Oh yeah, we have a baby sister, too!

Here is an update on baby S.  JC and I both think we are more interesting, but somehow she gets all the fan mail.  I guess we'll have to drop the "guest starring" tag at this point.  Fans - consider this the bone you were thrown.  Her day might start out like this - fast asleep until late morning...

 Next, comes a diaper change...

Then she usually gets dressed in something a little too nice for a baby!

After a busy day of eating and cooing it's time for the bath...

Which usually puts her to sleep again for the night!

 

Asleep, until Big Brother wakes her up again! 

 

Easter, Easter!!!!

Hola amigos!  I, JC, have been tapped to write the Easter post this year?  Why?  Someone ate too many Peeps!  Here is a shot of me at our pre-easter egg hunt.  I wore the appropriate t-shirt considering how many eggs I found!

But I was not the big winner.  The big winner was M, who found the giant egg which contained this!  (Her friend is merely helping her hold up her prize)

Gram and Aunt J flew in after an unexpected, extended stay in Dallas, Texas.  They helped us color the eggs and Aunt J "borrowed" some of M's Peeps!

Sunday morning we looked and the Easter Bunny or Beagle had come.  He left us shoes and coloring books that coordinated with our baskets.  That's a huge hint that my dad had nothing to do with this.

Afterwards we got another Easter egg hunt.  BTW, brightly colored eggs stand out amid the "fauna" of NM making the finding quite easy!  This one lasted a staggering three minutes meaning we found about a dozen eggs per minute!

The boys sent us some beautiful balloon birds - here is M posing with hers...

Here I am with mine.  After a solid two days of taking notes to make this post, you can see I'm not as smiley as M.  I love my bird nonetheless.  Thanks to everyone!

Pizza Pizza!!!

The aforementioned (see earlier post) Time Out for Pizza presents the only pizza option in our small town.  The pizzas are out of our price range most of the time and an extravagance in the other times.  This past weekend we learned about a place only twelve miles away called  Papa Murphys.  What a knock-off of Papa John's?  A pizza place run by someone with an Irish surname?  Could place our trust in such a conundrum?  Like I said, it's a small town so we went ahead and took our shot.  Look at what came out of it!

Oh my!  Look at the cheese.

Oh my!  Look at the meat!

Our pizza pizza problem has been solved and without a Little Caesar's in sight!

It's a Small Town After All!

So a little known fact - we live in a small town.  How small?  Much smaller than the one John Cougar Mellancamp grew up in, that's for sure.  Do you want to know what made our front page?  This did...

The sight was so stupendous, that my dad came home from work and told everyone to get in the car.  He said he had a surprise.  I thought that perhaps our grocery store had bananas for the first time this month.  My brother was positive that a herd of elk had stopped along our main street.  My mom was just frustrated that she had to get dressed.  In the end, we were all pleasantly surprised at this amazing view...

Later that night, my dad called the local handy man because this happened to our fence.  Do you know what they talked about for ten minutes.  Yes, the smashed car at Time Out for Pizza.

The next day, we went on an Easter egg hunt (see future post) and one of the dads was the collision repair guy for the area.  He stated that, yes, indeed, the car was to be fixed and driven again.  And that is the definition of a small town Mr. Mellencamp.

English isn't confusing at all....

Hi there.  When you are little, every day brings a new discovery.  Listen carefully to gain a nugget from me and to hear my brother say something he thinks is important.

Fifty days later....

Only fifty days ago, B was feeling a bit large....

Now, our new baby S is fifty days old.  Here she is photographed next to her giraffe friend.

She had a first this week.  First time in the baby swing.  It is now three babies old.  She fell asleep whereas JC and I both were wide awake for our first rides!

Speaking of sleeping, S has been a bit uppity at night.  Since JC does night shift with her, this is how he looks most days!

Visit for Baby S

Hi there!  With so many visitors coming, I decided to get the house cleaned up.

They were not coming to see me or JC, though.  They were coming to see our new baby S!

Aunt S showed up after a marathon 24 hour drive that involved a pit stop in a Santa Fe police station.

The pit stop involved Grandpa J and his inappropriate answer to "Red or green?" (the state question of the LOE) to an officer during a traffic stop.

 Later on in the week, Grandma N caught the quick flight from LAX.  She spent the whole week in this pose!  I would have gotten hungry, me thinks.

Okay, bye for now!  Baby S is asleep so that means that JC and I can get some attention!