David - Heather - Mason - Kate - Ann - Julie

Friday, June 24, 2016

May

Almost every night David and I express our amazement at having these four beautiful kids.

Temple Run 2016--Mason ran the 5K with David

Kate graduated from preschool. She will be in preschool again with Mrs. Bratcher this year.

Hanging around the house--we didn't go to many places with Julie being so little.

Going to Mason's art show at his school

Julie is getting bigger. She is smiling and making noises.

Picking up Mason from school; Kate started a "mermaid" 6-week ballet class for the summer

I had to document bathing 4 kids for bed one night because it rarely happens, and Kate will tell you it isn't all that great. Annie is big enough to go on some rides at Snoopy Land.

April

Playing at the pavilion; Zoo

Waterfall Park

Mason's boosterthon fundraiser for kindergarten. He did a great job!

Sweetest baby Julie. She usually got fussy in the evening, but other than that, she was a very content baby.

Martha Lafite Thompson Nature Sanctuary

Watching Mason's soccer games. He had another great season with his Blue Waves team.

Worlds of Fun opened

Julie was born a few days late, on the ides of March. I got induced around 8:30 AM, the doctor broke my water around 9, got the epidural around 12, doctor checked on me during her lunch break, and delivered Julie after she got off work. I was a little disgruntled that everything revolved around my doctor's schedule, but I was in labor for less than 9 hours and my epidural worked great. Plus, Julie was delivered happy and healthy so no complaints.

I had to push for quite a while and the doctors and nurses thought the baby was going to be a trouble-maker boy, so we were all surprised that the baby was a girl. The cord was wrapped around her neck a few times; she was a little blue and hoarse but she was fine.