A Special Night

After a long week, Carson and I decided we wanted to do something special for JJ. So, what better than to give him a "Special Night". Real creative, right? We made a fabulous candlelight dinner and dressed up like this:

Carson picked out my dress and suggested I wear an apron as to not dirty my "fancy dress":

JJ walked in the door and Carson screamed "Its your birthday party night!". Oops, I think he meant to tell him that it was his "special night". Carson had daddy put on his slippers and walked him over to his place at the table.

He got to eat off of this:

Carson served JJ all night and made sure he didn't run out of anything on his plate! A great night, a great memory!

JJ, you are special. We love you!

Family Pictures

My dad took a few shots of the fam this morning at Palmer Park. It was freezing! Preslie was less than thrilled with the experience. Here are just a few of the pics...

Maternity Leave

It has been an incredible blessing to be able to be home with the kids. Carson loves being at home(most of the time). I worked 40 hours a week at the surgery center up until the week prior to having Preslie, so being home so much has been a huge change. A 12 week maternity leave is definitely the way to go! It has been fabulous! While maternity leave has been wonderful, I am excited about working again. I will only go back 2 days a week. And I am incredibly blessed that Preslie will get to be with Grammy while I am at work and Carson is at preschool. Thanks Mom!

Carson wanted to take some pictures this morning and he did pretty good....

I love being a mom to these kids!

At Home with Preslie...

We have been home with Preslie now for 6 weeks. She is perfect. Really, it has been such an easy transition.

She eats great and sleep even better! She weighed in at 10 pounds 2 oz at her 4 week appointment. She is a chunker!

Carson loves her dearly, but thinks for now that she is pretty boring. Not very surprisingly he is disgusted by any amount of spit up or dirty diapers.

Preslie held onto her umbilical cord for 4 weeks! Dr. Gilroy pulled it off at her 4 week appointment and she didn't even flinch. I was SO excited to get home and give her a real bath. She LOVED it!

All clean and ready for a nap!