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My niece, Macy, came with my dad from Missouri and stayed with us for a few days. The girls and Aidan love playing with her. She also had a good time playing with her cousins -- except she doesn't appreciate the kisses that Aidan tries to give her!

Meme and Papaw took the kids to the park:

In the pool with Meme:

Reading with Papaw:

And finally, Mom and Dad left today, we'll miss them very much! And now we'll see what life with four kids is REALLY like!

There he goes . . . . .

. . . all by himself!

We are so proud!

Here are the girls sporting their new haircuts. Raegan's looks alot like Mommy's and AnnaBeth's is similar to an American Gladiator named Crush (we are all about the Gladiators!) The girls were obviously very excited . . . and didn't want to stand still to have their pics taken.

Mommy finally has had enough. BE STILL!!!!!

Juliet turned one week old yesterday. So far, she's doing great! She's sleeping for good stretches at night, she's eating well, and she's very interested in staring at her mommy and daddy, brother and sisters and at meme -- who all love to stare right back! She is such a gift from God!! I am always overwhelmed at first with gratitude for the little blessing that God has given -- and overwhelmed by that instant great love that you have for a new little person. My heart sings with gratitude and praise!

I'm also once again remembering how much WORK newborns are -- every time I turn around I'm feeding her! But I'm blessed to have mom here to help with the kids, laundry, cleaning (she scrubbed my shower so clean it looks brand new!!!), grocery shopping, diaper changing, . . . . I could go on and on! I'm also blessed to have an awesome church family that is taking care of meals for us. It's almost like Christmas when people come to bring food! And I'm blessed to have three big helpers that are great at getting water for mommy, changes of clothes for Juliet, and endlessly running upstairs or downstairs to grab something for me.

Today Juliet made her debut at church. Here are a couple of pictures of the girls all dressed up and ready to go (Aidan didn't want to be photographed . . . such a boy!)

Finally, here's a picture of Juliet on her quilt that Mamaw (my grandmother) made for her. It even has her name on it! It's sure to be a favorite.

She doesn't do much...so I had the camera rolling when she was moving around a bit.

Everyone wanted to hold the baby. Even Aidan!

Well...Juliet Caroline White was born at 10:53am yesterday morning (July 5th). She is 8 lb. 9.5 oz. She is 20 and a half inches long. She's beautiful...mom is great and we should be coming home by tonight. Good stuff.

But in the meantime, Meme and Papaw have arrived! Which means I can quit worrying about what to do with the kids if I go into labor in the middle of the night. With grandparents, come gifts. Juliet now has LOTS of clothes and the kids (and Rick and I) have a Wii!!!! Raegan has logged the most hours thus far.

And Papaw has been able to make the immobile mobile, mobile! Hurray!