How Fitting!

You want me to pose?

Started walking 1 wk after bday

Did you miss us?  I don't know if many read this blog, which is fine, however after one relative coming out yesterday and asking why I don't post on it anymore and then spending some time last night catching up on a friend's blog I went to bed with a great reminder about how I need to make this blog more of a priority for the journaling of the happenings in my family since I don't do anything beyond this.  I also woke up this morning with a determination that I was going to try and do better, so I figured that determination starts by just posting.  I'm sure there is alot I have missed in the past year since I last posted (hopefully we did some fun memorable things :), however I decided to just start with the right now so that I don't get discouraged with the missed past postings I should have done.  How fitting it is that the last post I had was after our sweet Jason Wynn Stout was born and here he is a little over one year later still bringing great joy to our family.  He also is the only boy with me right now since the other two went with Adam on the Father and Son's campout last night.  I'm glad I get to have Jason for one more year, but he is already at the age that he does not like being left behind and feels that he should get to go wherever the boys and dad goes.  He fits right in with the crew and doesn't like being left out.  I still have to train myself to take more pictures (I should carry it around like I do my cell phone :)  I know that having pictures to post helps encourage me to write, so I will have to figure something out there.  My sister Susie took these pictures of Jason and did a great job.  She caught some wonderful facial expressions, this one being one of my favorite.  I'll have to get some of the others from her since I had a few more I especially liked.  As you can tell he is a cutie and his personality adds even more.  When we were getting ready to have Jason join our family, Adam and I could not imagine what kind of personality a third boy would have since we felt with Tyson and Lincoln that we had the personalities covered, but Jason brought a new twist and makes us all laugh.  His older brothers adore and take great care of him.

Jason Wynn Stout

Here is a picture of our new little boy, Jason Wynn Stout. He was born the day before Adam's birthday, April 6th and weighed 7 lbs 14 ozs (My smallest in that category) and 20 inches long. Once again, like my experience with Lincoln, I scheduled to be induced, since my boys seem to be big in the head and shoulders and I was positive for the bacteria they test for, so I didn't want to have complications with that and wanted to be able to get the doses of antibiotic before he came. I quickly confirmed my shaky decision to have an epidural after a very strong contraction that brought the pain and I didn't regret it. This was the best delivery, even though I still ended up with a 2nd degree tear (same as Lincoln). Jason's head was 37 cm (the biggest a nurse there had ever seen). At first I thought that he looked like Tyson and then shortly after Lincoln's look emerged. Adam and Susie were there. Susie took some great pictures and later did a photo shoot for her photography that she recently started. She's pretty good at it. I just think it is funny that usually it seems that the more kids you have then the less pictures you find yourself taking, but it has been the opposite for my kids since Jason has had by far the most pictures. We feel extremely blessed to have another little boy join our family.