My little shadow

As much as I love this little boy...I'm a little worried about the stage he's in right now! I kid you not, this little man is on my heels every minute of every day! Every where I go he's chasing me. Up the stairs, down the stairs, in the bathroom, in the laundry room, and all day long all I hear is "Hod you hod you!" (hold you hold you!) which is super cute, and don't get me wrong, I love that he's a cuddlier. But I'm almost 7 months pregnant, getting a little uncomfortable, and don't know how to get him to be a little more independent. He's a huge mommies boy that's for sure. Ben could be gone for two days straight and as soon as he gets home, he goes to Ben for a few minutes and then is wanting me the whole rest of the time. I guess it just makes me nervous with another little one coming, I'm afraid he's going to have a hard time. All of my other kids were this close, even closer actually. But he's my most clingy that's for sure! Any advice on how to make the transition a little easier anyone?

Benadryl Baby

So, last night my 19 month old son gave me yet another heart attack! Yesterday was kind of a crazy day to start out with and ended up being crazy! I did an extra day of daycare yesterday for a lady until 3 so that alone made it kind of insane, but on top of that, Brooklyn has had a pretty bad cold the past few days. I took her into the doc and come to find our her and Austin have croup. They gave me a steroid medication for them both,picked up the prescription at the store with a few other things, then came home and made dinner for a neighbor in need. Ben had to work late so I started fed the kids some dinner, put them in the tub and started getting them ready for baths. I got Talon out first, got him all ready and then got Brooklyn and Austin out and started getting them ready for bed. In the meantime I realize that Talon is being very quite and I have no idea what he's up to. So after a few minutes I start walking around looking for him, and low and behold, he has climbed up on the toilet, onto the counter and is sitting in my bathroom sink...DRINKING A BOTTLE OF BENADRYL!!! I of course freaked out, called poison control, and based off of his weight and how much he drank( um yea...HALF OF THE BOTTLE!) they told me to take him straight to the ER. They called my pediatrician which told me the same thing and called the hospital to let them know I was coming. Ben got home just in time so I just took him down there, and I kid you not, the kid was out of control. SUPER SUPER LOOPY!! Like spinning around in circles and landing on the floor laughing hysterically, running up to random people and laughing at them, hitting them (for those of you who don't know Talon, he's super shy so this is so not like him.) pulling all of the cords out of the machines, etc... the nurses were getting a kick out of him while I chased him around for two hours.
He ended up being fine, they just monitored him for two hours and checked his vitals every twenty minutes. Come to find out, i guess it's really hard to overdose on Benadryl unless you have some crazy heart condition or something. So we pretty much just spent $200 being monitored while we sat in a crazy ER room with a whole bunch of sick people coming and hacking all over us or having some weird influenza thing.
I'm so happy he's ok, and boy did he scare me! And for all of those judgemental people who are wondering what kind of mom I am by letting my child get ahold of Benadryl...my kids have had really bad colds lately so to help them breathe better my doc told me to give them a little bit of Benadryl before bed to help with their congestion. I left it up in my bathroom, but made sure the lid was on tight and pushed it back all the way against my mirror, not thinking my son would climb up there because he's usually not a climber. Guess he proved me wrong...and whatever "childproof lid!!"
Just glad you're ok my curious child! Talon, no more meds k baby. I love you sweetheart

Oh the things they say

So I've said before how Austin and Brooklyn are constantly saying funny things that crack me up so I wanted to start posting some of them to I have them to remember. These three are just from today.

Austin's:
-Earlier today he was sitting by me on the couch, he looked down at my stomach and with the funniest look on his face he said, "Wow, Mom! That is really pokin out way far!" Then jumped down and off he went.
-Brooklyn had a rough day because she was so tired, hated dinner; so was sent to her room twice because she wouldn't eat, and just because she's emotional these days. She kept crying until I finally got her to calm down and I noticed during this time Austin kept staring at her and giving her these looks like she was crazy. When she finally stopped he gave this huge sigh of relief and said,"Mom, I am SOOOO happy we are going to have another brother." I asked him why and he said, "Because girls talk and cry to much!"
-He's been waking up early these days and every morning I try and make him go back to bed. This morning I looked at him and said, "Austin, why do you wake up so early?" He replied while rolling his eyes, " Mom... because my eyes are open!" And off he went.

Brookyn's:
Austin kept following her everywhere and she was getting annoyed by it so turned to him and said in a very dramatic way," Austin, I love you, but I really want to be alone."

Ben got mad at her for taking something way from Austin so he put her in timeout. She was NOT happy about this! I was watching how she was going to react to Ben putting her in timeout instead of me because usually it's me being the disciplinary around here. As he walked away from her she gave him the worst glare ever, picked up a hanger sitting on the floor by her, and CHUCKED it at his head!! I burst out laughing, I don't know why it was so funny at that moment. He just looked at me and said, "Did she just throw that at me!?!?!" OH it was so funny. What a girl, letting her emotions get the best of her!

