...and We're Back!
1 year ago
Friday, May 29, 2009
Courtney with Mommy's Aunt Connie
We love being able to get together with family. Even though we are back in Utah we still live an hour away from a lot of family members and don't get to see them as often as we would like, so it is always a treat when we see them.
Those cute chubby cheeks have gone down quite a bit now that I am not nursing. They were so kissable and squeezable!
Those cute chubby cheeks have gone down quite a bit now that I am not nursing. They were so kissable and squeezable!
Making Valentine Cookies with Aunt Aubree & Danielle
YES! I think the sugar got to him. It took us a really long time to get him to hold still to take a picture, so you will see the best we could do.
We had a really fun time making them, decorating them and then delivering them to our neighbors.
I am glad I had some helpers or else I don't think they would have ever gotten around to the neighbors before the next holiday rolled around. (As you can see I am just getting around to posting the pictures and it is the end of May!)
We had a really fun time making them, decorating them and then delivering them to our neighbors.
I am glad I had some helpers or else I don't think they would have ever gotten around to the neighbors before the next holiday rolled around. (As you can see I am just getting around to posting the pictures and it is the end of May!)
Fun Shots of Our Cute Little Courtney!
Needing to try mom's drink - Well at least the bottle tastes pretty good!
Checking out the new toys on her swing and wondering why mom keeps interrupting her so she could get a picture!
My little thumb sucker! Some people sure put up the red flags and have all kinds of warnings to make for a child who sucks their thumb, saying that it is such a difficult habit to break. I guess we will cross that bridge when we get there. As for now, it has been great for her to be able to sooth herself when she gets tired and I don't have to run around trying to find a pacifier.
Courtney loves her bed, in fact it is hard to get her to go to sleep when she is not in her bed. Unlike Cameron who liked to be rocked or go for stroller or car rides to fall asleep v.s. his bed. Even though Courtney likes her bed, she sure knows when its time to get out and play. She gets so excited and always has a huge smile on her face when she sees someone peeking over the the rails of the bed to say hello and get her out to play!
3 1/2 months old and her first attempt at rice cereal. She loved it, but just wasn't used to the technique of pushing her food back and swallowing. So needless to say for one tiny spoonful, it usually went in and out of her mouth about three times before I could give her more. It is so fun to see these little ones learn new skills and grow - it only took her about a week and she had it down pretty good!
Checking out the new toys on her swing and wondering why mom keeps interrupting her so she could get a picture!
My little thumb sucker! Some people sure put up the red flags and have all kinds of warnings to make for a child who sucks their thumb, saying that it is such a difficult habit to break. I guess we will cross that bridge when we get there. As for now, it has been great for her to be able to sooth herself when she gets tired and I don't have to run around trying to find a pacifier.
Courtney loves her bed, in fact it is hard to get her to go to sleep when she is not in her bed. Unlike Cameron who liked to be rocked or go for stroller or car rides to fall asleep v.s. his bed. Even though Courtney likes her bed, she sure knows when its time to get out and play. She gets so excited and always has a huge smile on her face when she sees someone peeking over the the rails of the bed to say hello and get her out to play!
3 1/2 months old and her first attempt at rice cereal. She loved it, but just wasn't used to the technique of pushing her food back and swallowing. So needless to say for one tiny spoonful, it usually went in and out of her mouth about three times before I could give her more. It is so fun to see these little ones learn new skills and grow - it only took her about a week and she had it down pretty good!
Monday, May 4, 2009
Potty Training!
(Sorry, I couldn't get the picture turned the other way)
Potty Training is not an easy thing, but I did finally find a few things that has helped Cameron along the way. I was getting really tired of washing out his pants, so I decided to have him help me. I think he started to understand that it really was faster to take a break from playing and go potty in the toilet instead of going in his pants, washing them out and then having to take a bath (he has never really been too fond of baths). We also found a treasure box full of surprises to be a good thing. Candy wasn't doing the trick, he didn't really care about that - we had to move to star war figurines. He was able to choose a surprise once he filled his sticker chart up.
I think Cameron has got it down now (except for at night I still put a diaper on him - although he did wake up dry this morning). It seems like it has been a long road - we tried a while ago, but then we moved, had a baby, then he got sick and wasn't able to control when he went potty. It seemed like our efforts went down the drain, but we just needed to re-focus and be consistent. We finally had the time and the determination to really focus on it starting in probably January. I tried to stay close to home for about a good week until he had it pretty much down. I did have to take him potty every 20 minutes and then was able to gradually stretch the time out. Now come May I don't really have to ask him to go potty unless we are going somewhere then I just make sure he goes potty before we get in the car and then when we get to our destination I make sure I know where the bathroom is, because when he does tell be he has to GO, he usually doesn't give me a whole lot of notice! Yea! only one child in diapers - at least for a little while!
