Meet Rebecca Salem

Here SHE is! Meet Rebecca Salem Mezger, born Monday, August 17th at 3:34pm. We think she's pretty perfect. (Note, these pictures are all out of order, thanks Blogger.) She's a real sweetheart and is sleeping and eating like a champ (so far). Bee bought her a rosebud outfit to go home in because Alison was brought home from the hospital in a rosebud dress.

Thanks for the balloons and signs Luke, Mel and Bailey. (There was a huge stork but it flew away.)

Rebecca Salem and her namesake Rebecca Sue (Bee).

Here she is under the blue lights at the hospital--her billirubin was high (jaundice) so they had her sunbathing for the last 24 hours or so.

We're really glad to be home now. Owen likes his baby sister (sitzer) whom he calls "Betza" but he's pretty distracted by being a toddler. He's definitely adjusting (and of course its manifesting itself in bad sleeping habits, etc.) but it's to be expected and we'll get through it.

We've got some really sweet videos we'll post when we get a chance to edit/shorten them. More to come...

SHE's here!

Kyle, Alison & Owen are beyond pleased to announce the arrival of the newest addition to our family--a little GIRL! Her name is Rebecca Salem Mezger and she was born yesterday at about 3:30. Everyone is healthy and happy! She weighed 7 lbs 13 oz, has dark hair, and at this point doesn't look much like Owen did at her age...so we'll see! We'll be home from the hospital sometime tomorrow so we'll get pictures up asap.

"Wake Up!"

One of Owen's favorite games (which he totally made up on his own) is called "Night night". He throws off the big cushions on the couch, lays in the crack and demands that you put all the pillows on top of him while he says "night night". Then you're supposed to say "where is Owen? I guess he went night night" and the he pops up and the whole thing starts over again. This game has been going on for a while. One variation is that he sometimes says that Momma or Dadda have to go night night. We were playing version two the other morning and Owen (to my surprise) yelled, "Wake up!" which I didn't know he could say. But then this afternoon, we realized "wake up" also means (or only means?) "pay attention to me!" because Kyle was sitting on the floor w/ Owen playing with something but he was talking to me and Kyle got in his face and said "Dadda wake up!!!"

Tummy News

1. Owen was playing with his peas at dinner and I told him to put them in his tummy. Without skipping a beat he lifted up his shirt and put a pea on his tummy and pulled his shirt down. Then he took it out and said, "No, in mouth," and ate it. Good boy. :)

2. Still not sure exactly how much he really understands about the upcoming baby, but he's started to talk about it a lot. About how it's in momma's tummy, and will live at Owen's house in the baby's room.

more words

Another "before I forget" and "I don't have a baby book" post...

Fun word combos of Owen's:

• all better
• the end (often in the middle of a book when he wants to move on)
• not yet ("ni yea")
• all aboard!
• knock knock (goes around the house knocking on doors that he has just closed)

Such fun times.