From 3 to 4

Our little family grew last week. It has been just the three of us for the last 4 years, and we thought that three may be as big as our family gets. The Lord knew differently and last week blessed us with another child. We are so thankful that we now have two healthy children.


Here we are right before they took me back. Katie Lee was beyond excited to be getting a little brother.

It was not too long until Daniel entered the world.
Katie Lee getting her first real few. Her response. " Grammie, I just love him. " Talk about love at first sight.
Soon Aunt Kitty and Langdon came. Katie Lee could not wait to show Langdon his new little cousin. He was the big cousin now.
Poppie and Grammie were all smiles with another grandson.

Kathryn and Zeb were excited too. Can you imagine how much fun Daniel and Langdon are going to have together. Being just 9 months apart, I think they will be best of friends.
Here is the proud Daddy. I just have to brag on him. He has been the best. He has been right by my side helping me so much. I had a couple of rough nights in the hospital, and he took such great care of me and Daniel.
Katie Lee could not wait to come see us everyday.
He loves his fingers.
Ready to go home.
Our little family of 4. What a wonderful thing.

Daniel Wyatt Helums

Daniel came into the world Tuesday, Nov.29 at 7:11 a.m.


He weighed 8lbs 9 oz and was 21 inches long.

We are blessed beyond to have two beautiful healthy babies.

Lots more to share soon.

Elf Breakfast

Guess who is back? Elffy!! He came back Friday morning to make sure some little girl stays on the nice list. Katie Lee was so excited when she woke up to see our table set and the Elf back.

She enjoyed a breakfast of muffins in snow, snow balls, snowflakes, and glaciers afloat.

She also had a little gift waiting for her. Holly Sleighbells.

Thanksgiving

Hope all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We certainly did. We have so much to be thankful for this year. We began our Thanksgiving with our traditional breakfast at Mother and Daddy's. Delicious as always.

These three had lots of fun playing. Katie Lee was willing to share some with Langdon except for her Lalaloopsy dolls which he may " bite their heads off." He was not too concerned. He just about has this crawling business down so he was busy with that.

That night we enjoyed the McNatt supper at Aunt Mary's. These two had lots of fun playing together.

Tonight we will enjoy Thanksgiving with the Smith family.

Ducks in a Row

Last Thursday, I went for my 37 week check up at the doctor. Baby Daniel is doing just fine. I asked the doctor if we could go ahead and schedule my c-section. He said sure and went out to make the phone call to set it up. They whole time I figured that it would be sometimes the week of my due date. Boy was I shocked when I heard him say Nov. What!!! That is not even the right month!! I was not expecting a Nov. baby. This really sent my in an over whelmed panic mode. I left the doctor's office very surprised and had a list a mile long of things to do going through my mind. The next day after I got over the shock, I finished all of my things for school that needed to be done and confirmed with my sub. I think she was about as surprised as I was. That night after working for several hours after school was out and completely exhausted, I made out my list of things at home to get done. It was a very LONG list. I had my little melt down and Donnie, who never gets in a panic or a rush about stuff, told me to get over it and that it would all get done. Well, he was right. With his help this week, most of the things have been marked off the list and everything that really needed to be done is done. I think I am good to go now.

Sneak Peak

We are working on Daniel's room getting it ready for him. Here is a sneak peak of what we are using. I will post the entire room when I get it complete.


A co-worker of mine painted these for me. It is really fitting in nicely with the rest of the room. I cannot wait to get it all together.

Happy Birthday To Me

Yesterday was my birthday and boy did my family make me feel special. Everyone treated me to special gifts. Mother made my favorite meal for lunch. Thanks to my family for making my birthday great.






Oh in case you haven't seen me, I am looking very pregnant. Only about 30 days left.

Halloween Fun!!

This past weekend began our Halloween Fun. Friday, Katie Lee had her first Halloween party at preschool. She, of course, loved it.



Friday night, we had girls and one boy night at Aunt Kitty's house. They carved a pumpkin. Langdon was all about touching the guts of the pumpkin.
Aunt Kitty let Katie Lee decide what shapes to carve in the pumpkin. Katie Lee extended her fun night by spending the night. She even wrote Uncle Wez a note letting him know so he would not sleep on top of her. :)
Monday---Halloween!!
My little Dorthy was all excited about Trick-or-Treating.
The Cowardly lion was not too sure about his costume, but looked pretty cute!


By the time that we got to my aunt Betty's, we were able to get a shot of several of the cousins.
We had a wonderful Halloween and was completely tuckered out by the time we got home.

Picking the Perfect Pumpkin

Friday after picking KL up from preschool, we had lunch with Mother and Langdon and then headed to Isom's to selected the perfect pumpkin and for an apple slushie.


"Now which one should we pick?"
I love this one because we were trying to get both of them looking at me for a cute picture in the wagon. Langdon decided that he had rather kiss and pull Katie Lee's hair.



Now we get a good picture.

Grammie and her babies.

I Love Fall Break

This week has been Fall Break for our school system. It could not have come at a better time. I was worn out from the week before that was so busy with school stuff including our long field trip to Montgomery. The trip went great and I hope to post some pictures from that soon. Anyway, I think with such a busy last week and having so many things at night that Katie Lee missed me about as much as I missed her. Saturday she spent most of her day right with me and often reminded me that she had not seen me in two days.

Anyway, our fall break week was wonderful. We had so much fun playing. I was also able to get out all of Katie Lee's clothes for a yard sale on Saturday. Boy has she collected a lot of clothes over that last 4 years. :) Donnie and I also began working on Daniel's room. Pictures to come.


Here she is before church Wednesday looking like such a big girl.
Thursday night we went with Jane to Athens' bonfire for Homecoming week. Last year she cheered right along and this year she was very bashful.
I have LOVED spending the week with her. She is so much fun!!
Saturday we had a yard sale and she had a lemon-aide stand. She talked about it all week. Even though it was about 35 degrees that morning, she was so excited to sell. She sold out by that afternoon.