Hangin' with Grandpa

Ruth and I went to visit my parents in Arizona this weekend.  We had a blast visiting with everyone!  One afternoon, my Dad watched Ruth so my Mom and I could go out for a little girl time.  Dad documented their time together, and man did that little girl have fun!  He also survived and completely cleaned up a blow out diaper.  Way to go, Grandpa!

Learning to drive Grandpa's Corvette

Checking out the pictures

Too much fun with Grandpa!

Green Thumb

I have always loved flowers and am enjoying my first try at gardening.  It's not quite a garden, but it's a start!  These flowers are particularly special because my grandmother Karin helped plant them when she was here shortly after Ruth was born.  Baby girl also loves to be outside while Mama is working in the flower bed.  She coos and kicks around a lot... maybe she's developing a green thumb at an early age!

Mobile

Who knew a horribly out of tune mobile could be so entertaining?  She loves this thing!

Baby Ruth

Little did I know that my first blog post about counting down would be written just hours before we met our daughter!  Guess we didn't need that countdown after all... Ruth Michal Clowers was born on April 13th at 5:54 PM.  She weighed 6.8 pounds and was 20 inches long.  And she is absolutely beautiful, even if I am biased!  She gave us quite the shock as she was three and a half weeks early.  I was standing in the kitchen on a Friday afternoon and felt my water break.  I immediately called John-Michael who left work to come get me.  We arrived at the hospital around 4:30 PM and heard our baby girl's first cries at 5:54 PM!  It was definitely a whirlwind and has continued to be.  I have always heard that time goes too quickly once you have children, and boy is it SO true!  Baby Ruth is two months old as of wednesday, and I have no idea how we got here so quickly!  She is growing by the minute, and we are enjoying her new favorite activity... smiling!  She has already brought us so much joy in these first two months and we are thankful that the Lord has blessed us with this sweet little girl!

Our very first picture of Ruth!

Proud Papa

New family of three

Settling in

We love it when Papa gets home from work!

Are you talkin' to me?

Getting bigger!

Ruth was baptized on May 20th, and her
 Pops (JM's dad) got to do the water part

Smiles!