Welcome Baby4!

Baby4 was the first baby we had to forcefully evict. At 9 days late and estimated to be over 9.5 lbs, it was time to get him out. Bob and I spent the night at the hospital last night, hoping to get things started, but everything looked the same this morning. It was a day of slow progress, and even as our fantastic nurses got ready for the shift change at 7, it looked like baby was a long way off. 

In the same fashion as the last two, Baby4 decided to go from 4-10 in 5 minutes flat and he was out by 7:16! He's a big guy, weighing in at 9lbs 13oz., 21" long.

We are so in love!

While We've Been Waiting...

Last Minute Snowcation

Since the weather predicted a snowpocalypse for last night, we all drove down to Albany to stay in the Hilton attached to Albany med just in case the new little man decided to make his entrance in the middle of the storm. Given my high risk status and history of fast labor, I couldn't risk staying home and getting stranded there or stuck on the way to the hospital.

Of course, he didn't decide to make his appearance, but it was a fun, snowy adventure. The hotel was amazing. We lucked out with a 7th floor corner room suite- a great place to watch the snow pile up. We got to swim in a (very cold) pool, we ate out for dinner and had a buffet breakfast. Way more exciting than staying home in the storm!

Off to serve this little dude his eviction notice tonight.

Albany State Museum

Today we decided to venture down to Albany to visit the State Museum for a couple hours. Great way to spend an afternoon!

The highlights of the museum were the carousel:

 And the old subway car.

Playing Outside

The girls built their first snowman all by themselves!

And Now...

Now that all the festivities are over, we are getting the house back to normal, testing out all the new Christmas presents, and patiently waiting on baby...

LittleL.G. wants me to "TAKE A PICTURE!" of her using all her new things (and some of MiniM.E.'s too)

We got some snow Thursday so we went out to play and then bounced out some more energy at the play place at the mall.

We took down all the Christmas decorations and put up the baby things. BabySlimJim (who probably needs a new name since he won't be the baby much longer) tried out the swing.

Happy New Years!

Today we relaxed around the house and played with Auntie Jen, took a bike ride and a walk outside:

caused some trouble:

And had an awesome dinner at Cantina downtown! What a way to start the year!

Happy 2019!!