boys vs girls

Jaedon and Jack were easy to get pictures of...

 but Livy and Sofia were a bit more difficult. Sofia wouldn't hold still so there are only these two pictures.

4 kiddos

So I decided to do the kids all together first. Some of them may look like the same picture, but there are subtle differences in them, which makes it hard for me to decide on which one I like best at times.

family pictures

While my mom was out to visit a couple of weeks ago, I figured that I would have her help take our family pictures. No where to put the camera and have it on the timer this year. I really should invest in a tripod and remote. Any way, as you will be able to tell from the pictures, it is hard to get 4 kids to cooperate all at the same time.

 After shooting the above pictures Livy had a little fit and so therefore was not smiling in these ones. And poor Jack started getting hungry so he was grunting and squirming.

 Then it was Sof's turn not to cooperate. Who am I kidding, she hadn't been cooperating all morning.

Stay tuned for each kid individually and the kids shots together. :)

2 wheels

This past week Jaedon has finally learned how to ride a "2 wheel" bike.

 Ever since he has had to go out every day and ride around.

reading

Livy loves to read to Jack.

If Jack is awake laying on the floor you can usually find them like this...

hooray for 4

This cute girl celebrated her 4th birthday yesterday. And she couldn't have been more excited! 

She helped me make her cake and of course got to eat the best part.

She LOVES Rapunzel, and wants her hair to be as long as Rapunzels hair.

In the morning after we dropped Jaedon off at school, she said, "This is a great day."

Yes, yes it is Liv.

We love you!

little jack

Introducing

Jack Jonathan Bassett

Born August 31st at 8:27am

weighing 8 lbs 2 oz and 21.5 inches long

Their first meetingThis little girl LOVES the babyWow! Our family of 6.All boys

Now for the birth story. So if you don't care for that stuff, scroll on down and enjoy some more pictures. First of all, Jon works with my Dr. and we had agreed that Jon would be able to deliver the baby as long as everything was going smoothly.We'll start with the day before at my OB appointment. My Dr. was going to be out of town from the 4th -11th of Sept. (due date was the 10th). I wanted her to be there and she wanted to be there for the birth as well. So at my appt. she checked me and said I was 4cm dilated and 50% effaced. She then gave me an "aggressive check" which means she stripped my membranes. Of course she told me that I would have some crampiness due to it. Well, no crampiness pretty much all day. So that night I went for a long walk, among other "personal" things that were done to try and get this kiddo out. Because lets be honest, I was done with being pregnant at 31 weeks. Still nothing when I went to bed that night, but at 2am I woke up with some contractions and sat up on the side of the bed, and just like it happened with Jaedon, I felt like I had just wet my pants. I then hurried into the bathroom and more fluid came out. Jon kind of woke up by then because I had turned the light on and thought I might as well start getting ready for the hospital. Jon didn't really believe me that my water had broke, and fell back asleep for a little bit. We got to the hospital at about 3:15am and when they checked me I was 6cm dilated and about 90% effaced. So I was excited because things were moving. Got the epidural and around 6:30am they checked me again and I was only at a 7. A SEVEN! That put a downer on things for me. So now we will be playing the waiting game even longer. Jon actually had an OB patient next door that delivered on Monday, so he thought he would hurry and go round on her and get her discharge paper work done since things seemed to slow down. By 7:30 I was starting to feel contractions just on my left side really strongly, and my right side was completely dead. So the nurse turned me to my left side and then that is when it all started. The contractions were coming fast and strong. I was getting nauseated and then my Dr. arrived. She decided she would go get changed while the nurse gave me something for nausea, and Jon was still no where around. I then asked the nurse if she had found Jon yet. Shortly after Jon came in and instead of waiting for the doctor to come back and check me, I just had Jon do it. So Jon checked me and I was complete and ready to go. They got me all set up, and with 2 sets of pushes out our little man came. Both Jon and I thought at first that his looks reminded us of Sofia. But the more I looked at him I thought he definitely looked more like Livy. He and Livy definitely have the same eyes. But I think his nose is more like Jaedon and Sofia's nose. I was surprised that he had hair and that it was dark. I thought it would be lighter and not have hardly any. He is our smallest baby by an ounce. Jaedon was 8 lbs 3 oz. But he is definitely our longest baby. He is such a good baby and hardly cries. We are so blessed to have this little guy apart of our family. We couldn't be more happier.

Of course I had to have a little photo shoot with him.

This shirt should actually read "Daddy rocks", because Jon has been such an awesome husband and help since I have been home. He has been doing everything and just letting me relax and sleep. :) Love you Sweets!