Mom's Letters: Last time...when Jakey was born

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Last time...when Jakey was born

Katie called today and said she thinks Claire looks a lot like Jake from the ultrasound picture. She got me wanting to look back on when Jake arrived four years ago, and it is fun to see how our family has changed since the last time we had a new baby at our house: August 2006 - I was 26, Ty was 28, Luke was almost 4 and Ashley was almost 3!

After looking at the pictures I expect the baby to look more like Ashley than Jake(they look identical sleeping). But I don't have a picture of newborn Ash to post since those were the pre-digital days unfortunately - and I am too lazy right now to scan. Fun though.

2 comments:

DeeDee said...: fun! i sure hope i look that good after delivery. hot mama! xo; October 28, 2010 at 5:55 PM
Jill said...: I made that blue blanket for Jake! I forgot. I think Claire will look more like Ashley. Hang in there.; October 29, 2010 at 8:15 AM

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I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make....I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less."

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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Last time...when Jakey was born

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