Bowman Family

Kaity is FIVE

2012-01-27T18:02:00.000-08:00

I can't believe it! There must be some mistake! She was just born ans now she is 5 years old! She is getting so big! One of my favorite things that she does is sing. She is constantly singing some kind of song. She has such a big personality. She is a great big sister to Tyler and a great little sister to Matthew. She is caring and nice to everybody. I couldn't have asked for a better little girl. I'm so glad that she is in my life. She makes me laugh and smile everyday.

Here is what she did for her birthday,

I put a '5' in her hair so that everybody would know that she is now 5!

Of course she had to wear the skirt Tara got her. (She tries to wear it everyday)

I know its not very fancy, but I made her a candyland cake out of starburst, licorice, skittles, and M&Ms

I made candies and suckers for the decorations

Here is the yummy punch with licorice straws and the cake and presents.

Here's the candy table

And of course the candyland game board...

...that led to the goody bags that were filled with toothbrushes and toothpaste and flossers! :)

Here are two of her friends that could make it to the party, Summerlynn and Chloe.

School got cancelled that day because of the snow, so Matthew was there too.

Drinking our pink punch with our licorice straws

We filled up bottles with candy to take home.

We opened presents...

Daddy got her some Squinkie Zinkies

I got her a My Little Pony that had light up wings and talks to her

Mammaw and Pappaw got her a crayon carousel

Cake time (I forgot candles)

Tyler was even having fun!

Playing with her toys after the party

On the left side is the squinkie zinkie and on the right is a normal sized squinkie.

She wanted to show how little the zinkies are.

The zinkies even came with tweezers and a magnifying glass.

Then we had another party that night with Cami and her family. This time we got to use the candles.

It took her 2 tries to blow out 5 candles! :)

Beautiful 5 year old

And yes we had to use the licorice straws for this party too.

Then we set up the candyland game and played it again.

Then we had some questionably fun time with some balloons.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAITY!!! WE ALL LOVE YOU SOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!

Rapunzel Rapunzel, Let Down Your Hair!

2012-01-27T10:35:00.000-08:00

Cami got Kaity the Rapunzel hair wig for her birthday. Its fun to see her in such long hair! She absolutely LOVES it of course. Tara got her the Rapunzel dress too (pictures soon). She keeps asking me if she can wear them to school. Then she gets upset when I tell her no. She loves them so much. Thanks Cami and Tara.

Also for her birthday, I got to take her to the movies, just her and me, for a girl's day out! We went and saw Beauty and the Beast in 3D! She loved it! It was actually pretty cool in 3D! Even though we had the whole movie memorized. :)

Playing in the Snow

2012-01-27T10:24:00.000-08:00

Last week we got sooooo much snow. The kids only had school one day, all other days were cancelled. We ended up getting around 15 inches in one day. Matthew and Kaity had a lot of fun playing in the deep deep snow. I'm glad they got out to play in it when they did, because towards the end of the week it got soooo cold that there was a layer of ice everywhere!

They love trying to climb up this big hill. Its so steep and it was slippery. It took them forever just to get up it. Then they would slide down it and then do it all over again!

I love Kaity's face in this picture! Its too funny!

Kaity got cold and came inside, but Matthew could play in the snow for hours. He doesn't care about the cold.

He was actually sticking his whole head in the snow! I have no idea why he was doing this, but it was funny.

His whole hat was covered in snow. I don't know how he was doing that and not getting too cold!

Kaity came in and enjoyed some yummy hot cocoa!

You gotta love hot cocoa! :)

Tyler Update

2012-01-27T10:03:00.000-08:00

Tyler is about 3 1/2 months old in these pictures. I can't believe how fast he is growing and developing. I love how much of a snuggle bug he is. Every morning when he wakes up and when he's done eating, I'll lay him in my bed for just a few minutes and he loves to fall asleep with our foreheads and noses touching! I just love it!

He has been doing really well on his stomach as well. He is really getting that head up there! He can't last very long, but he seems to enjoy it for a little while. Matthew and Kaity both HATED being on their tummy.

One morning he was in such a loony mood. He was making the funniest faces and sounds and kept giggling at anything! It was fun.

I just LOVE his smile!

I took this picture to show off his profile. I love little baby profiles. With their cute little noses and round cheeks.

His new favorite thing to do, is bite/suck on his bottom lip. It is so funny to watch. It makes him look so goofy. But I love it. He's getting his own little personality.

Of course he also loves sticking out that tongue!

Then I just added this picture because he is just so dang cute, especially when he is laughing!

Tyler's Blessing

2012-01-19T17:41:00.000-08:00

Sunday, January 15th, 2012 Tyler got his blessing! Jeff did a great job with it. It was kind of nice that the Dr. that performed the C-section is also in our ward and he got to stand in for the blessing as well. We waited a little too long for it though and his outfit didn't really fit anymore. So he looked a little funny and I couldn't button it all the way in the back :( But he still looked as cute as ever!

(Sorry for the dark picture)

It was nice that my parents got to come down for the blessing and Cami and her girls got to come as well. Poor Mike had to stay home with a sick baby.

We all love you so much Tyler Jeffrey Bowman!!

Bumbo Time

2012-01-19T17:27:00.000-08:00

Tyler can finally sit in his bumbo chair. He can't do it for very long because his neck starts to get a little tired, but when he does sit in it, he looks so stinkin' cute!! :)

I love his big blue eyes!

He LOVES to stand! If he had the strength for it, I'm sure he would be standing and jumping by know! That's all he wants to do it seems! :)

He is also do a very good job at laying on his tummy! He is just getting WAY to big! :) He supposed to still be my little boy!

Birthday Invitations!

2012-01-17T20:05:00.000-08:00

I found this idea online somewhere (Can't remember where) and I thought that it was a cute idea. So I copied it! Its just baby food jars with Scrapbooking paper wrapped around it with all the information on it. Then fill it with candy. I used Skittles. Kaity's friends thought it was so neat.

3 Months Old

2012-01-17T12:26:00.000-08:00

On January 5th, my little guy turned 3 months old! I can't believe he is that big already! I have to say that I miss him as a tiny newborn, but I love watching him grow and learn and experiencing new things! He makes me smile and laugh everyday! Probably every hour. Its also a lot of fun watching Kaity and Matthew interact with him. They love him so much! It kills them if they can't be near him or touch him or hold his hand! Tyler loves them as well. He always smiles and talks with them.

This month he weighed 13 lbs. 4 oz. and was 23 in. long. He has grown so much already! He is still growing healthy and strong and doing very well. He does have a cold right now but it doesn't get his spirits down. He still smiles and laughs all the time! :)

Ever since he discovered his fingers they have been in his mouth! I have tried EVERYTHING to get him to take a binki ever since he was born. But he will NOT take one! It looks as though he is going to be a finger sucker!

Of course Kaity and Matthew have to always be right next to Tyler. So we had to get a picture with both of them in it! :)

Penbo (Skylee)

2012-01-17T12:11:00.000-08:00

Kaity has been having a lot of fun with Skylee, her Penbo. A Penbo is an interactive robot. She got it for Christmas from Santa Claus. It has a baby that comes out of her tummy and you can use that baby as a remote control to control Skylee and have her follow you or play games with her. She also talks with you and the baby.

Here, Kaity is using the Baby to have Skylee follow her around the room.

Tyler was laying on the floor watching Kaity have fun! :) Kaity is actually the one that took this picture! :)

Tyler's First Laugh

2012-01-12T15:28:00.001-08:00

This was the very first time that Tyler actually laughed. Tara was saying hi to him and he just got such a kick out of her! He was doing this for quite awhile before I got my camera! I've gotten him to laugh since then, but nothing quite like this! Thanks Tara! :)

Try not to listen to my mom and me talking in the background.

Happy New Year 2012

2012-01-12T15:09:00.000-08:00

This is pretty much what we did all day! Matthew's new Spyro Skylanders game is actually pretty fun. Once Jeff and Matthew get started, there is no getting them off. Kaity even enjoys playing it.

Here's little Ty Ty getting ready to take a nap in his swing :)

Jeff and I even got some card games in.

Still playing Spyro...

We had lots of yummy food to eat. We had chips with bean dip, french onion dip, and guacamole. Summer sausage and crackers and cheese, chicken salad sandwiches, sugar cookies, muddy buddies. We had some really yummy meatballs and lil' smokies. And more! We just snacked all day!

I had them take a break from video games and play with real toys and books! I know I'm so mean! :)

Here's Kaity helping me put the clean dishes away! She climbed up there all by herself! I was a little scared, but she said that she could do it! She did great.

