Life As We Know It

Ross is back to work today--hard to believe that we've been a family of four for over a week now. Thanksgiving flew by and we've had lots of visitors, but now we're starting to get into the flow of things a bit more. :) (Pictures are in reverse order of when they actually were taken-sorry).

Look at his reddish-hair! He's got a little of his mama in him after all!

Taking a nap in the sun, trying to get his bilirubin count down.

Grandpa Cliff

Sage loves her baby brudder.

Baby "Dew" gets a lot of attention from Sage. She always wants to "hold it, HOLD IT!"

So cute.

Cousin Ben and Aunt Jill visited us as well. Uncle Josh got to meet Drew at the hospital.

Pappy Franklin and Grandma Pam made the trip from Springville, on Sunday.

Grandma, or "Grampa", as Sage calls her, stayed with Sage overnight while we were in the hospital. Aunt Sheila helped us out as well!

We didn't manage to get pictures, but Drew also got to meet Sue and LaBrent at the hospital, and his aunt and uncle, Trina and Cary, and cousins Maly and Audrey. On Thanksgiving, Aunt Kris and Aunt Kim and cousin Dallas also got to meet our little guy.

Nothing like hearing from your nephew,
Dallas: "Hey, are you pregnant?"
Me: "Nope, not anymore. That's where Drew came from."
Dallas: "Oh, well, you still look like it."
Me: "Give me a break! I just gave birth three days ago!"

Kids can be so honest... luckily for me, nursing is helping to quickly drop the weight, so hopefully at Christmas I won't be asked the same question!! :)

Introducing...

Drew Fisher
7lbs. 12ozs. 19"
11.20.11
4:37pm

It's amazing how much love you can have for such a little being.

We feel so blessed with our new addition to our family.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Practice

Sage LOVES babies. She's become a pretty good little mama. She now insists that we put her babies' bed at the foot of her bed at night so she can tuck them in and say good night. A couple weekends ago she got to practice being a big sister to Clara. That was a bit scarier than pretending with plastic dolls! Although she had great intentions. :)

(That's just a shadow on Clara's face...)

Mrs. Mortenson, the Moose

During Author's Chair today, one of my students had the opportunity to share her published story to the class. In short, it was about her love of animals and if she was really good at school, her parents would let her get one more pet. She chose a moose and named it Mrs. Mortenson.

Here is an excerpt:

"It was Take-Your-Pet-to-School day, but we could only bring one pet, so I decided to bring my moose! The next day, when I got to school, I could barley fit Mrs. Mortenson through the door. But more kids came and decided to help get Mrs. Mortenson through the door! We had to push very hard to finally get it accomplished."

As if I wasn't already feeling HUGE!!!!

Besties

Sage had her BFF Claire over to help celebrate her birthday with her. Luckily neither one realized it was actually a day late... but definitely not a dollar short! They had so much fun together.

At one point they chased each other upstairs in their high-heeled dress-up shoes. Instead of interfering with their antics, Matt, Lauren, Ross and I turned on the video monitor and watched the show. Ross took video with the Flip Cam so I will shorten it up a bit and post later on... too funny!

Rollin' in the Dough

Who would have thought a chef's outfit and Play-Doh would make a little girl so happy?

Look Who's 2!

It's hard to believe that our baby is already two-years-old! Somehow we've made it this far without too many major parenting errors.

Although Sage apparently would not agree, as she is already studying up on how to raise baby #2...

We're definitely going to have our hands full!