Going Home

The doctors released mommy and Lexi and we get to take them home.  Fortunately, Grammy and Aunt Courtney made it into town from Wyoming and will be able to stay with us for a week to help out.  It's going to be a big adjustment with 4 munchkins running around but I can say that our family feels complete and we are so in love!  Lots of Lexi updates to come so stay tuned............

New friends

Mommy and Lexi had lots of visitors all wanting to meet our new sister.  Here are some pictures of friends that came to visit. Thank you to everyone who called, sent well wishes, flowers, dinners, etc.  We can't begin to tell you how much it's appreciated!

Meeting Lexi

Ms. Connie brought us up to meet our new baby sister.  She is soooo sweet and so little!  I immediately stepped into 'mommy mode' and am going to be a huge helper when baby Lexi comes home. She's also making quite a name for herself in the nursery.  Nurse Wendy said she's the loudest baby in there and goes from "Zero to Loud" in no time.  She also said she was paged by another nurse and was told, "Wendy, we need you in the nursery.  Ms. Riley is not happy - and we don't mean her mama".  That's our girl!

Alexa Jane Riley

We are thrilled to announce the birth of our newest addition, Alexa Jane Riley aka Lexi.  She arrived at 6:12am and was 8 lbs 1 oz and 20 inches long.  She is precious and I'm thrilled about my new baby sister!!  Mommy went into labor at around 2am but didn't want to 'inconvenience' anyone by calling them too early to come watch the 3 of us.  So she thought she'd "hang out" until around 5am or 6am before calling Ms. Connie.  Ha!  Baby Lexi had other plans.  Mommy's contractions were so bad around 4am that she finally called the dr. and Ms. Connie so they could head to the hospital.  By the time they got there, contractions were 2 - 3 minutes apart and mommy was having what we'll just say was a really hard time.  Once they checked her in and were prepping her for surgery, they realized that she was 9cm and it was show time.  She was sent to ER in her STREET CLOTHES and went into immediate surgery.  Poor Lexi was ready to make her appearance and tried to go the 'au natural' way and had bruises on her precious face from being pulled back out.  But, she is healthy and happy and we welcome her into our family with open arms and open hearts. 

Date Night

For Father's Day, we gave daddy a 'date' with each of us.   Tripp and daddy are going to the Monster Jam later this summer and Levi and daddy are going to Kiddie Acres.  My date with daddy is lunch first (with Shirley Temples in champagne glasses) and then we have tickets to see "Charlotte's Web" at the local Scottish Rite Theater.  I'm so excited to have a day with my daddy all to myself.  I sure love you daddy!

Princess Camp

One of my FAVORITE things in the summer is Princess Camp.  Usually I go towards the end of summer when mommy is trying to find fun things for us to do so she can survive (ha!) but with the new baby coming soon, we scheduled princess camp earlier.  It was the best week ever and I worked on not ballet, dance, gymnastics and cheering but also new this year was musical theater.   At the end of the week, we made pizzas at Mangias  pizza and we had a special show for our parents.  We had to bring our favorite princess dress from home and of course I brought my most sparkly one ever.  We performed 'My Favorite Things' from Sound of Music and people came up to mommy telling her that I'm natural!  I do love a good performance - especially when I'm in it. 

More Baseball!

Baseball season is over but Tripp continued with the citywide tournament.  His team didn't make it to the finals but he did a great job.  Nice job, Bubba!