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Haley didn’t scream at all for her first bath… she must be remembering what it was like to feel cozy warm in the water. JT helped me with the water hose, and she smelled so good after she was done!

I’m pretty much in love with my two kids. (That’s good!) I am soooo very happy to have my family feel complete. I will just do some random updates here, as I brag about two of my favorite people on the planet. Pretty girl! Haley has started sucking on anything she can get ahold of:Continue reading “Mother of Two”

After Jen’s wedding, we got to spend a little more time with Jim’s family from Alabama before they headed home. We spent a beautiful afternoon on Long Lake in the boat. Haley got her first boat ride too! Getting ready to go… RTR! Cousin Taylor, looking pretty! JT and his new “big brother” life jacketContinue reading “Bama Family”

Well, it’s finally finished… the great room switch. Let me explain: JT moved to his new room, and we moved the guest bed to his old room (aka Haley’s new room). But I didn’t want to get rid of our nice guest bed or lose having a guest room, so… it took me a fewContinue reading “Room Switch”

The big weekend finally arrived: Jennifer’s wedding! Jim’s sister has been planning her wedding to Matt since February. She was nervous I’d go into labor on the altar… we solved that problem, didn’t we? 🙂 Our first family of four picture is outside Pasta Bella in Seattle on Friday night, for rehearsal dinner. We wereContinue reading “The Wedding”

We got the birth pictures last night from our photographer and they are amazing. We are so thankful that Sarah was there to record every moment. She was there for over seven hours and sent us 155 pictures – one set in B&W and one in color. I narrowed it down to 33 to postContinue reading “Birth Pictures!”

So far, JT has been a wonderful big brother. He was so interested in Haley when he visited us in the hospital. He pointed to all of her parts and named them: “Eyes… nose… mouth… ears…” and then he noticed something suspicious: “Hands go?” They were all wrapped up in her swaddle. 🙂 We wereContinue reading “Being a Big Brother”

I had been thinking of finding a TV show that JT could watch after Haley was born as a “big brother” treat. We tried out a few shows before we landed on a winner: Bob the Builder. He has two Bob the Builder books that are his current favorite reads, so it worked out perfectlyContinue reading “Bob the Builder”

Monday morning, we started slowly packing to go home from the hospital. Haley passed her car seat test and her pediatrician checkup with flying colors (praise!). I put her in the only outfit I grabbed when I packed Friday night… since Haley’s room wasn’t ready, we didn’t have any clothes ready either. It was giganticContinue reading “Home”

Haley Lynn Keene joined our family on Saturday, August 21st at 2:36 AM. Story and pics below. Much to our surprise, on Friday, August 20th, at 7:22 PM, my water broke. It was a shock because not only is it a little over four weeks early, my water didn’t break with JT and it isn’tContinue reading “Welcome, Haley Lynn!”