Julie Anne Kim

July 5, 2017

11:33 PM

8 lbs 3 oz

21 inches

This picture says it ALL!!! We are so inlove and so happy to have our sweet girl here. We are so blessed. I am so happy beyond words that because of my Savior and temples I can be with these 6 cuties forever!!!!

I LOVE how much the girls love their sweet sister. They have rotations for holding her. I love seeing them read to her and with her and sing to her. When she cries, I love how I will hear them singing softly to her primary songs such as "I am a child of God" She is so blessed to have sisters to be teaching her from day one that she is a daughter of a Heavenly Father who loves her!

Her first bottle feeding. Honestly, I don't know how I would do 5 kids without my 3 older girls. They are absolute angels in my life. I love them!! Here Carolyn is giving Julie her first bottle.

One of my young women made this blanket for Julie. She even sewed Julie's name in it...

This one is one of my favorite pictures of Julie. I love how the sunlight looks on her pretty face. I kiss that face all of the time. We all do. I love how Tommy will run up to Julie and say "cute" "Kiss." He then gives her kisses and kisses and kisses. I love how much he loves her. Melts my heart. He is working on giving soft kisses and is getting better every day at it.

I love the many sweet moments mom get. They are heaven on earth, I think. Here was mine today...

Tommy has a hard time traveling. Not the driving part, just the part of not being able to sleep in his own bed. It's a struggle for sweet Tom. And a little bit of a struggle when we get back from a trip. He has to adjust to sleeping again and not being up all night watching "The Land Before Time" (yes, the only way we could calm Tommy so he wouldn't keep everyone up all night - he would sometimes watch it 3 times while everyone slept :) Anyways, tonight we were still trying to get Tommy to sleep back in his own bed. The only way he was happy in his bed was if I sat beside him and held his hand while he fell asleep. Sometimes I'd kinda try to slip my hand out of his when I thought he was asleep and he would frantically grip my hand as tight as he could. It was so cute. I sat there holding his hand while holding my sweet Julie in my other arm.  After holding Tom's hand and Julie and being in heaven, I went to my bedroom. There I found Andrew and Carolyn snuggling up and reading "tennis shoes among the Nephites" I snuggled in with them and listened to the story.

I love my heaven on earth. I love my family. They truly bring me some of the greatest joys.

Today Julie SMILED for the first time. Her beautiful and sweet smile is SO contagious!