Boys

Look at me posting a picture (look closely to see why this is entitled "boys"). I'm hoping one quick picture will warm me up for more. We're headed to Carter Caves State Park today so heres to hoping I actually take some pictures! Love, R

Not to compete with M&R, but here's another...

 After cupcakes, we took up sidewalk art on the front porch.

Then, we moved on to the presents from her Nana and Papa.  A box of dress up clothes and toys!  Many of them made by her Nana!

A princess dress with matching dress for New Baby!

Complete with cape and gloves and shoes.

And a leotard and tutu for dancing—another of her favorite activities!

Thank you, grandparents, for a super fun birthday!

A Birthday Postcard

Pictures are really quite easy to upload.  This one is of my darling girl playing with the  cupcake set that Essie and BB gave her!  It is really the coolest cupcake set I’ve seen--complete with solid wooden cupcakes, a pan, cake papers, icing, icing pens, and four wooden candles that stick on top.  Since, Grace loves to cook and there are new play kitchen plans in the works, this will be loads and loads of fun for a long time.  Thank you BB and Essie!  It is only one of the gifts from BB and Essie, but one of her favorite.  A birthday video will follow.

Baking the cakes!

 And enjoying them on the front porch.

Gracie prefers vanilla.  I only got chocolate.

My Own Postcard

Dear All:

This is a so-called "postcard" post to let you know what I'm thinking right now. Let's see, I'm thinking that I want to proportionally counter my little brother's attempt to boost his post count by doing "postcard" posts (even if his include cute things that Gracie says). But I've also kept this post at a high level by posting a picture. (See above for a shot of a nice part of the MSU campus.) I'll also note that Mary Clement says "picey" for "spicy," and that Jackson said it "ssvicey." Harry didn't attempt it for a long time, then just said "spicy" slowly.

Ruthie and I have three children and no pets and hope one day to tour Belgium on bicycles.

Back to you, Dave.

Grace on Turning Two

Tomorrow Gracie will be two!  So, we’ve been prepping her for this telling her that she will be two, that it’s her birthday soon, etc.  Tonight before bed, we were all playing on the carpet and the conversation went something like this:

Lynn: Gracie, it’s your birthday tomorrow.”

Grace: Pause…  “Oh, YEAH.” (This is her new phrase she pulls out when she doesn’t know quite what to say.  She got it from me.)

Lynn: “How old are you going to be?”

Grace: “Cake!”

And this crystalizes her knowledge of what it means to have a birthday.  She’s been talking about making and eating cakes for the past three to four days when her mom mentioned that this is part of the birthday fun.

So, I end my first postcard post on the blog.  A new method I’m trying to use of quickly emailing in short posts of memorable events from the Wrights-in-da-burgh while simultaneously boosting our post count.

Katherine Lois Wright

Well, this was another Amazon woman birthing experience, producing the gorgeous 6lb, 9oz Katherine Lois Wright. Keri's uterus had been muscling up for weeks and so things moved quickly on August 4th from her first painful contractions at 2:30 am, to waking me up, bleary-eyed and incredulous, at 4am to taking the girls to our neighbors, Jim and Lea, at 5:20am to arriving at the hospital at 5:40am to holding Katherine at 6:49am. The obstetrician and nurses commented on how Keri was laughing through labor, since they'd only seen this before in a mother after her epidural.
The staff really were wonderful, largely in what they did not do. They placed Katherine on Keri with the cord still pulsing and left her there for over an hour, allowing Keri to nurse for almost two hours before they did all the weighing and washing, etc.
Jim and Lea, who were absolutely wonderful, brought Sophie and Emma over to see their sister later that morning. They even got to help with her first bath! Grandma and Opa arrived from California later on that evening and kept them for the night.
We left the hospital the next afternoon, hearing and all the other checks being OK.


Sophie and Emma are proving to be loving big sisters.

Our little bowhead, just out of her first bath.

(A note from Keri about her name: Katherine Lois is named for her two grandmothers, and her names mean "pure" and "more desirable" respectively, both of Greek origin. We're thinking of Phil. 4:8 as her life verse: "Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.")

Swim Lessons

Jackson at swim lessons with his class of girls. He was one of 2 who got "Penguin" as opposed to "Goldfish", and after the test was completed, and I pointed out how well he did, he said, "Yeah, I was lucky."
Taking his test to see his "level":