Happy Easter!

Sabrina 

 

Big Brother

 

Gideon

 

Lizzy

 

ShiAnne 

 

Bunny Ears 

 

Girls

 

 

Boys

 

Daddiy's Girls

 

Momma's Boy

 

So grateful for the Atonement and Our Savior Jesus Christ.

 

Little Preformers

The night before, the night I went into labor with Sabrina, ShiAnne was a narrator in the play a Mid-Summer Nights Dream. She had worked very hard on this playing. They had spent a couple months practicing twice a week after school. The play ended up being the night before my due date and there was some concern of weather or not I would make it but Sabrina waited and we sure enjoyed watching ShiAnne preform. She did a great job and had lots of fun.

 

 

Then a few days after Sabrina was born Gideon had his first grade program. We were able to make it to that too. He preformed the German Clapping Dance and did a great job.

Just getting into the music.

 

It seams with the fourth kid and having big kids that are involved in more stuff we didn't slow down much to have Little Miss Sabrina. We did our activities of one week. Had her on the weekend and jumped into our activities of the next week. Thankfully I have great recoveries and she is a good sleeper. She has just had to learn how to tag along.

Back to Books equals Back to the Blog??

Well we are going to try.

So today was the first day of school and here are the pictures.


ShiAnne's first day of 4th grade.

Lizzy's first day of 2nd grade.

When did they get so big? It makes me want to cry.

So this is our best first day of school story. To say that ShiAnne loves school and was soooo excited for the first day of school would be an understatement. She made a count down chain at the beginning of August and has been counting down ever sense. Lizzy just feeds off of her excitement. Last night the clothes were laid out and they were ready to go to bed. At 4 o'clock this morning I woke up to use to the bathroom and was pretty sure I could hear the girls talking down stairs. I decided to go and investigate. I was surprised when I saw that the light in their bedroom was on but them I was shocked when I opened the door and they were sitting in the middle of their room playing cards! WHAT IN THE WORLD! They told me they were to excited to sleep. Silly girls! I made them get back in bed and turn off the lights and guess what? They fell back to sleep. When I went up stairs I told Shiloh about this and we lay in our beds laughing. What kind of nerds are we raising? You would think it was Christmas or something.

Okay that was our funny story and this is our not funny story.

Yesterday afternoon Gideon was jumping off the couch like he does all the time. I didn't even think to tell him to stop this is a normal thing at our house but then he landed on his foot wrong and started crying. I could tell from his cry that it was a real hurt. He wouldn't walk on it at first but then last night he started hobbling around on it so I was hopping it would be alright in the morning. When morning came he wouldn't walk in it at all, so while the girls headed off to the first day of school we headed to the doctors office. The foot was swollen and the doctor was surprised when the ex-rays came back and there was no brake. He told us that usually in little kids the bone will give before the ligaments and tendons do but there was no brake to be seen so he wrapped it in an ace bandage, told us to how to take care of it and sent us home. Gideon wouldn't walk on it at all today. I am hopping he will do better tomorrow because that kid is heavy!

The girls had a great first day of school and I think we are going to have a great year!

Kids Say......

The other day the girls were cleaning up from doing some painting and I was listening to them from the other room. ShiAnne was trying to hurry and said, "I need to go my hiney in gear." The Lizzy in her sweetest little girl voice while giggling say, "I love it when you say hiney."

The girls like all kids there age like to make cards and note but often don't know how to spell what they want to say. So of course, they will ask me how to spell it and then I will tell them letter by letter how to spell it. When they are finished writing down one letter they will ask, "what's next?" and I will tell them the next letter. Gideon also likes to play this game. Being two he doesn't know how to write any of his letter but he will get a piece of paper and a pencil and ask me, "what's next?" I will tell him a letter and he will draw a circle or a scribble and then ask me, "mom what's next?" I have decided this may be great way to teach him to spell his name. So when we play this game I always spell out his name for him. I don't know if it is working but at least he feels like he is every bit as big as the girls.

February

In my lack of blogging this month there are a few things I forgot to mention.

1. Happy Birthday to the most awesome Husband and Dad. He really is the best and does everything he can to make sure we are happy. So glad I got you babe.

