Hospital and Coming Home

These are loads of pictures of our time at the hospital and coming home from the hospital last weekend. Can't believe it has been a whole week!

Meeting baby Ryan

Proud big brother

Catie's turn

She loved holding him for a few minutes and then pushed him away...

good thing Grandma was there :)

Doting Grandparents

Cuddle time with Grandpa

The baby can only be interesting for so long... so then it was ipad time

Tito getting some practice... only 4 weeks left till we meet baby Smith #1!

Baby Ryan gave the kids each a big lollipop as his special present

Hanging out... the nurses showed Kevin where their secret treat stash was... 

and Catie loved the popsicles 

Me and my boys... (I really needed a shower, can you tell? Ugh!)

Chillin with Aunt Jess

More of my little cutie after everyone left...

Day 3... Going home!

Hanging out forever waiting to get discharged

Finally escaping!!

(I had massively swollen ankles... such good memories ;))

Andrew was at school when we got home... but Catie enthusiastically greeted Ryan and showed him the signs that she and Andrew had made for him (with G&G Smith).

So happy to be home and back to my cozy bed without crazy machines and nurses constantly waking me up!

And The Training Wheels Are Off!

Andrew has been telling me for awhile that he can ride his bike without training wheels. Doing that sounded like a lot of work to me... so I said we'd need to wait till dad was home. We haven't had time on the weekends to take off the training wheels... but we finally had a moment yesterday and voila! Andrew was off! No running behind him trying to keep him sturdy or anything... he just got on, pushed off, and was riding around the cul de sac like a maniac.

We attribute his quick learning to our neighbor Kara's balance bike that he's been stealing every few weeks and riding around.

If you want to see video of Andrew riding, you can go here (hopefully the G+ video link works).

Yay for Andrew! What a big kid!

Super Aunt Elise

Elise flew into town this past week to meet baby Ryan. She cuddled him a lot, changed loads of diapers, folded laundry and put it away, did dishes, helped clean up toys, played with our kiddos, ran errands for us, and even bought us dinner two nights in a row. We've been completely spoiled for the past few days!

Elise even taught me some tricks about doing "girl hair" when she wasn't helping with everything else.

Catie thought she looked so cute!

We were so sad for her to head home this morning!! Andrew is missing his audience :) So excited for when she brings the girls and Dan back at Thanksgiving!

Little Baby Buddies

On Friday afternoon my cousin Jenny and her kids came over to play. We had to introduce baby Pierce to baby Ryan :) and since Elise was in town (and Jess came up from MP), they needed to get to meet Pierce too. 

We sat around eating Elise's Trader Joes chocolates, chatting, and hanging out with the babies while Kevin chaperoned the big kids outside. Of course we managed to not get Elise in any pictures... :(

I love how adorable the two boys are. They are exactly one month apart.

I had to snap this photo of Macy and Catie too because they looked so darling sitting on the front step downing their juice.

Such a fun afternoon! Can't believe that our little Ryan is now officially 1 week old! The week just flew by. Happy 1 week little buddy!

Maybe next month we'll get to have another little buddy reunion and include Cat and Scott's new little guy (or girl)? I can't wait!