Meeting Miss Ava!

Earlier this month we made a long awaited trip up to Atlanta to meet the newest member of our family, Miss Ava Christine Overton! She was born before Christmas, and we had been dying to see her! She was worth the wait...beautiful, precious, and oh-so-sweet!!!

McKenna just loved her! It gave me GREAT hope that she will also adore her little sister when the time comes. McKenna was gentle and loving. She wanted to help feed her and give her kisses...and then she'd be off and ready to do her own thing with her cousin Eli!

Dave's folks drove in from Cleveland and met us at Mary and Will's. It was wonderful to be together with family...it always is! We got to stay several nights with the Overtons and enjoyed a night with Dave's Uncle Joe and Aunt Dorothy. It was awesome catching up with everyone!

Joe and Dorothy are volunteers at the Aquarium in downtown Atlanta and got us some passes to enjoy a morning there. It was awesome! McKenna LOVED seeing all the fish and of course the highlight of the morning was "Nemo!"

A visit to Atlanta would not have been complete without lunch at The Varsity! We ate there after the Aquarium with Grandma and Papaw! It was their first time and boy was it an experience for them :) It never disappoints!

We also enjoyed being outside, playing in the back yard, eating at a Japanese Steakhouse, and the guys went to the driving range for some male bonding :) Thanks for showing us a grand 'ol time Overtons! We sure do love our sweet Ava and are thankful she is here, healthy, and growing strong!

Thanks again to Joe and Dorothy for the passes to the Aquarium!! It was great!!

So much to see! They were mesmerized! They loved the scuba diver that was cleaning the glass of the tank! He would wave at them and give them high-fives!

Aunt Dorothy knew all sorts of fun facts about the fish! And of course...NEMO!!!


The Varsity!


The kids played really well together! I'm so thankful that Eli and McKenna are close in age and that our next 2 will be close in age! Super fun times ahead for this batch of wild-n-crazy guys!

Addison Elizabeth

Yup...she has a name...Baby Burke #2 can now officially be called Addison Elizabeth. We assume we will call her Addi for short :o) McKenna can say Addison pretty well and does call her by name. I love it! I love praying for Addison by name now and feeling a deeper sense of connection to her.

We have been continuing our preparations for Miss Addi to arrive...slowly, but surely! Her room is put together and closet is somewhat organized. The drawers are cleared out of anything that belonged to McKenna and just need to have little, tiny clothes put back into them :o) I have yet to wash anything or iron anything, but everything is in her room!

Dave did a beautiful job on Addi's room. He is SUCH a busy man with work and paramedic school, but he made the time transform the room into a stunning nursery for our little girl to come home to. I wanted NO PINK in Addison's room :) We did pink in McK's nursery and now in her big girl room and it's just lovely...BUT...I'm OVER pink for a bit :) Not to say that sweet Addi won't be dressed in pink, but I wanted to go a different route with her room! So we ended up with ladybugs!!!

I'm SO pleased with how it all worked out! Babies R Us discontinued the bedding line that I chose so I had to kinda piece it together through different websites and ebay. I ended up combining 2 different beddings from the same designer so mix and match all the colors I wanted. So thus we have a precious red, white, black, and green ladybug room for our Addi-bug to enjoy :o) I still haven't hung everything on the walls, but we are getting there...

We got to see our little one last week with our 32 week ultrasound. For some reason it was harder for me to see the images of Addison this time. I had to ask the technician to point out all that I was supposed to be looking at. I'm thinking it was harder for me because I was still expecting to see a full length/figured baby on the screen...not just pictures of her face! She's getting so big that's all that filled the screen...her eyes, nose, mouth, and CHEEKS!!!!! She is definitely fluffier than her big sister! The technician says Addi is weighing about 4.8lbs, has meat on her thighs and has some HAIR!!! How fun is that?! I'm seeing red curls in our future :) The other thing she had to point out was that our Princess is bottom down, head up...in the breech position :( This called for another ultrasound in 4 weeks to check her positioning. We are hoping Addison turns on her own, but if she doesn't then the doctors will try and physically turn her. This only works about 50% of the time, so if she does not flip then we will look into having a c-section.

I'm feeling confident in the Lord's timing and however He sees fit to bring this baby into the world is fine with me. I'll be ready to know her positioning and more answers March 11th, but am just trusting that Addison's Heavenly Father knows best and her Mommy does not :o)

We still have quite a bit to do in order to be "ready" for this little girl...better get crackin'!

Addison - your daddy filled this room with his love for you looooong before you got here!




Still need to hang some items on the wall!


Hung the comforter over the changing table and am hoping to have a canvas with her name painted on it to hang over the crib!