More of Miss Stella

 I had just realized I had not finished posting about the first few days home with Miss Stella.  

Danica and her brother, Brody and their mom and dad (longtime friends of Sean's) stopped by to meet Stella. 

Miss Abi meeting her new cousin!

First bath at home!

Ready to go for her first doctor's appt! She checked out great weighing 8 lbs at 5 days old. She had gained 2 oz in about 3 days.

Love this little dude! This was pre-haircut so his hair was super curly and crazy!

KK and Ty came to visit and the bffs finally got to meet! Harper is about 3 months older!

Love all of them SO much!

Sisters in their Ku outfits!

This was Stella's first game and first time wearing KU - minus her coming home outfit! Daddy loved it!

Uncle Bro, Aunt Kelci and Ben came to visit and this is what the kids did most of the time. They love their Uncle Bro! 

And they also love to wrestle! :)

He's gonna make a good big brother - some day! :) Gotta love their Steelers clothes too! :) Even if we lost!

So blessed!

Halloween festivities

I didn't get to do everything I wanted with the kiddos during October for Halloween. You know, I was kinda busy having a baby and all! :) But we did manage to paint some pumpkins, do some carving and lots of trick or treating! 

Mimi had brought the kiddos some mini pumpkins and so we painted them! Cohen picked yellow, Lyla blue and I picked red! We didn't plan it but we ended up having KU pumpkins! :) Just in time for the start of KU basketball! 

The kiddos LOVED the painting and of course, Cohen managed to get it everywhere! :) 

I love this picture because of the way Cohen is looking at Ly! He LOVES his big sister SO much!

Wednesday night we carved our pumpkins! We stuck to the traditional jack-o-lanterns! This is what Miss Stella did while we had lots of fun! :)

I carved the little one and Sean carved the big one! 

Thursday afternoon, after nap, I got the kiddos dressed up in their costumes and snapped a few very quick pictures of the kiddos. I had told them we were going trick or treating early in downtown Hays at all the businesses so they wanted nothing to do with pictures and everything to do with candy!

My "GOOD" witch!

Cohen was our little scarecrow!

This is how is little session started! :) It's not in focus but I love it because it depicts Cohen to a T!

Oh, his smile melts me! Love his wrinkle nose!

And Stella was hungry and wanted a boob more than she wanted her picture taken! 

But if you can't tell, she was our little Dorothy.

I really didn't have the plan to do a wizard of oz theme but my parents gave me some of my old costumes and Lyla found my old witch's hat and so that was easy! Then a client of mine was selling their son's scarecrow costume and I thought that was perfect for Cohen. And then since Lyla is so little I wanted something easy so I sewed the skirt and bow and Dorothy was born!

This was the best picture I could get of the kiddos before we went trick or treating. They were just way too excited! 

They both got TONS of candy and had some much fun. Cohen caught on super quick and would walk up and say ick eat and then then thank you! :) Love him! Next year Halloween will be even crazier with a 5 year old, 3 year old and 1 year old! Eek! :)

Pumpkin patch 2013

Saturday morning we headed out to Grannie Mae's for a few hours of fall fun!

We have gone to Grannie Mae's for the past couple of years and love it there! The kids favorite thing was riding the little "train" that they have there. My mom and dad came with us and then took the bigs home with them for the night! By the way - having 1 kid is SO easy. If I only knew this before! :)

Our not so fabulous family picture, but it'll work!

Oh, Cohen. Little stinker just wanted to wander around and not smile for a picture! 

I sure love his pouty face though!

And the little "train". Cohen has a little bit of trouble staying put since he's so tiny, so I jumped in with them and got to ride it too!

This girl will always pose for a picture!

Every baby that we have had has laid in pumpkins. Of course, she had been a bit of a grump and was hungry so the picture was far from what I had imagined in my head but at least we got one! 

She cried the whole time we picked out pumpkins so I didn't get a chance to take any pictures of our pumpkins but we got 3 perfect ones that are ready for carving!

And here's a little peak at one of Stella's newborn pics! Since I had a hard time with recovering, I waited longer than I wanted to to get these done, but I've managed to get some cute ones! Today it was 75 so I even ventured with her outdoors and I love them! More soon!

I love my little chunky Stella! I still can't believe I have a big baby! For once, one of my kids is in the 80th% for weight! :) That hasn't happened before!

Oh I love her so!