My Babies

IKE

I've been trying to figure out who he looks like, but I think he's his own little guy.  I see expressions that remind me of Coen & the lower half of his face looks like Reagan.  Maybe you can help me see more...  He's a very good baby!  He only wakes up once during the night, not to eat, just to snuggle.  He loves being held which is nice most of the time and he does enjoy the kids. 

COEN

Coen likes to climb up on the bed with me in the morning.  He crawls over me to look at Ike & say "Lookie him" and "Cutie Ikie."  Then he lays back on a pillow, asks for blankets & wants to hear the story of the little engine that could.

REAGAN

Reagan wants to hold Ike for small amounts of time- all the time.  She has also decided that she can carry him around the house, so we can't leave him alone with her for long.  She does love him & sings him her primary songs.

I of course have been a huge pansy and have been afraid to leave the house with all of them, but I did take a trip to the grocery store with them and we did just fine.  I bought a Moby Wrap to put Ike in so I could have both hands free.  I like it, but I've got to remember to act like I'm still prego, so Ike doesn't get banged into everything.  

I'll post more pictures when I get them from the grandmas.

Happy Birthday Nanie!

Nanie has been here for a week doing all sorts of wonderful things for us. She has been very grumpy that after working so hard, I refused to produce the promised grandchild. I think, however, she has finally forgiven me.

A picture of Nanie and all the kids- just not all their faces!

If you look very closely, you can see a candle in the ice cream. Coen helped blow out the candles & Reagan actually sang to Nanie shocking us all. Happy Birthday Nanie! We love having you here! You're the best mom & nanie anyone could ask for!

Introducing Ike

William Eisenhauer Rahlf a.k.a Ike

First picture with Daddy about 4:15 Sunday morning.

Coen showing mild interest in Ike.

Since we've been home Coen has been much more excited about him. At the hospital he was way more interested in the vacuum being used in the hallway.

All clean for pictures.

They let us hold him for about an hour before they took him away to weigh, bath and clothe him. He was born at 3:37 a.m. March 8th and weighed in at 8 lbs 8 oz and is 21 1/2 inches. He was only 7 days late & weighs 5 oz less than Reagan.

Very first meeting of the siblings.

Reagan cannot stop touching his face and calling him cutie pie. Coen mainly just tries to poke him in the eyes while counting to make sure there are two.

1 More Day... Yeah Right!

Yesterday we had this huge flock of birds come land in our tree.  The kids thought it was so cool.  They kept banging the door so the birds would fly away and come back.  Coen roared at them for a good 10 minutes.  I tried to get some video, but of course it was out of batteries.  It was pretty funny though.

Nick let the kids come shovel the driveway with him.  You'd have thought they won a trip to Disneyland.  They had so much fun!

For all of you who wanted a big pregnant picture...  One day til my due date & Coen decided he'd "fish" Ike out.  He's such a helper.  I'm not sure why it didn't work.  Coen is confused too.  I get induced on the 6th if I haven't had him by then.

Dreaming of warm weather...

The kids are going a little stir crazy since it's been so cold and the snow is very hard, making playing outside no fun.  I've been trying the get them out of the house, but there aren't many places to take them here.  They got a little spoiled while I had the flu, since they got to play at tons of different houses.  Reagan keeps asking me if she can go to her babysitters house and play with her mom.  

Yesterday it was a little warmer and the top layer of snow a little slushy so Reagan kept asking if she could put on her makeup and shovel the snow.  We compromised by getting them into the back yard, where they tried valiantly to play with the sand in the sand box that we left out.  Oops!  The shovels were useful (for Reagan at least, Coen can't get this thumbs into the mittens, so he can't pick anything up and it makes him sooo mad!)  and Reagan had a blast throwing snowballs at the window where I sat watching them.  (It's the strangest thing, but none of my snow clothes seem to fit.)  Coen was extremely upset that we still couldn't make a snowman, but it did snow again this morning, so maybe we can get one made today.  I hope to spend the whole summer at the beach soaking in as much sunshine as possible to make up for these days of dreary cold.  The kids have their favorite beach stuff all ready to go and I am hoping for an early spring!

Here's What We've Been Working On

Coen loves having his picture taken & Reagan always wants to be in the  picture too, so we have taken a lot of pictures lately.  I think this one is the funniest so far.

Cute story about Reagan:  The other morning I woke up at about 5:30 and heard Reagan running around.  I thought, "oh man, she's had an accident."  She won't tell me ever, she just puts on pull ups and goes back to bed, so I got up and she was already back in bed.  I went to talk to her and she asked me if I had gotten the jewels.  She didn't have an accident, she had gotten up to leave a pile of her dress up jewelry in front of my door because she knew how much I loved them.  I thought it was cute.

Didn't Nick do a great job?!!  I love it!  We're still rearranging furniture, but you get the idea.  He even shampooed the carpets for me.  So now even if I don't get everything else done, Ike will have a cute clean room to sleep in.  Wahoo! 

While The Boys Are Away...

For some reason it was very important that we wear this a lot that weekend.  Usually it was on her head though.  She's also very big into poses as you can tell.

Nick & Coen went to Cincinnati for Dallin's Eagle Scout Court of Honor, so Reagan and I got to play all weekend.  We started out with a trip to the library and then a trip to the store to buy all the junk food we could handle.  That night we made her favorite dinner and watched Hello Dolly, just like Wall-e.  The next day we cleaned, went shopping again, and in the afternoon made these cute little picture frames.  She was so excited to do a craft all by herself.  Now she sings some of the Hello Dolly songs.  It's pretty funny how she arranges them in her head.

Here's Nick & Coen at the Court of Honor.  We're so proud of Dallin!  He did a great job!  Thanks Oma &  Opa for the chance to be there with him!  Coen enjoyed all the spoiling attention he received, thanks Becky & Jordan!