Loving the blue!

Welcome to the world, Reggie Russell Barnes!

Baby boy arrived Thursday, October 21, at 7:45 am after an exciting drive to Topeka at 1:30 in the morning! He weighs in at 7 lbs 8.5 oz and 20.75 inches long.

As you can see, he is absolutely perfect! He is such a sweet boy already! He's been pretty easy on his mommy and daddy his first week, which has been nice.

Big Sister loves her brother! Mya has been really good with Reggie. She loves to love on him a little bit each day calling him her "brudder" and giving him kisses.

Here's Reggie about to leave the hospital and go for his first car ride. I forget how small newborns are!

One last picture of little miss Mya. Here she is decorating her pumpkin that she picked all by herself at the pumpkin patch. She decorated him with glitter paint, silly eyes, a pink cotton nose, and sharpies. I forgot to get a pic of the end product, but it looks adorable!

Overall things are going well here, with a big thanks to my mom who stayed for a few days and practically cleaned my whole house! Thanks Mom! I'm not sure when I'll get the time or energy to update again, but I'll try to post some new pics of our family of four soon!

Oh my little girl

Our little girl is such a nut! Here are just a few new pics to highlight what we've been up to lately.

Here is little Mya after she put her shoes on all by herself today! She was soooo excited that she couldn't even stand still! If you look closely, you'll see that she put them on the wrong feet, but who's gonna tell that to this sweet little face? By the way, the sweet hairstyle my girl is rocking is the "fresh out of the tub" look. Isn't it gorgeous? :)Down below is Daddy and Mya playing. This is how they usually look when Dan gets home from work. He jumps right in and starts playing and they usually end up "tackling." Mya loves to tackle.
The next pic is of Mya after she got her toes painted. She loves to have pretty pink toes and this day she was sitting in the chair admiring her toes. When I tried to secretly snap a picture of her she looked up and smiled so big.
And here is my baby enjoying the outdoors. She is such an outdoor girl, which we love about her.
In other news, we have less than two weeks until my due date. We are still holding on to hope that our little boy might come early, but as the days go by, I find myself thinking he's never going to come out! Silly baby.