We celebrated at home on his birthday and then that weekend Shiloh and I went to Rodizio's and a movie.

The triple layer lemon cake I made him.

Singing Happy Birthday.



2. I tried my hand at Lizzy's hair again. I think I'm getting better.

About a month ago. Lizzy started crying lots about combing her hair. I told her she had two choices. If she wanted it long enough to do pony tails and pig tails then she couldn't cry when we combed it. If the snarls were to much for her then we could cut it again. The crying stopped but about a week ago she started asking to get it cut. So I went ahead and did it. Her hair is so fine and straight (like mine) I really think the short is so much cuter on her.

3. This cute dude, well this cute dude learned how to use the potty and we are all very happy about it!

4. Thanks to my sweetie Valentines was great too, but I forgot to take pictures of all the roses and valentines and going out with the family for the evening. We all had lots of fun and felt lots of love.

We took the kids and went back to the bridge on the Provo River Trail where we got engaged, 10 years earlier. It had been a long time sense we had been there and it brought back a lot of fun memories.

That is the highlights for February. I will try to stay more up to date this next month.

Gideon

I have been singing Christmas song this morning. I just got done singing the line "If you want to be happy in a million ways, for the holidays you can't beat home sweet home." When Gideon turned to me and said, "Na uha, Grandma's House!" Guess you know where we go for the holidays. :)

Gideon

We finally got around to getting Gideons pictures taken (and by we, I mean I).



















I LOVE this little guy!!!

The Sucker Theif

The other day (notice he still has his cast on so this was really like a month and a half ago) Gideon found a sucker and not wanting me or maybe his sisters to take it away he decided he needed to hide out behind the chair to eat it. Little did he know then that I wouldn't have taken it away but after a few minutes of not being able to get the plastic off he had to come out of hiding and risk asking for mom's help anyway.

Calender

My calender seams to be a little full this month.



So in case there is any activity or event I suppose to be at and miss this month just take note that Gideon decided to schedule himself in.

Balls, Boys and Birthdays

My Gideon turned two a couple weeks ago. We kept things pretty low key but we did have ball birthday cakes after dinner at his cousins house.

The ball birthday cakes were definitely a hit with these boys.


I got this picture a little late but as we sang happy birthday to him he didn't like all the attention so he was turning away and trying to hide.


This little man is every bit as stinkerish and cute as any little two year old should be but we are so glad to have him we love him so much! Happy Birthday little squirt!!!

Gideon's Arm

Okay so Wednesday morning right after ShiAnne left for school Gideon and I were hanging out in the office. I was talking to him and watching him. (I was not even on the computer.) He was sitting on the window seat/edge of the bookcase and he reached down to grab something. His foot slipped and he fell off the window seat. I tried to catch him but there was a chair between us and I couldn't get to him. The fall didn't look to bad but he was holding a pencil, I guess this made him land on his hand and arm funny. I picked him up to love him better but he wasn't getting better. I knew right away that this wasn't a regular reaction he kept telling me his arm was owie. I turned on little people for him to see if the distraction would help him for get about it. His pillow was on the couch on the side that made him lay on his sore arm he kept trying to lay down and then he would cry that his arm was owie. I moved the pillow to the other side and he lay down and fell asleep. At 9 in the morning this was not a good sign. Sometime when it is a serious energy you will go to sleep to escape the pain. He slept for about an hour. After he woke up as soon as he tried to use his arm again he started crying so I new it was time to call the doctors. The told us we could come right in.

At the doctors the physician assistant (PA) saw us instead of the doctor because it was lunch time. This was a disappointment because he hardly said anything to us the whole time. It was good thing I had gone through this before when ShiAnne was about 17 months old. Gideon had broken his arm and that is about all I would have known if I had kept asking him question that I only knew to ask from my experience with ShiAnne.

The PA put a cast on him. Gideon really didn't like him touching him so that was a fun experience. Good thing it was during lunch time and there weren't other little kids there to listen to him scream but as soon as we were back in the lobby he was okay.

He is doing fine now ans he will get the cast off on June 12. The day before we go to Lagoon. Yay I worked it like that.

Sick Days

I just thought this was to cute. Poor Boy

p.s. Just for the sake off all you moms out there, I changed over 10 stinky diapers yesterday and Shiloh changed 3 more.

