Big Brother Aquiles and Big Sister Alicia

Carmen is home!

Carmen came home today! We went to the hospital to feed her and she was able to leave with us. Luckily we had the car seat and diaper bag with us just in case! She is a great baby. She eats well and is on a good schedule. Let's hope it lasts!

Oh, and Alicia has a loose tooth. She is incredibly happy and would like the world to know.

Carmen update

Carmen has still not made it home. Her billirubins are too high, but we are remaining hopeful. We did take photos of her today and have created a slideshow so you can see what she looks like.

Meet Carmen

Here are some of the first pictures of Carmen. She arrived on Nov 21st. She is still in the hospital with jaundice, but we expect to bring her home soon. As you can tell she is a big baby! 8 lbs 12 ozs.

maternity leave with no baby!

Carmen has yet to arrive but it feels like she is about to pop out of my skin! I am imagining the scene in Alien; you know which one I am talking about. I would be grateful for that right now. My due date is tomorrow and if nothing happens, I will see the doctor Thursday. I am taking advantage of the time and have read 2 books and had lunch with the kids. Pam, Clyde and my mom are in town and Jamie has all of next week off.

I now have a facebook account but have done nothing with it. I opened it to be able to check out other friend's pages. Therefore, don't expect much. Honestly when I went to other people's pages, I found it kind of confusing. I am obviously sadly behind in technology.

Thanks to all our friends for throwing us a fabulous baby shower! This was the cake we had at Brent and Dana's. Kandi also hosted a church shower at her house a week after this one. They were both fun and wonderful. Thanks to all our great friends for spoiling us rotten.

No, we were not able to get 38 candles on the cake!

Dawn, Kandi and Dana looking beautiful as always.

My birthday party.

Alicia's second homegrown carrot.

Alicia is so proud of her garden.

Alicia won prizes for her throw at the pumpkin toss during our church's pumpkin olympics. Jamie won a $35 Wal-Mart gift certificate. Scott is still pouting, so we had him over for compensatory dinner.

Scott's entry in the pumpkin carving contest.

Aaah! Aliens are attacking.

Who's that ninja?

Aquiles in action playing soccer.