Evelyn's 3!!!

I can't figure out how to move these pictures, so i'll just tell about them and then you can read more of the story further down.

This is when Evelyn was taking care of the babies while the other kids ran around getting wet.

climbing a peach tree at Lee's Ferry. We picked 18 lbs of apricots that day. Evelyn's highlight was seeing a bunny rabbit that ''ran really, really, really, really, really fast."

She wanted a pink owl cake for her birthday. Then she told me she wanted a fake owl that she could put next to the TV so she could look at it. She didnt get one.

She did get a backpack, though. She is so excited and takes it everywhere. It is fun to see what necessities she packs. Yesterday, she told us she was cold in the car and needed her backpack.

We passed it back to her and she pulled out a dress-up dress and snuggled up in it like a blanket. She was awfully proud of her ingenuity.

One of her many fun outfits. Apparently 3 year olds are still supposed to have help getting dressed. She hasn't let us help her get dressed for about a year now and hasn't let us choose her clothes for quite some time. Sometimes we do have to steer her in another direction if we are actually going into public. We live on the Rez, though, so most of the time if we do go anywhere, she just goes as-is.

It's hard to believe that just 3 years ago this little roller coaster was born. We went to the Pediatrician on her birthday. Since we moved, she hasn't had to see a Dr so he was her new one that we got to initiate. First, the nurse took us back and measured her (38" tall, 32 lbs, by the way) and started taking her temp, blood pressure, etc. It was a bit humorous watching the nurse explain everything to Evelyn like she would any other 3 year old. Evelyn didn't really need an explanation of the blood pressure cuff or where the nurse was going to listen to her heart. She's kind of familiar with that drill. After the nurse was done, the Dr. came in and I just started giving her medical history (which I had actually taken the time to do beforehand on the paperwork I had gotten. Why do they give us the paperwork if they don't even look at it? Is it like a rough draft and then you give the oral report to the Dr? I don't get it. Anyway....). When I told him about her heterotaxy he said, "that's interesting. I have never heard of that before." Yup, meet Evelyn. She's full of surprises. When we finally got done with her history, he started asking about the developmental milestones. I'm proud to say that not only did she meet the 3 year old ones, but she exceeded everything he said she should be able to do by the time she's 4. That made me smile. This is the little girl who was on the list for developmental "services" from the state. The one they told us was delayed. She has come so far!

Overall the Dr. visit was pretty good and Evelyn was happy she got to go to the "hopsil" because they gave her a book and a sticker! She keeps asking if she can go back.

Evelyn has a great imagination and loves to pretend. One of the milestones the Dr said she might reach by 4 years old is telling stories off the top of her head. She's been doing this for a while now. She sees something and then comes up with this great story for it. sometimes she doesn't see anything and comes up with a story for it. She has an imaginary dog, cat and friend, Molly. She walks her dog, the cat comes to sit with her and Molly usually goes to "Hama's" house or the hopsil to get shots. They all go on adventures sometimes. We can't think of any stories right now, but I'll try to record one for posterity's sake. Evelyn loves to drive the couch to the store and the library and is always sure to get buckled and won't start driving until everyone in the car (or sometimes boat or airplane) is also buckled. She is always willing to help me get my seatbelt on if I need assistance. If I forget and try to get up (usually to get something out of Emelia's mouth) Evelyn stops her car and opens the door before she yells at me to get buckled again)

Evelyn is a little pray-er. At every meal and bedtime she is the first to start the prayer. Tonight, in fact, she prayed that she could go back to the Dr. and get another book and sticker. Oh, and that "mommy can go to sleep and daddy can go to sleep and Jacob can go to sleep and mommy can go to sleep and jacob can go to sleep and Evelyn can go to sleep and Emelia can go to sleep..." She's so cute and willing to pray any time.

Evelyn is also very caring. A new family has moved here with kid swho are close to our kids' ages. We had them over one day and while the other kids were having a water fight, Evelyn came over to make sure the babies were ok and got them toys and then sat and poured water in a bowl because the babies laughed every time she did it. She always wants to take care of "Media" (Emelia). Evelyn will get her clothes for her, bring her a drink of water, toys, diapers, whatever she needs. Evelyn also randomly comes running in or calls out " Mommy! I love you!"

