October update

I wanted to share some recent photos of all three girls- it's been pretty busy around here...

First, we visited Dollywood last week, and I'm please to annouce that (finally) Emma is tall enough to ride the Veggietales roller coaster.

Here she is with her big sis all ready to go!

Ainsley is also big enough to drive the cars all by herself at Dollywood, here's a preview of 12 years from now...

and Gabby is doing wonderfully as well, as you can tell from the pics, she's growing like a little weed and is just a sweet pup!

Grammy-grams and big pop-pop were here this weekend helping me out while Chris went to the Penn State/ Ohio State game, and were kind enough to send me some of their pics! They wore her out, but she sure had fun!

We'll try to get some Halloween pics in the near future!

New Gabby pics and Ballet princesses

Well, Gabby is now officially a month old, so I thought it was time to get to blogging and update the pictures. I took her in last Tuesday, and she had gained 14 ounces in about 10 days, so she's doing great! You can see she's getting bigger, and she's really adjusting to crazy life at our house. We're so glad that she's finally home with us, and it doesn't hurt that she's sleeping a 5-6 hour stretch at night (at least for now)!

Ainsley and Emma have been doing ballet for about a month now, but I wanted to post some pictures as they got ready today. They are taking ballet with 2 of their friends and are really excited to be learning ponses and plie's and most of all twirly and supergirls (I'm sure very technical ballet terms :))


We love you all and hope you're having as much fun as we are!




The Focas

New pics of the family

Wanted to share pictures that my parents (grammy grams and big pappa) took while visiting. We're adjusting well... Gabby is actually a very good sleeper- only wakes up once a night right now- and we're all trying to find our new normal. We're a little slow (or a lot slow) getting out of the house, and today went to Evind's birthday party but forgot the present (but remembered the gift reciept and the batteries) and forgot Emma's extra outfit (which would have been great since she wet not once but twice) but hey- we remembered all three children, right?

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Gabby update- first dr visit

We brought Gabby to her first visit with out favorite Dr Lin, and we're happy to report that she's in great shape. She's up to a healthy 5 pounds 5 ounces, and doing well in terms of jaundice.
Our next office visit is actually not scheduled until early November.
We're so grateful to not have to visit the hospital to see and hold her, and Ainsley and Emma are LOVING having their baby sister home.

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Pics of Gabby- I published too soon

Pictures of Gabby

Here are our first pictures of Gabby home from the hospital. Thanks to everyone for all their thoughts and prayers over the past weeks.

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GABBY IS HOME!!!!

Pics to come soon.