Bringing Home Baby

Birth really is a little miracle. Here's Clarissa from the first few moments to home...

Helping the Baby to Know that Its Time

Tammy has been very active this pregnancy, exercising more frequently than with any of the first three kids, and we think it's been helpful in limiting the leg pains she experienced with Eliza. Either that or we've just been lucky.

In the last week, Tammy has continued to be active, hoping she could encourage this baby along. We doubt it had anything to do with the timing of the baby, but as a consequence, we have several outside videos and some other clips we've been meaning to use.



Since this morning's post, things have not progressed as quickly as we thought, but that's how we had time to put this video together. As its over an hour to the hospital, we now have permission to head out. Hopefully, we'll have good news soon.

We just haven't met you...yet

After 9 months of waiting and planning, you start to get excited to meet the little person waiting inside of you. What do you do when you're waiting for a baby to come? What if you've already finished everything on your to-do list and you're afraid to schedule anything else in fear that you will have to cancel? Well, you could make a movie....




While this movie is meant to be light (we had to explain it to our kids), it seriously is time. It started in the middle of the night not unlike this, and we should be headed to the hospital soon. This is the kind of breaking news only you regular blog readers get to enjoy.

The Dueting Duo

When she opened the April Friend magazine and saw that there was a simplified Easter song, Miriam decided she wanted to learn it. Upon closer investigation, I noticed that the Duet Part 2 was written at about Henry's level and decided it would be awesome for our kids to play their first duet!

They each worked well on their own to learn their parts, but putting it together was extremely challenging. Our goal was to videotape the song and post it for your viewing pleasure on Easter Sunday. Obviously that didn't happen. (Can we blame it on the random scheduling of Easter?)

In spite of Henry's repeated protests and tears, I refused to let them start a project without finishing it. So, with the reward (bribe?) of refreshments following their recital recording, the two were finally able to pull off a presentable performance this morning. There's definitely room to improve and polish, but I took mercy on Henry and decided he had reached his limit.

Here's hoping for more duets in the future, when Henry's a little more up to the challenge. Nothing cuter than two siblings sharing a piano bench and tickling the ivories together! Eliza just wishes it could have been a trio.

We wish you a Happy Belated Easter!

Egg Hunters

Eliza didn't care what was inside the colored plastic eggs. The joy was in the finding.



Hope your Easter was full of just as much happiness.

Yellow Time Machine

We broke out the guitar last week. One of the kids' favorites is Yellow Submarine (because the lyrics are easy). Coincidentally, we recently found an old video of Miriam dancing, originally taken by her Grandpa Bray at an outdoor concert in NC. Miriam is almost exactly the age that Eliza is now (and though you can only see Tammy's leg in the picture, she was as close to childbirth as she is now).




Miriam and Eliza have similar dance moves, though that's about where the similarity ends.