Visitors Part 2! :)

M from our home church family!! I love her smile!! She loves my baby :) 

M is going to be an amazing mom when she grows up!! 

J loves babies too!! 

As does her mom D, a great friend of mine from Oz. 

And little bro N loved to hold him too.. big bro B declined but he did come take a look! 

Neighbor S stopped by for a cuddle.

Grandpa meets S for the first time!! 

Grandma meeting S the night he was born!!

R didn't know about this baby holding idea.. but she soon caught on :) 

J loved to cuddle him too.. Yay for internet friends who become real live friends :) 

C likes holding babies.. honest!! *Husband S tells us 'to take pictures of C holding babies.. '

like it's a rare thing... but I think she likes it!! 

J, B and E came to see him too.. We've really enjoyed getting to know them recently! 

Some friends from down the road.. I love the look on little C's face! 

Mr. M loves little babies and came for a visit! 

A likes holding babies too.. and she's really good at it too!! 

Uncle D and a sleepy S. 

Auntie A enjoying a baby snuggle. 

Uncle K came to take a look see :) 

L cuddled and cuddled him.. he was just the same size as her B and she relived some memories that night! 

R and son W check him out. R was our AMAZING BABY SITTER when S was born.. 

some day I WILL blog about that!! 

R loves babies, birth and all things involving those two things..

hubby K had just one thing to say about that...

:) HEY Put that thing DOWN!! :) 

But K? I saw you last Sunday.. checking out baby S when you thought I wasn't looking.. :) 

Visitors Part 1.

Some of the visitors who came to visit S and I in the hospital.

Thank you all SO MUCH for coming!! 

My niece K. 

Her friend who really loved babies!! 

The only picture I got of my sister M who also loves babies. 

"Imagine that it's a tiny little human!!' 

My sister A and S checking each other out. 

My niece M, proud as punch! 

My cousins son C who totally loved holding him!! 

Oh and B!! C asked if his eyes were opened yet!! :) 

My niece C. 

My good friend R stopped in with her two little people W and R. 

                                       M and S some friends of ours stopped in to say hello too.

And there is more... for another post on another day!! 

Thanks so much for coming to celebrate S's birth with us!! 

Snoozing!

S at 11 days old snoozing with Papa.

Ham And Bacon.. A Movie!

E helped me get this little movie of Ham and Bacon this morning... Actually there is a story behind my walkabout with the camera this morning. I better start there.

J is laid up on the couch, post coming, so I was a bit surprised when E came running inside from doing chores to ask him to come out and help them. When asked, she admitted that one of the piglets had jumped out of the barn and they needed his help to get it back in. I think my eyes bugged just a little. Oh my!! I'm not super agile normally and really not right now and I knew J should NOT be out chasing piglets so I handed S off to J, got some socks on and prepared to head out and see what we, L, E and I, could do. Before I even got my second sock on though E came back and told us that L had caught him, it was Bacon thank goodness and Ham is HUGE!, and got him back in the barn!! Thank you Lord!! WAY TO GO L!!! Anyway since I had my socks on anyway I headed out to see how the piglets were doing as I've not seen them in several weeks. They are doing awesome!! Bacon, the one in the front in the movie chewing on E's shoe,is still smaller then Ham as you can see but they are both a pretty nice size for 2 months old!! I just checked and their birthday was May 10th! They are getting at least 2 gallons of milk a day, one in the morning and one at night and today we are going to soak some broiler feed in milk and feed them that tonight.

Soon they will go out in some electric fencing but we need to do a little pig surgery first :) 

Here are a few more pictures of my little walkabout :) 

Isabel in the rye. Papa has been giving them a little at a time for several days. They LOVE it. 

Little girl looking a bit pregnant :) She should have babies in about a month. 

The herd of pigs.

The tethered calves behind the house. That's our last hay bale on the trailer there.. free choice with the rye. The calves are in the cow pen but thankfully the cows act like they aren't even there. We had worries of the cows trying to adopt them and let them suck. 

Some kind of melon plant that is coming up in the cow pen.. Last year there was one plant and this year over ten! I'm curious to know if any fruit will grow. 

