Funny Baby!

We had another check this Wednesday and everything is still looking good. I was dilated to a 2 and 65% effaced. I think I was either a 2 or 3 and 70% effaced when they started me with Hunter, so I figured I was doing pretty good! My doctor was out of town for spring break so his PA (I think that's what she is) did the check, but nobody knew for sure what his plans were as far as starting me. He had told me several weeks ago that if we got to 37 weeks he would probably start me, and I will be 37 weeks on Monday so it could be soon! Our ultrasound was so funny! The baby had it's legs crossed and was bent in half! I took a pic of my pic of the ultrasound so hopefully you can tell. The pic is a profile of the baby and you can see it's little toes touching it's forehead! I was trying hard not to laugh so I wouldn't bounce her equipment around but I couldn't help it! Here's the pic see if you can tell:

I'm Ready!

It's official I'm ready! It's been 3 1/2 weeks since they put me on bed rest and I have been doing pretty good at staying down. I think I've had enough though! I'm in a nesting mood but I'm not supposed to get up how is that supposed to work! I have been able to get some of the stuff done, with the help of family of course! I finally got my vinyl put on my wall (with the help of my little sister) and finally got our family pictures on the wall (Ben hung them after me and Kira decided where to put them) and we finally got our TV put on the desk (Ben's brother came and helped with that) I LOVE how my living room looks now! The saddest part is that I have had the desk for about a year, we got the pictures done in August, and the vinyl has been ready somewhere in between those two! I was really stressed that we weren't going to get the family pictures up til after the baby came and by the time I actually did it, we may have new pictures! So luckily I have my family that helped me do it cuz if I waited for me to do it on my own it might never have happened!

We had another weekly doctors appt on Wednesday. I now have them set at times that Ben can come with me since we aren't having to work around my work schedule anymore. And can I say I'm and so glad! They ended up checking me a week early! I would hate to have one of those visits without him! It seems like ever time I go in now they end up doing something extra to me, we had the same ultrasound, stress test, and listening to the heart beat that they did last week. Then they also did a strep test (which they didn't have me do with Hunter, yuck!) and he checked me and I'm pretty sure he stripped my membranes. He didn't say but I have never had a check hurt, it's just always uncomfortable, but this time it KILLED! I kept bringing my hand up to slap the doctor away but managed to control myself, that would have been pretty embarrassing if I ended up hitting him :) All in all everything is still going pretty good, my blood pressure was high again when I got there but they had me lay down and it was even lower than it ever has been lately! And there is plenty of fluid for the baby, and the stress test has showed the baby is doing great both weeks! Now it's just getting me through the next 2 weeks or so! Ben has had to tell me to go lay down several times in the last couple days! The warmer weather has finally started to get my feet to swell a little bit (no where near what they were with Hunter! I didn't have ankles!) so probably the worst time that I could stop being good about laying down! We will make it though, just a little longer then we will have our baby. YAY!

It has taken me the entire pregnancy to finally pick a car seat. We were in our accident with the one we had for Hunter and you aren't supposed to use them once they have been in an accident, Hunter only had a little longer til he was going to be in an upright car seat so we still used it for him. And it was totally a boy car seat anyways, so I had to find a car seat that would work for either!

Hunter has decided it's his new seat! He keeps sitting in it and I keep reminding him that it's the babies so hopefully he won't get sad when there is someone else sitting in it!

The box that it came in is also his! He has been so funny with it, he put a ton of toys in it, a huge blanket, and a pillow and still managed to squeeze in there with everything! It has also become a slide cuz when he gets on top it bends in and he slides on down!

And here is the scary monster! He is so funny!

Anniversaries

So someone asked us what Temples we had gone to for our anniversaries and it took both of us some thinking to finally tell them the whole list. So I figured even though I can't find the pics right now I will at least write them all down so we can remember them!

1st anniversary was the Las Vegas Temple

2nd anniversary was the Jordan River Temple

3rd anniversary was the Idaho Falls Temple

4th anniversary was the Oquirrh Mountain Temple

5th anniversary was the Draper Temple

6th anniversary was the Manti Temple

We have also been to the St. George (of course), Salt Lake, and Mesa Temples together. Ben has also been to the Provo temple and I'm pretty sure he has seen the Hawaii temple when he went on vacation there right a few months after his mission. We both love to go and visit the new temples and get to see how beautiful they are! Hopefully some day we will get to venture to ones further away but for now we are just lucky there are so many close by so that we have been able to keep our tradition going!

