Welcome Mia Marie!

Welcome to the world, little Mia Marie!



Mia Marie was born on Thursday, September 1st at 3:30 p.m. She weighed 7 lbs., 4 oz., and was 21 inches (exactly the same as big sister, Emma!).

Here are a few stories over the past few weeks:

Mia was in her bassinet in the living room when Emma and Luke came home from Grandma Karla's house. Luke runs over to her and immediately says (in a high falsetto voice), "Awww, she so cute!" When Emma comes walking over to see Mia, Luke looks at her and says, "This Mia, Emma. You pet her?"

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Lukey to Mommy: "How you feed your baby?"

Me: She drinks milk from my breasts."

Lukey: "Your brweafts? That strange."

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Mamaw to Lukey: "Do you like your little sister, Luke?"

Lukey: "Oh yes, she very nice!"

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The other morning, I was feeding Mia in her room and overheard Luke and Emma chatting in the bathroom. Luke had woken up on the wrong side of the bed and was in a bad mood. Emma was happily chatting away while she was brushing her hair. I'm not sure what commented prompted the following exchange but it was hilarious!

Emma: "Get out of town, Luke!"

Luke (all angry): "I not IN town, Eh-mah."

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The other night while I was feeding Mia (notice a trend here? It seems like that's all I do these days...) and heard Luke wonder into the hallway wimpering. The door was shut so I couldn't attempt to wake Casey up and just hoped that Luke would eventually go back to his room. I could tell he was getting upset though. Suddenly, I heard another voice in the hallway and then Luke was quiet. I knew there was no way that Casey could have woken up so I asked Emma the next morning if he took Luke back to bed! She said that she found him in the hallway crying so she took him back to bed and tucked him in. I thanked her for being such a good big sister and her response was, "That's okay. He was annoying me with his crying."

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Four out of the five members of this family were wide awake at 5:15 on Thursday morning. I was (of course) feeding Mia when I heard Luke in the hallway. He must have gone to my room to find me and when I wasn't there, he came into Mia's room. He opened the door and announces "I not tired anymore, Momma." I tried to tell him repeatedly that it was the middle of the night and asked him several times to go back to bed. Of course, that prompted the fussing because he "wasn't tired." I finally get up and ask Casey to put Luke back to bed. Once he was successfully tucked back in, Emma's door opens and she comes strolling into Mia's room and says, "Mommy, can you start working on my birthday cupcakes for school tomorrow?" I'm a little confused (for many reasons) and I tell her that its not her birthday tomorrow, after which I quickly realize that she was correct and her birthday was on Friday. I asked if there was any possible was that we could discuss this at another time since it was the middle of the night. "Sure," she replied and went back to her room.