SO good...

...to see my friends again!

This past weekend we had a visit from two of our favorite ladies and their sweet little babes.

Isn't she beautiful?

I'm sure there has never been a more happy little guy!

So thankful and touched that they and their families made the effort to get them out here for a visit!

Thank you girls for all of your help! I don't remember the last time that I got to shower two days in a row. :) Thank you for loving my family and spending so much time playing with my girls. Thank you most of all for just being here with me, nourishing my soul. I've missed you so much and it was beyond good to spend time with you again. Looking forward to the next time!

And finally, a picture of sweet Clara for those of you who have been asking. :)

Pizza party!

Just a few pictures from when we had the cousins over earlier this week for pizza and Wii. Fun times!

On a side note, I'm really enjoying being able to see my feet again!

Adjusting...

The past couple of weeks have been a sleepy, happy, snugly time for our family. Buzz' program has been wonderful about getting him time off to be with his girls and we've loved all the time that we've been able to spend getting to know our sweet little babe.

I won't lie. I've been a little sleep deprived. I even told another mom at Sparkle's soccer game that we had named our baby Julia. I was more than a little embarrassed when I had to tell her that I had gotten it wrong! You see, we didn't have a name picked out before Clara was born. We took a full two hours to spend with her and decide on a name before we even called anyone to tell them that she had been born. Rest assured though, almost two weeks in, her given name has stuck and now the only name that we call her besides her own is Sunny's. Still not sure when that issue will resolve... probably we shouldn't have given all three girls such similar names!

Sparkle has taken the addition to our family in stride. She's in school much of the day anyway and has been through this before, so she seems to be doing very well. She runs home every day and washes her hands so that she can touch and hold her sister. Look at her smile... she just adores her little Clara!

Sunny has had a harder time adjusting to her sister's homecoming. She was a bit mopey the first week or so, but she's coming around nicely and marches around the house saying, "I am [Sunny]! I a big sista now!" She loves to sit next to her baby sister and do puzzles and read books. Clara has been busily wrapping us around her tiny little finger... she has a the sweetest little smiling expression on her face much of the time. Not to mention to most fuzzy little head of hair ever! She is perfect in every way... or at least she will be when she is sleeping through the night! :)