Auri Jaye is in the house

I went on an unintentional internet hiatus thanks to Casen a couple days after we got home from the hospital with Auri Jaye. Casen was awesome and spilled water all over my laptop and fried it. We took it apart and put in in rice. We prayed. I went nuts without being plugged into cyber-world! Anyway, I finally decided today it was time to put the computer away in it’s case so it wasn’t staring at me daily taunting me. In one last ditch attempt I tried turning it on. And viola – it booted up! Oh man I’ve been one happy momma today!

I was so mad about being left computer-less I didn’t even take pictures of precious things because “I couldn’t post them anyway…” Looking back that was stupid and irrational. I blame it on post partum hormones.

I think we’ve kinda settled into life with a baby girl in the home. She’s pretty much an angel baby. She’s so loved and we crack up at her ever changing faces and silly newborn noises.

Casen adores her – for like 2 minutes out of the day. For those couple minutes he is pretty elated with her. He’ll pat her head and jabber about “baby stister,” her small fingers, point out all her facial features and stuff a binky in her mouth. The rest of the day Casen just goes about his life as if nothing’s changed.

Kyle is pretty great with her. He always makes comments about how much she’s growing, talks to her in a voice I’ve only heard him use when speaking to Auri, and almost always has his face buried in hers when he’s holding her. It melts my heart to see how my two boys react with Auri.

She’s had to learn quick to be tough. So far she has been sat on by Casen, stepped on by Reggie, nearly launched out of her bouncer by an overzealous Casen anxious to give her a good ride, and survived Casen shoving a red pepper slice in her mouth, “Here baby stister, you like it!” That’s when we had the talk about how Auri only eats milk right now.

And now for the interesting part of the post:

This is where the ‘almost launch baby sister out of the bouncer’ incident happened

Can you find Reggie? He’s so tolerant of Casen’s antics.

One night Casen plopped down and started telling Ree all about this book in Spanish

She likes her tummy time. And we like her cheeks and how they rest on her chest!

And that’s the first few days of her life in pixels.