We never get each other anything for our anniversary or for Valentine's Day, but this year I got some really pretty flowers from Ben for Valentine's Day! This is only his 3rd time getting me flowers! The first time was my first birthday after we got married, the second time was our 3rd anniversary cuz he was in Montana on the actual day so he had his friend bring some to my work. And then he did this year and as far as I know it was for no certain reason at all! How I got them was too funny not to tell everyone. I happened to have the 14th off, so I was just laying on the bed reading my book when Ben got home from work at 3:30. I heard the garage open then heard thump, thump, thump, and of course was wondering what in the world he was doing, he knows Hunter is napping at this time. Then I hear Hunter's door fly open and the thumping continued as Hunter ran through the house to find Ben. The thumping had been Hunter running from his bed! He was so excited to see his dad that somehow the garage opening woke him up! I had told him we were going to go swimming when he woke up from his nap so I guess he was just too excited to go! Hunter gets to Ben and I hear Ben tell him to bring me something. Hunter comes running in my room and throws a dozen roses at me! (They were still in the plastic wrap so they stayed together.) It was so funny and unexpected! Ben must have been paying attention when we went to get flowers for his brothers girlfriend (the brother on a mission, it was so fun getting to take flowers to her!) cuz he got ones just like the ones I had said I loved when we were picking some out for her! He claims he doesn't know what I'm talking about though.

We went out to eat, and then went swimming at the community center that night. It was so fun! And Ben even took Hunter down the big hydratube. I was in changing into my clothes so we could go home and didn't even know they had opened the tube cuz it hadn't been running when we got there. I wish I would have known so I could take a pic when they came out, but knowing me I would have told Ben not to take Hunter on it if I had known. I get really stressed out about Hunter not being big enough yet, but Ben said he loved it and kept asking for more so I'm glad he took him!

