Thomas Franklin

He's here .... Thomas Franklin Donehue born on July 23 at 11:42 am.

You would think naming our only boy would be easy but we didn't know what we were going to name him until several hours after he was born.  We ended up going with his paternal grandfathers middle name Thomas and his maternal grandfathers middle name Franklin.  I think it suits him...



Brian's last moments as a father of three.








He did end up being my biggest baby. 7 lbs 13 oz and 21 inches



I LOVE living this close to my brother and sister in law.  They took the girls on Sunday so we could rest before we went in on Tuesday and Seana brought them back on Thursday when we were checking out of the hospital.
They were so excited to meet their brother.






He already has three little mommas.



I was really surprised by how excited Payson was over him.  She calls him "brudder".  We are just working on learning how to love brudder gently right now.




We have not attempted to leave our house with all four yet but so far at home the adjustment hasn't been that bad.  Coffee is my friend and I am thankful that my mom will be here when Brian has to start school in a week.  We are all just in love with this precious little face.

Sid turns Four

Back on June 12 Miss Sidney turned into a big Four year old, although Sidney will tell you that she is not a big girl until Brother comes then she has decided she will be one.  She is a mess...still such a girly girl (very opinionated about what she will wear), but a tough, stubborn, loving little girly girl who marches to the beat of her own drum.



We were still living in temporary housing on base so we didn't do a huge celebration.  Just had a family meal of all Sidney's favorites Hot Dogs, Popcorn and Watermelon.



And cake of course.



Carolyn was so funny when Sidney was blowing out her candles.  Trying to give her tips on how not to catch your hair on fire.  I don't think she will ever forget her hair incident.
And where Carolyn kind of gets nervous when all the attention is on her... Sidney just relishes in it.
Can't believe she is four and I love the little slash big girl she is becoming.



Speaking of Carolyn.. I forgot to blog that she lost her first tooth while we were traveling around.  She chipped her front two teeth when she was 18 months old which is why they look shorter but one of her bottom ones was the first to go.
Now our teeth are constantly talked about.  The status of all Carolyn's wiggly teeth, Sid thinks she has loose teeth and we even talk about the boiled peanut man from way back(who knew a man with no teeth would make such an impression on my then 4 & 2 year olds). Carolyn was a little worried at first that her teeth weren't coming back and she would end up looking like him.
Exciting conversations in the Donehue household. HA

Wetumpka, Alabama

Guess who unpacked their last box this past Sunday!!  It feels absolutely wonderful to finally be settled and there is no way we could have done it this quickly without help from our family (Brian's cousin Robbie and Uncle DD and Aunt Seana came out to help us.)  So far we are loving Wetumpka  (which is just a fun word to say in its self) Alabama!

(Below are the girls in front of our house the weekend we moved in.)

Now that we are all unpacked we are just on baby watch (I'm 37 weeks). At my last doctor's appointment on Monday they performed an ultrasound because he thought I was measuring small.  The Little Guy was measuring in at 6lbs 7 oz though and looked as healthy as can be.

(I broke out the tripod and tried to get a couple of shots in our backyard of the family of five before we turn into the family of SIX!)