Swing

Jon and I just recently put up a swing for Rylee on our over hang above the driveway. She loves it. As you can see this day was especially COLD!!! Burh, is all we had to say in between the WEEE!

Rylee loves her Brody!

Rylee loves to smother Brody with hugs and kisses! If I'm not too careful, she would smother him to death...literally. She thinks that when a baby is sleeping, the blanket goes over their face. She also likes to lay on Brody instead of next to him, so she can see him better.

As you can see from the picture, she loves to pose on him when taking pictures. She also loves doing chest compressions when playing with him...I guess I shouldn't watch ER with her anymore. She is extremely helpful and tells Brody, "It's ok", when he is crying and tries to pick him up...scary!!!

Camera Fun!

Jon was attempting to take some first "good" pictures of Brody. Rylee couldn't help herself, she had to be in the picture TOO! They are too cute together. She just wants to love on him all the time.

I would have to say, don't their noses look the same?

Alright, so now I got a hold of Rylee and Jon was able to do his thing!!! Look at these shots!! They're fabulous!! "Jon the photographer", here he comes!!

First Day at Church

This is our first day back to church and Brody is just 8 days old! What a blessing it is to have this church and gospel in our lives. It helps remind us each week to keep the proper perspective of family first and to live a modest lifestyle. We have been eternally blessed by being able to have a family of our own. Thanks Heavenly Father.

RV Show

The 4 of us went to the RV show in Sacramento to just...look around. We had Rylee check out the ATV's. Here she is on a little dirt bike, just like mommy and daddy!!She loved sitting on all the different toys!! We met up with Grandpa Nick, Grandma Kathy and Grandpa Little. Here she is on a quad!!! Looks like fun to me!We then made our way to the bounce houses for some real fun. Sorry about no pics of the jumping, it's because we were having such a great time!

Grandparent's Visit

Since Grandpa Nick was unable to make it to the hospital due to a cold/flu bug he had, he and Grandma Kathy decided to come up that next weekend to visit their newest grandchild.Here is Jon experimenting again with his camera. Not too bad, Jon!Rylee had such a blast with gifts and attention. She can never get enough.

Valentine's Day

Today Rylee, Brody and I went over to Aly's house for a Valentine's Day Luncheon. The kids got to frost some cookies and play with all of Addie's fun toys.

Before heading over, Rylee and I made valentines for all the other little kids that went.
Here are her new "Ruby Red Slippers" from Oma. She loves tromping around the house in them because they are glittery! She sure thinks she's hot stuff in these!

Brody's Folow Up

As some of you know, Brody was born with a bulging frontal fontanelle. It worried the MD's because of the chance it could be a bleed or hydrocephalus. They ended up doing an ultrasound the last day we were in the hospital. Luckily the results showed trama from a fast delivery which is ok and usually located on the back of their heads, which is why they wanted to make sure everything was ok. WOW run on sentence! This is Rylee waiting in the MD's office for Brody's follow up from the delivery. Like I said, I think the medical thing runs in the family!!!! She loves to get her blood pressure taken and look into your ears and eyes!!!!

First day home.

Rylee just loves her new little brother. She used to call him "Bre-doe", but by the time he was born she got his name right. She loves to kiss and squeeze him to death...all the time!!! Here is Brody's first stroller ride. He loves the jiggliness just like Rylee. These two are quite similar. They prefer to be awake over sleeping.

Brody is here!!!!

Brody Nick Rudnicki is here!!! He was born at 11:11pm on 2/9/08. He was 7 lbs 4.4 oz and was 20" long. It was a speedy labor and delivery a total of 2 hours...no time for drugs!!! We almost didn't make it to the hospital, because where I delivered is 35 minutes from my house. Right when we got out of the car, my water broke and he was born 5 minutes after that. The doctor was nowhere to be found and the Charge Nurse delivered Brody. Good job Charge Nurse.This was a far cry from the 23 hour labor with Rylee...with her, once I got the epidural, I got to sleep until I was told to push. Two pushes and a grunt later, she was born. Almost anticlimactic. With Brody I told Jon to bring dental floss and scissors for the ride there, just in case Jon needed to deliver another baby. Jon recounts saying that I appeared to be in the same pain as I was with Rylee so he decided not to speed to the hospital but to go the speed limit. I, of course, was checking up on his speed but didn't have enough time in between contractions to YELL at him to go faster. Jon was just glad to leave it up to the nurses so he could just be Dad for the evening. Brody is completely perfect and healthy in every way. We are so very grateful everything went smooth. We feel so blessed to have the new addition!!!

Last appointment!!!

Here is the last doctors appointment before Brody was born. Rylee was listening for Brody's heartbeat, of course she heard nothing. Rylee just cracks us up!! She wants to do whatever the medical staff does. She was always so very interested at every appointment and always wanted her blood pressure taken. This picture is a bit pixilated because it was taken with Jon's camera on his cell phone. Gotta love her!!!