No Really......Anywhere!

If you are a blog follower of ours than you know from an earlier post that Stockton can fall asleep anywhere and is out within in seconds. A few weeks back he was laying in bed and had a little flashlight he was playing with.  And all of a sudden we hear "oh great!"  

"What's the matter Stocky?" I asked. 

He replies with sadness in his voice " I dropped my flashlight under my bed."

"It's okay, just crawl under your bed and get it."  I tell him.

I realize after a few minutes I had heard nothing more from him, so I decided to go and check on him and this is what I found.

Yes,  that is under his bed.  That kid could sleep anywhere!

 

The One Thing.......

These last seven months have flown by.  The day Shane was born and learning the news of having to spend at least 2 weeks in the hospital, I remember thinking 2 weeks that seems like a really long time.  The day we brought you home from Provo I remember thinking it didn't seem long at all.

                         

Now it has been 7 months. Wow!  We have protected Shane through this long winter from as much sickness as we could.  He has been having monthly injections of Synagis to give him the extra antibodies to protect him from RSV.  At the beginning of the year with the change in our insurance(we didn't change companies but something changed ??) they decided they didn't want to approve the final 2 doses.  After fighting with them for 2 weeks and lots of hours spent on the phone with our Dr. (Thanks Dixie) they finally sent out his 4th dose 2 weeks late. UGH!

Needless to say the injection didn't happen soon enough.  The one thing we didn't want was for you to get RSV. We have now been battling it for a week.  I am so grateful to have my Dad as a Dr.  We have been able to avoid hospitalizing Shane because his Grandpa is right down the street.  Grandpa prescribed breathing treatments every 4-6 hours as needed and he was even available in the late night hours to give him a cortizone shot and just to listen and make sure he wasn't struggling to breath.  We are very fortunate.

                                    Your first breathing treatment.

Shane is doing better.  He still sounds a little weezy but nothing like it was last week.  And of course he has a cough but that will last a while.

Peek-a-boo

Shane loves to have a blanket or even just someone's shirt to hide under. His favorite is to lay by Dad and hide under his shirt.  They get this special time together at least twice a week when I go to work.  I love that they got pictures for me to post.

                    

                    

Valentine's Day

I love to make treats for Valentines Day.  It is usually soft sugar cookies with buttercream icing.  Yum!  This year I made cookies and then I decided to try Truffles.  They were actually not really hard.  A little time consuming, about 11/2 hours from start to finish for about 53 Truffles. It was a learning experience and I will know next time what to do better.

Here is a picture of the finished product.

**Sean did say they are not the same shape(round)but then he did say that they were probably made with machines. 

11 YeaRs rEalLy!

 

I cannot believe that Sean is 11! 

             

The years fly by so fast.  Sean is such a great example to those around him.  We are so lucky to have him in our home.  He has a VERY contagious laugh and is such a joy to be around.  Don't get me wrong, he also has A LOT of sarcasm.  Celebrating his birthday brought back memories of the day he was born.  It was a Sunday much like this day and as I looked out the window there were snow flurries, same as there were 11 years ago. 

On to the fun stuff; Sean wanted a homemade funfetti cake, well from a box, but I made it.  The cake is on a rotating silver stand that plays Happy Birthday. ( It was Grandma Suzi's Grandma Chloes cake plate)

                       

Some of the presents he wanted was a new bike helmet so he could ride his ripstik and a DS game and also lasertag(Just like the 80's but better). 

                      

I also surprised him and got him tickets to go and see the Harlem Globetrotters.  Yes, they were here in Richfield.  He was able to share that experience with his Dad, Lizz & Stockton.  They stayed after the game and got autographs and a picture, which is on my cell phone.  They had a blast.  Happy Birthday Sean!!

 

COMFORT?

Many of us know the comfort of having a rocking chair in our homes.  Whether it is to rock our sleeping babies or to soothe a sick child they are a great comfort. 

Even as adults to sit in a rocking chair with a good book is comforting. 

To my son, Stockton, there is nothing more comfortable than our Rocking Chair. 

Pregnancy Tag!

1.Where were you when you first found out that you were pregnant? 1-home, 2-home, 3-home, 4-home.

2.Who was with you? 1-my mom 2-Cam 3-just me 4-Cam

3.How did you find out that you were pregnant? 1-My dad did a blood test at the lab and called with the results. 2-I think another blood test. 3 & 4 home pregnancy test.

4.What was your first reaction to finding out you were pregnant? 1-excited, we thought it would take awhile to get pregnant because of some medical reasons, but only took 2 months.. 2-Excited, we tried for about 9 months.  3-Excited,  we tried for a year and when we finally decided to give up we found out we were pregnant.  4-Excited, a little unexpected.  He was not a surprise just happened fast.