I have not met many kids who can remember the silly things people do for as long as Evelyn does. 3 weeks ago, Grandma and Grandpa Blodgett came to visit. When we knew they were really close, Joseph took the kids outside to look for their car. Apparently, Grandma's GPS instructed her to turn left onto our street instead of right. Evelyn reminded her a couple of times a day that she went the wrong way and how funny that was. She has probably brought it up about once a day since then and still laughs about it. Now you know--don't do sillly things around her unless you want her getting giggle at your expense for a looong time.

Today, we heard "I'm so glad When Daddy Comes Home" over and over and over. She loves to sing. At night when I sing the kids their bedtime song, she sings along with me. Except the night she decided she was a pig and oinked along with me. I really tried not to laugh because if I did, it would likely become a habit, but I didn't make it. It's harder than you might think to keep a straight face while your little girl is snuggling with you oinking to the tune of "Families Can Be Together Forever." Thankfully, she has passed the piggy stage and now just occasionally "honks" along.

We love our little Princess and are amazed by what she can do. We never imagined she would be such an active, vivacious little girl.

And now for some pictures

My friend, Eimile visited and we went to the Grand Canyon. We had a lot of fun. I kind of wonder how many different countries have videos with my voice on it yelling at my kids to stop throwing rocks/stay away from the edge/ come back. There were lots of tourists that day. That's what we get for accidently going during Free Fee week.

Doing their funny faces.

Can she get any cuter?

This night we kept yelling at them to sleep because Evelyn kept getting in Jacob's bed and playing. They solved the problem by both sleeping on the floor. When we asked Jacob why he slept on the floor, he told us that he saw Evelyn sleeping there and her elephant was on the floor so he got down to hug her elephant for her.

Apparently this was taken the night Evelyn ended up under the bed. I was sick and had gone to bed early, so Joseph took this picture. Not sure why he didn't put her back in her bed like he usually does. If he had, though, we wouldn't have the fun stories.

Very LOOOOONG post with lots of bragging....you've been warned.

