Guilt...

Going through my blog tonight I've started feeling super guilty about how much I've slacked for Leatham on documenting and recording and really not just for Leath but for Anders as well. The main issue, I realize, is that my computer has been down. And typing out posts on a phone just takes way too long. Next week I will be working on (hopefully) getting our computer fixed. I want to be as good as I was with Anders in the beginning. It truly has helped me so much and I look back at my posts all of the time. For now, some pictures of the last bunch of months. Hopefully soon I'll be able to get down to the regular posts that I used to do. Setting a goal!

Leatham!

Leatham was born... two months ago (3 now :) I'm a bit slow...

Here's the story... as well as some random pictures placed between:

On Thursday, Sep 6 at about 11am I started having contractions... nothing big, but they kept coming. At about 5pm they started to get a little bit painful (not much just a little) and were getting more frequent. I called Cam at work and told him what was going on. He told me to "hold on" so that he could get all caught up on all of his work and that he would be done by 7 or 8. I laughed, but the pain wasn't too bad so I told him I would just walk around and try to keep the contractions going until he got off. He came home at about 7:30 and I had been just trying to throw a bag together for the hospital. But there were a few things that I couldn't find. We took Anders to my moms and went to Wal Mart to grab a few last things. The contractions started hitting quite a bit harder while we were at Wal Mart. Cam was freaking out a little bit (i.e. "I'm NOT having a baby at Wal Mart"). I told him we were going to be fine, chill out, we'll make it to the hospital, etc. Made it to the hospital and they got me a room. She hooked me up to the machine that tracks contractions and started asking me questions. A minute into it she had a pager go off in the room and the head nurse told her that she needed to check me immediately because my contractions were so close together. I was only at a 4. So you know, the usual happened, they broke my water, a while later I got my epidural and then the contractions stopped.... and I stalled. I layed in the hospital bed and pretty much just fell asleep until I was overcome with lots and lots of pain. They had checked me at 3:45am and I was dilated to a 5. The pain hit me at about 4:15am, the nurse checked me at again at about 4:30 and I was fully dilated. The doctor made it in a few minutes later and at 4:55 Leatham was born.
At the time we still didn't have a name for him even though there were quite a few up for the running. In the end we went with Leatham and gave him Grandma Darley's maiden name as his first name. I'm so happy we did. It certainly has grown on him and I couldn't imagine it being anything else.
 We are so glad that he's here! Anders is too! He's so cute with his little brother, and doesn't seem to be able to leave him alone!

Lagoon!

We took Anders to Lagoon again this year. This was his second year going.

It looks like we're going to be making a tradition of going with the Spillman's every year.

Anders just loves his "Cousin Oscar"... can you tell?

My cute boy on the train... love him to pieces!!!



Cam and Anders getting ready to go on the ladybug drop

I was totally blown away by Anders this year. He showed no hesitation at all which is totally not the norm for this boy. I think he's breaking out of his nervous shell a little bit. He's getting to be quite brave. The whole time we were there he kept begging me to go on the sky coaster that travels over top of the park like a ski lift. My thought on this... NO WAY! But, by the end of the day, after walking clear across the park because I was set on going on either the log flume or Rattle Snake Rapids and then seeing the line and deciding not to, my feet were killing me. So instead of walking clear across the park again we decided we would go on the sky coaster. Anders LOVED it. I on the other hand, was white knuckling it the whole way and terrified. Sometimes I forget that I'm a wee bit scared of heights.

I am a little proud of myself though. I lasted about 3.5 hours at Lagoon in 90 degree weather while 6.5 months pregnant. I sure wish I could have made it longer. We had a great day!

Anders on the way home...

Bear Lake

Oh, how I love Bear Lake. The milkshakes

Good Friends



The cousins (or as Anders calls his little club... The Go-Getters)

Chasing Seagulls



Sand and Sun

Food like you've never tasted (because for some reason hanging out on the beach makes you hungrier then ever)

I love all of the memories that flood back to me when I take my boy out to do things. 



This will be a great summer. I have a long list of things that I want to do and this was just the beginning!

Happiness came in 3's

What an amazing few days I've had. First of all to kick off my Monday morning was an ultrasound for baby #2 at 8 am. The moment the screen popped up I knew that I saw boy parts. The tech told me that he was going to start with the head and work his way down. After that he asked me what I thought the baby was. I told him that I was positive before hand that it was a girl, but I was pretty sure that I just saw boy parts. He said, "Really? I didn't see anything." Everything looked great at the ultrasound and when he got to determining the sex, he asked us if we could tell what it was. Definitely a boy! We're so excited that Anders will get to have a little brother. Now if we can only think of a name...

This is our new little "Thinker." He'll be here in September. I can't believe how much this ultrasound picture looks like Anders' ultrasound picture. We're so blessed!!

At 5:30 on Monday afternoon we had Anders 3rd birthday party.

I cannot believe that my little baby is turning 3. Unfortunately though I guess he's really not a baby anymore.

He was so excited about the Jeep that he got for his birthday. And VERY cautious at first. But two days into it he seems really confident about it.

 

The cutest thing I saw was when he took our little friend Oscar for a ride and after seeing him jerk around when he'd get started, without prompting, Anders put his arm around him and held onto him (even though he was in a seat belt) to make sure that he was okay. He's such a compassionate, sweet and caring kid.

Anders just finished up his first semester of pre-school. He was able to go up to USU's Child Developement Lab. He absolutely adored it and cried almost every time he had to leave school. One of the comments that his teachers made was the same that I said above. She told me that she's amazed by his compassion and if anyone in class starts crying or gets upset he's the first one to run over and try to make them feel better. I'm glad he enjoyed it and I think it was a good experience for him but, I'm still debating on whether we're taking him back or not.

Are you as blown away as I was that they were able to get a picture with this many 2 year olds sitting in one place? Wow!!!

And our 3rd exciting thing for the last few days? My new nephew (son of my favorite little sister) was born yesterday. The doctor told her on Monday that they would start her Tuesday morning. Well she ended up in full blown labor by herself at 3am on Tuesday morning. By 2pm, my beautiful, tiny little sister (have you seen her? She's seriously tiny) gave birth to an 8 lb 9 oz baby. I'm so amazed by her! This is Anders new cousin Axl.

He's so beautiful and we love him to pieces!!!

Crossing our fingers

...hoping that summer is somewhere nearby.

What a beautiful weekend. We made lots of food for family get togethers and to help out some other mom's with dinner.

We played lots of baseball.

Planted our garden, finally!

And put up our tire swing.

I'm pretty sure this will be a summer to remember!

Lookin' for a good time?

Grab a loaf of bread and find some ducks and/or geese.

Lots of running to and fro makes the little ones finally go to bed at a decent time for the first time since daylight savings.

Adding in some hissing from the geese seems to make things ultra hilarious!

Cheap entertainment at its best!