He's here!

Hooray! Baby Owen was born Thursday July 22nd at 5:41 am. He is SO CUTE. He was 6lbs 11 oz at birth, 20 1/2 inches long, and has a lot of dark hair. We can't tell who he looks like, although I think his coloring reminds me of Cameron and his face looks like Connor's did as a newborn. And he has long long fingers and toes, just like Kate. So he's got a little bit of all his siblings :)

I have embarrassingly few pictures, due to the fact that I have spent 3 of the last 6 days lying flat from an epidural complication (an epidural that was given too late to take effect by the way, which makes the whole situaton even more aggravating....) I'm feeling much better now, thank goodness. Keith's mom has been a life saver - I really don't know how we'd be functioning without her right now.

When I get a minute I'll write more about everything, including the middle-of-the-night hospital run, the tornado alert at the hospital, the flooding in our basement (it wasn't too much thank goodness!), and all the other juicy details.

All the kids together....

Welcome home!

Cameron turns 7

Well I am a few weeks late on this but that's just been how my life is functioning lately. Cameron had his birthday a few weeks ago. We had a yummy ice cream cake from Dairy Queen that ended up being more for me than for him - he had one piece on his birthday then never wanted it after that, so I nibbled on it for days. Yum.

Cameron also wanted a Super Mario party (like Connor had), but for the older kids we decided it would be more of a water games party with less "themed" stuff. I always hold my breath for nice weather and luckily it worked out. Good thing because we had 12 boys at our party (including some extra boys I wasn't planning on!) Keith and I discovered that seven-year olds are easier to entertain and much lower maintenance than five-year olds. Cameron is at a great age!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAMERON!!

As far as other news, things are finally starting to come together allowing us to plan ahead a little (which is always nice!) I have a scheduled induction date for July 22nd (oh my gosh that is SO SOON.) Unless I go into labor before then. Which is highly unlikely but you never know....

Anyway, the plan is for us to move the second week of August so the kids can start school on Aug 18th (I haven't broken the news to them yet that they are totally getting ripped off with a shortened summer vacation.) Now we just need to find a house in Indiana. And sell our house here. And get ready for the baby. Easy, right?