Boys Bath

Our Big Boys taking a bath. They are fish (Shortie too) they will stay in that bath long past the water going cold, and all night if I let them. I cant believe how big they are getting!

Big Sister

Shortie is such a great big sister. She loves all her brothers so much! Conrad was laughing while she held him. I loved it!

Painting

Finally got the art studio set up enough that the kids can paint and do some arts.n.crafts. Its really fun to watch them paint, and equally fun to hear the stories behind the paintings.

This is a painting that Shortie did yesterday. Its "her family, with Daddy holding Conrad. A happy sun and lots of colorful clouds with polka dots"

Shortie was painting flowers (the colors upclose were really pretty!) and then she didn't want to stop so she painted a "T" and then... I'm not exactly sure what all she painted but it ended up with I think she said four flowers and a lot of other stuff (and that mark on the middle of her forehead is a temp. tattoo... not sure why she put it there, but who am I to judge ;o)

 

Bubba painting his (he went to get more paint on his brush when he realized I was going to take a picture so he jumped up real fast and started painting from the side) He was so proud to be painting. He at one point said he was painting a waterfall.

Conrad & his Shortie faces

Conrad makes great faces just like Shortie did as a baby.

Picture Time

The Kiddos and Mommy.

Shortie was holding Conrad and then asked for me to take their picture. Then Bubba wanted in on the action, and then EZ.

three kiddos

This was a day full of silly silly kiddos.

Conrad Elliott

 Conrad Elliott

Our new little addition was born October 27th
 at 6:02pm
 weighing 7lbs 4oz.

We had choosen to do a home birth which ended up being great timing- the local hospitals had adopted a new policy due to the swine flu that no children under 18 could enter the hopsital unless being admitted, so the kiddos would not have been able to visit me or meet Conrad - that would have been so sad.

It was a Tuesday morning and when I woke up I told Jon that I didn't think he should go to work because I felt like it was going to happen that day. We went to the midwife appt I already had set up and she too thought it would happen sometime that day. 

My parents flight was arriving just after three (they had this trip planned for months - what great timing) Just about that time the contractions started (which I had been having on and off for a good month). When the second one come ten minutes later we thought maybe it was happening. Then the next one came five minutes later...then two minutes...then constant... it was happening and fast! My parents called  and they were getting a rental car and driving down from the airport. The rental clerk gave them wrong directions and their 30 minute drive turned into a two hour one.

They made it just in time. Shortly after they arrived I started pushing and in less than ten minutes little Conrad Elliott was born!

It was pretty special for all of us, because my parent had been at all the births of the other kiddos (and Sarah too - however this time she was missed). All the kiddos were so excited to see him right after he was born - it was very heart warming. My Mom and Dad announced the "It's a Boy!" and my Dad cut the cord.

Instantly we thought he looked just like Shortie as a baby. It was also evident that he would have blue eyes too (Shortie's are blue, Bubs are hazel green, and EZ's are brown). We also noticed how long his toes and finges were!

We loved being home! If you can handle the pain or want a natural birth - a home birth is SO much better. It really was awesome to be in the comfort of our home.

So  - for my number thing... his name Conrad Elliott fits right in with the other kiddos names - all being 13 letters. Plus his Birthday fits the numbers too:

Shortie  01-27-05

Bubba   06-22-06

EZ        06-22-08

Conrad  10-27-09

if you add the month and day together as individual numbers they all equal 10... but really the cool thing is having two born on 6-22, and then Shortie and Conrad have 01-27 and 10-27 :o) and none of the births were induced --- Just God's timing

New Computer!!!

Yippy- we bought a new computer (laptop actually) and can finally update our blog and start posting pictures and videos! So exciting! Hard to believe we haven't posted since Sept! We have lots of catching up to do