Cousin #15 Arrives Today....

Oh, MY...HOW I LOVE NEW BORN BABIES!!!!!! Today, my youngest sister, Karson, delivered her second son!! I wouldn't have missed it for anything....so I packed up my 3 younger kiddos (my two girls were at school..and my hubby graciously said he'd pick them up from school so I wouldn't have to rush back) and headed to KENTUCKY!!!!!!! If you are new around here....I come from a BIG CRAZY family...one of the reasons 5 little kids doesn't stress me...I grew up with it!! :) Above, you have the "4 sisters" last week taking my sister Karson out to eat BEFORE her big delivery day arrived today....I drove 2 1/2 hrs. last week to make this fun dinner, and all the laughs (and a few tears) made it SO worth it !!!! :) BUT, today was the big day we've been waiting for...the day Cousin #15 arrived for my kids!!! They were all so excited!!!

I had to wake my 2 sleeping babies to get them in the car early to make the scheduled c-section.....We started the day off pretty well.....We make it to the hospital in Kentucky on time...LL has a few chips for breakfast and we ALL anxiously await for Baby Drew to arrive.....

ABOVE, we have the 3 sisters waiting for our new nephew....I'm sporting my new http://www.longingforafrica.com/ tshirt....and my sister Kelly, in the middle, is sporting her new http://www.ordinaryheroblog.blogspot.com/ tshirt....just an fyi!!! My sister Kasey asked me if I could PLEASE wear something other than "orphan/adoption" tshirts every once in a while!!!!! Hmmmmmm, NO!!! I'm totally addicted to them!!! :)

ABOVE...here I am as things started going DOWN HILL FAST!!! My babies with NO good breakfast, NO SLEEP (they both were up a lot last night), and trapped in the hospital...were quickly falling apart...............as the above picture shows on their faces :)

If you can read the above sign, it says, "QUIET...NICU Babies sleeping"....Well, we quickly got asked to leave...our crew was bothering the babies.....IMAGINE THAT!!! :)

Finally, Baby Drew arrives (just in time before all "you know what" broke loose from my two little ones)......What a precious new born!!! He was only 6lb.s and 6oz., just a little peanut...but perfect!!! And, above you see big brother Braden looking on AND Proud Daddy holding his new son!!! OH, what a miracle moment!!! Yall would have to know me to know that I LOVE BEING PREGNANT!!! I love getting the first positive pregnancy test, I LOVE GAINING WEIGHT (I gained 80lbs. in my last pregnancy), I love being miserable and in pain the whole pregnancy from getting too big for my body frame, I love c-sections (seriously, never took one pain medication with any of my sections), AND, i love a wrinkled little squirmy new born!! I even love my stay in the hospital...I think it is all just so much fun!! I never experienced an ounce of "baby blues"...and always hit the ground running with my babies strapped to my big swollen body.....Oh, so much fun!!! See...that was WHY the adoption of LL was so easy for me....It was the BEST I ever looked or felt with a new baby in the house!!! Adoption is fabulous on the old figure, you know!!! :)

And, finally, Baby Drew made it to the nursery for some heat and rest!!! I left the hospital with a screaming (very loudly) one and two year old!!! You've never heard such chaos!!! BUT, the truth is...I even LOVE the toddler stage...They just had "enough" for the day..and needed a break away!! I don't blame them!! :) See....every stage of this game is a BLESSING...it is just up to US to see it that way!!! :)

FAVORITE COMMENT OF THE DAY: My newly 5 yr. old Hal said, "MOM, when Aunt Karson "adopts" her baby today...how old will he be??" Then once at the hospital Hal says looking in the window at the babies in the nursery, "MOM, LOOK, there's another adopted baby over there!" Isn't it great that there really IS NOT a difference to kids!!

***Welcome to the world Baby Drew....And, Happy Monday to you all, kj