Trampoline etc.

A couple weeks ago I took the plunge and bought a trampoline for our backyard. We now have no backyard left!  Haha.  but it's ok because all they really want to do is play on the trampoline anyway!  I still have space for my garden beds so everyone is happy! Jadyn and heidi are already practicing their flips and Mya is working on  perfecting the bum drop ;)  The neighbour kids always want to come and play and it is perfect.  Exactly what I hoped for.  hopefully we wont have too many injuries!

Watching daddy set up the trampoline!

We love putting the sprinkler under, summer 2012 is going to be epic!  Haha.

And at the beginning of May, before the trampoline, we had a brief snow day.  The kids of course wanted to play in the last snowfall of the year!

I love Mya's camera faces!

And I found more cousin photos on my iphone that need to make it into the Taylor Family Journal!

Mya and Abby

Miss Ella

Baby Jake - 3 days old!

I am pretty sure Jake is going to be the most photographed baby ever! I just can't get enough of his cuteness! And I know he wont be small for long so I am hoping to capture him every other day or so until he wont let me pose him any longer! He is already a little feisty when I try to move him into position, so I know I don't have a lot of time with him! On day 3 I was ready for the challenge and took him down to the basement studio for his modeling debut!  I just love this little guy!

And my lovely midwife Carol who came to check on him.  Love her!

Baby Jake - 2 days

 Yawn

 Smile

Content ;)

Josh's birthday

We celebrated josh's birthday the day before baby Jake was born. We were hoping for a baby for his birthday but he decided to wait an extra day to have his own special day!

The girls got daddy some bike gear for his triathlon coming up.

Jadyn wrote him some love notes ;)

And Mya sat perfectly poised with her legs crossed in her backwards bathing suit drawing on her whiteboard for the celebration. 

We got a DQ cake because lets face it, I ended up going into labour that night and I wasn't really feeling like baking a cake that day!

The girls helping daddy out with his 3 candles.  31 years old!

Maternity photos - 38 weeks

Chloe was kind enough to come out with me to snap some pictures before Jake was born, I love her creativity and how they turned out. It was such a fun time and I am so glad we did it. Now I can always look back and remember how HUGE I was. Thanks so much Chloe, you did a great job!!

 One of my favs. I love the vintage umbrella, the light and how you can truly see how big that belly got!  lol.

Introducing....

Jacob Joshua Taylor 

Friday, May 18th, 2012 

5:51 AM

8 lbs 21" long 

Jake was born at home after a short labour and delivery (though it seemed like an eternity at the time!) I went into labour after a date night for Josh's birthday where I purposefully ordered hot wings to try to induce labour.  I guess anything can happen!  Thank you to my brother in law, Jordan, for offering to babysit so we could have a night out!  I went to bed late that night and at about 1:30 or so started to feel some contractions before I even had a chance to fall asleep.  I came downstairs and edited the maternity photos Chloe had just given me that night to try to pass the time.  I called Carol (my midwife) at about 3:30 when things started to progress and decided I should wake up josh too.  Got in the tub around 4:30 I think when I needed some pain relief, then it was just a waiting game.  At 5:00 I heard Mya cry out and josh went to help her.  She occasionally wakes up in the middle of the night and comes to our room and sleeps on a little bed on the floor I have for her, and I usually don't even know she is there until morning.  She hadn't done this in a while though so I was surprised to hear her!  Josh left to try to get her back to sleep in her room, and shortly after the babies heartrate dropped slightly so I had to move to the bed, it quickly went back up and they figured he must have just been turning and that it is normal for the heartrate to drop like that, they just wanted to be on the safe side.  Mya was still awake and I didn't want Josh to miss the birth of his only son so he came to the doorway holding her and she got to see the baby born!  (she wasn't at an angle to see anything but she figured out pretty soon what was happening!  She was so quiet from being half asleep and just came and cuddled with me and the baby.  It was pretty sweet.  I didn't plan on having any kids around because I didn't want to freak them out but it was special sharing those first few moments with her.

The big girls woke up about an hour later and were pretty surprised to have the baby here!  They loved watching the midwives doing the measuring and checking the baby. 

 Jake didn't love being weighed, lol!

 

 

Or the bath...

He loved big sister cuddles!

 

 

 

On his second day, cuddling with an excited Mya!