Our baby has been here for a while

I promise that I will write more and hopefully it will be soon

but I think I should put up a couple of pictures for now.

these first four pictures I have on facebook and so some may have seen them already, but the fifth one is 'new' and one of my favorites.
I'm sure there will be MANY more to come in the weeks and months ahead

 This is beautiful new son, Kellan

yesterday I was looking through some pictures and I just love this one of Kellan and Emma on the floor.
I'm not sure what it is about this picture... maybe the way he is so alert and looking at her, I don't know, but it really is beautiful to me


I'll talk more later when I have a bit more time

Connor at his normal

this morning we were having a conversation about what an herbivore, a carnivore and an omnivore are.
Connor is known around here for blurting out some of the weirdest, funniest, or most random things.

I said "humans are omnivores"
Connor "It's fun being more than one thing!"

I love that kid

an early picture of our baby

today we had a biophysical ultrasound to check our baby's growth and make sure everything is as it should be.
this kid is estimated to be about the same size as my last few kids.  by the time I go into labor it is likely that I will have another 9.5 pound baby again.


I am starting to have a little bit of anxiety.  but I'm a big girl and can deal with it. and what I can't do, my perfect husband will help me through.
but I am also excited to meet this little person with my terrific husband.  I cherish these very private moments we've had welcoming our new children into the world and into our lives and this time will be no different.
we are anxious to see who this baby is going to look like and who they will be when they grow up.  we are very anxious to cuddle and love this beautiful person.  We're excited to introduce him/her to our other children and have that wonderful moment with each of them.

jotting it down so I won't forget...

I still have to get through pictures of Emma's birthday.  they will be coming.  but I had a couple of Kidisms that I wanted to remember.  if I don't put it down here or somewhere else easily accessible I will forget what it was and all we will remember will be the day we laughed our fool heads off...

there are times when everything just falls into a pit of hilarious.  Kids have a way about them that make some moments so completely priceless....
last week.  Emma was drawing a picture for school I think, about Fire Safety.  they were supposed to illustrate getting out of the house, or being "rabbit ready"  so she draws this picture. (I'll see if I can get a picture of it some time)  it's a building - some kind of inner city apartment building with flames coming out of the windows.  there are ladders up against the sides of the building and little people on the ladders.
then she draws our house.  it too is on fire.  she has drawn the entire family fleeing from our burning home and Ronan tells us "then they run into the other building on fire".  upon looking at the picture, it does look like we are running away from one fire only to climb the ladders of the other burning building.


later that day.   it is not uncommon for Tim and I to have a conversation about something only to find ourselves stuck on a word or phrase that -for whatever reason- we can't dislodge from our brains.  we will then drop the conversation only to randomly pick it up again, many minutes and sometimes hours later, without batting an eye.  this conversation we had led us up to an adjective that neither of us could put our finger on at the moment and so we went on about our day.  about 20 minutes later I say "catatonic?" and Tim says "no".  Then Emma says "for a baby name?!"

hours of laughter!!!

I do believe there was one more Ronan moment that I am forgetting.  I'll have to ask Tim.  I wish I would have written it down already

"school" pictures

we took some time out of our day a couple of weeks ago to take year pictures of the kids. 

I'm still filtering through some of them and touching up the shadows and bright spots on a few of them.  in the mean time I do have some ready for showing. 

we might need one more photo shoot before it gets just too cold to go out for more pictures.  and then sometime soon Erica and I will be finding someplace perfect for Senior pictures

he's gotten so big?

remember me mentioning how tiny Ronan seemed on that first day of school.
this picture should help you better understand.

Ronan walking to the bus with Timothy.  He looks so small with that huge back pack and that giant brother

Ronan and Emma climbing off the bus.

Emma, Connor, and Ronan outside of their school on the first day

He was getting so bored waiting.  on the first day they stand inside the doors and wait for the entire class to make it to school.  it took some of the kids a really long time to make it to school.  those kids didn't look too sad to be at school so maybe it was the parents having a hard time letting go.  

in his classroom.  he really didn't want me to interrupt him and he was anxious to get back to settling in to his classroom.

first day, very first day and third day

I'll have more pictures (perhaps tomorrow) but I just wanted to share with you family and friends my beautiful kids on their first day of school.

okay so it wasn't Erica and Timothy's first day, it was their third.  but it was the first day for Emma and Connor and Ronan.  but more than just that, it was Ronan's very very first day of school.
when he is sleeping he looks so big but as soon as he wakes up and stands he looks so tiny.  now we add a gigantic back pack to him and he's really tiny.
but he wasn't the littlest kid (though maybe one of the very few youngest) child in kindergarten this year.
He has been so excited and didn't get sad at all.  when he got home, with all the enthusiasm he could muster, he told us "IT WAS SO FUN!"  I'm so glad about that, but still a bit sad, probably because it was so easy for him.  he's such a big kid.