April 20

This is Levi in his basket. We received it a few days after the first one. Both he and mom are doing good. Mommy and Daddy pick him a middle name yesterday. They picked Christian. The other name they were considering was Caspian. So that makes baby number 8's full name,
Levi Christian McIntyre.

Paige

April 19

This is Levi. Our new baby brother. He was born on April 18, 2006 at 6:50 p.m. He weighed 9 pounds. He was 21 1/2 inches long. Both he and mom are doing great.

Paige

April 10

Today it was really nice outside. We went out to watch some people deliver building supplies to our neighbor. Then we played out there for awhile. After daddy got home from work we were out there 1-2 hours working on the rabbit area. Today our Baby Moses Basket came, but the roof was deformed. They our going to send us a new one. A "Baby Moses Basket" is a weaved, oval shaped basket with a small mattress and padded sides for a baby to lay in. They can lay in it till they roll over.

In the baking contest Daniel won first place in his category. Pete won second. I won second in a different category. Prizes were: A 1-pound circle of chocolate with a picture of a chocolate factory and the words 'Chocolate City' (the contest was in Burlington which is The chocolate city) and a lunch bag full of candy bars, chocolate milk powder, and a coupon for a free ice cream cone from Dairy Queen, McDonald's, & Culvers.

Paige

March 30

Today it was about 70 degrees Fahrenheit! We went for a walk and played outside for awhile.

Tomorrow the midwife is coming for the home visit and we all (Mommy and Samantha, Emily, Pete, Daniel and I) are planning to make a chocolate desert for a Chocolate Fest Recipe Contest. It has two categories; Adult and child 6-12. If you win first in the adult then you win a Kitchen Aid upright mixer. All children who enter get a prize and every one who enters gets a free ticket to Chocolate Fests (it's kind of like a fair around the theme of chocolate).

Paige

March 22

It has kind of been a busy month for us. We didn't go many places but we were sick a lot of the month. It started the last Friday of February, Laurel threw up. Now it seems to be over, after two weeks.

On the first Emily had her 10th birthday. On the fourth we were going to have here party, but we were sick still. The eleventh we did have her party. It was a lot of fun with the theme Hello Kitty. We made erasers, ate a heart shaped, three tiered yellow cake with whipping cream frosting, and pulled ribbon strings to open the hello kitty shaped piñata. We all had a lot of fun!

Also on the eleventh our outside cat had her second litter of kittens! This time she had them in our window well that is under our porch. If we go down in the basement we can look out the window and see them! They are about 1 1\2 weeks old.

On the seventeenth we went to thee midwife. Everything looking good. Then we went shopping until about supper time.

Sunday the nineteenth we went to church. First time in about 4 weeks!

This past Monday evening our friend from up north came to spend the night and stay all day Tuesday. We had a tea party in the afternoon. We had lots of fun!!

Tomorrow Joy goes up to Children's for her cardiology(heart) appointment.

Time for lunch.
Paige

February 28

Hi,
Today I started to make some chages on my blog, in color, font, ect. So, if it looks kinda funny it should look better in a few days.

Please tell me what you think.

Paige

February 9

Hi there,
On the 28 of January the parents of the children we were watching came home safely with their three adopted children. They are doing great. They were at church on Sunday, just 1 week after they got to America. Usually it is at least 2 weeks befor e they go anywhere other than the doctores.

Saturday we went and looked at the ice sculptures off of Lake Geneva. They where very cool looking. My favorite was the Bear looking at, what we think is, a squirrel. On Saturday it was very windy out, so we didn't look very long.

Sunday Mommy, Joy and Laurel stayed home from church because Joy was sick. She is better now.

Yesterday Emily and I went over to our friend's house after lunch and came home after supper. We had a lot of fun.

Paige