Meet Kinley Rose Ashton

David and Jen had their baby 2 days ago, July 24th!  They are now proud parents of a healthy baby girl, Kinley Rose Ashton.  She weighed in at 8 pounds, 1 ounce, has strawberry blonde hair, and blue eyes (our little Bella seems so big now compared to Kinley).  We are so excited for Mirabella to have a cousin so close in age to her - I'm sure they are going to be great partners in crime!

Baby Smiles!

Around 5 weeks our baby, Mirabella, started to smile!  Almost every morning now she smiles big smiles at us!  I love it.  She is growing so fast that we can hardly believe it!  I have yet to get a good picture, so I'll try really hard this week to catch her in action and post it right away!  In the meantime, here are some new pictures:

Mirabella - 1 Month with Lamb

My first attempt to take Bella's picture with her lamb didn't go very well, as you can see, but I was able to get a few good ones!

Mirabella's 4th Week Birthday

Mirabella will be 1 month old this coming Wednesday!  What a difference from when she was first born - she is growing up so fast right before our eyes.  Our baby has become quite the snuggler, always wanting to be held!  Other notables:

• Mirabella will stare into our eyes now.  I love that she can watch Brian and me!  I was walking around the kitchen and she was trying to watch me move around the whole time.  Also, my mom got her a little stuffed giraffe in a purse and she loves to stare at it.
• We officially moved to the main room in the house.  The dogs are pretty used to having her around, but she has yet to really notice them.  That will be fun once she realizes she has 3 big, furry body guards.
• The little white dots on her nose (I think it's called milia) are starting to fade, but her baby acne is starting to kick in a little more.  Almost all of her skin is done peeling too except for a some patches on her forehead.
• Baby Bella loves to kick her legs now.
• Last, but not least, I discovered that she loves to be in her Baby Bjorn carrier.  I tried a more fashionable looking sling, but she literally screamed at the top of her lungs when I put her in it.  So I tried our Bjorn and it has become a real life savor.  We use it to go on walks and to go shopping since she is not a big fan of being stuck in her car seat.