On time to church...

We have been working hard each week to be better about being on time to church. We made it this week with a few minutes to spare and we even had time to take pictures of Eliza and Annabelle before church. Here they are in their Sunday outfits.

Reverence on Sunday

All 3 hours of church on Sunday, Eliza is being reminded to be Reverent, so most every Sunday we have a few crazy hours of "wind down" time where she goes wild, running around, dancing, singing, jumping, yelling etc. I thought you might enjoy sharing the fun with us. Watch the video below for a sneek peek of "after-church-time" at the Paton house:

Annabelle's Mobile

Today we set up a mobile for Annabelle. She liked it so much that when Michelle eventually pulled her out of the crib to feed her, it took a while to get her to stop crying. This adds new possibilities to our life because until this point she has mostly insisted on being held all of the time. Michelle has a gleefull smile on her face right now. We might have to do some upgrading of beds for Eliza and Annabelle. Eliza has been sleeping in the crib and Annabelle has been sleeping in a little portable fold up crib that is normally used for camping (it has built in mosquito netting). Tonight, Eliza will move to the "big girl bed". If it works out, Annabelle may move to the full sized crib. Here are some pictures and videos:

Eliza Helps Find Parts to the Mobile

Annabelle is transfixed by her Mobile

Video of Annabelle with her mobile...

Video of Eliza helping look for mobile parts and Annabelle watching her mobile...

New Pictures of Annabelle...

Heidi and Family as well as Grandma Young were in attendance for Annabelle's Blessing this last Sunday. More about all of that in the next post, but I thought I would take a quick moment to share the latest picture of Annabelle. We had a little photoshoot on Sunday afternoon, where I used Heidi's new camera to take some pictures. Here she is...











For those of you who prefer good old fashioned color as opposed to the Photoshop enhanced Blue-Eyed, Black & White version above, here it is:



Let me know which you like best in the comments area. I'm dropping the files at Walgreens to get printed today.

More Later,
Rob

Annabelle's First Bath

I'm kind of late posting this one. We had to compress the video so it could be uploaded. This was back on the Day she was born.

On ‎Sunday, ‎June ‎28, ‎2009, ‏‎11:38:44 AM, Annabelle gets her first bath...

Watch the video.

Going Home

Well,



We finally got out of the hospital and made it home last night. Grandma and Grandpa Paton brought Eliza. Eliza brought her natural glowing charm and a big bag of suckers for us all to share. Daddy got one too, and I'm taking this picture with a sucker in my mouth. Eliza is very good at sharing. Let's hope that continues.





When we put Annabelle in her car seat, I remembered how small Eliza was in the beginning. This is the same seat we brought her home in.

Grandma Paton Helps Eliza get into her seat. Annabelle has already fallen asleep.

Here we are finally at home.

Here is a closeup shot of Annabelle.

The Baby has a Name...

We are still at the hospital and everyone is really tired.

We are waiting till the doctor calls in and they will probably discharge us around 5pm.

Baby has slept most of the day; no visitors so far. Everything has been very quiet.

Rob has also slept most of the time, except when eating the free snacks they provide for Mom's and Dads, or trying to upload the video of the baby's first bath to the blog. Hopefully we will be able to have that available soon.

Michelle has been enjoying the new baby and the catered meals.

Eliza and Grandpa Paton were playing at the Patona Bay playground when we called. She gave a fairly long dissertation of what she had done today involving all sorts of words and numbers. We are really not sure what she was saying since she was talking vey fast and distracted by the need to get back to play. She's now taking a nap and when she wakes, she will come with Grandma and Grandpa Paton to meet us at the hospital to drive home with the new baby.

Here's another picture: