Last week

Well, Felicity had parent/teacher conferences on Thursday. She's like me (her handwriting needs to improve) and not like me (she's above average in math). She also needs to learn to tie her shoes, which is funny because I remember Mary Riley tying my cardboard practice shoes for me in first grade because I couldn't either. Overall, Felicity is doing very good, the teacher just can't let her sit next to her friend Emmalee, or both their grades would suffer. And probably the teacher, too.
All the kids are excited about Halloween, especially because Grandma Newey and Aunts Melissa and Nicki are coming for part of the weekend. Caleb is going to be Bob the Builder (not to be mixed up with Handy Manny, we don't speak enough spanish for that part), Felicity is going to be a fairy, and Joseph loves the tiger costume, but is too scared to put it on, so he might end up being a duck, or Bob the Builder #2. Seth has two costumes, too, my cousin gave us a cute bee costume and (hopefully) I'll finish his caterpillar costume this week. Felciity wanted to have a spooky house, which I'm really not into. So we (Nicki really did it) helped the kids cut out bats and jack o'lanterns and ghosts for the windows and I helped them make ghosts out of white garbage bags to hang from our tree. Spooky enough, although Felicity wants the orange lights and headstones and scary noises and all that. Going to school sure changes a kid. Well, sort of, she still wants to paint her pumpkins with rainbows and sparkles and pretty things. She's my girly-girl.

This is pretty cool...

I hate the big election years becuase of all the huge negativity that is thrown around. It seems like this year they are especially picking on Sarah Palin, so I enjoyed this video. Oh, and I just want to say that Obama really isn't a muslim (does it really matter anyway?), he's not a terrorist, and he does actually say the pledge of allegiance and salute the flag. Not that I am going to vote for him, I have other issues with him, but again all this negative stuff really does bug me. So here's this great video on Gov. Palin. And don't forget to vote!

Update

Just a quick blog today. Yesterday Seth had his two week checkup, he's growing! He weighs 9 lbs and 11 oz, and he is 20 and a half inches long, so he's grown almost a pound and one inch. Not too suprising, this kid likes to eat.
Also, I just want to say: I love to be able to tie my own shoes again!

Getting used to baby

I think we're all getting used to our new little guy. Felicity is still a little upset that he is a he, but she loves to hold him and snuggle with him. She loves his hair, "it's so soft, mom!" Caleb loves to hold him, too, and hasn't attacked Seth once. He always runs up to people and tells them about his new baby brother. As for attacking, Joseph likes to wait until I get settled on the couch with Seth and a blanket and then he pounces on us. Not a great thing, but no injuries yet. He also likes to snuggle up to Seth (sometimes a little too much snuggling for the little guy) and when Seth isn't in the room he wanders around asking for him. Farris and I are a little groggy much of the time, but we're staying away from heavy machinery and we've had cereal for dinner once, which isn't too bad for having baby #4.
Other news, Farris' sister Cindi had a little baby boy yesterday, so he's two weeks younger than little Seth. Hurrah for Cindi and Scott! And sorry we traded due dates again. My babies ('cept for Lissy) come early and Cindi's come late, and we always seem to be expecting about the same time, and it's twice now that we've traded. But that means our boys (Caleb and Tennesee are 8 days apart) are really close in age, so it's fun. We don't know the baby's name yet, Farris forgot to ask (men!), but my mom was wondering if they went with Tex? Just kidding, and congrats again.

Pictures, pictures, pictures!

Nicki gave me a disc with some pictures of Seth and from further back this summer...Here's Seth in the hospital on Sunday, sleepy little guy.
Joseph was pretty excited to meet Baby, we were all a little wary of what he was going to do, but he didn't do anything too scary in his explorations.
Felicity posing with Seth.
Mom got this one of Seth smiling, he's a cutie!
Finally, home at last and both of us in regular clothes instead of hospital stuff.

4th of July with all the Newey cousins.

Mom and Dad took Caleb and Lissy home for a week this summer, and on their way they stopped at Cabelas. I think Felicity would like to take this moose home.
Nicki's famous zebra.

Joseph sleeping at Aunt Ellen's house.

Felicity with her girl Newey cousins. They all spent the night at Grandma and Grandpa Newey's house and had a lot of fun running through the sprinklers.

Baby Seth Gavid came as fast as he could

Yup, he's here! Seth was born at 3:54 on Conference Sunday morning. He's our little giant, and it's a good thing he didn't wait for his due date, he weighed 8 pds, 15 oz, so he's alot bigger than the other kids (Lissy was the biggest before, at 7 pds, 6 1/2 oz). He not only came about 2 weeks early, he came really fast. I woke up a little after two with contractions, timed them for about a half an hour, and they were ten minutes apart. I wasn't too worried, this had happened before and they just stopped. But this time they quickly got closer together. Mom, Dad, Melissa, and Nicki were all staying with us so we let them know we were on the way and Mom looked at the clock when we pulled out of our driveway: 3:14. We drove very fast to the hospital, and when they got me into a room the nurses started hustling around, I must have looked like I meant business. Our doctor knows my record and drove fast, too, (she said at that time of day, all lights are green). It must be the perfect kind of birth for her, show up, deliver baby, go home, no dilly-dalling around. And I'm pleased with her, she said Seth is perfect, which of course, he is. He's a cutie with reddish-blonde hair, and a little chunkier than our usual babies. We were still thinking about names, and still thinking about names, and still thinking about names. But on Monday morning Farris called from home with a name he had thought of the night before, and Seth seemed to fit like none on the other names we had tried did. But the middle name was another challenge. We were trying to figure out how to combine the names of the grandpas, Gary and David, and I came up with Gavid, like Gavin but with a d instead of a n. We hemmed and hawed a little bit longer while we packed up the room and got everything ready to go and then we had to fill out the baby certificate paperwork, with just one word left to fill in, so we went with Gavid. And now we're home and he's doing good, entertaining his siblings and trying to find out how to avoid the pokes from curious brothers. We'll put some pictures on here soon so you can see what a cuties he is. And Happy Birthday Robert!