Tyler was so happy pretty much all day

He loves attention

Kaity asked if she could take some pictures so I gave her the camera and let her have at it! She actually took some good pictures. They are kind of dark, but I was surprised that the pictures are actually centered. Here are a couple:

Here is Matthew's game 'Portal of Power' with all the characters that he got for Christmas.

Here's Matthew with his game giving a thumbs up :)

Kaity told us to do a thumbs up!

We talked to a bunch of Jeff's family members. They are finally catching up with the times and learning how to ooVoo! :)

After we put Tyler to bed, Matthew and Kaity were back on the Spyro game! You can tell that they are getting pretty tired by this point though.

Here's Kaity talking to Tara on the phone! She was really giving her an earfull. It was cute!

Sleepy...

While the boys were (still) playing Spyro, Kaity and I were having fun with the camera and taking turns doing silly things! I'm not posting her pictures of me, but here are some cute ones of little Kaity

She has definitely hit the loony stage!

These boys LOVE this game!

Here's our family picture right before midnight

Kaity wanted to take a picture of us kissing at midnight. Jeff kept trying to get Matthew out of the picture, but I think it turned out so cute!

Here's the countdown! 4 seconds left! :)

Right after the ball dropped, I ran and got a picture of little Tyler! Dead Asleep! Didn't even wake up from the flash!

Happy New Year! Bring it on 2012!!

Christmas Morning 2011

2012-01-12T11:32:00.000-08:00

We had a great Christmas. We went to my parent's house again this year. Tara and Tamara were also there. We had a lot of fun over the weekend that we were there. Tons of great food to eat, fun games to play, and good company to talk with. The kids had a lot of fun as well. They got to play in the little snow that was on the ground and my parents just recently bought a Wii, so they were good! :)

Here are the kiddos in their new PJs that they got from their Great Mammaw! They have worn them every night since.

Matthew was wanting this Spyro Skylanders game for the Wii. Its actually a pretty cool game. You have the "Portal of Power" and you put the special characters on the portal. Whatever character is on the portal is the one that you're playing with. And its a 2 player game! Its pretty cool!

Kaity was wanting this interactive robot. Its from the Penbo and Friends collection and her name is Skylee! She saw a commercial for it and got really excited, mostly because it has a baby that comes out of the tummy! Ever since I had Tyler she has been obsessed with that! Its pretty cool though. It talks with you and the baby and it dances and rocks the baby and it walks and the baby is actually a remote control where you can make it walk to you, and it plays games.

This is what Tyler got! Its a 5-in-1 gym that lights up and plays music.

Matthew was way excited to see that he got his game!

Kaity was also very excited when she saw Skylee!

For some reason Matthew and Kaity both wanted Santa hats this year. So they each had one waiting for them in their stocking!

Here's Kaity putting on her new lip gloss.

Tyler loves his new gym

Jeff had the BIGGEST jar of tabasco sauce I had ever seen in his stocking.

Matthew took time out of opening his gifts to show Tyler what was in his stocking! Such a good big brother!

Aunt Tara got Matthew an awesome two headed snake and a cool two headed dragon!

Here's Tyler with his gifts that he got!

I didn't get any pictures of it but Jeff and my parents went in together to get me the Kindle Fire! And I absolutely LOVE it!!!! Thanks guys!! :)

We got Matthew a giant stuffed Spyro doll! We thought it was awesome! He loves it!

Kaity is 'riding' her new pony.

Here's Tyler with the most awesome-est pillow ever that his Aunt Tara got for him! He unhappy in this picture, but he really does like laying on the pillow! :)

Here is Kaity with her presents

and Matthew with most of his presents

Then of course he went straight downstairs and started playing his new Spyro game! My parents only had one nunchuck for the Wii so Kaity couldn't play with him, she could only watch.

Kaity was so cute with Tyler. Wherever Tyler was you could be sure that Kaity was somewhere close! She takes good care of him! :)

Hope everybody had a great Christmas! :)

Our Nativity Play

2012-01-12T09:09:00.000-08:00

It has been a tradition in my family since before I can remember to act out the Nativity on Christmas Eve. Our parents made sure that we did this every year (Whether we wanted to or not). I'm so glad that we did. It has been a lot of fun. Now we get to act it out with our own children.

This year we had the most perfect little baby Jesus, and Matthew played a great wise man, and Kaity was the best angel I've ever seen.

Burning Letters To Santa

2012-01-01T21:46:00.000-08:00

Tara and Tamara always do the tradition of burning their letters to Santa on Christmas Eve before they go to bed so that Santa gets them as he is out delivering presents. I had never heard of this before and I thought that it sounded like fun, so we joined them.

Matthew and Kaity both wrote their own letters, all by themselves.

Then Tara helped them roll the letters up and light it on fire.

They were both pretty scared to do this but they did a great job...

Until the wind picked up and blew the fire right into Tara's face.

Then it was Kaity's turn...

She actually held it all by herself for a little while.

Until the wind picked up again and blew the fire right at them again!

Tyler and Jeff had fun watching from inside.

Making Gingerbread Houses

2012-01-01T18:08:00.000-08:00

We got to my parent's house a little late and all the other kids had already made there gingerbread houses, but my kids still had fun with theirs. My mom is a kindergarten teacher and she always makes gingerbread houses in her class, and then she brings home all of the leftover candy and milk cartons! It makes it fun to have so much candy to chose from.

He was concentrating so hard so he wouldn't mess up.

Kaity loved digging through all of the candy!

He sees frosting on his finger and he is really thinking about it...

And he couldn't resist, he caved and licked it off!

Finished Houses

Matthew put a bunch of gummy bears around his house and said that they were at a park playing!

Kaity put a bunch of green candy around her house for grass!

They both turned out really cute!

Playing with Christmas Gifts

2012-01-01T14:43:00.000-08:00

Kaity loves the V. Smile game that my parents got her for Christmas. She plays it everywhere! She's super cute with it too! She plays it on her bed...

On the couch...

and on the chair... and if we go anywhere, it has to come too!

She even lets Matthew play with it!

Matthew fell asleep with the Giant Spyro doll we got him and the awesome two-headed snake that Tara got him!

Kaity loves her adorable frilly skirt that Tara got her

And Matthew enjoys playing with his Leap Frog TAG pen that my parents got him!

We had a great Christmas!

Sink Bath

2012-01-01T14:35:00.000-08:00

While we were at my parent's house for Christmas break I had to give Tyler a bath in the sink because I didn't have a bath tub for him. He didn't like it very much and he didn't last very long, but it was super cute!

Making Sugar Cookies

2012-01-01T14:29:00.000-08:00

We had fun and kept ourselves busy over Christmas break. One thing the kids enjoyed was making some sugar cookies! I just wish we had better cookie cutters!

Then we decorated them when Jeff got home!

Kaity was so serious. She had to make them look perfect!

Sneaking some finger licks here and there! :)

Matthew is trying to decide which one to eat first! Too many great choices.

It looks like Jeff couldn't last very long!

Enjoying their cookies!

Jeff's Work Christmas Party

2012-01-01T14:17:00.000-08:00

At Jeff's work Christmas party they gave each table a bag of trash, basically, and told us to decorate one person at our table for a costume contest. We chose to dress up Matthew! It was pretty fun! Matthew did a great job.

They had to walk around the room and let everybody see him so they could vote on who was best!

Matthew actually won! They gave him a trophy and a box of chocolates! He was very excited!

Tyler Update

2012-01-01T14:12:00.000-08:00

Here Tyler is about 11 weeks old! He has become quite the little chatterbox and smiler! Once he starts talking to you there is no way that you can stop. It is just too cute!

When Tyler was born we put this outfit on him at the hospital! It was soooooo big on him. He could've gotten lost inside of this outfit! Now look at how perfect it fits him! I can't believe how fast he is growing!

Here he took his first nap in his actual crib. He usually sleeps in a bassinet next too my bed. He didn't last long though.

He has discovered that his fingers are the perfect sucking toys! (He still will NOT take a binki!)

Poor Sick Kaity

2012-01-01T14:02:00.000-08:00

So we were up one morning getting ready to take Matthew to school and Jeff to work and I was having a terrible time waking up Kaity! So was acting sooooo tired. I finally got her up and dressed in her sweats and I told her to get her shoes on and she went and laid on our bench and fell back asleep.

I felt so sorry for her, but I just thought that she was super tired.

When we came home from dropping everyone off, Kaity threw up everywhere! It was so sad! She was so sick! She actually fell asleep by the toilet. It was so sad.

