So last week, Susan sends me this Email that she is sending off Dean's gift (remember Susan is the one who sent us a GC for a personalized blanket as soon as she had birth details for Dean, who was only known as NB at the time) and she had some room, would I like anything...like chocolate chips? Then, like TWO days later, FedEx was knocking on my door!

Georgia and I happily opened it up and the first thing we saw was a little Elmo-embroidered baggy with HER name on it. She was actually interested in the contents of the bag, she just wanted to carry it around, but I convinced her to look inside, and there was a sweet little baby doll blankie with a sleepy Elmo embroidered on it. All of this, despite the fact that Georgia got her own personalized blanket and sweater when she was born...And for Dean? A sweet- as-duckies blankie, a bib and a burp cloth. Each one embroidered beautifully and packed into yet another embroidered bag - this one with Grover and Elmo on it. I really do have the bestest friends! 

Just after FedEx came, Andrea stopped by and we gave Dean a bath so that I could do a photo shoot with him later that day (I had done one the day before but only got a few shots out of it:

And I'm picky, I will not deny it. I wanted more and I wanted better - something difficult to do with just a photographer and no helping hands (Georgia's weren't quite what I'd call helping...!) So Dean got his bath (this boy needs a daily bath the way he spits up, we wake up in a puddle every morning, not to mention the fact that we go through about 4 cloth diapers - as burp cloths - a DAY) which he hates and I heated up the living room until it was nearly unbearable and of course around the time I was ready to take pictures, he was not. He wanted to nurse and cuddle and doze, NOT be stripped of his clothing and posed for photos. I tried fighting it and making him pose...but it didn't work, and Georgia kept helping...so I finally gave up and sat down with him. Well, surprise surprise, that did it. He calmed down and we got some great shots!

Those are just a few, click HERE to see the October Set at Flickr and all the photos we took on Wednesday. These are also some of the photos I used to make Dean's Birth Announcement. Actually, I made 5 birth announcements and was able to narrow it down to 4...which I then ordered. Hopefully they'll be here by next week so I can start getting them sent out. If you are curious and want to see them, let me know and maybe I'll share a few. Otherwise, be patient and you might have one popping up in your mailbox, or you might have already had one in your Inbox!

Is this post getting too long or too picture-heavy? I just went ahead and changed the Title so that I can save today's events for a future post and I will leave you instead with something my darling girlie did yesterday while her Daddy and I were distracted:

If you want to read the journaling - click on the picture or HERE (which will also give you layout credits).

I'll try and come back tomorrow with Dean's latest bath episode and pics of the kiddos with Andrea...pics you will have already seen, if you were looking at the October Set with the photo shoot pictures...