Getting some sun

The nurses were not sure at first, but we found out we don't have a pneumonia issue, so that is good.  He does have jaundice so he needs to catch his rays.  It happens to a lot of new people, so that is not too crazy.  He will probably have to bring a "light suit" home with him when he comes.  They rotate him every half hour in the "sun" to make sure he is taken care of.  

This is a picture of him with his fancy super suit on.  It is mostly a birthday suit, but he does have a nice mask.  Most super heros leave their eye slots open, but I guess he is not really into that.  Hopefully his eyes will mature properly, but it is way too far out to tell that for sure.  If you look closely, you can see that he is pretty furry.

 I do have large fingers, but my ring could definitely work as a bracelet.  The tube by his neck goes into his mouth and into his stomach.  They give him mom's milk when they can, but otherwise they have this sugar/protein/carbo drink for him.  I want to see if I can get some for race days.

Since he is not around, we made a little corner of the house for the little tyke.  With LE we just put her in the corner of the living room, so it is not too odd that he gets a corner of the kitchen (or is it the dinning room?).

Two new events

The title could also be written "too new", but we will get to that later.  The first item of great interest is that we will most likely be signing on a house in Kaysville at the end of July.  We are pretty excited, and I am sure we are going to be asking many of you for help (shameless plug).

The second item is that we have a new member of our family.  We are just as surprised as you are to hear this news.  Early Friday morning Ba noticed some leaking, so she went to the doctor when the office opened up.  At LDS hospital, the doctors verified that her water was broken.  LDS does not have the facilities to take newborns under 32 weeks and we are at 31.  Our insurance is not accepted at the University hospital, so we were sent down to Murray.  The doctors gave the baby some steroids to help develop his lungs and that helped greatly down the road.  Ba also received a priesthood blessing that we are certain was helpful in this whole process.  We got to Murray around 3:00 pm and nothing was happening which is what the doctors wanted. Until about 10:00pm… 

Ry’s perspective:  I took LE home and put her to bed in the evening and felt I should head back to the hospital.  About 2min before the sitter arrived in Bountiful for LE, a nurse called me and said Ba was having some very severe contractions and was going to receive a C-section to get the baby out.  I drove very fast to the hospital (and if I say very fast, you know that is cookin’) and I may have not obeyed several traffic signals.  Once I arrived I put on some fancy gowns, and watched from a distance as the doctors worked on Ba.  They finally let me go into the room, and I realized that she wasn’t cut wide open, and actually delivered naturally.  This is quite a relieve as far as recovery time goes for Ba.  After being with Ba for about 2min they kicked me out of the room and made me wait for 45min until she was all done.

Ba’s perspective: The doctors checked me at 10:12pm and I was dilated to 1 cm which is technically not in labor.  Shortly after being checked my contractions became very heavy and uncomfortable.  I called the nurse to tell her things were getting rough.  Once they arrived at 10:40 they found I had progressed to a 6 cm.  This is when you are in active labor, and they said I needed to have a C-section because the baby was breached.  I heard an announcement over the intercom for “all hands on deck”.  As they were prepping for the C-section, I thought I needed to push, and the nurses told me to hold back.  I was wheeled into the ER and the babies bottom was poking out.  I heard the doctor say “No C-section today, the baby is on its way.”  The baby was born at 10:50 and I was at a 10 cm.  There were shrapnel pieces of the placenta left so I needed a DC done, and they gave me a spinal tap to do it, but the baby was born natural without any anesthetics.

Bean was born on July 20 (9 weeks early), and weighs in at a husky 3 lbs 13 oz, and 17.5” long.  He has “old man hair” that is brown, and he seems to like hanging out in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU).  He first received oxygen and had this soapy foam stuff to inflate his lungs, but he took that off and decided he didn’t need it anymore.  He can breathe on his own which is nice.  Some other major concerns right now are that his immune and digestive systems develop properly.  He might also have some vision issues, but glasses are a great invention.  It is a slow process and we have been told to expect him in the NICU until his mid September due date.  We will have to change our budget for gas money for a little while.

 Baby with oxygen hook up.

 Baby body size compared to Ry's ring.  It could work as a bracelet.

We like to do this with LE where she holds both our fingers and we swing her around.  We will forgo the swinging for a while.

This will be his substitute for the womb for the next two months?

April

LE likes to sort thing. Ba asked if she would put her diapers away. When Ba come to check on the task, LE had lined the Diapers up on one side and pull-ups on the other.

Easter Egg hunt with some friends in our ward.

Our local food story had a little Easter Fun.  See the Bunny in the back ground... that is as close as LE would get to him.

Dying eggs

She LOVES to dance.  I don't think we go through out a day with out dancing.

Local Easter Egg Hunt.  All I have to say is; Parents are Crazy.  It doesn't matter how much low class candy your kid gets, it all about the fun. The End

Playing with Cousin H

We took 2 year pictures with  a I touch, when you make them big it doesn't turn out as well.  But some sure look cute of LE in her Tutu.

