New Member of the Club

Welcome to the Mom Club Shelli. Little Madison Kathryn finally came into the world yesterday. And I mean little. She was 6lb, 13oz and 18.5 in long. How cute is that?? You forget how little they actually are when they are born. They grow up way to fast. With Madison being so little makes me think how big Ryan and Jake would have been had they gone full term. Ryan was 5lbs 11oz at 34 weeks and Jake was 7lbs 10oz at 37 weeks. Can you imagine if Jake went to 40 weeks? He could easily have been a 9 lb baby. Man. William was little in comparison at 7lbs even at full term. Goodness. Take a look at little Miss Madison. How cute is she? I can't wait to meet her.

Have a great day!
Rachel

How cute is she?

Hair Today

We went and got the boys hair cut today. I broke down and cut William's hair. I could never get a good cut. I should have broke down and took him to Justin. At least he would have been able to William's hair started in a good direction. So I ended up just cutting it off. He was happy. I think the long hair was driving him crazy. We trimmed up Jake's as well. He still has his curls in the back. William really wanted to do a mohawk so we bought the strong stiff hair gel stuff. So when we got home I tried it. He hated it. He wanted it to be "flat" as he calls it. I did get Jake's in a mohawk but as soon as William said he wanted his to be flat Jake did the same thing. Those crazy boys. So it was outside with them to play in the water. I sprayed them with the water hose and actually shampooed their hair and washed their bodies with body wash right in the driveway. I know white trash. Oh well. They loved it and they got to play in the water in the 100 degree weather. Oh yeah. The skating party William went to on Saturday almost had bad results. He switched his skates and the new ones had wheels that spun much faster. He told us he fell and hit his eye. Right where his stitches are currently located. Good Lord.
Have a great week!
Raye

William Before

William After

Jill's Bachelorette

Jill had her bachelorette party last night. We started at her sister's house at 5 and then dinner and then Pete's Dueling Piano bar. Rebekah and I did poop out about 10:30. We had lots of fun. We were singing, well I was singing, and laughing. Jill finally loosened up after many tasty beverages. She and I started at her sisters house. There were two margaritas left so she and I had a contest to see who could drink the fastest. She didn't even try. The pictures below are "self" portraits. Each one was taken by one of us. We were laughing about something Jill said or did, but I can't remember. Oh well...
Rach

My Perspective

Rebekah's Perspective

Jill's Perspective

Jessie Goes Home

What a wonderful end to this story. Jessie Hall got to leave Cook's yesterday and go home. I can't tell you how great it feels to hear stories when kids get to go home. Makes you have hope. Anyway... If you like check out the story Channel 8 did yesterday.
http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa080807_mo_hall.249fabdf.html
I ordered about 15 of the pink Pray For Jessie bracelets. If you want one let me know.

Have a great Friday!
Raye

Eduard is El Flop

Teri Lyn and Tanner went to Galveston on Sunday for a weeks vacation. They decided to wait out the storm. The good news is Eduard stayed just to the east of Galveston. From what the weather said they should have just got wind and rain. Looks like that probably stopped today. I am glad they are safe. Cool story to put in Tanner's baby book. If I remeber correctly when they went last summer they either left right before a storm or got there just after. I can't remember for sure. Here's to a good last day at the beach.

TTYL,
Rach


Me and Big T

Another Set of Stitches

Leave it to William to injure himself again. This child. Just over a year since he cut open his eye while Doug and I were at Shane's wedding he does it again. On Saturday we put Jake down for a nap and headed to the Apple store to exchange my phone. That did not take long so we decided to go into Robb & Stucky just to drool over the furniture. As we are looking around Doug's phone rings. It's Ethan. He explains William is bleeding and Emily put a band aid on it. So off we go to the house. We get there and sure enough it looks like he might need stitches. William and I trek down to the Cook's Urgent Care. 1 1/2 hours later he has two stitches in the opposite eye from the year before. At least he will have a matching set. From what he said he was crouched down next to Emily's bed hiding from Jake. When he came up and tried to run he did not clear the end of her bed and smacked right into the end of the footboard. I think I need to ban him from her room. If you remember he was in her room when he broke his arm three years ago. What you can't see in the picture is the swelling. It was pretty bad. It has gone down. What can you do with boys.....

Take care,
Rachel

Vacation Bible School

The boys went last week to VBS at Heritage Church of Christ. They had so much fun. Jake was a little cranky when we would first leave him, but the couple that had his group said he did fine. Big T was in the preschool classes, but he was not in the same tribe as Jake. Blayne and William were in the same tribe. They had fun together. Grace came and visited a couple of days. William did not get to attend the final night though. We had some behavior issues that needed to be addressed so he got that privilege taken from him. Along with video games the whole weekend. I know. William with behavioral issues. But alas yes. He is not perfect all the time. Hopefully this will stick. Didn't see Big T the last night of the preschool run so he is not in the picture.
Rach


Jake, Blayne, William & Grace