10 Days Old

Ella Rose is ten days old today. We're just over the moon for her and trying to get our sleeping habits (ours, not hers) back in order. The boys are taking an afternoon nap for the first time in a long time. And Boy, did they need it! I, of course, should be sleeping as well. That is the rule, I know. Just wanted to get up some newer pictures. These are from last Sunday--five days old.

Here She Is!

"Our Little Pumpkin"

Ella Rose Kayser was born at home, into her Daddy's hands at 5:10 am on October 16, 2007. Her gentle, peaceful birth was all we could have hoped for and more. We are all CrazyInLove with her and overly blessed! Yay God!

Stay tuned for Official Birth Story with all the fabulous details of Ella's arrival on Earth!

Photography Fun

Check out this cool feature I discovered on my camera. It lets you isolate one color via the image in the lens. I played around with the blue from their jeans and the green from the plants, too. The orange pumpkins looked the coolest, I think, with the exception of the tinge of orange that showed up on the boys' cheeks, of course. I'll need to mess around with this feature more. That, and get a bit friendlier with my editing software.

Belly

Okay, dear sister, you asked for it.

Here's the belly and it's popped turkey-timer button. The boys love the belly. I hope they like their new sibling as much when he/she arrives.

And how about that hair? It hasn't been this short in nearly 10 years.

And since when am I old enough to talk about something that happened 10 years ago and not be referencing my childhood??? Mama Mia!

Haircuts

So, we all got haircuts this week. The boys have a preferred barber named Jose. I really like him a lot. He is petite and wears his scissors, combs, etc. in a holster slung around his teeny hips. I'm not sure how much English he speaks, or Spanish, for that matter, as he is a man of very few words. But he knows how to communicate with children. At least, he knows how to commuicate with my children. He not only hears their protests or objections, he anticipates them. He is so quick to respond to their every movement, to back off when necessary, to invite me to intervene, to introduce an alternative option, that the boys are really completely at ease while he does the job. It all happens so fast, and the experience is so painless, that it would be easy to overlook his skill. And, the best part according to the boys, they get to sit in fun vehicles and watch movies during their turn in the chair. Here's Ben in the airplane and Will in the tractor for their "before" shots.


And here they are in their carseats for their "After" poses. Such handsome fellows.