Fall 09

I can't believe that Chloe is already 3 months old! Boy the time has gone by fast and we LOVE having her in our family. As you will be able to see in the pictures, Olivia loves to hold her...and she always asks us to "pet" her, which means she wants to touch her head. We try telling her that it is not petting, but she hasn't quite gotten past that she pets the dog and cat on the head, so it must be what she does to her sister.
You will also be able to see that Chloe is quite the cuddler. She can snuggle with the best of 'em...and we wouldn't have it any other way. She has settled into a nice little routine at home, lets just hope she does the same when she starts daycare next week.
Olivia has a new favorite activity...leaf jumping! She would do this for hours if we let her. Fortunately the weather has been decent so she has been able to do it frequently.

Happy Girls!

This weekend I took Olivia up to the community safety center a.k.a. fire department, police station, jail, and court, because they had a big trucks display. They had all of the rescue vehicles out for people to go in and check out, as well as the police station, fire station, jail and court open for people to walk through. She thought it was pretty cool to walk around and check things out, but her favorite thing was to play with the swinging door in the court room...go figure!
Later this weekend, Chloe decided she was ready to be happy and start smiling...hopefully this keeps up!

Chloe's Baptism

This past weekend we had Chloe baptised and celebrated Grandpa Frank's birthday. We were so lucky to have Dale's brother Dave's family and my sister Suzanne and her family here to join us, along with both of our parents.

1 month

Well, we have successfully made it through 1 month with 2 kids. It was a busy month that went by very fast. So fast that I have yet to get birth announcements out. My goal is to get them out this week some time...we will see how successful I am.

She's A Week Old!

Week 1 down with Ms. Chloe and it brought lots of excitement. On Monday we went to the doctor for our post delivery check-up. He thought she looked kind of jaundice so he sent us to the lab for blood work. Early Tuesday morning (1:30 a.m.), the doctor called the house and instructed us to go to the hospital for admission, that her bilirubin level was high. We stayed for 36 hours, 30 of which were spent in an incubator under lights. Her levels came down and we got to go home. THANK GOODNESS my mom was still staying with us to help out. THANK-YOU MOM for EVERYTHING you did...YOU ARE GOING TO BE MISSED!!!

She's Here!!!

On August 5th we welcomed the newest addition to our family. Chloe Rose, weighing 7 lbs. 4 oz. came into the world just as pretty and perfect as can be. Big Sister Olivia couldn't be more proud and happy to have a little sister.

Swimming

Olivia took swim lessons at the community pool this summer. She LOVED being in the water and successfully passed Level 1 of the Red Cross program. She was a little upset when lessons were over because it meant that the pool would be closing for the year....I know sounds weird...but we are getting a new community pool so they began construction August 2nd.

Remaining pics are of Buddy swimming in the pool. The last swim each year is for the dogs.