Ella's dinosaur presentation

Today we went to Ella's presentation on dinosaurs. She had done her research on fossils and presented a poster with her new knowledge. Her teacher is Miss Howell and Ella loves her. She told us Ella is an excellent student and fun to have in the class Way to go Ella!!

Blake is 2 1/2 months old!

Blake has been such a joy! He sleeps pretty good and is so content. He is smiling and talks to me. I love him! The kids have been loving him too and take good care of him. Even Kade is a good little babysitter while I am on the treadmill. I am enjoying every minute . Even in the middle of the night I can't help kissing his soft squishy cheeks!

Welcome Blake Ellis to our family!

A lot has happened since my last post. On February 7th we welcomed our little Blake into the world. He is pure joy! He was delivered by our nurses and they did a great job. The doctor came in about an hour later. Actually two of my doctors were in the hospital but they were both in surgery. Once Blake decided he wanted out he wanted to be out now! As a side note--the anesthesiologist forgot to attach the medicine drip to my epidural so I did not have the pain relief I so badly desired. She got there to hook it up just as Blake was arriving. Oh well--He is here and we LOVE him. The kids have been so excited and love to hold him and try to get a smile from him. I love to hold him and I've spent hours putting off my to do list just holding and looking at him. He really is perfect.

Picking out a name for him was a challenge. We knew we wanted Ellis for his middle name. That was my Grampa Baldry's middle name. Since he was such an amazing man we wanted to give our son a name he could be proud of. Hopefully he will look to his great grandpa as an example of the kind of man he should aspire to be. So with the middle name secured we could not decide on the first name. Here are some of the names that were in the running.

McKay

Emmett

Gage

Liam

Jude

Harrison

Braden

Sawyer

Gavin

Landon

Nolan

Miles

Micah

Beck

Luke

Brett

Owen

Also Kade's picks were: Kamodo dragon, Star Tours(after our day at Disneyland) and Back flipper.

We were still trying to decide in the hospital with Landon and Blake being the front runners. On the second day Matt reported to me that the kids had all decided on Blake--so it was Blake. Now I love it and it suits my handsome little man perfectly. He really is adorable. His hair is dark but super blond underneath. He also has the best dimples that come out on those still rare smiles. I will be posting more pictures soon. I can't believe it has almost been seven weeks since he was born. It has been a wonderful 7 weeks!