SAM

Sam is my 4 year old son, my only son. I have 3 daughters and 1 son. I was told having a son would be different and it's true. Sam has SOOOO much energy. He is currently being a little bit rebellious and I am struggling to find time to spend with him to show just how special he is to me. But he can also be so, so very cute. Here he is sleeping in a laundry basket the girls designed as a carriage for Princess Rachel. Did I mention he adores Rachel? He does. I love that too!

10 Weeks Old!

Well, tomorrow will actually be 10 weeks. 10 happy weeks with our sweet little girl. She already has her own personality and is adored by her 3 older siblings.

So far she has...

Baked cookies for Daddy.

Celebrated a one month birthday!

Compared size with beloved "Big Baby"(who has had that name for YEARS, who knew toy story would pick the same name as my 4 year old daughter?).

And Smiled every day!

Our new arrival

We are very excited to announce the arrival of Rachel McAllister! She was born on April 24th, 2010(just 12 days "late") and weighted 7lbs 8 ounces and 21" long.

Rachel had a true knot in her cord. Thankfully(as we learned is usually the case) she was okay.

She was born in the water. A wonderful option!

Look at all of that vernix she had. My midwife mentioned that my babies tend to look about two weeks early(by exam).

After she was born I spent at least an hour holding and nursing our beautiful new addition. We began to notice that she had lighter hair than our 3 other children. Then it was time to weigh her. This is the way our midwives weigh babies.

Here is Rachel being examined. What a pretty baby!

Family started coming. Big brother Sam was sooo excited!

Happy Birthday Rachel! Welcome to our family!!

It must be time for a new post

because my husband Jon told me so and that is saying alot...you know what I mean if you have seen his facebook page! Well, life is pretty good. I am 34 weeks now and in case you don't remember we are expecting a little girl. We got that information from an ultrasound, not any one of the 4 intelligender tests I have had in my possesion. Those only told us we were having a boy, or a girl, or maybe a boy. The ultrasound lady only said "girl" and showed us what seems like proof so we are going with her. The 4th intelligender was returned to Walgreens unopened.

I had a little bit of a scare when I didn't feel the baby move from one evening 'til about 10 or 11am the next morning. I was worried and went down to see my midwife. That did the trick and the baby started kicking just as I was getting off the freeway and a couple of minutes to my midwife! My wonderful midwife Tosi did a non stress test. I was a little embarrassed but just glad everything was okay.

Sam turned 4! When he woke up, and I told him it was his birthday, he very sweetly looked at me and asked when he would be big as Yayah Bekah(his sisters). We went down to John's Incredible Pizza Company to celebrate and had a minor fender bender on the way. No damage to our car except a bent license plate which is good because we only owe like $230 on it. Edited: We only one like $230 on the car, not the license plate!

Disneyland!

We went to Disneyland the week before Thanksgiving. It was a great experience. Jon had a connection and we were able to stay at the Disneyland Hotel for the first time ever which is a big deal to a Disneyland loving family like the McAllisters! We had a great view of Downtown Disney, the fireworks and could even see part of Fantasmic from our room.
Goofy greeted us as we checked into the hotel!
Goofy also cooked breakfast for us the next morning at his restaurant, Goofy's Kitchen. It was delicious. For those of you who don't know this is a character dining restaurant and the best one at Disneyland that we have tried(which means Minnie & Friends, Ariel's Grotto, and Goofy's Kitchen).

The girls are getting so big and they had Daddy take them on Screamin' about a million times! This is a picture of Sarah on Screamin'. Sam is 40" tall and got to ride so many rides. He went on Space Mountain, Thunder Mountain, Matterhorn, Splash Mountain, and even Tower of Terror. After each ride he would say, "I like it!". So cute!
We ate lots of fresh, yummy(free) tortillas!
And of course, everyone had fun pushing the elevator buttons! This was one of the kids favorite things!

So, all in all we had a great trip. Oh, an amusing story about one not so great part of our trip...We were eating lunch at the Horseshoe review and sometime after Sarah finished eating I noticed she was covering her ears. She did this for most of the performance. I figured she was annoyed that we weren't going on some ride. Then she walked over to look at the player piano with her sister, still covering her ears. This seemed really strange. To make a long story short, Sarah had taken out her Mickey Mouse earrings(which Jon had gotten for her as a baby) and thrown them on the ground. She hates earrings. We found one.

Thanksgiving

I wanted to post a few pictures of our Thanksgiving Day. We were very lucky to be able to have people from both Jon's family and my family attend our celebration. It was a lot of fun!
Poor Jacob, they do this to him every time! He looks pretty good as a blonde though!



It was cold, so I didn't go outside but it looks like the kids had fun!

We are having a...

GIRL!

For those of you counting that will make 3 girls and 1 boy in our little family! Jon says he will be fine once he completely loses his mind! Just kidding. Well...he did say that but Jon loves cute little girls. He can leave them for me to figure out. Sam kept insisting the baby was a boy after the ultrasound but now that Uncle Vinnie and Aunt Natalie have had their twins his new idea is that we are having boy/girl twins. He's been thinking about this!

We are at 23 weeks now so I should post some new pictures. I really should. Everything is going along fine. I did make Jon drive to Thrifty's yesterday to get me some vanilla icecream for milkshakes. It's the only thing I feel like when I get an upset tummy.

We are naming her Rachel.