Announcing Our Newest Arrival!

Alex Michael Wolf entered the world on Thursday, August 20 after a very short labor. He weighed 7 lbs, 8 oz and is 20 1/2 inches long. He has the most blond hair of all our kids!

Rough morning!

Blondie!

Baby Day!

Since Alex has decided he is nice and comfortable where he is and has not decided to come on his own, we will be inducing tomorrow. We are all excited to meet him and I am especially excited that I will not be pregnant anymore. I feel huge and am terribly uncomfortable so I am glad the end is near! Please pray for us tomorrow if you think about it. My doctor thinks it should go quickly and easily and we are hoping for the best! I have been having pretty strong contractions on and off for 4 or 5 days now so I don't think it will take much to get things going. We will post an update (with pictures!!) as soon as we can.

Our last picture as a family of 4!

40 weeks!

Swimming

As we headed to the neighborhood pool tonight I realized that I really haven't taken any pictures of the kids in the water this summer. Here are a few that I took tonight.

Having fun!

Kyle swimming! Kyle took swimming lessons in May with a wonderful teacher and was swimming by his 3rd lesson. Ever since then he has been a little fish!

Haley in her swim vest

Kyle jumping

Cousins!

My sister, Claire, has been visiting and we have had the best time catching up and letting the kids get to know each other. Kyle and Haley are both completely smitten with their little cousin and just can't get enough of her! Here are some pictures we took this weekend of them together.

Haley's Last Ballet Class

This week was Haley's last ballet/tumbling class of the summer. She really enjoyed it and is already asking to go back! We are not signing her up for the fall since we will be a little busy with the new little one, but we may try again in the spring. Here are a few pictures from their class.

The other little ballerinas in her class.

Almost There!

Here I am at 36 1/2 weeks. I am feeling pretty huge and really ready to meet baby Alex. I am very tired and moving slowly these days. I am so thankful that Jared is willing to work on my long lists of things I want done before the baby comes. He is also doing dishes, grocery shopping and helping with the cooking (when we cook). The kids are so excited about meeting their baby brother. I hope the excitement lasts after he arrives! Their favorite new game is to put Legos on my tummy and watch Alex "kick" them off. He is a very active baby, the most active between about 9pm and midnight. That maybe a bad sign for our sleeping patterns in the next few weeks!

Here is a picture of me with Karen, my best friend since we were 6 years old! She is about 29 weeks pregnant with baby # 6, which is also a boy. We are really excited to have boys so close together! The funny thing is that even with this many kids (there will 9 between the two of us!) they are staggered and this is the closest we have ever had babies.

I should only have about 3 weeks left at the most. We will keep you posted!

July 4th

July 4th Picture!