Who's Nest Is This???

It's about waist high in this small tree. Made with mud as well as other things. 

J Hand Art.

Native Griggs Art. 

It is clay that J was making stuff with this spring. 

Clay from the earth outside. It has been there for months. I like it. 

Chicks At 7.5 Weeks.

Polly is a nice movable shelter :) 

Looking GREAT!! 

S's First Scream Fest.. I Mean BATH!!!

I love the expressions on his face!! I'm not going to say much about these photo's the pictures and the title pretty much say it all. I will say that it was probably the fastest bath any of my children have EVER had. He hated almost the whole thing!! 

These two are amazing pictures.. J must have taken them very fast in the 25 seconds that he was not screaming. 

 This picture is much more realistic!! 

We had to have a pretty serious snuggle afterwards to calm down.

I'm hoping this is not an every bath occurrence.

Samuel Is Here :)

My wonderful Dr. Nicole, S and I,and Papa about 45 minutes after he was born. It was a quick labor and delivery and we were all relieved that it was over and that Dr. Nicole made it there on time. She RAN in and arrived soaking wet from the rain. Other then a couple of things; he had a LOT of water in there with him and soaked the entire room, he was born face up, and he was a bit limp at birth, but still pink and crying, and had to be assessed for a bit, everything went super well and fast. 

The proud Papa holding S for the first time!! 

The afternoon after he was born I woke up to find my whole family staring at me. They'd come in to my hospital room while I was asleep, S asleep on my chest. S slept through the whole visit and the kids loved on him the whole time. 

J walked into my room and said.. I'm the oldest I get to hold him first :) 

He was the least impressed about the new baby during the pregnancy, and even then not unhappy just sort of vague, so I was very pleased to hear him ohh and ahh over S right from the start. 

Tickled PINK!! That is the only way to describe the kids reaction to their new brother. 

E and S. 

G petting him. E is so proud of him!! 

R looking serious. He weighs almost a 3rd of what she does which made it a bit hard for her to hold him. J3 was waiting for his turn.

Kissing that little forehead! 

J3 loved him and was so pleased he got to hold him! 

G kissing him.

G loved him, kissing him and petting his head, until we tried to get her to hold him...
NOPE NO WAY!! I love how S looks so peaceful and G is the one that looks like shes going to cry..

normally it's the baby who is unhappy and the older kid looks pleased. 

The Griggs Family... numbering NINE!!! Thanks Crystal for taking the pictures!! 

My flowers from Papa and the girls flowers they picked for me. 

Samuel is named after my cousin Blair Owen, B&B on here :), and Papa's childhood friend Brett Quinn. He's a beautiful baby, peaceful, eats like a champ (I call him my little Barricoda!! for his latch!), sleeps solid and rarely makes a fuss. He has the Griggs baby nose and Papa's ears. His toes are short and stubby and his fingers long and slim. He was born with large bruise on the top of his head which is slowly going away. My labor with him was from 5:30pm to his arrival at 7:45pm. The fastest labor I've had yet. 45 minutes shorter then E's. He was 8 days over due and was born a day before his father did 36 years earlier. He shares a birth month with Papa but is the only Griggs kid born in June. Keeping up the tradition :) Each of our children, so far, have their own birth month! 

We are both doing fantastic! His bruise is going away nicely and I'm feeling almost 100%!! I'm still resting lots, and will continue to rest lots until Papa goes back to work next week, but physically I'm amazed at how fast I felt pretty much back to normal already. So much different then G's birth 19 months ago which took several months to recover from. I'm pretty sure that the 5 week herbal formula and the red raspberry leaf tea have been very beneficial to a fast birth and healing! If #8 is in Gods plans I will be taking both of them again :) 

Daisy's Kittens.

Cute aren't they?? There are 3 females, the little gray one in the back right is the male. 

They are living in this trough in the house for now where we can feed them and keep them safe from the dogs. Daisy is very skinny and we don't think she has enough milk for them as she keeps bring them to us. She is leaving them in the trough which is great.