Elizabeth helping out

Marty got up this morning with the kids and let me sleep. He found that Elizabeth can be very helpful and snapped a couple of pictures. She is helping by putting Martin's pacifier back into his mouth and brought him some of her glasses and helped by putting them on him. Look at how bright his blue eyes are! I thought it was very cute.

Easter

Here are a few pictures of our Easter. Elizabeth and Martin are wearing their outfits. Martin posed very well for the camera, while I had to get Elizabeth who was on the move.

Saturday was the community Easter Egg Hunt. We went to the park where they had thousands of egg for the kids to find. They were actually just laying in the grass. It was nice, because it was age appropriate. Elizabeth was more excited about the playground and took off in that direction. We went and got her when they announced that the hunt would begin. All the toddlers took off with their parents and gathered eggs. I had to show Elizabeth what to do, but she quickly got the hang of picking up the eggs. I was amazed at how the parents of the other kids were scrambling to get the eggs. Some were shoveling eggs into bags, while here I was showing Elizabeth what to do and letting her get her own. She got about 10. When we were done, we opened all the eggs to find the prizes that were inside. She got mainly taffy...who gives a toddler taffy??? but it was still a lot of fun and we are definitly going to do this again next year. Maybe Martin will be able to participate.

Carousal

Friday, we took a trip up to Salem to see my brother's new baby. While we were there, we had a little fun and took Elizabeth on her first carousal ride. At first she was a bit hesitant to get on the horse, but seemed to be okay with Marty there by her side. I took her for a second ride and she seemed more confident and wanted to hold my hand. We thought we were done, but she insisted to go on the ride again so Marty took her and she really enjoyed it. She didn't want Marty to hold on to her. I thought it was a lot of fun to see her so excited.

New Baby

My brother had a baby this past week and here is a picture of Caylin. Congratulations on a healthy baby girl.

Pics

I thought I'd post a few pictures of Martin. We had some computer trouble over the last couple of weeks, so it's taken some time to get the pictures loaded.

Who's who?

Can you tell which picture is Elizabeth and which one is Martin? I think they look alike and they are pretty similar in size as well. The first picture is of Elizabeth when she was 3 days old, and the second picture is of Martin when he was 3 days old. Martin is a little more red and blotchy than Elizabeth was...he has a little bit of jaundice.

Welcome Martin

WE went into the hospital Thursday night so I could be induced. I went the entire night without having any contractions until about 6:30 Friday morning. The epidural came about 11:30 and we had to start the pitocin at 2:30 because my contractions had stopped. By 4:30 I was ready to have the baby and at 5:03 baby Martin was born. He was 8 lbs. 2 oz., 19.5 inches long. His head was 13.25 inches. There weren't an complications and everything went smoothly.






















Mom and Martin

Dad and Martin

Everyone together. Look at how happy Elizabeth looks!