Caleb Kenyon

He's here! We had Caleb on September 24th. Some people have been asking about his birth story so here it is. If you don't want a TMI, here's the short version:
Contractions, hospital, almost turned away but my doctor came up and said no your good, antibiotics, epidural, more antibiotics, break water, wait a little bit, try and push out a baby, taking a long time, eventually have baby at 5:36. Yeah! The end.

Now, the long version:

Sunday night, I went to bed but he started moving around like crazy at 10:45. I couldn't sleep at all with him moving so much so I got up and just hung out in the loft while I waited for him to stop moving so much so I could go to bed. At 12:45 he stopped moving and I went to bed. However, almost immediately when I laid down, I starting having some cramping. I had this with Landon and I knew this wasn't real labor so I thought it'd either go away or last a really long time. I'm trying to fall asleep during them but wasn't able to sleep at all. 3:30 rolls around and I have my first "real" contraction. I noticed a difference in this contraction. By 4:00 I start timing them. They're about 2 minutes apart but only 30 seconds long. John wakes up for work at 4:45. He starts getting ready and I let him know that I haven't slept at all. He's thinking, well that sucks! Then I tell him not to be alarmed but I've been having contractions all night. He's like, do we need to go to the hospital? I tell him to go to work real quick (he had something he had to finish up) and I was going to finally pack my hospital bag. So he goes to work and I start packing a bag, take a shower, and cleaning up a couple things. At 6, I start calling people to set up the kids for the day. My mom and dad show up at 7 and we leave a little after for the hospital. At this point, my contractions were still going as long as I was moving around. When I sat down though, they'd stop. So I'm worried at this point that maybe I'll get turned away when we get there. 

We get to the hospital and go to the triage room to check and see if I'm really in labor or not. The nurse checks things out and says I'm only at a 3 so there are 2 options. 1, I can walk around for a while to get the contractions good and going hopefully or 2, I can go back home. We decide that we want to talk to my doctor. He's actually on call (which we were so excited about) so he comes up 20 minutes later. He's happy I'm there because he was thinking of when to set up an induction if we needed one and what day and all that jazz. Because I'd had a c-section before and wanted to do vbac (which was successful with Carly) my doctor likes to be the one to do it, and I have to be monitored a little more closely than normal. Anyways, back to him being happy we're there. So my doctor checks things out and thankfully I was at a 4 and some. So not a 3 but a good 4!! I am getting admitted to the hospital. It could not have been a better day to have had Caleb! It takes a while to fill out all the "paperwork" but finally we get to our room probably around 9-9:30.  Meet my nurse, start a round of antibiotics, and get my epidural!! Which is always awesome! My doctor comes in to check on things and notices I have a "bulging bag". I'm like, is that bad? Good? Whaaaat? It just means that when he breaks my water, 1, it's going to be a lot of fluid and 2, labor will go really fast. So, he wants to wait to break my water since I'd only had 1 dose of antibiotics and I need 2 doses. They give me the second dose at 2:30 (a little early) and break my water at 3. My doctor guestimated that we'd have the baby by 3:14 so really quickly. Well, it didn't work exactly as we thought. For some reason, he was sort of stuck? The doctor checked things out a couple times and finally at 5, he wanted me to start pushing. He looked sort of confused while I was pushing and so were some of the nurses. I didn't know why and didn't pay much attention to it. However, I've never had to push as long! I pushed for 36 minutes before he was born. My other kids were between 7 and 15 minutes so I was wondering why I couldn't push this guy out! Well, the answer came while he was coming out. He was forehead first (or as they say in the medical world, brow first. Fancy!). Usually these babies end up c-section babies. My doctor was quiet about it because I was pushing okay and he wanted to see if we'd be able to do this. He came out sunny side up so his cheek got scraped up probably on my pelvic bone. But hey, he did not break it so that was really good! After he came out, I found out I didn't tear at all which makes for a much better recovery and was amazing that I didn't since he came out such a "wide" way.
Anyways, that's the story. And now here are pictures!

This is right after he was born. See how big his forehead was??? Poor guy! Probably had the biggest headache ever! So no cone head but protruding forehead instead.