She actually got sick like this 3 times in one week! All I can say is that I'm glad its over and I never want to see, hear, or smell vomit ever again! :(

Science Center Christmas

2012-01-01T13:51:00.000-08:00

The Science Center threw a little party for Christmas. It was fun to be able to go there and look around at all of their displays. The kids really enjoyed it.

Jeff read some book to Tyler

Tyler is enjoying all of lights and sights and noises

Here Kaity is getting a virtual haircut! Weird, I know

It wouldn't be a Christmas Party without good ol' Santa Claus!

Even Tyler got a picture with Santa (and Mommy)

Little Tyler

2012-01-01T13:37:00.000-08:00

Here are just a few update pictures of Tyler. He is about 10 weeks in these pictures and he is still doing great! I couldn't have asked for a better baby!

Here he fell asleep eating. It always kills me to have to wake him up when he is like this to burp him!

He is holding his head up so well! He will be crawling in no time!

Like Daddy like son! I see so much of Jeff in Tyler!

2 Months Old

2011-12-07T10:54:00.001-08:00

My little Ty Ty is now 2 months old! It has gone by SOOO fast! He is such a good baby! He has been sleeping through the night for quite awhile now. Which has made me a lot happier and easier to be around. :) He has been VERY alert lately. More than Matthew and Kaity ever were. He has to look at everything. It is pretty cute. Just a few days ago he started cooing. It sounds so cute. He was pretty talkative last night. Loved it! :) He had his 2 month checkup yesterday and he is healthy and strong. He was 11 lbs. 11 oz. which is in the 50% and he was 22.8 ins. which was in the 43%. Unfortunately we found out that he has eczema all over his face. I hope that goes away soon. It looks awful and you can tell that it bothers him. :(

His shirt says 'Mommy's Main Squeeze'

Jeff was having fun with him before the picture.

Our Christmas Tree

2011-12-07T10:45:00.001-08:00

We set up our Christmas tree on Sunday! The kids loved it and had so much fun decorating it. I was so sad that our star didn't work this year. It is 8 years old after all. It was the star Jeff and I bought when we were first married. So it was time, I guess! On Monday I went and bought a new one, but for these pictures our tree is starless.

Merry Christmas Everybody!

Bugle Time

2011-12-07T10:15:00.001-08:00

So I have been depriving my kids. We got Bugles the other day, for like the first time ever. I had forgotten how good they are, and my kids loved them. Before I even had a chance to teach them about putting them on your finger, Kaity beat me to it. She was really cute with them as her long fingernails so I had to share.

Smiling Ty

2011-11-22T13:28:00.001-08:00

Tyler officially smiles for real now! Not just those accidental smiles! These pictures aren't the greatest. They were taken with my cell phone and I wasn't looking at the phone when I was taking them. I was too busy smiling at Tyler and he would smile back at me! He would have the biggest open mouth smiles! I loved them! I can't believe he is 7 weeks old already!

Pictures Of Tyler

2011-11-22T13:11:00.001-08:00

Here are some pictures of Tyler that I have taken with my cell phone over the last few weeks.

Matthew made Ty a paper hat at school one day and insisted that he wear it

I love how Ty and Matthew are both looking at the camera

Below, Matthew made this face on a paper plate and thought that it was so cool

Ty is such a big boy

2011-11-22T12:35:00.001-08:00

Jeff was playing with Tyler last night and I was reading on the couch and Jeff said, 'Look, in a few months this is what he'll be doing'! It looked so cute seeing him sitting up like that! I could totally picture him sitting up on his own! Tyler is such a cute little boy!

Tyler had a Dr. check-up yesterday and he is my little Buddha Baby! He weighed 11 lbs. 7 oz. and was 21 3/4 in. long! He is just under the 50% in height and just under the 75% in weight! My kids have NEVER reached above the 50% in weight EVER!! He definitely takes after me! :)

Playing In The Snow

2011-11-22T12:20:00.001-08:00

On Saturday Jeff took the kids outside to play in the snow while I stayed in with Ty. They had so much fun. Matthew and Kaity love playing in the snow.

They built a snowman

Kaity is sitting on the snowman's head. Daddy thinks of some crazy things. :)

Matthew threw a snowball at Kaity while she was swinging! It looks like it is headed right for her. I wonder if it actually hit her. :)

Under the tire swing

I love Kaity's face here!

Snowball fight with the camera

Jeff says that this was all his idea.

First Heels

2011-11-22T12:08:00.001-08:00

Kaity wore her very first pair of heels on Sunday! She is getting so big! She thought that she was all that with heels on. I can't believe that she is gonna be 5 years old in just about 2 months!

First Time In The Snow This Year

2011-11-22T12:00:00.001-08:00

It snowed a little bit last week. So Kaity and I had to go and play in it. Matthew was in school and Jeff was at work and Tyler was taking his nap so it was just us girls! It was pretty fun! Kaity had a blast sliding down the hill. We need to get some sleds for this winter!

We found some snow without any footprints and we made a heart in it! Kaity thought it was so awesome. :)

Kaity In A Box

2011-11-22T11:54:00.001-08:00

Kaity came up behind and sat in this box and said, 'Mommy, Santa brought you a present! Open it!'

She was my present in the box! I have no idea how she fit inside of the wet wipes box, but it was funny!

My Boys

2011-11-22T11:45:00.001-08:00

I was working on the computer the other day and I swaddled Tyler all up and set him in the chair next to me. He liked just looking around. He stayed quite content. It was really cute!

Matthew came in and saw Tyler sitting there and instantly had to be right next to him. Its cute how much Matthew loves Ty.

He is always doing silly things and he insisted on me taking a picture of him pretending to plug Ty's nose! Silly Boy.

Here is Matthew's favorite pose. He likes to pretend to kiss Tyler and then he sits there like that until you take the picture! :)

Tyler's Cross- Stitching

2011-11-19T14:58:00.001-08:00

I have made a cross-stitching picture for each of my kids that says their birthday and weight at birth and their name. I just finished Tyler's. I think it turned out pretty well.

Here is a picture of Kaitlyn's

And here is a picture of Matthew's

You can tell that each one I do, I get better! I made sooooo many mistakes on Matthew's and some mistakes on Kaity's. Don't try to find them! :) But I don't think I messed up on Tyler's! Yay! :)

My Little Butterball

2011-11-17T20:54:00.001-08:00

I had to take these pictures. He looks so chunky. Its good to see some meat on his little bones finally! :)

He was so alert and happy. He was actually smiling really cute in this photo, but right when I took the picture he put his hand up in front of his mouth! Dang it!

Belly Time

2011-11-17T15:41:00.001-08:00

Tyler has been doing a great job at holding his head up and looking around. He can't do it for very long, but it gets to be longer and longer each time! He's getting so big! I can't believe that he is already 6 weeks old!

He likes to hold his eyes open SO wide! He looks so worried/surprised when he does it. Its funny!

I love this little smirk he has here!

And of course I had to get one of him crying!

Ty Trying To Sleep

2011-11-17T15:33:00.001-08:00

Thinking about going to sleep...

Deciding that it is a good idea to sleep...

Finally falling asleep!

Out like a light! I love my little guy!

Swaddling

2011-11-17T15:18:00.001-08:00

I have NEVER been any good at swaddling up babies and I never swaddled Matthew or Kaity (mostly because I couldn't figure out how to do it well), but I have to admit that I have gotten pretty good at it. Sure it has taken me 6 weeks, but I have finally learned how to do a excellent swaddle! :) Whenever I swaddle Tyler up he can't keep his eyes open! Its like magic! :)

Matthew LOVES posing! He always pretends to kiss Tyler and says take a picture Mommy! Then he just sits there until I take a picture. He's so funny! :)

Kaity Singing

2011-11-16T15:29:00.001-08:00

I was listening to Jeff singing songs with the kiddos and I had to get a video of Kaity singing '10 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed'! She's my good little singer! :)

Pretty Kaity

2011-11-16T11:55:00.001-08:00

The other day, Kaity and I had a princess day! We did our make-up and fixed our hair pretty. Just like princesses. This was the first time that I put make-up on Kaity! She looked really cute with it on! :)

1 Month Old

2011-11-07T20:06:00.000-08:00

On the 5th of November Tyler Jeffrey Bowman hit his 1 month mark! I can't believe that he has been around for a whole month already. With all the sleepless nights and no schedule at all and recovering from surgery all of my days have all blurred together, but now its seems to have gone by WAY too fast! The newborn stage is already gone. He's a little baby now! He still healthy and growing strong and I fall more and more in love with him every day!

