Birth Announcement

It is currently 1:05am and I should be sleeping! Instead of sleeping I decided to stay up and make this...

I took the pictures tonight and made this announcement in my photo editing program Paint Shop Pro. It was fun playing around with it!!! Carleigh is almost exactly two weeks old. It is crazy thinking that exactly two weeks ago Carleigh was still in my belly!!! I am so glad she is out!!!! We are so blessed to have her in our family! I just love her to pieces and so does everyone else!!!So far she is as PERFECT as they come. My due date is this coming Wednesday so it will be interesting to see if Carleigh livens up a bit. She still sleeps about 23 hours a day!!!

Still in love...

We are all still so in love with Baby Carleigh Jane!!! We still all fight over who get to hold her, we all want to snuggle her, and we all want her to suck on our fingers!! Well, I guess the last one only applies to the kids!!! Zander learned a cool new trick today that baby Carleigh likes to "latch on" to his nose! This little girl is going to be well loved and well exposed to germs!

This is what sweet baby Carleigh Jane does best!!!
I wanted into the bedroom to find Zander and Carleigh doing this...Carleigh is sucking on Zanders ever so CLEAN fingers!!!!

Lissie Boo loving on her new baby sister!

Different angle of the finger sucking!

Little Carleigh chillin in my lap in the tent when. We went "camping" on Sunday night!!! We set up the tent in the front yard and ate popcorn and apples with carmel and watched a movie!

First time I captured her sucking her fingers!

The Ward's brought dinner over on Sunday so the kids took turns holding her! Thea was amazed by her!

My in laws are coming in town tomorrow and I should be up cleaning the house but instead I am snuggling a baby and updating the blog!!! I sooooo wish I had a maid to follow everyone around and clean up after them. Especially when all I want to do is SLEEP!!!! If only I wasn't the very untrained maid in the house...

Always enough love...

I remember having Zander and being so in love him with and all of his little parts that when we got pregnant for the second time I was a little worried that I wouldn't love baby number two quite as much. Well now that baby number 4 Carleigh is here I am convinced that there is always enough love for each and every baby!!! I love finally being able to hold her and cuddle her. Since I had the miscarriage right before we got pregnant with Carleigh I felt like the day would never come when I would be able to hold and love on my baby! Well after about 13 months of being pregnant practically she is finally mine! I could just rub her soft little fuzz head all day!!!!

All packed up ready to go home!!!! We left the hospital Saturday around 1ish!

We went straight to my parents house from the hospital to show her off and pick up Zander and Allissa!!!!Kendra holding her for the first time!!!

My Little sister mara holding Carleigh for the first time! Carleigh is holding the lamby that Mara gave to him. Lamby was Mara's special thing and she has two of them! One was a replacement when the other got lost for awhile. She was so sweet and gave baby Reid one of them and Caraleigh the other. If you know Mara that was a huge deal for her to give the babies her special Lamby. It was so sweet I almost cried!!!!

Lissie holding Carleigh for the thousandth time!!!!!

Zach fell asleep last night and while I got ready for bed I plopped a sleeping baby in his arms for a picture!!!

The first thing Brody wanted to do this morning was hold baby Carleigh jane!!! Sorry for the scary morning shot of me!!!

Same with Zander and Lissie too!!!

The Facts...

So it is me now and not Zach!!! From what I have seen on our blog Zach left out all the facts...

Carleigh Jane Spafford

July 24th 2009, 1:43am

6.0 pounds 18.5 inches

I started having contractions at 8pm. We got to the hospital at 11:38 and about two hours later she was her! I am so glad it went quick and I wasn't tortured to much. So far she has been PERFECT!!!! I have yet to hear her cry except the few squawks right when she came out. The Neonatologist is checking her out now. They for whatever reason are doing it in the nursery and not the room. I am not a fan of that. I think it is tacky that I don't even get to see the doctor yet I will get a bill from him/her. Zander is chillin next to me in bed watching cartoons and Zach took Lissie and Brody to get some lunch and hopefully take a nap. She has beautiful hands and nails! I am in LOVE!!!!

All Lissie wants to do is hold her. Hopefully the excitement will wear off shortly. Well my delicious lunch just arrived so I better eat it before it is cold cardboard pizza!!!

You want to see a clean baby, huh?

All the people seeing her for the first time.

First bath.

Hair b0ws, did you expect something else?

More pictures...

Darcy's mom, Susan.

Dr K. also delivered Lissie.

Gonna have a finger sucker...

PUUUUUUUUUUUUUSH!!!!!

Here she is!!!! 6 lbs 18.5 in and perfect in every way!!!