Lynnea's first month!

Wow! Lynnea is already one month old. Time flies!!! She is a pretty good baby. She can get a little fussy at times but overall she sleeps great so no complaining here! From very early on she was sleeping 6 hours at night. LOVED IT! But then the doctor got worried because she didn't seem to be gaining enough weight so he decided I needed to wake her up every three hours at night to feed her more. Boo!!! She thought so too! She basically boycotted those extra feedings and refused to participate. We tried it for three or four nights and then I gave up. Plus we were watching her weight and it was improving so I just stopped worrying about it. She is now up to 6 1/2 or 7 hours at night. Very nice!

She LOVES movement. She wants to be bounced or swung 90% of her day. If she isn't being moved, she is probably fussy! She is also a lot more mobile than Anara was. Anara didn't want to move at all when you would put her down but Lynnea has already rolled over in both directions. She has only done each once though so it could just be a fluke. Here are some pictures of her first month!

We are going to take monthly pictures so we can watch her
grow month to month. Here is month 1!

Here is her first bath experience. She wasn't a huge fan!
Anara enjoyed helping bathe Lynnea though!

I know this post is about Lynnea but I thought this picture was cute!

All dried off and Happy again!

Pictures in her Christmas and Connie's wedding dress

Lynnea and her daddy!

What is Christmas without Friends?

We are so blessed with such wonderful friends!!! My friend Valerie is very crafty and she made these fabulous outfits for the girls and their brothers. So of course....we had to take special pictures! Do you know how hard it is to get an organized picture with 7 kids? IMPOSSIBLE! But we are ever optimists and had to try! :)

From Left to Right: Aiden, Maya, Addy, Stephen, Anara, Libby and Maggie

Holding hands walking through Bass Pro!

We tried to get a picture with all of the girls but poor Libby
was afraid of Santa... Here are 4 of them at least!

Valerie holding Stephen and Linnea holding Aiden.
And yes, it was pouring down raining outside!

Best Friends!!!

Anara and Addy were so excited to go see Santa that they took off at a full run!

Again, trying to get all seven to take a decent picture. Impossible but fun!

Christmas Fun!

Naturally with Anara being three, we had to visit Santa! Three times to be exact! She was so excited this year and had no trouble sitting on his lap. She did get shy and have a hard time talking to him. She had been telling us for months (yes, months!) that she was going to ask Santa for a Diego Sea Turtle. When the time came to actually tell Santa what she wanted, she said a brown teddy bear! She then told us that she wanted a brown Teddy Bear and Lynnea was going to tell Santa that she wanted a white teddy bear. Well....guess what Anara and Lynnea got from Santa!

My precious girls with Santa!

How blessed am I!

I LOVE this onesie that Aunt Betsy gave Lynnea. It says
All Mommy Wants for Christmas is a Silent Night. Love it!!!

Merry Christmas!!!

I LOVE my babies! I was able to get some great Christmas pictures of them! It has been a tough Christmas because of Ben's work schedule but I keep reminding myself that hopefully this is the end of his hard work months. Hopefully things will be better from now on and we will really be able to enjoy the holiday in the future.

These pictures remind me that even though things aren't perfect, we have SOOOOOO much to be thankful for!

Introducing Lynnea Faye Getter!!!!

Lynnea is here! Well, technically today is December 9th and she came on November 25th but give me a break! I have a brand new baby and blogging takes time! She is perfect, the delivery went perfect, I am doing perfect...we are so blessed! So far she has been an excellent baby! She sleeps great, eats great and is a very easy going baby. I am going to look into investing in diapers though because wow, she has to have a clean one at all times so we will spend a fortune on diapers! :)

She is not a big fan of light and was very reluctant to open her eyes at first. She is also already a much more active baby than Anara was. Anara rolled over only once from belly to back and back to belly and did them pretty late. Lynnea rolled over from her back to her belly at a little before 1 week and rolled from her belly to her back before 2 weeks. Other than that she reminds me so much of Anara at this age. They even look amazingly similar! Lynnea, welcome to the family!

A Family of Four!

We are adjusting well to being a family of four. It has been a little hard due to Ben being on wards this month and his job being very stressful and not a lot of time at home but we are making it work. Anara adores her baby sister and has been a very big helper! Here are some pictures of our first few days together!

Here are some pictures we took of Lynnea in the hospital while we were waiting to leave.









Here is Anara posing for us at the hospital. 'Lynnea' gave Anara a gift the first time they met. It was a baby doll, a car seat that matched Lynnea's car seat as well as a diaper bag filled with cloth diapers, a blanket and bottles. Anara loved her gift!


My babies together!!!!





Here are pictures from when we brought Lynnea home from the hospital. It is hard to tell but Anara is wearing a matching outfit to Lynnea but her shirt says Big Sis on it.





Of course we had to introduce Minnie to the new baby!



Anara has been so sweet to Lynnea. Anara wanted to share her doll with Lynnea while she was sleeping!



Anara thought that it was Lynnea's turn to be princess!



As Anara likes to say, I LOVE my family!

Comparison

I am going a little out of order but I wanted to see a comparison of Anara and Lynnea at basically the same age (only a few days) so I decided to go ahead and post this! In this picture, Anara seems to have a skinnier face but to me they look exactly alike! Love my girls!

Anara - 2008



Lynnea - 2011

Halloween Party!

We went to a Halloween party this evening and had a ton of fun! It is great to have all of the kids AND their parents dress up! I was very excited because I won for best female costume and Ben and I won for best couples costume! Yay! Plus Anara makes a pretty cute butterfly if I do say so myself!