1 Month Old

Well time has flown by so fast, Macie is now a month old. She is growing so fast...really she has gained 3 pounds in the last 3 weeks putting her to 10lbs!!! I can't believe how chunky she is getting, pretty sure most of it is in her cheeks! She is such a good baby and we are so thankful that she joined our family.

Pumpkin Patch

This past saturday we went to Apple Annies Pumpkin Patch in Wilcox. Cleve, Misty, and Bryant came along for the fun. We first went thru the Corn Maze. The boys had a ton of fun, and so did we. Throughout the maze you would come to numbers, which had a corrasponding question on that you had to answer. Your answer would tell you to go right or left (the right or wrong way!!) Well with Colby, Bryant, and Cleve leading the way---we went in alot of circles! We eventually found our way out, but it was really alot of fun. Colby's favorite thing before we got there was to tell everyone he was "going to go get lost", and that is just what we did. After the maze, we took the tractor ride over to pick pumpkins. It was fun to watch the kids find a reason why they didn't want certain ones. Usually it was to little, they wanted huge ones. So we ended up with 2 pumpkins, and headed back home. It's such a fun place to go.

Misty, Cleve, Colby, Bryant, Chris & Becca headed into the Maze

Colby, Bryant, Cleve, & Misty trying to answer the question......again!!!

Bryant and Colby talking about what a good job they did in the maze

Becca's Pumpkin

Finding the perfect pumpkins!!

Cleve, Misty & Bryant's Pumpkin

2 Weeks Old

Boy has time flown by. Macie turned 2 weeks old yesterday. She is growing so fast. She is such a good baby, she eats good, hardly cries or spits up. Which is a complete opposite from the other 2. She starting to look more like her own little person, rather than a clone of Colby. Her little cheeks are getting so chubby, the rolls are soon to follow I'm sure!!

Happy 5th Birthday Colby!!!

I can't believe it, but Colby turned 5 on Saturday. It seems like he was just born. We had a small party with just family. It was nice, he didn't get overwhelmed with presents, and got to enjoy each one as he opened it rather than being rushed to the next gift. Chris and I had a great surprise for him....we got him a 4-wheeler. He was so excited. He has been wanting one for months, and we keep telling him that he had to save his money. He jumped right on and rode it like he has had one for a yr. He does so good. He even helped me make his cake, it was a great day. Happy Birthday son, we love you!!

Painting Pumpkins

So I wanted to do something fun with the older kids since the new baby has got most of the attention since we have been home. They had got the pumpkins when they were staying with my mom while we were in Tucson, so I decided it would be fun to let them paint on them. Good idea, they LOVED it. Colby had every color on the pumpkin, then decided to mix all the colors together and paint it one color. He likes to mix things to see what happens. And Becca is such a careful painter. She tried so hard not to let any of the colors that she was painting touch. Such opposites!!

She is Here!!!

Macie Carol Hancock

9-23-08

6 lbs 13 oz
19 inches

Well Macie is here. I'm a little slow on getting this updated, but we've been a little busy!! You forget how demanding a newborn is, and WOW what a difference 3 kids is from 2!!

She did give us a little scare the first night in the hospital, and they did end up flying her to Tucson. She had a couple spells where she quit breathing so they thought it was best to send her and have her monitored. It was really hard to let them take her away in the helicopter without us, but Chris left right after they did, and got to be with her right away. Because of my c-section there were a few things the Dr wanted me to do before he would release me, but I did get to go that day and made it up there to be with her. We were there for 3 days, and nothing more happened. They said that it was pretty common for babies to gag on mucus and milk and close off their airway to avoid getting fluid in their lungs when they are first born. Who knew? So anyways we are home now and she is doing great.

I want to thank everyone for your thoughts and calls of support. This was for sure the scariest thing we've ever been thru- we made it, and have a health little girl.

Mom meeting Macie

Dad lending his finger!!

Big brother

Big sister

Mom and her girls!

Dad and Macie in Tucson

Mom and Macie first day at home

Macie 4 days old

Macie's First Bath

Macie's first bath went really well, she never cried, and really seemed to enjoy it.

What would a bath be with out big sister helping!!!

Meet Daisy

Well we decided to get new puppy about 2 weeks before the baby was due. Cleve's chocolate labs had 9 puppies, and only one of them was yellow, so that is the one we chose. She is so cute, and the kids love her. I'm excited for the kids to have a puppy that they can grow up with, we just hope that she stops chewing everything soon!!