More Birthday fun and Brayden's 3yr. pictures

This morning we went to get Brayden's 3yr. old pictures made at Kiddie Kandids. When we arrived for our 10am appointment (bearing in mind I only had until 11am to get these done chosen and wait for them to print before picking up Bennett at school at 11:15am ), Brayden decided that he was going to be shy today. O.K. we don't have time for that Brayden so please just take your picture real quick and then we can be on our way. The many faces of Brayden: Luckily he quickly warmed up to the photographer, ( in Charlotte we had this place we went to and Mr. Gary could always get the boys who are particularly difficult to photograph to smile, guaranteed.) This is the one we choose for his 3 yr. pictures and just shows a delightful smile, not necessarily Brayden's normal disposition but adorable none the less. Brayden and No, I'm not going to smile face.

Brayden and his Superhero look face.

Oh you want to take a picture of me face.

Brayden clowning around with the photographer face.

Brayden's Spiderman Superhero cupcake for his 3rd birthday!!!

O.K. maybe the blue icing was not such a great idea ;o)

Bennett making a silly face with the blue icing ;o)

Earlier in the day I had my 2 week post check up with Dr. Newman from the c-section and I got a picture of him and Baylor as I always like to have a picture of my Dr. with the baby that they have cared for in my tummy. Baylor was trying to eat his face :o).

Sweet baby Baylor!!!!

Happy 3rd Birthday Brayden Daniel !!!

Brayden Daniel was born on this day September 24, 3 years ago. It's hard to believe our middle son is now a Big 3 year old. He arrived via emergency c-section at 1:47am weighing 8lbs. 4 oz. and 20 inches.

Picture of Brayden this morning after he got dressed. He unfortunately has a cold today and is not feeling 100%. He got lots of neat toys and Bennett being the bossy big brother is eager to show him how they all work and to remind him that he needs to share :o).

The boys got the party started early this morning at 6am. Brayden was energetic and ready to open his gifts. Poor mommy had already been up twice with the baby and had been up at that point since 5:15am.

Oh Boy Oh Boy Oh Boy !!!

I was in the kitchen and noticed the big boys were quite and when I went to check on them I found them snuggled together playing nicely. Bennett was playing with his Pixter and Brayden was playing with a calculator.

As I've mentioned the boys love to play dress up and this is Bennett as The Thing in a costume I found at our local Kid consignment store the other day.

Brayden as The Thing, Bennett as Venom, and friend Quinn as Red Power Ranger

Bennett as The Thing and Brayden as The Incredible Hulk

Brayden with just a great smile

Baylor on Sunday after church at 9 days old

Look at those sweet cheeks, definitely very kissable :o) !!!

Baylor at 11 days

He loves to be swaddled and in this pictures it looks at if he's talking

Baylor is such a sweet baby and he has a very good nature. He does not have to be held all the time as Brayden always demanded, this is a great thing considering I have 4 BOYS now to divide my time between :o).

Our house has expanded by 2 feet!

We welcomed our third son on Friday September 7, 2007 at 10:30am. I woke early around 2:30am not feeling quite right, and went to try to sleep on the couch. I woke later around 5am and was feeling contractions. I decided to get a shower and finish packing my bags and called Dr. Newman around 7:30am. He said to come on to Labor and Delivery and let them check me and see if it was the real thing. We had to brave rush hour traffic on the 101 and headed to Scottsdale Healthcare Shea Campus. We arrived at the hospital around 8:45am and after hooking me up to the monitors they determined that my contractions were every 3-5 minutes apart and Dr. Newman said they would do the c-section at 10am. We had both boys with us, and the hospital has up to 2 hours of childcare that they offer, so Bruce took the boys down to the Kidz Klubhouse and they played while we had the baby. We were very fortunate to have had this option and the boys were able to meet their new brother with an hour and a half of his arrival. This was by far the best child birth of all the kids and I felt wonderful following the c-section vs my section with Brayden where I was green for nearly 12 hours. Our newest team member's name is BAYLOR DAVEN McKINSTRY he weighed 8 lbs. and 11 oz. and measured 20 inches. He so far has been a great baby! His brothers are so in love with him and can't keep their hands off him.

Just after birth

Check out his beautiful black hair!!! I was so thrilled to finally have a son with my hair color.

The McKinstry Family of Five

Baylor day 2

Mommy and her newest little love

Daddy and his BOY!!!

Grandma and Grandpa McKinstry arrived on Sunday to stay with us for a week. Yeah!!!

Bennett and Baylor. He is constantly asking to hold him, and is very careful to wash his hands and making sure others know to wash their hands as well before touching him. He can't wait to take him everywhere and introduce him to the world.

Brayden's new toy, Ummm I mean brother :o)

Our 3 sons, how lucky and blessed are we! This picture get me every time I look at it. It reminds me of how good God is and that each of our three boys are a true gift and miracle. Life dose not get much better than this.

Getting ready to go home.

Ready to go all snug in his car seat

One True Superhero and BIG Momma

I went to Super Wal Mart on Friday am and they had just put out Halloween costumes. The boys have been looking through any and every magazine or flyer that comes in the mail and trying to decide on the perfect costume. They finally decided they wanted Spiderman 3 and lucky for them they had them there. I decided to go ahead and get them while I could find them and they had their sizes(even though Brayden's is a bit big). Needless to say these little boys were thrilled and have worn them for the last 3 days straight and they will probably be in shreds by the time Halloween gets here. We also went and meet with our Pastor on Tuesday and had to bring Bennett along with us. He asked Pastor Paul if he knew who the only true Superhero was. Pastor Paul thought about if for a minute and thinking along the lines of a 4 yr. old figured he would say Spiderman or Superman. Bennett said that GOD was the only true and real Superhero. Pastor Paul thought so much of what Bennett had said that he used it this morning when he was blessing the children. Only problem he must not have remembered Bennett's name because he called him by the wrong name. Oh well, we still knew he was talking about our little man.

Here is a picture of me from this morning just before church. I'm feeling quite done at this point and I'm hoping for Labor Day on Labor Day tomorrow. I'm sending up my desires and hope this baby comes soon, otherwise 16 days and counting!