A City Life For Me

Henry is one month old today!  Has it really been that long already?  Deputation is definitely different with a newborn! Henry has done well.  He eats well.  He sleeps well – through the night for the last several nights already!  But there is one thing about being a deputation baby that Henry does not like very much…his car seat!  Thursday was a long day for him.  He’s fine until the buckles click.  He just likes to be held!  So today he got spoiled being held the entire church services in the nuseries! Henry and his Mozzie bear from Grandma Hamilton   Looks like a little man! The oldest and the youngest.  Right now I have five kids five and under.  Only for about another month! {No – not getting rid of any of them.  Elaine’s turning six!} This was one of our busier Sundays.  We were at one church this morning.  We had a whirlwind pack up and check out of the hotel, and then a short drive to get to the ne...

I don’t consider myself to be experienced at this missionary or deputation thing.  Maybe I should…we’ve been doing it for two years now.  I am always looking for a way to improve our packing or reduce what we take inside a church or streamline the process.  But I still feel like we have so much to learn! Yesterday we left our temporary home for most of the next six months.  We will pop back in for a day or two here and there as we have a couple of meetings in Upstate NY or New England.  It was definitely not the smoothest day of getting out of the house, but it was probably one of the more peaceful days!  Just to give you a glimpse into life as a missionary, or maybe I should just say life as a mom of five little people – on the road! We intended to leave at 5:00 a.m.  We had a 15 hour drive to get to Georgia.  While we were splitting it between two days, our conference starts on the second day.  We wanted to leave as little driving as po...

We definitely have fifth child syndrome going on around here.  The flurry that has been our life over the last three weeks – new baby, packing, moving, settling, starting homeschool, and prepping for another 3 months on the road – means my camera has stayed in its bag, and the “big” moments of having a new baby have not been such a big deal.  And blogging about those moments?  Non existent.  But I DO have a few pictures of Henry, and I’m glad I got those newborn shots done before the move! Now that he is three weeks old (!) perhaps I should let you know…he did get a bath.  A few of them, even!  Not as many as his siblings had by this age, but he is a clean, sweet smelling baby.  Here are some shots of Henry’s first real bath.  I had the twins in the tub at the time to keep a few fingers from getting too touchy-feely, yet they could still see and be a part of what was going on. Liberty was there – just totally uninterested! Nolan washed the bac...

I managed to squeeze these in last week before our move.  I guess it helps that I have done it several times, so setting up was fast, and Henry is a super easy-going baby who made snapping pictures a breeze! This wasn’t one of the “outfits” I had purchased or prepared for pictures, but the dark color sure looks nice with his hair!  This is a favorite… One day, I will get to do cloth diapers again.  I bought this cover just for these pictures! My favorite one… Little toes!    This was supposed to be his “coming home” outfit, but it was a little too big!  It’s the one new item that I purchased for Henry’s wardrobe.  The rest are all from his big brothers! I guess I just have something for little baby feet!

We came home from the hospital on Saturday afternoon.  The kids were ecstatic and had prepared with balloons, flowers, and cards for Baby Henry.  When they came to get me at the hospital, the twins were asleep.  So they didn’t know what had happened until we arrived home. Even the twins made a card.  Nehemiah couldn’t wait to shove it in Henry’s car seat!  There are seven balloons – one for each member of our family! Henry wore his pinstripes home.  I know they’re not blue…we have to ease into this Yankee’s fan thing a little at a time! We started at one end and worked our way down…Elaine was ecstatic! Kisses for Henry Nehemiah really struggled to keep his hands off the baby – and his lips too! Liberty, on the other hand, wanted nothing to do with him.  (She didn’t touch him until today, three days later!)   Proud siblings

We are excited to announce our newest model: Henry Thaddeus “Tad” Hamilton Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 6:21 a.m. 8 pounds, 21 inches long He was born after about 13 hours of labor, and has a full head of dark hair.    Right after birth, I was able to enjoy some skin-to-skin contact with Henry for about 45 minutes.  This is the first time I was able to do this with one of my babies!  Elaine was an emergency c-section who had to be examined immediately after birth, Nolan had the cord wrapped around his neck and needed to have the mucous suctioned from his mouth, and the twins were each whisked away for examination. For each of my Brooklyn pregnancies I have had the same midwife (coincidentally – they work rotating shifts) deliver all three of the kids.  I told Jen that the other kids were born on a Thursday, and she said “I’m not at the hospital on a Thursday until the 27th.”  Since I was due the 20th and convinced I would go early, I told her “I’m not...