Sweetness

Our little boy is so sweet. Here you can see his orange hair. Williams was a more brownish red so I expect that this little guy will have lighter hair than him.

The coolest thing about our little Candy Corn (this is a onsie I made him for Halloween) is that at a few days old he would smile. And not just the sleep smile that babies do. Here he was fully awake and content and I would talk to him and these are the pictures I got of it.

I know this is not a big smile, but you can see it, right? He is a happy boy. I love looking at these pictures. His face is already less fat.

These pictures also remind me that I need to take pictures of him with William and Gracie in their candy corn cloths.

Fly on your wall photography

The day after I had my baby my friend Kayleen asked if she could come take some pictures. I love the pictures she takes so of coarse I said yes. When she came over she said she doesn't really do portraits she just kinda acts like a fly on the wall. I think she should start a business. The pictures are lovely and none are posed and I didn't even know she was taking half of them.

These are pictures of my life and I love my life.

debut

I know you all just want to see pictures of our newest family member.

Sometimes he has a hard time opening his left eye.

Nothing is better than sleeping with a new babe.

Doing his foot prints.

not fitting into the smallest sleeper we had for William. I know William fit in this for at least his first week. Not even for Joseph's first day.

Just a sweet baby.

My husband the talented multi-tasker. joseph stops crying intantly when Russ bounces on the ball.

Flabergasted (sp?)

This is a guest appearance by me, Russ. I felt I needed to take the liberty of sharing my thoughts on today from a different perspective than you will get from Debbie. First, let me tell you what today is. Today is the day that baby Joseph came into the world. It was truly amazing. My intentions for doing this post are literally purely in praise of my totally incredible, totally amazing wife. I have never been more in awe of a person's strength than I was today. I have had some clues in the past but it is official today, my wife is a stronger peson than I. I won't go into too much detail but I will say she began labor at just after 2:00 am and was a complete champ through every contraction. She made it look easy today. I am of course not insinuating that it was easy because I know that it wasn't. But, today will be an everlasting testimony of the metal of my wife. I have been so close to tears for the majority of the day.......Joseph just started crying and I need to go help Debbie. I will finish by saying once again that I am so proud of my wife because of the truly noble spirit she is. I will forever be in awe of her. I am the luckiest. I love you Debbie. You are my first, my last my everything.

russ

Done and Done

I started this post a long time ago and I am not sure when this picture was taken, but I am pretty sure it was the beginning of October. Once I had my baby shower I was done and ready for the baby to come any time. My mom came and helped me clean my whole house and even recover a rocking chair.

I for got to take a picture of it before I took the arms off.

I kinda liked it without the arms but that would not work so good for nursing. My mom is a genius and came up with an easy way to cover this in a mater of hours.

I don't have pictures of all the finished projects, but they all got done! I can't even believe it.

Here are some pictures of me stretching before a long morning walk on 10/10/10. I had to try something to see if I could have the baby on this day, but I guess he was not ready.




It was a beautiful morning and a lovely walk though. To keep myself busy since I kept not having this baby I decided to make Gracie some flowers for her hair. Kind of random, but it kept me occupied for a couple of days.
I also have Williams birthday to get ready for next week. I can't believe I am still pregnant. It really hasn't been too bad. I just try to wait patiently and go on with life.

I am ready to be done.

Hello Diapers

That is a greeting my son learned from a friend at school. But that is not what this post is about. My sister Connie and sister in law Ashley threw me a cloth diaper shower. We were already planning a bridal shower with the genus theme Connie came up with, I see London I see France, lets get the bride some underpants. That shower is going to be off the hook and I am sue you will see a post about that when it happens. Anyway I insisted they use the same theme for my shower. 1. Because is it cute 2. Because we had the decor and such for it.

I mean seriously - look how cute. The cloths pins say "I heart Paris" and "cheers" and there are many more.

We had raffle prizes for those who donated to my cloth diaper fund. Everyone was so generous and I am so grateful. I love my new cloth diapers!

a headband made by Ashley - so cute!

A fabric necklace and bag made by yours truly.

An awesome red velvet cake

Making the yummy sandwiches - I have to say also that my mom came and helped me clean my whole house and finish projects I was never hoping to get done. I love her so much for it.

The yummy sandwiches.

Gracie loves to help in the kitchen.

I love the rest of the pictures so much.

Obviously fun was had by all.

Cankles

After going to the baseball game Friday night (lots of walking) and the basement sale (posted about here) my feet grew a couple of sizes.

That finger print would hold there for quite awhile.

Luckily after sitting down with my feet up all night and part of the next day they shrunk back down to a reasonable size.