Throwback Post:Balloons and Bows

Balloons and bows? If you think that sounds like more girl stuff, you would be right. When we arrived home from the hospital with our brand new baby girl on March 12th, here is what our mailbox looked like:





The bow is courtesy of Cabell Sweeney, our most talented friend. Ever been to Cracker Barrel or someplace and seen the college-themed pottery? That's her. She also painted an awesome picture for Claire's nursery as a shower gift...now we can be snobby and say that we have original artwork in our house. I guess we should say that while holding a glass of shiraz or something.

The balloons are courtesy of David, Julie, Ellen, Meredith, and Christina Tomlin, our across-the-street neighbors. Christina and MK were born six weeks apart, and have become fast friends:



And, in a flash of diplomatic genius, I managed to talk the entire Tomlin family into standing next to each other and smiling:

Little Cowgirl

MK is apparently following in her cousin Haley's footsteps with the cowgirl thing.





Meanwhile, I am more and more happy each day that we have girls, who like hairbows and pretty stickers and things like that. I have found that they also like to decorate things. The only fitting caption to the following pictures is "MK lives here."





When I rounded the corner and saw that, the look on my face was not unlike the look on Claire's face here:

Updates via Picture

So we haven't been great about updating the blog with pictures of baby Claire and our new situation. I don't know why...it's not like we have been busy or something.

Here is an update:

MK has learned the joys of playing on Daddy's back:



Baby Claire has learned the joys of tummy time:



MK is showing potential of becoming the next Jackson Pollack:



Aggie, as always, is hanging in there quite well:



MK is extremely affectionate and doting toward Claire:



Claire met our good friends Ben and Kristie Hogue, who are expecting their first child this summer:



And Bryan and Krista Pierce - Bryan is our pastor at Seven Hills Fellowship:



More to come!

MK is settling very well into life as a big sister...a few shots of her life these days:

(brian writing) Just wanted to give a shout out to Jenny for being a wonderful mother. We are now three weeks and two days into the two child world, and she has proven herself to be a master. Those of you with more than one child know that going from double coverage to a man-to-man is tough enough, and then I go back to work, which leaves Jenny running a zone all day long. I am very proud of her.

We also turned a corner in our lives earlier this week by......purchasing a minivan. Could someone please shoot us?