More baby pictures

Here are some more pics of Riley, with Madison, Wyatt, and daddy. Thanks to everyone for there well wishes, gifts and for the visits we had while in the hospital. My mom was a big help to us while we were at the hospital, shuttling kids back and forth to school and the hospital, thank you mom!

RILEY has arrived!!!!

Here are a few pictures to start with. The first one is the nurse prepping me for surgery, you know the I.V., blood pressure, temperature etc. It was so cool we were able to watch the C-section being done on the big screen TV they had in the operating room. It was like watching a medical show on TV. When they pulled her out of my stomach it was the most amazing thing. Apparantly we were the first ones to be able to watch a delivery that way.


Here is little Riley minutes after being born. She weighed in at 8lbs 15 ozs and was 21" long. We call her our little runt as the other kids were 9lbs 15ozs, 23" and 9lbs 14ozs, 22" long.

Here is proud papa tending to his newest little one while they finished up with me in the O.R.
I look a little rough here but I guess that is to be expected after giving birth, right?

Here is a close up of our newest little angel RILEY MARIE GUNDRUM.

Baby Book

Here is the card and baby book I made for Joe's niece to celebrate the birth of her second daughter in a year. The book is made with 12 x 12 double sided paper folded to make the pockets. Then you insert a card with a tab at the top that you can use to put pictures on and some journaling. Each page can be used for each month of baby's first year with a couple of extra ones at the back. A book like this could also be used as a calendar to list birthdays, anniversaries etc... If you are interested in the instructions for this book you can email me and I will get them to you. Thanks for looking!!

First Day of School

Well, the first day of Kindergarten has arrived for my baby. I can't believe Wyatt is in school, it seem like he was just born. Enough of my sniveling though he did great! He just went for 1 hour each day this week to get used to it I guess. He was a little disappointed he didn't need his backpack, snack or inside shoes this week. "Mrs. Martens said we don't need to bring our backpacks, inside shoes and snack until next week mom"

The first day I stayed with Wyatt and we did the tour of the different areas of the school he will be using. First was the Kindergarten room where they recieved a cookie and licorice (maybe that was a ploy to get

them back the next day LOL. We also visited the computer lab where Wyatt was right at home playing the games they have. The library was another stop and the gym was a big hit, he didn't want to leave.

Here's my boy taking a rest at the end of a fun-filled hour. I think Wyatt ended up napping a couple of afternoons this week because "school tired me out mom".

And now on to Madison. All dressed up, such a growing girl she is in grade 3 this year, hard to believe. She wasn't too excited about going back to school because "grade 3 is going to be too hard mom". Once she got to school everything was fine though. She has some kids from last year in her class again and no homework yet so it's all good. They were doing division on the second day though, eek! So now that the first week is done we are slowly getting into some kind of routine again, although that will probably be a little harder this week with the arrival of baby. Oh well, we will make it through!

Madison had to do a few poses with her most important Hannah Montana backpack.

Hope all of you with kids in school had a great first week! Here's to the next 10 months.