Eden 1 Month Old

Eden is 1 month old.  It's hard to believe she has been with us for one month already.  She is just over 8 pounds and about 21 inches long so she is doing really well.  She is a perfect baby so far.  She sleeps a lot and tolerates tummy time really well. She gets up twice a night.  I don't remember any of our babies sleeping as much as she sleeps.  I'm not complaining, just making an observation.  My other observation is that one baby is so much easier than two.  I don't think I realized just how hard it was to have two babies at once until we had just one baby again.  I'm not feeling the crazy busy that I felt after Lincoln and Annika were born and I have moments where I can accomplish my chores and normal kitchen work.  Everyone loves her and Lincoln and Annika have taken so well to a little sister.  My goal this next month is to be physically healed so I can take all three little ones out on errands.

Here are some pictures from the last month:


October 16, 2016  5 days old

1 Week

 

Lincoln loves his sister!

First Bath--1 week old (A very cute and eager bath helper!)

 

Another favorite picture...3 1/2 weeks old.

These last 3 pictures were all taken at 1 month.

Eden's Baby Blessing

 

Eden was blessed in church yesterday.  I was a little sad about the day because we didn't have any family or close friends in attendance like we had for all of the other baby blessings for our kids.  Just one more reason why it's hard to be far from family.  We did have some friends join Joseph in the circle so the blessing was still nice.  The Spirit was present and I guess that is the most important part anyway.  Here are some pictures we took.  The dress is so slippery that it was hard to get good shots of Eden because she just wouldn't stay in place!

Family Picture at church.

 

Halloween 2016

Joseph took the 4 big kids Trick or Treating this year while Eden and I stayed home to pass out candy.  At the church party, Annika didn't want to wear her costume, but we were able to convince her to wear it for Halloween.  Lincoln and Annika went to the door at every other house and waited the in the stroller for Kimball and Rebecah at the other houses.  Let's face it, 2 year olds don't need any candy so what they came home with was more than sufficient.  As it was, their combined efforts produced a huge bowl of candy.  Kimball and Rebecah are a little more candy conscious and they aren't about to share or have a community candy bowl.  There is no shortage of chocolate in our house.

Kimball went as his favorite soccer player--Zaltan Ibrahimovic, Annika was a giraffe.  Rebecah a fairy, and Lincoln a lion.

I forgot that Lincoln and Annika didn't have socks and shoes on, but I remedied that after the picture.

Even though Eden didn't get any candy she still dressed for the day.