CHOMP, granray/rayray has a birthday & other random items

Ooh, I did this post fast and I apologize in advance for my lack of witty Jen-isms. I am pooped and it's time for the kid's last feeding of the night. Soooo, forgive me - my next post will dazzle you. If you want to be entertained with rapier-like wit you can check out Megan's blog - it's good like that.

Beth held a party for JP and Tabby a few weeks ago, let the celebrating continue - whee! I tried to be good and take lots of photos but it didn't really pan out that way. I have a few...this first one CRACKS me up.

ahhhhhh....CHOMP
(btw, this is lila, carrie, moi and beth. and matt.)

Here are the other ones I have, I wish I had taken more!

seth REALLY dressed up for the occasion,
the clothes do make the man as they say

matt and tommy chat it up

beth checks on a sleeping rowdy mowrer

matt, moi and beth - lookin good and feelin fine

Then there was the game the next day, here we have Rowdy happy that we won!

our big orange baby

Lottie Sue was showing us how she does ballet on her "tip toes" - adorable.

point and flex...point and flex

GranRay/RayRay celebrated a birthday on Monday but most of the family got together at the club on Sunday (a BIG thanks to Kathy for setting it up!) - we had a very nice time and it was great having everyone together.

the granbunny and granray

rowdy makes a somewhat scrunchy face for the camera

granray/rayray was opposite these folks during this shot

he was given copies of old photos i don't think
he'd seen in many a moon (i am going to get
these and post them, they are great)

johnny, judy and mowrer jr.

kathy is on the left and linda and ray are checking out the photos

aunt judy feeing little row mow

and a group shot!

lottie sue was cutting a rug here

and here

shirley and bb chat it up

lottie sue was "wunning" very fast here, a blur

granbunny's infamous "bug" climbing on lottie sue

lottie sue and benton take a walk

if you REALLY want to make granray laugh, get
him a card that plays music - it was a hoot!

rowdy doing what he does

Matt's family stopped by later on Sunday to see the kiddos, due to numerous illnesses across the group it had been a while...

gramma with her youngest grandkids

gramma with a chunky-looking rowdy

michelle holds rowdy as he whips his little head all over town

The Smiths also came over that afternoon, Megan spotted Matt's high school letterman jacket hanging in the garage.

megan is too cool for school

And speaking of Megan - Mary Ann stopped by earlier this week to see Rowdy - how adorable are they I ask???

mary ann is the greatest

This past weekend we had a baby shower for Shonnie Bear - it was great! I cannot believe that baby G will be here very soon. Blessings! I tried to take a lot of photos but I was busy! I need to be better with the camera, I have been slacking. I admit it. Will be better.

introducing rowdy mowrer

We welcomed our newest member into the family last Thursday - Mr. William Rowdy Mowrer, we call him Rowdy. He was born at 9:07 am on September 24, 2009 and came in at 6 lbs 15 oz - and as pink as a little piggy! And while I would love to write a lot here for you, you will have to get by with mostly photos. We are TIRED, but happy and doing well.

here we are with baby boy right after
we got into the room after surgery

The following photos are sort of like a photo essay of the day. This first one is me in the hospital before the c-section, I look so puffy and tired - it was around 6am - yawn!

prepped and ready to go

welcome no name (we didn't settle on a name until he was a
few days old) baby boy mowrer - this is his first
photo matt took in the nursery

Then we had many visitors brave the rain and come out to meet Mr. Man...

here's rowdy with his gramma, all snuggled in

here he is with aunt michelle

and here he is with auntie megan

We were all curious to see what Lottie Sue would do when she met Rowdy, but she was nothing but SWEET. Lots of teary eyes in the room, her first words to him were "hold you" and she was so excited.

hold you

lottie sue kissing on rowdy

her signature smirk smile

daddy, rowdy and lottie sue - my favorites

she kept kissing him and petting his head

more kisses

and now we make four

On the advice of our doctor (and all of our friends with more than one kid) we had a gift ready for Lottie Sue from Rowdy. She was very excited to open it to find her own baby boy, but after a minute she only wanted to play with Rowdy.

lottie sue with her baby boy and bb with her rowdy

grandaddy and rowdy chill

rowdy mowrer, hello world!

cousin sydney came over as well to hold her next babysitting client

granbunny with rowdy, adorable

UT played Ohio State on Saturday so after Rowdy and I were fed and napping away Matt went down to visit our friends who were tailgating. But you KNOW that we had to dress him in his UT gear (thanks Tommy for the cool shirt!).

my boys

beth sent this photo from the tailgate, i miss
our tailgating fun but will be back soon

I leave you with a few random photos, one of JP and then a few of the adorable Lottie Sue.

we were up at the lake watching the ut/ucla
game and saw jp on tv - matt has eagle eyes
(jp is right above the words "live tv")

Matt snapped these photos of Miss Thang a few days ago. She such an awesome little girl.

could she be any happier? we think not...

OK, hope you enjoy the photos of our newest family member. We are so excited to be home and love being together and getting to know Rowdy. More to come!