Oh how kids crack me up! Sometimes I just wish I could live in their little minds just for a day. The simple life of children, love it!

*Oh and p.s., yes I deleted my last post because I'm pretty sure after I wrote how crazy I was feeling that day, everyone thought I was turning into a crazy person..basing this off all of the comments people came up to me and said the next day.. even though they were trying to be nice and just make sure I really was ok! Hopefully I'm not the only one that has crazy days being a stay at home mom lol!

IT'S A BOY!!!!!!!!!!!...AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!

So, as you can see below, baby number four is definitely a boy!! I'm not going to lie, as many as you know, since i have done the boy things two times in a row...I was kind of hoping for girl this time around. BUT I am very excited and it was truly amazing to see my little boy for the first time, moving around ALL OVER the place. (the ultra tech was actually laughing out loud because he was moving around so much it was hard for her to get a good picture of him) And let me tell you what, as soon as that tech put that magic wand on my stomach...THERE IT WAS! CLEAR AS DAY!..OUT LITTLE BOY! And boy was it clear! haha! So, I wasn't sad, mad, or I didn't even cry like i thought I would! lol The feeling that actually overcame me was "Of course it is." Like I knew it all along or something.

The best news in the world was hearing that our little boy is as healthy as can be. Everything is developing great and no worries whatsoever. Because of some "female" issues I had previous, we didn't have an exact due date so we were planning on getting our due date based off of the measurements of this baby. July 14th!!! It's no nice to have a date and know that everything looks so good with my little boy. The only concerning thing that they saw was something that I have that they call placenta privia. A short explanation of it is when the baby is above the placenta instead of below it, so if I were to go into labor right now the placenta would be delivered first, which would NOT be good. So, hopefully over time it will move back up as the uterus grows, but if not, a C section will be in my future. We decided we will definitely keep up on it with follow up visits and more ultra sounds and see what ends up happening. The depressing thing is this; no more running, excising, nothing. Not even strenuous walking!!! I of course will do ANYTHING in my power to help this baby and keep him/her healthy but exercising is one thing that actually helps me feel better and gives me energy..so we will just have to see how that goes!!

Anyways, I sure love my kids and am so grateful for each one of them. Of course Brooklyn was a little bit sad as well, but she is now very excited about the fact that me and her are the only girls and get to do all of the fun girl things just me and her. She will definitely be our little princess!! Thank you husband for giving me four of the most wonderful babies in the world. They truly are my world, as are you. I am so blessed and couldn't be happier with the way my life is going, sometimes I wonder how I got so lucky. We will keep you up to date...Love you all!!

Proud sister...after some time..it took awhile of

getting used to the idea of another brother!

Peek!! Definitly a little boy!!

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Already has long legs..wonder where he gets those from?"

Long arms as well..he's going to be tall

Crazy busy times!!!

SOO, the past few months have been crazy buys for our little family!Thanksgiving, Christmas, my little sister got engaged, I went to California to visit Kelli, it was my birthday, it was Austin's 3rd birthday, it was Ben's 29th, and it was Brooklyn's 5th Birthday! My sister got married, we have been back and forth between Rexburg and Boise 4 times in the past 6 weeks, Valentines Day...I could go ON AND ON AND ON!! Along with being five months pregnant and having sick kids lately, it's been crazy! So, that should explain why I haven't blogged forever and a year. Below is about 4 new posts, so keep reading! Besides being super busy, nothing new here! Just enjoying life! Hope everyone had a great few months, we love you all!

We went to Rexburg a few weeks to go through the temple with my little sister Taucia. While we were there Ben's family decided to have a little birthday party for Ben, Austin and Brooklyn since they are all so close. This is us celebrating! Below the fam is playing duck duck goose with the kids, and as you can see, Tiara is about to fly out of the window!! I love this picture, sorry T, had to post it! Konda made a very yummy ice cream cake for everyone, did gifts, played the Wii, Talon smothered Jake... everything ! Thanks guys, we love you!

So,believe it or not, my baby turned FIVE yesterday!! Yep, my little Brooklyn is now five years old. I seriously can't believe she is that old. It seems like yesterday she was my first little baby that I didn't want to put down for five seconds, fit in the corner of my arm, and now she's getting ready to start kindergarten! Brooklyn is the best big sister ever and such a good girl. Four has been my FAVORITE age so far. She is such good girl and has the biggest heart ever. She's for sure my shyest child, but I kind of like it! For her birthday we took her to Chucky Cheese..it was the highlight of her whole year I'm pretty sure. The kids ran around like crazy, got lots of tokens, ate pizza and cake...it was a great night!! Happy fifth birthday baby girl, we love you so much!

She of course got her much wanted Tinkerbell

cake!!

Of course the guys couldn't stay away from the hoops even for one night!!

Talon played with this ball all night, just rolling

it up and down, up and down!

Their favorite game for sure!

It's Chucky!!