Bed Rest

I guess the word is out... yep I'm on bed rest :( It all started on our anniversary weekend, which is Feb 12th. We have been married for 6 years now!! It's crazy how time flies! I had planned on doing a cute post showing pictures of all the different temples we have gone to for our anniversaries (our tradition is to go to a new one for each anniversary), but since I got put on bed rest I can't really go searching for all those pics anymore. Anyways we went up to Manti for our anniversary, we have both seen the outside of the temple but not the inside so we figured we could still count it as a new one. Kira is going to college at Snow, so like 5-10 min away so we got to go visit her and see her apartment and everything. Friday we went to dinner and a movie up there, then planned on going to the temple Saturday morning and heading home. Well when we woke up Saturday I was feeling really funny and was kind of shaky. I took a shower I started getting ready thinking it was just cause I hadn't eaten yet. But I still didn't feel right even after eating. Also every time I bent over I would get a sharp pain in my head. So we ended up not going in the temple, we just walked around the outside and took some pics then headed home. Even just the little walk around the temple had me pretty winded. I already had my regular doctor appt set for Wednesday so I figured I would just take it easy til then and hope it went away. It didn't. Wednesday came around and I was getting ready for the appt (having to sit down in between shower, blow drying hair, etc.) and my sister called and one of her kids was throwing up so I decided I would rather not risk getting Hunter sick so made some calls and couldn't get ahold of anyone to watch Hunter. So I called the doctors office and rescheduled for the next Wednesday, then asked about the head pains I was getting. The nurse told me that no matter what time I ended up being able to come I needed to be seen that day and they would just work me in whenever I could find a babysitter.
If that doesn't put you in a panic I don't know what does! Luckily just a few minutes after that my sister in law called me back and let me bring Hunter right over. (Thanks so much!) I headed over and was actually only about 20 min after my scheduled time! On my way over my friend that had told me to go to this doctor called and said that she was being started the next day cuz her blood pressure was a little high and I think also that the baby wasn't growing as much which had happened with her first. She also said that she had been getting headaches because of the blood pressure. I new right then that that was probably what was going on with me and I was probably going on bed rest.
I had barely had time to sit down before they called me back for my appointment, I hadn't even had time to calm my huffing and puffing from going up the stairs to their office! They checked my blood pressure and it was 151 over 114. The nurse looked dumb founded when she looked at the monitor and she stared at it for a minute before she finally wrote the numbers down. I think she couldn't believe it was that high. She then said wow your blood pressure is really high! Then walks me back to a room and my doctor happened to be about to walk in a room and saw us coming so to be nice said how are you. I of course just say I'm fine and his nurse looks at him shoves my chart at him and says except for really high blood pressure. He just looked at it and said ya that is a little high but didn't really seem all the concerned. Then we round the corner and there is his nurse practitioner and several other workers and they all stare at me as I walk by like I'm about to drop dead any minute. After asking me a whole bunch of extra questions they have me lay down on the bed til the doctor came in and took my blood pressure again. It had gone down some from laying so that was good, but just to make sure nothing else was going on he had me get more blood work done right after my appt (which all came back good) and then I had to come back the next day for an ultrasound (the baby was still growing good and by the measurements are guessing that it weighed about 5 1/2 lbs) and also had to get some steroid shots to help the babies lungs develop in case we have to deliver early. They had to do 2 shots 24 hours apart and I got the first on Thursday after my ultrasound. When I went in on Friday thinking I was just getting the shot and then going home, his nurse checked my blood pressure 3 times (once on her machine, then once manually, and once again after she had me lay down for a little bit.) It was still kind of high so she called the doctor and he had me go over to labor and delivery to be monitored.
Again totally panicked me. She didn't tell me why I was going over there really she just came back in the room from calling the doctor and said he wanted me to go to labor and delivery and she would walk me over there (there building is connected to the hospital) so she picked up my purse and started walking. Well by this time it was like 3:00 and I knew Ben was leaving to go on a scout camp out sometime between 3:00 and 3:30, so I panicked and called him before I even really knew why I was there and I'm sure I panicked him too. It turned out they just had me sit on the monitors for about an hour and a half and my blood pressure kept going down so they sent me home to be on bed rest again. My friend who is due a week before me happened to text me to see how I was doing right after I hung up with Ben and she happened to be a couple blocks away so she came and sat with me for most of the time I was there, then right as she was needing to leave my sister showed up to be with me. So I never had to be alone which was exactly we I had panicked and called Ben.
So after all of that craziness, I am on bed rest. And by bed rest they mean bed rest, they want me laying down as much as I possibly can, not sitting up, and not laying on my back. Can I just tell you it was very interesting to type while lying on my side, I've have flopped back and forth like 10 times while typing this. And your back sure starts hurting after so much time on your sides! I ended up getting sick with a cold over the weekend, so the first several days all I wanted to do was lay down so those days were pretty easy! I'm still a little stuffy but feeling a lot better to where I start doing something sitting up and then remember and lay back down. I still do feel the effects of the high blood pressure if I do too much, so it really hasn't been too bad being stuck laying down.
They are having me start my one week appts now, so I saw the doctor again on this Wednesday and my blood pressure seems to be staying stable enough to keep up with the bed rest, so he is hoping we will be able to go 4 more weeks before having the baby, so that hopefully we won't have to visit the NICU at all. Since everyone has been asking me, I don't have toxemia, just high blood pressure. The high blood pressure could cause things like the placenta separating, my blood not clotting right, and stuff like that, which would all result in loosing the baby, so I am trying really hard to stay laying down even when I'm feeling just fine! So far it has been working pretty good, Hunter and me just watch lots of movies in the morning and then Ben is home before Hunter wakes up from his nap. So we are doing pretty good, I just feel bad for Ben. I don't know how well I would take it if I was doing everything around the house while he just laid around. :) He hasn't ever complained and he has been really good about trying to keep the house picked up all the time... So if anyway is needing help around the house just tell your husband you are on bed rest ;) Just kidding! It has just made me love him that much more, he hasn't ever said a word about any of it, he's even been really nice about the things he knows I'm picky about he will ask how I do it. Whenever Ben and Hunter would be going anywhere at first Hunter would tell me to go get my shoes on, know he just knows that mom is "sleeping." Although I can't really sleep, the times that I have fallen asleep he jumps on me and says "doing mom?" It's so cute. He has also gotten really snuggly and kissy with me lately which I will take all that I can get! Oh and we still don't know what we are having, she only really measured the head and the tummy when I got my ultrasound, I never even saw the legs. I think that's all the questions people have asked us... Thanks so much to all of you who have called or come by we really do appreciate it!!