5.Who was the first person you told? 1-my mom was there then told Cam. 2-Cam and maybe Kami. 3-Kami then Cam. 4-Cam.

6.Did you plan to get pregnant? Yes, to all four.

7.Did you tell everyone else right away? 1-We were so excited we couldn't wait to tell everyone. 2- yes. 3-yes. 4-We waited a couple of weeks but decided to tell the kids on our way to Salt Lake and they just couldn't wait to tell everyone.

8.Was everybody happy for you? Yes.

9.Did you go out and celebrate? No.

10.Did you want to find out the sex? YES

11.What was the sex? 1-boy, 2-girl, 3 boy, 4 boy.

12.Did anyone throw you a baby shower? 1-yes, 2-no, 3-no, 4-my sister wanted to because it had been almost five years but I felt weird having one for my fourth baby.

13. Did you get any outfits at the baby shower that you just knew that you wouldn't put on your baby? No, I was excited for everything.

14.How much weight did you gain? 1-about 40lbs., 2-about 45 lbs., 3-around 55 lbs., 4-I think it was around 50 lbs. I know crazy, I get huge.

15.Did you lose all of the weight that you gained? Believe it or not but I was always stuck with an extra 5 lbs. with each one.  Still working on #4.

16. Did you get stretch marks? Oh yeah.

17.What did you crave the most? I don't know that I craved anything specific.  Just food in general, but had a hard time with sweets. They didn't taste very good.

18.Did you crave anything crazy? Not really

19.Who or what got on your nerves? Nothing really got on my nerves to bad.  My hormones were crazy but I don't really remember anything specific.

20.Did you have any complications during your pregnancy? Yes, preterm labor.

21.Where and when did you go into labor? 1-at my baby shower. 2-at home  at about 1 in the morning.  We went and dropped Sean off with Grandma & Grandpa Pearson and then went to the hospital. 3-at home. I had just been taken off of bedrest and was trying to finish up some decorating for Christmas when the contractions started. 4-at Wal-mart! Then I drove home and laid down to see if the contractions would stop and when they didn't decided I better go to the hospital.

22.Did your water break? no. not with any of them. The doctor had to do it at the hospital.

23.Who drove you to the hospital? 1-My friend Torann. 2,3 & 4 Cameron.

24.Who was in the room when you gave birth? 1-Cam, my mom, Cams mom, my sisters, my dad(the doctor), and two nurses. 2- My dad, Cam's mom, Dixie, nurse and I think respiratory. 3- Dad, Dixie, Nurse, Cam. 4-Cam, My Dad, Dr. Pope, Dixie, three nurses, and two people from Life Flight.  There might have been respiratory too.

25.Did you go early or late? 1-three weeks early, 2-three weeks early, 3-two and a half weeks early, 4-six and a half weeks early.

26.How long were you in labor for? 1-16 hours, 2-6-7 hours, 3-about 9 hours, 4-5hours.

27.Did you have any drugs for the pain? I had an epidural with #1 but it did not work.  No drugs with 2, 3 or 4.

28.Did you go natural or have a C-section? Natural

29.What was your first reaction after giving birth? I cried with everyone and wanted to know immediately if they were okay.

30.How big was the baby? 1- 6lbs. 4 oz.  2- 6 lbs. 9 oz. , 3- 7lbs. , 4- 4lbs. 14oz..

31.Did your husband cry? Yes.

32.What did you name the baby? 1-Sean, 2-Elizabeth, 3-Stockton 4-Shane

33.Does her name have any significant meaning? They all have family names.  Shane is a family name but was 2 days old before we decided.  The final decision came while we were in the NICU with him and we looked up the meaning and it means. Gift from God.

34.Did you have any visitors? Yes

35.Did he have any complications? 1-Just that the epidural did not work. 2-She was early but was fine.. 3-He did not cry right away to clean out his lungs so he required a little oxygen for the first 10 hours., 4-Yes, He decided to make his arrival a little early and he took a Life Flight ride to Utah Valley when he was just hours old. We spent 2 weeks in the NICU and he came home on oxygen and an apnea monitor.

36.How old is your baby today? 1-ten years, 2-eight years, 3-five years, 4-5 1/2 months.

37.When is the next one coming? As of right now there are no future plans.  I don't like to say I am done because everyone has a surprise if they do.

38.If you could, would you do it all over again? For sure.  With each child you wonder how you can share that much love with all of them, but it is so easy.  I love them all so much.

39.Tag someone: I would challenge anyone that reads this.  It is a fun reminder to everyone and how different all the pregnancies can be.