My Faith and Joy… and Boys!

Jimmy’s first trip to the park last week was a little chilly:

But fortunately, we had a little more sunshine today, so my mom and I took the kiddos out for an afternoon at the park.  It takes a little more gear to take three kids out than two!

Jimmy found the excursion uninspiring:

But the girls were very excited to play outside, especially since Grammie came equipped with new sand toys:

Hooray for fun in the sun!

When the girls aren’t clamoring to show their toys to baby Jimmy…

…who by the way thinks all the attention paid to him is rather sleep-inducing…

…they’re being happily entertained by their Grammie’s never-ending supply of new tricks and toys, like these paints:

You can see that Susie took a free-wheeling, outside-the-lines approach to color selection:

But she paid careful attention to her brush-holding form:

Whereas Becky preferred to keep her colors separate:

But wasn’t as concerned with the actual application of the paint:

It’s hard to believe that it won’t be long before I’ll be having to wash down the messy bodies of THREE messy artists!  

I wish I had the time and energy to thoroughly relate some of my thoughts and feelings about the past few days, but I’m afraid I’ll have to settle for a few disjointed impressions:

1) Having a newborn (even just one!) is exhilarating and utterly exhausting

2)  The girls are very sweet big sisters who want to lavish love on their baby brother, but we’ve had to keep them apart because Becky has a cold.  I really wish I could let them hug and kiss him! (And especially get pictures of them all together). 

3) It’s much tougher to stay up all night with a sleepless newborn when there are two other bundles of energy who need your attention in the daytime. 

4)  Grandparents are the absolute best!

Here are a few random pictures over the past few days:

Baby Jimmy arrived at 2:45pm eastern today, 4/25. He is 7lb 2oz and 19 inches long. He and mom are doing great! More to come later. – Dad