So to update everybody (finally) on what we are up to here:
We got our garden planted today, with the exception of the melons, peppers, tomatoes and squash. It was too windy and I got sick of it. We have planted 2 kinds of sweet corn, popcorn, lettuce, spinach, 4 kinds of carrots (or 6, can't remember), peas, green beans, radishes, beets (never even eaten fresh beets, we'll see if we like them), onions, cucumbers, red skinned potatoes and purple potatoes. The church service missionaries said that each hill of potatoes should produce 7-10 lbs of potatoes. We have 20 hills, I believe. Guess what everyone's getting for Christmas? We are so excited and now that it is planted, I can lose sleep stressing about whether anything will grow. I've already lost sleep 2 nights stressing about where to plant everything. I know, I'm crazy. Can't help it. We also seeded our back dirt so we'll see if that grows. otherwise, the kids will continue to play in our expanse of dirt and I will continue to wipe it out of the tub a few times a day. Let's face it, even if the grass does grow, they will still just play in the dirt and probably only walk through the grass to get to the dirt, they are kids after all. One fun thing with getting the yard ready is that when I was roto-tilling for the grass, I unearthed a whole city's worth of toys. We have everything from cars to Alf. Who knows how long that all has been buried, but I would guess quite a while.
I guess the easiest way to update would be by each person so we'll go youngest to oldest.....
Emelia
Emelia is 9 months old now and crawling like crazy. She took FOREVER to roll over, but it seemed like she rolled and crawled within just a couple of weeks. She eats EVERYTHING on the floor and it is always exciting trying to pry her mouth open to see what treasures she is chewing on. Just today, we had ponytail holders, various food dropped from older siblings, and my favorite, a thorn. Yes, I do vacuum at least once a day (twice today) but somehow, she finds what I could not see. She is a very happy, very big baby. She weighs 24 lbs and is 30.5" long. She sleeps well, usually, and has yet to keep me up all night. Both older kids love her and will do anything to make her happy, including banging things, singing, dancing and finding toys for her.
Evelyn
Evelyn will be 3 in just a couple of weeks. We cannot believe it. She is a talker and a mover. It is amazing that she is the one we were so worried about 3 years ago. She will probably have to have another surgery next year, but we will see. I asked her one day why she had a line on her chest just to see what her response would be and she looked at me like I was crazy (a look she has perfected) and said, "Betuz me yike yines on my chest!'" Then she just went back to playing. I don't worry about how she will handle questions from other kids. Evelyn is the most active sleeper I have ever seen and every night we go in to find her in some new crazy position, often not in her bed. The worst was one night when I was awakened by screams and went running into her room. She wasn't in her bed and the screams were muffled, so I thought she was under her bears sleeping in her doll bed. I groggily pulled the bears off and realized that the muffled cries were coming from the direction of Jacob's bed. I turned on the hall light and finally found her clear under Jacob's bed. I tried to pull her out by her legs at the foot of the bed, but when her head wouldn't fit, I tried to push her back under so I could pull her out by her arm. For some reason (couldn't be that she was disoriented and terrified), I wasn't having any success with that, so I went running (ok, stumbling..it was like 3 a.m.) into our room and yelled at Joseph to get up. He came in and picked up the end of the bed and I finally pulled Evelyn out. She cried for about a minute, then just walked over and got back in her bed and fell asleep. Now, you may wonder what Jacob did through all of this? He slept. On the bed we picked up. Didn't even stir.
Evelyn loves to play in her kitchen, cooking up some delicious food, getting dressed up in her jewelry to look like a princess, mothering her babies and going to the store (the one in our laundry room). I don't know if other little girls pretend to take her babies to the Doctor, but Evelyn often takes her babies to the "hopsil" (hospital). Her babies go to the hospital a few times a day, actually. Is that normal?
Evelyn has a really good memory, too. She often goes down the list of everyone she knows and asks where they are. She always wants to go to "Hama's house" (Grandma's house) and doesn't believe me when I tell her that it is not on the way to the post office. She is very independent and chooses all her own outfits and dresses herself. Sometimes we have to guide her in a new direction if we are going somewhere, but usually we just let her wear whatever she wants. Is it really hurting anybody that she wears her leggings with the legs pulled up to show off her mismatched socks pulled clear up to her knees with shoes on the wrong feet and a shirt that may or may not match anything she is wearing and is usually backwards? I didn't think so. She also loves to choose what we wear. She has definite opinions on what is proper attire for our daily tasks. One day, she even counseled me to change my clothes. Lucky for me, I only have a few choices and everything pretty much goes with everything else.
Jacob
Jacob is 4 1/2. He is learning to read and write and tries to spell things. He also loves to draw pictures for everyone. One morning, he woke me up to show me a picture he had drawn where he had written Love one another (that's what he told me it said). He had drawn a heart and then he wrote "lov" in it. He told me he wrote it so that I would, "love one another him." It was very sweet. He is very thoughtful and tries hard to be a peacemaker. More than once, I have heard him tell Evelyn that they are not supposed to fight and she needed to calm down. He loves to play with his blocks and has recently gotten into miniature golf. he doesn't really know what mini golf is, he just saw it on Curious George so he makes mini golf courses all over the house using whatever materials he can find. Jacob has also started making up his own jokes. They sometimes are knock-knock jokes, sometimes other jokes, but they almost always end with some use of the word "bat" or bananas. We don't know why bat and batty are such fun words, but they sure are for him. He is also learning tongue twisters. We repeat the "Betty Botter bought some butter... " one and the "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers..." one a lot. He thinks it's funny to combine them so Betty botter often buys a peck of pickled peppers to make her bitter batter better. He's a funny little kid. It's so fun having him old enough to have real conversations with him. It's amazing how much he understands and notices. If you need a scripture story, he probably can tell it better than me. His primary teachers always have some story about him saying funny things in class. One Sunday the kids were playing a Who's the Prophet Who....game based on the Follow the Prophets song. Apparently all the kids were shouting out random Prophets, but Jacob surprised them by actually yelling out the correct ones. Another Sunday around Easter, they were talking about why the wicked men killed Jesus. When the kids asked why Jesus had to die, Jacob told them, "You can ask my dad that. He's really clever." Jacob tells me often how clever he is and even told me once, "If there's anything you don't know, I know it."
