Coloring Easter eggs

The day before Easter, Ella and Papa colored eggs together. Ella did a god job, though she didn't exactly understand how to "gently" put the eggs in the dye. After nap, Ella decorated the colored eggs with stickers.

Sisters

Finally was able to get a picture of the girls together (sort of) .....

Easter 2009

We had a great time with family on Easter this year. First we went to the Overheidt house to celebrate with the Martin side of the family. They hid Easter eggs and Ella, Morgan and Brianna all got to find them and received a ton of candy! Ella had a great time finding them and yelling out "Oh, I found the egg".

After the Martin side, we headed over to Mama's side of the family. Ella had a great time reading her new Dora book from Aunt Colette and singing songs for everyone. She sang "Happy Birthday" to just about everyone there and enjoyed being center stage.

Here are some pictures from the egg hunt:

Thank you, thank you!

I just wanted to post a huge THANK YOU to Oma and Tia Lissa for all their help with Ella while we were in the hospital with Taylor. My mom was at our house on Monday 3/30 at 5:30 am so that we could get to the hospital and she took Ella to school and picked her up at the end of the day. Tia Lissa stayed the nights at our house with Ella so that I didn't have to stay at the hospital alone. She got Ella ready for school in the mornings so that J could drop her off and come right back to the hospital.

And once Meena came back from Mexico, she came by every morning for a week to pick up Ella and take her to school so that I could get some rest.

I really appreciate all that you did to make our transition to a family of four seamless.

Word video

We have been working on letters and a few basic words with Ella at home. We started with some basic words and though she knows her name starts with an "E" , the rest of the words may be memorized.

Dr appointments

Yesterday I went on my first outing with Taylor. We went to my doctor to get my staples removed and a quick check of my incision. She was great in the car both there and back, but cried the whole time I was with the nurse. Overall a good experience out and it felt great to get some fresh air!

This morning we went to see Taylor's doctor for her one week check up. She did not sleep very well last night, so of course slept through most of her appointment. I have been somewhat worried that she may not be getting enough to eat, but the scale proved me wrong. Taylor weighed in above birth weight at 7 pounds, 8 ounces. That means that since we left the hospital on Thursday morning, she has gained a full pound. Her umbilical cord stump was also barely hanging on anymore so they cut it off and she now has a real belly button.

More pictures will be posted shortly....

Wecome Taylor Corrina Martin

Born March 30th, 2009 at 11:44 pm. Weighing in at 7 pounds, 3 ounces and 20" long. We came home on Thursday early afternoon and her weight was down to 6 pounds, 8 ounces. Both Mama and Taylor head back to the doctor this week for check ups.

We are still trying to get settled at home but are enjoying our newest family member. Ella enjoys telling us just what baby sister is doing:

"Baby sleeping"
"Baby crying"
"Baby happy"
"Baby cute"