Alyssa 2 weeks old

WARNING: Picture Over load!

On July 1st we were admitted into the hospital because her Doctor didn't like her color or her weight and was certain that her levels had gone up for her jaundice. Sure enough it had and surprisingly the blue light treatment wasn't very bad at all. It's warm and cozy and apparently the babies love it, and so did Alyssa. I cried and cried that day because it's hard to hear that your baby is bad enough off that they need to go to the hospital but it really wasn't too bad. I guess a big part of her jaundice also is that she has "bruising" to work through, blood shot eyes and a big bump on her head from being pushed out so quickly. We were released like 7 hours later. (5 days old)

Here is baby Alyssa 2 days old.

This is her 3 days old. I love the sleeping position.

Okay this is my attempt at a baby photo shoot. Very fun, I wish I would have tried a little more with my other kids. I love this sweet girl she is so cute! This is her 2 weeks old. She is now 8 lbs 4.8 oz and 20.5 inches. She is doing good. And I think (Hope I don't jinx myself) she has been my easiest baby so far. She is doing really well a night, usually a 4 - 5 hour stretch and then usually a 3 hour stretch after that. We'll see if it continues but she is also very calm and easy going. I feel very blessed!










Hailey loves loves loves to hold her baby sister and is a great helper. She can't get enough of her.
(11 days old)



I love this one. I had her undressed to get some sun and I found her sucking on her thumb. She has done this a few times. You can see her bump in this one. (10 days old)

Happy Birthday Troy!

Happy 2nd Birthday Troy! His Birthday was on June 28, it was the first full day after we got home from the hospital. The best part was that Josh stayed home that day from work since we had just came home. That made it such a fun day for the kids. He filled up the pool and put the extra slide in and they loved it. They swam for like a hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon. They loved it. Then we made cupcakes and spent like 20 minutes relighting and blowing out the candles. I do feel a little like Troy got the short end of the Birthday stick but in someways it was way better for him, more quality time. I think in the future it will be fun to have their Birthdays close.

My two-year-old Troy is such a sweet heart. He will cuddle with me while we are watching a show or reading a book. We played duck duck goose tonight and he just loved getting up to run and always would come back and sit in my lap. Troy is also very active little boy and we like to say all the time he is such a boy! He likes to pretend to be a monster and sometimes he'll switch to be a kitty but he likes to pretend to be the monster the most. He will growl and put his hands up and act scary. It's very cute. Troy loves cars and will spend tons of time moving them from place to place and lining them up and such. Troy has been seeing a speech therapist and it seems like recently he is talking more. His most used word is "please" which he uses for everything. He also says mama, dada, juice, elmo, cars, stars, uh-oh, shhhh, what's that?, mo for no, mo for mine, Those are the main ones. He will sometimes pop out other little words. He often prefers to grab our finger and show us what he wants and grunts a lot and also does muh-huh for yes. He's very expresive as far as his head nods go too so that helps. Troy still has his pacifer as you can see but we hope to loose it in the next few months. Troy has really surprised me with the arrival of his new sister. He has seemed to really not mind at all and has been really very soft when he touches her head. He has seemed to cling to me just a little more but the first few days he wouldn't come to me at all. I really hoping he doesn't feel jealous but so far so good. Hailey just loves to hold Alyssa and does a really good job of that so that has been helpful. Hailey is really helpful expect when it comes to her teasing her brother. It's not all the time but sometimes she does. We love having Troy in our family! Happy Birthday Buddy!