Happy pictures and memories

What a smile!
Proud Momma!
Mommy and Frances!
Proud Big Sister!
Beautiful Flowers!

Gotta love em'

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It's a good thing I love him cause look at that foot! Mitch hurt his foot on Saturday. Initial x-rays said it was not broken. The other day while I was sitting in the hospital room with our new baby he went to another appointment and came back with a cast. His foot is broken. He is not to bear any weight therefore, no walking cast. I am thankful it is not anything worse but it will make a few things more challenging as we transition home tomorrow. I know Mitch is feeling pretty crummy about it as it is now impossible for him to carry his new baby or even pick up his toddler. Frances is already figuring out that she can outrun daddy:) Good thing Grandma JoJo is coming tomorrow!

Visitors Galore!

We have enjoyed having many visitors during our stay at the hospital.
Dionne and her mother helped to care for Frances during our hospital stay.
Brayden was smitten with Delaney. He had been hoping for a boy to play with but look at the sparkle in his eyes! I think he will get over it.
Lori was also smitten. She was excited to take pictures and get me going on scrapbooking my new baby girl!
Payton liked holding the baby until she cried. Then she was all done. Just like her daddy:)

Can you guess who is who?

Here are my two girls at 12 hours old:)

Meet the sisters!

It was so fun to watch and hear Frances visit her baby sister for the first time! She climbed right up on my bed and wanted to hold her. She said "did the doctor take her out?" Obviously! She wanted to unwrap her because she was hard to see all bundled up. Then she asked if she could hold her with "two hands". Not a problem. She did the mommy bounce and pat like a pro!

After that Frances was ready to go check out the room and then she was pretty much ready to go back to playing with Mamaw Bev, Brayden, and Bailey. She knew they were waiting for her at McDonalds with the slide and that is a pretty fun thing when you are 3 1/2! I am so extremely thankful to Dionne and her family for helping with Frances while we are in the hospital! It feels so wonderful knowing she wants to return to them! I just hope she is sleeping soundly right now (it is almost 4 am) and that she wants to come see me again tomorrow!

As for us at the hospital...I know I should be sleeping but I just finished feeding Delaney and I really wanted to get this updated so I am working on the computer while baby and daddy are both sleeping nearby. She is such a good baby so far! I've read that their true temperment doesn't really emerge until days 3-5 but so far I am enjoying it! She barely cries and is easily soothed by simply wrapping her up more. She is a great eater and sleeper too. I sent her to the nursery around 11 and was able to sleep until 2 when they broght her in to eat. She was awake but just wanted to hang out with mom for awhile, she wasn't even hungry right away! Then, once she ate...right back to sleep! Amazing!

I am doing very well! I have not felt any real pain so far, only mild discomfort and I don't know that I would even call it that. The worst I have experienced is hot flashes with one medication that I won't take again. I just had my catheder taken out! yeah! I have gotten out of bed and went for a walk earlier and that went really well too! I am looking forward to taking a shower in the morning. That is all for now as I should sleep. Thanks for all your prayers!

It's a GIRL!!!!

Delaney Morgan Fehr

6 lbs, 4 oz

19 inches

8:39 am

June 24, 2008

Remodeling at the Fehrfield Inn

Well, only one week to go and I think we are ready! I have all the cloth diapers out and ready to go, all our "neutral" newborn clothes are ready, and most importantly...we got our guest bed ready! Actually, we aquired a new bed for our guests this past weekend. Which now puts our household/Inn at two full size beds! Yeah! That means more room for company! We saw a great deal and couldn't pass it up. We now have this nice full size bed with tons of storage in the baby's room and moved the old full size into Frances' room. (not sure what we will do with the twin yet) Frances likes her really big new bed! I am loving the storage I gained. It does make the room seem that much smaller but it is nice! We still have a few openings and are taking reservations through the fall:) Watch next week for the breaking news!

Going Crazy!

It has been raining pretty much all day. Frances and I have played, made banana bread, scrapbooked and of course, watched television. Spending a whole day in lock up with a 3 1/2 year old is quite challenging and if anyone dare to ask me "why" one more time today I just might actually lose it!

Now it is my turn to ask...WHY do kids always ask WHY????????????

Intermission

My good friend and I have had a babysitting swap going on since at least September. It has been wonderful! We take turns watching each others children once a week (taking turns so I get every other week to do my own thing) from 9-1. It has worked out very well for both of us. Due to the new baby coming we are taking a small break. Tuesday was the last day that I watched her girls until we get things back to "normal" here at our house:) The girls and I were working on a craft that required a picture be taken. I can't help but share with all since they matched (without planning) and the girls cooperated quite well! It is so much fun to watch the girls grow up together and learn to get along and solve their problems! France and Caelyn are on a huge Diego kick where they spend most of their time "saving animals in trouble". They are so funny! Here are the pictures!

Picnic fun!

We were able to attend the company picnic this past weekend for Mitch's work. It is always a big event with lots of activities for the kids. They bring in numerous inflatable items such as a slide, caterpillar, and bounce house. They usually have carnival type games with little prizes but that was omitted this year for some reason. Mitch got suckered into playing in the corn hole tournament (bean bag toss for adults). He didn't win but I think he gained a new appreciation for the game. He said it is definitely harder than it looks. Frances and Mitch went down the slide once. It was kind of disapointing as it didn't have any "slide" to it. Instead you had to kind of bounce to move. They sprayed it with pledge but it only worked for a couple of times. Needless to say, Frances only went once. It was an easy 90 degrees outside and the slide was in the sun too. She thought the bounce house was too hot and didn't want to go in. For the most part, she just really wanted to play at the park playground and that was shaded so there were no complaints from mom. The only problem we had was that the snowcones were far enough away that Frances needed to come with when I got my refills. I only had three during the four hours we were there:) We also watched a little show put on by "silly safari's". They had some neat animals and Frances seemed to enjoy watching.