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Jonas trying to sleep...and not wake up to eat!

Just chillin' and ACUALLY awake

JONAS MYER

Our new little man is finally here. Jonas Myer was born Monday, August 20, 2007 at 10:53 pm. He weighed 8# 14 oz. and was 18.9" long. He had no problems and is a pretty chill little man. He is hard to wake up when he's sleeping good (which is the afternoons). Of course he's more active at night, and now that we are home we are trying to figure out his scheadule (as is he). Last night he would sleep 2 1/2 hours at a crack (not too bad really), then be up for about 45 minutes to eat, burp, get back to sleep, ect. The 5-6:30 time was a little longer though. Bryan was up with him and said he was just alert. He's not really fussy, and he seems like he will be a really great baby to have and hopefully easy to figure out.

Of course Winter and Creedon love him. Creedon is pretty enthralled...but it is in short bursts - he has other things to do than just look at his brother. Winter wants to be part of everything. She's gonna be a great help. I'm sure in a few days they will realize how boring babies really are.

HENNA PARTY!!!!

Today I had a henna party at my house. It was the super duperist bestest time ever!!!! So, for all you wondering, "what is henna?" I'll tell ya. Simply it's those crazy designs you see on Indian women's hands and feet particularly for weddings. More complicated - it's a paste made from ground henna plant that is then applied to the body in designs - the art left on the body is called Mehndi. You can also dye your hair and fingernails with henna. Women have used it forever for weddings and decoraction. It then leaves a stain on your skin that ranges from orangish red to dark brown for anywhere from 1-2 weeks.

I wanted to do my belly really bad. I got in touch with an awesome tatoo artist named Maura. She agreed to help us out by getting us started with then henna, then we could all go from there and work on eachother. Most importantly everyone got to decorate a section of my belly. There were 11 people at the party, but one left early, so 10 people decorated my belly. I'll tell you who did each section. This picture is with the paste still on (you take the paste on after a few hours).

Starting with the flower at top and going clockwise...Wendy Blazivik (did the flower), Molly Sahlberg (paisely looking thing) Susie Bachinski (vine) Mardy Rodman (3-piece swirls) Anna MacInnes (solid looking flower) Maura Codey(swirl strait down) Molly Sahlberg -she did the left over sectin from the person who left (sun and swirls) Kayla (swirls/flower) Kristen Holmes (small greek agape and symbols) Angie Sjodin (large elvish life & initial of my fam.) Tammy Pelosi (fine diamond & swirls).
Then Maura filled in with swirls in between to make it all look together...I'm so glad, it looks great! THANKS ALL YOU GUYS!!!!
This is a picture of Maura...she let us (actually, she wanted us) to tatoo her. So brave...a professional letting the amatuers work ;) We all had a few designs and did designs on everyone else too. I got pictures of almost everyone's but I didn't have space to post them all. This is Anna's back...it looked GREAT.

It was one of the most fun afternoon's I've had in a long time. Thanks to all who came. And on a future note...I have left overs and will probably become addicted to mehndi. So, watch out!

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Hey Everyone!!!

This is Bryan this time.

I just gotta tell you all out there, that my wife is the greateset. It's great that she keeps up on this blog thing. I am way too unorganized to keep up on this stuff.

Nyway, here's what my side of the last week was. So, you heard that the kiddos where gone last week, and I certainly missed them. But the time I got to spend with Laura was great. Although you heard that dates turn into wierd times of shopping for your children. The extra time was awesome. If there is anything that is a complaint about ministry is that the time you have is not your own. People need help on their time, and so you end up cutting up your planned family times alot. And when you don't have regular chuncks of family time, the rest seems so paltry. But this week I got to have larger segments of time with my wife, and with my kids. And that was quitea blessing. They are so unbelievably important to me.

Thanks Laura for being an awesome person. Thanks for putting up with all the times that I fail to be there because of someone else's stuff. And of course, I need to thank God for putting us together, cuz without her, I dunno where I would be.

origami & babies

So, the monkeys are back (Creedon & Winter, that is... I just call them monkeys cuz I love 'em so much) Bryan and I had some alone time, and basically did lots of baby prep stuff. Man, when you are married for awhile and have a few kids, "date night" becomes a whole new thing. We shopped almost all day monday and picked up all the putzy last minute stuff we needed for when our new little man comes...you know, shampoo, diapers, junk like that. Then we went to Outback for Slupper (lunch/supper). Other than that, we did some other shopping on the rest of the days, watched some movies at night, and spent all day Wednesday being busy. Thursday we went to get the kids.

NOW for the origami part... I had a brillant idea for a mobile over the crib. The crib is partially under a sloped ceiling, and mobiles don't really fit on the crib we have because it has REALLY fat rails. SO...I was gonna hang a mirror we had laying around on the sloped ceiling over the crib and suspend origami dinosaurs from it. Then I ran into several problems. #1 Mirrors can break and or fall and seriously injure babies. (So either I ditch the mirror or I go buy a safe one...like plasticy or something) #2 Origami dinosaurs are really difficult to make. I tried several and kept failing, so I asked my neighbor, Susie to come over and help me...She's pretty crafty and creative, and is a preschool teacher. Needless to say, it still didn't go so well. We found 1 we could make well, so we made like 4 or 5 of that model. I didn't give up though, and found a few others I could handle. So, now there are brontosaurus, stegasorous, and tyranasaraus. I think that will have to do for now! I'm thinking of ditching the whole mirror thing because then I have to go buy it, and I take unusual pride in making something for nothing. (It's a sickness) Oh, and one other thing. Origami dinosaurs look rather confusing and possibly disturbing from the underneath side. Oh, well, it will look cool for everyone else. Besides, it's not like the baby will know any difference.