Our Newest News!
Ready or not, WE ARE HAVING A BABY! It was a little shocking to us - after all it took us a year to get pregnant with Cameron, the baby I miscarried AND with Courtney. We have come to realize we are NOT in control when it comes to this aspect in our lives (as well as many others), so we will take them when they come. We are grateful for the opportunity to raise another one of our Heavenly Father's precious children and have another sweet spirit in our home.
Chad is a great strength to me that WE CAN DO THIS - his attitude is, "hey, it doesn't matter to me whether it is NOW, 6 months from now or a year from now" and as a side note - "lets just get them all here before I'm 40!" It is growing on me that I can do this, but I must admit my first response was "OH NO!" with the overwhelming responsibility of having a newborn, one that has barely turned one year old and let me remind you will not be in nursery for another 8 months and a 4 year old (who I know will thankfully be a great help). I guess we will just roll with the punches!
On my other pregnancy's we have always known to the day of when our new little one was due to arrive (not that they came on that day), but with this one we needed a little help from the OB Dr. and an ultra sound. I am 10 weeks along and the baby's due date is November 13th. Who knows, we may have another October birthday since our other kids were due in November but must have been too excited to get here and came in October. My guess is that it is going to be another girl. I know you can't always tell whether it is a boy or girl by the way you are feeling - but - with Cameron I got a little morning sickness (that came mostly in the evening). With Courtney it seemed as if it was multiplied by about three and was a much more challenging pregnancy. This one seems to be starting out like more like Courtney's. I guess we will find out soon enough.
So what made us think I might be pregnant? Well here are a few of the events leading up to the day I decided to go pick up a pregnancy test!
A month or so after Courtney was born I started having some really strong abdominal pain. It came on pretty fast and progressively got worse within about 1/2 hours time. Cameron was over at his cousin's playing and I was just home with Courtney. I managed to put her to bed and I called Chad at work to ask what it was like to have your appendix burst. After a minute or so of trying to tell him how I was feeling I was doubled over on the bed and in tears and couldn't talk very well I was in so much pain. No matter what position I was in I still hurt. He told me it didn't sound like my appendix but something was not right . He was not able to pull away right then but would meet up with me later, so he sent my brother-in-law Mike (who also works at the Dermatology office) over to take me to the OB doctor. JaLaine came to the house with Cameron and her 2 kids to watch Courtney. Mike and I rushed off to the doctor's office and by the time we got there the pain had let up (isn't that always how it seems to happen?). I could still feel a little pain, but it was nothing like it had been. The Doctor kept asking questions and pushing along my back to see if it hurt thinking that it sounded like kidney stones but with that you usually have pain in your back and I didn't. He decided to do a urine test to see if they could detect blood in it. Sure enough, it was full of blood. He told me he was 99% sure that it was a kidney stone that had passed or was in the process of passing. The pain might or might not come back depending on if the stone had passed, but there was nothing they could really do other than give me medication for the pain. He told be he could write an order for me to go over to the hospital and get things checked out to make sure or I could just wait it out. I opted for waiting it out. That night I passed a huge blood clot that was most likely part of the placenta. After that I seemed to be fine, so who knows exactly what was wrong.
On the night of March 26th I started to have some cramping within my abdomine that seemed to feel better when I hunched over, so most of that night I walked around like an old lady. After a couple hours it seemed to go away but returned in the morning with stronger abdominal pain. I could still talk and it didn't feel like daggers pocking inside me like the previous abdominal incident. Chad hadn't gone to work yet but was getting ready to. He pushed on my stomach in different places trying to see the exact location where the problem was. Tears were welling up in my eyes, but the pain was still different than before. Chad got on the phone and made arrangements with Mike again in case I had to go into the ER since the doctors office was not open. I tried to walk around and get things ready for the kids so that we could go and the pain began to disappear. Chad said he would feel better knowing that we were at Mike and JaLaine's in case something happened - I would have a way to the Doctor's and someone to watch the kids. We hung out at their house and laid low for half of the day - the pain didn't get any worse and I felt like I would be fine, I just felt tired and worn out so we decided to go back to our home. Chad had mentioned the possibility of an Ectopic (tubal) pregnancy because of where the pain was located in my abdomine, so on the way home I stopped at the store to pick up a pregnancy test and took it that evening when Chad got home. Sure enough it was positive and so were the other two I took a couple days later. I still worried about it being an ectopic pregnancy and thinking I would have to go have some type of surgery, but since the pain had not returned I just made an appointment with the OB doctor for a couple weeks later - that way he would be able to tell more from the ultra sound and I would be able to make sure things were ok before we left on our trip to Disney Land.
