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| Well, Matthew and Stephanie came home from the hospital Wednesday around noon. And wouldn't you know it, Matthew has got his days and nights mixed up. He slept all day long and then wanted to stay awake most of the night. Go figure! But last night he did much better. We gave him a bath and he stayed awake for the next hour or so. So that was good. Then he was a little fussy, more or less just whining a little, for the first shift, Midnight to 1 AM. Then he slept until his feeding time, every three hours. He'd wake up just to eat and then go back to sleep. Of course Matthew slept good for Kathy (Stephanie's Mom). Talk about brown-nosing! 
He is so cute, not that I am partial or anything  . Anyway, he and momma are doing great. Here are some more pics of the little guy and the family!
Momma looking good just one day after surgery!
Papa and Matthew Sleeping
Matthew Looking at Papa
A little out of focus, but such a cutie!
The Whole Family (minus me)
Matt Sleeping
Proud Daddy!
Matthew Getting ready to go home
Matthew in his crib, btw Kathy (Stephanie's Mom) made the quilt
Matthew is already getting used to pushing buttons... 
A Boy and his monkey!
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| Well, it has happened! Monkey, er... I mean, Matthew Harrison Robinson has arrived!! Praise the Lord for a healthy baby boy! And when I say healthy, I mean, HEALTHY!! "And in this corner... Coming in at:" NINE POUNDS, FOURTEEN OUNCES, TWENTY-ONE INCHES TALL!! He was born March 17th, 2008 at 8:12 am EST. Anyway here are some pics, which I know that you are dying to see. It all began at...
By the way, that is AM!!! Actually we got got moving around 4 AM and left the house minutes after that photo, but here is mom all dolled up in her St. Patty's Day Green:
Now we are at the hospital around 5:45 AM and here Stephanie is about to go get prepped for Surgery:
Well she gives birth, by way of C-Section!! And here is Matthew Harrison weighing in at 9 lb 14 oz!
Here are some more of the little, I mean huge squirt!
Of course after Momma got to hold the Monkey, he got passed around:
(Grandma [Stephanie's parents] was there too, but I didn't get a good pic of them together)
Nathan and Katie were a little leary at first, but they warmed up quickly to Matthew. Of course Katie warmed up a whole lot quicker than Nathan did. But that is okay. Here are our three, WOW!!! That's right I said THREE kids!!!
So after a long day, Matthew was quite tired, especially from daddy singing, "Mathew, the Monkey Man, Swinging from a rubber band..." So he slept to get away from that annoying song...
And so did momma...
Well, Momma and Matthew are doing great. They are in the Washington Hospital, in Washington, PA. I hope that you enjoy the pics and thanks so much for your prayers.
Totally blessed by the Lord,
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Well, here we are again.
At least it’s not as long as the last time. I have included some pics of the Finished
Kitchen project in our home, for which we are eternally grateful, at the end of
this post.
Tomorrow is the Day!!
Tomorrow? What’s going on
tomorrow? Well, Tomorrow morning around
7:30 AM EST, we are going to become parents once again. No, Stephanie is not ‘getting’
pregnant!! She is pregnant, and very
pregnant at that! The actual due date is March 26th, but tomorrow,
Monkey will be brought into this world.
Monkey? Who is Monkey? Well, that is what we call the blessed bundle
of joy! Instead of always referring to
the baby as a he or she (since we do not know what it is, Surprise!!), and we
didn’t want to call the bundle an it, we decided on monkey. So we will know tomorrow if it will be Kara
Lynn or Matthew Harrison. Yup, that’s
right, we have finally agreed on a boy’s name.
Isn’t that amazing! We have been ‘arguing’
over the boys name for so long. Anyway,
we finally got it down to Matthew, of all times, about 1 AM this morning (last
night or however you want to look at it).
Sometime later this week, hopefully I will post some pics of the
beautiful baby. I know, I know, ‘famous
last words’. Well, at least it wasn’t no
three months for the update, huh? Right Lance?
We are doing great.
Katie is so ready for the baby to come, in fact, she has been carrying
around a baby doll these last couple of days.
She doesn’t usually play with her baby dolls. Nathan, could care less. Typical boy.
Oh well. That is fine. Well, I guess I should be off, no comments
people!! Later!
