A few updates...

It's almost impossible to believe that Mitchell is already SIX WEEKS old...wow! Between moving to VA, chasing Elise and Ainsley all over the place, getting settled into new job/school/etc...here, time is FLYING by! All three kids are napping (well, Elise is 'resting'- close enough! She's in her room quietly reading and I get 2 hours of total peace.), I'll take a few quick minutes to update the blog:

*Mitchell has started really being alert and starting to interact with us...it's so cute and fun. You can really SEE it when he's close to a smile or little smirk. I haven't caught a full-out smile on film yet, but here are a few of his smirks...adorable!

*Several people have told us that Mitchell looks a lot like Ainsley, but I'm not totally sure. Ainsley looks SO MUCH like Adam (as Elise did as an infant, too), but I don't see much of that look in Mitchell. We'll see! Maybe we finally have a baby that'll look like me! (Several other friends have said that Mitchell looks like my side of the family, and I can see that, too...especially like my older brother...but maybe that's b/c Mitchell looks like he's trying to get away with something- that would be a trait of his uncle, for sure!). Hmmm...
*About a week and a half ago, Adam noticed that Mitchell has some webbed toes!! WHAT!?! Apparently, all the doctors, nurses, visiting friends, etc...ALONG WITH US, of course...failed to notice that his two toes on left foot are webbed about 1/2 way up to the nail...so crazy. We're really not concerned about it, but we do laugh that 1.You know it's kid #3 when you don't notice that for over a month. and 2.maybe he'll be an Olympic Swimmer one day with these webbies... The right foot also has the same two toes SLIGHTLY webbed, but not as obvious as the left foot.
We're doing well overall. We're settling well into the new house. Elise's favorite part is the nightly sunsets that we can see over the gorgeous Blue Ridge Mountains...she loves the colors and we talk about it every single night. The other night (it was a little chilly, you can see Elise shivering...) we ran out on the back deck to get a quick picture while the sky still looked like it was on fire...beautiful!