July Birthdays

Jace and Tyler are getting close to their birthdays!! The count down started for Jace about two weeks ago and each day he has asked if his birthday is tomorrow yet. Its been really fun planning his birthday with him but its hard for him to understand that talking about his birthday doesn't mean that his birthday is that day. Jace decided that he wanted a Phineas and Ferb birthday party; which works out great because its about two brothers and the boys are sharing the birthday party. He also wants to have chocolate cake and for Tyler to have a smaller cake with a 1 on it because Tyler is one! He's a really big helper and always has an opinion on what we should do. 

Tyler is so strong, stubborn, and very determined.  He started crawling at 7 months walking at 10 and a half and this week made it all the way up the spiral slid at chick-fil-a! There was a 20 month old there who just started to make it to the top too. Tyler is my wild child. Nothing scares him and the more intense something is the more he loves it. 

Jace is my little negotiator. There is nothing he wont try to talk us into and he'll try several different ways to get us to say yes. In fact, once he got me so turned around about what I had said no to that I said "no water until you have your ice cream" meaning to say "no ice cream until you drink your water" and Jace said (pointing his finger at me and laughing) "You said it. You said it." Yep we're in trouble with that one. :) He is a very happy little boy and questions everything around him; which wears me out at times but he really wants to understand and learn about things around him. He can't wait to go to school in a year. 

Crazy last few months!

I know I always say that I'll be better at keeping my blog up to date, but I think I need to come to terms with the fact that I'm a "once and a while" blogger! That's okay with me! We had a few people wait for us to announce the birth of our little boy, Tyler, on our blog, but I only put a few pictures on facebook!

Here's our announcement:

Tyler joined our family on July 20th around 5:50 in the morning. Isnt he so cute! Jace and Tyler are so cute together, though Jace is just now calling Tyler his friend; he has always been very kind to him. The other day Jace and I were walking to get Tyler up from his nap and Jace asked, "Mom do we get to keep our baby?" and I said "Yes, we get him forever!" to which Jace said "oh good I dont want to give him back to the doctors."

I also had a few people ask about delivery! So you if you dont want to know skip, actually I dont have a lot to tell. I woke up at about 1:30 a.m. and knew that things were going to happen quickly (call it women's intuition). We left for the hospital a little before 2. The nurse was surprised by how far along I was and still talking, laughing, and telling jokes (the birthing classes told me I would be in too much pain to joke around but actually I was in a really good mood considering all the pain i was in!) After getting checked in and waiting for the doctor we only had about 30 minutes to wait for the baby to join our family. Yes I had a non-medicated delivery. I know what its like for delivering with and without an epidural and despite all the pain I was still very much aware of the joy of the situation. When preparing for it, I was told how one way or the other was more enjoyable than the other, and I (see its my opinion and to each their own) think that is just because we want to believe one is better. I would deliver without again but I would also choose an epidural depending on the situation. My reason where mainly because our insurance wouldn't have covered much and epidurals are expensive.

Here I am about four hours after giving birth! Dont I look great! haha. I felt great and it was up there with best days ever! I wasn't even tired, it took me about 2 days to come down from the adrenaline high or whatever it was that kept me from feeling tired (It helps to get to sleep while nurses took care of the baby!).

So there it is! My really late Birth day announcement! Tyler is amazing! I love my family of four and I'm enjoying every moment of all the crazy chaos that has come with having a new baby.

Easter 2011!

This is our trip to My sisters house for Easter this year! They all had a blast looking for Easter Eggs together! It was Jace's first time to actually hunt for Eggs and he loved spending time with his cousins. Last year we still had snow on the ground in Idaho and so we just used the time to practice hunting for eggs. I'm still looking for our pictures from last year.

My Cute Family!!

Pregnancy!

I dont have a lot of pictures of myself, but I do have a few of me through out this pregnancy! I like to see how much I've changed each month and make Jared take at least one or two pictures of me each month (I'm in charge of taking pictures in our family so there are very few of me in our albums).

Here are a few!

This is when I was 4 months pregnant!

This is when we went to see Thomas the Train at the beginning of April. I was about 5 months pregnant! All I have to show for it is that little belly in the above picture the one below is just cute!

Here I am at the end of April, Easter weekend in Oklahoma (6 months along). One month made a big difference! I look bigger in this picture than I was because I haven't really grown that much since this was taken almost 2 months ago.

I dont have any more recent pictures yet. I know we took pictures this last month, I just dont remember who took them. I have about 6 weeks till my due date! Then maybe, if he comes "on time", it wont be pregnancy pictures but ones of our new little baby and Jace together! Those pictures will be more exciting and cute!

It's a good day!!

Because I had a doctors appointment this morning; we got to spend extra time with Jared. It was really fun waiting for Jace to wake up because he was talking in his sleep again, and he didn't know that daddy would be home. Jace talked about Lizzie, our puppy, in his sleep before waking up. He said "Lizzie that is Jace's," so she must have been taking a toy or snack from Jace in his dream!!

When Jace woke up and found Jared home he said "Daddy at work, nooo Daddy home with Jace!!" Then he gave him a big hug.

Here are a few pictures of our puppy Lizzie!

She never wants to sit still for her for a picture so I had my mom hold her down!

Jace really likes to spend time with Lizzie. He loves giving her a bath usually because he wants to dump out a cup of water on her head! Lizzie likes him just as much, even though he's pretty rough with her. If he's gone with Jared for a few hours she'll wait near the door every time she thinks she hears him come home. When it's not him she run off just to come running back when she hears something outside. This will go on until Jace gets back home.

Sick

This time I am not going back on my goal of getting my blog updated, I just got sick. Went to bed sick Wednesday and am still trying to get over it today. So it looks like Jace's ear infections might have just been from being sick! We'll still need to wait and see.

Little Behind!?

So it's been a few months (yeah try closer to a year and maybe even years) since we have put anything on our blog and most of our family and friends have given up on us! Thats ok, I dont blame you. Now that I'm feeling better (and only really have off and on for 2 months), I'm almost ready to get back involved in this darn blog. Actually I think it's just part of nesting now that I'm only 10 weeks from my due date! I've been trying to get everything taken care of with all our boxes but my iron count is low like it was my last pregnancy and I don't have the energy to clean or go through boxes. The blog doesn't seem as intimidating as everything else I should be working on. At least I'll feel like I'm getting something done!

I wish that we had our latest pictures on our computer so that I could some pictures on today, but that will have to wait till tomorrow. The biggest news about our family this year is getting our puppy, Lizzie. Jace loves having a puppy even though she bites from time to time. Never really hard and she is doing a lot better lately. We've only had her from a little over a month so the improvement with biting and house training has been wonderful. Jace tries to get her into trouble by saying she's biting him but I was watching closely yesterday (when he thought I couldn't see him) and she's mostly sniffing and licking him.

We took Jace to the Doctor and found out that he has an ear infection again. I have to remind myself that even children without his ear problems still get ear infections from time to time and his last ear infection was back in March 2010. Going as long as we have without one has really been a hugh blessing to Jace, since before his surgery he had one only after a day of being without the antibiotics. One tube has been out since December and the other one is on its way out. We have to wait and see what the specialist says to know if he'll need to get tubes again.

Jace and I started walking yesterday now that we got a new stroller. Jace has really missed going on walks. He knows where all the parks are and tells me which way to go to get there. I wish we could have gone today but I didn't want to be out if it started raining. Not with Jace getting over his ear infection. That's about all I've been up to other than cleaning and getting our stuff ready for the new baby when I can. Hopefully I'll be better about posting this time around!!!