audrey

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liam

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4.21.2010

who knew . . .

okay, so hang on as i try to sum up the last few weeks. busy, exhausting, wonderful, and emotional. so maybe that wasn't so hard! ha ha! life with two has been an adventure already. you wonder how you can love two separate beings so much, but amazingly you just do. you also wonder how you can ache so much when one of them is in pain. i think i hurt more than they do! you also wonder how so much can happen in such a short span of time.

let me back up a bit and fill you in on the last few weeks. as you know audrey has joined our little family, and she is amazing. she is little and sweet and has so much hair i still have to take a second look. liam has been adjusting amazingly well. he loves to name all of audrey's parts, especially her eyes, which he then likes to try to poke out!! he really is such a good boy and just a joy!!

all was going well at home, and we were all adjusting when bam, last thursday matt had to take me to the emergency room, where within the next 8 hours i had my gallbladder removed. that was more than a little unexpected. then we went to the pediatrician on monday only to find out that both little ones have ear infections. so now we are on antibiotics and liam's are making his little booty so red and sore, i just have to cry every-time i have to change his diaper. it is so sad to see him so sad. hopefully this is going to end very soon. i am not a strong mommy when my babies are sick. it just makes me so sad to see them hurt. i know they will be fine, but i want them to be fine now! so now, i have a two year old, a one month old, no gallbladder, and three ear infections to deal with. for those of you that know me, you know, i am a big baby. adversity and me do not get along. so of course i fall apart and cry (it also doesn't help that i am working on 3-4 hours of sleep at a time)!!

we are fine and will be fine, i just need to get it all off my chest sometimes. aaahh! i feel better.

now you may scroll down and look at some adorable pictures from the last few weeks. they are in no particular order, because i don't have the energy to try to put them that way!!



oma and miss audrey


look who is 2!!


the grandkids (on the byars' side) at easter


is that an adorable family or what?


10 years and still smiling!!


someone takes after her mommy and likes to sleep




we went to zoo!


liam loved the giraffes


we believe in group napping


is all of this really happening!!
poor audrey looks terrified sometimes, well almost all the time she is awake!!

4.02.2010

audrey

hello audrey! welcome to the world!

she made her grand entrance at 9:43 pm on March 23, 2010

she weighed in at 7 lb and 13 oz and was 22 inches

perfect!!



liam loves his little sister and always wants to
"hold the audrey"



she loves to sleep, during the day that is! for some reason she thinks that 4 am is the perfect time to wake up. we are trying to make her understand that 7 or 8 is a much more reasonable time to wake up. other than her for midnight and 3 am feeding.



she is a cuddler! which of course we all love. we have a holding schedule in our house to make sure that we have equal time with the cuddle bug!



daddy's holding time tends to turn into nap time.



audrey is, of course, a fashionista! her mother will have it no other way.



audrey is wonderful and perfect. we are having a great time adjusting to our new little one. oma is here for a while so of course i am spoiled with more help than most, but i am not turing it down. we are almost done with her room so stay tuned for pictures.

liam is turning two and getting so big. we look at audrey and can't help remember how little and precious he was. he is of course still precious just bigger now. he talks and talks and is becoming so independent. i love watching him turn into a little man, but i am sad at the same time that he can't stay my little boy.

God has blessed us amazingly and we can't thank Him enough!!