More than a month ago we blessed The Babe. It was a nice blessing. Not a lot of people came, but that actually alleviated a lot of stress. We had Lincoln’s parents and my parents, and also my brother and his family and my youngest sister. So we had our close family that live close! Here are a few pictures of the day:
The pictures of our family turned out really dark, so I will have to see if I can get a copy from someone else!
I’ve been wanting have a blessing dress photo shoot and finally this week I was able to get a few shots:
I also decided to do some onesie shots:
The last one is my new favorite picture of her!
And last but not least, here is a video of The Babe’s first big laugh:
PS I’m not really sure what Lil’ T is explaining to her, but she sure had a good laugh! By the way, I always figured it would be him that would really get her to giggle!
Did you know just how versatile the refrigerator biscuit is? I had no idea myself until about a month ago. That’s when I saw a recipe on TV that used biscuits to make flat bread. It’s a recipe worth trying. Lincoln and I give it 2 thumbs up! And the kids don’t seem to mind having this for dinner.
Since finding that recipe, I have found 2 others that have become family favorites:
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Who knew all the great things you can make with a tube of biscuits?!
One Month Old
She really is adored by all of her siblings!
After dinner we let the kids open the traditional Christmas Eve gift: pajamas! 
After that, the kids acted out the nativity. Lil' Miss was Mary, Lil' T was Joseph and Big T was everybody else. 
We put some fresh-made cookies (thank you, Pillsbury!) out for Santa and the kids went to bed. When we checked on the kids later, this is what we found:
Can't you just see the sugar plums? Big T was sweet and let Lil' T sleep on the top bunk with him.The boys slept until just before 7:00, which was the time we told them was allowed. However, we had to wake Lil' Miss and she was not thrilled. She had a hard time caring that "Claus" had been here. 
But she sure warmed up once she got downstairs! 
After opening gifts, the building began! Lincoln and the boys built Legos and built Legos and then built some more Legos! 
With the excitement of the morning over, we settled down to have a relaxing afternoon. That, however was not to be! At about 2:30, I began to have contractions. They were regular and starting to hurt a bit, so we called my parents to have them come down to be with the kids and made last minute preparations to go to the hospital. After some dinner, we made our way to the hospital at about 8:00. When the nurse checked me I hadn't progressed much from my appointment earlier that week, which was very strange. She called the doctor and we could hear her telling him, "Well, she's not in labor!" I was pretty sure I was! There was some concern over the baby's heartbeat, which was difficult to locate and seemed a little low. The doctor finally arrived and he decided that he would "augment" my labor. Before he started the pitocin he asked the nurse if she had felt the baby's head. She thought so, but he wasn't convinced and decided to do a quick ultrasound. Sure enough, her head was not down where it should be. The doctor then asked me, "Do you know what this means?" I was pretty sure it meant that I was having a C-section, but I still was worried that he was going to send me home. He meant that I was having a C-section. I was less than excited quite frankly. So the doctor got his team together and I had my very first C-section with the Babe being born at 11:44 on Christmas night! (Couldn't the doctor have waited 16 minutes?!) Oh well, she was healthy and that was the most important thing!
Merry Christmas to us!
