Biking in December

I've been trying to get Tensley on a training wheel bike...maybe if I get her a pink one...

Orson's expressions make any picture of him awesome.

Anyone recognize this red bike? Don't let the pegs throw you.

Softball in December

I was able to make a movie with my new camera with them hitting the ball, but blogger wouldn't take it. Here are a couple shots each with the softball I strung up to a tree like dad used to do.

Anthem to my King. Voice: Mindy Gledhill. Background/backup voices: Octapella.

I saw this posted on a blog or on facebook attached to I think the 5-minute video missionaries show at Christmas time. Anyway, I apologize for proper acknowledgment as I had to find the song afterward. I googled the lyrics and could not find anything, so I wrote them out. Posting them here now for myself and anyone else that may be interested.

ANTHEM TO MY KING

Holy Father with humble voice I raise

An Anthem to my King

May the Heavens find a way to hear

Those words I cannot sing

Lord with everlasting praise will Thee I worship endless days

Let this voice of gladness bring glory to thy name

Lord with everlasting praise will Thee I worship endless days

Let my voice of gladness bring glory to thy name

Father, our grateful voices raise an anthem to our king

May the heavens write on every heart

The words we cannot sing

Lord with everlasting praise will Thee we worship endless days

Let our voices of gladness bring glory to thy name

Father with grateful voices

Now we raise an Anthem to our…

Holy Father with grateful voice I raise

An Anthem to my King

There is a background voice while the choir of men's voices is singing in the second half. I didn't have the 'desire' if you will to figure out exactly those words. I think it is just one of the men singing slowly some of the same words. Sorry :|

Number 2, Number 3, Number 4 and Number 6

Here's the little one on mommy after I brought the three older siblings back to visit. Up close you can see a slight highlighting to her blond hair.
The three older ones loved meeting their new sister. They did very well being gentle with her and picked up the name 'Adelaide' quite well. Orson and Connor were relentless with questions about how she got out, what she can do, what she can eat, why mommy has two milk producers to feed her...I mean wow can they come up with endless questions or what!

Sarah did quite well today. Adelaide was born at 1428 which is Sarah's magic time of day (230). Her hard contractions started at 0300, so you might say she was in labor for 12 or so hours. She woke me up at 05 and we napped together out by the Christmas tree counting the contractions and analyzing them. They finally brought her to tears and she convinced me we could try the hospital again (yesterday they sent us home after her contractions stopped altogether).

The kiddos were already at the France's house on a sleepover, as we weren't sure when we were going back. Kelly and Matt France are Saints for taking our children for 48 hours straight. No matter what we do we will never be able to repay them....Thanks Matt and Kelly!

We showed up at the hospital and Sarah was already at a 5, with regular contractions and effaced to 90%. They gave her a room, setup her IV and got the epidural started (her back and forth about going natural quickly dissipated in the early hours of hard contractions). After getting all setup, they checked her again and she was at a 7 after only an hour. She was coming along nicely. From about 8 or so to 1 she didn't budge past a 7. They decided to give her pitocin and see if it would speed things up (they also broke her water earlier, I will have to check with Sarah to see when).

After an hour or so of pitocin they checked her and she was a 9 1/2. They got setup for delivery. From 1405-1427 she pushed hard. We all thought Adelaide would pop out with two pushes but it took a bit. She arrived pretty easily though and after the suction applied to her lungs (and a bit of effort as she didn't want to cry too hard to work the lungs free from all the liquid), she stabilized and immediately started sucking for milk.

When she first came out I was so focused on the fact that Sarah's hard work was over, the baby was out, I forgot to immediately look for the sex. Gratefully the nurses reminded me to tell Sarah what we had so I could tell. It was a sweet moment where I got to bear the better of the two versions to Sarah. We were in trouble otherwise as we had whittled our boy names down to zero.

Mommy and baby are doing well. Plans are for them to come home tomorrow afternoon after Addy's....Addie's...first hearing check. The siblings are excited and so are mommy and daddy. Thanks for all the support and prayers from friends and family. We love you all.

As for the numbers. Connor and Orson were all about equalizing the family with three girls to the already three boys, so Adelaide is the second sister, third girl, fourth child and sixth member of the family.