My Reason for #2

Hunter is all better finally, he ended up waking up with a cough last Sunday so on Monday I took him to the doctor and it turned out the he had an ear infection. He thought that it may have started out as a viral infection and then turned into the ear infection based on his symptoms. So he got put on an antibiotic and is now just fine!
Yesterday I took him to the park and he had a great time! He went down each slide, the big kid and little kid ones several times. Had to try out all 4 swings and both of the backhoe things. Then had to go run back and forth across the bridge a bunch of times. A family from our ward came after a while and their kids (2 boys) are 4 and the younger one will be 2 in April. So Hunter is right between them in age. They also brought their little dog with them and Hunter chased the poor thing for like 15 min straight. The dog was smart enough to stay out of arms reach the whole time even though Hunter was right behind it everywhere it went. I finally got him convinced to go back and play on the toys again, and of course later he continued his pursuit of the dog. When he finally started playing again it was just too cute. The other 2 boys were going down the slides and so Hunter joined them. And the older boy just ignored him and the younger boy pretty much did too but more just cuz he's younger and oblivious, the older boy was ignoring Hunter cuz he was younger and not his brother. Hunter kept on following them around and would love every time they laughed. At one point the older brother had his younger brother on his lap going down the slide and his mom wanted a picture so Hunter went and joined them right behind the older brother. I think he was oblivious to the fact that he wasn't really apart of what was going on but he just kept following around like he was.... My lovely pregnancy emotions I about started crying. I thought it was so sad to see him wanting to play with someone so much that he would just follow them around everywhere. He was so sweet just wanting to be playing with everyone else but it was really hard for me to watch him wanting so much to be apart of their fun and being ignored. Even though he didn't seem to notice he was ignored it still hurt me to watch. For a little bit I was thinking I was such a crappy mom for taking him to the park without a friend. Later I calmed down and realized that even if he didn't have a friend with him he still had a much better time than he would have just sitting at home. And I also realized that he does have a LOT of friends that he gets to play with all the time. With my 4 days of work every week and nursery there is 5 out of the 7 that he is playing with friends. And he talks about them all all the time. This experience also made me so so so happy that I'm about to have a baby. My little guy needs a friend at home too. I have to admit I was very apprehensive about having another baby. Being a mom doesn't come naturally to me. I also made it harder on myself, the whole time I was pregnant with Hunter I was in denial to the fact that I was pregnant and things were going to change. I made plans with my boss but it just didn't hit me until I had Hunter and couldn't go to work anymore. I wanted nothing more than to go back to life the way I knew it. I love to work, and not to be conceited I think I'm good at it too. Being a mom, I'm not so good at that. I'm trying and I think I'm getting better. It took a long time for me to except my new life away from work. So agreeing to bring a new baby into this life that I have so struggled with was really hard for me. Ben had wanted to try for quite some time before we finally did try, and even when I finally agreed to trying I was still not so sure I was OK with it. Even the first several months of being pregnant I just didn't know what we were thinking, especially on days that I was having a rough time with Hunter. I just kept thinking why in the world did I agree to put another kid through my craziness. I have also never in my life been baby hunger, until the past month or so. Now I just want this baby to come so that I can hold and play with him or her. And I have even thought seriously about quitting my job all together, unfortunately I don't think that will happen for a while (we love house payments.) That trip to the park sealed the deal for me though. Seeing my son so alone (even though he didn't notice) just made me so happy that I had agreed to have another baby. I don't know what I would do without my siblings they have pulled me through way too many tough times than I can count. I am so happy I can give the joy of family to my son. He needs a friend and even though there will definitely be times that they aren't friends I know from my own experiences that that doesn't matter cuz the times they are are all that will matter in the end. This is way more open than I usually am but I felt it needed to be told. Maybe it's for me in the future when we decide if we will have more kids, or maybe its for someone that will read this, to help them decide if it's the right choice. I'm telling you (and myself) that it is, even though it's bound to be hard and the new baby will bring it's own set of challenges, it's worth it to never have to see him so alone again. I love my son so very much and can't imagine if I made him go through this life alone.
Well that was another huge post sorry! Here is my cute boy swinging at the park:

Our sweet sick Daddy's boy!

