Evan and Brady

I see so much resemblance between Evan and Brady.

Here is Evan at two and a half weeks.

Here is Brady at two weeks. They're definitely not carbon copies of each other, but it really makes miss the days Evan was this small.

Evan is still having a hard time with Brady, so I had to stage this picture to finally get one with both of them together. Here are my Steed boys!

A Bunch of Brady

Say hello to Brady Oliveros Steed. He weighed in at 8 lbs 11.5 ounces (Mireille wanted to make sure that I added the .5) and 22 inches long. It was a great birth (especially since I didn't have to do it) Mireille pushed for about 25 minutes. Much better than the 2 hours and 45 mins for Evan. The Nurses were great and the celebratory cranberry, apple, ginger ale cocktail was delicious. Mother and Child are doing great, Evan is on the fence. There have been some tantrums but he has learned how to "pet" the baby softly. During Mireille's stay at the "Birthing Inn" Evan lasted about 5 minutes in the room before he would start yelling "walk" which was more like and open armed run towards the security doors. He was a favorite of everyone trying to walk up and down the halls. As you can see Brady is super cute and and loves to eat (4 diaper changes last night.) We both think that Brady looks very similar to Evan. Unfortunately for him, Brady's forehead and current hairline looks surprisingly similar to his fathers (Brett-in case you weren't sure). Mireille is hoping that Brady is a little bit tamer than Evan but the early signs are not looking good. She is currently researching some sort of rudimentary child leash. Thank you all for the calls and support. We can't wait to see everyone again and introduce in person the newest Virginia (soon to be Colorado) Steed family member.

Just some pictures

Happy 57th, Dad!!

From all of us in California, Happy Birthday!! We love you Dad!!

Love, Mike, Michelle, Taylor, Victoria, Luke and Troy

The Men in My Life

I just thought that I would update you on pictures of Baby Troy. He is so cute and his eyes are still as blue as ever. He is such a good baby. He sleeps through the night and hardly fusses. He is a really easy baby. Well, here are pics of Troy, Luke and Mike. Enjoy!


Troy looks just like Mike.


Here is my first picture capturing Troy's smile.

Our Baby is 7!!!

Taylor turned 7 on Monday and she had a fabulous day. Actually, two fabulous days. On Sunday, we celebrated her birthday at Mike's parents' home and she had a Hannah Montana party. All of her gifts were all Hannah Montana stuff. Grandma and Grandpa bought Taylor a really cool outfit that she absolutely loves. She has worn it 3 times already.
Anyways, I made her a cake with a picture of Hannah Montana on top and it was personalized and everything. It was really cool.

On Monday, we just had a play day.

There was no school and so she had her friend Aubree come over. We had a makeover party and ate In-N-Out (per Taylor's request).

Then, I had the kids make their own cakes. They had fun with that. Victoria lucked out too because she got a Hannah Montana shirt like her sister.

It's my number 4 Party!

It's been a count down for Kaori for the past month about her birthday party. We finally had it on Wednesday! Everyday it's been...."Mom is today my number 4 party?" Tuesday night I decorated the living room with the balloons and streamers and Wednesday morning she comes downstairs, sees the balloons and takes the biggest breath of air and was like, "ohhhhh" (complete awe stricken). Then sees me and in a complete composed and somewhat "i don't care" voice asks, "mom, what is this?" I told her it was her party! and she says, "uhmm...okay", and walks away. So as soon as the kids got to the house we sang Happy Birthday to her and had some snacks before our special visitor came. Kaori's obsession has been Little Mermaid....so she was totally excited about her cake.



Every time we have visitors over Rori is either a leech or she will function up high and away from everyone else with her plate of food/snacks....so she will sit up on the counter for a good hour until she is ready to socialize with the others. Good ole' Rorby.



Then Santa came.....Kaori was not excited. She was probably the only one that had huge issues.



I had to drag her down the stairs to come and see Santa. And then she said she was ready to go see him but then was trying to get away....chicken.

Rori on the other hand had no problems....surprise! I told her if she wanted a bag of candy she had to go get it from Santa....so she walked up to him, put her arms up in the "carry me" position. She talked to him and everything! Can you tell I was completely excited about this little shock?




Anyway...it was a fun day. And Kaori scored with some great gifts from all her friends. Next week we take off for D.C. to spend Christmas with Lysle's family and we are all very excited to go, touch the snow and run inside.