Brought to you by the letter "E" and the number "2"

Two years ago we were blessed with this cute face, and we are so grateful she came to us. She has grown so much and taught us along the way.

This doesn't even look like our LE now.


This is LE last year, don't you just love those four front teeth.

This year for LE birthday she wanted a "Abby" and "Elmo" cake from Sesame Street. Ba had fun making the cakes, which turned out better then she thought.

We had a hard time deciding what would be our families birthday party tradition for the kids. The end result was on even years the kids can have a friends party and they can invite as many friends as their new age.

This year LE invited her good friends from Bountiful. We had a Sesame Street party. We played games that had to do with the letter "E" and the number "2".

The two cute girls LE has so much fun playing with them. It is fun to watch the girls play together, if one does something the other thinks they should do it too, for good or bad.


LE loves to cook, this is why she received a play kitchen for her birthday. She played with it until it was time to go to church, and had a hard time letting go.

Why does this 100 piece box of play food have so much junk food?

She even played while it was time to eat breakfast. She was having so much fun she didn't eat very much.

On Ba side of the family we get together each month for FHE. This is all the grand kids that were able to come in March.

LE got a lot of great gifts for her birthday. The book is the one that we are most excited about, and I'm sure she will to come the third week in September!!!!

Arizona Spring Break

We don't officially have a spring break anymore because we are not affiliated with school, so we decided to just pick a week and go to Arizona and call that our spring break. Children that are 2 years old need their own ticket, so our trip ended the day before LE turned 2. Great timing I know.

We played some backyard cousins. We found about 40 old tennis balls at the park, so the adults were having fun throwing them at each other. Somewhat childish of the adults.

This is some fine Arizona cookin. Meals are always nicer when you don't have to prepare them or clean up by yourself.

It drove Ry crazy that the bikes were not in good working condition, so he did some fixin.

The girls loved the charriot, and we are very interested in purchasing one. We think LE should do her first triathlon this year, so she might have to spend some time in one of these puppies.

Everyone loves the park

Ba really enjoyed basking in the sun. She claims it makes her skin feel better, but she probably just want that super model tan.

LE got super muddy while playing the the water and dirt... wait... that sounds like the exact thing her dad does.


We hiked about a mile, and LE walked almost the entire way. I feel like this is going to be a nice family activity.

When LE has these shades on, she thinks she is pretty cool. The pack didn't last long.

It is really nice when LE reaches up and asks to hold your finger. She will only take one.



Ba won $20 to her personnal budget by sinking a few birdies in a very intense game of mini golf. We didn't have time for a full golf game, but we figured we were in Phoenix, so we had to get as close as we could.

We were all surprised when the two kids under two started riding away on the tricycle.

We missed our flight home, so we decided to drive. It wasn't bad, and we had all sorts of fun stopping at parks, and eating ice cream, oreos and fries all the way home.

Everyone is passed out, except the driver, and it was nice to have some quiet.

Toddler Talker

If you spend much time around toddlers, you realize they are sometimes hard to understand. They are developing their speech, and with any language there are some stumbles along the way. Ba does a great job at keeping up with LEs new words. Ry struggles a bit, and he realized how much he uses context to try and understand. As we enjoy many games, we decided to develop the "Toddler Talker". Watch the following videos and try to guess the words LE is saying. You can't see most of the props, so it might prove difficult even for you seasoned mothers and linguist out there. At the end of the post is the answer key to each video, so let us know how you did. One of LEs favorite words that didn't make the video is "Fa-gee", and neither of us know what it really means.











First video
milk, orange, cheese, ranch, cheese, plate, cup, mine

Second video
Elmo, dice, tights, headband, jammies, sock, baby, blanket, hat, blanket, pillow, tower

Last video
apple, boat, apple, doggie, ball, milk, car, bath, flower, cat, banana, duck

A little breezy

Two weeks ago we had a wind storm that cased a lot of damage, we were even with out power for 24 hours . We were lucky that in our little apt. area there wasn't a lot of damage. But driving down the street one could see a lot of trees down and power polls. The Sunday after the storm we went to church to find out that we would just be having sacrament meeting. The rest of the day we were asked to go help clean up the trees, to avoid more problems with a storm predicted that night. It was a very different Sunday but all types of people come out to help each other.



There were four tall firs, and now there is only one tall stump.
Hundreds of trucks were on the roads hauling limbs to the high school or landfill. It was a nice decoration for Christmas having garland strung along every street in the entire city.

The big dump truck at the end of the picture was filled with only a few trees in it. Nearly every pine tree that was over 30 feet tall was blown over.


On a lighter note, we celebrate St. Nicholas Tag. It was fun to have LE get excited to see her shoe filled with candy and a gift.


I know this shirt is cheesy but it is so true. LE loves to help out with whatever we are doing.


Ba is very excited when she was able to get LEs hair into two very small piggy tails. It only stayed in for about an hour but it was still able to be done. She will probably get her first haircut when she is 5.