Poor Hunter has been quite sick this week, it hasn't been fun. He hardly ever gets sick so I never know what to do when he does. It all started Tuesday night... Tuesday morning he was fine he went to my sisters and got to go to the school and play for a while and then took his nap, then Ben went and picked him up and he was normal as could be. Then around the time I got home from work at like 6ish he started to tell us his tummy hurt. I figured it was probably cuz he hadn't eaten breakfast or lunch very well so we tried convincing him to eat but he wouldn't eat anything. We finally gave in and gave him some Tylenol (I very rarely take medicine at all so it always stresses me out to give him any, especially on an empty stomach.) It seemed like it did the job cuz about a half hour later we got him to eat a bowl of cereal. By then it was past his bedtime so we put him to bed right after. At midnight Ben and I were both still awake, Ben was in the living room and I was in our room which is right next to Hunter's room. Hunter wandered into our room whimpering, which is very unlike him, he wakes up and comes in our bed quite often in the middle of the night but it's usually around 4 so it was way earlier than what he usually does. When he came in the room he immediately asked where daddy was, so I picked him up and talked to him for a minute (many just so I could get a few minutes of snuggles before we found Ben cuz I knew he would go straight for Ben when we saw him.) I brought him to the living room and sat on the couch next to Ben, and of course Hunter instantly dove out of my arms and laid across Ben's lap, a few seconds (yes seconds) later her threw up all over Ben's lap. I never do well with throw up, it makes me gag even when I'm not pregnant so I wasn't doing so good. I stood up and was just trying to hold it together and finally Ben had to tell me to take Hunter to the bathroom so we could get him cleaned up. I took him in there and sat him on his stool and then took a towel back to Ben so he could clean himself up, then went back to Hunter to try to get him cleaned up. I was mostly just on his sleeve and a little on his pants so for the most part it was just on Ben and a little on the couch. I tried to get Hunter to let me take his jammies off but he wouldn't let me he wanted me to just wash it off. Finally when Ben came in the bathroom and took his clothes off and put them in the tub to get rinsed out Hunter finally let me take his clothes off too. While he was watching Ben take his clothes up he was distraught at the fact that he had gotten daddy's pants yucky, he kept saying, "Daddy pants ew cucky!" And it was all through little whimpers it was so sad to see him feeling so yucky and he was just concerned that he had gotten daddy's pants cucky, poor guy. After we got him cleaned up we got him back in bed and he went back to bed no problem. I even went to check on him a little later and he hadn't quite fallen asleep yet so he saw me peek in his room, he lifted his head and said "Mommy?" I walked in and he asked me to sing him a song, my rule with singing him songs to go to sleep is that he keeps his eyes closed cuz he usually is just wanting me in there to play a game of fluttering his eyes open and shut and seeing how long I will stay in there with him doing that. But I didn't even have to tell him to close his eyes he just shut them right after asking for the song, then when that song was done he opened them long enough to ask for another song then closed them again, by the end of that song he was asleep. Later that night I think around 4ish he woke up and came in our room, he laid right down but then went #2. And it was really runny diarrhea. We got his bum changed then we were all settled back down and he went again, that happened a couple more times, then finally we all went back to sleep for the rest of the night. The next day he was seeming a little better and I got him to eat a little bit so I kept my plans of going to get my glucose test done with my friend who is due a week before me. I think that went well, I was freaking out about it cuz I had never had to have it done with Hunter, so I didn't