Austins 5th Birthday

Up until today, I would have said that my children are getting old. Well, now I have something to keep me from saying that - a new baby. I absolutely can not believe that we have an 8 year old and a 5 year old and now an infant- boy where does the time go? Way to quickly is what I have to say. This year Austins birthday wish was to go to Chuck E Cheese with his family. My mom was still here and we invited Uncle Jay and Aunt Pam to go along. We celebrated with Pizza, and a "white cake with gray frosting" per Austins request. What a weird kid! By the time we finished there, we were finally throwing coins at the kids saying hurry put them in all the machines. Our kids were putting in 1 at a time walking around taking a look trying to spread out their fun, little did they know how many coins they actually got to have. Austin came back to the table and took the last 4 from his "location". He said "I have 4 more left". Rich and I burst into laughter and showed him his cup that was entirely full of coins. His eyes got huge!






Austin at the age of 5 you are a very fun loving child. You roll around on the floor playing and pretending anything you can imagine. You are extremely self entertained and can keep yourself busy for hours although you do love playing with friends. The little friends that are girls like to have you over because you don't mind playing ponies or barbies - you're just the "boy" one. You're very into having everyone help you with things because for some reason you think you can't do them anymore. Adjusting to having a baby in the house, you have become a little whiny but that's just more for mommy to love. You love your baby sister and try to surround her with fun things to play with. Your brother plays with you pretty hard sometimes and you are a very tough kid and rarely cry even if you do get hurt. You're tender and your feelings get hurt more than anything even though you could be bleeding. The one think I love about you, is you always, always tell me you love me back. Mommy and Daddy love you Austin - you bring so much joy to our family!

Daddy & Jessi

Who says that babies don't smile at particular things at such a young age? I don't believe it. Every time this guy talkes to her she finds it in her to smile. These were all at different times, not a snap snap snap type of picture.

Funny Kid Quote of The Day

So today Redden had some information to share with Rich when he got home from work. Rich was at the computer and Redden walked up to him, pulled his mouth wide open with his fingers and said "Hey dad, look, I got another loose tooth and I'm gettin' a mullet". Of course he meant to say molar, but he had no idea what one was until I said today after school, "sure enough, you're getting a molar". Funny kid!

Welcome Home Jessi Mae Turner

Friday morning started off slow with an IV and the PIT. The Pit dialted me to a 4 and 50% effaced after 2 hours. I pushed off the epidural wanting to wait until the very last minute so I wasn't numb for so long. I've never sat through contractions like I did right before I received the epidural. Unfortunately right after I received the epidural they checked me and found out that I was at a 10 and ready to push. If I had known that, I would have tried to go "Pioneer Woman" but it was too late. I pushed for 1 hr and 15 minutes before we had a little girl in our arms. (they had to turn off the epidural right after I got it so I could feel something to be able to push properly, otherwise we probably would have had her about 2 hrs earlier) We left the hospital today after lunch and are both doing well. We've noticed some fun little things about her since she's been home. We'll try to blog about them soon. Until then, here's some fun pics.

Baby Jessi Arrived!

Andrea asked me to post some pictures of Jessi. Jessi weighed 7lb 8oz and is 19" long. She was born at 4:17 on October 3, 2008. (Same day as Aunt Laura's) I am sure Andrea will update them when she is feeling a little better. But here are some to enjoy until she does!!

I dont think I am partial in any way, but dang I have cute grandkids! (3 boys & 3 girls, way to even things up)