Gideon is Working on a New Skill

As you can see from his shirt it still needs some work.

Third Baby

I thought this would be kind of fun to do about all my pregnancies. It is something about being the fifth kid I don't like it when only the first on is important. So this one is about Gideon.

1. WAS YOUR PREGNANCY PLANNED? Yes

2. WERE YOU MARRIED AT THE TIME? Yes

3. WHAT WERE YOUR REACTIONS? I was very excited

4. WAS ABORTION AN OPTION FOR YOU? No, Never

5. HOW OLD WERE YOU? I was 26 when we found out I was pregnant and 27 when I had him.

6. HOW DID YOU FIND OUT YOU WERE PREGNANT? Home pregnancy test.

7. WHO DID YOU TELL FIRST? ShiAnne and Lizzzy. ShiAnne was very excited. We had a big family outing day. We went out to dinner that night and told the girl. The next day we had family pictures with Shiloh's family so we were going to have ShiAnne tell them when everyone was together but when we walk into Shiloh's parents house Amber was looking at the Sunday adds and ShiAnne promptly sat down next to her and said "I need to look through these I need to find something for mommy's new baby." So Amber, Shiloh's mom, maybe Phylicia new about it but they kept it a secret until family pictures.

8. DID YOU WANT TO FIND OUT THE SEX? Yes

9. DUE DATE? June 7

10. DID YOU HAVE MORNING SICKNESS? A little but not to bad. I was really, really, really tired.

11. WHAT DID YOU CRAVE? sleep

12. WHO/WHAT IRRITATED YOU THE MOST? I don't know.

13. WHAT WAS YOUR SECOND CHILD'S SEX? Boy

14. DID YOU WISH YOU HAD THE OPPOSITE SEX OF WHAT YOU WERE GETTING? no we were very excited to have a boy this time.

15. HOW MANY POUNDS DID YOU GAIN THROUGHOUT THE PREGNANCY? 30 or 35

16. DID YOU HAVE A BABY SHOWER? yes.

17. WAS IT A SURPRISE OR DID YOU KNOW? I knew

18. DID YOU HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS DURING YOUR PREGNANCY? not even one hint of a problem.

19. WHERE DID YOU GIVE BIRTH? American Fork Hospital

20. HOW MANY HOURS WERE YOU IN LABOR? My water broke at home at 1 a.m. but I still wasn't in strong labor and i had him at 7:49 a.m. so almost 7 hours

21. WHO DROVE YOU TO THE HOSPITAL? Shiloh

22. WHO WATCHED YOU GIVE BIRTH? Shiloh, his mom and his Sister OrLynne.

23. WAS IT NATURAL OR C-SECTION? If natural means vaginal then yes, natural.

24. DID YOU TAKE MEDICINE TO EASE THE PAIN? Yes

25. HOW MUCH DID YOUR CHILD WEIGH? 7lbs 8oz

28. WHEN WAS YOUR CHILD ACTUALLY BORN ? May 31

28. WHAT DID YOU NAME YOUR CHILD? Gideon Kent

31. HOW OLD IS YOUR BABY BORN TODAY? He is 1 1/2.

Flashback Friday

Ahhhhh.....There we go a sweet little baby again.

Gideon September 2007

When did he get big?

When did he get big? I swear I haven't taken my eyes off him for more than a few minutes and still I missed it. When did he learn to make breakfast. Today when it was time to get he some cereal he took me from the pantry to the the cereal to the fridge to get the milk and then drawer to get a spoon. And when did he learn that the gas station equaled getting a treat. I don't take him into the gas station often but today I needed a pick me up (Shiloh has been out of town for three days now) and he new to look for a treat and that he had to give it to the lady to pay for it. Then he came home and sat on the couch eating each and everyone of those gummie life saviors (his new favorite treat sense someone shared some with him at the Christmas party) while watching Handy Manny and told me no when I asked if I could have one. After he finished he got up and threw his garbage away. So I ask you, when did he get big? He also swept the floor, okay maybe not really but he sure tried, and hung up his coat today. Not the first time but still, when did he get big? I think I might need my baby back?!?!