She's here!!!!

Fri. the 9th I had an appt. with the dr. The plan was to induce in the morning if I felt so inclined...otherwise more monitoring on Sun. and inducing Mon. or Tues. at the latest.

By Fri. night when I went to bed I was pretty sure I would be waking up in labor or at least have a decent start at it if inducing was actually necessary. We went to bed...only to get up and go to the hospital at 1:30am...

Miss Aubrey Jean arrived at 4:30am after a mild labor and quick delivery. The dr. was 20min. away and barely made it in time to give my delivery a wonderful ending.

Our 9lb 20 1/4in little girl has a very loud voice when she wants to be heard! :)

So happy there was no inducing ...and that my baby's finally in my arms! After waiting an extra 11 days she came on just the day her Daddy suggested. :)

The rest of the hospital stay was a blur...

and we brought miss Aubrey home on Sun. afternoon...

to lounge around in her slippers...

and snuggle down in her own cozy bed.

Miss Kate was SOO pleased to finally have Aubrey home!

Here's some pictures for comparison of all my babies in the hospital

Aubrey

Elliott

Katelynn

And some of each of them at 3-5 days old.

Aubrey

Elliott

Katelynn (above and below)

So I've been told that the non-facebook people in my life would like to see some pictures so I thought I better take the time to post some for ya. Sorry it took so long, but here's all the ones that have been posted so you're not missing out. Prepare yourself for a load of pictures.

checking out their new sister

Tay-O did NOT want to hold her and flattened himself back into the corner, but did at least inspect her closely. :)

Kate lovin' having the girl she wanted so much!

4 days old

her cute little slippers

Elliott "hodin' baby's fingas"

Smile!

On a side note...These shoes came in the mail with some clearance stuff I ordered for next summer and are way to big still, but the kids love to clomp about the house in them, tripping clumsily along. It has been a great source of entertainment for all of us. :)

They enjoy leaping off the hearth in them and Tay-Os knees come up and his feet fly out with toes pointed outward and heels together, landing with a splat like a kangaroo or a giant bunny rabbit. It is quite comical to watch. :D

So ends our mile long post. Good night all. I'm off to catch a few winks before miss Aubrey makes herself known. We just picked 620 lbs of apples this afternoon so I'm needing my rest tonight. :) (hey they were free and this year we have a truck...last year I was limited as I only had the trunk of the car to fill)

One last post...

...Before this baby shows its face! At least thats what I'm hopin'! :) We've been calling Gramma Jo on the phone every day as usual but not with any exciting news like "Hey, pack yer bags cuz baby is on the way". Just the general chatty stuff...

Here's Tay-O talkin' to Gramma Jo.

Well, okay so he's just listening and wiggling all over the place as usual. :)

We ARE ready and waiting over here tho.

I've got the cleaning done (although I'm not sure how much longer that can last),

The baking done

I love my double ovens but when your belly sticks out as far as mine neither the higher one or the lower one is very convenient to reach into and since I'm rather accident prone to begin with I have this to show for all the baking I've been up to lately. Kate asked me yesterday If I could please take it off as its been 5 days since I did it and it currently looks like this.

YUCK!

The canning is done ...at least for now, but more is going to be needing done if this baby don't hurry it up some.

The lawn is mowed!

My sewing is never DONE, but I've gotten all kinds of stuff sewed lately...

Here are a few of the items although none have their buttons on yet simply because this town has only Walmart for their button selection and I didn't find what I wanted. :)

Still needs its elastic in the waist but you get the idea.

Um yeah, this is supposed to be post-maternity and I'm counting on my lose-25-lbs-in-one-day diet to do the trick for making it actually fit me! ;)

This looks a little better.

P.S. Thanks for the buttons mom! They turned out perfect!

Everybody got their haircuts done. Well, except me of course. I'm waiting for my sister which means after the baby comes.

The poor boy got hair in his mouth! :)

In other news, Kate and Tay-O got their trike fixed after much labor with the new B-day tools! ;)

We went to the fair a couple times while it was here and saw the usual stuff:

Pets

The usual farm animals

The not so usual farm animals

(like this furry chicken who cant find its face)

Some wild animals

And some elephants.

Kate was dying to ride an elephant but it was a ridiculous price for a short walk around the pasture and back...

So she settled for the ferris wheel...

and the train ride!

She LOVED them both and while at the top of the ferris wheel looked down on all the rides whirling around and exclaimed exitedly, with eyes shining, " Oh! I would like to ride on all those ones too! That would be SO FUN!"

I just snapped this pic the other day in a spur of the moment snapping session where I plunked them in the rocking chair on the deck in the midst of their daily play and shot some pics, after Mr. Wise Guy was looking for a pic of the 2 kids together to put on his new credit card and we came up blank in our search of any recent and not so recent files.
I LOVE IT! :)

Miss Kate looking very angelic...

...aand more like herself! :)

A decent portrayal of both kids personalities above and below.

and a couple extra I couldn't resist puttin up. :)

And last but not least, Miss Kate preaching from her make-do pulpit. :)