In Tears

Don't click on this link if you don't want to be in tears. I have spent the last hour and a half reading this blog and am overcome in tears. Thanks Katie for the link on your blog. I feel I have learned so much in such a short amount of time.

I am off to hug and kiss my kids until they can't stand it.

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Before (chop chop) and after

Here are the before and after shots. I needed a change, so I choped my hair.

Lukas - LONG post

This post is for Grandma Pat (Luke's grandma). She hasn't seen Luke in over a month because he has been staying with us. She won't be able to see him for another month. My mom and Luke leave on the 19th of August. Beware, there are a lot of pictures here because we have been doing LOTS of fun things with the 4 boys since Luke has been here. There is NEVER a dull moment in this house!!! Add Maggie to the mix and it's a party!All 4 boys looking at the camera at the same time. Having fun at the park.

Luke eating the water. The water in Dayton is tasty!! (YUK!)

This really isn't what it looks like. He is sitting on a seal that is spitting water. We thought it was pretty funny though. He thought it was funny too. He wouldn't stop laughing.

Luke has fit right in with the boys. Justin loves to help him do things. Luke was hesitant about running through the water, so Justin took his hand and helped him through.

Nate and Luke crawling through the stream.

The rule at our house is you have to wear a helmet to ride a bike. Since Luke doesn't have a helmet, he has adopted the baseball helmet while he rides "his" bike.

Luke riding the "sooter"

Luke is banging his hand on the table and saying "guilty."

Luke in the truck. Nate is going to pick him up with his digger and get him out. Ya right!If you only knew how hard this picture was to get. All 4 boys looking at the camera at the same time. Yikes!!
This is what Luke would look like as a fireman.

Out of the mouths of babes

We were at the school today so the kids could play on the playground and Kennie was being overtaken by the bugs. I about died at his comment.

"I need to teach these bugs a lesson so they will leave me alone."

Love it!!

Maggie's first tatoo

Did I scare you?? Every year just before the 4th of July, Wright Patt AFB has a 4th of July celebration that they call the tattoo. They have fly overs with a bunch of the military planes (Aaron's favorite part). This year they had the Charlie Daniels Band come and play. (That was Grandma's favorite part). They also had the Air Force Band play for us. (One of them, Aaron says there are several.) They brought the flag in by parachute. That was pretty cool. The night ended with a great display of fireworks (definitely NOT Nate's favorite part. He was terrified and buried his face in my neck.) Here are some pictures.

On our way there.

Kennie's favorite part. The Cotton Candy!

Justin drinking the Lemonade.

Nate hiding from everything.

Maggie chillin'

Luke smiling for the camera.

Kennie, Justin & Wesley (our neighbor) in the wagon and Luke trying to pull the wagon.

Baby Pictures

You can decide which boy/boys Maggie looks like. Here is pictures of all the boys and Maggie. What do you think?

Maggie

Kennie

Justin

Nate

Adorable

This is to prove that Maggie has more than just purple in her wardrobe. She is getting so big. She did catch the bronchitis bug that we have in our house, so now it's just Aaron that hasn't gotten it. He is going to Utah for the weekend, so hopefully we will get rid of the bug before he comes home.

A few things about Maggie

Maggie's 2 weeks old!

Since I have received a ton of e-mails with the same questions, I figured I would answer them all on the blog. That way I don't have to answer them a thousand times.

#1 - How was labor? Labor was ridiculous. I didn't even attempt to get an epidural this time since it hasn't really worked the other 3 times, and after Nate, I had extreme back pain at the injection site. I didn't want to go through that again. So, I opted for the IV drugs, which did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!! The only thing that saved me was the Phenergan. The reason I was admitted was dehydration. We had the flu at our house and I had been throwing up for 3 days and just needed them to put a few bags of saline in me to help me feel a little better. Aaron was working a ton and I really needed to be able to take care of the boys. My doctor drew some blood to do a few labs and determined that I was severly anemic. He was ready to do a blood transfusion right then, except, for some reason, Maggie looked great! He held off. They were concerned that I would lose a lot of blood during the delivery, but we were blessed. I didn't hardly lose any. My doctor was very pleased.

#2 - How did we come up with Maggie's name? For most of the pregnancy, we were going to name her Charlotte Rose. We both really liked Maggie, but couldn't find a "full" name to go with it. About 2 months ago, Aaron suggested we talk about other names. He totally threw me for a loop, I thought Charlotte it was! So, we went through the list of names that we could use Maggie as a nick name. When I suggested Magdaline, neither of us liked it, but the more we talked about it, the more we liked it. So, that is what we ended up doing. Ilene's (Aaron's mom) great-grandma's name was Magdalena which is where we got Magdaline (kind-of) and David's (Aaron's dad) mothers name was Rosalie, which is were we got Rose.

#3 - How am I doing? I am doing fantastic. I am so glad to not be pregnant any more. I am back in my clothes and finally getting some much needed sleep. Maggie is such a laid back baby. Friday night, she slept through the night. Imagine my surprise when I woke up at 7:30 and hadn't fed her all night. I about died. Nate just barley started sleeping through the night. I can't believe it. The boys love her and are so good with her, even Nate. We haven't yet had any jealousy which I totally expected from him.

If you want to see Maggie's hospital picture, click here.

She's here!!!

As many of you now know, Magdaline Rose Lewis arrived early today after a painful but relatively brief labor by her loving mother. She was born at 1:23 AM, weighed 8 lbs 4 ozs and was 20.2 inches long. Despite being sick for a couple of days prior to deliver, Sassy is doing well. The doctors told her that she is quite anemic (low blood counts) but she didn't have a lot of blood loss with the delivery and seems to be doing okay. She is a little nauseated, but this is likely from the stomach flu bug that we have had at our house for the past couple days. If everything continues to be good, they should be home on Thursday evening or Friday.

Sassy is the blogger of the family, and with her at the hospital it has been left to me to post some pictures. In doing so I messed up the rest of the blog, but at least you can see these.

Little bruised on the head, otherwise perfect

Tired and relieved mama

Proud papa

So far, a good little sleeper

With Kennie

With Justin

With Nate

If Sassy has her way, Maggie will be in as little pink as possible.

Purple is ALL the rage at the Lewis house nowdays.

She did have a pink bow on though.

Couldn't be any cuter!