Coming Home

First time in the car seat

Grant and Miles check Leah out.

Flattering family photo.

Leah brought her big brother a present.

The truck full of little cars is a big hit. And very noisy on the wood floors.

Leah Kristien with the "Ien" and the "Krist"

Just like Mommy

Leah Meets the Family

Grant tries to get a better view.

Daddy!

Holding baby sister.

Proud big brother!

Grandpa and Daddy

Grandma and Grant check out Leah.

PawPaw meets Leah while Grant stuffs face.

Trying to wake up for G.

Welcome Leah Kristien!

Leah Kristien was born Friday September 3 at 6:13 am. She was 7 pounds and 20 inches long. The consensus is that she looks like Mommy. Her middle name is a combination of G (Krista) and Grandma (Janien). Kristien beat out Ja'Nista by a hair.

If you've been looking at the Peekaboo Babies site, Leah won't be on there. They never came to take her picture. So we took this one right before we left the hospital.

Just under 7 pounds.

So far she's a sleeper (knock on wood!)

My favorite Leah picture so far. So cute.

Big brother wants to take her picture too.

That Scared My Ears!

That is what Grant has started saying when there's a loud noise. :)

Baby Sister's Room and Quilt

Today Grant Said...

Today Grant said two really funny things I don't want to forget.

He came in to our room early this morning and I was pretty much awake so I thought I'd get up with him. He came to my side of the bed and said, "No Mommy, lay down and rest on your pillow!" So I did and Daddy had to get up with him.

He wanted to pet Miles so I had to hold the cat. As he was petting him he first said "He's cute!" Then he said "He's so precious!" Um, what? Where did he pick that up from? I just started laughing, I couldn't help it.

I guess he also told Troy randomly this morning that he liked his baby sister.

We've been car shopping a lot lately and Grant seems to like it for some reason. This morning he said he wanted to go look at cars. Troy took him to the garage and showed him that we got a new car. Grant looked at it and said, "I don't like it." Guess we forgot to ask his opinion yesterday!

Potty Training

We've been potty training for almost 2 weeks now. The sitter has declared him trained and sent home all the diapers. We're not quite ready to make that statement at our house. He's doing really well for the most part. He tells us when he has to go and doesn't have too many accidents. He's only gone #2 on the potty one time, the rest of the time it's ended up in his pants. And while he stays dry at nap for the sitter, that's not happening here. He has come a long way though. He started out not wanting to wear big boy pants (underwear), but just the other morning the first thing he said to me was that he wanted to wear big boy pants. One day early on in the training he had a big accident in the kitchen (more like a small flood), and he says to me in a sad voice "I don't want to wear big boy pants mommy." He started out on the little potty chair and within a few days only wanted to sit on the real toilet. He's still scared of public restrooms and often won't even go inside, but yesterday at a car dealership he went for the first time. We only had to go into the bathroom 5 times before he was comfortable enough to go. I'm not really sure how to make him not be scared, so right now when we know we're going to be out for a while we put a pull up on him just in case. But we are very proud of our big boy!

Grant modeling his big boy pants.