One month old!

I can't believe that Miss Anissa is one month old already!  My how time flies!

This is her one month old birthday picture.

And of course the sibs have to be goofy for a picture too.

Caleb loving her up.  He continues to want to hold her all the time and really has been a great help-with Anissa.  Not so much with his other sister-he LOVES to antagonize her. Oh well, I guess one is better than none.

Ellery gets her baby time in too.  Lately it's been her who has asked more to hold Anissa.  I'm glad they both like her so much.

If you were to enlarge this photo, you would see a rather large toad in Caleb's hands.  We have been frog/toad hunting this whole summer.  This was by far the largest.  Tim ran across it in our flower bed in the front of the house.  Caleb has been obsessed with catching these poor creatures.  He picked this one up right away and held it for a bit.  It was rather gross in my opinion. It even peed on him-eewe!

Here she is in the cute outfit my coworker Amy brought.  I just love the outfit-thanks Amy! 

Tim and I celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary on August 3rd.  We went out for a "romantic dinner for 3" (Anissa's car seat is behind us in the photo)  My mom and grandma would have been happy to have all 3 kiddos, but I didn't think I would enjoy myself enough having to worry if Anissa was hungry or not. We went to Benihana anyway, so our dinner for 3 ended up being a dinner for 8-we sat with another family of 5.  Oh well, as Tim said, we've spent plenty of time together these months he has been off.  We enjoyed ourselves anyway.

Anissa really likes to be held.  Here I am learning to be a baby wearer.  My coworker Amy borrowed me this sling and Anissa has really taken to it.  If I want to get something done, I just plop her in here and she is content.  Our neighbor was teasing Tim wondering when he would see Tim wearing it.  He said never, but I think when I go back to work, he might have a change of heart.

This is Anissa's perch.  She takes many naps here throughout the day and doesn't even flinch for all the noise.

The first day at the beach. We have a great beach by our house and there is even a decent fishing spot right on the beach.  Caleb has really taken to fishing.  He went to Walmart one day and Tim thought he might sleep that night in the fishing aisle.  It was pretty cute.  He will teach his daddy a thing or two about fishing soon here.  At least Tim is trying to learn :)

The kids at the beach.  Anissa was in the sling with me and she slept the whole time.  Thankfully this day was not a humid day.  It was a nicer day before we got all of this heat. 

Well, that's all for now.  We are getting some sleep, she usually wakes up once in the middle of the night and then around 5:30/6 she wants to eat again.  Not too bad.  She has been asleep for a lot of this month, but is now starting to be more alert.  It should be interesting when she is more alert for more of the day how much I won't be able to do.  Unless she is in the sling I suppose.  We are really enjoying her though-so that's what matters most.  

Stay cool.  Hope the weather folks are right for once in their prediction of cooler weather to come.  I could really use it! 

Photos with Diane

These are photos from Diane.  As usual, they turned out AWESOME even though she didn't think so.  My favorites are the second one and the last one.  I tried to turn them so they were oriented correctly, but for some reason, it failed 2x so you'll have to enjoy them this way.  Also, I don't know if I will ever get to my birth story.  I guess I didn't realize??  how crazy busy I would be.  Oh well, life is good anyway!

Tim would LOVE to superimpose a Carolina Tar Heels shirt on her for this one. 

Maybe we'll figure that out in our spare time!

She's here!

Welcome to the world Anissa Livian!

She was born on July 12th 2010 at 8:34 am

She weighed 8 lbs 3 3/4 oz

She was 20 inches long

Our happy family!

Ellie holding Anissa for the first time.  Caleb said he didn't want to hold her.  Since we have been home, he has held her every day, several times a day.  He is always asking to hold her and is being a great help to mom.  Ellery usually follows suit and asks to hold her as soon as Caleb does and then gets mad when he gets to first.  It's pretty cute, they are both really interested in what she is doing and are being great helpers!

Isn't she lovely.

Fresh out.

With the hat from Cindy at work.  Isn't it cute!

Grandma G holding Anissa for the first time.

Grammy

Grandma Frisk loving her up!

With Papa

 Uncle Jon.

