Introducing Deakin

We were so happy to welcome Deakin Jacob to our family on June 9th.  It all went well and Deakin was born at home.  Elliette figured out before he came that he would have to be a boy because all of our babies born in the hospital were girls and all of our babies born at home are boys.  So this baby had to be a boy because he was born at home.  Well, she was correct!

Deakin arrived at 10:50 pm and weighed in at 7 lbs 8 ozs and was 19.5 inches long.  We were happy that Nana made it safely from Guatemala just in time.  She beat Deakin arriving by only about 20 minutes.  It was even perfect timing for my mom to finish up her spanish class and dad to finish his meetings and to be on hand for Deakin's arrival. Paul even managed to take the girls to their special father's day date with their activity girls before things got too crazy.  What an evening!

He is so adored!  We are so happy to have him join our family!  We couldn't have planned better to have the 3 girls and then the 3 boys.  It is perfect!

Baylor could not get enough of him and did not want to leave his side.  He kept asking to hold him and would just sit still looking at him.  He was mesmerized.  It was very precious.

Dawsyn was also in serious love with this new baby.  She spent a lot of time with him.

Kyndal has really shown that she is a great big sister to this baby.  She is very helpful with him and very capable.  It is great to see.

Marshall did not want to hold the baby for a while.  We would offer him to hold his brother and he refused.  Then after most of the day had passed he was ready to give it a try.  He was very sweet holding him and giving him some love.

 I guess that we missed having a picture with Elliette holding him.  I would say that she was the least interested in him. I hardly saw her those first couple of days as she would pop in quick and then be off playing.  That is her way, to keep moving.  So she didn't sit still long enough to hold the baby much.