Chase on his blessing day. He came through it with the same name... Chase Lee Rowley. The part that I remember most was that Ace was blessed that he would have a happy disposition. I think that shows here. He is such a happy good little guy. It was a special day, we just wish that more of you were closer!

Happy Halloween!!!

What a bunch of clowns!! We had a lot of fun mucking out the pumpkin so that Nick could carve it. He did Chance's new favorite cartoon: toothless. It turned out really well and is even cooler when it is lit up (I just couldn't capture it on film, because I couldn't figure out how to turn off the flash!)

Chance and I tried making our own pumpkin out of cake. It turned out pretty well, although Chance was pretty put out that we didn't eat it and that it had milk in it.

The kids have been really good about not trick-or treating on Sunday. We went out to the side walk trick-or-treat downtown on Thursday and they had lots of fun. Tonight we are going to stay home and make doughnuts per Rowley family tradition. Its my first time making doughnuts... lets hope they turn out!!!

Here is a video of Brynli singing Swing Low Sweet Chariot. They learned it in school and she does a pretty good job. Must have gotten that from Nick and his side of the family- there isn't anything from me in it!

He's Here!!!

Ok, it has taken me awhile to get to this. I view it as having my priorities right... playing with my handsome new guy is much more fun than posting pictures for others to look at!

Chase Lee- my little Ace- was born a week ago. We were anxious to have him here and he had been giving me indicators for over two weeks that he was going to be arriving soon. Once things got going, they went pretty fast and we now have a beautiful and healthy boy. Little Ace was our heaviest at 7 lbs 12 oz and 20 in long.

He takes after most everyone in his family. Chase can eat! And wehn he wants and is looking for food he is a pretty strong little fellow. When he gets what he wants he goes absolutely limp curled up on whoever is holding him.

The kids all love him, although they have had very different reactions to him.

Brynli loves him and is curious and helpful in a more hands-off way. She has a really hard time if Chase is crying.

Ari didn't want to visit us in the hospital (she was to busy having fun with Grandma Jo and Tyler), butshe was the last one to want to leave, she was so busy touching and petting her new baby brother.

Chance is full of questions about whey the baby wants to drink so much, why he is always asleep and why I keep covering the baby with a blanket. The other morning when Ace was crying, Chance told me: "We have a hard baby!"

This little guy isn't hard at all. He does have some fussy moments, but for the past two nights he has eaten at 2 and 6 am. A week old and I only have to wake up for one early morning feeding- I'm not complaining.

Thanks to Mom and Tyler for all their help. You guys made the first week of transitioning from 3 to 4 kids a lot easier- and we ate well!

Here are some of the pictures, we didn't get as many pictures in the hospital- Nick was distracted.