Happy Birthday!

Happy 3rd Birthday Sweet Frances!  We started out her day with a horrible stomach bug at 4am this morning so party cancelled.  She is fine now, but we definitely don't want to infect anyone.  She got a new bicycle and was so excited to try it out.  Here is a picture below...will post more of her special day next week as we capture more moments. 

Two Weeks

First Bath

 Pretty self-explanatory, before bath...

 During...

 After...with a few sister kisses

 All clean!

T3 is here!

Sorry I have not updated blog, but we've had a very important event in our household...the birth of Andrew Whittington on Tuesday, July 12th at 1:39 pm (to be exact).  He is the tiniest of our three, 7 lbs. 4 oz. and was 20" long.  We came home on Friday and are in full swing with new little baby and two VERY excited siblings to help.  I hope the excitement continues this way for quite a while.  My mom is here helping out, and it is so nice to have Jacob home this weekend to tag-team the children.  We went to the pool yesterday (the four of us, not baby) and are trying to keep C & F busy and in a good routine.  Jacob is at church with them right now while the baby is sleeping soundly in the bouncy seat by my side.  So far, he has had one really rough night at home, but last night was so much better...praise the Lord.  I will take one night at a time.  He is nursing great and we are all trying to take naps for sanity.  Here are a few pictures to show off the newest Townsend!

First bath

All cleaned up

Loved the hospital bed (and M&M's from the gift shop)

Admiring his second son

Meeting his brother and sister

The Fourth with Friends

Here are some pics of how we spent our 4th of July.  Jacob was on-call Friday through Sunday, but he had Monday off!  So, we went to our neighbor's pool in the morning and to a friend's cookout that afternoon.  Then we went home and shot off a few fireworks in our driveway, in true South Carolinian style.

Pawleys Island

We took a mini family vacay to Litchfield/Pawleys Island to get away just the four of us before T3's arrival (hopefully next week).  We had the best time just playing on the beach and in the pools.  Kind of strange to go another beach besides the Charleston ones, but it was nice to get away from distractions at home.  At Litchfield, we were just steps from the beach and had access to three pools right outside our condo, including a lazy river.  The kids had a blast, Jacob got some much needed rest, and I was happy to spend my days cooling off in the water.  I know you are tired of seeing pool and beach pictures, but that has been our summer thus far - second half will be a different story!

 

Practicing his new swimming skills

Playing with Daddy

The wonderful lazy river

Their treasures they scored at dinner out one night

One More Year!

Yesterday, Jacob officially completed his cardiology training, but have no fear, he signed up for just one final year in interventional cardiology.  I guess you could call it his sub-sub-specialty.  When it's all said and done, we will have been doing this medical training gig for 12 years.  We had a mini-celebration last night complete with balloons, yummy mexican food, and his new favorite beer, Dogfish Head beer.  After watching a documentary one night called Beer Wars (we turned off cable and now just get Netflix), he has decided to support the local breweries over the giants such as Anheuser Busch...but I digress.  Back to the subject - We are so proud of you Jacob, and here is to one last year!