The Sweetest Things

Hopefully it says it all in the title!

3 and 5 going on 13 and 15!

Best Friends

Last week we blessed our sweet litte boy. He has been such a good baby we can't even believe it. Most of you will remember that our girls were really fussy babies and cried ALL the time (expecially Jamie) but Jonas is so sweet. Sometimes I jump up as I realize he has been asleep for a couple hours and I think something must be wrong but he's just peacefully sleeping. Since he was about 4 weeks old he would sleep for 6 hours though the night, now he sleeps for at least 8!! What a blessing. He is smiling alot at us and making baby coo noises. He loves to smile at the girls and recognizes their vioces right away. Of course who wouldn't recognize a vioce that was always so loud! He has been such a wonderful addition to our family.

My mom made Jonas's cute blessing outfit. Also in her wisdom (so she likes to say!) she saved the left over fabric from my wedding dress and has used parts of it for all of my kids blessing outfits. Jonas's vest and bow tie are both from my dress! THANKS MOM!

A couple of weeks ago I made the adventure of going to the store will all 3 kids! YICKS! Well for our first outing I choose to go to Twin Falls (what was I thinking right?) Well, it turned out great. I was so proud of Shari, she stepped up to the plate of being the big sister and was so helpful. She help Jamie in and out of the car, held her hand to cross the parking lot, and put the groceries in the bags at winco (they make you do it yourself). What a good experience it turned out to be for her. Except for the time we all had to go to the bathroom at the same time and the time I had to nurse Jonas while driving through the drive through at McDonalds we did great. (the drive through is a story all of its own!)

Also thanks to the Moby wrap. If you have more then one kid you need one of these. I wrapped Jonas in it the whole day and he was so happy and so was I and no big car seat to carry around.

In June we celebrated Jamie's 3rd Birthday!! We had a princess cake for our little princess.

The picture to the left is with their cousins at grandma's house. They all just wanted to be by their newest friend and they can't wait until he is big enough to play with them!

If you can't read his shirt it says ,"Totally cuter then Daddy!" My friend sent that to us and I thought it was so cute! Thanks Carrie

What a Sweet Little Boy. Jonas has a been such a good baby, which is something new to us, and we love him. The girls are still enjoying him and wanting to help. Yesterday the girls were outside playing with their toy babies and I looked out to check on them and both of them were feeding their babies! It was really funny.

Note to Becky

Becky, my invitation expired to view your blog because I haven't been on for so long, for obvious reasons! Could you please send me an invite again I like to view your blog and see what is going on with you and your family.
THANKS

Jonas Joshua is HERE!

Saturday May 30th at 11:24 pm Jonas was born weighing 8 lbs 20 inches long. Shortly after posting on my blog last week I started having contractions, which I had been doing off and on for the past few weeks but as they got more intense we headed for the hospital. The doctor came in around 9pm and broke my water Jonas was born shortly after.
The girls came to see us the next day and they were so excited. Even after a week they still are fighting over who gets to hold him next. The first thing they ask in the morning is if they can hold Jonas. He's not going to get spoiled is he?!! Even though they love him to death they have had a few melt downs, thankgoodness for family that can come get them and give them the attention they are needing too.

We have been doing good at home thanks to so much help from family and friends. Thanks to all of you who have been so kind by bringing food, gifts, babysitting and more babysitting, calling to check on us and just being willing to help if we need anything.

And thanks to a wonderful husband who has helped so much. It was fun to watch him this weekend try to keep all the dishes done. He kept saying, "I just did the dishes and now I'm doing them again!" He has also been great to help the girls adjust by giving them some one on one time too.

We had to get out the baby pictures to be sure but he definetly looks like his sisters did when they were born.

OH BABY

The other day Jamie was talking to the baby (to my tummy) and telling him to "come out, come out!!" and then she added, "I will love you." We are all ready for the baby so we can love him. I have been having a few contractions for a while now but still not baby. Wednesday night I was having alot of contractions and I thought for sure we were going to be going to the hospital. At midnight I got up and packed my hospital bag but now it is still sitting on the floor.

At my last doctor apt. I was dialated to a 3 so he said if I didn't have the baby by Tues. he would start me!! HOORAY. So if not sooner then we will have our baby June 2nd! Shari took these pictures so they are alittle blurry.

On May 20th Shari graduated from Preschool. It was lot of fun (20 minutes of fun!!) and she was so excited. She called to make sure both grandma's were coming and they did of course. THANKS GRANDMA'S. Mom, Dad, Jamie, Sheila, and Spencer came too! She had the biggest group there, do you think they could tell she is our oldest :-)
It was also a special day because Shari got to graduate on the same day as her best friend Sheila!!

Easter fun

We're alittle behind on posting but I wanted to share from Easter picts. anyway.
Shari's favorite holiday is Easter! She even chooses it over Christmas. This year we had two easter egg hunts, one at each of the grandma's houses. The kids had a lot of fun with their cousins.

Jamie loves it when we babysit her cousin Brooke. She will be very helpful when our baby comes, but maybe alittle to helpful. She is constently wanting to hold her, feed her, and make her happy!

They will be good friends one day!

As for the rest of us, Josh is getting really busy at work and is really enjoying it. We are starting to work on our yard and if we could just get a few nice days we could make a little more progress. We are anxious to get the yard done and then offically say we are done working on our house. Then we will take a nice long break from all our projects.

I am starting the count down for the baby! 6 MORE WEEKS (4 if I have any say in this!!) I am feeling good and enjoying getting the babies room ready.

New Email Address

We have a new email address. I tried to email everyone what the new address is but if I forgot you, I'm so sorry. Please leave me a comment and I will send you our new address!
Anyone in the Larsen family I posted our new address on the family website in the forum.