Our New "FAN" Club

We have enjoyed having Tyler's parents here for a week. Marilyn was a great help in loving on Aubrey and in entertaining the older sisters. Lee was an awesome help for completing some of Tyler's to-do list around the house including fixing Tyler's car and installing light fixtures/fans in four of our rooms.

If any of you have been in our house, you may have noticed the big void in our entryway. This tiny light fixture that you can barely see in Tyler's hands is what came with the house, and we heard the same question over and over again, "how will you change that light bulb?" Renting a 16-foot ladder was the answer, but luckily it was only for once. I couldn't even get the entire ladder in one camera shot. This was one huge ladder.We changed that tiny light for a fancier chandelier.

It is definitely more pleasing to the eyes.
Our new fan club consists of 3 new fan/light fixtures. One for the master bedroom:

One for the guest bedroom:

And one for the girls' bedroom: (pink of course, however, the fan blades are reversible so if the girls ever grow out of pink, the other side of the blades are blue.)

And can I have a blog without a cute picture of the girls? Of course not, so here's one of Abby and Tessa and how they like to play these days. I wonder what people think when they see them playing without bikes but with bike helmets? :)

Finally, I forgot this cute story when Aubrey and I were in the hospital. Tyler took Abby and Tessa to Build-A-Bear, so they could give something to their new baby sister. They made Hearts (fitting since it was 4 days before Valentine's Day). They each were able to pick a heart, kiss it, and put it inside Hearts which makes me tear up every time I think about it - so cute! There's also a music box in Hearts so it sings a song when you push one of the paws. I thought it was an adorable gift from the girls that Aubrey will always have to be her own.

Introducing Aubrey Jeanne!!

Aubrey Jeanne is finally here!!!

She joined our family on Tuesday, February 10th, at 3:40 am. She weighed 8 lbs 2 oz and was 19 1/2 inches long - by far the largest of our three girls.

Here she is with the proud papa. As you can see, she has super dark hair, and lots of it. And what do Abby and Tessa think of their new sister?

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They're amazed by her. (Can't you see this being like the front of some Hallmark card?) It's so funny! :)

Abby loves to hold her,

and so does Tessa.

It will probably change, but for now it's funny that I have a blonde, brunette, and black-haired child.

Would you say Tyler's outnumbered or what?
Some of our most memorable experiences of this birth would have to include the hospital accomodations. We delivered at the Baylor Medical Center in Frisco and it's more like a five-star hotel than a hospital. One of the reasons we decided on Baylor was because we heard of their celebration dinner - steak and lobster. Here's Tyler's dinner. That's right - they bring dinners for the dad too - every meal. He chose steak and chicken and I had chicken and lobster. And check out that chocolate cake. It was huge and oh so yummy!
And our other experience - finding out what "code black" means in a hospital. For us, it meant the severe weather sirens have gone off so take your baby to the OR and join all the other new mommys and daddys. So of course we had to wear caps on our heads and booties on our feet. We stood around for about 15 minutes before returning to our rooms, but with the bad weather we were experiencing, it was quite the adventure.

We couldn't have had a better birthing experience overall, and we're just so happy to have Aubrey as a part of our family!