And of course all of the Tinkerbell dress up clothes you could think of!

It's my party!!!!

Smiles all night long!!

Ben's Birthday was Feburary 9th! We had a little get together with some friends, I made him a homade ice cream cake, and we had a great time. 29 years old...next year is the big one!! haha! This is Ben at his parent's house the next week. We had a birthday party for him, Austin, and Brooklyn. His parents gave him some new shoes and money..perfect gift for my hubby. Love you babe, hope you had a good one, thanks for being my everything.

I'm pretty sure Austin had the best birthday ever! He turned three years old, and boy will he let you know it! He loves transformers, so every gift he got pretty much had to do with that. We have this tradition of decorating the living room the night before each persons birthday and putting all of their gifts on the table. Here's my three year old tell me he's three now, very excited about his special day!

Most of you know the story of my sweet Austin, but I went into labor with him the day before I was scheduled to be induced, and by the time I got to the hospital, I was dialated to a 9..in the WORST pain of my life, and he came 16 minutes later. No time for an epidural, no time for MY doc to come, and no time to even get me in a real hospital room. He was delivered in a side triage room. I've always said that Austin has been my hardest from birth...lol, but he definitely is my best most lively child. Not afraid to speak his mind, will talk your ear off, is the most stubborn little thing ever..but at the same time, is the sweetest little man ever. Loves to cuddle, tells me ten times a day how "pretty" I am and that he loves me. I can't believe my kids are growing up so fast, time really does fly by. We hope you had a good birthday buddy, we love you!!!

My Birthday was November 24 and it was great. Ben took me out to dinner with some friends, got me a cake and we opened presents with the kids when we got home. Earlier that day someone called and said they wanted to come look at our house (it's up for sale) So I spent the WHOLE DAY cleaning which I wasn't thrilled about, but that's ok. So that night made up for it, it was great, thanks babe!

California Trip

So as most of you had heard...my Cali trip was very...adventurous! haha To make a long story short, I got off of the plane and it was POURING rain, and it was like that up until the day I left. I'm talking mud slides, hurricane warnings, etc.. the second night I was there Kelli's little girl Kaylie got the flu, like puking every ten minutes flu. Then a day later Kelli came down with it. So for the last two days I was there they were all sick, I felt so bad for them! They of course felt horrible that happened while I was there, but here's the thing..I could sit on the couch and just talk to Kelli for a week straight and have so much fun. That's why we are best friends, it's just like old days when we get back together even though it might have been over a year or so. We just pick right back up and it's great. Courntey was able to take us shopping one of the days and do our hair. She stayed the night and of course brought Kelli and I pregnant junk food to snack on the whole time. It was so much fun to spend some time with my girls, I love you both!




I LOVE this little girls, she warmed Right up to me
just after a few minute's of being around her. I
don't know if it had to do with that giant lollipop
I brought her..but whatever works right?

Court took me shopping and did my hair while I was there..thanks friend!

Oh the sicklings! Kelli came down with the flu right after her daughter did while I was there. I felt horrible for them! But as you can see we both were still able to laugh and have a good time!

Talon LOVED the one on on time with him and his mommy. He was free to fly, so I took him and only him with me. It was so much fun, he was so good and it was nice being able to just focus and love on him.

Talon and Kaylie just played and played. This is them pretty much running in circles the whole time I was there!

Random Pictures!!!

Here are a few pictures I took while we were with Ben's family over Christmas. There was so much going on that I didn't take A TON of pictures, which I regret now! But, my sweet husband bought me a new Nikon photography camera (well, I put alot of my babysitting money towards it and he took care of the rest. lol) so alot of these pictures are of me just playing with my camera. I gave Brittney and Chad this Snuggie for Christmas. It was HUGE, as you can see!!!

Our gingerbread house. Brooklyn and I did it together, it was so fun

This was our "Christmas Card Shrine!" Every Christmas this is my FAVORITE part, getting cards from everyone else. LOVE IT!

Ben's Grandma made us all these aprons which turned out SOOO cute. My kids love them!!

Austin was actually really good!

We went bowling with Ben's family over Christmas and had a blast!

Daddy's little girl

Loves to give kisses

Let me tell you about this little man. He tells me about five times a day how "pretty and how bootiful" I am. He does it to Brooklyn, even to my mom. We were in Walmart yesterday and there was a little girl about his age and he walked up and told her she was a very pretty girl. Such a ladies man!!

Isn't she getting so big!! I can't believe how mature she even looks to me lately. I have a FIVE year old!! Wow. She is such a good girl, the best. Love you princess

This is the look I get most of the time lately! haha

He is my BIGGEST binkie baby...I really need to get rid of it before this next baby..I think I'm more scared then him though!

My studly three year old

Grandma's kisses

My beautiful princess

This is the cute cheeser I get like ten times a day

My dad used to always say what a good daughter I was..when i was sleeping. lol..I'm starting to understand that statement. jk. Love you baby..

Oh Austin James how I love you