Chase Andrew Latta is Here!

We are so thankful for the birth of our son Chase Andrew Latta. He came into this world at 3:34 p.m. today weighing 7 lbs. 4 oz. and is 21 in. long. He and Julie are both doing great. Here are a few pics...I am sure we will be posting many more pics in the days ahead. Thanks to everyone who has been praying for our family!

The Corn Maze

Jared discovers corn

Comparing wrist bands with Daddy

Leading the way

Follow me!

Too busy for pictures

"""balls"

Jared and Daddy

Riding the "train"

Peeking at the goats

Playing in the corn box

Who put this corn on my pants?

Sticking corn in the goats noses

Riding a pony for the 1st time

Petting the pony

Peeking over the fence

Daddy's boy

A morning with Jared...

I wake to the sound of someone talking with a paci in his mouth. Someone who has gotten out of his own bed trotted across the house and into my bedroom to say "goodmorning there will be no more sleeping in this house". Squinting I can hear him get more animated as he knows he has finally woken me up. I give in and he follows me around as I get ready running ahead of me to the kitchen when I suggest we have breakfast. I settle him onto the couch with his cereal and milk so I can take a shower in "peace" (meaning only 1 or 2 interuptions instead of 500). When I exit the shower he is waiting in the bedroom with me with our family portrait that he has stolen off an end table. He points excitedly over and over at Jesse exclaiming "daddy daddy" just in case I forgot who that was. I rescue the picture (for now) and ask if he would like a bath. In answer he takes off running across the house to his bathroom to stand beside the tub and wait to be put in. I start the water and as I am not moving fast enough he decides to make his best effort at climbing in by himself (pajamas and all). Thankfully his legs are just a little too short. I undress him, help him into the tub, wash him and then leave him to play in the water for a while. Later I start the water draining while he keeps playing. At one point I leave and come back to find the water has finished draining and Jared has the soap and washwrag in hand getting ready to re-wash his body only with no water. I rescue the afor said items and fish him out to dry and lotion up. He insists upon helping with the lotion which is in a pump bottle so when we are done the bottle has as much lotion on the outside as he does. I have forgotten to get a fresh diaper and his ointment so I run to his room grab them. In the few seconds I am gone he dashes completely naked out of the bathroom to his firetruck in the hall (this is a ride on toy). Once straddled upon it I hear the tell tell sound of liquid hitting a hard floor. He is sitting back hands on his thighs watching as he pees on the firetruck upon which he is sitting and everthing else in range. The humor in this is that it is a fire truck and I guess perhaps it needed a "hose". I carry him quickly to his potty chair but he is finished and doesn't want to stay there. I wipe down his legs then go grab a towel to clean my hardwoods before the moisture makes a mark. I return to his room to find him, still completely naked diving around in his ball pit. When he gets out he has a ball stuck between his fat little thighs (I'm sure the lotion helped this). I just about have him down on the floor ready to be diapered when Jesse calls wanting to know "what are you guys up to?". Moments later Jared is finally clothed and decides all this work had made him hungry for a mid-morning snack. He runs to the kitchen to ask for applesauce. Glad to have him stuck in one place I put him in his highchair with the applesauce, a bib, and a spoon. I come back when he is finished to find that he dropped a huge spoonful down his front and UNDER the bib so that his shirt he has been wearing all of 10 minutes is soaked in applesauce. I change him into a second shirt and wonder how many more hours before Jesse comes home for lunch and Jared goes down for a nap?

Jared helps Daddy

Jesse cleaned out the gutters tonight and Jared decided to help... no he did not get of the roof, but he did make off with some of Daddy's supplies:) Jared is actually wearing this glove he wore it around the yard backwards and up to his elbow for quite a while.

Moving Jared to his big boy bed

Jared doesn't know it yet but he will soon be giving up his crib to his little brother. We bought him a twin bed, but he isn't ready to give up the crib yet. To ease the switch we took off one of the crib sides and pushed it up to the foot of the bed. We tried it out for the 1st time on this day, after being layed down he immediately started crying grabbed his blanket and Tigger and came to his bedroom door. I went back in his room and put him back to bed only to hear him at the door seconds later :) this time I didn't go back in. 10 min later the crying had stopped and I went in to check. Apparently he had gotten tired and decided to go get in bed but he must have been too tired to climb all the way back in and so fell asleep on the way.

Bath time, Driving, and No pants :)

Jared takes a bath and models his new towel...

Jared driving

Jared decided he didn't have time for Mommy to put his pants on him, but later he did have time to ask Mommy to put two of his ties on him

Helping load the dryer... again Jared didn't have the time or patience to get dressed but he did wish to wear his shoes...