The brothers meet...

Gavin finally came to meet Henry at the hospital. At first he was pretty scared of both the baby and Mom, but eventually he warmed up a little more, to atleast get closer to "Mom's Henry." By the end of our stay he was pretty worried about any nurse or doctor that came in to see Henry and what they would be doing to him. Though he wouldn't touch him no matter what.

Here he is trying to feed Henry his chocolate egg... that is a good sign since Gavin won't usually give up a chance at chocolate.
We were all pretty glad to come home on Wednesday. The hospital staff was great, but the food was terrible and there just wasn't a lot of room for Gavin and Dad to hang out without Gavin being tempted to push the nurse call button about a million times. Here they are pretending to sleep on the extra bed, even though one grouchy nurse had said that we shouldn't touch it... oh well. Gavin kept begging Dad to lay down on his belly and then would instruct him to snore.

As you can see... Henry was excited to come home too... His first ride in the car seat, and I don't think he opened his eyes once.

Since we have gotten home, you can see that Gavin has warmed up to the idea of his "baby bruder" a lot more. He likes to go and check on him and ask "Henry, you wake?" And he likes to hold him as you can see and even gave him a nice little kiss. So we are progressing.

As you can tell, we are all still resting quite a bit, and everyone is pretty tired, but we are having fun.

HENRY MAXIM CARDON HAS ARRIVED!

Mom getting stoked for labor at 1:00 a.m.
Dad feeling the effects of no sleep and attempting a self-portrait
HERE IS WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR, PICTURES OF THE MAN OF THE HOUR.

Happy Valentines Day

Here are a few Valentines Day photos of our pizza making. I was really sick that day, so Gavin and Caleb had to do mostly all the work for dinner. Luckily they did a great job.

Gavin really loved adding cheese to the pizza. We could hardly get him to stop... though when he stopped adding it, he started eating it. I am not sure which was worse. Caleb's least favorite thing is rolling out the dough, but he agreed to do it and it turned out great, even after quite a bit of frustration.
What a great heart shaped pizza. Gavin has gotten to where he would rather say cheese and not smile at the camera, so it is hard to catch him in a grinning moment. He was very glad to have pink "sooda" for dinner that night. We love to hear him talk about soda since he sounds like he is from Canada.
Gavin and Mom... not sure where he learned to make that face. I think my Valentines spirit was lacking because of the horrid cold... you can even see the red nose on film... how embarassing.
Just a cute photo in the yard before church. What a grown up boy we have now.

Just Us

Just a few fun photos of what we have been doing while we anxious await the arrival of our second son.

Gavin and Daddy relaxing on the couch watching Monsters.

Stacy and her panel of sylists, who are fixing her hair to look even more beautiful.Gavin likes to wear Daddy's accessories, like ties and belts, around the house.
Just a cute smile.
Gavin loves to dance and has recently mixed his love of dancing with his love of jumping around and acting crazy.... the result, some sweet toddler breakdance moves. These are the best that I could get on camera.

More Home Photos

Ok, the last of the house tour. The kitchen and dining room are just to boring to be featured on this page, so you have to come and visit to check those out. (Gavin had to pose and say "Cheese" in all of the photos.)

Here is our room.

Not really a good spot to get the whole room, but you get the idea.

Gavin's room and his big bed, which he has been sleeping in for 2 weeks. The bathroom
Here is the new sink that Caleb put in, along with Gavin standing on the new stool that Mom painted for him.

The New Place Etc

Finally a few photos of the Living Room. The first one is a bit blurry, but it was taken from a weird angle from the dining room... so that is as good as it gets.

At Schatzy's request... a nice fat pregnant photo. 6 weeks to go.
Caleb got a headlamp from Mara for Christmas, both he and Gavin love to wear it for all of their flashlight needs.
Notice the winter beard in full force...

It is COOOOLLLLLDDDD!

Well it is definetely winter. We got a lot of snow this week and plenty of super cold weather to follow, so the snow has actually stayed with us for a while. Here are some fun photos of Gavin helping Mom to dig us out of the snow. You will all appreciate that I was able to avoid any pictures of a bundled up pregnant women shoveling show in her pajama pants. Good thing our house is back off the street.

Here is Gavin with his tough guy scowl. He wanted to wear Daddy's hat to the library, but Mom said No. What a killjoy I am.

I put Gavin to work sweeping snow off the car. He thought it was a great job.
It turned out that throwing snow was a much more fun job though. I wish I had had video so that you could hear the hysterical laughing that accompanied the snowballs.
He might have fallen down in the snow a couple of times.
Here he is out in front of the house. This is our side of the duplex, the other side is the same... only backwards. And they have their porch much more decorated than we do.

Happy Times in Iowa

Christmas in Iowa was a great trip for us. We left a week after the move and showed up as a surprise the Papa and Grandma, but it was very fun. Luckily the weather was not too cold, and there was plenty of fun to be had. Gavin loves to visit family and did surprisingly well on the trip, so that was a huge blessing.

Here he is riding an elephant on the carousel. We went on the free night so that the kids could ride as many times as they want.

Caden, Gavin, Kelbie and Macy are playing us a great Christmas number.

Gavin on Christmas morning with his new Little People Castle from Santa.
Posing in the new pjs from Crystal on Christmas Eve.
Gavin, Caden and Kelbie at the ice skating rink waiting to have some more fun.
Gavin went ice skating for the first time. Here is being helped by Mara and Ben.
Gavin and Macy in their ice skates.

Merry Christmas

We decided to do a pajama photo for our Christmas card this year, but since we had a hard time getting Gavin to cooperate, it was hard to see the pajamas at all in the photo that we ended up choosing. Here are a few of the ones we didn't. You can see that Mom and Dad obviously look the best in the ones where Gavin decides not to be as charming.

A new House... A Busy Month

Well, no new photos yet. We finally made our move and purchased our first home... actually a duplex. A quirky older couple with cats is renting the other side of it from us. We moved in for a week and then went to Iowa for a week, and we are finally back home and feeling more calm and settled than we have in a couple of months. Unfortunately we have had some bad days, and one of those included the day that the order for our cable and internet was lost into some unknown abyss... so we still can't post our holiday or new home photos. Hopefully soon. We have been using some strangers wireless connection on the laptop to occassionally check e-mail, but that is about it for now. I am hoping to post new photos before next week, but we shall see. Gavin really enjoyed Christmas and is now saying "We home." when we pull up here, so I guess that is a good sign. We are getting ready for the new baby, only 2 more months... still holding out for a March 4th due date... the countdown is on.