Jacob is very concerned with eating healthy foods. He always asks me if what I'm giving him is healthy. I tell him what each food will do for him (make him strong, run fast, etc) before he eats pretty much everything. I have heard him tell Evelyn that he doesn't want to eat candy and cupcakes because they make you not strong. He tells us that he will NOT eat food that is not healthy for him and that he WILL take his vitamins every day (he does, by the way. Helps that they are the gummy vitamins and taste good). He was also the first one done with his cupcake tonight. He makes me laugh all the time.
Jacob is a good protector of his little sisters. One time when we were at the park, a kid who was bigger than Evelyn was being a bit too rough so Jacob went over to stand by her in case the kid was mean to his little sister. Being the peacemaker, though, he just told the kid to be more gentle and stop being mean. The kid just went on playing and never was mean to anybody, but Jacob was there to protect his sister. It made me happy. That's why I always wanted a boy first, so he could take care of things. Everybody should have a big brother.
Since we've been up here in Tuba, Jacob has also opened up quite a bit and is hardly shy at all. He answers people's questions and shakes hands with everyone. He surprises me with how much he has come out of his shell up here. When we go to the library, he goes with the librarian downstairs to bring up the toys and talks to her the whole way, telling her about going on the Father and Son's campout or planting the garden or whatever is going on. Huge difference from Nursery when his teachers asked us if he could even talk yet.
Me
I've been busy gettingthe garden ready, playing with the kids, cleaning the house, driving to and from Dr. appts for the girls, and all around being busy. I feel like I am always busy even though we really don't have anywhere we have to be most of the time. I have been experimenting in the kitchen an awful lot which is not really too great for my waistline, but is really fun. Like many stay-at-home moms, I feel like I clean and yell too much, play and dance with the kids too little jsut try to keep up with the kids. Another thing I stay awake at night stressing over is the fact that both older kids can start pre-school in August. I don't feel ready for it, but I know both of them will LOVE it. Up here there really aren't many kids their age, so they don't get much social interaction. In fact, until just a couple of weeks ago, Evelyn was the only kid in Nursery at church. She had the 2-3 teachers' undivided attention for 2 hours every week. Now there is another little boy who comes, so she actually gets to playwith someone her own age. Jacob has one kid his age who comes consistently to church and a couple of others who are less consistent. Other than that, they don't really get to play with anyone besides eachother. I found out that the high school just down the hill does pre-school, so I'm planning on letting both Jacob and Evelyn start. Up here, though, the pre-school is weird. Most of the kids go to pre-school at the elementary school from 8-3 every day. Yes, that's right, the 3-4 year olds go all day. I am hoping that the high school's program is not as much. I just don't think I'm ready to have my kids gone that long yet. They would probably be fine, I'm the one who would be too sad to have them gone so long. I just want them to have some extra social interaction, so we'll have to wait and see what we can work out.
I am the 2nd counselor in the Relief Society Presidency and get to teach often. We usually have about 10-13 women in RS and they are all very nice. Everyone in the ward loves to see our red-headed kids as we are somewhat of an anomoly. One lady, upon seeing Emelia, said, "I have never seen a baby with red hair. Was she born like that?" We have plenty of volunteers to hold Emelia while I teach, but usually she just goes with Joseph.
Joseph
Joseph finished his Master's of Arts degree in English Language Learning. he's been working on it for almost 2 years and got done about a month ago. We are very excited to have him done. The evaluator for his Capstone project said that she wanted to read more and that his project was "a rare example of excellence." It was very gratifying for him that she liked it so much. He is done with regular school for the summer and has had this week off to help me get the yard and house in order. He also has next week off before he starts teaching summer school for the month of June. We are planning on going camping, but we'll see if the wind lets up. It is super windy here often and if it is windy on Monday, there is no way I'm going to camp. The wind makes me crazy. (everyone like how I turned Joseph's section right around to be about me?) He loves teaching here and says that the challenges here are just different from challenges in Phoenix. He says that as a whole, kids up here are inherently smarter than kids in Phoenix, but they lack motivation. The kids he taught in Phoenix worked a lot harder than many students up here. He's working out how to teach best here and is enjoying the challenge.
Joseph is also the 2nd counselor in the Young Men's presidency. He is supposed to work with the deacons (12-13 year olds). There are 3 who come. They don't all come at the same time, however. He's also the Scoutmaster. Soon, he will start going on campouts-probably after the summer break since most people are gone all summer.
Well, that's about all I can think of. We did have a funny experience recently that is worth reporting. I was changing my clothes to join everyone out in the back yard. As I was changing, I heard some kids dribbling a basketball on our front walk right outside the bedroom window. I looked up to try to figure out why in the world kids were playing basketball in our yard and saw, not kids with balls, but 2 horses eating the only green vegetation in our yard. It just happened to be right outside our bedroom window. I ran to the back yard to get the kids and they thought it was hilarious that these horses were so close they could touch them. We were really nose-to-nose except for the glass in between us. We have no idea who they belonged to, but they did make a manure contribution for our garden. That part was more exciting to the kids than it was to me. Stray dogs and horses are not an uncommon sight here.
Now that really is all I can think of. How's that for 6 months worth of updates? No pictures this time, though. It's almost 2:00 am. If you want to see what we look like now and what Tuba city looks like, I guess you'll just have to come visit us. I'll make you cookies if you come.......promise.

