Colors? Check!

Eric is really thriving at preschool this year.  Today he came home with a card certifying he knows all his colors (pretty sure he knew them before, but the class just finished the unit).  You would have thought he'd hung the moon!

Start Your Engines!

This year Caden wanted a race car birthday party.  I wanted to do something low key and easy.  Somehow he won.  We did a relay race with real tires, a bean bag toss, played Red Light Green Light (Caden's favorite game right now), blew hot wheels cars with party blowers, and then each kid made a soap box race car that they raced down a ramp.

After all the friends left we opened family presents.  Eric and Kyle were as thrilled with the gifts as Caden was.

Adam's 2 Week Stats

Weight: 7 pounds 9 ounces (25%)
Length: 20.25 inches (25%)
Head Circumference: 35.1 cm (26%)

Sunday Classics

Adam ready for his church debut - wearing the white collared shirt sewn by Ryan's mom - and being 'tended' by daddy after a long day of meetings.

Good Helper

Kyle races for his lawn mower every time Ryan pulls the real one out.  He also likes to proclaim, "I a good
helper!"  How could Ryan have done it without him?

Meeting Baby Brother

All three boys were so excited to meet their new baby brother.  After dinner Grandma and Grandpa Dodds brought them by the hospital so each boy could have a turn holding Adam.

Welcome, Adam Ryan!

This little boy seemed like the baby who would never come.  I went into labor Friday night, that continued through Saturday, then stopped abruptly.  I had a few complications and thought I would get induced on Sunday while I was at the hospital for monitoring, but ended up getting sent home with an okay bill of health.  The midwife had scheduled an induction on Wednesday, so we thought that would be the day, but due to the holiday I got bumped to Thursday.  The hospital was so busy Thursday I nearly got bumped to Friday.  It was my shortest labor by far, though, clocking in at just a little over 3 hours from the time the pitocin started to the time baby debuted.  When Ryan sent out the text to announce his arrival to family, he jokingly said we planned to name him Iyve Ben Stahlin Scherbel (I've been stalling).  He surprised us all by showing up with a little bit of reddish-brown peach fuzz hair and a set of lungs that pierced daddy's ear drums.

Adam Ryan Scherbel.  Born Thursday, September 5 at 3:49 pm.  Showed 6 pounds 15 ounces on the scale, but the nurse rounded up to 7 pounds even on all the official paperwork.  Measured 19 inches long.

Peaches!

Our peach trees are huge this year and we've had a bounteous harvest.  Kyle has discovered the peaches, and like all fresh fruits and veggies he is in love.  He'll walk outside, survey the tree, point to a peach, and request "That one!"