Cats and smiles

Daddy and his girl: no words can describe how cute this picture is.

Slippers decided to take a cozy nap on the couch. Ahhh, the sight of a sleeping cat makes me sleepy.....

Fat cats: That would be Shadow. What do you think? Does he fall into the fat cat catagory?

He is great! Loveable and snuggly. He loves to have his belly rubbed, seriously! He's the first cat that I have ever known that likes that.

Smiles: Do you like Emily's smile? Isn't it great! That was from yesterday morning when I went in to tell her good morning. What a sweetheart!

The previous posts' picture of the boys I thought was so cute! Jeremy was camping out in Ryan's room that night. They had fun chatting a while and making shadow figures on the ceiling.

TTFN

6 weeks already!

Hey, can you believe it? Emily is 6 weeks old already! Time really flies. I'm not surprised though, the boys have grown up overnight it seems like so I know this time goes so fast.

That is one reason why we decided to homeschool. I want to spend as much time with the kids now because all too soon they will be leaving the house and then that chance is gone.

My mom came up for a visit a couple weeks ago, that was sure a nice visit and Emily sure had a fun time with grandma.

BUT on a lighter note...here are some new pictures of the family. Things are going well and thanks to so many friends who have brought meals and the family for pitching in a lot, things are running smoothly at home. Jeff's mom, sister and neice came from Michigan to see Emily and to help out. What a great time we had! They were a ton of help and it was so hard to see them go, I really missed them the rest of the day after they left.

Emily wakes 1or 2 times during the night-yeah! She loves to be awake and to see people and to go places. She doesn't like to go down for naps during the day but gets tired anyway. Settling down is tough but other than that she is an incredibly happy baby. She is smiling a lot now which is soooo much fun and even cooed at me today! It's really fun to go in to see her in the morning. Even though she is hungry she wakes up with many smiles for whoever is there to great her. I am so blessed and very thankful for my wonderful husband, boys and daughter. :)

Baby love

It has been a little more than 3 weeks now and we are doing well! Emily is getting the hang of eathing and sleeping and I am getting 3 hours of sleep at night at a stretch at night so that is good. The boys are loving their sister and are very proud. She LOVES her daddy's voice and smiles at him a lot too. She is so adorable and is just so very kissable. :) She likes her baths at the kitchen sink in her tub and knows that nights are for sleeping. She is good in church and

seems to just have a cool, sweet personality. We love her so much and are in heaven. We are most certainally very blessed with two healthy boys and one adorable baby girl.

Emily Sue Colegrove

She's here!!!!

Our daughter Emily Sue was born on Wednesday, February 10th at 3:55 pm. She weighed 8.0 pounds and was 21 inches long. Very healthy and very adorable! Such a daddy's little girl already. Labor went well, was only 5 hours of active labor and totally natural-yeah!

We are just over-the-moon in love with her and are so glad she is here to hold and kiss.

She is eating and sleeping well, and doing a lot of both but she is also very alert too and loves to look around. She adores her big brothers and thinks that the play noises they make sound like lots of fun and she can't wait to join their playing.

Welcome Emily Sue!

Almost there!

Oh my, the time is flying! We are coming to the end of week #38, can you believe it!

We are so ready to meet this little lady. :) BUT I have thoroughly enjoyed carrying her and experiencing that once again. It has been quite a gift from God that I will always be thankful for.

We are about as ready as we will ever be, as there is always

a list of projects to work on but she can come any time now.

The boys are excited too, the anticipation is so fun!

We are full into the "after Christmas break" new session of activities. Scouts, co-op,paper routes, floor hockey, roller skating, skiing, ice skating, church activities, home group, class here and there, prayer teams...yeah it keeps us busy. But we treasure, most of all, that time we get to spend as a family just hanging out. Yes, there is still time for that too. We don't want to be so busy that we miss out on that. Family time is most important. Things will slow down a bit after the baby is born, that will be nice.

We'll just enjoy our new little bundle of love for a while. :)

Merry Christmas!

Yeah! I love Christmas, all the great music, the smell of baking in the house, the beautiful lights inside and outside and the anticipation in the air from the kids about their gifts. I really love the atmosphere.

We are ready! The presents are bought, the food is bought and the cards are out. Good thing too, we are expected to get between 1 foot at 20 inches of snow between Christmas eve and C. Day. They say it could be the snowyest Christmas ever-wow! Good thing we are not traveling anywhere this year, it could be tough going. Blessings to all of you who are going to be traveling-take it slow and carefully and be safe.

Here is an updated belly pic of me at 7 months. (this was 2 weeks ago). Little Emily is about 4 1/2 pounds now and 17 inches, approx. She's sure getting big and will be meeting here in a little over a month now, can't wait! She's doing a lot of kicking and punching mom and gets the hiccups several times every day. Her lungs will be nice and strong for loud crying! :) We are ready for baby, all the supplies are on hand now, thanks to a little Christmas angel :). It's enjoyable to bless and it is wonderful to be blessed too.

Merry Christmas and have a safe and Happy New Year!