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Ch - Ch - Ch - Changes!

It's amazing how much a baby changes in a week. His sisters are getting bigger too :)

"Those fit PERFECT"

Rilee is our fashionista. She has a very distinct sense of style. She's known for her various crazy pants that she pairs with a shirt that is just as awesome. She knows what she likes and wears it proudly.

Over Easter weekend we headed to Portland. This trip included a stop by the Nike employee store for new shoes. Jason took Taylor and found some super cute shoes that she wanted. They have stars on the bottom, the selling point for Taylor. Taylor's shoes are white running shoes with a pink wave on the side.

I took Rilee. I figured she'd be pretty easy. She likes lots of different things, so I figured I could get her set up and do some shopping for myself. Boy was I wrong. I must have gone through 5 or 6 pairs of shoes. I made her try them on even if she said she didn't like them. I thought maybe I could sell them to her by saying how fast she looked. Nothing worked...they were either to big or to small, or so she said.

Well, these shoes were my last resort. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the shoes, but I had a hard time figuring out what they would match with. Well, I showed her the shoes and the first thing she said was "Those fit PERFECT". She hadn't even tried them on. Needless to say, she's worn them almost everyday since :)

Our Little...BIG Man!

He's finally here. Alston Jamaal was born April 3, 2009 at 11:37pm. The inducing process began at 8:30am so it was a long and boring day for me. The girls had preschool and I had scheduled Jason some patients in the morning, so I watched al ot of TV and read magazines while we waited for my body to respond to the potocin. LONG story short, Alston was born weighing 9lbs 10oz and 21.25 inches long. He won the prize for biggest baby that day :)
Currently he is out of the newborn size of clothes and is stretching the 0-3 months...and he's only 1 week old!
My mom was here helping until last night. What a blessing she is! Not only did she take care of me and my family, but she took the night shifts EVERY night. I was one rested mama!! Last night was my first night of getting up with Alston. It went better than I had expected. There's so much anticipation of the unknown when it comes to a newborn and sleeping during the night. Such is life :)

Cute Pics of the Girls

I thought I should post some cute pictures of the girls before this blog becomes over run with Alston pics! Speaking of which, I'm scheduled for induction at 7:30am tomorrow morning!

The girls and I headed up to Salem a couple of Thursday's ago to surprise Jason and go to dinner. He teaches at the Oregon School of Massage on Thursdays, so that was fun. Wendie, one of our fabulous massage therapists treated the girls to a carousel ride. They LOVED it! :)

Then we played there at the Riverfront Park.

Just a crazy pic of the girls at the zoo last month. We've really enjoyed all the chances we've gotten to create memories with my mom and dad while Jason does his CCSP classes.

I just had to include this one of Rilee. It's SO her!