I took him to the doctor today and he weighed 10 lbs 5 oz (but that was with a sleeper and a diaper on)

I had to get a picture showing of his skinny little legs! :)

And his toes

Matthew wanted to be in a picture! He and Kaity are still absolutely in LOVE with little Ty Ty!

And of course I had to get a picture of him screaming his head off! Poor Ty!

Tyler's EEG Test

2011-11-05T19:09:00.000-07:00

From that one night where Tyler had to stay overnight at the hospital because they think he had a mild seizure, we had to take him to Spokane to see a Pediatric Neurologist to get an EEG test done. I was NOT looking forward to it. It seemed so stressful. I'm just glad that it is now over with and out of the way!

So they told me that we had to keep Tyler awake for about 4 hours before the test and make sure that he is hungry, because they get a better reading if they are asleep. I had no idea how we were going to keep him awake when we had an 1 1/2 car ride. He LOVES car rides. He will always sleep in the car. So we tried EVERYTHING to keep him awake. Nothing worked! He was OUT!

We didn't succeed at keeping him awake but he was definitely hungry.

When we got to the Neurologist's office they got right to work! They had to glue/tape 30 little sensors to his head.Then they wrapped his head all up with gauze to hold them in place. He looked so sad!

I had to get a shot of him actually taking his binki. He was soooo hungry that he actually was sucking on the binki. I haven't gotten him to take it since though! :(

Here he is all bundled and ready for me to feed him and start the testing.

This shows all the wires that were connected to his head.

Starting the test, and trying to keep a postive attitude. He was a very unhappy little boy.

Here's the monitor of whats going on inside his head while he sleeps. Don't ask me what it means though. All I know is that when the line starts moving a lot that means that he is asleep.

He didn't fall asleep after I fed him like we hoped and he just cried, which messed up the testing. So I could pick him up but I couldn't touch the sensors on his head and I couldn't move. So I sat like this for like 30 minutes. My arm got very sore and tired. But at least he slept through it.

At the end of the test they had to check how he reacted to flashing light. To make sure that didn't set him off. So we laid him back down and tried to wake him up. Then they put a strobe light right in front of his face and flashed a bunch of different light patterns in his face. I couldn't even look at it. It made me kind of sick and dizzy. I felt bad for my little man! :(

Here is what it looked like with all the gauze off of his head and you can see all the sensors. There are 30 of them on his head.

To get them off they got a wet washcloth and scrubbed them off. He did NOT like it one bit. I'm sure it hurt. Our technician was really nice and gentle with him though.

I had to scrub his head in his bath that night to get out all the glue from his hair.

We asked the technician how he looked and he said that everything looked fine to him, but the neurologist still had to look at the tests and that we would know the results sometime next week. But he said that nothing looked out of the ordinary and was sure that everything was probably just fine.

So I'm very relieved that everything looked normal and I'm very relieved that all this is over and done with! I have no doubts that he is a very healthy little boy! :)

Halloween

2011-11-05T15:31:00.000-07:00

Matthew and Kaity had a lot of fun this year with Halloween. They picked out their own costumes! Matthew wanted to be Batman so then Kaity, of course, chose Batgirl! They were really cute about it.

Little Ty Ty went as the cutest baby in the whole world. :)

Starting our Trick Or Treating! We had bought a new stroller online so we sold our old stroller. So for trick or treating we had to carry the carseat.

After they would Trick or Treat at a house they would run as fast as they could back down to Jeff and me. I was so afraid that Kaity was going to trip and fall, but she never did.

This house was pretty scary for the kiddos. They really got crazy with the decorating. There was even a man standing by the door that would reach out and try to scare the kids. I had to walk with Kaity to this door, but Matthew just walked right up, not scared at all! :)

After a little while it got too cold and I had to go sit in the car with Tyler and follow Jeff and the kids. But it was still fun.

When their buckets got full during the trick or treating we dumped it out in a pillow case. So when we got home Matthew and Kaity got to dump out the pillow case and see how much candy they got!

They got a lot of candy! Good job Kiddos

Then they sorted through it all and decided who got what!

Carving Pumpkins

2011-11-04T21:30:00.000-07:00

The kids were really looking forward to carving pumpkins this year. They were very excited. But since I just had Tyler I have been behind on a lot of things lately, so we waited too long to get good pumpkins and we got stuck with kind of crappy ones. But we made them look good!

Here the kids are watching Daddy get started.

Cleaning out all the pumpkin guts. Kaity hated this part because she hates getting dirty. She's such a girly girl.

I did get her to help me sort out the seeds though.

Matthew was focusing very hard on his carving.

Kaity did a very good job, too.

Didn't they turn out good! :)

Happy Halloween Everybody!!

Scary Hospital Visit

2011-10-31T14:08:00.000-07:00

So, when Tyler was 11 days old, I was trying to wake him up to eat because it had quite a long time since he had eaten last and we were still trying to get his weight up. The first thing that I noticed was that his tummy and chest were hardly moving from his breathing. Like barely! So I was trying really hard to wake him up and make sure that he was ok! (I'm a very paranoid mommy.) Well, I couldn't wake him up either. I was trying everything. He was just really floppy. If you picked him up his arms would just flop around. I even got a toothpick and poked his feet a little bit. I changed his diaper and washed his body with a cold wet wipe. Nothing. So about 30 minutes went by and not much of improvement. So I called my Dr. and he said to take him into the hospital right away. The whole way to the hospital he didn't cry or wake up or anything. When I got there, we got him naked and got his vitals all checked out and then he started waking up and acting like himself again. They had to clamp something on his ear to check his oxygen and they had to do some other checks and they had to put those sensor pads that stick to your skin all over his chest. It was very hard for me to watch. I was a wreck. I couldn't stop crying. They told me that we had to stay overnight at the hospital to watch Ty and make sure it doesn't happen again. I got there at 7:30 Sunday evening and by the time they were done with all the tests and got us all situated in a room it was 10:30. He cried pretty much the entire time! Longest night of my entire life! When we got there everything was fine and nothing happened again all night. He checked out just fine. So we got to go home the next morning.

Aren't these pictures so sad! :(

My Dr. thinks that he might have had a mild seizure and he wants to make sure that little Ty isn't prone to seizures now, so this Friday we have an appointment with a Pediatric Neurologist in Spokane to have an EEG test done on him. Just to make sure everything is fine. He hasn't had any more 'episodes' since, so I'm sure everything is just fine, but it'll be nice to be sure.

Pappaw

2011-10-31T13:50:00.000-07:00

Last week Pappaw came down to visit and help run kids to school and back. He also got to spend some bonding time with little Ty Ty! Don't they look so cute together. Their clothes even match! :)

Love you Dad! Thanks for the help! :)

First (Home) Bath

2011-10-31T11:46:00.000-07:00

I was very excited to finally be able to give Tyler his first real bath. I thought that it would help get him into somewhat of a schedule and get his nights and days on the right track. But it took awhile for us to actually get to give him his bath. After his umbilical stump finally fell off, we had to take him to the hospital over night (I'll explain later). Then after we got home from that, I got a bad infection and was pretty sick, so we had to wait until I got better from that. Then we finally got to give him his first bath! I don't know if it was a fluke or not, but that night he actually slept through the night. YAY!

He loved the first part of his bath. He just sat there soakin' in the warm water.

I thought this pose was cute the way he has his hands on both sides of his face! I wish the flash wasn't so bright though!

The second you start to wash him though, Look Out!! He HATES it for some reason. He'll cry the whole time until you get him out and hold him. Its sad.

Then after you get him all lotioned up and dressed, he's a happy camper again!

The day after he got his first bath and slept through the night, he got circumcised and couldn't have another bath until the ring fell off. (Which ended up being a whole week later). After we could give him baths again, the sleeping through the night did not continue. It actually got worse. He would wake up like 3 times during the night and wouldn't want to go back to sleep. Hopefully that changes real soon! :)

Random Pictures

2011-10-31T11:12:00.000-07:00

Here's Jeff with all 3 of his kiddos!

I HAD to get a picture of Ty with this huge teddy bear. I have a picture of Matthew with this same bear when he was little.

All 3 of my kids! I couldn't be happier! Aren't they so beautiful?

I love this carrier that my sister got me! Ty loves it too!

Kaity LOVES brushing hair. Before all she had was her doll's hair to brush and fix. Now she has a real live doll that she can play with and brush his hair! :)

Getting ready to go and get Matthew from the bus stop.

All bundled and out in the cold waiting for Matthew to get off the bus.

