Little Man’s in the house

Conrad Elliott came blazing into this world Thursday night July 30, 2009 which just happens to be his Mother’s 21 birthday. What a perfect birthday present.

Conrad

Conrad’s proud parents are our good friends Anthony and Maggie. We’ve been friends with Anthony for years and have seen him through some very good times and very bad times as you so often do with chosen family. I am so please to say this is the happiest if not most tired I’ve ever seen him.

Conrad, Mom and Dad

Conrad is a big boy weighing in at 9 lbs 2 oz. Maggie was a champ and pushed him out in only 20 minutes. He is 21 1/2 long and has lots of hair just like his parents.

Conrad

Maggie I have a few bits of advice for you, you know since I’ve a veteran and all.

Let Anthony help and take his opinions to heart. That was one of the hardest things for me. Waldo wants to be a part of every decision when it comes to Lily but I think I know it all, so I had to learn to compromise and sometimes be very persuasive so I still get my way.

Enjoy every minute. I know you’ve heard it before but its so true. They grow up so fast. I still can’t believe Lily’s 7 months old.

Sleep when Conrad sleeps, at least at first.

Most importantly Conrad is your baby so listen to that amazing Mother’s instinct and ignore everyone else, including your Mom and people like me. But listen to me because you know I know it all. Lol.

Congrats you guys!

I have to include a few more pictures because I never know when to stop.

Look at those legs, edible.
Conrad
I made Maggie unwrap him so I could finally see a chubby baby.

And the hair.
Conrad

Conrad & Mommy

Remember I’m here if you need anything.

A peek in Lily closet– part 1

I get so many wonderful comments and compliments about Lily’s clothes, (thank you all so much) that I wanted to spend a little time talking about them.

I’d say that 99% of all of Lily’s clothes were either from my baby shower or hand-me-downs. Besides my baby monitor, a few blankets and odds and ends all I got for my shower were baby clothes. It was amazing. My co-workers and family went crazy buying cute little girl clothes. One of my ex co-workers whom we refer to as Grandma Starr bought cute baby girl clothes before we knew Lily was a girl and still buys her stuff.

As for the hand-me-downs, they came from all over the place. I worked at a credit union and if you’ve ever been a credit union member then you understand the close community that it can provide. I got bags and bags of baby clothes, a baby bath tub, swing and bouncer seat from one member alone; it was gggrrrate. One of the ladies Waldo worked with had just had a baby and gave us probably 4 big rubbermaid tubs of clothes. And my little (hahaha she’ll be 30 soon, how does that happen?) sister has a baby girl about 4 months older then Lil so she sends a lot of hand-me-downs too.

Here are some of the great shower gifts:

8 week

2 months old

This is one of my favorite outfits ever, it was from Grandma Starr
10 weeks old

and another shower gift from Grandma Starr
How many more pictures Mom?

This is a shower gift. The “cherry on top” is a friggin’ button, I might rant about this one day
So cute

Another co-worker brought this back from Maui for Lily
7 months old

cutie

Lovely

I could go on and on and I’m sure some of you feel that I already have gone too far. As you can see I’m using this as an excuse to reminisce.

As for that other 1% of clothes in Lily’s closet I have bought new; one dress and one onesie and a few things at a yard sale. We are so thankful for the wonderful generous gifts that we’ve received.

These are the things I’ve bought new:

31 weeks old

I need to wrap this craziness up so I can go to bed.

But one last thing that I meant to post a couple of months ago.

One day Waldo got home from work and there was a bag from the grocery store hanging off the door knob. When we opened it there were two baby outfits in it with no note. One was a larger size of this

16 weeks old

Someone please explain to me how two people thought my daughter would want to look like Fran Dresher?

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