Lost in the Shuffle

Finally...Some of Rebekah's birthday pictures!

Cakes for Bekah's Birthday

Cake was a little tough b/c I tried a low sugar recipe. All she got was icing!

Happy Birthday!

Rachel still doesn't really like cake

The babies reading all the new books

Really BIG soccer ball my (Teri) parents found

Loved the tutu!

Labor of Love

This week has been really fun for us for other reasons than just our children. Last Saturday our neighbor gave birth on the freeway. We had been out garage sale-ing and got home to discover on Facebook that they were heading to the hospital shortly. We ran outside to check if they had left and we saw 2 cars in the driveway, but 1 wasn't their car. Not knowing what this meant at the time, but they were still home.

A couple hours later the father posted on Facebook again that Baby Carys was born in the car and that mom and baby were well. We later found out that the cord was wrapped around the baby's neck 2x and that she had to resuscitate her. Thankfully they had called paramedics and they arrived in time to help her deliver, but none of them knew how to get the baby to breathe.

We knew they were coming home on Monday, so I decided to help Rachel make a welcome home sign for them. We knocked on the door in case they had already made it home, but figuring that they would come home later that afternoon, I brought tape to hang it on the door. We later found out that they were taped for Fox 4 news (first link), and the next day they were interviewed for the Dallas Morning News (second link). Jenea also told us that our artwork was going to be played because the news reporter shot lots of footage of their front door (3rd link). It only shows it briefly twice, but we're FAMOUS! Ha!

We have visited with 2 new babies this week. Rebekah doesn't really notice them, but Rachel likes them. If it weren't for the kids to play with at our neighbors house she probably would have watched me holding the baby more. Oh well, we are just glad that the newborn babies in our lives right now are safe and doing well.

Jumpin' Jive

The past couple of weeks have been really fun with Rebekah walking EVERYWHERE! She has now decided to do almost EVERYTHING like her big sister. Rachel finally figured out how to jump several inches off the ground and now Bekah has decided to try to jump. She gets this real serious look on her face and squats (kind of makes you think she's trying to poop in her pants, it's really funny when you figure it out!), then stands back up. She does it over and over and usually right after she sees Rachel jumping.

This morning Rachel was jumping and Bekah was cranky, so she slides off my lap and imitates her sister. After a couple of tries, she's tired, so she wants back in my lap. Less than a minute later she decides she wants to jump again, so she slides down out of my lap and does it again. It's always kind of funny to watch your kids when they're tired/cranky and just want to be held to have short bursts of energy and focus on something they want to do/try/play with.