April 15, 2012

Welcome, little one!

We welcomed the newest member to the Thomson family early this morning... Eliza Jean was born at 2:43 a.m. (I think), and is 19 1/2 inches long, and 7 lbs. 4 oz. Aaron and I got to meet her this afternoon, and she is precious! Congratulations, Jim and Julie! Eliza is beautiful and we are so blessed to have her in the family! Love you all!!!

**sorry for the blurriness... no flash to be sensitive to baby's eyes.

Eliza Jean Thomson ~


Proud mommy (who makes giving birth look easy! I couldn't believe how GREAT Julie looked so soon after giving birth! I'm officially jealous!) ;)


Soothing her sweet baby girl ~ you're a natural, Julie!


Proud auntie and daddy (I still can't believe my baby brother has a baby!!) :)


It's going to be fun watching Eliza grow up... I wonder how long it will be before she's making goofy faces for the camera like her daddy! :)

I can definitely see Jim in Eliza... but maybe that's just because he's making the same face she is :)




It IS possible for Jim to smile for the camera... he just can't know you're snapping a picture! ;) Julie ~ you're such a good sport!


We didn't visit with the new parents for too long... they had already had a lot of visitors, and we could tell they needed some down time. But we're looking forward to many more, and longer, visits with the Thomson family! And, I'm sure, there will be more pictures to post soon. :)

April 10, 2012

Walking!!

Caleb is now 10 months, one week, and one day old, and while his preferred mode of personal transportation is still crawling, he is starting to take more and more steps from one place to another. He's been cruising along the furniture for a while now, to get where he wants to go, but just in the last few days has been letting go and trying it on his own more.

I managed to get a brief video of a few steps this morning... sorry about the spit up at the end. :)




It won't be long before both of my boys will be running circles around me, while I stand there with a dazed look on my face wondering where the time went! Can't wait! :)