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At last, my blessing day post is here! It was a great weekend filled with family, fun and sunshine. I know you’ve been waiting for the pictures to hit the presses, this oughta fill your much-needed fix…for today! 

Mommy finally got her sewing machine purring like Cheddar and opened the floodgates of her fabric creativity. First, she found a pattern from the 1950’s and got to work. Behold, the elegance!  

I got spiffed up and pampered in preparation for my big day. Check out my “professionally” manicured nails!

My pedicure looks pretty good too. There is history sewn into this dress: The lace on it is from my Great Grandma Leatrice’s fabric stockpile. Only thing is, Leatrice never had any girls. So even though she passed 20 years ago, it looks like the lace was saved for me!

And the reveal! Peek-A-Boo!

Has Mommy mentioned that I am a happy baby?

Look Mommy, look! There’s some groupie love headed down the stairs to tell me how cute I look! 

Have you had enough pics of me yet? I didn’t think so!

Aw shucks Mama, the photoshoot was easy. It’s the other kids’ loss if they don’t like their picture taken as much as I do. Let’s go meet my fans!

Brinley, are you looking at the camera? And smiling?! Does Mommy have to make you a new dress every time she needs you to pose?

That’s a sweet tie Drew. And you’re not looking too shabby yourself Rowan!

Drew tried to get Ro-dog to look at the camera but she would have none of it. The daffodils were far more interesting to look at.

Mommy actually succeeded at getting a nice pic of all four of us! I was exempt from looking at the camera, so instead I soaked up the sun and took a quick snooze.

Daddy!?! I can’t see my adoring fans! Where are you taking me? Oh, it’s time to go get official? Hurry up Daddy! Ciao everybody!

Things are getting close to normal around here, so we’ve served up a big bowl of ketchup soup for you to slurp on while we keep on attacking the boxes of mystery that are lurking in the basement. Normally we wouldn’t bother, but we still can’t find some items that are hard to live without!

Here is Eleanor at 6 weeks, her first big smile! She’s doing well and growing fast. But wait! This looks like the end of the movie!? Ellie hasn’t gotten much face time on the blog, so we thought we would dedicate a whole post to her and her rapidly growing self.

Is the tape all the way rewound? Alrighty, here we go. Here is the first cloth diaper E ever wore. Can you do the Can Can? She can!

Let the freak flag fly! We’ve never talked about it much, but we’ve been solely cloth diapering since Ro-dawg was born. We’ve built up quite the stash. This is just Eleanor’s!

Many of the diapers we have (like this one) are homemade.

We made boy diapers, we made girl diapers. We made some diapers out of bamboo, and others out of T-shirts. Fly Worlando!

It makes a lot of sense to us to diaper this way. Have you seen the price of disposables at Costco these days? It’ll make your face do this!

To fix your face, we recommend going to the spa. Soak away all that anxiety with Burt’s Bees aromatherapy.

Then when you’re ready, get a massage from the elite staff. They’re trained to please!

After your soak, warm up in a nice toasty wrap while you get your hair did.

Don’t take too long though; you don’t want to miss the show! We’ve had this swing since Drew was born. We thought this bad boy had given up, but it looks like its back for another round. The music still doesn’t play, the lights don’t flash, and the mobile doesn’t rotate anymore, but it still swings! Curse the day it dies for good!

When it’s all said and done, scoot on home in your sweet ride, complete with a custom heavy contrast paint job.

So E, how was your day at the spa?

First I was stripped naked, then I got soaking wet, and then three hairless pink monkeys started rubbing their hands all over me!

That sounds crazy! Are you sure?

That’s not the half of it! After they attacked me, they rolled me up in a carpet and put me on some creaky old roller coaster! I must have blacked out from all the g’s, cuz when I woke up all I could see was a bunch of crazy circles and stripes!

I swear it’s true! (It’s hard to doubt a face like this!)

Exqueeze me, I have one more thing to say…

…but it will have to wait till later…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…

Hi there! It’s me, Eleanor Blair. I just came crashing into this world, so please forgive the dazed and confused look on my face. And those aren’t blemishes or bruises on my face; they’re speeding tickets. And quit it with that flash photography Daddy, Mommy hates that!

Hi Mama! They got me all measured, weighed and vaccinated. How are you feeling? Yeah, I kinda figured you might say that…

Check out my cute little dried out toes! Anybody got some lotion?

Are you still here?! Can’t you tell I’m tryin’ to take a nap here? Leave me alone and come back in an hour…that’s 7 a.m. Sharp!

My bro and biggest sis made some cool crafts to welcome me to the family. Aw, shucks!

I’m a squirmy little one. I managed to wriggle out of my swaddled blanket, slide my shirt up and take my hat off. And now I’m exhausted!

I’m outta here! No autographs please. My skin is taking on a yellow jaundice-y tone that is not very becoming.

This was the first time I met the sibs. Germy kids are not allowed at the hospital. Hey Drew, what’s the deal? Is that a raccoon on your head?

The deal was Drew got to have a mohawk for Crazy Hair Day at school. Then Mommy went into labor, so he ended up getting to keep his hawk for two days! Rock ‘n’ roll!

Rowan was super excited to meet me too. But, it seems the adrenalin wore off about 5 minutes too soon. Looks like I’m not the only one who falls asleep while eating. Well, we’re all pretty tired around here, but we’ll see ya again soon!