really know what to expect. And the nurse at my regular doctors office (the dr's office that I had Hunter with last time, he's a family doctor that also does OB) couldn't due the test there, which is the only place I have ever had my blood drawn, so I was really nervous to let someone else poke me. It ended up not being to bad and the orange drink wasn't as bad as I had heard, I didn't love it but it wasn't horrible. I haven't heard what my results were so I'm hoping that means they are good. No news is good news right? Anyways back to Hunter, I decided since he was still having diarrhea I wouldn't go to work and just stay home with him, I didn't want sickness getting spread anywhere either. He laid around most of the day but he did eat a little bit. He ended up taking a 4 hour nap, from 2 til 6, when I finally woke him up cuz I was worried he wouldn't sleep at night. Ben had a basketball game at 6:30 and wanted us to come, so we got ready and got Hunter to eat a little bit before we went, then right when we were headed out the door (Ben was carrying him) he looked at Ben and said his tummy hurt then threw up all over him. Poor Ben got it both times! This time quite a bit of it got on Hunter too, when we took his clothes off it got in his hair too, so I took him straight to the bath. He was distraught again and didn't want to get in the bath he wanted to go to basketball with dad. I finally got him convinced to get in the tub by telling him I would get in with him. Ben got cleaned up and went to basketball while we got in the tub. Hunter started acting normal in the tub, he was jumping and splashing not quite as much as usually but still quite a bit. Once we got out of the bath I laid him on our bed and was drying him off, he turned towards the rest of the house and started calling for Daddy. It was so sweet, like he was saying Daddy come find me. I had to break his heart and tell him that dad was at basketball, he was pretty sad that daddy would have gone without him. It was so sad and so sweet, luckily church basketball only lasts an hour so Ben was back shortly after. That night Hunter slept really good, but in the morning he still had diarrhea so we decided to still keep him home. He acted pretty good but I had always thought to wait like 24 hours since they last had symptoms before they were really OK. By the end of the day his was his normal self getting into EVERYTHING like usual, he still wasn't eating great, but it was way better than he had been. That night was horrible, it was like he was making up for the extra long naps he had taken, he ended up getting up at like midnight again and we couldn't get him to go back to sleep until like 2:30, Ben goes to work at 6:20. So we were both exhausted the next day, but Hunter was great! So Friday went back to normal with him going to my sister in laws house while I went to work, he even ended up eating 2 lunches, one at my house and when he got to her house he ended up eating even more! It was so cute when I told him to get his shoes after lunch, he was SO excited to be leaving the house! Saturday we took him to Petco and let him look at all the animals, then we got some lunch and ate it at a nearby park and let him play for a little bit. I think he was so excited to be out and about again! Then this morning he woke up with a little bit of a cough, I didn't think much of it cuz lately I have been waking up with a really dry throat so I thought it was just that. Then after he woke up from his nap he sounded pretty scratchy. He is still acting fine so hopefully this isn't developing into more sickness! He also ended up throwing up again this afternoon but we are pretty sure it was cuz he took to big of a bite and started to choke on it a little bit and ended up gagging himself into throwing up cuz he was fine before and after that happened. He tends to take too big of bites then gagging and spitting it out, so we are pretty positive that's all it was. The rest of the day his was his normal self with a scratchy voice, so hopefully he is all better! On Saturday he was even going around finding goofy things to do and having me take pictures of him! Here is one of them:

