Sarah's Birthday!

Sarah had her birthday on Monday this week and she is a whole year old! It seems so hard to believe that it has been a year already. It was quite a nice mild day on Monday and it seems funny that I was at the hospital with her on Monday as we were there with her a year ago on that same day. Sarah was able to get her cast taken off on Monday - Yeah!! She crawled with a straight leg for a little bit, but was soon zooming around like never before. The day Sarah was born it was -40 outside! The only upside to that was that we didn't have to pay for parking since all the machines were frozen! I was glad that it was warmer this year! We celebrated Sarah's birthday on Sunday afternoon. Grandma Hatch, Uncle Jeremy, Uncle Abe, Aunt Rachel and Uncle Cub and Zach all came to have cake with us. Sarah really thought the candle on her cake looked really neat and just tried to grab it. When I gave her a piece of cake she grabbed some, looked at her hands and then flung the plate off her tray onto the floor! I guess she wasn't interested! She really did like the new toy we got for her though. Anything that makes noises and has a dancing monkey is always sure to be a hit!

I took Sarah to be weighed on Tuesday and she is now 17lbs 5 oz! She has really been our "tiny" baby. She doesn't put on weight very fast but she sure does everything she should be doing and more. One of her favorite things to do is "help" with the dishwasher - pulling out as many things

as she can reach as fast as she can! We love our little 10th percentile baby!

Here we go again.....

Yes, it's true! The Hatch's are having another baby!! This will be baby #6 and we are so excited! We are not very good at keeping secrets and told our kids almost as soon as we knew. They were so excited. We told them we had a secret and then said that Sarah was going to be a big sister. Grace got up on her chair and started jumping up and down and clapping her hands. She said, "I know what that means - - We are having another baby!!" Then all the girls got really excited, except for Sarah since she really has no clue what kind of disruption this will bring to her life! Brendan looked excited but didn't say much. I talked to him later and asked him what he thought about it, and he said, "I don't know about having 5 sisters." So I said that it could be a boy, but my mathematically minded son just looked at me and said, "That's a very rare chance, Mom!" Well, I guess I can't expect much more from a boy who has has 4 sisters already. I just told him to pray for a girl this time, since all the other times he prayed for a brother - that obviously must have been working against him!
It was such good news to hear that two of my sisters were expecting just after we are. Melissa and Rachel both announced that they were pregnant just after we were and I couldn't be more happy for them. It truly will be a fun time this fall. We are all hoping and praying for another sister to join us in one way or another - that would truly be the ultimate cherry on the top of this awesome triple decker ice cream sundae!!