Welcome home Lenore!

She's here! She's really here!

Presenting the radiant Lenore Eileen.

Lenore arrived Monday, July 20th on the 3:23 p.m. delivery train (just as Randi had scheduled over a month ago!).  She came perfectly bundled at 7 lbs 11.5 oz with lots of curly hair and plump round cheeks.  Tanner, Rylie and Jocelyn love holding her whenever they get the chance.  She doesn't even cry as much as Jocelyn feared she would. Randi is doing well and is especially glad have Lenore in her arms instead of in her tummy.  And Ben is getting back in the baby burping groove.

Guess who's 6 *fyi* in a few day's I'll be reposting this to the appropriate date... you know when I SHOULD have written it.

It's RYLIE 

Here's the annual list of favorites.  We love you very much Rylie and are so proud of the little woman you are becoming.  You are amazingly compassionate, insightful and tender.  You might try to convince us all that you're a hard little nut, but under that shell you're such a softy... and dare I say it... as girly as they come!  And we LOVE you for it!

Favorites:

color -  Red

food -  Mexican, usually a quesadilla or a big DOUBLE cheese pizza

animal - Cheetah

hobby - Riding her scooter

flower - Red rose

This is "Sunny" Rylie's horse that she's riding every other week.  Her teacher says that she is a natural.  She can steer, start, stop and trot.  All without a lead from the first lesson.  When we were waiting for her lesson to start last week we were able to watch the "big girls" jumping on their horses.  Rylie is very excited to be able to do that one day.  All I know is that be it ballet class or wrestling... that girl can do what ever she puts her mind to.