scarlett loves her baby sister...

tessa is lucky...not a bit of jealousy toward her from scarlett. she is very protective of tess and is very good at keeping champ from licking her baby sister's face (which he loves to do and we really have to watch him for).
she is so sweet and will let me take pictures of her and tessa whenever i ask her to.
i am loving this pose...a pose that scarlett just did without any direction from me. well, i did clone her feet out of the background because she was sticking them straight up.
and here is one of nonna with my sweet tess, we love her so much.

just a little slide show from yesterday...

we had a litte photo session today...

i have been waiting for 9 months for this moment...a photo session with my new precious granddaughter (that still feels weird to be considered a grandma...for the second time no less)
tessa was so good and photographs so well. we had a mini session in my bedroom and it was a lovely time. shannon had to stop and feed her in the middle of it so we took advantage of that time to get some of her and tessa.

and scarlett burst into the room at one point so i decided to get her in on the action too. i had to convince her to take her shirt off and she wasn't willing until i promised her a popsicle for her cooperation. ahh, the power of bribery...

and you know i have a thing for baby feet.....

so pink, with the perfect little piggies and the adorable wrinkles on the soles..


well now i have a thing for still attached, dried up old umbilical cords.....that look like reese's peanut butter cups.....:)

it really does..click on the picture to make it larger...

one of my favorite things in life.......

is that he will take a walk with his dad and his dog....
and still hold daddy's hand
even at 10 years old.....

they found this little guy stuck to the side of our shed...

i guess it's some kind of tree frog. allison took these pictures of it and found that it had some pretty remarkable markings.
he got a ride on my sunflower globe and on ali's green shirt.
he tried to escape a few times, this was one of those times but it got her this cool shot of it's colorful butt.
he (she) was very small and for the most part really quite content to just hang around on her hand or austen's. very cool little critters we have around here.

poor tessa...

when she was born, the doctor thought that he heard a "pop" and suspected a clavicle fracture. they checked her out and felt that because she had good range of motion and wasn't crying in pain, that she was okay and deferred the xray. shannon however, suspected that something wasn't right and took tess to the doctor yesterday. they sent her for an xray and sure enough, the clavicle was a complete fracture. shannon called me at work sobbing, and told me what happened. she felt so bad that maybe she had aggravated the injury by dressing and holding her wrong, albeit carefully. doctors said to keep the arm immobilized by pinning a long sleeved t-shirt to her shirt at the chest. with the warm july weather she had to become a little more creative so this is the result.
tess is still very content and does not seem to be in any pain.
shannon took the girls to kelly's for a play date and kelly took these pictures. i am having major withdrawls because i have not seen tessa (or scarlett) in 2 days. she still looks like her daddy, especially in this picture. what a doll.

she has changed so much...

in just a short 24 hour period. her face seems to have filled out and her cheeks are fuller. she is so cute and so good. with her little milk mouth and black curls, she is so sweet.
if you look closely in this picture she has a little baby mohawk compliments of daddy. now if i could only think of a way to make it pink...
she is so good, hardly a peep. she is feeding good and sleeping good. shannon feels great, so much better than last time {so she tells me}.
we are in love with her but austen is besotted with her. he wanted to hold her the whole time we were there today and talked to her and kissed her. he is totally in love with her and he and scarlett clamor to be the one to hold her when they are together. he is going to have so much fun when shannon starts babysitting for him after the two week gm shutdown and don is back to work.

this is scarlett when she was born and she is looking more and more like her every day. it should be interesting to see how much they look alike {or different}. time will tell.....