He has a bucket on his head. He found his cowboy hat later and wanted a picture of that but wouldn't hold still long enough. Then at lunch he was eating a string cheese and broke it into 2 pieces and held them by his cheeks and wanted a picture of that. He is very into having his picture taken lately it's so funny!

We went and picked out a baby outfit for in case we have a girl, we are still hoping for a boy but thought we better have at least one outfit in case we do end up with a girl! I thought this was so so cute! I guess Ben doesn't really like polka dots but other than that he liked it too. Now I just need to pull out my baby boy clothes and get some of those washed and ready!

I LOVE Holidays!

So I figured I would start out by telling a story...It's kind of embarrassing so that is why I'm starting out with...I'm hoping you will all forget about it by the time you get to the bottom of this post. It's just too funny not to remember though so I had to put it on here. Yesterday we ate cream of wheat for breakfast and Hunter gets pretty messy with it. He had been needing a hair cut for a while so I figured that worked perfect to cut it so that I wouldn't have to try to clean all the cream of wheat off him I could just throw him in the bath after we were done cutting his hair. He takes baths at night so I knew he wouldn't mind...it was a bonus bath! So I gave him a sucker to try to entertain him while I cut his hair and I told him he needed to keep it in his mouth so it wouldn't get hair on it. He did pretty good with that for the first little bit then of course took it out of his mouth and hair instantly clung to it. He kept trying to pull hair off it but since he had hair all over his hands it wasn't working, so he got mad and chucked it across the kitchen (he's been really bad about throwing lately.) I thought it was kind of funny but tried hard to keep from laughing. I washed the sucker off and had him open his mouth so I could just put it right in and reminded him to keep it in his mouth so it didn't get cucky again. I think he may have had some hair on his lips that went in with the sucker cuz it only stayed in for a few seconds this time and he only tried once to get hair off it before he threw it on the ground again! I was almost done so I just left it there til we were done and threw it away. Once I got done i took him into the bath and started the water and let him play for a min while I swept up the hair. Then I went into the bathroom, and I had told him when I started cutting his hair that when I was done we could take a shower together, so when I walked into the bathroom he looks at me and says, "Mommy tubby, shirt off. Shirt off." I of course start laughing cuz that one was too funny! So I go into my room (which is connected to the bathroom) and get undressed when I walk back into the bathroom he starts giggling and says, "Mommy naked." Yep, my 2 year old already knows that mommy looks funny naked, too bad he can't understand all those funny lines are from him! I am just starting to get 2 new stretch marks from this baby, they are really small right now and basically just connected on to the ones from Hunter. Oh well they are worth it!

So Christmas was really fun this year! Ben helped do the rounds at work so he got up at 6 and went to do those, he was expecting them to take about 2 hours at the most... They only took an hour. So when he got home at 7 he was all sorts of excited to wake us up. I was quite annoyed and said no cuz Hunter had been way ornery last year when we woke him up. So Ben agreed to wait another half hour. And of course since he had woken me up I couldn't go back to sleep so I gave up trying about 45 min later (Ben had started playing a game on his computer and lost track of time.) We went to wake Hunter up and we both got on either side of him and started saying his name...nothing. So we got a little louder...nothing. So we said "Santa came!"...nothing. So I shook his belly a little...he squinted at us and said "I seeping" and rolled over. Ben just picked him up then and asked him if he wanted to see what Santa brought, he kinda whimpered a ya. I told Ben to make him walk so that we knew he was actually awake...poor Hunter whimpered the whole way into the living room. But once he woke up a bit he had a great Christmas he was so excited everywhere we went! We started Christmas at our house, then went to Ben's parents and got to talk to his brother Jaron on his mission (coming home the beginning of February!), then went to Ben's grandparents for a little bit, then back to our house and met Ben's friend there for a few min, then loaded into the car and went to Kanab for Christmas lunch, we visited with lots of family there, and after that went to my Grandma Robinson's for a little bit then back home and to bed! It was a bit crazy and kind of rushed every where (we missed Ben's other brother Tyler's missionary call since we were in Kanab) but still a great Christmas! Our New Year's we decided to spend in Kanab since every visit lately has been very rushed. We went there Friday afternoon and stayed til Sunday night. We had a fun weekend just hanging out at the house and playing games! Holidays are so much fun! Here are some pics of all the fun:

Cream of wheat mustache! This was a few weeks ago, before he needed a haircut.


Our living room before Santa came, most of those presents are Hunters, he got spoiled!


Santa came!!

This was when he first went in the living room it took quite a bit of encouragement to get him to look at anything at first!

After he woke up he took a seat and pretty much stayed there the whole time we opened presents. Ben just kept handing him more and more, I had to encourage Ben to open his too! Hunter loves this new table and will sit and color at it pretty much every day!

Here his is lining up all his new cars...yes all those are from us and I don't think that's all of them, and he got some from family too! He LOVES cars!

Opening presents at Ben's parents. Hunter got a Zhu Zhu pet (and other stuff too) he plays with it all the time. He will even snuggle it every now and then!

All the grand kids (except Casey and Sophie, we miss you guys!) having fun opening there stockings, and later all their pillow pets. Hunter got a gorilla.

Playing with his M & M fan stocking stuffer. Now he likes to turn the fan on and lick it...so weird!

These are his PJ's from Ben's mom, the beanie and gloves are from Aunt Brandi. This was about a week are so after Christmas, I was in the bathroom and he came wandering in and had found his hat and gloves, put them on, then came and asked me to take a picture of him. I'm always up for pictures of him, but he would not smile! That's why his face is kind of fuzzy I kept telling him to say cheese and he would not, he just kept shaking his head no! What a goof, ask for your picture taken but refuse to smile!