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Hopefully this video is viewable on other computers.

    I apologize if the video is crazy but I thought it would be fun to show little Charlie moving a little. And here are the photos of the kids first day of school.  So far we're surviving the school year after two weeks in.

Kayli's first day of her Junior year!

Carter's first day of 3rd grade.

Isaac's first day of 5th grade.

Mark's face says it all, 8th grade is going to be AWESOME!

Brock's first day of kindergarten.

Brock at the classroom door.  His exact quote, "Mom, I'm not going to cry."  I almost lost it but held it together.  He's too cute.

Lined up with the numerous other kinder kids.

Such a tiny hand compared to mom's.

And sometimes we just have a diaper changing party with these two.

She's already changed a ton.

Isaac realized he'd never had his picture taken with his favorite sister, so now it's officially documented. 

The first day of kindergarten deserves to be celebrated at Arctic Circle wouldn't you agree?!

     The funny thing about this little lunch date was that I'd ordered them hamburger kids meals and myself a couple of corn dogs and before I could sit down they had my corndogs opened and ready to eat so I had two hamburgers instead.  It's a good thing they're both so cute and ate all their food.

McClane still likes to 'hold it'.

And of course Kayli also likes to hold her as much as possible.

     So there's a plentiful update of photos and a little of our activities over the past week or so. The kids are definitely looking forward to this three day weekend.

The GirlS!

     That's right, girlS, as in more than one, CRAZY!  (Can you tell I'm still getting use to the idea of having another girl?). First, I failed to mention earlier that Kayli finally got a job.  YES!!  Against all her arguments and reasoning we 'convinced' her to turn in an application at Little Caesars after weeks and weeks of pestering her to get a job.  (Greg may or may not have started the process by getting the application and I may or may not have dropped by Little Caesars with Kayli and her application already in the car with me and forced her to take the application in.) Then, miraculously, about two weeks later a call came in, she had an interview and immediately after the interview she was informed she was hired and needed to come a few days later for orientation.  She's only worked a couple of days so far but once she's properly trained and a few employees leave for college I'm sure the hours will increase.

I must say, she's one of the prettier pizza makers I've seen.

     And our baby girl, well she's not quite yet working but she's keeping mom busy in all the BEST ways!  If you don't already know, I LOVE babies!!!!  And thankfully I've been blessed with fantastic babies and Charlie is no exception.  She sleeps great, eats great and is happy and mellow in between those activities.  And as you can guess she gets lots of love and attention from all her siblings in addition to mom and dad.  We're all just in baby heaven:-)

Nothing like a nap with a baby on your chest.

Um...that flower might be a titch too big;-)

    And here are just a couple of Charlie's many admirers and visitors.

Aunt Ninin came and had a snuggle just a few hours after Charlie arrived home.

Happy day, a new girl cousin to add to the Kmetzsch female population!  Uncle Justin and Aunt Cassity know just what to do with a baby girl.

The Larson Clan all the way from Oregon.

     And not to be forgotten, this 'little' family made a surprise visit this past week and it was great to see and visit with them!

      Oh yeah, and school started this week too, yuck!  Greg was home to help and has the first day of school photos on his phone so I'll post those maybe next week.

Remember when.....

  Remember when I was supposed to be doing this blog post from the hospital after a successful induction August 16th instead of blogging from home with a four day old baby girl who decided she had her own agenda.  I am definitely not complaining about having the baby early but it was a little crazy.

    I'm just going to give a quick recap of little Charlie Rose's grand entrance into our world.  We were enjoying a nice visit/dinner with Greg's brother Justin and his family Sunday evening in Springville and just shortly before dinner I was discussing being induced with my sister-in-law, Cassity and how I prefer to have things scheduled and she prefers the babies to come on their own and I jokingly said, "I don't want to have this baby in the middle of the night."  Famous last words I know. Not an hour later after eating dinner I stood up and felt a small gush of water and worried that I was having a little accident but after several more gushes of water throughout the next few minutes I knew it was more than a bladder issue.  Cassity helped me out with a few towels and I went to the car where Greg had all the kids loaded up and ready to go and I told him I was pretty sure my water broke. Everyone got pretty excited and we headed on home and after calling the doctor and giving him a heads up I gathered a few things and headed to the hospital with Greg and Kayli.  We got there at 9:30 p.m. Sunday and Charlie was born at 3:16 AM Monday morning.  I did have to have Pitocin because just having my water break did not automatically start contractions so with a little help from the Pitocin to speed things up it went quite smoothly.

     So here's introducing baby number seven, Charlie Rose Kmetzsch, weighing in at 7 lbs. 11 oz. and 21 inches long.

Don't worry, she gets cuter!

Kayli was there the whole time and I do have a short video I might add later but she was quite emotional welcoming her baby sister, a far different cry than from the last baby.  Happy TEARS!!

Greg was exhausted after such a long night but this baby girl was well worth the small sacrifice of sleep.

Here's a cuter baby girl!!

She's all dressed and ready to leave the hospital.  We had to stay 48 hours due to a positive Group B Strep test on my part so it was a bit of a long stay at the hospital but she's healthy and happy and that's all that matters.

McClane had no interest in her at the hospital but the second we walked in the door he wanted to hold "it".

"I hold it, I hold it!"  And when we asked if he was done he insisted he was not!

I love this look on her face, like she's planning her revenge already!

I figured it might be a nice idea to get a photo with her even if I'm only the milk machine right now.

She's a keeper and so far a very mellow and happy baby and hands down a blue eyed girl but lets hope these blue eyes don't have the drama attached! :-)

    And just on a side note, there's not a single person brave enough in this family to attempt to fold the laundry so after they did several loads of wash the clean clothes were left in the laundry basket for mom:-)

I had two piles like this to fold, welcome home Mom!

     Next week school starts, happy and sad day!

Stay tuned.....

      I don't have anything new to update so just stay tuned for next weekend when baby number 7 makes her appearance.  Only 6 more sleeps until induction day!  (Unless I can some how naturally speed up the process but I'm not going to hold my breath for that one.)

My blue eyed boys.

       Sometimes you have to wonder if eye color determines personality traits.  Isaac and McClane are my blue eyed boys and they're both extremely helpful.  They also can be a little dramatic and are expert tantrum throwers but I think all my kids have that personality trait.

McClane was perfectly content stacking muffin cups.

Isaac has become an expert slicer of all things 'taco'.

       We've had a pretty simple week from my viewpoint. Greg and Mark did spend all of Monday fishing but that's still a bit of a sore point with me so I'm not up for sharing photos but maybe in the future.  I will say the fish dinner Greg cooked last night was excellent so that's at least one positive from the day.  And just FYI, I'm on the induction list at the hospital for August 16th.  One week and six days left to endure.