1st Day of Kindergarten

Landon was VERY excited to start school. He has been asking me most days when he'd be going to school. He was also looking forward to riding the bus. Back in the Springtime, he asked when he was going to go to school. I had told him it's got to get hotter and then when it starts cooling down, it'd be time for school. Well, a couple weeks before school started, I caught him pulling large leaves off a plant. I was upset because there weren't that many leaves on the plant in the first place and it wasn't my plant! I asked him why he would do such a thing to the plant! He told me he was trying to make it colder (because leaves fall off plants during the fall) so that he could go to school. How could you be mad at that? Anyways, finally the first day of school came! He wanted me to take tons of pictures of him doing all the random things from the morning such as eating breakfast, getting in the car, and playing on the playground. He does take the bus now but for the first morning, I drove him. The one and only time that'll happen hopefully!

His teacher Mr. Keelin

His class all lined up ready to go.

Waving goodbye. Wasn't nervous at all. He was sooooo ready!

While John's in Tahoe!

John's at his annual family trip in Tahoe and he decided to surprise me on Sunday that he'd be taking Carly with him. It is surprising how much easier it is to go do things with 2 kids compared to 3! The boys can get dressed on their own, do things that I asked them to do, there's no diapers involved, and they play wonderfully together. So, for the first full day with the boys, we did a lot of stuff and it seemed like we could just pick up and go. No worries about getting Carly ready and grabbing diapers and wipes and other things. First, the zoo, then Chick Fila, then nap time (cause Cody was T.I.R.E.D!), then the pool and watching a show while I got dinner ready. Last, we had a great bubble bath. What a fun day for them!

At the zoo looking at the Humongous tortoise.

Feeding the ducks and fish at the zoo cause that's a must. I love Landon's throwing style! 

And where do we end up the longest at the zoo? The play area which also has a little water spray thing. Cody ventured in first and Landon finally decided to give it a go after we had decided to go so we had to go back. They both got very wet and only ended up with one kid (Landon) crying cause he got water in his face. I knew that would happen. 

Falling asleep at Chick Fila. I took the picture then put my phone down and woke him up so he would fall into the table.

I LOVE floaties!

Playing with bubbles.

I'd say a pretty good day for the boys.

June and July 2012

We have been having a low key summer after the big trips we went on.  We haven't been up to much but have had my sisters come and visit which has been awesome! For some reason though, I never get pictures with one of my sisters! So she was there! Just no pictures. :(

Watering the dirt. We didn't have plants just yet. 

Can you believe they're all looking at the camera and smiling? Only picture out of multiple ones taken! They love their Aunt Courtney so much. I think it's because she'll play with them no matter what!

Climbing trees.

They just looked so darn cute for church one day! It's hard to get them all looking this cute for 9 o'clock church. So I had to get this moment on camera.

Their best 4th of July shot.

Landon getting his flouride treatment. I kept taking pictures so he would be more entertained than scared about having that huge thing in his mouth.

At a friends house. Carly was freezing later on but refused to get out. She is a huge  fish!

Just playing! 

I think they're sharing that drink because I was too lazy to go and refill one of their drinks.

Ummmm, Cody likes to hang his stuffed animals by their tails. Should I be concerned? 

All these kids love yogurt!! So between John and 3 kids, we go through at least 4 yogurts a day. I know getting a bigger containered yogurt would save more money but this way, the boys can go downstairs while I'm sleeping and get their own yogurt. I can continue sleeping and the boys don't bother me to get some food. It's worth it!

I have a ton of pictures of Landon petting Daisy and talking with her too. This one, he's telling Daisy about the show they're watching. It's just too cute!

I think we need another bike!! This one is supposed to be Cody's!

I still love sleeping pictures!

I think it's funny that they think they're so funny.

And yet another sleeping picture. She looks so dainty.

Alright, I'm done updating all the normal things we've done for the last couple months which have consisted in eating yogurt, wading in a small pool, being funny (or thinking they're being funny), and sleeping. Pretty much, we haven't been up to much!

Father Son Campout

Last month John took the boys on the annual ward campout. The boys love camping! They got there a little late. By the time they got there and finally found the campsite, it was dark and Cody had fallen asleep. So they just went right down and had their fun the next day. 

John didn't realize Cody was sleeping.

Cody? Cody? Ahhh, no wonder he wasn't answering!

Sleeping pictures are still so cute! Well, at least to me! :)

Helping out!

The boys love it! John loves it! I love it! It's a win win win! They can't wait to go camping with Daddy again. 

Solar Eclipse

There's nothing like a solar eclipse to finally get you to learn how to use some things on your camera! Here are some pictures we took of the eclipse last month. 

Before we figured it out. It's sunny!

Right when John figured out our camera!

After I ran in and grabbed the zoom lens.