I just LOVE this picture! It makes him look so big. I love his big blue eyes and head full of hair.

Here is a shot showing off my blankets I made for him. He's laying on the puffy pillow blanket and he has my faux chenille blanket over him.

I love that he has enough hair to give him a mohawk :)

He's looking a little cross-eyed in this picture, but I love the goofy look on his face!

Dead asleep on Daddy's shoulder!

Coming Home with Baby

2011-10-31T10:12:00.000-07:00

Here's Tyler in his car seat for the first time. On our way home from the hospital.

The hospital gave us an ice cream birthday cake for us to take home and celebrate Ty's birthday. It was yummy!

My sister, Tara, was in town for my nieces baptism. So she was able to spend some time with Ty before she had to go back home.

I have a picture of Matthew as a baby doing the same thing. Sleeping and grabbing his ear. I had to get a shot of this! :)

Nap time with Daddy

Playing with Kaity!

Welcome to our home Tyler!

Picture Time

2011-10-31T09:18:00.000-07:00

Before we left the hospital, they did a little tiny photo shoot for us. It didn't turn out the greatest. A lot of the pictures were blurry because he was awake and moving around a lot. But was got some cute ones. He was so little that the outfit we picked for him was just WAY too big, even though it was 0-3 months.

Here he is with Daddy getting ready for pictures.

Picture Time

Then as soon as pictures were over, he fell fast asleep :)

My Little Ty Ty

2011-10-31T08:56:00.000-07:00

Here are few face shots of little Tyler.

I loved this picture of Ty because I think that it is so cute how he is sleeping on his arm.

He was awake and happy so I had to get a bunch of shots of his face. He is just the cutest little baby.

Big yawn. He's getting tired.

I just LOVE all of his hair! I love little boys with hair. Its so cute!

Daddy and Tyler

Holding Ty Ty

2011-10-31T08:37:00.000-07:00

I'm starting to get more on a schedule and a little bit more sleep, so I'm trying to get caught up on all of my pictures of Tyler on here. I have soooooo many cute pictures and I don't know which ones to post. So I'll probably just post them all eventually! :)

Matthew and Kaity both fell in love with little Ty from the very beginning! I think Matthew did a little more than Kaity! He is always wanting to be right next to him, kissing his cheek and giving lots of hugs. Its really cute!

Nap time with Mommy!

I don't have very many pictures of Kaity holding Ty because she didn't last long with him. But she still was really excited to see him and hold him.

More of Matthew and Tyler

He was so dead asleep here. It was cute how he was sprawled out.

And of course Matthew was not far away. Always giving kisses.

First (Hospital) Bath

2011-10-24T19:18:00.000-07:00

Since I had a C-section I had to stay in bed with things on my legs to keep my blood circulating, so I couldn't get out of bed for the first day and a half or so. So when we did his first bath they put the bath tub right on the bed between my legs so I could be involved! I was so happy that they did this. I had missed Kaity's first bath and I had always hated that! So I'm glad that I could be involved with Tyler's.

Well, Tyler HATED the bath from the very beginning! He cried during the whole thing! It was so sad, but I did get a pretty cute video of him crying!

Jeff is putting the soap on Ty's head. The nurse was kind of crazy bathing him. She would just dump the water on his head to clean him. It was sad to watch a little bit!

Jeff was so afraid to scrub his head. He barely touched him. It was funny.

All done with the bath and now under the heater waiting to get dressed. Yes, he is still crying.

Then he got dressed and chilled under the heater for a little while and all was right with the world again and he drifted off to sleep! :)

Tyler Jeffrey Bowman

2011-10-21T19:18:00.000-07:00

We had a beautiful baby boy on October 5th, 2011 at 7:47 am! He weighed 8 lbs. 2 oz. and was 19.6 in long.

Here's the story:

My water broke at 12:30 in the morning. We had a really hard time finding someone to watch Matthew and Kaity for us to go to the hospital. All of our babysitters and neighbors that we had set up to watch them were all asleep and weren't answering their phones. So we called my sister, Cami. Jeff dropped me off at the hospital at 1:30 and then he drove to Moscow to drop off the kids at Cami's house and then came back to Pullman. Since I had had a C-section before (with Kaity) they couldn't induce labor, for fear that my uterus would burst at the scar. So we just sat around and waited until 7:00 in the morning. I was having big painful contractions and everything, but at 7 I was still barely dilated to a 1. So we just decided to go ahead with another C-section. We started getting prepped and ready. I of course was terrified and excited and nervous and happy all at the same time!

He was born at 7:47 am. When he was born I heard him sneeze before I heard him cry. He still sneezes kind of a lot, and I heard the doctors say that he had his eyes open when they pulled him out. After the surgery was done they took Tyler to get all cleaned up and checked over. His Apgar score was 9 and 10 (which is super good). When he was all wrapped up they brought him to me for a little while and he was so beautiful. I loved that he had hair.

After I got some hugs in they took him away to do more testing and stuff to him and they still had to sew me up. When they were done sewing me up I had to go to the recovery room until I wasn't numb anymore. It felt like I was there FOREVER!!!!! All I wanted was my baby! By the time I finally got back to my room and got to hold my baby again it was 9:30 in the morning! He passed all tests and was looking good!

Here are lots of pictures of what happened:

Here's Jeff and I waiting to find out what we were going to do.

Here we are ready for surgery to begin

Caution: Graphic photos!

Here are some shots DURING the C-section:

Here's little Tyler with just his head out...

and his body...

and here he is all the way out!

Dr. Hall held him up over the curtain right away for me to see him! Jeff was already in love!

Here's Jeff cutting the umbilical cord.

Jeff never left his side the whole time.

He couldn't wait to hold him! He is in heaven here! :)

And finally I got to hold him! He was absolutely perfect!

Here's Tyler looking at his Daddy for the first time! :)

He was 8 lbs 2 oz! Perfect size! Not too big!

Just chillin' under the heater.

Finally back in the room and holding him for real for the first time! :) He hasn't left my side since! :)

38 Weeks 4 Days

2011-09-29T20:32:00.000-07:00

This week the baby is 38 weeks 4 days. I had a another ultrasound today. The baby was measuring about 7 lbs 15 oz. His head measured about 40 weeks 0 days, his tummy measured 39 weeks 4 days, and his height was measuring 36 weeks 4 days. So he's gonna be my short fat baby boy! :) He is still very healthy. He doesn't move very much anymore, but that's just because there isn't any more room for him. My Dr. told me yesterday that if I hadn't had a c-section before, than he would have induced me this week. Since I had a c-section before they can't induce because it could make my scar burst! :( So if I haven't had the baby yet by my due date (October 9th) then I will have to have another c-section. :( At least I am almost done. I'm very ready to meet this little guy!

37 Weeks 4 Days

2011-09-23T08:57:00.000-07:00

I had another ultrasound this week. Everything still looks good and healthy. He is still a VERY active baby! Neither of my other kids ever moved this much. Its fun but can be painful at times.

Here is a profile of the little guy.

Here is a shot of his fingers holding onto his foot and his toes are close to his mouth, like he's sucking on his toes. It was pretty fun to watch him do this.

Here, his face is looking right at us and his hands are right in front of his mouth.

Here he is looking right at us again, but his arms are crossed in front of his chest.

and here he is looking right at us and hands are right under his chin.

They measured him this time and his head and tummy were measuring around 39 weeks (Big Boy) but his height is measuring at 36-37 weeks. So he's gonna be my short, fat little man! :) He was measuring about 8 pounds 1 oz. (give or take a pound). I'm excited to meet this little guy! It could be anytime now! Come on Ty! I'm ready! :)

37 Weeks 0 Days

2011-09-18T19:04:00.000-07:00

My mom asked for another picture to show how enormous I've gotten. So here ya go mom! :)

Last week at my last ultrasound, my technician finished checking my amniotic fluids early so just for fun she did a quick measuring of the baby. Which I have been DYING to know how big this little boy has gotten. His body length was measuring 37 weeks (Which was a few days big. No big deal.) and his head and tummy were measuring 38 weeks 1 day (Which was over a week big. Still not that big of a deal, but its nice to know.) So he was about 7 pounds on Thursday! So he's measuring pretty much on track. I have another ultrasound on Thursday and they are going to measure him again and see how fast he's growing and if we need to do anything early. The only scary part was that the umbilical cord was up by his neck. So my technician took some pictures of it so everybody knows that its there and can keep that in mind. The end of this pregnancy is almost over and the beginning of raising a newborn baby boy is almost here! Its exciting and scary at the same time! :)

Latah County Fair

2011-09-18T12:12:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we went to the County Fair in Moscow. It was a lot of fun. I got pretty worn out real quick though! One thing I'm really looking forward to when I have the baby is getting my energy back! I was exhausted, but we had sooo much fun!

