We need a bigger bed!

Cecilia's First Boat Adventure

As cute as she looks, she slept through the whole thing, even when I put on her life jacket. Oh well, there will be more trips onto the water!

Happy Birthday Miss Jazmin!!

Our first summer birthday party, we were able to host the entire thing outside! This was made even better by the beautiful weather we had and the friends and family that were able to join us to celebrate Jazmin's first birthday with us.

Having lunch with friends.

Ryan's latest form of entertainment.

Cruising the yard.
Way too cute!YEAH it's cake and song time!

Auntie Kendall made a pretty flower cake and cupcakes this time.

Now the real fun begins!

Random

Jake was told to put the toys in the bins. He decided the top ones were the best.

This photo proves once and for all, Cecilia's hair is reddish.
Oh, Duchess...you and that tongue.

Double trouble, and double puppy dog eyes.

Cute.

The boys found my old helmet in the basement. Jake calls it my purple hat. All 3 older kids played with it for hours...but poor Jazmin couldn't remain upright with it on, she was to top heavy.

Summer Softball

Joel out in right field.
Retrieving the home run ball.
Delivering the home run ball.
A really good reason not to slide into base while wearing shorts.

Joel's playing in Medtronic's softball league again this year. His team is called the Slammers, and they're a pretty decent team! In the first game of the season, someone hit a ball out of the field so the kids and I went to retrieve it, and Jake was the lucky one to hand deliver it to the team. He was pretty proud of himself!

The Boys

It's a full moon!

Chicks dig me!

2 week check up

Little miss went in for her two week check up last week. She weighed in at 8.2 and checked out perfectly...as we knew she would! Hard to believe that at two weeks old she still weighed less than Jake did at birth (8.7)!

Maple Grove Maze

Jazmin and me on our way to the top of the slide.

A while back (far enough that I was still preggers) we took the kids to the Maple Grove Comm. Center. They have an awesome playground indoors for the kids to play on. It's like McDonald's play land totally souped up! There is a 4 story slide that makes 3 full 360 turns. The boys loved that, but it was a little much for me and Jazmin. Anyway we played hard and enjoyed ourselves very much.

Happy Mother's Day

More pictures of Cecilia

First bath, she actually enjoyed it, until it was time to get out.

Long fingers, going to be a piano player maybe?

Early morning snuggle time.

Welcome Cecilia Grace Peterson

Cecilia Grace Peterson was born 5/3/09, weighing it at 7lb7oz and measuring 18" in length. She had a bit of a rocky start, and spent the first 16 hours of her life in the level II nursery. Thankfully we were able to have her in the room with us after that. She has a full head of strawberry blonde hair, and is a perfect little bundle. We're very excited to have another girl.

Big brother Ryan was very excited to see her, touch her, kiss her, hold her, share his toys with her, talk to her, help change her etc. Jake could have cared less, as you can see by the look on his face!

Jazmin was also excited to meet her, but was not nearly as gentle with her as her brothers were. She was intrigued by Cecilia's pulse ox monitor, and kept trying to push the buttons on it like the nurses do to hers.