our new little one

our little family grew on may 28, 2011 when durham leahy box entered this world!
he is such a blessing...everything went extremely well! we went in saturday morning, and it was so nice at the hospital because there was hardly anyone there...very calm and relaxing! the only trouble we had was the first epidural did not work exactly, but they quickly got that fixed! then around 3:55, i started to push and at 4:07, durham was born!

weight...7 pounds 6 ounces
length...20 inches

he even scored a perfect 10 on his apgar score...(which i'm still not sure what that means)

sorry for the bad hair do

our first attempt of a family picture

he was born with huge feet and toes...i think he will probably be taller than mccoy

gracie

grandaddy

lucky

papa
going home outfit...
we still did not know what we were having, so i had two outfits ready to go
it's neat with your second because you get to take some of the same pictures of durham that we did with mccoy...

what's up family!

the following are pictures of us and mccoy...we definitely look like first time parents!

the month of may

on mother's day, gracie came up to visit us...we had such a great time on saturday, but sunday turned out to be not so good...at this point in the day, mccoy hadn't drank any of his milk or eaten anything, which was highly unusual...by the 8 that night, we headed to the emergency room because the nurses thought he might be dehydrated...when we were in the waiting room, we noticed he had 4 or 5 huge ulcers on his tongue...it turned out that he had hand, foot, mouth virus...we left there around 1 in the morning...we were all exhausted!

because it was a virus, he couldn't take anything besides tylenol with codeine in it...we had to keep him home for a week and this is basically what he looked like all week...he couldn't stand to keep his tongue in his mouth...poor little guy!

thank goodness we were over that! a few weekends later, we headed out to the ballpark where they had set up a makeshift go cart track...area businesses sponsored the cars...

unfortunately, even though it was may it was freezing!

crash test

they even had pit stops

38 weeks pregnant...almost there!

chillin in his wagon...his latest obsession is neigh neighs (horses)...we're not sure where this came from, but we just roll with it...he loved watching all of the horse races on tv like the kentucky derby, preakness and belmont races...we even bought him the movie, Secretariat...he will sit and watch the whole thing...screaming "NEIGH NEIGH...NEIGH NEIGH"

we finally found a church that we love...the first united methodist of springdale...this picture was taken a week before we went into labor...our last picture of us as three...we became members that weekend...

that same day, the girls at the salon hosted a baby shower for julie and her husband mark at our house...we always have such a great time when we all get together!
vivian elizabeth is going to be loved so very much!

the beautiful momma to be

i made her a bucket of bows, so we all had to try them on

we started a tradition of painting onesies for the new momma when i was pregnant with mccoy

the finished products!

next up, the birth of our new little one!

april 24th...easter (in july)

back in april, we had a beautiful easter weekend, despite a minor asthma attack...(the beauty about time is that it makes you forget about these trials)...i have never really dressed mccoy in any smock outfit before... i always felt he was "too cool" looking for them...but he has finally grown into some of his cousins hand me downs...i do think he looks rather cute!

hello mr. duck

our family at easter service

easter basket fun

so cute!

sleepy boy!

april 15th and 16th...tulsa!

back in april, mccoy and i surprised auntie b in tulsa...my parents were already planning a trip there so i just invited ourselves! she was so excited to see her little man! the weather was crazy though...on friday, it was around 40 degrees, then on saturday, it warmed up to 60 thank goodness!

weeeeeeeee

tryng on auntie b's rain boots

checking out the yard work

helping out by mowing the yard

one day, i might catch back up to the current date!

april 3, 2011 through april 9, 2011

as part of my catch up routine, i'm starting back in april...

our neighbors had alittle get together...
mccoy hanging out with the girls

getting ready to slide

his first popsicle...he wasn't sure about it at the beginning but he mastered it fairly well by the end

plum tuckered out!

the next weekend was filled with sports activities...friday night, we caught a baseball game at the northwest arkansas naturals with our buddy, liam...they were so cute next to each other in the car!

trying out m & ms...nothing like a little sugar rush at a baseball game

big play...yay!

mccoy and i and lynne and liam...who's toddler cooperates for pictures anyway!

back at the stinson's playing a little music

safety first!

these boys couldn't stop playing!

then on saturday, we headed to a razorback scrimmage game with the westmoreland's...all mccoy wanted to do was run the stairs...little scarier in an empty stadium with lots of room to fall down...burt was all over him though!

back up again!

then on sunday, it was time to work on the baby's room
burt and i found this dresser at a antique store but the top needed to be taken off...what was left was a complete mess...it took several man hours