Rett's 3rd Birthday

Rett is now 3! He is such a funny kid. He loves to come give me hugs after he has been naughty and then say "I still love you mommy." I love the cute little way he talks and We spent the morning at the mall where they have a train ride and a bounce house to play in. Then after dinner we had a dance party, presents and of course cake. Rett was pretty excited about his spiderman cake, lumpy frosting job and all. Kids are so easy to please sometimes:)

More Brock

Brockton David Larson

He's finally here. And he's perfect. We went to the hospital at the crack of dawn while Megan came and watched the boys for us until Gayle came down later. I don't think I have ever been so nervous just sitting there waiting for them to call my name. All my other kids we had things in motion before we got to the hospital so being induced was a new experience for me. Once I was all changed and hooked up to monitors and what-nots it was just time to wait. And wait and wait. Rett came so fast that I thought for sure Brock would be the same. It just seemed like nothing was happening for a long time and then they came to check and I was a 6 and 1/2 hours later I was a 10 and ready to go.

Labor itself was a bit rough because everytime they rolled me on my back I kept feeling like I was going to pass out (which never happened with the other two). And then whenever I tried to go on my right side the baby's heart dropped a bunch so I spent the morning just on my left side. But then when it's time to deliver you obviously have to be on your back and so it was all I could do to not pass out let alone breathing and pushing. My epidural worked a little to well this round that I couldn't feel anything at all anywhere so that made it even harder. But he made his way out and was so beautiful. On a funny note, when I saw Brock my first thought was he is so small. Upon saying that out loud I am sure everyone thought I was a little crazy because 9 1/2 lbs. is not small in the baby world. But when you are dealing with a 4 year old and an almost 3 year old who are both large for their ages, then 9 1/2 lbs. seems pretty small.

Since Gayle was watching the boys for us we had a few days of just us in the hospital and it was such a sweet time. Time to just be there for our new baby without other kids and the demands of life getting in the way. Time to just reveal in this new miracle. And then it was time to let the boys meet their new brother. I think they were thinking he'd be bigger and more able to play with them but since they both got a gift from their new brother they thought he was pretty cool.

Overdue

It's June 16th and I am STILL pregnant. Um, due date was yesterday little baby which means I am overdue (and very cranky about it!) Overdue is just a bad word. It never means anything good. Go to the library and your books are overdue and now you owe a bunch of money. Work hard at your job and your raise is overdue and now you are short on cash. Anyways around it overdue can only mean bad things. Which is why someone who's spent the last nine months throwing up, having heartburn and feeling like their body was being stretched to unimaginable sizes should not ever have to be overdue. When you have had a baby five days early you just kind of expect that the next one will be on the same program and getting moving sooner. Too bad no one told the baby that.

Funny Kid Thoughts

Somehow the idea came along that my baby was going to "pop-out" rather than saying it was going to be born. So whenever they ask about the baby they want to know if the baby is going to pop-out soon. Yesterday we were going to play candyland. I had been sitting on the couch and slowly rolled myself onto the floor mentioning how I couldn't wait for this baby to come because then sitting on the floor and playing games would be so much easier. Rett looks at me with a look of disgust and says "Your baby going to pop-out on the game???"

Another morning I was playing with Rett in the room and asking him if he was my baby. He said no he was getting bigger and bigger like Coby. Then he pauses and adds, but not like Susan. (If you've seen Monsters vs. Aliens you will get this one!)

We continue to play and he picks which Ninja Turtle he is going to be and then tells me what each ninja has for a weapon and their color. When we get to Donatello I say and he has a stick right and Rett looks at me like how dumb are you and says "It's not a stick it's called a bowstaff." Oh, didn't think he knew the real word. Just goes to show you how much smarter kids are then you give them credit for!

Since I have horrific heartburn while pregnant and it's fairly warm lately, I tend to eat a lot of ice. My kids always want to know why and I tell them it helps me to feel better. The other day I was laying on the couch because I felt nauseas and Coby upon seeing me says "Oh no, I will go get you some ice!" If only ice was the cure-all for all problems:)

Happy 30th Birthday Jacoby!!!

Hail?

Kind of crazy but yesterday, June 3rd in San Diego we had some hail! There was bit of rain in the morning and then a little after lunch it suddenly started raining big ole drops and some of them were hail. I took a picture of a few of them, they were about the size of marbles in the Hungry Hippo game to give you an idea. And we had some lightening and thundering, things we never have here. It made me miss Utah's suddenly spring storms.

Legoland

I will let Jacoby add commentary since he was the one to actually go, but some friends in our ward had some extra tickets to Legoland. They had already been (these were return day tickets) and since they just have a three month old they figured our boys would love to go. So Mark invited Jacoby & the boys to go with him for the day and the kids had a blast!

I will add some pictures later too!

Here's Coby on the rollercoaster. Notice no noise out of Rett but Coby on the other hand is quite vocal:)