Some of our "Little" Visitors

The Augles and the Olzstas-Olivia, Sophia, and Ricky

Future best friends or perhaps prom dates??

This will have to be monitored over the next several years!

All the kids.  Play dates are going to be few and far between unless it is outside at a park.  Too chaotic for our small playroom.  Love how Sophia snuck in a baby doll.  As if there aren't enough of them.

Ava meets her new cousin as she awaits her own baby brother coming this July!

Love this.  

Luke is so happy.  He was so happy to be meeting his new cousin that he got so excited and almost threw her off of him.  Amy and I both jumped forward to grab Julianne before it got ugly!

Some of my favorite pics from Julianne's first week

This was Grace posing even though it looks like she thinks I'm crazy.  She is so sweet these days.  She really is except when she is dealing with Charlotte.  She doesn't have a lot of patience for Charlotte and even in the first week said, "I don't want Charlotte to be my sister anymore."  Paul and I had a talk with her and told her that if she isn't nice to Charlotte she won't be able to hold Julianne.  She has been much better since.  

Charlotte loves Julianne and wants to hold her but not for very long.  She gets bored of it easily.  She is conflicted between holding the baby and watching whatever show was on tv at that time.  She does love getting her turn though and when she wakes up in the morning she comes looking for Julianne. 

I love this because it seems to be a position that Julianne likes when she needs to be calmed down.  She still has her serious face on too.  Grandma is good at this.  I feel like she will be great when I go back to work.  I better get to work on pumping bottles though.  Not as easy with other children to run around after.

Julianne's first bottle.  It wasn't a very successful attempt at a feeding.  Grace wanted to give it to her though but gave up very quickly when Julianne wouldn't take it.  It was very early though and I was only pumping because I was in pain.  Grace is going to be a great babysitter one day!

People want to know why I want a boy.  It's because Paul has three "daddy's girls" right now.  Keep in mind, I was sitting on the opposite couch and no one wanted to sit with me.  :)  Gotta love the spit up mark on his shirt too.  How is Grace even watching tv under Paul's arm like that??

Just a little update on Charlotte.  She loves clothes and thinks my lingerie are dresses.  I love the backwards baseball cap with the "dress."

This is why we can't leave Charlotte alone with the baby.  She forgets she is holding her while watching tv.  Good thing Julianne is a good sport!  Actually now that I reread this, clearly we wouldn't be leaving her alone with the baby anyways.  Don't worry... I swear we are good parents.

Bella Baby Pictures

I'm sure you've all seen these already but here are the Bella Baby Pics from the hospital and the three pictures we had taken at home.  Also, I added the pics of Grace and Charlotte from the hospital too.  

For comparison purposes!

This is my all time favorite picture!

Sweet baby Julianne started her photo shoot by pooping right through her lace romper.  Good thing it was cream because I was able to get it cleaned to about that color for the rest of the photo shoot so it wouldn't show..  

Charlotte was not very cooperative during the photoshoot but that could be because Grace wouldn't let her hold Julianne.  Shocking we know.  Each time they got close to each other, Grace would yell, "Charlotte, get off of me."

Enjoy!

Can you believe how alert she was?  She also pooped right as this photo shoot was beginning too and it was a gross one.  She kept pooping as I was trying to clean her up.  She was also screaming so she was very red to begin the shoot.  I love how serious she looks in this picture.  She is definitely my child.

Home Sweet Home!

The day we left the hospital, Paul had decided that he was going to cook a turkey dinner for his family and any of my family that would be around.  Stephanie was in town for a wedding so she was going to come and meet the baby along with Amy and co, and Scott.  Amy had every intention of being in the delivery room with me this time around but it didn't work out.  So... basically we got to our house around noon and we had people over from 12:30 until about 7:00 that night.  It was slightly too much for me and I was exhausted but what are you gonna do?  If people thought they were going to get a lot of time to hold the baby, they were wrong.  Grace wanted to hold the baby the whole time and was very protective.  Since the kids were running around and playing, Grace was very protective and was saying things like, "Michael... take that toy back in the playroom, it is too loud."  She also would not let anyone else hold Julianne for very long and when she got a chance to hold her, she was patting her butt, kissing her, and making sure she was ok.  Pretty much if people wanted to hold her, they had to come and sit around Grace.  Anyone who actually held her had Grace sitting right near them.  She also kept telling everyone, "Come meet my sister.  Look how little her hands are."  It was AWESOME.  Here are some pictures from that first day.

The First Meeting of Sisters!

Charlotte wanted to give Julianne her pacifier.  Unfortunately, Julianne didn't love it.  

Charlotte also wanted to kiss her sweet sister.  This would not be the last of that.  Usually however Charlotte likes to give her kisses when she is sleeping, thus waking her up.     

Grace gave Julianne her little blanket.  That is as about as sweet as it gets.

Charlotte wanted to hold Julianne but it didn't last long.  She was more interested in checking out the hospital room and slamming all of the doors.  She also pressed the nurse's call button.  Oops.  

Grace was so excited that Julianne had such little fingers.  She immediately loved holding her and didn't want to let her go.  Apparently she forgot she wanted a brother:)

Grace kissed her all on her own.  She very much loved Julianne from the moment she met her.

Dressed and ready to go home.  Love this picture!

These faces crack me up.  Especially Char Char!

Hm... Charlie's Angels or the Three Stooges???  Only time will tell.