Camden is home! We are soo glad to have him home! Plus...I love this shirt that Natalie gave us...it says "Chicks dig me!" We put it on him and took him for show and tell at work and guess what??? It was true!
He makes lots of funny faces. We love just sitting and watching his eyes get big and cross eyed and his mouth get tiny and pursed : )!
Savannah turned 11 (wow right??!!), so instead of a birthday party, she and her best friend went and got "updos", went to lunch at the steak house and then came home and played "spa". It was a fun day! I can't believe she will be out of primary next year! Wow! Where has the time gone?
Blowing out her bonfire!
Trying to find clothes that actually fit Camden has been a bit of a challenge. He is sooo tiny! We've never had such a small baby. It isn't only the weight issue, its that he's only 18 inches long! That is not big enough to fill out ANYTHING! We laughed so hard when we put these "newborn" jeans on him...yeah right!
Coming home from the NICU (see random order!)
Now we have finally made it to the Halloween pictures. Camden dressed up in the NICU (he's a pumpkin...in case you can't tell!) The kids were invited to the most amazing Halloween activity ever! It was put on by Mayo and the pediatric hospital. It was for the pediatric patients and their siblings so since Camden was still in the NICU on his Halloween my kiddos were included. They dressed up and paraded through the hospital and were showered with gifts and love from the employees (Mayo Clinic is SOOOO AWESOME!). My kids came home with 2 HUGE bags each of candy, games, toys, coloring books, and even money! We were overwhelmed by the incredible generosity of the employees at the hospital. Plus it took the pressure off for having to make time to trick or treat that evening with a baby in the hospital. Thank you so much to the amazing people at St. Mary's Hospital!
Jessi wanted to be Jenny Weasley for Halloween, but since the baby came earlier than expected and stayed in the hospital longer than expected all our shopping plans fell apart, so this is her "Jenny Weasley" costume. I am vowing to do a better job at Halloween next year!
Here's everyone in front of the house. You wouldn't believe how many pictures it took to get everyone to look at me...and this is the best we got!
Zach wanted to be a pirate...due to the late shopping trip for costumes, a zombie pirate was the best we could find! He didn't seem to mind! See the pumpkin flashlight he is holding up...got that at the Mayo Parade. Pretty cool, right?
Spiderman and his "baby"! (He carries that thing EVERYWHERE!)
Another failed costume...the idea was to be Hermione...but you know the drill...early baby, late shopping...and viola this is what she got!Thanks to my kids for being such fabulous sports about everything. I don't think life will ever get back to normal around here...so instead we are working on establishing a new normal! But we love our Camden and are so glad that he has joined our family and will bring more "joy to our journey!"
2 comments:
Cute, cute! Thanks for the update. I love Camden's pants. The shirt is awesome, too! ;)
Thanks for sharing the pictures. I love Camden's pictures at Jolene's. He doesn't look so small in your pictures until you show him in newborn pants. The kids' costumes look fun. I bet they had a good time in spite of the 'make do' costumes. I think you can pretty well plan on being busy the week of Halloween from now on - with all the birthdays on top of Halloween - just enjoy!
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