Reid's Newborn Session!

I FINALLY got Reid into the studio for some REAL pictures! :) It's SO much different with your own!! Several times over the last few days I've thought, "Maybe I'll just call and book a session somewhere"! :) BUT... now that I finally had the energy, and BOTH boys were clean and ready, I'm SO thankful I have a full studio at my disposal at any time! Here are a few of them... you can see the rest at http://www.lawsongallery.com/. Click to enter site, then clients, and the password is reid1.

Rounding out the first week!

Reid has now enjoyed his first week of life with us.. and boy have we enjoyed it as well!! Other than my pesky spinal headache that was fixed by a blood patch yesterday, it's been pretty smooth sailing! We are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO blessed!!

Here are a few pictures over the last few days!

Given the headaches... and the "taking it easy" after the blood patch... I still don't have studio pictures. I can't wait though!!

Introducing Reid Alexander!

SO... if you don't have facebook (where we gave a play by play of delivery and constantly posted pictures over the last few days because we can do it all from our blackberries), you're probably wondering why it's taking so long for ME to post pictures! :) I'm sorry for the delay, but HERE they are!! I can not thank my family, friends, and wonderful clients for all of the support not only over the last few days, but these last few months! I am SO blessed!!

Reid Alexander was born June 11, 2009 at 1:31 p.m. He weighed 8 lb. 3 oz. and was 19.5 inches long! BIG baby for less than a 37 weeker!! I won't go into all the details of the CRAZY week that preceded the event, but it ended in a pretty quick delivery by c-section!! NOT what I wanted, but by the time the Dr. called it, I was just plain ol' ready!!!! Me and Reid have both done great (although c-section one NOT be my first choice of delivery, my recovery really has been fairly easy)! Reid is currently strapped to a bili light because of jaundice! We really hope that ends soon, but he's still really yellow this morning, so we'll probably have at least one more day! We took him off the light twice last night while the storms blew through, so we lost a couple of hours... but I wasn't going to risk it!

OKAY OKAY... on to the pictures!


First time to hold Reid!

Exactly how Maclain used to sleep!

Big Brother warmly welcomes Reid home!

So precious!

Now that's "no drop" insurance!

Nightly "snuggle time"... Maclain no longer wants our snuggles... just Reid's!

Mommy's Men!

There were several more that I wanted to post from the last few days, but didn't want to overload my blog!! If you want to see the rest from our "first 4 days" go to www.lawsongallery.com, click to enter site, then click on clients in the right hand corner. The password is reid1. I'll let you know when I swap them out for new ones! :) I can't wait to be able to walk up the stairs so I can get my newest little man in studio! You'll see those asap!!

Loving lifes blessings....

Nascar Slip and Slide!!

Jared explaining how to do it, and Maclain responding "Daddy, I don't think I can do that!"

Ready to go now!

Picking his car!! He went back and forth from all 3!

"Mama... I won the piston cup!!!!" :) He would run and jump and only make it a few feet. He refused help to get the rest of the way, and would instead scoot and push his way to the "finish line" just like Lightning McQueen on "Cars" when he gets a flat tire at the end of the races and hops to the finish line! He LOVES acting out movie scenes!!

LOVING IT!

"Mama, look at this funny thing... it has eyes"! :)

Make sure you see the posts below... this was catch-up day for blogging!!

AND... Update: The baby is still doing okay, but my bp not so much! It's staying pretty high now! SO...I'm pretty restricted to just laying and doing NOTHING!!!! Hence the time to catch up on the computer! :) I am 35 weeks today, so I'm super thankful to have made it this far! If we can make it just 1 more week, we're less likely to spend time in the NICU, and if we can make it 2 more weeks that risk goes WAY down!!!!!! Just sitting (laying) tight for now!

Dirt Time!

SOO.... most of you guys know we started the building process about a year ago, and one of the biggest hold ups before we decided was the outrageous cost of the lots out here! Granted, they are larger than a lot of subdivisions, and typically the builder does a great job in the development. SOMETHING went awry with our lot however, and it appears there is no such thing as drainage!!! So, considering the amount of rain we have had the past few months, our sod is just NOT taking, and we pretty much have little ponds ALL over the front and back yard! VERY irritating... and Jared handles it much better than I do. Okay... I won't go any further with my irritation!

Well, in an attempt to "fix" the yard that was supposed to be "move in ready" for us, we hauled in a load of sand/dirt mixture and rented some equipment to spread it. Of course, I'm observing all of this while laying on the couch, but at least maybe we are on the slow track to getting our yard fixed!

And.... since we have a huge pile of very sandy dirt in our yard now, where do you think Maclain has been ALLLL day... literally for hours now!!?? That's right, digging away! He helped Daddy for about 2 minutes shoveling dirt into the equipment, but then took a break... permanently! :) I took these pics about 15 minutes into his play time thinking he'd get bored of it soon. Well... you should see him now! Caked on dirt from head to toe! Who needs sunscreen now??

I HATE the yard situation, but it's so fun to see Maclain having such a blast!

AWANA Ceremony!

I'm a few weeks late on this one, but I still wanted to share!!

For the past 2 years, Maclain has been a "Puggles" in the Awana program at church. Next year he will be a cubby, and he's so excited to be in there with "Mrs. Pauwa" (Paula)! :)

Look at how "proper" he looks here!! Looks like we have one well behaved little man on our hands! :)

Reciting his memory verse "God made everything"! All the kiddos kind of yelled it rather than recited it... if you couldn't tell by looking at Maclain's face!! :)

Here he's getting his end of the year present!

AND.... in true kiddo form, immediately digs in! :)

We are so blessed to have Awana at our church.... and for everyone that helps make it all happen!

End of the Year Program

Here are a few pictures of Maclain at his end of the year program at Mother's Day Out! We were SOOO proud of him! He's come a long way from crying on stage at church the Christmas before last!

By the way... he practiced and practiced and practiced his "George Washington" song! He was READY to go and so excited leading up to this night!

Yes, I was there! I definitely put this into the category of one of those "special events" the Dr. was talking about! :) Not only was it AWESOME to be out and about, but it's just incredible to see your child performing on stage!



"I pledge allegiance, to the flag..."

"GEORGE WASHINGTON, GEORGE WASHINGTON, HE WAS A GREAT GRAND MAN..." Zoie's not real sure about his singing here! She's our neighbor and Maclain's friend!

Everyone with their horses singing "Yankee Doodle"! :) So cute!