I am way behind!

Since I last posted Kiley and Sarah have each had a birthday. I have been putting off blogging about the two little girls because I have been trying to get professional like photos of each since their birthdays but I have decided it just is not going to happen.
So here I go-

On September 15, Kiley Raelean turned 3. She wants to be like the big girls and is always trying to ride their scooters so we decided to get her one of her own.

This is best I could get.

On October 5, Sarah Kay turned 1.  She is just too cute and so precious.  She could melt the hardest of hearts with her little looks and smile.  We all love her to pieces. 




She LOVED her Chocolate Cake



 





How could you not love that face?







No, I will not look at you Mom.



Sarah's big discoveries in an even bigger world!

It is hard to believe that Sarah is already 4 months old. She is still tiny and sweet. She is fun to watch and when she smiles you can't help but smile. She has made lots of discoveries in her growing world. She has:


• Found her smile

• Found her hands and how to get them into her mouth (usually her left thumb)

• Found her voice (and she likes to hear herself talk)

• Found her laugh (it is a little hard to get it out of her but it is cute when we can)

• Learned how to turn in circles on the floor (almost ready to roll over)

• Tried baby cereal

We are still working on getting her to sleep through the night, but I think we are very close. She made it through three nights this week. In my efforts to help her with this, I usually sing her a little song, tell her it is ok if she goes to sleep, and then I put her down before she is totally asleep. I do this during the day as well. (Consistency is the key right?) It takes her about 10 mins to settle down and go to sleep.

Last night she was just too cute. She is still sleeping in our room and shortly after Joe and I laid down in bed she woke up. She was tossing and turning her head about but not crying. We just laid there waiting to see what would happen and if she was going to cry. She did not cry but made sounds like she was trying to sing. Her singing did not last long at all but she went back to sleep. She did this two other times last night. It was just too sweet. I wonder what she was singing to herself.

Babies, they grow up so fast and we can forget just how cute they really are. We all love her to pieces.

Sarah is here!

I have decided that Facebook is the reason I don't get my blog update enough. It is just so much easier to keep things short, sweet, and right to the point. Then I say to myself that almost everyone that would read this is on Facebook and they don't want to have to read about my boring little life twice so I don't update it. The other day I realized that not all of my family is on Facebook (yes, it is hard to believe, but we wont hold it against them!) so here I am today to update my blog in case any of them really look at it.


October started out a bit stressful trying to get the house clean and things ready for the arrival of baby number 5. Do to the independent nature of baby number 5, things did not get as prepared as I would have liked them to. I was scheduled for an induction on Friday, October 9th, but she decided not to wait that long. I started having regular contractions on Sunday, October 4th while watching General Conference. By about 7 pm that night when I realized that they were not going away I decided that I should time them to see how far apart the were. I clocked them at four minuets apart for about the next 45 minuets before I called the Dr. I was told to go ahead and go to the hospital and see what happens. So at 8 pm Joe and I left the kids at home and went to the hospital. After confirming that I was indeed having contractions (which were not doing much) my Dr decided to just break my water to help me out. In the past that has been all the help I need but this time everything was totally different. Shortly after my Dr. broke my water all contractions stopped. He then hooked me up to the drip to help get things restarted. Well to make my longest labor and delivery shorter, I will just say that about 5 hours later (2:27 AM) Sarah Kay made her entrance into this world (weighing 7lbs. 3 ozs). Did she ever have a story to tell and telling it she did for the next two and a half hours.


Despite the wrench in my plans and expectations for labor and delivery, we are all glad that Sarah is finally here. She has been a very laid back baby. She doesn't cry unless she is hungry or needs her diaper changed. There has been some concern over the fact that she did not make it back up to her birth weight by the time she was two weeks old. She will be three weeks old in a couple of day, and I am suppose to take her back in and have her weight checked again. I hope and pray that she is ok. There are no outward signs that anything is wrong. We will just have to wait and see.


Here are a few pictures of her.