Of course the kiddos loved looking at the animals. I'm glad that they are animal lovers like their momma! :)

Here are my 3 kids looking at the trains! :)

When we started going on the rides we ran into Matthew and Kaity's friends! Matthew went to school with Brooke and she has a little sister Kaity's age and they all get along so well together! So we rode some rides with them. Matthew and Kaity had so much more fun with them there.

I very rarely get a picture of Matthew with an actual true smile, but in the picture below you can see his true smile! I love it!

Then later we ran into Cami, Livia, and Sydney. Matthew is old enough now to ride on some of the big boy rides and he wanted to so badly. But Kaity is too little to ride on them, and I couldn't ride on them being pregnant, and Jeff couldn't ride on them because he gets motion sickness really bad. So I was glad that Livia and Sydney showed up to go with him.

This is the ride that he decided to ride on! It was so scary for me though! They don't get strapped in or anything. You just hold on the bar with your hands and there is something between your legs by your knees to keep you from sliding backwards! I guess its not that scary, but it was for me.

Here he is right after he got off of the ride! He had a TON of fun, but he said he was cold afterwards.

We got this pin that shows how big a baby's feet are at 10 weeks old in the womb. So I hooked it on my shirt! :)

We also played some games to get prizes. As soon as Kaity and I saw this Unicorn we knew that we had to get it! :) It reminded me of the movie "Despicable Me" when that little girl got a unicorn at the carnival, and then she said "It's so FLUFFY!" So after she got it, I got her to say "It's so FLUFFY!" It was funny! I'm glad that we finally got it! :)

Matthew's Second Lost Tooth

2011-09-16T11:25:00.000-07:00

This tooth was loose the same time that the other bottom tooth was loose. So we have been waiting for this one to fall out for ever! It took so long because Matthew doesn't like to wiggle it. He just says that it'll come out all by itself. So we just waited. Well, it got so loose. It didn't know what was holding it in. So I told Matthew that I just wanted to wiggle it and when I touched it, it fell out in my fingers. Matthew didn't even notice that it fell out. I told him to try and wiggle it and he tried, but he couldn't find it. So I showed him the tooth and he was shocked! He kept asking how I did it! It was funny! He looks so cute now with his two bottom teeth missing! Its funny how missing teeth makes him look so much older! :)

Baby Shower

2011-09-16T11:14:00.000-07:00

My Mom came down and threw me a great baby shower last weekend. It turned out great. We had lots of snacks and games to play. I recieved a lot of great gifts. I'm beginning to feel ready for this baby! :) Thanks again Mom and Cami and Tara!

My Baby Swing

2011-09-09T16:38:00.000-07:00

I got my baby swing in the mail today. It was a gift from my parents. I absolutely LOVE it! The fabric is so soft and its the kind of swing that swings back and forth and side to side! it looks so comfy, I wish I had one my size! :)

Here's a shot of it facing the other direction.

I can easily take the tray off of the front if I want to, also.

I can't wait to start using it! Thank you so much Mom and Dad!! :)

Baby Pillow Blanket

2011-09-07T11:05:00.000-07:00

I started this blanket a long time ago. Way before I knew what I was having. So that's why it is pink and blue. To make this blanket I first had to make all the little pillows! So each square is separately stuffed. Then you sew all the pillows together. Then I added some batting (so you can't feel the seems underneath from the pillows) and the back fabric. Then you sew on the binding all the way around! I also tied it in a few places to help keep the batting in place! If you're a good sewer, this probably wouldn't take very long at all, but for me, it was pretty hard! I'm just glad its done! :)

This pictures shows the fluffy individual pillows!

Here's the back!

Kaity's First Day of School

2011-09-07T09:10:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was Kaity's first day of school. She was so excited to go. She showed me an old picture of herself and told me she wanted her hair just like that. So I copied the picture and made her hair super curly, and she was very insistant that she wanted to wear her Rapunzel shirt. It was cute that she knew exactly what she wanted. Her class doesn't start until 12:30 so all morning she was talking about going to school and how excited she was. She was such a poser for the pictures too! :)

Then when we got here, her classroom door, you could tell that she was getting very nervous!

On Parent's night, Jeff colored her a picture with a message for her and put it in her cubby. She was so excited to find it when she got to school. I think it really helped her!

Here we were waiting for everybody to get there so that class could start.

When it was time for me to go, Kaity gave me the biggest hug and said, 'I'm gonna miss you, mommy!' It totally broke my heart. I never wanted to leave her after that! This is how I looked by the time I got to the car! :(

When I went to go and pick her up she was happy and having fun! She can't wait to go again.

Kaity's Butterfly

2011-09-07T08:45:00.000-07:00

The other day we went and suprised Jeff at work and ate lunch with him outside on a blanket. When Kaity was done eating she went to pick flowers. She's such a girl. Anyway, she came back to the blanket with a butterfly. She had actually caught a butterfly, and there was no way she was going to let it go. She was very careful with it so she wouldn't squish it the whole way home. When we got home she went and got her barn and set up a nice little home for her butterfly. Of course she had messed up its wings when she was carrying it, even though she was so careful. So by the time we got home it couldn't fly anymore. So it just walked around. It was cute watching her watch the butterfly.

35 Weeks 2 Days

2011-09-07T08:30:00.000-07:00

Everything has still been going good with my pregnancy. I go to the hospital two times a week for non-stress tests and I have a weekly ultrasound. Which is so much fun! I love being able to see my little guy every week, and the hospital ultrasound is so detailed. I feel like I already know exactly what he looks like! :) I'm so excited to have this little guy! I think I could wait the 40 weeks if I had to easily if I didn't have to take insulin. It makes it so hard and stressful to always be worrying about my blood sugars.

This week my baby is supposedly the same weight as a honeydew melon, which is 5 1/2 pounds. Its also around 18 inches long. There's not much room left! :)

33 Weeks 6 Days

2011-08-29T12:18:00.000-07:00

Last week I was 33 weeks. Everything has been going good so far, except for these darn contractions I keep having! My Dr. has me set up with non-stress tests 2 times a week, and a weekly ultrasound to keep an eye on my amniotic fluids, and I meet with my dr. and dietition about once a week as well. I feel like I live at the hospital now! The upside is that I have 1 more month left! :)

During week 33 the baby is about the size of a pineapple! It is almost 18 inches long and weighs about 5 pounds! He's getting nice and big! So far he is right on track and healthy! :) Which is always great news, especially for a diabetic!

The last time I went to the hospital for a non-stress test, the baby's heart rate wasn't going up when he moved like it should. So they were a little worried about it. They were going to do another ultrasound to check his heart and do some other tests, but before they did that they tried giving him a little jump start to see if that worked. So they had this little noise maker that made a buzzing noise when you push the button. The nurse put it up to my belly and pushed the button for about half a second. Right when the noise started, my baby jumped a mile! I had NEVER felt him jump that hard before! The noise scared him so bad! You could see my whole belly lunge to one side. It did the trick though. His heart rate went way up after that, then when he calmed down a little his heart was doing just what it needed to do. So there was nothing to worry about.

Matthew's First Day of School

2011-08-29T11:58:00.000-07:00

Matthew had his first day of school last Wednesday! He was so excited! He even woke up at 3:30 that morning and came and woke me up to ask if it was time for school. I have no idea if he ever went back to sleep.

The night before we went to his school for Back To School Night. There I was supposed to talk to the bus people and get all the bus information for Matthew, but the bus people never showed up. So I was just going to drive him to school the first day, but he insisted that he wanted to ride the bus. There are 3 elementary schools here and so 3 different busses come to our apartment to pick up kids. I knew they came around 7:30 , so we walked out there and waited for one that was going to his school! I was so nervous when he climbed on. I just hoped it was the right bus!

Here he is all ready for his first day! :)

Kaity was so jealous. She can't wait to start school, too, but she has to wait until after Labor Day!

Waiting for the school bus!

After I got him on the bus I drove over to his school to make sure that he got to where he needed to be okay. When I got to his school, there were so many kids EVERYWHERE!! Of course I couldn't find Matthew anywhere. I just kept hoping that he wasn't stuck at some other elementary. When there was like 2 minutes till the bell rang he came running over to me! I was so glad that he found me! He said he was really excited, but he just looked so worried. So I asked him what was wrong and he wispered "I don't know where to go!" It was so sad! I barely had enough time to show him what line he was supposed to stand in and what bus to take home and then the bell rang and he just took off!

