3 weeks already

Parker is doing super good. I took him in for his 2 week appt and his blood work looks GREAT! he gained weight and is now 7,7 he is healthy, sleeps good and is just perfect. We could not be more thankful! He is as sweet as he looks too. such a good baby and he already knows mommy's bed from his.. lol which in this case I just don't care I love him so much...... He is so spoiled but deserves to be.

If you need

a good gift for someone who is having a baby, I suggest this bag. This is one of the best things I bought. Instead of using a basket or a bucket to hold all the baby stuff, I use this bag. I found this bag at target for $15.00 and it is the best $15.00 I spent. It holds everything from thermonater,binkies, diapers, wipes, onzies etc... That way you have everything you need when you go into different rooms and you are not wasting time looking for the wipes and diapers.






I love this picture of parker, one day the nursery nurses came in and said your baby is doing the funniest thing. He has been sleeping with his legs in the air and one is always out of the bed. He still does this his legs are always striaght up in the air, he is so fun to watch.... It is so crazy how fast they grow. There is nothing sweeter than a new little baby.... The boys love him & are the biggest helpers.... So grateful for this little miracle......So many things could have gone wrong and were suppose too, but I really believe in miracles and prayer and feel so much gratitude toward my Heavenly Father for this sweet blessing in our lives.

Miracles do happen!

I wish I brought my plug to download pictures of our new baby. But I promise I will when we get home. Parker is the smallest baby we have had, but boy is sure a cutie.
Parker is such a Miracle, what a blessing it has been to have wonderful Dr.'s that took such great care of us before he was born, even though the visits were getting somewhat draining. I will forever be grateful for the Extra mile they went to make sure he made it. This was my first C-section and it went super fast, I hated being numb, but it was nice to have someone else do the work for me lol! When he came out, Chris ran over to me after they cleaned him up and his eyes just lit up and said hon, he is SO CUTE! SO SO SO CUTE! He was super excited and I can't thank him enough for all the love and support he gave me during the surgery and after. I couldn't have asked for a better husband.
Parker does have the anti bodi C but is not anemic. He fortuntaly did not have to go to the NICU but is at the nursery under 3 lights that is to help flush out my blood that is killing his red blood cells. Every day he is progressing and getting better. Our first night here was rough, the nurses were under staffed and I was a little neglected and didn't recieve the care I needed so it took me a little longer to recover, but we do have it all under contorl now. I didn't get to see parker for the longest time after he was born I thought they were going to let me nurse him, but it was to crucil he didn't get out of the lights. I was uninformed for the longest time so I was very anxious as to what was happening.
When parker would eat from a bottle he somehow forgetst to breath and his oxygen would go way down and he would go blue. He had to be on oxygen for awhile espeically while he was being fed, but when he nursed he had no problems. So to make a long story short, nursing has been a huge blessing otherwise he would not be able to eat without oxygen near by. He is getting better at feedings and is having a lot of poops and wet diapers.
He favors one side more than the other but we figured out some tricks to help with that. I love feeding him every 3 hours and then I get him for 1 hour. I hate giving him back but thank my Heavenly Father every second he is alive and that I can feed him and hold him. Finally all of our questions have been answered. The best part is, is that he gets to come home when we leave. We have to stay one extra day longer to help his billy rubin come down and he does have to come home in a billy rubin bed, but he gets to come home.
I love him so much. I am truly thankful for this Gospel that has given us the strength and hope we needed to get through this. Well that is it for now, I better get some sleep, but when we get home I will post pictures. Love all of you and appreciate all the support and love you have shown us.

Mr. photogenic

Kaden is so hillarious, his aunt came down to take him to the pirate island in orem, so he went into the halloween box and got this costume out that he wore when he was 2. As you can tell they don't fit, but he didn't care, he also wore a red shirt of his that actually matched. I should of got pictures of all three boys but I forgot, kaden's little nephew will only where his buzz light year pj's these days, connor was the only one looking normal, but they had a blast. :)





I know most of you have seen these on facebook, but I haven't updated my blog forever. This barn is seriously 5 feet from my drive way so it was super easy and fun to take these pictures of kaden. He is such a good looking kid if I don't say so myself.

