Kisses to Saylor...

A little, little, perfect girl! Can I just say that it's the most wonderful experience to now complete our family with a little girl. Saylor is so much fun. I can already picture all the fun shopping that we will do... all the long conversations we will have as the years pass... all the tears she will shed over guys who hurt her feelings or things that don't turn out like she wishes... all the support that I will give she and Henry and the years of laughter that we will share. It's quite possibly the best thing that I have ever done in my life. Being a mother is more amazing that I could have even imagined. These kiddos complete me as a person. Sure it's the hardest, most tiring adventure, but it's worth every minute of it!

Playgrounds a plenty...

Grandma Linda and Grandpa Bill came for the weekend to help out and visit! We took Henry to a two different parks over the weekend. He loves to play, run and mostly just get dirty. His face lights up when he accomplishes a new task on the grounds. This weekend he tried the cross bars... with a little help, he did it! He is so agile.

Saylor got her first mini-sun tan. She enjoyed a nice nap in the sun on Grandma Linda's lap. It was so much fun having them up here for the weekend. We are so blessed with wonderful family on both Russ and my sides. They all just love the children so much and it's clear that the kids love them as well. Soon, we will try a bottle on Saylor so we can have a real date night!

Bathing beauty...

It's all bubbles and fun around here! Henry is a great helper and Saylor LOVES her baths. It's so fun to watch her. She just paddles her little legs in the water. She has yet to cry other than when she is hungry. We are so blessed!!!!!!!!!

Getting along wonderfully...

I am pleased to announce that Henry has taken to Saylor like bee's to honey, so to say! He is gentle beyond belief and is alway kissing her so sweet. I think that she is the first thing that he asks about every morning and typically the last thing he mentions at night. "Where baby go" is his favorite line. I am sure that he assumes that Saylor is super glued to mommy as much as I am feeding and holding her. I truly forgot how much these little babes just eat, sleep and poopy their pants. My-oh-my!

I am really, really, really thankful that Russ has been able to take this time off with us. I don't know what I would do without his fielding of Henry and then helping to get that last burp from Saylor so that I can catch a wink. Saylor is sleeping really well. She's up about twice per night, but it's at least an hour plus long spell with eating, changing and burping. ZZzzzz. I AM SO TIRED. I am so tired that I could cry on demand. Just about anything makes me cry or upset right now. Good thing I have a supportive and understanding husband.

Speaking of husband, Russ has a hand surgery on Wednesday. He is getting his right hand pinkie cut open... filleted if you will. It's an old wound that healed awfully wrong. Guess he gets out of diaper duty for a while! Lucky duck! Well, I will keep posting and let all know his progress.

Love, hugs and tears...

Saylor's first outing...

We went to Russ' work picnic on Friday. We were out for about an hour and literally exhausted after that. Henry had a lot of fun playing on the slide and in the water. I spent most of the picnic in the car trying to feed the baby! Wow, I forgot how time consuming the feeding process is. Oh well, it's great one on one time with my babe! Fun times!!!

Brother and sister time...

Henry and Saylor are off to a beautiful start. Henry is so incredibly gentle and compassionate towards his sister. He is always gently kissing and wanting to hold her. He loves her little movements and is being so great all around. It was funny how all of a sudden our son was practically a giant in comparison to our little girl. He has just taken off on a rocket ship with his talking and new skills. It's just amazing. He is watching everything we do with Saylor and getting in a lot of great daddy time. It's a blessing that Russ is off for the next month and a half. Don't know how I would have done it with out him.

Truly, Henry is such a wonderful little man!!!! We are so proud of him! Love you buddy!!!!

Three generations...

My beautiful mother, sister and daughter. Three generations of Henderson women. My grandmother Toni would be so proud of her girls. We miss and love her so much! Saylor Margaret-"Evelyn" after my grandmother. Love you grandma!!!

Introducing...

The newest member of our little family. Saylor Margaret-Evelyn Thackery was born on September 9, 2008 at 6:18 PM. She weighed in at 6 lbs and 12 oz and was 20 inches long. The birthing process went beautifully! I pushed for a whopping 5 minutes and voila, there was a beautiful baby girl. I feel like we should have a whole school bus full at this rate. KIDDING!!! The truth is that we feel so incredibly blessed in so many ways and are really thankful for such a smooth delivery.

As you can see by the photos, Henry loves Saylor very much. He is being very gentle and kind with her. He laughs at a lot of her little movements and noises. So far, Saylor is still completely mixed up on her nights and days... UGH! I was actually seeing things at about 3 AM this morning. Vines were growing up the wall and Saylor had a little mustache. No kidding. Needless to say, I am a little tired. Soon things will get switched around and we will work on a schedule.

Russ and Henry have been hanging out a lot and giving me time to nap when Saylor does. Let the fun begin! We were laughing today about feeling even more grown up now that we have two kiddos. It's like we are complete and can just live this beautiful life out that we've been blessed with.

Signing off for now. Thank you all for your text messages and phone calls. I will start returning them both when the vines and mustache's disappear!

Love to you all and here she is...

I just love the heck out of my boys...

That is all I can really say. They are the best and I can't wait for Saylor to be here. She will love them too.

A trip to the E.R...

Silly mommy! It all began as fun and games. Henry and I were washing out some garbage cans and Russ was mowing the lawn. Then, the hose turned on daddy... Henry was having so much fun spraying daddy and I was truly enjoying it as well. Right when we were at the height of laughter, Henry turned the hose on me! I took off running, (in my flip-flops) and gravity was not on my side. I went down hard!!! We ended up in the E.R. for the next 4-5 hours. Henry was very worried and didn't like mommy being hurt. He is so very compassionate and genuinely caring. Maybe he will be a firefighter/paramedic like daddy, or even a doctor. No pressure! So, here I am before and after the "deep" bruising set in. Saylor was a champ and had no problems. Just had to be safe, rather than sorry. Fun times at our little home!!!