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April 17th
Zech & Piper

in the swing

napping babies ❤

Isaac & Piper


April 18th
Ruthie & Piper

The kids all love to cuddle with Piper. They all ask many times every day, even Levi! Everyone likes to start their morning with a quick snuggle before leaving for school, even though that means getting ready quicker or getting up earlier.

Piper is such a strong baby! She loves getting her head up and looking around!
trying hard...

she got it!

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Levi & Daddy

Levi & Piper



"cheese!"

Piper all wrapped up - so I could get the kids ready and off to school this morning. (please ignore the messy hair, pj's, and unmade bed!)

We're home!

Piper and I came home this afternoon - Levi was so happy to leave the hospital with us, instead of having to leave us behind, and the kids were very excited to come home from school to see us sitting on the couch!
Here are a few more pictures of our beautiful baby girl ❤
Daddy & Piper


The kids picked out some balloons for Piper

Ready to go home

At home


Today my nurse from Saturday night was working again, but as a teaching nurse. She was leading a group of student nurses who had just started with practicum. She asked if she could borrow Piper to give the girls a chance to see a healthy newborn - feel her soft spot, listen to her heart beat, go through a newborn check. While they were doing this, I got a chance to have a nice shower, too! I made sure to get a photo of her with the girls - the nurse on the end, with the papers, was my labor and delivery nurse - and she's one of the 2 nurses who delivered Piper!
Wouldn't it be neat if Piper grew up to become a nurse herself? We'll know where it all started!

❤ Piper Ann Baker ❤

At 11:35pm, on April 13th 2013, we welcomed our surprise baby to the world! Our family is complete ❤

Piper Ann Baker
8lbs 3oz
21.5"









Ruth & Piper

Zech & Piper

Isaac & Piper

Levi & Piper

new rooms!

Ruth's room isn't totally done, we still have the little finishing and decorating things to do, but it was move-in ready yesterday, so we spent the afternoon and evening moving her downstairs!



We love her light fixture!

And that left her room upstairs ready for Levi! He was SO excited! Josh made his bed and he skipped around the house yelling "Yahoo!!!". We didn't take the crib down yesterday, just in case he still wanted it, but he wanted to sleep in his new big bed so we tried it - and he did great! Went to sleep on his own, never came out or played with anything, and didn't make a peep all night! Such a big boy!!

more room pictures!

It's coming along!!! Look!

And Levi has been helping with the renos, too...

He honestly played with that board and those blocks of wood for hours - first he used a screwdriver to put in and take out a couple drywall screws, then he fixed the stairs, then the board was a ramp for cars, a bridge for cars, and THEN it was his skateboard! A day full of fun with just a board and some cars - what a kid!

Snow Play!

A couple videos from last month - the kids all playing on the snow piles in our front yard! Levi's definitely got the hang of it :)



They all had so much fun playing in the snow this year - and we've certainly had plenty of it for them! (and NOW spring can come?!)

Ruth's getting a new room!

Our Spring Break this year was filled every day with home renos. We're making a room for Ruth downstairs by splitting up the laundry room area.
Ruthie is very excited to be getting her new room, especially because it will give her some space from the boys. And Levi is sort of excited to be getting his own room as well - although he says he's "too little" for that big bed!

The first day was just ripping everything apart and emptying out the room. Zech wanted to help, so he ripped out all the ceiling tiles all by himself!
from this...


to this...

Then a wall gets built... with help, of course!

And put up! Voila, 2 rooms!

Since then, lots more has been done - "real" walls now, and the painting is getting worked on. (the extra wall area by the door will be the closet)


More photos to come - hopefully soon they'll be with her floor done and her things all moved in!