The love & Logic way

I honestly can't say enough GOOD THINGS about this book. My sister & I got this book as a gift from my mom, she works with all these cute girls at work that told her about this book, the minute we started reading it, our outlook on parenting had changed, and when we tried it on our kids it worked within one day. It's about teaching children responsiblity and to let them be the one to make their own choices with out realizing you are still in contorl.
Kaden has always been a sweet boy, but he has always had a hard time with anger and being told what to do. When we started this with kaden, I really started to cry because he become a completley different boy, he has learned how to deal with his anger, and feels so big because we are always giving him choices and he gets to be the one that chooses.
One night Kaden did't want to say his prayers, I said kaden; do you want to make Heavenly Father sad or happy tonight? He said ummm sad, I said ok kaden maybe you can make him happy tomorrow. He then said no mom I would like to make him happy! It really is all about letting them be the ones to make the choice, I have also found that I have become more calm, the more calm I am the better the outcome. This book teaches you to not pick battles that you won't win with your child. It teaches you how to win without them really knowing you won. anyways,this is something I just wanted to share with all of you. I would love to hear if this has worked for you like it has for us. Hope you like it as much as we have. UNITL NEXT

Weird Santa, 2 vistiors, playing in the snow

I didn't do the Christmas card thing this year, or pictures so I just took some by our fireplace and I think they turned out pretty good. I am truly blessed to have these boys and am totally biesed because I just think they are so dang cute.... Handsome boys:)

I could stare at these pictures all day I just love them so much

Vistiors

This week has been fun, we actually had some people visit which was really nice, kadens little cousin and his friend came down to play all day, the boys had so much fun, playing in the snow and using their shovels I think the best part was when they used their sleids to go down the slide and would run into the fence.... Such fun boys thanks heidi and alicha for coming down kaden misses you guys already

Then this same week we had our friends from west valley come down to spend time with us too, andrea came down with her boys and they had a blast there were 5 boys running around and a new baby boy it was crazy and believe it or not no fights, it was a lot of fun.... Andrea thank you so much for coming down, kaden cried when you left he loves and misses his friends so much... I really enjoyed it too:)

I also took the boys to see Santa and let me tell you this was one weird Santa

Kaden was sweet to tell him all he wanted, but this Santa was not fun or joyeful at all good thing the boys are still little to not know the difference

when it snowed the boys were quick to play out side we live in a circle so i would pull the kids around the street in the sled and also push them down our driveway

after awhile Mommy couldn't push anymore so kaden would run and jump on his sled and go down the driveway it was so fun to see him to that.

kaden and connor decided they wanted to make sure the shovling was down before daddy got home:) good job you guys

and of course

snow angels

I have not had this much fun in the snow for a long time and maybe it was because we lived in a town home that made it hard to do stuff right where people drive in and out here they have so much more room and noone drives in this circle so the kids can play all over and to have the driveway be a little down made it fun for them too. Or maybe it is just because they are at a more fun stage then they were before, maybe both huh! either way I love playing with them and seeing them have fun:) now if we could just get some neighbors to come play outside too and not be afriad of the snow that would make it more fun for them. Noah, Adam and matthew where are you guys when we need you lol :)

And this is what happeneds when you use to much bubbles

Yes this is totally my fault, I was taking a bath and got a little carried away with the bubbles (ya think) I turned the jets on and they got bigger and bigger and then I couldn't turn the jets off, so when I went to go get my camera, both boys had jumped in and made one of the biggest bubble mess ever, after 5 towels and chris having to hit the breaker we finally got it all cleaned up, next morning was dry bubbles all over in the tub! Note to self: watch how much bubbles you put in your jetted bath. lol