand, but he would jump from the beam into the pit of blocks!

Children's Museum

We have been trying to do a lot of things outside the house before baby Kate is born. We went to the children's museum with Katie this week and Connor had a great time! We haven't been in a LONG time, so it was so awesome to see him have so much big boy fun! His favorite part was the water table. He was soaked when we left!

Of course we had to start out with Barbie. My boy is nothing if not versatile - which happens when you have all girlfriends, you learn to adapt to dolls and strollers. He had a great time banging the Ken doll's head on the floor... awesome...

Loved the choo-choos.
Water table fun!

This is my favorite picture. He looks like he is going to up and fly away!

Hard to slide with soaking wet pants from the water table, but he still manages.

Playing musical instruments.

Joshua is very interested!

Halloween!

We went to the Harbert's again last weekend for a MOPS family playdate. It was pretty much a repeat of the weekend before, and Connor had the time of his life AGAIN!! Riding the horse and driving the tractor are officially his favorite things! I finally got a picture of him on the horse. He is dressed in his elephant costume. You can't really tell because he doesn't have the hat part up, but I promise he is not just "boy dressed in all gray".

We went to Katie's with Heather yesterday morning and painted Halloween shirts. Here is a naked boy ready to paint!

Connor was a frog for Halloween. He was adorable!

Getting his first piece of candy! He would say trick or treat about as soft as he could. You could barely hear him! And then he would say thank you - again, as soft as possible.


I know this is a terrible picture, but this is him when we got back from our Halloween rounds. He had dumped out all of his candy into his lap and was just staring at it. Before he dumped it, he was holding his bag open and just staring into it, like, this is amazing. It wa so cute!

last trip to the orchard

Here are some pics from our final trip to the apple orchard for this season. I mentioned to Mark the night before that we were going to the orchard the next day and Connor heard me. He got so excited! He was saying apple orchard! Swing! Slide! Slushie! lol all his favorite things...