Kinley Paige

Wow, I have not written in a very long time! We have been very busy. Where to start......
On August 19th, at 1:19 am Kinley Paige made her very dramatic debut. We went into the hospital around 11:30 pm on August 18th (our due date) as my contractions were about 2-4 minutes apart. I was checked and told I was only a finger tip dialated. I couldn't believe it! I was given a shot of moriphine and gravol and told to go home and sleep and come back when the labour got more intense. We left the hospital at 12:30 and by the time we got home it was about 12:50. We were home maybe 15 minutes and I felt like I had to push, so we made our way back to the car to get back to the hospital. We only live about 7 minutes from the hospital. We made it about 3 minutes up the road and I told Jaice he needed to pull over right now because the baby was coming! He told me to keep breathing, because there is no way the baby should be coming yet as they just checked me 30 minutes ago and I was barely dialated! I may have yelled :) and told him he HAD to pull over and call 911. He did and as he dialed Kinley's head was already out. He caught her on the next push as the 911 operator came on. He cleaned out her mouth and she cryed right away. That was the most amazing sound I have ever heard! Jaice was fantastic! We got her all wrapped up as the ambulance arrived. They cut the cord. Kinley was doing so well they let us go in the same ambulance to the hospital. Jaice met us there. She weighed 6 lbs 13 oz and was 20 inches long. So tiny....not that I am complaining! We are so in love with her. Carter now looks like a giant (not that he looked all that small before) compaired to her. He was very excited to see Kinley in the hospital and wanted to hold her. He wanted to hold her for the first few days we were home, but that wore off pretty quickly. He doesn't seem too interested in her right now. I figure as soon as she starts taking his toys he will take a big interest in her!
I will update more often with pictures! We are adjusting to having 2 at home, and so far it isn't too bad.
We hope everyone is having a good last week of summer before school gets back in.

Little Music Man

Easter fun

Well the Easter bunny made it to our house! He brought chocolate and books. Carter was more interested in finding the eggs once he figured out there was chocolate inside! This also meant that with every egg he found he wanted to open it and eat the chocolate. The smart little monkey figured out how to get the chocolate eggs out of their wrapping!
Gran and Grandpa came for a visit! We had such a great time with them. Carter called Grandpa 'grampytoo' and he is still working on Gran. Carter had do much fun outside with Grandpa putting in the garden boxes. While fixing up the yard Daddy discovered a snake! What and exciting treat! Carter loved watching it slither. Every time he is outside he goes looking for it. We think it is gone now....but you never know! Gran and Grandpa got Carter a harmonica for Easter. It took Carter a little bit to figure out how it worked. Once he got that figured he was a music man! He took out his stool and stood on top of it to play. What a little monkey!
We hope everyone had a great Easter. We will post pictures of the garden and the yard when we get things planted this weekend!
We miss everyone lots.

Backyard fun

Jumping bean

Videos

We have taken a few videos lately and wanted to share. Carter is talking more and more and we are slowly figuring out what he is saying. He loves to sing. When he is alone or if he thinks you aren't paying attention to him in the car he will start singing. His go to song is 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'. He wants us to sing it every night before bed. He still loves to be outside a lot, so we invested in a BIG bottle of bubbles and have already had lots of fun with them. Jumping is his new favourite thing. He climbs up on the bottom stair and jumps off. He is getting pretty good height. We are a little scared as he is wanting to jump off of more and more. So far we have stopped him from jumping off anything too high. I am sure the time will come where he manages to get on the table and jumps off.....not looking forward to that!

Jumping into the pool

Here is a video of Carter jumping into the pool during one of his swimming lessons. He sure does love the water. Enjoy