Projects

I feel a little sheepish about posting a blog without any pictures. They are coming. Probably. Aunt Robyn came over to visit and took pictures of the girls, they can be seen here, they are very beautiful.

Mostly I wanted to enumerate the number of projects I have undertaken in the last 3 weeks:

• Canned 9 quarts of peaches by myself
• Weeding/removing a bush from the yard
• helping prepare for a concrete pour this weekend (most of it was really my dad, but I am involved)
• remove old, install new garbage disposal
• trip to Ikea (with Beetle)
• install Dignitet hanging wire system from Ikea (with Beetle)
• moved shelves in the garage (with Beetle)

Man, pregnancy really keeps you down, you know? There I was, just staring at these projects for months, now that baby is here (and preschool has started) I just have to get things moving!

Calvin Spencer Gaines

Hello, nice to meet you. This is Calvin. He was born on Thursday afternoon. He weighed 7 lbs and was 19 inches long. He has dark black hair and dark eyes.

 just after delivery

winkin' atcha. 

 His big sisters still love him.

Today. 3 days old.

This Girl

You know this girl. She's obviously pretty cute. and funny. She's learning to say a few words, like "Yeah". She says it with great confidence. We're pretty sure she knows what she's talking about most of the time.

Tonight Anna and Ben went out shopping and Eliza and I went downstairs to watch a show and relax. We ended up with Toy Story 3. Eliza was not really coherent when we/Anna/Ben went through our Toy Story phase, but apparently a few things stuck.

Whenever Big Baby came on, she just pointed and said "Baby, Baby" repeatedly

I went to change the laundry, when I came back she had gone upstairs and found Anna's Woody doll and was waving it around, I helped her out and found our big Jessie doll. She understood immediately and we went downstairs to finish watching the show.