The latest and littlest one

Introducing Brady Arthur, now here are the stats:

• 3.5 hours from contractions to birth
• 2.0 hours of pushing
• 10 minutes of pushing with suction
• 4.89 40 time predicted, will be drafted in the 7th round as a longsnapper.
• 1 great little boy so far!

Here are some pictures for you all to digest.

This girl makes me smile....

Here's a little something for my mom, since she can't access facebook at work. :)

Happy St. Patrick's Day?

My goodness.... I just logged on and was shocked and ashamed to see that my last post was Halloween! Now we find ourselves in March and between St. Paddy's day and Easter - where does the time go? Well I'll tell you - most of my internet time goes to facebook.... if you're not my friend on there, you should try it out (that means you, Kristen! :)). That's where the brief tidbits and pictures are.

So, to try to catch up on the past 5 months would be somewhat somewhat futile at this point. In short, Annabel is such a big girl these days I can hardly believe it.... she'll be turning 3 in a week and a half! She talks CONSTANTLY, and is generally very sweet and helpful around the house (if she's in the mood to be helpful). She has the most expressive face I've ever seen on a little girl, and when she talks her eyes say almost as much as her mouth! She makes us laugh often and has definitely come to enjoy doing so.... she's quite the ham!

I think since I've been such a deadbeat blogger, any faithful readers that still check this out deserve a little something for their efforts. So, I'll break some news that hasn't hit facebook yet, in case you haven't heard it from me personally.... here it is, drum roll, please.....

That's right, although Annabel herself doesn't yet know what her shirt says, she is going to be a big sister soon. I'm due the first week in October, but I'm guessing we'll have a September baby. We had an ultrasound already and everything looked great, but we're waiting until after the 12 week appt to explain it all to Annabel. I am expecting a pretty entertaining conversation...... a couple weeks after we found out that I was pregnant I asked Annabel if she thought we should get a baby. She thought about it seriously for a second and then said "no, I already have one - Santa brought it to me." LOL - we'll see what she says when she figures this all out. I think she'll be pumped about being a big sister, I'm just not sure she'll really get what it means. But she'll learn soon enough!

Well, I'll try to be better but of course make no promises. Summer is coming which means we'll be busy! But I suppose I'll have to get back into this to document the life of Baby #2..... I'll do my best!