Day: February 23, 2012

    Thursday February 23, 2012

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    1:30 to 3:30am Raymond is wide awake wanting to interact with mom 🙂

    this was not at 3am but it might as well have been 🙂

    5am Benji comes and finds us crashed out on the couch to tell us that Packer just threw up! Ben cleans up nastiness and puts the boys back to bed.

    7:35am – Benji is still asleep and needs to be to school before 8 – fast mode out the door…

    8am – get Rose out of bed and she is covered in throw up! stinky… So that was our morning/start to a new day… since then things have slowed down. Rose is sick so we are trying to keep her away from baby. Packer seems fine.

    My sick little girl!

    She's actually really sweet when she is sick...

    Packer in chill mode this morning.

    Cali has been doing puzzles to keep herself busy - she likes me to time her on my watch. Her best is 30 seconds.

    Raymond is a day time sleeper. He wakes up a little bit here and there and eats but most of the day he lets me put him down and get things done. Night time is ok – not good or bad yet, hopefully he’ll switch to a great night time sleeper sooner than later. In the mean time I am getting a lot done during the day and enjoying our snuggle time in the evening.

    amazing how you love them so much from the first second

    I had soo many offers for help with the kids today. I love having family and friends and people that are aware of your needs. Ben decided to come home early and take the kids to Trafalga – they were SOO excited. Rose, Ray and I are home resting. Dinner will be brought to us soon (love that :)) and we will hunker down for another evening. Ben has scouts and there is a BYU game later…

    the kids at Trafalga - RIGHT NOW - thank you cell phone technology - I feel like I am there with them!

    Categories: General

    Life with Raymond

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    Grandma giving Raymond his first at home sponge bath.

    Love having a baby bundle in the corner of the couch.

    Raymond's other mommy 🙂

    we spent most of the first week taking turns holding Ray

    On Saturday we finally got our garage cleaned out so we can park our cars inside again!! and we ended up with some good fort building supplies after cleaning!

    Monday was a holiday so we played with my mom and siblings - here are all of the kids in the party bus going to get kong cones!

    Madre learning to drive the party bus!

    plenty of time for gaming - Citadels, Small World, Nertz and Settlers

    do Ben and I look wasted in that last pic? It's cause Raymond HAS been pulling some all nighters.

    The ladies giving Raymond another bath...

    where's the baby? We had to keep reminding each other not to sit on the baby cause "that is a real baby on the couch"

    Cute baby but that HAT is TOO small Grandma!

    Grandma Nettesheim entertaining all of my boys earlier this week 🙂

    can you tell who has been smothering the baby?

    I love being mom!

    Categories: Raymond

    kids meet Ray

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    Raymond is so cute. We just sit and look at him all day while he sleeps, and then i hold him all night so that he will sleep… why do they always have day and night backwards? Good thing they are so cute and snuggly and good thing Grandma’s come and help so that we have time to sit and look at new baby while they do all of the work. 🙂

    chillin at the hospital

    precious

    Tuesday Ray and I played at the hospital and welcomed visitors. LaNell came and Tara and Brinlee. We waited all afternoon for Ben and the kids to come. I was super excited for them to meet Ray and they were all excited too. We all called him CLYDE way too many times so it is his official nickname 🙂 Raymond is Ben’s Maternal Grandfather and Thomas is my Dad’s name. I think it fits him perfectly. I loved watching the kids meet their new brother:

    Cali begged to hold him first!

    yes it was valentines day 🙂

    the oldest and the youngest, Benji wants to know if his eyes will be blue cause he doesn't want to be the only Blue Eyed Boy.

    Rose went right for the face so we are both trying to hold her arms back.

    Tuesday evening Ben took the kids home and Kelsey, Joel and Sean came to visit. My mom drove all day and got to the hospital around 7pm to meet the little guy! Michelle and Udine’s family stopped by later in the evening and that was our day.

    Look at all those kids! I think we ARE ready for this 🙂

    On Wednesday morning my Dr was in early to clear Ray and I for going home. We both have been really healthy. Ben came and spent the morning at the hospital and enjoyed some cafeteria food with me. I actually do enjoy the food there. They have a full menu and let you choose whatever you want to eat – yum. Anyway, we left the hospital around 2:30. Came home at 3pm and spent the evening with family. New baby time is great because you get to see all of your family. Grandma and Grandpa Nettesheim came right over and Matt’s family. Brady, Sean, Joel and Kelsey came over. Carol and Larry came. And Amelia. On Thursday Grandma and Grandpa Johnson and Aunt Di stopped by, Pete’s family and Ryan’s family. On Friday Shannon and Brad came down from Idaho… So… Little Ray has met most of his Utah relations 🙂

    i love this picture of Ben and the kids - I'm sure the hospital loved having us there all evening 🙂

    My mom is here taking care of us until Monday the 20th… I wrote this all last week – now Monday has come and gone. Time for a new post.

    Categories: General, Raymond