Sophia Singing to Micah

It was one of those glorious moments.. I actually had the camera close and was able to catch these precious 45 seconds. Makes my heart melt. Sophia is the BEST big sister in the whole entire world!!

Newborn Photos

Our friend, Bri Anderson, came by this morning to take some newborn photos of our little man. She has recently taken up photography... you'd never know that she hasn't been doing this forever. She has an amazing eye! And our children make fabulous models, I must say!!

http://www.briandersonphotos.com/blog/2010/04/fresh-and-new/

Thank you for capturing our kiddos so beautifully, Bri!

Micah James Doe!

Micah James was born April 14th at 12:57pm. 7.8lbs and 20.5 inches. The whole family is doing well! Thanks for your prayers!

The last days as a family of three...

Thought I'd take some time to write about what Sophia has been up to lately since her world is about to be

rocked by a new addition to the Doe Fam.

She has facial expressions, eye rolls, eye brow raises

that make us laugh every day.

She has discovered that her parents names are Jared and Marcie. Today, Jared wiped her face and she said "Thanks Jared" and when I asked her if she wanted to make muffins she said,

"No, Marcie can make them." Gee thanks.

I love the way she says both of our names.

It's too cute.

She has quite the imagination and we love watching her play. She often pulls Devin into her world. We look outside and see them holding hands and walking across the grass.

"Hold my hand when we cross the street De-De!"

She still doesn't quite have the "f" and "v" sound down yet which is unfortunate since her name is SoPHia and her playmates are OliVer, DeVin, AVery and Papa KeVin. Speech Specialist Auntie Allie says not to worry though, It'll come :)

She counts to five in Spanish. Neither Jared, nor I taught her that.

Too much Dora?

She's starting to recognize letters and can pull out the ones in her name.

She plays with her baby brother doll. She'll make him food with her play kitchen tools and feeds him with a small spoon. And she disciplines him. A few weeks ago he went to time out for hitting mommy. Whoops!

She wakes up every morning and tells us she wants to "go home". She means leave home and she usually wants to leave in Aunt Koo Koos car.

She talks about Baby Micah and I think she's gonna be a great helper around here.

After he comes, next stop... potty training!

We love you beautiful Sophia Layne!

Happy Easter!

We were hoping Sunday might be the day Micah would decide to join us, but no such luck.

We had a fun eventful day regardless!

Can you tell I'm done with the whole "being pregnant" thing? :)

The Easter Bunny did a great job hiding the eggs in the Lawrence backyard. Sometimes it took a some prompting for the little ones to actually find the egg. Pure confusion from Sophia on this one. She just couldn't see the egg next to the gate handle.

Ahh... finally found it.

Emma, Sophia and Devin. So big!

Jonny defended his name as the Badminton Tourney Champion with a new partner this year.. none other than Jared Doe. They were awarded some sweet beach mats! While we watched the tournament mom commented that she felt like the ground was moving. We all sort of agreed then really agreed once the pool started splashing up on the sides! We felt the earth quake from Mexico... definitely a first for most of us!

The Easter Bunny Came to My House?!

Love the excitement and anticipation on this picture :).

She can't even believe the Easter Bunny brought her something to her house!

Coloring Eggs