I can't believe that my little boy now goes to school for the whole day! It seems so long and he still seems so little to me. He loves it though!

Here we are waiting for Matthew to get home. I just hoped that he remembered what bus to get on to get home! :)

He made it home just fine! (I worry WAY too much!) When he got off the bus, his face was red and the first words out of his mouth were "I'm so hot!" It was a pretty hot day!

So, of course, we went to Lick's and got ice cream cones! :)

Back To School Night

2011-08-29T11:36:00.000-07:00

Tuesday was Back to school night for Matthew. He has been soooooo excited to finally go back to school. He has been asking "How much longer?" for a VERY long time! When we got to his classroom he was real quick at finding his deskand he immediately sat down at it.

Then he went to the hallway and found his locker!

He instantly fell in love with his teacher. I just wish she had an easier name to say. Matthew has a really hard time saying Miss. DiGregorio, but she is super nice and Matthew jus adores her already.

Weekend Fun

2011-08-29T11:30:00.000-07:00

Last weekend my parent's came up to visit since they have been in Kentucky all summer. It was nice to see them again. Tara and Tamara came over from Seattle, too. It was a real party. After the Lentil Festival we were all so hot! We went to my sister's house and she set up her kiddie pool. Matthew and Kaity loved it! All the other kids had water guns and were playing around the pool shooting everybody! If you didn't want to get wet, you didn't leave the house! :)

Later that night we had fun playing some games. We even tried a human pyramid. Kaity thought it was super fun. Can't you tell by her face! :)

Lentil Festival

2011-08-29T11:11:00.000-07:00

This year Jeff had to work on the Saturday of the Lentil Festival, but my parent's ended up coming up this weekend which worked out perfectly because they came with me to the parade to help out with Matthew and Kaity. It was a very long parade (over an hour) and it was a VERY hot day! I couldn't make it the whole time. I started not feeling very good. But it was fun and I'm glad I went, and of course the kids loved it and got tons of candy.

Kaity is upset in this picture. That was her red popsicle on the ground by her feet. She dropped it almost right away. Great way to start.

We should have gotten someone to take a picture for us so my mom could be in the picture too, but here is a pic of us with my dad.

My mom sat on the curb with the kids.

Matthew was the only one that lasted in the sun the whole time. The rest of us retreated to the shade behind him. He was too afraid to move away from the curb thinking he wouldn't get anymore candy if he moved.

Miscellaneous Pictures

2011-08-29T10:55:00.000-07:00

I had a few pictures that I took with my cell phone that I wanted to put on here.

Here are the kids at an indoor park playing. It was WAY too hot outside for me and I just wanted to sit down somewhere. So the kids had to play at this "baby park". They seemed to have fun though.

Here we were waiting for Jeff to get off of work.

Once again, waiting for Jeff to get off work for lunch. :)

I have to start going to the hospital 2 times a week to get non stress tests done and I've been having to take the kids with me because school hadn't started yet. So here is how Kaity spends her time at the hospital with me. Doesn't she look so comfy. :)

Here is the monitor from one of my non stress tests. The first (blue) line is the baby's heart rate and the second (green) line is what my utterus is doing. All those little bumps in it were my little contractions I was having. They say I have an irritable utterus because I have contractions like this constantly, but they aren't doing anything to me so its nothing to worry about yet.

Creative Kaity

2011-08-29T10:35:00.000-07:00

The other day Kaity was sitting up to my desk coloring while I was doing some stuff on the computer next to her. Then I looked over at her and this is what she had done, all by herself. I thought it was pretty cute. She was very proud of herself, as you can see by her smile! :)

Sweet Matthew

2011-08-29T10:29:00.000-07:00

Kaity accidentally shut her fingers in our sliding door and was crying pretty bad. So the first thing that Matthew did was go and get a TON of stuffed animals and completely surrounded Kaity with them to help make her feel better! I thought it was so sweet! It really shows how caring and sweet my little boy is! :)

32 Weeks 1 Day Ultrasound

2011-08-15T20:05:00.000-07:00

Today I had another ultrasound to make sure everything is growing properly with the diabetes. Everything measured perfectly again. I always love hearing that news! He was measuring only 1 day bigger! He weighed 4 pounds 3 ounces! Since I switched Drs (Which I am so glad that I did! I love my new Dr.!) I went to the hospital for this ultrasound this time. Their machine was a little more high tech. We saw some pretty cool images of the baby. Here are some of the pictures that we got to keep.

This is a picture of the baby's face looking right at us with both of his arms up by his face. Like he's resting on his hands! It was so cute!

I'm glad to see that he has all of his toes :)

This is probably my favorite photo! Its just so clear! You can see all of his facial features! It was so cute to watch him here because he was making sucking movements with his mouth! It looked so neat! You could see his tongue and everything! I just loved it! I wished we could get a video of it! I can't wait to kiss those sweet little lips! :)

Matthew Lost His Tooth!!

2011-08-09T18:44:00.000-07:00

Matthew has had a loose tooth for EVER it feels like! The adult tooth was coming up behind his baby tooth instead of underneath it, so it wasn't pushing his baby tooth out. He actually has a dentist appointment set for next week to pull this sucker out! I'm so glad that it finally came out all by itself!

The story of how it fell out is actually pretty funny. This morning he was sitting in the living room eating his cereal and I got up and got him some water and then started to make my breakfast. I heard him take a drink and then he started coughing and choking a little bit. He seemed fine so I didn't worry about him. Then a few minutes later he came into the kitchen and asked me if his tooth fell out. I looked and sure enough, his tooth was gone. I told him it was gone and asked him where it was. He just looked at me and said, "I don't know. Where is it?" So the first thing in my mind is that when he was choking on his water he must have swallowed it. I was pretty upset that I wouldn't get to see his first loose tooth. He kept saying over and over again that he didn't swallow it. So I just kept saying, 'then where is it?' Eventually I got down on the floor and looked around his cereal bowl. There it was! Just sitting on the floor. Who knows how it got there, and who knows how Matthew didn't notice it. I'm just glad that I found it and Matthew is soooooo excited about the Tooth Fairy coming tonight! He's been asking me all day if he can go to bed yet. He such a cutie! :)

My New Crib!

2011-08-08T11:39:00.000-07:00

Jeff's mom, Linda, came up to visit last month and she wanted to buy something for the baby. She got us this amazing crib and mattress. Thank you so much Linda. We LOVE it! We can't wait to start using it. :) 2 months to go.

30 Weeks 6 Days

2011-08-06T11:52:00.000-07:00

I haven't done pictures like this for quite some time, so I wanted to make sure I some before this week was over. I made it by one day :) Everything has been going good still. I've been having a LOT of Braxton Hicks Contractions. With the other two kids, I didn't really have any, so I've been trying to get used to that. I've been having some issues with my Dr. recently. It hasn't been very easy to get refills for my insulin and its usually a whole ordeal every two weeks when I need to refill, so what I'm doing this week is looking for a new Dr. I found one that I think I might really like and I have an apt. with him on Tuesday. His office is actually in the hospital. So we'll see what happens there. :)

This week the baby is supposedly the size of a large cabbage. I guess they are getting back to kind of the weight of the baby instead of the length. I don't understand it, but I'm just going by what Baby Center says it should be. I figured they would know :)

They say that my baby is about 3 pounds this week and 15 3/4 inches long. He's getting big :)

Swimming

2011-07-31T21:58:00.000-07:00

This is the first time this year that we went to the swimming pool here. its so much fun and cheap! Its not usually very crowded and they let you bring in any floaties that you want. So it makes it a lot of fun.

Here we are about to jump in. I don't know why Matthew and Kaity are showing off their muscles.

Of course Matthew had to show off how strong he is again! :)

Matthew was so excited that he could reach the bottom farther out than last year!

I used the rapid shot feature on my cell phone and got Jeff jumping off of the high dive.

Beginning of jump...

During the jump...

In the water :)

We took our giant turtle in and the kids had a BLAST!!!!! You could tell all the other kids were sooo jealous!

The Big 30!

2011-07-31T21:34:00.000-07:00

Jeff had his 30th birthday last Sunday. It was nice having his mom up for a visit during his birthday. I think I had a little too much fun decorating for his party. I did an under the sea type of thing. The green streamers are supposed to be seaweed and the blue is the water and of course the balloons are fish. It was fun :)

Had to stick with the theme for the cake. If I had more time I would have made a fish out of the cake, but it was all last minute.

