Our life

Oh I hate this blogger app! 

Our goings on.... 

Life has been good to us lately. Things have been tough in a lot of ways, but somehow it's all bringing about a better us. And really, that's what matters in the end. 

Anders: this kid has my heart... Always has, always will. 

Four is a different age. It's kind of hard to see him growing up so much. Enough that tonight after Cam told him he'd had enough of his arguing, he got in his Jammie's, brushed his teeth and went downstairs and locked himself in his bedroom. I have a lot of guilt at this point, him having to be the big brother who doesn't get as much attention as he used to. Or (I feel) needs to. But man, oh man is he a good kid! I've never seen a 4 year old who is so caring and compassionate in my life. He is the BEST big brother any kid could ask for. Leath is one lucky dude!

Leath: is busy, busy. On the go, constantly. Enough so that at the end of the day I am spent and fall right into bed. He's different than his big brother. No caution with this one. He's a climber, he'd rather play with rocks and mud than slides and swings. It's amazing how different 2 brothers can be. Yet they get along like I've never seen siblings get along before (its still early though.) I love these kids, and our family more than anything. 

Tooth Tunes

Someone loves his tooth tunes!

Computer still down...

But I am trying to be more regular and consistent.

Leatham had his six month pictures done a few weeks ago. I absolutely love how they turned out. Here are just a couple of my favorites. I can't believe he's 6 months old already. Time seems to fly even faster with the second child.

Leatham's getting so big, so quickly. At his six month appointment he was in the 86% for height and 87% for weight. Considering the fact that he was sick with bronchiolitis twice in the two months before, I would say he's growing pretty well. 

Leatham is such a sweet little soul. Just a happy go lucky kid.

He has his two bottom teeth which came in around 4 months. And right now he is trying to break the top two through. I can't believe how early he's getting his teeth in. I thought maybe because of that, teething would be easier for him then it was for Anders, but so far, I think it's just as painful for him. 

We've been excited to be able to start getting outside already. We've had a huge case of cabin fever. Coupled with the fact that we have pretty much been consistently sick since Christmas and can't even get out to visit people, we are very thankful that we can get out now. And I think that goes for all of us! Leatham and Anders LOVE being outside.

Anders is in preschool in our little town. He goes twice a week right now and seems to really enjoy it.

One of my favorites that he's brought home recently is this little gem. He's learning the importance of letter placement now :) I love it!

When Anders brought this booklet home from school I couldn't help but laugh. His face in this is priceless. It's so fun to see the things that he learns, and brings home. He's getting bigger every day and it blows my mind that he will be 4 next month. And will be starting kindergarten next year (2014). Aaaahh! Not looking forward to that.

I love these kids. They bring happiness and joy to my life every day!

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!