Shiloh Leda Herron

Shiloh (meaning 'His Gift') Leda (after Daniel's Grandma) Herron was born July (of course all Herron children must be born in July) 7, 2011 at 7:01 am.  She was 7 lbs. 9 oz. and 20 in. long.

She is absolutely beautiful! She's been nursing well and sleeping well. Both of which I am so thankful for.

I couldn't help but add the two photos of Lily at the end. She makes me laugh. She's into putting and taking off her shoes and socks.  She tries to put on any piece of clothing she sees lying around - Shiloh's pants, Judes underwear, Papa's shoes... And I just love these shots of her with her stylish sunglasses and necklace.

finally - the pregnant belly

many of you have been asking for pictures of the belly.  sorry they are so long in coming. here ya go...

after stitches and 4th of july

The rest of our 4th was nice and non-eventful. Lily had lots of smiles and all the cousins waved flags and spun sparklers.

stitches

Our 4th of july started out with a bang yesterday at grammy and grandpa's place. Jude, Lily, and myself had just arrived and were probably there not 15 minutes, when Lily tripped walking across the carpet and hit the bridge of her nose (scrapped her eye and the outside of her eye) on my parents' brick fireplace step. Poor thing - she immediatedly started crying and bleeding all over. We took her to the emergency room (where I had hoped to be except for a totally different reason :) ) and they eventually gave her three stitches. She was a trooper - didn't even cry when they cleaned all of her wounds. Here's an iphone shot of her before she received her stitches.

Camping

In June, we went camping with Grammy and Grandpa and my sister and her family. Lily and I got the privilege of sleeping in my parent's pop-up camper and Jude and Papa slept in the two man tent. The funniest story of the weekend was Saturday night. We were all sitting around the campfire. The kids had snarfed down a bunch of marshmallows and Grammy was making cherry pies (in the campfire pie maker). She gave Jude a half cherry pie and he held it for a little while until it cooled. The next thing I knew, Papa said, 'Hey Jude, where's your cherry pie?'. Jude looked perplexed and said, 'I don't know'. We all looked around and I thought, 'hmm, who knows what he did with it'. 5 or 10 minutes pass as we chat around the fire some more. Then Jude hops up from his chair to get a little closer to the fire. And low and behold, there was his cherry pie, plastered to his little bum! He sat on it and had no idea. I laughed so hard it hurt (literally caused contractions).

37 Weeks...

I am now 37 weeks and feeling very pregnant. I'll have to try and post a picture of me sometime soon so you can see the belly. But for now...check out these pics. We had our last ultrasound a week ago (36 weeks). They took a few 3D pictures for us. They are quite amazing. I had to take a picture of the picture - so they loose a little in translation...but it is so cool to see her features.

jenna says...

The latest Jude story…

Jude made us smile on Sunday evening as we were eating dinner.  We were talking about our day and trying to get Jude to tell us how Sunday School went with Asher, etc.  Jude kept saying, ‘Jenna says, “one, one”’ (and he would emphatically hold up his right index finger to indicate ‘one’ and then move it up and down as he said the second ‘one’).  I thought, ‘hmm, that’s interesting, there must have been something Auntie Jenna was teaching the kids in large group that meant something about one’.  Maybe she watned one child to speak at a time?  But Jude kept on saying it in a serious tone, ‘Jenna says, one, one’.

And then it hit Daniel and I - maybe she was teaching them a verse?  And then….a big… ‘OOOOhhhhhhh’ [light bulb – think Dispicable Me]. ‘Jenna says’… ‘Jennasays’ … ‘Jennasis’ … ‘Genesis 1:1’!!!!  And then we knew what he was talking about.  We said, ‘Did you learn Genesis 1:1 in Sunday School?’ Jude gives a really big silent nod. I say, ‘In the beginning, God created the heavens and the…’. And Jude finishes the statement by saying ‘Earth’ and holds up his arms in a big circle over his head.  So funny.  I still don’t know if he thinks it’s ‘Jenna says’ or ‘Genesis’ – but it sounds the same coming from a 3 year old.