Welcome, Emory!

      Emory arrived at 8:27on Jan. 18th. She was 8 lbs. 4 oz. and 20 3/4 inches long! Below, she is modeling her hat and blanket knitted by Nana.

       We are blessed that she is healthy and that I had an "easy" delivery by C-section. Grady was very excited to meet his little sister. 

       He was even more excited about how my bed moved up and down and the cool doctors' gloves. Here, he is getting ready to "fix Mommy."

    We returned home on Friday, and had some little Creeches come over. Tyler especially enjoyed "holding it."

      I am glad Grady likes his sister, but I eventually had to hide Emory from him so he wouldn't poke and prod her anymore.("I want to see her eyes!" "I'm rocking her s-low-ly!" ) I am sure that will wear off pretty quickly!

Happy (?) New Year

    The jump castle...

   The pony ride...

        We took Grady to the New Year's Eve celebration at Marion Square thinking he might enjoy the pony ride or jump castle, but apparently not. Although he asked to do these things and we waited patiently in line, Grady recalled "falling off" the pony last time and backed out last minute. He also had a meltdown about 3 seconds in to the jump castle. But he had been up super late the night before, so maybe he was a little on edge. He did like getting a "whistle" and walking on the planters that are about 2 feet off the ground. So, at the end of the day, he did have some fun!