Let's Play Music Blog

If you check out the Let's Play Music blog, there is a great giveaway going on. Go and check it out, but don't leave a comment because I really want to win! :)
I lost my metronome at church (one of the hazards of being organist) and I don't want to buy a new one. I want to win one! :)
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Connor's new favorite hobby

I guess we have a future drummer on our hands. Kevin received "Band Hero" for the Wii from my parents and me for his birthday, and Connor has taken over. Poor Kevin hasn't even had a chance to jam out yet because Connor insists on being the drums any chance he gets to play. He is actually quite good (on the beginner setting)! For the three times he has been allowed to play, he only failed out once, but received "You Rock!" on all the rest. He is very proud.

While I love that he is super excited, I think he may be a little too excited. He came home from preschool yesterday and showed me his "picture" he drew while he was there (remember he is only 3 years old):


I guess I have some explaining to do to his teachers!

Happy Birthday Kevin!

Happy Birthday Kevin!
We knew he had clinic until late tonight so we celebrated early last night!
We had dinner together then opened his presents and had a chocolate cake made by the boys. We had fun, I hope he did too!







This was also Cameron's first church day and he looked so handsome in his church clothes!



Happy Birthday, we love you!

Snowed in!!

After a week of snow storms and more on the way, we are a little anxious for some sunshine! Grandma Ellsworth came for a visit in the middle of the storms and took some great pictures. Here are a few pictures of the snow on just the first day!

Here are some other cute pictures from Grandma:

Connor still sleeps with guy tucked close:

Grandma and all the boys

Look close: he has tiny spiked hair!!

We found the Harry Potter glasses:

Mini Harry Potter (or turtle?)

Cameron's First Photo Shoot

We have a friend who is a talented photographer that asked to take Cameron's pictures when he was born, so we went to her studio last week and had a few shots taken. I don't have the official CD yet to post all the pictures here, but check out a few of the shots at her website (http://www.cannonshotsphotography.blogspot.com/). She was certainly patient as Cameron didn't want to sleep and would not sit still, but she still managed to grab a few super cute ones. Thanks, Maretta!

Cameron Andrew Ellsworth

After a 5am call from the hospital on January 12th, Kevin and I headed downtown to the hospital for the scheduled induction. At 6:30am they had me all hooked up to the pitocin and at 6:50 the doctor came in a broke my water then left us to get things started. He came back within about two hours later and I had progressed from a 2 to a 9, so he said give me about 15 minutes and then we would start pushing. After a LONG hour and the help of a vacuum, Cameron's head was finally turned and he arrived at 9:52am weighing 8 lbs 7 oz and measuring 20.5 inches. He is cute as can be, bald like his brothers were, and such a good baby (so far anyway)!
Thanks for all of your prayers, thoughts and well-wishes, we were certainly blessed with a little miracle!

Updates

Okay all of you blogger geniuses, how do you add a video to the blog? Our video camera has been busted for so long that the settings have changed and I no longer know how to upload one here. Any great ideas?

Unfortunately I was so excited about our new video camera that I forgot to take any stills of the action Christmas morning! Here are a few pictures after the presents:

Carson putting together his Christmas gift: a 4-D Model of a shark

Christmas morning breakfast:

Connor (Daddy) putting together his Christmas gift: a wooden airplane model:

I have no pictures to post of me (you can thank me later) during these last few days of pregnancy, but I wanted to give you all an update that my doctor scheduled me to be induced next Tuesday morning (sometime between 3-7am), so keep checking back to see pictures of the new little one!