Lillywhite Family Reunion

We went down to St. George a few weeks ago to a family reunion with Kirt's extended family. It was pretty fun. We went to Pine Valley and had a picnic. Hailey had fun playing in the stream with the other kids. Hailey had her first water fight with Janae.

Hailey's Necklaces

Hailey loves to share with Sam. One night Kirt and I were doing the dishes and cleaning up the dinner mess when I thought Hailey was being a little too quiet, which can be a little scarier now that Sam is around. I went into the living room to check on them and found Sam with one of Hailey's necklaces. Sam had the funniest look on his face. He was looking at Hailey and seemed to be thinking, "why in the world are you putting these on me." We are glad that Hailey is so thoughtful of her brother though.

Hailey's hair

Hailey loves flowers, especially lellow ones. She picks the dandelions and brings them into our house and asks me to get some water for her "flowers". Around the time Sam was born we had a bunch of flowers around and I would let Hailey play with them every once in a while. This particular day I came into the living room and dad had put these flowers in Hailey's hair. She was so proud of her hair!

Sam

Now that Sam is a month old, I decided it was time to post some pictures of him. Here are pictures from the day he was born. I decided not to post any of the pictures of me because it may appear that I was not as happy or excited as I really was. I look pretty beat and my face shows it. Sam has been the perfect baby. For the first 2 weeks of his life all he did was sleep and eat (mostly sleep). It has made it much easier for all of us to adjust to a new member of the family. It has also helped with recovery. He sleeps for about 6 hours straight most nights. Then goes right back to sleep when he is done eating again. Some nights I actually felt like I slept more than I did when I was 9 months pregnant. It has been really nice. I have loved seeing Hailey interact with him. She is already a little mother hen. She loves taking care of him and playing with him. Whenever he cries she has to tell me (as if I didn't already know). The first couple weeks Hailey would only hold him for about three seconds at a time. Now she will hold him and feed him an entire bottle.

boots

These pictures were taken just a few days before Sam was born. Hailey had to wear her snow boots even though it was about 102 degrees outside. I was sweating just thinking of her wearing those boots. I also like these pictures because you can see Kirt in the background trying to catch some Zzzs on the couch. I think he knew that once the baby was born it would be a little harder to take a nap.

Dad's Backpack

Hailey loves to be like her daddy. Lately she has been wanting to go to school to see him. He forgot his lunch a few times over the past couple of weeks so Hailey and I took it up to him. The only problem is she wants him to come home with us and gets upset when I tell her that he has to stay to work. One day we brought dad's backpack home so he wouldn't have to wear it on his way home on his bike. Hailey had to carry it inside and when I turned around to see if she was coming she had it on her back. I thought she looked so cute I had to take a picture!

Mom's Shoes

Hailey loves to wear mom's shoes. She has always liked shoes, shoe was actually one of her first words. Her friends Savannah and Mirian have plastic dress up shoes and since we don't have any pretend high heels she likes to wear mom's only pair of shoes that have any kind of heels on them. She also loves pushing around her strollers and pretending that she is a mom with her babies.