It has been way too long

It has been a long time since I have placed a post on the blog. Rachel, I don't want you to feel like you are second to Aubrey and Sara because there were more posts when they were little, but man my life is busy. You are everywhere and those other two rugrats are constantly getting into something. Also it may sound pathetic but for whatever reason it seems to take forever to post pictures onto this website. But, I am going to try to make a better attempt.
One thing you may notice is that in just about every picture we have of you, you are smiling. You are the happiest baby we have ever been around. Everyone talks about it. You are content and happy. Also about as cute as a baby can get. Over the past couple of weeks you have become much more difficult to watch because you have learned the art of crawling. I never thought you would learn how to crawl because it always seemed like your sisters were picking you up. But you persevered.

I'm telling you what, you have two cute sisters, but you really round out the group. Mommy and I really feel quite blessed to have you. Mommy was saying the other day how much she is enjoying your infant stage. She just said that it has been so much fun. I think she has made an effort to enjoy because she missed out on it with Sara and she missed a lot of it with Aubrey because Sara was getting into everything.

I just love this picture. You have yet to say any word, but I'm sure your first word will be your favorite person in this whole wide world. MOMMY.

Love you bunches,

Daddy

Rachel at 2 months

This past two months have been flying by. I can't believe Rachel is already two months old. Rachel is now smiling, pooping, and of course crying. Although I must admit Rachel is a great baby. She rarely cries and spends most of her day looking around or sleeping.

We have had a fun past week. It is the first week of my summer break and it has given all five of us a chance to reconnect. This week Aubrey went golfing for the first time. Golfing at the age of 2. You can't beat it. We went on a hike this week as well. It was funny because Aubrey about the midway point wanted me to hold her, but Sara rocked it the entire time. We also went to the swimming pool a few times this week as well. Fun week.

Love Daddy.

Rachel is two months old and I have been pathetic with the amount of pictures that I have been posting. She is now just starting to smile. Here are some pics.

Happy Birthday Girls

It has been a busy couple of months. Now as I sit in the visitors room at the hospital while Mommy and Rachel are sleeping, I thought I would put together yoru birthday pictures. Sara's third birthday quite a fun day. The beauty of your birthday was the fact that you were in such a good mood the entire day. You never lost "it." You just had fun with family as well as with your friends. Mommy spent hours making this cake. She may have spent as much as 8 hours working on it. That is why the cake gets first billing. Beautiful and tasty cake.

Crack kills.

Sara sang Happy Birthday along with everyone else.

Sara, all your friends were there. Everyone had so much fun except for Sam apparently. I don't remember him being angry, but he was in this picture. Maybe because he was the only boy.

Yummy

The biggest gift you received on your birthday was a new bike. We are still waiting for you to learn the petal system, but I'm sure you will get it. Wait until summer.

Going for your first ride.

Okay, now lets fast forward a couple of months. We were unsure what to do with Aubrey's birthday. We didn't know when Rachel would come, so we didn't organize a big party. So it was just us and the Mucks for your birthday. The Mucks came over for cake. Mommy couldn't spend 8 hours on a Dora cake, but she did make you a balloon cake. You were so excited about it. You and Sara talk about your previous cakes. Sara still brings up the fact that you had a caterpillar cake for your first birthday.

Oh yeah, that hit the spot. Yummy cake and ice cream.

Nana could make the party personally, so she sat on the table and joined the party through Skype. She watched you blow out your candles, eat your cake and open presents.

You were more interested in talking to Nana than opening your presents. One of your favorites was a blender.

Your big gift was a new bike as well. You love riding your bike. For the past couple of months you have been riding Sara's bike. It is great that you will be able to ride a bike that is a little more your size. You loved the baby seat on the back as well as the basket in the front.

Happy birthday girls. I feel so blessed to have all three of you.

Love Daddy

Welcome Rachel Sophia Lunn

Welcome Rachel Sophia Lunn to the world. Let's recap the last couple of days. Wednesday March 30th was Aubrey's 2nd birthday. At 9:00pm that night Mommy started having contractions every five minutes. So we went to the hospital at 11:00pm and were sent home at 2:00am. The contractions were not making any progress so we were sent home. Shortly after arriving home, we crashed onto the bed. At 6:30am, Mommy woke me up saying, "My water broke." AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH we are heading the hospital now. Sure enough after arriving, the Doctor said that we were staying until our little one was born. Finally the labor started around 2:30pm.

Coincidently the Reds were playing their Opening Day game against the Brewers. The Brewers started the game with 2 solo shot home runs. At 2:30 Daddy turned the game off to focus on Mommy. At 3:00 Mommy was in full labor, but there still wasn't much progress. Finally at 4:07, Rachel entered the world. Your body was coming through the canal a little off which made labor a little more difficult. Your shoulder got stuck and one the of nurses had to jump onto Mommy's stomach. It was crazy, but you entered the world screaming and crying. Mommy and I were so happy. You were born 9 lbs and 7 ounces. You were also 21 inches long. Everyone was amazed by the thickness of your hair. You had dark brown hair with blonde highlights. Beautiful. We spent the next hour falling in love with you.

Background on your name. Rachel comes from Nana's Grandma's name. She was named Harriett Rachel Piester. Sophia is Mommy's Grandma's name. So you get both sides of the family.

This is my favorite picture of you. Beautiful.

By the way, at 5:00pm the Reds Ramon Hernandez hit a three run home run to win 7-6.

Go REDS

Love Daddy

The Waiting Game

Dear It,
New baby, we are waiting for you. You will be coming into our world any day now. We can't wait to meet you, hold you, and love all over you. Aubrey today tried to wake you up by walking over to Mommy's belly and yelling, "BABYYYYYY."

I know it has been quite a while since I have been on here posting about the lives of Aubrey and Sara Lyn, but goodness knows I've been parenting my butt off. It is ridiculous how much I have been doing for you two. I meant to post after Sara's birthday but decided that I would put the birthdays together. Lazy yes. Busy yes. I will try to be better.

Daddy

Daddy Daughter Dance

Three years ago, I dreamed of a night like tonight. At that time I didn't know how long it would be before you came to Mommy and me. I remember at times, when I was bored, I would watch Gotcha Videos online. It was a difficult and depressing time waiting for you. I just wanted to get to know you, hug you, and spend nights like tonight. The Daddy Daughter Dance started with us going to dinner at a China buffet. We doubled with Mr. Jeff and Reva. Reva wanted Chinese. I've never heard of a three year old requesting Chinese, but there you go. Dinner was fun. You had whatever you wanted.

The dance was tons of fun. We got our picture, had popcorn, and danced like crazy to Thriller, YMCA, and The Chicken Dance. My favorite part of the night was dancing to Butterfly Kisses. It is something about having a daughter. It was such a beautiful night. Best night ever.

The night ended with Graeters. Yet another dream. I dreamed of ending a night like this with sharing ice cream. So we clinked our spoons and enjoyed ice cream together. Perfect night.

The next day we went to the Year of the Rabbit party. You and Aubrey dressed up in your traditional Korean dresses. You two were the most beautiful little girls there. We do this every year, but this year it was special seeing you both dressed up. I love the picture below. It is always fun to look around and see all of these little Korean kids running around. I also like that finally Sara can look around and see someone with black hair just like her.

But my favorite part was watching ten kids running around the stage. Nine kids with black hair and one kid with blond hair. As I was watching Sara was running Aubrey around the stage holding her hand. I love watching you two act like sisters.

Love Daddy