This is the Kitchen before we moved in, in 2004
This is the kitchen when we moved in, in 2005
And these are the pics of the new kitchen!!
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| Yeah, I know, I know. It has been forever since I have last blogged. I have been busy, and I just haven't been doing much on the ol' blogging machine. Has there been stuff going on? Well yeah. Stephanie is getting a cute big belly as she only has 5 weeks and 4 days, but who's counting right? Before you know it, Our little monkey will be here and then we will know if we are going to name it Jacob Harrison or Kara Lynn. At least for the moment those are the names we have picked out. Stephanie is getting a baby shower later on this month, which is going to help us out tremendously since we got rid of all of our baby stuff when we moved here just over 3 years ago. I'll get back to that later. But Stephanie is registered at Target and Babies-R-Us. Well since she works at Target she is always printing out the registry to see if anyone bought anything, she is very excited. Big things have been bought and alot of little things as well. She is so ready for the baby to be here. She is experiencing some (sp?) Carpal Tunnel problems and she cannot get and stay comfortable for more than 10 minutes, which makes for a rough night of sleep. Many times she sleeps on the couch.
The kids are doing really well. Nathan is going to play Baseball this year and Katie has already had a Softball practice as well. She is very excited about playing this year. Of course Softball gloves are more expensive than normal baseball gloves, especially when 'someone' wants pink in it. The kids are growing like weeds. They went to the Dr. the other day and Katie is 66 1/2 lbs, while Nathan is only 52 1/2 lbs. Katie also still has 2-3 inches on the boy as well. They are both doing a great job in school. Katie has only had two papers all year long that was not 100%. Nathan has had a few more. But they are both doing exceptional.
Me? I am doing alright. Last month I found out that I may have Crohns Colitis. I gotta go to the Dr. next Tuesday and we will see what is going on. Other than that, I have been doing pretty well. Been sick the last two weeks, and finally my head congestion is finally starting to loosen up. Hopefully all of us will be doing better soon. We were all sick at the same time. Bummer!
Three years we have been here. We moved in on February 1, 2005. Before we moved here the church put in about $10,000-15,000 dollars worth of repair into the house. Well, this year they have decided to put in a new kitchen for us. We went to them about 3 months ago and told them that we would be willing to pay for a dishwasher if they would pay to have it put in. Well, they came up with the idea that they would go ahead and give us all new cabinets. Woo-hoo!! So the cabinets have been ordered and the counter-top. Probably in the next 2-3 weeks it will all be here and ready to install. It is going to about double the cabinet and counter-top space that we have. That is so cool. Even better, we will now have a dishwasher. Which will be so nice with the baby bottles coming soon. Well, enjoy the update. Hopefully it won't be another 3 months for the next one!
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Well, here it is one and a half months since my last
entry. I am sure most of you are getting
used to this. I don’t want it to be that
way. I have things to say, but I forget
for WEEKS on end to blog them down, and then I forget. Funny how things work that way. Anyway, Stephanie and Monkey are doing well. We got to see monkey last Friday. Monkey is healthy and everything seems to be
fine. Do we know what the sex is? NO!! I
let it be up to Stephanie, and I thought that I would be fine one way or the
other. Well after seeing that amazing
miracle of the ultrasound, I wanted to know.
Well, the technician could tell, but she wouldn’t let me know. So I guess I am going to have to find out on
the day it happens. She is due March 26,
and they are going to probably take the baby a week early. So everything is good.
    
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Stephanie and I get to go to a Steelers Monday Night
Football game this Monday!! We are so
excited. We got to go 2 years ago and
that was so much fun. Like last time
they are going to be playing the Baltimore Ravens. You will not see us on TV, although that
would be awesome. Our seats are in the nosebleed
section. Last possible row and two
sections over from the end-zone with the scoreboard. Really the seats aren’t that bad. The whole thing is usually so much fun, and
where we are, you can be sure that we will not have any beer spilt on us!!
I am sure most of you probably have no idea what the album
is that I am listening to, but recently I have been reintroduced to Miles
Davis, and I love it. Mellow most of the
time, especially this album. But the music
is great. Anyway, here are some pictures of some highlights of
the last month. Mainly just the
kids. We did some fall pics of the kids two years ago and forgot to do them last year so we did them once again.
Doesn't she look so grown up?
She is showing a little :)
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