Most people reading here have already heard about Josiah’s trip to the hospital in Memphis Friday… here are some pictures.
Josiah at the pediatrician Friday morning
On the way to LeBonuer
After he got his IV in
Sleeping after his CT scan
Notice it getting better yet?
Yay! Going home
Momma and I are working on this new blog. We still have our other site as well.
~ellie
Yestreday Josiah had a dr. appointment in Memphis. Momma, Annie, Mercy & I went with him.
Annie and Mercy had a WONDERFUL FUN time. We went to the Zoo after the doctor and they got to ride the train, stand in the sprinlkler and play in the water at the front (we don’t usually do those things when we visit the zoo). Annie saw a trolley and was EXTREMELY impressed. She asked “Do they have trolleys in Mississippi?” I said that I didn’t know of any, and she had a great idea: “Let’s buy one & bring it to Mississippi!” They ate lots of french-fries, ice-cream and other junk food… Anyway, here are some pictures.
Mercy and Annie loved the train at the zoo…
but Josiah just thought it was a good place for sleeping!
Hannah and Josiah this morning
After his bath tonight, Josiah had a really long happy time in his boppy. He is such a joy to be around! (Too bad the camera ran out of charge, but I still got some good pictures.)
The fruit is coming in! We got around 13-15 gallons of blueberries today. We also have a plum tree (the bugs already took care of those, though 
), two peach trees (ripe and delicious right now!), an apple tree and two pear trees (still cooking), thornless blackberries (I don’t care for them, but Macrae sure was putting them down today!), some rasberries (not producing right now), various sorts of grape, and a fig tree (not ripe yet). Whew! Good thing we like fruit!
Mercy giving Macrae a ride the other night :-). Aren’t they so cute?
Josiah has really started smiling alot more this past week.
There were several more pics, but they’re taking a while to upload so I guess I’ll wait ’til later.
The prince is crying, I better go!
~ellie
He looks so sweet sleeping all curled up like this!
Josiah
Josiah today… I wish I had cropped this but it took so long to upload that I decided just to leave it
This is Mercy, Josiah and I when we first met him
Josiah is settling in well. Yestreday was his one week gotcha day and I keep thinking and literally find it difficult to believe that he has only been with us 8 days. This morning I got him out of bed and thought “has this really only happened 7 times?” It is so strange, when a new baby comes, how fast you forget what it was like before, and can’t even imagine living without him. He is SO wonderful!
Mercy is wearing Boom-Boom, her FAVOURITE BESTEST birthday present. Mercy likes Boom-Boom a whole lot, so much that she doesn’t mind that he is really A LEASH.
Tomorrow we hope to go to the zoo in Memphis- rather belated, for Mercy’s birthday. We DIFINATELY need to bring “Boom-Boom” there!
Yesreday, Monday June 9 2008, Josiah Jackson came home to be our brother for always.
I have a lot to say but for the sake of time I’ll just make a few comments.
Mercy- before Josiah came home, ‘everyone’ kept making comments like “what does Mercy think of all this?” “I bet Mercy won’t be impressed!”… actually we are very thankful that from the moment she saw him Mercy was THRILLED. After the first wave of excitement wore off, I asked Mercy how she liked him and she said “I like him.” then she suggested that we ”take him home with us”. Great idea, wish I’d thought of it a long time ago!All last night about every 5 minutes she’d say “where’s baby Josirah?”- just to be sure sure we still had him with us. She loves feeling his hair (which is extremely soft) the best.
me- I LOVE him! He is soooooooooooooo sweet!
Josiah- he seems to be doing fine. He slept most of the morning then had a very long awake time around late morning/early afternoon. Now he is sleeping again… He really, really, really likes to eat! He is SO cute! The pictures don’t NEARLY do him justice. He also looks so big in the pics but really he seems tiny. His head is small I guess; I tied a newborn size hat on him and it was huge. Well I’m gona stop ’cause I want to go look at him again. (-:
~ellie
Here, at last, are some pictures of adorable Josiah. I wish I could post every single pic we have of him… but that might be a little too much 
This is the most recent pic we have of him- its a bit blurry but don’t you love those fat cheeks?
This is the first picture we saw of Josiah. I can’t believe how much he’s grown since then!
We don’t know when we will get to bring Josiah home… it will NOT be this week, I am told. Please, please, please continue to pray for us… it does not get easier to wait.
~Ellie
This is the wonderful Mercy Kate. It is hard to believe that tomorrow (Sat. May 31) will mark two years since this Princess was born! I love you, Mo-Mo! (this is the only pic of her I have on this laptop).
Mercy is going to spend the afternoon with Papaw- which she refuses to allow us to forget. Everyonce and awhile she’ll come up and say “Memaw an’ Papaw come tomorrow! Memaw Papaw Coming!” I don’t know hows she’s going to blow out candles though; she doesn’t like cake. Or Ice Cream. NOT a dessert person! But she likes sherbert, so I guess that’s what she’ll have. And if she could put candles in potato chips, she’d be the happiest girl alive!
I asked her what she wanted to say to the blog and, seeing the pic of herself, she commented “Dat girl shoes funny.”
This is the most picture of the precious best-beloved baby Josiah until after the 2nd (which, thankfully, is only 2 days away). Believe me, I could fill a post talking about him… but I guess I better not since this post is supposed to be about Mercy.
Pray for us as we wait.
~ Ellie