Evelyn

The other day, I was in my bedroom trying to straighten up when I heard Evelyn in the living room singing. I walked out and she was dancing like crazy and singing, "Evelyn is so pretty!" over and over and over. I have to say, I like that song.

Never gonna get it

I keep waiting around for the perfect time to update our blog and I realized that there is no perfect time, so I will do a little as I go.
So much has happened in these past few months! Joseph and I were talking about how this year has had the most changes for us than any other year since we've been married. The year started out poorly, but has become great. We have had the loss of a job, 2 moves, one new baby, some health problems for the kids and a partridge in a pear tree. Ok, no partridge, but all the rest have been some pretty big deals.
First of all, our most dramatic change (though we had a couple) is that we are now residents of Tuba City, AZ. I am always surprised when anybody has heard of it, shocked when I hear that someone has actually been there. It is 75 miles away from nowhere in particular, literally in the middle of nowhere. 75 miles North of Flagstaff, South of Page, West of the Kayenta and East of the Grand Canyon. It's on the Navajo Indian Reservation and a stone's throw from the Hopi reservation. We love it. It is a new adventure and so far, things are going well. Everyone we have met has been so happy and friendly!
I'll get back to some tales from the Res in a minute, but our other dramatic change was adding Emelia. Though I have already blogged about her coming, I have not blogged about her drama. We found out at 6 weeks old that she has ureter reflux and a "duplicated system." BAsically, she has 2 tubes going from 1 kidney to her bladder (that's the "duplicated system") on one side and only 1 on the other side and all 3 are letting the urine go back into her kidneys. This is bad, obviously, but not as bad as a heart issue, so we deal with it. The doc said she has about a 35% chance of growing out of it and will likely need surgery at some point, but for now she is on daily antibiotics. She is the happiest baby I have ever seen and we love her so much. She turns 4 months on Monday and today after trying to squeeze her into 6-9 month clothes, I finally gave up and got down the 12 month outfits. She is growing like her big bro did. Chubby little red-haired girl with a big ol' smile.
So back to some tales of the res. Our first few hours were not the most promising. Joseph had gone up to TC a week ahead of us to figure out the housing and start work. He had gone to a church activity and talked to people about helping us move in, got some phone numbers and promises of aid. Well, when he got there with the U-haul, he could not get ahold of anybody and started unloading the truck. The kids and I got there about an hour later and my mom pulled up behind us. We all got busy trying to move in and wondering where the promised help could be. Joseph and I were in the truck getting more to take in when we heard a loud scream from inside the house. Immediately, I ran in with the big backpack I was holding still on my shoulder and saw Jacob standing in the middle of the living room holding his hand which was at an odd 45* angle. I picked him up, ran outside to the car all the while yelling at Joseph to get the car and take us to the hospital since we knew his arm had to be broken. Lucky for us, we were in the town with the only hospital for the area, the next closest being 1 1/2 hours away. Sparing the details of the hospital visit, it was actually a rather pleasant experience as far as hospital visits go. He got his arm set in a splint and we became acquainted with the health care system up there. Meanwhile, my mom was at home with the girls trying to figure out what to do with our stuff. She looked on my phone which had been left on the shelf in our rush out the door and found the number to the senior missionaries who had called me the week before. She explained what was going on and within 10 minutes, we had a full force of movers. We came home to a house full of boxes, set up beds and a u-haul which was turned in for us. We were so grateful to have that done and overwhelmed by the love the Church members showed by helping us. When we met them the next day, they were all excited to meet us and see how our little boy was doing.
I spend my days still unpacking, chasing kids and exploring our new town. More tales to come....

