Ron's sister welcomed their 6th adorable baby, Spencer Howard Brown, into the world on July 10th. He was a little guy, 6 lbs 12 oz. In this particular Rawlings family that is considered small! Mother and baby are both doing well. We are so excited for the Brown's and can't wait until we can meet Spencer, hopefully it won't be too long of a wait.Congratulations Thad and Raylene. Spencer has been brought to an awesome family with lots of love and support! We love you guys!
While my parents were here we did a little furniture shopping and luckily found a new bed frame for Evie's Big Girl Room (which well hopefully be done soon). We didn't have our truck with us the day we bought it so Ron had to go get it last week and we finally got it set up yesterday. It took a little convincing on Ron and my dad's part to get it (I had in mind an iron bed, I'll have to save that for Big Girl Room, version II). However, I really like it now and think it will work out great for us! The picture isn't that great only because the bed blends into the wall right now. That will all change once we get paint on the walls and fun bedding!
So a few weeks ago Evie had a little accident on the stairs. Nothing major just fell down the bottom couple. I actually didn't see it, but there was no bruising or bleeding so I figure nothing major! Anyway she of course thought it was noteworthy and talked about the rest of the evening! I was actually a little worried about her head just because I hadn't seen the event and didn't know what she had hit. She however was much more worried about her legs. Well, after her bath that night she told me that she needed some band-aids on her legs because they got hurt. So even though there were no bruises or abrasions I thought no biggie, a few band-aids never hurt anyone. I went to the medicine box and pulled out a few Barbie band-aids to put on. But that wasn't what Evie had in mind! She wanted the full on legs wrapped in gauze and tapped up band-aids that she has received only one other time when there was actually a cut on her leg. She even said to me "No Momma, I need the purple band-aids, the big purple band-aids!" So once again a few bandages never hurt anyone and she got the purple band-aids. Is she the daughter of a doctor, or what?!
The picture below is so funny, only because after I took the first picture she wanted to see how it turned out and told me it wasn't right because I needed to get a close up of the bandages! You cannot say that Evie doesn't know what she wants! (I'm really not sure who is gets that from) :-)
The day after the tumble was Sunday so I tried to remove the bandages when I was getting her ready for church, but she would have none of it! I'm pretty sure she is smart enough that she knew it would be a great conversation piece in nursery and she was not about to be robbed of that kind of attention! She was of course right, when I went to pick her up all the leaders were asking about the bandages and asking me how bad her fall down the stairs had been! We also ran out of purple band-aids after a few days of having to wear them, so we are currently waiting for Ron to bring some more home!
My mom and dad were able to visit for a long weekend over the 4thof July and we were so excited to have them! The time went way to fast but we got a lot done and figured out for our house! We also had lots of fun mixed into all the chaos. Evie had a great time with her Maki and Buddha and wants to call them every morning since they left to say hello! Each morning they were here she would wake up and go into their room. She would be as quiet as she could and climb in next to Maki. After a few seconds she would start to wake her up. Well of course Buddha had to get in on the Evie time and he did this by becoming the spider monster. He would snuggle up both Evie and Maki in a big hug and then shake the bed. My mom and Evie would just laugh and laugh. It was the sweetest thing to hear throughout the house! I wish I would have gotten a picture! Evie could have stayed and done the spider monster all day, she just couldn’t get enough.
We had lots of fun picking out paint colors and fabric during the trip. N
We didn’t do much on the 4th, just enjoyed each others company and spent some time with Ron (he was working nights the week they were here, so he didn’t get to play much with us)! But before he went into work we had some hamburgers and did a few firecrackers. Evie’s favorites were the pop-it! She was double fisting them and having a great time. We should have gotten more she went through them so fast!
We had such a great time with Maki and Buddha and can’t wait for their next visit in October! Thank you both for all that you do for my family. We appreciate and love you so much!
*Maki took most of the pictures over the weekend so we she sends me a disk of them all, I'll post more!*
I had an ultrasound yesterday of the baby so of course had to share the photos! I am 26 weeks and goodness the time is going by really fast. We really need to start getting some stuff done and put together so that we are ready for our new little girl! Evie is starting to get the concept of us having a baby. She tells anyone who will listen that we are having a baby GIRL! She is very specific about it being a girl! Which is really fun and cute I think!
Here are the photos we have of Baby Girl Rawlings at 26 weeks!
I think that her mouth is completely different than Evie's. Same nose and forehead I think, but completely different mouth! I am going to have to see if I have an ultrasound picture of Evie later on in pregnancy and do a comparison, just for fun! All I really know is that I can't wait to see our new little girl!
This last picture is of me taken at about 25 weeks! My belly is growing bigger and bigger ever day. It is still funny. People are now starting to comment to me about my pregnancy (gotta love strangers talking to you about your pregnancy) but sometimes it still catches me off guard, like what are they talking about or man is it that obvious! Then I tell myself, guess what Maggie it is!!!