My night girls!  Kimberly, Mary, Dawn and Heidi.  I work every weekend that I work nights with Dawn and Mary and sometimes with Heidi and Kimberly.  They are a fun group of girls.  I was glad to have them there the night we stayed at the hospital.  It was fun to go out and talk to them-even though I was supposed to be sleeping!!

This is Heidi Sue.  She was my labor coach and I couldn't have done my labor the way I did without her.  She is an awesome labor coach and I can't ever thank her enough!

Dr Struthers delivered all three of my babies.  I was so glad that she was there for this one too!

Sweet sleeping baby.

The going home outfit.  All three kids went home in this outfit.  I know it was July, but we had to bring Anissa home in it too despite the fact that it was long sleeve and had feet.  At least she was in air conditioning the whole time.

"oh mom, she's crying"

A few days before Anissa was born, Caleb was "hugging" Ellery and somehow hurt her finger.  She started crying and Caleb immediately ran into our room and shut the door.  Tim asked him why he did that and he said "because she is crying" he laughed and said that soon there would be a whole lot more crying...Caleb's response-"wew, I'm gonna go into a room and shut the door."  Thankfully, he has done really well with Anissa crying and has even held her and tried to put her pacifier in her mouth when she is. :)

Auntie Janet, Nick, Nate and Papa Bob came over on thursday afternoon to meet Anissa.

Uncle Ben made a surprise visit late Thursday night.  It was so nice of him to come and meet Anissa.  He just showed up on our doorstep.  Thanks Ben for coming.  It was really good to see you!

That's all for now folks.

Hope you enjoyed the pictures.  I am planning on writing up my birth story because I want to, so if you want to read the story, check back maybe next week and I will have written that story.  Thanks for keeping up with us!

This post is a little heavy on the Ellery...I have finally gotten the desire to post her dance pictures.  The whole work thing stressed me out to the point that I pretty much didn't do much besides mope about that.  It took a lot out of me.  Finally, we have reached a resolution, for now.  I am sure there is more to come with the staffing issue since most people I know are not really satisfied with what became of that issue, but for now at least we get to work which is a GREAT thing.  I must apologize for waiting so long if any of you really wanted to see these pictures-I think they are really cute!!!

 

This is the morning of her recital.  I did her hair in sponge rollers.  She doesn't LOVE them, but they sure turn out cute.  This is her version of an afro-it did loosen up a bit.  Tim was laughing at her while he was taking this picture, which is why the sad face.  You couldn't much help but laugh since she is so cute!

My little dancer...

These are after her performance.  My family (minus Ben  :o(   ) were there along with Tim's sister Janet. 

Tim's mom was in Georgia so she came to her performance at the Mall of America the next weekend.

Uncle Jon and Sara brought Ellery her first bouquet of roses.  Mom and dad messed up and didn't communicate about flowers, but thankfully they came through!!!

Talking to Auntie.

With Great Grandma Frisk

Here they are goofing off in the crib.  Silly kids.

Caleb fishing in the back yard.  He has taken quite the interest in fishing. 

He got the opportunity to go up to the Johnson cabin a few weeks ago and was

fishing up a storm.  I think he likes fishing more than Star Wars at this point. 

Celebrating the 4th in our driveway.  This year, unlike 2 years ago, Caleb stayed and watched the fireworks in our driveway.  (2 yrs ago, the minute the noise started, he was off like a shot into the house and was crying for being so scared!)  He seemed to like them this year-he told my mom that he wasn't scared "cuz I'm 5"

This is a picture of the girls' room.  I still have to finish the baby's duvet cover, but she won't need it for a while anyway, so I can take my time.  I can't imagine I will have a whole lot of time for awhile.  I really like the way the room turned out.  It's pretty bright, but that's good.

I am now almost 39 weeks and VERY anxiously awaiting this little girl's arrival.  I keep telling the kids to tell her she can come out now.  Caleb's response to that is usually "no" but Ellie usually will tell her to come out so we can meet her.  I think Caleb is happy with life as is right now.  He has only one time told her to come out.  Oh well, he will get used to life right.