I'm really trying

So I finally updated my post that I wrote a month ago about Emelia's birth 2 months ago. here's my problem: Our computer died a while ago so we are using loaner laptops. I have a hard time wanting to type a lot on it and none of our pictures are on them. They're all on a hard drive that isn't incredibly convenient. I will try to get some pictures up soon of our cute kids. It's almost a crime to not put them up so you can all see what darling children they are. I' ll do my best. thanks.

Announcing.....

Emelia Marlowe Blodgett

born Friday, August 13, 2010 at 11:37 a.m.

9 lb 5 oz, 20 inches long

RED hair

Emelia has come to join our family. She is a really good baby and we are all so happy she is here.

Since I like getting all the details, I am going to tell the whole story below. If you don't like to get all the details, here's the short story: Emelia was born. We love her.

There. Now for the long story. We showed up at the hospital, got registered, etc. and sent to triage. Joseph and I watched The Price is Right while waiting to be prepped for surgery. When the Anesthesiologist came, I told him about my first 2 c-section experiences and how I wanted to have something between the two--not puke through the whole procedure like with Jacob, but also not be knocked out like I was with Evelyn. He explained that it was probably due to a blood pressure drop that I get so nauseated, so he said he'd keep an eye on that. I didn't really believe that he could control the nausea much and was prepared to be miserable again.

As I walked to the OR, I wasn't nearly as nervous as I was with either of my first 2 babies. With Jacob, I was terrified because he was my first and I had NO idea what to expect. With Evelyn, I was nervous about what would happen with her. Since we knew that this baby was healthy, I wasn't worried about that and I knew what to expect. So in I went, got up on the table, got my spinal block and laid down. I could feel my legs going numb before I even got all the way situated so I was just waiting to start feeling sick. The Anesthesiologist asked how I was feeling and I responded that I felt really weird and that he'd better get the bucket ready. Well, it was a good thing he did because just a few seconds later I made use of it. A lot. He was holding the little dish thing and I filled it twice. In a lull between barfings he said, "This is extreme. Could you hold this?" BEing self-sufficient, I reached my hand up to hold my little puke container and he said, frustrated, "Not you! the nurse." So he got someone to hold it while he pumped me full of whatever medication he thought he needed. Well, within seconds I was feeling tons better. They brought Joseph in and I was smiling. They started the procedure and Dr. McKernan and I chatted about my parents, the baby, whatever.

Finally, Dr. Mckernan told us that he was about to deliver the baby. He could see the head and announced, "We got a red head here!" When he said that I thought, "yeah, whatever. You've been saying that my whole pregnancy. I don't have babies with hair and I doubt you can already tell."

Seconds later, we heard a cry and the Doc said, "Daddy, what do we have here?" I turned to Joseph and he looked confused and said, "Ummmmmm.....Oh! A girl!" (Later he told me that he looked confused and took a while to figure it out because a nurse was in the way and he couldn't see...not because he doesn't know how to tell the difference.)

They held her over the curtain so I could see her and of course, she was the cutest little chunky redheaded girl we have! The first thing I thought was Whoa! she really does have hair!!!

Then the nursed took her and did their thing, cleaning her up, etc. Joseph did his fatherly duty and took picures and I couldn't stop smiling. They sewed me up and after what seemed like forever got me ready to go to recovery. I got worried since I also get motion sick and with both of my other 2 got sick when they wheeled me around. True to form, I did again. I'll spare the details of recovery, but typically moms are only in there about an hour. My nurse didn't want to release me until I hadn't thrown up for a while. I was in there about 2 1/2 hours. Joseph brought Emelia in for me to try to nurse, but I couldn't even hold her and sent him back to the nursery. All I remember from the recovery time is the nurse changing my gown a couple of times when I missed the bucket. Gross, I know. I'll stop now.

Finally, I got to my room and could see my baby and hold her. I honestly don't remember a whole lot about the first day as I was full of drugs, but I know I was happy to have my baby girl.

I do remember that later in the day, Jacob and Evelyn came to visit. Jacob was super excited to hold his baby sister. Evelyn had a fever. She went home with Grandpa not long after she got there. She didn't feel well at all. It was very sad for me to not be able to help her.

We stayed at the hospital until Monday morning. AS soon as the kids got home, Jacob yelled, "Where's the baby?" and ran upstairs to see her. She was asleep in her swing so both kids went and got her their favorite stuffed animal and baby doll to put in the swing with her. It was very sweet.