The Houks' Journey: Sweet Anna Kate

Poor Anna Kate has been in our arms for the last 5 weeks, and she is just now getting her blog post about her arrival! Oh the deprived third child! Here are some pics from the past several weeks with our sweet little girl. She brings such a fun, new dynamic to our family. The boys are absolutely in love! Noah is following his big brother's lead, and Caleb is in love and such an amazing big brother to his baby sister already! Enjoy the pictures, and I promise to be more diligent about posting new ones!

Moments after she was born...her breathing was a little quick and raspy so they took her to the NICU for a few hours for observation.

Caleb was so sweet...he was so quiet and just kissing her head and looking her over. He was also very protective and kept telling Noah to be quiet. Noah wasn't interested at all. He was having too much fun exploring the hospital room.

She didn't even open her eyes for the first 7 hours that I had her in my arms after she came down from the NICU. She did grunt quite a bit though in her sleep!

One of my lovely parting gifts from the hospital. They told me they were giving all mothers of girls a tree to plant as part of an initiative to keep women from aborting girl babies. It was kind of sad that the plant was nearly dead after being eaten by some kind of bug.

The day after she was born we were released and went to a guest house for our team meeting. Our team arrived the day she was born! We had a great time fellowshipping and hanging out with these two families. We had 7 kiddos 3 and under in one little guest house! It was awesome!

Caleb loves to hold her but only for a few seconds then he is done...but he kisses her constantly!

Caleb is as proud as he looks. I have been amazed at how quickly they have taken to their little sister!

Precious little fingers...

and toes...

She rarely opened her eyes for the first several weeks. She is much more alert now but still a sleepy head so far.

Caleb often gives her things to sleep with...his blanket, stuffed animals, books, etc.

Her first bath at home. She really enjoys bath time. Neither of the boys really liked them but she seems to really enjoy the water.

Snug as a bug in a rug!

I took her one month photo in the bouncey seat because I had one of both boys in it at that age. She is sooooo much tinier than both the boys were at this age. She also never sits anywhere other than in our arms so she wasn't sure what to think of this thing!

We have tried a few times to do tummy time. She just lays there and sleeps though so it hasn't been that helpful! One morning I looked down into the living and just couldn't resist this picture. It captured the moment...so precious...Noah flying with his daddy, Caleb giving his sister something to look at while she lay on her tummy...just a fun morning at home!