Well all is well, and that is how our journey began in finding out we were expecting another baby!
Chad is a great strength to me that WE CAN DO THIS - his attitude is, "hey, it doesn't matter to me whether it is NOW, 6 months from now or a year from now" and as a side note - "lets just get them all here before I'm 40!" It is growing on me that I can do this, but I must admit my first response was "OH NO!" with the overwhelming responsibility of having a newborn, one that has barely turned one year old and let me remind you will not be in nursery for another 8 months and a 4 year old (who I know will thankfully be a great help). I guess we will just roll with the punches!
On my other pregnancy's we have always known to the day of when our new little one was due to arrive (not that they came on that day), but with this one we needed a little help from the OB Dr. and an ultra sound. I am 10 weeks along and the baby's due date is November 13th. Who knows, we may have another October birthday since our other kids were due in November but must have been too excited to get here and came in October. My guess is that it is going to be another girl. I know you can't always tell whether it is a boy or girl by the way you are feeling - but - with Cameron I got a little morning sickness (that came mostly in the evening). With Courtney it seemed as if it was multiplied by about three and was a much more challenging pregnancy. This one seems to be starting out like more like Courtney's. I guess we will find out soon enough.
So what made us think I might be pregnant? Well here are a few of the events leading up to the day I decided to go pick up a pregnancy test!
A month or so after Courtney was born I started having some really strong abdominal pain. It came on pretty fast and progressively got worse within about 1/2 hours time. Cameron was over at his cousin's playing and I was just home with Courtney. I managed to put her to bed and I called Chad at work to ask what it was like to have your appendix burst. After a minute or so of trying to tell him how I was feeling I was doubled over on the bed and in tears and couldn't talk very well I was in so much pain. No matter what position I was in I still hurt. He told me it didn't sound like my appendix but something was not right . He was not able to pull away right then but would meet up with me later, so he sent my brother-in-law Mike (who also works at the Dermatology office) over to take me to the OB doctor. JaLaine came to the house with Cameron and her 2 kids to watch Courtney. Mike and I rushed off to the doctor's office and by the time we got there the pain had let up (isn't that always how it seems to happen?). I could still feel a little pain, but it was nothing like it had been. The Doctor kept asking questions and pushing along my back to see if it hurt thinking that it sounded like kidney stones but with that you usually have pain in your back and I didn't. He decided to do a urine test to see if they could detect blood in it. Sure enough, it was full of blood. He told me he was 99% sure that it was a kidney stone that had passed or was in the process of passing. The pain might or might not come back depending on if the stone had passed, but there was nothing they could really do other than give me medication for the pain. He told be he could write an order for me to go over to the hospital and get things checked out to make sure or I could just wait it out. I opted for waiting it out. That night I passed a huge blood clot that was most likely part of the placenta. After that I seemed to be fine, so who knows exactly what was wrong.
On the night of March 26th I started to have some cramping within my abdomine that seemed to feel better when I hunched over, so most of that night I walked around like an old lady. After a couple hours it seemed to go away but returned in the morning with stronger abdominal pain. I could still talk and it didn't feel like daggers pocking inside me like the previous abdominal incident. Chad hadn't gone to work yet but was getting ready to. He pushed on my stomach in different places trying to see the exact location where the problem was. Tears were welling up in my eyes, but the pain was still different than before. Chad got on the phone and made arrangements with Mike again in case I had to go into the ER since the doctors office was not open. I tried to walk around and get things ready for the kids so that we could go and the pain began to disappear. Chad said he would feel better knowing that we were at Mike and JaLaine's in case something happened - I would have a way to the Doctor's and someone to watch the kids. We hung out at their house and laid low for half of the day - the pain didn't get any worse and I felt like I would be fine, I just felt tired and worn out so we decided to go back to our home. Chad had mentioned the possibility of an Ectopic (tubal) pregnancy because of where the pain was located in my abdomine, so on the way home I stopped at the store to pick up a pregnancy test and took it that evening when Chad got home. Sure enough it was positive and so were the other two I took a couple days later. I still worried about it being an ectopic pregnancy and thinking I would have to go have some type of surgery, but since the pain had not returned I just made an appointment with the OB doctor for a couple weeks later - that way he would be able to tell more from the ultra sound and I would be able to make sure things were ok before we left on our trip to Disney Land.
Well all is well, and that is how our journey began in finding out we were expecting another baby!
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