Opening presents

Singing Happy Birthday

Blowing out the candles

Happy Birthday Jeff!! We love you! :)

Kaity's New Bike

2011-07-31T16:29:00.000-07:00

We went to Walmart the other day and right there by the front doors they had this little girl pink bike! I looked at it and they had it marked 50% because it was refurbished. I looked it over and it looked just fine except for a few scratches on the handlebars. So I got it! Jeff made some adjustments to it and it works great. Kaity loves it and it just her size. I was so happy that she finally has a real bike instead of just her 3-wheeler now. She makes me VERY nervous on it, but she does a great job. I'm just a worrier! :)

So it takes her a little while to get the pedals going, but then she does a fantastic job! :) In the video you can hear her say "I did it!!"

Its great to see her actually be able to keep up with Matthew now.

28 Weeks 4 Days

2011-07-22T08:58:00.000-07:00

I had a ultrasound yesterday morning. I was so nervous about it. There are just so many things that can go wrong being pregnant with diabetes. So we needed to check for any deformities and make sure that all his organs are functioning properly. See if he's growing too big. Lots of different things. I was so nervous for this ultrasound.

Well, everything went great. The ultrasound technician used the word perfect a LOT! Which made me feel really good. First of all, its still a boy! He is only measuring 3 days bigger which is perfectly normal. His heart was working great and had all 4 chambers and all his organs were properly formed. The amniotic fluid was perfect. The technician said that diabetes can make the amniotic fluid go out of control (whatever that means), but everything was healthy and working great! It made me feel so good and relieved! Can't wait to meat this little guy! :)

26 Weeks 4 Days

2011-07-07T19:10:00.000-07:00

This week I am 26 weeks along. Everything is still going good. This week he weighs almost 2 pounds and he is 14 inches long. I have been feeling him kick and stretch and roll around a LOT!

This week he is the size of an English Cucumber (supposedly 14 inches long). I don't have any idea how he fits in there and he's only gonna get bigger! :)

4th Of July

2011-07-05T13:47:00.000-07:00

This year for the 4th of July we went to Pullman again. Its becoming a tradition with us I think. We usually get there super early to get a good parking spot and then we just hang around until 10:00, but this year we spent the whole afternoon at my sister's house in Moscow so we didn't get to the park until about 7:00. I was worried that we wouldn't be able to find a spot to park, but as we drove by the front of the park, a car pulled out of a very good spot. We were very lucky! :) When the show was over it took us eactly 9 minutes from the time we got to the car to get home. It was perfect.

Matthew brought his Nerf sword with us to the park, so there was a lot of sword fighting going on.

Here, I told Kaity to smile and she broke out in some awesome dance moves. She's so goofy.

We made yummy sandwiches for dinner and brought a TON of snacks and candy! The kids loved it!

My sunburn was still so painful that the only thing I could bear to wear was my swimsuit and swimsuit cover.

Of course we had to get a belly shot! I'm getting pretty big.

When it started getting dark a policeman started handing out some glow sticks. Kaity especially had fun with that! She was waving it around and playing with it the rest of the night.

Me with my wonderful kids!

Kaity said she was making a rainbow with her glow stick. Of course Matthew had to get his hand in the picture. :)

I had to get a few shots of the kids actually watching the fireworks show.

Our wonderful family!

Here's a video of Kaity busting some of her favorite dance moves. She so funny when she dances I had to get a video of it! Sorry its sideways! I don't know how to rotate the video.

Water Park

2011-07-03T11:47:00.000-07:00

For the 4th of July weekend, my sister Tara and her daughter, Tamara, drove over from Seattle so yesterday Tara and Tamara, Cami and her family and me with my family all went to the water park and spent the whole day there! It was the first time we had gone swimming so far this summer and it was a LOT of fun! We all enjoyed ourselves!

Floating down the lazy river

Matthew with his Aunt Tara

Snack time

This was the first time that the kids didn't mind getting splashed in the face, so they really had fun on all the slides!

Jeff even did the obstacle course that they had set up.

He did awesome!

The final leap

We were there for almost 6 hours and we still had to drag the kids out of there! They had so much fun!

The bad part:
I had bought the cheap generic brand of sun screen thinking that it would work just as well. We all learned the hard way that it does NOT work just as well! All 4 of us are so badly burned that we can barely get dressed. We tried to go to church this morning and the kids were crying as I was trying to get their church clothes on. So we ended up staying home! I feel so bad for them!

My New Hair Cut

2011-07-03T10:54:00.000-07:00

I had been thinking about getting my hair cut for awhile and I wanted one of those A-line cuts. I finally asked my sisters what they thought about it and Cami said that she had been thinking the same thing for her. So we decided to go get it done together. I always get so nervous when it comes to cutting my hair. I usually think about it for WAY too long and then I nerver actually get it done. This time Cami totally rushed me into it. I was definately nervous this time. I just went and tried to explain what I wanted without a picture and put my hair in my hair dressers hands!

Here's a before picture of Cami and me...

And here's the after picture! As you can see I cut a lot off, but I think it turned out really well and I really like it! Its so much easier to fix and I love how it off my neck for the summer!

Next time I do it though, I think I could go a little bit longer in the front so there is more of the A-line to it.

Pullman Police Department

2011-07-03T10:30:00.000-07:00

The Pullman Police Department agreed to come to the Pullman Library and read to the kids.

They even handcuffed the main library worker who's in charge of the program. It was funny because after they did this a little boy shouted, 'That looked fun! I wanna get arrested when I grow up!' I don't think that was the response they were going for.

Then after storytime all the kids got to go out to the police cars and sit in the driver's seats and turn the lights on and off and talk in the speakerphone and whatever else they wanted to do.

I LOVE Kaity's face in the picture below! It really shows how excited she was! :)

They both had a lot of fun with this! They had a Pullman Police car and they also had a Highway State Trooper there. Of course Matthew and Kaity had to stand in line and sit in both of them! :)

Miscellaneous Pictures

2011-07-03T10:18:00.000-07:00

I had a bunch of cute pictures on my cell phone, so I thought I should put them on here before they got forgotten about. Jeff and the kids went to the park one day and he sent me these two pictures. You could say I was kind of nervous to see if they would come back home unhurt. I can't believe he let them up in that tree. He's braver than I am. :)

We signed up for the kids bowl free program this year which has been a lot of fun. We go bowling quite often this year. My sister signed up for it too, so we see her there a lot too. Her kids brought some fun things to wear while bowling one night, and Matthew and Kaity both thought that this clown wig was pretty fun.

Here in Pullman at Martin Stadium, they were showing 'Rango' on the big screen. We went last summer when they did this too. Its pretty fun. You just go and set up a blanket or chairs, bring a snack or whatever and the kids can run around in the grass or do whatever while the movie plays.

The only downside is the sun gets in your way for a little while before it sets.

We've been going to the library a lot this summer for story times. The Pullman Library does a lot of fun things during the summer. During Matthew's story time his friend, Brooke, from school goes too. He was so excited when we saw her there. Its so funny to watch Matthew and Brooke together. Brooke says that when they grow up they are going to get married. :) She also has a little sister that is Kaity's age and they get along really good as well.

Here we were just going for a walk around downtown Pullman.

Playing at Reaney Park.

Here's Matthew playing on the park at our apartment.

Bike Riding

2011-07-03T10:01:00.000-07:00

Since we got Matthew his bike for his birthday we have been looking for a good trail to bike on thats not too crowded that he can practice on. I think we found a pretty good one. For the most part its all flat and it leads right to downtown Pullman. Now we just need to get Kaity a better bike. I don't think her little 3-wheeler is going to cut it for much longer.

Kaity of course had to stop and pick some of the purple flowers. She thought they were so pretty! :)

Now we've made it to town.

They went all the way to 'Licks' so we stopped and had an ice cream break.

Then we were off again heading back home!

She was so proud of herself that she could ride with no hands!! She insisted that Jeff take a picture of it!

Matthew was happy that he could pedal standing up.

My Mohawk Boy!

2011-06-28T13:19:00.000-07:00

I was getting ready to cut Matthew's hair so it would be short and cool for summertime, and I decided to play around with it a little bit. I gave my son a mohawk. I was only planning on keeping it that way for like a day or so, but when I was all done and I styled it, it was so dang cute!!! Matthew really liked it too. He thought it made him look 'cool'! :) I just can't get over how cute it is, so I have decided to keep it this way for a little while. He can't do it during the school year so he'll have it for at least the summer!