welcome baby lauren!

i am so proud to announce the birth of our good friends' heather and ryan's daughter, Lauren Bailey!

today the kids and i went to visit the diggs family at the hospital. as much as natalie LOVES babies, i thought she would be ecstatic to see lauren, but for some reason she shied away. maybe i scared her a little when i gave her the talk on how we don't touch new babies :( little russell did better than i expected -- he didn't seem to be jealous but instead he kind of just ignored us altogether! as for me, i was on cloud nine holding precious little lauren. i even had the privilege of changing her poopy diaper and swaddling her up like a little burrito :)

lauren was born on monday afternoon, and although she came two weeks early, she weighed a whopping 8lbs11oz! she is too cute for words as you will see in these photos:

is she cute, or what!

check out that enormous bow that heather's mom made - how adorable is that!

the whole time i thought she looked like heather, but when i saw this pic on my computer tonight, i totally saw ryan's face

seems like just yesterday heather was visiting ME at the hospital when russell was born...MY HOW TIME FLIES!