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Brooklyn's birthday and Easter

Happy Birthday Brooklyn. It was fun this year celebrating Brooklyn's birthday and Easter together. It seemed like it was just a continuous party. We love Brooklyn so much and it is so fun to see her growing  and developing into her own little person with her own big personality.

We went to Aunt Laura's and got a super cute haircut for her birthday.  Thanks Laura!!

My favorite things about Brooklyn...
She loves dressing herself and picking out her own outfits, which usually consists of pants, with a skirt over the top and her red "Happy" shirt (pictured above).
She is very independent and she does a great job helping out and doing her jobs if I can get her to think it is her idea.
One day I asked her to so something and to my surprise, she chipperly replied, "Surely" to which I promptly (because I was surprised that was her response because if I can't get her to think that it is her idea she will usually won't do it) replied, "oh, that is my favorite word". So now she will use the word "surely" and remind me that it is my favorite word, or I can ask if she can say my favorite word when I ask her to do something, and it helps.

She sings the words, "I wish I were a fella" to the tune of "For he's a jolly good fella."
She loves making others happy.

If she sees one of her sisters or her brother without, she will share what she has.
She loves to sing, dance, play her violin and piano, and pose for pictures. She once was playing with my camera and was going to take a picture of me and proceeded to tell me that I was standing all wrong and then taught me the right way to stand for a picture.
I love the shape of her mouth and her smile, and just recently found out that she inherited it from her great Grandma Rosemary.
I love Brooklyn's giggle.
I LOVE Brooklyn!!!

Celebrating Easter at home with family.

A combined birthday party with Brooklyn, Hannah, and Uncle James.

Easter hunt at Grandma Proctors with cousins.

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Enjoying...

our cute baby...

                                                                   Rachel's cheeks...

warm weather...

 

                                                              and green smoothies.

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shiners

This doesn't happen to often at our house, but in one week we had two shiners. Katie slipped in the shower and William wrecked on his scooter. His cheek hit the end of the handlebar. They both had nice colors by the end of the week.

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rachel out of seclusion

Rachel is such a good baby, especially the first few weeks of life when I was trying to get all of my kids healthy again. I would keep Rachel in her bed in my room and the only time I would be able to go in there is when I was suppose to feed her. I would go in, lock the door, sanitize myself, and change my clothes and then go and feed her. Katie didn't quite understand why she couldn't come in and see that baby and so she would just sit at my door and cry for me (at the time she was super sick herself, sneezing, coughing, and with a fever). I was so glad when she started getting better and she was so excited to finally give the baby "loves" on her feet And it was all I could do to keep her from "honking" Rachel's cute little nose. The kids were finally able to hold Rachel when she was a month old. That is when I knew for sure that my kids were all healthy.

Rachel and Great Grandma Ludean

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Rachel

Rachel's first bath. Grandma Jeanne has been the one to give all of my kids their first baths.

I love her hair.

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Our little Rachel

 Here is our little Rachel Hale Proctor. She was born on February 25th, at 3:33 pm. I was scheduled to be induced this day, a week early, hoping to have a smaller baby than my previous babies... and it worked... she was my smallest at 8 lbs 10 oz and 19" long.  Just before I delivered Rachel, her heartbeat was getting weak so they put me on oxygen, which helped Rachel a lot. Everything else went quickly and great. After I delivered Rachel I started to get really sick. I was dizzy and nauseated. I could only hold Rachel for a few minutes and then the nurses took her to get washed up. Every time I opened my eyes the room was swimming around me. I thought it might be because I hadn't eaten all day so I decided to try to eat something, but soon realized that wasn't the problem when nothing I ate would stay down.We figured it was probably a reaction to the epidural. The next day I felt much better and I was able to enjoy this cute little bundle of joy. Rachel is such a cutie. She has the most hair out of all of my babies. Even though they end up losing it in the first few months.  

The day we were scheduled to take Rachel home I found out that two of my kids were up all night with fevers, coughs and congestion, and my other two were recovering from being sick, so with 4 kids sick and a new baby I was wondering how everything was going to work. When I got home the kids got to peek at Rachel from a distance and then I took Rachel up to my room and for the next 2 weeks she was in isolation. Later that week I took Katie to the Doctor because she just wasn't betting better and he said that she had a slight case RSV and ear infections. It took about two weeks for her to get better. I was pretty paranoid about anyone holding Rachel and her getting sick because even though it was a mild winter, I knew of 5 babies that ended up in the ICU with RSV, 4 of which were just a few weeks old. We were sure glad when everyone was feeling better and we could all enjoy our little Rachel.