Eddie and Ellie

At first he wasn't quite sure what he thought about her. He pretty much refused to look at her or me at the hospital but it didn't take long once we were home for him to become quite enamored. He loves to kiss her, rub her head, sit by her and hold her.

He pulled his horse up to the swing just to "watch".

I came back and found a bridge sitting on her. I explained that the bridge was too heavy so he remedied the situation by putting a piece of track on her tray.

He is trying to teach her about the sea creatures on the bouncy.

Eloise Mae

Eloise Mae was born today, March 15th, at 4:09 p.m. She was 7 lbs. 15 oz. and 20 inches long. Her delivery was more of a challenge than expected, but Amanda and baby Ellie Mae are doing fine. She has thin brown hair, dark blue eyes (for now), and rosy pink skin. We can't tell who she looks like yet, but she's a beautiful baby anyway. Here are some pictures from today.

Lots of snow!

The Ingalls

The girls passing out candy

The kids and Olivia at the neighborhood treat table

Edison with his sucker

The girls are really into the Laura Ingalls chapter books (the books between the picture books and the novels). They decided to be Mary and Laura for Halloween so my mom made them costumes. They looked great and had a fun time walking to a few houses and passing out treats from our porch. Violet came home from trick-or-treating and put her candy in the pass out bucket. I didn't object.

Edison was thrilled to be trick-or-treating. He took a sucker from home in his bucket and kept asking to eat it. We let him open it and he wasn't interested in any other candy. He would walk up to people's houses and say thanks and then walk away. For some reason, he would put his sucker hand in the air and say "cheers" when passing people.

Since I have missed so much of 2010, I don't even think I can try to catch it up. I am hoping to get some posts up so that I can make a blog book. This is really my only record of the kids growth, development, and events so I would like to try to keep it up.

Edison

Picnic in the backyard

Breakfast

Superman from April

Olivia being snuggly

Easter

It seems to Nate and I that Edison has really grown up since we left Indianapolis. He still seemed like a baby when we moved and now he is definitely a kid. He is stringing words together and has had a language explosion. He sings songs (Bye-O, Bob the Builder, ABC's - a few sounds), climbs everything, goes up and down the steps standing, LOVES basketball in any form, he is a pretty good golfer, and he laughs at everything. He is quite a happy little boy.

Edison Quotes:

"Watch this"
"Want more this." (More food please - whatever I am pointing to)
"Daddy, where are you?"
"Basketball shoot."
"Have one more?" (Can I have one more and then one more and then one more?)
"Watch me!"

"I want that"

"I need that!"

"I had that!"

"Apple deuce" (Apple juice is requested several times per day)

Someday I will get house pics on here.