Our Newest Addition

I figured I would start off this post with a picture of Andrea's newest trick. She now loves to "smile" whenever a camera, or even cell phone, is pointed in her direction. So here is a picture of her all ready for church "smiling" for the camera. (And yes, that is a Tessy blurr passing by).
Next- Last Monday when Ryan said, "I really don't have much to do at work this week" I thought, "Maybe I could talk him into taking a day off". I really should ignore it when he says things like that! But he was able to come home "early" on Friday so we ran some errands in Salt Lake and I talked him into going to the Discovery museum at the Gateway. After taking a tour of it 2 years ago I knew I wanted to bring Andrea some day. However, Ryan and I soon realized she is still too young to fully enjoy the experience. So we didn't stay long but Andrea always likes watching kids play. Here she is driving one of the cars.

And this is Daddy helping her load balls into the beehive.So although it seemed to be a waste of money, at least we can look forward to going back one day.

Now for the title of this post, we have a new addition to our household...

Meet Bracken:

I was contacted by a co-worker about a month ago for advice as far as daycare once his wife went back to work. I was immediately excited about offering myself as an option. Bracken's mommy is only working two days a week and some of those days will be Saturdays when his Daddy will be home. So that meant a babysitter would only be needed roughly 6 days a month.

Ever since I decided to stay home full time again I had been praying for a way to keep our "fun" money available. This would be perfect! Besides that, I know how important it is as parents to find a babysitter that you feel comfortable with and allows you to relax while working. Brett and Dy seemed to like the idea as well.

So Monday was my first day with the little guy. The first hour was a little hectic when I had to soothe Bracken while I prepared his bottle, and Andrea was not happy seeing me hold another baby! But after both sweeties were fed and diapers were changed the day couldn't have gone better. Most of the day when Andrea was awake Bracken was asleep, and when Andrea was asleep I was able to give Bracken some one on one time. At one point they were both asleep and I didn't know what to do with myself!Andrea was so cute when he first arrived and wanted to keep holding his hand as you could see in the first picture. Then once I put him in Andrea's rocker she wanted to show him how it was done. By the end of the day when Brett came to pick up Bracken Andrea had really become attached and tried to get his car seat straps undone. I think it will be a lot of fun seeing these two interact!