What a beautiful baby... is it yours?


Our wonderful friend Nicole Wallen took pictures of the kids to mark Jack turning 2 and for birth announcements. Relax, you probably haven't been forgotten. The announcements are on order and we plan to mail them as soon as we get them back. Anyway, here are a couple of the pictures...

Don't the kids look gorgeous?? I can hardly believe they are ours? Well, then again Jack does have my abnormally large skull and poor attitude when tired, so that is a dead give away that he is mine. For that matter, when he and Jeremy are together it is downright creepy how much they look alike, yep definitely ours! Claire looks sooo much like Jack, I will confess...I put a bonnet on him last night to get a Claire preview and found "her" to be stunning! We made our first solo trip to the Children's museum on Friday. Claire was an angel and slept the ENTIRE 4 hours we were there! Man, did I luck out with this one! Jack had a grand ol' time and Jeremy was able to get away and meet us for lunch.

We have a full schedule for the week. Jack's buddy Owen came over for a play date today, tomorrow Jack goes to daycare to hangout with his ladies, Wednesday to the pool with some friends, Thursday to the museum again, and Friday for a day at the park. We are enjoying some beautiful weather and don't want to miss a moment! Take care! HR

Okay, okay, okay... we know. We should call more, write more, and share more pictures. It has been about a week since our last post, but the Rochford family has been dealing with some digital camera issues, starting with Jack spiking our "old" camera like a football just before we left the hospital with a steady progression to "Memory Stick Issues" with our new camera. It is all getting worked out due to the wonderful manager at HH Gregg. He agrees that we aren't idiots and it is the camera, so we get a free upgrade to a different model tomorrow. We have managed a few pictures though, such as this one of Claire as a burrito wrapped in her favorite blankey from Nana B and Jack showing off his new mohawk .


Jack is my little helper (he helped with Claire's 1st bath) and when he feels like it, helps me care for Claire. Please remember he is VERY much a two year old with all the idiosyncracies that come along with the age. He is enjoying the exploration of cause and effect (example, if I ignore my mother's pleas, what effect will that have????) We have been suffering through dueling evening revelry cries from Jack and Claire. Claire, I get...she eats every couple of hours or so, but Jack has us confused and EXHAUSTED. I took him to the mall today because it was raining and I wanted him to stretch his legs a bit. I swear it was like I was watching his Uncle Trent run the 400. He ran lap after lap after LAP, and I could swear I saw him lean on the turns. Anyway, he lost the battle today and is still napping. Hope all is well. When we get our new new camera, we will post a ton of pictures.
Jack is working hard on his first post and we will publish that later in the week. Have a good one. Love from all. HR

More pictures...!

Hello all,

Jack would like to introduce you to his new baby sister...Claire Catherine Rochford. She was born on Saturday, July 1st at 11:59am. Heather went all natural yet again...she is a trooper and did a wonderful job! We were scheduled to be induced at 6am that morning, but Claire decided that she didn't want to wait that long and H. went into labor just after 4am. She labored on her own until 10:30am when the doctor broke her water at 8cm and Claire was born at 11:59am. As Jack looked just like his Daddy, I think Claire looks more like her Mommy. I have included some pictures below. I hope that you enjoy them! We hope to introduce you all to Claire very soon!

Jack's website is "under construction" and I wanted to get pictures posted for everyone across the world to see, so I am giving this blog a try. If it doesn't work, we will figure something else out!!!