One of the inevitables of childhood...

So two nights ago I thought McKinley was in her room picking out books for bedtime, when Chandler walks out and says "I just caught your daughter cutting her hair." So I went in to assess the damage, there were beautiful blond curly locks all over the floor. Her hair was in a side ponytail and she had went to town on it. Later that night and the next morning the discoveries continued as I found a nice chunk right up front that is now about 1 inch long. She still has some long hair, but is now in varied lengths in big chunks all over. Good thing Aunt Jill is coming up this weekend to fix it and thank heavens I can still fit most of it in a ponytail.

Quincy at 2 weeks old

First Day of Preschool.....Again

So yesterday was the first day of McKinley's second year of pre-school. She was excited to see her teachers again and made them cards. We will miss riding with Baylee, but McKin is so excited to car pool with her friend Saddie and also have Dusty in her class! She was really nervous about leaving her sisters and told them not to worry because she would be back soon and then she would play with them. She learns a lot at preschool and we are excited for another great year, though she was a little dissapointed to learn she wasn't going to kindergarten.

Labor Day Weekend

We had a fun Labor Day Weekend. On Saturday, Chan and the rest of the family went to the BYU Game (shocker, I know) so my wonderful mom came down and assisted me in my first outing with 3 children and we took the kids to the parade and met Celeste, Baylee, and Dax there. It was really hot, but McKin and Halle loved it so it was worth it!Sunday night we were lucky enough to have the Bradshaws come and stay with us. Justin & Amber came over with Clay & Jenn and brought their Wii Fit so we had a good time pretending to be in shape. Here's Marc & Hailey practicing their yoga moves. For the non-yoga folks out there, this is the tree pose. Monday my family came down and we went to the fair. The girls had a great time on the rides and Quincy was quite a trooper all bundled up in the stroller.Later that night when the party had ended McKin asked me if her and Halle could put on their cheerleading outfits and do a "show." They came out of their room all dressed up and put on quite the show, that's for sure. McKin loved posing and doing cheers and Halle just ran around yelling and trying to copy McKinley.Other funny things from last weekend, I asked McKinley to clean her room and she came out a little while later, so proud and said she had made her room fancy. This is what I found....
Her shoes all laid out on Quincy's new blanket and some of her books set up so nicely on her toy box along with her new volleyball. She was SO proud of herself. Her version of clean and mine are quite different, but it was pretty cute anyway.

Finally, we dressed up Halle like an Oompa Loompa.
oompa, loompa, doompity doo.......

Introducing....Quincy Annette Daw

So on Wednesday afternoon at 2:34 p.m. we welcomed our little Quincy Annette Daw into the world! She was 7 lbs. 10 oz. and 21 inches long and is as healthy as can be. She did have the cord wrapped around her neck twice, but was fine. Her sister still holds the record, apparently we have gymnasts for children, funny that they come from a mom who can't do a cartwheel.

We named her after one of the coolest people I know, my aunt Wendy Annette Wahlen. We are home and doing great and are just happy to be the parents of 3 beautiful little girls, let the madness begin!My 3 little munchkinsMcKinley was VERY excited and told Quincy "We are so glad to have you in our family." She has also made Quincy about 50 cards and announced that she will share all her toys with Quincy, if she would only have the same attitude toward Halle. This morning she said Halle was being mean to her because she "squoze Halle's face like a jellyfish and Halle didn't like it." WOW
Halle isn't quite sure what to think. She gives Quincy kisses, pats her face, and tells her "Hi" everytime she sees her, so far so good. But I'm pretty sure she thinks we've got a short term babysitting job going on, so we'll see what happens.Getting ready to go home.

Thanks to all our great family and friends, everyone has been so great. We are the luckiest people in the world!

The end is in sight...

So if this little girl doesn't decide to make her appearance before then, my doctor will be inducing me on Thursday... so only two more days of this misery that is the 9th month of pregnancy. I really shoudn't complain since I'm getting induced at 38 weeks (the Doc is a little worried about a few things due to Halle's delivery) but after being up many nights with contractions and a false alarm story which is way too sad to even tell, I think I deserve it.

Wahlen Reunion

So this, like almost all of my posts is a bit belated but oh well! At the end of July we went down to Salt Lake for the Wahlen Family Reunion. It was so great to see all of my wonderful family and get to play around for a couple of days. We were SOO excited to go.

Friday we went to the Hogle Zoo, where we broke out the double stroller for it's first test run. It did well, and McKinley is fully aware that soon she will be demoted to walking.

It was SOOOO HOT, so we totally enjoyed the little mist sprayers they had strategically placed around the park. (note - there are some people who won't be happy about me posting this pic, but you'll all agree that it had to be done.)

We got together and planned to wear matching shorts...

We looked at the animals,

We rode the "Conservation Carousel"

And rested in the shade.

That night we ate at Chuck-A-Rama, they have Apple Beer, which I LOVE! We took full advantage of the hotel swimming pool.

The next day we shopped, ate lunch and then had a great time together hanging out at the Park. We played,

ate oreos,

and watched the boys play volleyball.

We had a great time, I'm truly blessed with a great family. We are counting down to Wahlen Reunion 09!