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Friday!

February 6, 2015

Friday! We’ve been busy over here the past several days…

Samantha had her first bath…

bath

She didn’t love getting her body cleaned but did really enjoy getting her hair done! She is a girl after all! 🙂

bath

She also took her first snooze in the swing.

swing

I managed to get all 3 kids up and dressed and out the door in time for school Monday, Wednesday and Friday…

3 boys

3 kids

On Wednesday, I also took Samantha up for her first doctor checkup at 8:30. She got a great report! She’s back up to 7lb, 6.5 oz! She had dropped to 6lb, 13oz when leaving the hospital so a 9 oz gain in one week is impressive!

Spencer celebrated Groundhog Day at school…

groundhog day

Maxwell continued to love on “sweetie” (as he likes to call her!)…

brother sister

Samantha got to meet Susan…

susan

and she also got ready for her first photoshoot!

sam

Lauren of Peppermint Photography was here Thursday so take some pictures of my sweet babies – all 3 of them!

photos

sbk

It’s been a GREAT couple of days! Ready for the weekend!

sbk

See you Monday!

Homecoming!

February 5, 2015

After 3 long nights and 2 days in the hospital, we finally got to bring Samantha home on Thursday! While we were getting ready to hit the road at the hospital…

home

the boys were at home baking up a treat for Samantha with GJ’s help!

cake

There was a lot of taste-testing involved for sure! Had to make sure it was juuuust right for baby sister!

cake

When we got home, I had to wait in the garage…

home

until I could bring Samantha in to see her surprise birthday cake! yay!

cake

So much to love about this picture…home with my THREE babies, Spencey’s chocolate mouth, Maxwell’s face in his hands…love.

cake

Even though it was only 10:00 am, we all enjoyed a piece right away because, hey, you only turn 0 once, right?! 🙂

cake

The rest of the day was spent letting everyone hold the baby…

samantha home

and just getting used to having her around!

baby home

home

My parents and Susu packed up and headed back to Florida the next day but not before we snapped this picture of the 4 generations of GIRLS! Me, Samantha Keath, Jan Keath, and Martha Keath!

keath generations

Finally, as always, the BIGGEST thank you in the world to the one and only GJ. She’s the one that keeps our ship sailing in the right direction! The boys didn’t miss me one bit because they were so happy and entertained with GJ. Not sure how any of us would make it without her. We love you GJ!

I’m just so happy I could give you another little girl to spoil! You’re welcome. 🙂

A fantastic homecoming indeed!

Hospital Day 2

February 4, 2015

I woke up on my second day in the hospital so happy to find out that Samantha was indeed real and was indeed a girl! 🙂 and let’s get serious, it’s not like I just woke up that morning – I was up all night sleeping in about hour long stretches. I didn’t care though. I might have been tired but I had a baby girl and nothing was going to take me off that high!

samantha

The boys came up that day and brought Samantha a little treat – a tiger stuffed animal rattle picked out by Maxwell especially for her! Perfect!

rattle

Samantha also had a treat for her brothers – these cool Boogie Board writing tablets.

boogie boards

The boys were so excited to check out their baby sister and, this time, even Spencey wanted to get up there and see her…and touch her!

baby

sam and brothers

checking her out

spencey

Everyone took turns holding her…

holding

and kissing on her.

kissing

Soon the boys settled into their iPads and Robert held the baby and I just had to laugh and smile at this image…

full house

We’ve got a full house now!

That night I also gave Samantha her first manicure! 🙂 Her nails were really long when she was born so I took some baby emery boards to her little nails so she wouldn’t scratch her face…

nails

and look at her scaly skin! eek! That’s what a full term 40 week baby’s hands look like!

It was a great day 2 with this sweet baby girl!

samantha

Tomorrow? Home! See you then.

Monday

February 2, 2015

Oh Monday…it seems the sun is shining a little brighter, the birds are singing a little louder, and all is right in the world! Or maybe it’s just me and the high I’m still on from this sweet baby girl! 🙂

I have a bunch of photos to go through from the hospital but haven’t had time to do that yet so here’s a few from the weekend…

The boys (and I love that I can now say “the boys” and “the girls” when referring to our family! Samantha and I will happily be a girl team of 2!) went to a birthday party for John at the airplane museum on Saturday morning. Fun!

airplane museum

airplane

They especially loved the aviators that came in the party favor bags!

aviators

While they were gone, I ventured out to Target with Samantha. Her first of many Target trips for sure!

target

It was a beautiful, warm afternoon so we enjoyed a little fresh air…

fresh air

until my awesome friend Lyndsay arrived from Nashville!! yay!

lyndsay

We had so much fun catching up and, because Robert’s the best, I even managed to sneak away for a quick dinner with her! I love this picture Lynds took – check out Spencer in the background sans shirt after a messy dinner! ha!

boys and girl