Halloween 2010

Tonight was our wards Trunk-or-Treat... Yea! All of us dressed up this year. Here are the pictures of the family... I'm gonna go sneak some of my kids candy... ;)
Cor and the Boys
Ang and the Boys
Ang as a Pirate Wench
Cor as a Soccer Dude
Jovin as Woody
Mayer as Diego
Pierce as Mario
Tjay as Eeyore

Hmmmmmmmmmm, candy.... aaaggggghhh.... *drool....

First Day of School

Today is Jovin's first day of school. Oh the excitement and sadness that happened this morning.

We all got up and got ready for the day. I was highly surprised that I got everyone fed, and dressed and ready to go out the door at 8am. Not something I thought I could do. Ever. It's good to know that I can... or at least did one time. :)
We drove to Jovin's school and had to park what felt like a mile away to walk him to his classroom. Jovin had his backpack on and was so excited that he practically skipped to school. Once we got to his classroom he said good morning to his teacher and she told us to pin on his going home badge. What that is a badge in the shape of a car, with his name on it and it. This way the teachers know that he is going to be picked up at the end of the day by a car, and not be buses, or go to the after school program. He was excited to be wearing his name on him. The teacher then told us that school would start and the bell would ring in about 10 minutes so we could wait outside with the rest of the students.


Jovin went and put his backpack on the ground in line with the other backpacks and wanted to go and play with his new friends. Now I planned on staying until he walked into his classroom with the class. But, I knew that if Mayer, and Pierce saw him go and play on the playground they would want to too, and families were told to not stay and linger after school had started. So dragging two kids off a playground screaming when school was in session was not appealing. So I tried to just talk to Jovin until school started. He was very persistent to want to go and play with his new friends. So I said okay, and I asked him if I could get a hug and kiss first. He said sure and gave me a tight hug and little kiss. He then looked at me and got a little teary eyed. I just about broke down and started bawling right there. It was all I could do to NOT cry. As he blinked back the tears he smiled and asked me if I would leave. I was surprised and a little hurt by his sudden request. Since I knew I was close to losing it, it was time for me to leave my little man at school.
I told him to have a fun day and I'd be there to pick him up at the end of school. He waved to me and ran to the playground without even looking back at me and his brothers.


Well Mayer and Pierce were not too happy about leaving the school. Pierce was crying and kept looking back towards the school and saying, "Jovin, Jovin" and then looking at me like I'd done some horrible thing by leaving him behind. Then Mayer was crying and saying, "I miss Jovin!". Tjay was in the stroller kicking his fat, chubby feet and chewing on his toys. He couldn't have cared what was going on. So there we were 3 of the 4 of us walking the mile back to the van crying.
I can't believe that Jovin is in Kindergarten already. He's gone all day now too. The schools here have all day Kindergarten. So I keep looking at the clock just itching to go and pick him up and hear all about his first day at school. :)

Growing and getting big... too fast.

Well I took Tjay in for his 4 month check up today. He's doing great!! Really great actually. He weighs 18lbs and is 27 1/2 inches long!!! he's in the 98 percentile!! Holy Cow! I keep having big babies and kids. He's not so little anymore. :( People at stores think he is 6 months or 9 months old. They are always surprised to find out how old he really is.

He's so cute though, (I know I'm totally biased). He eats really well. He's really close to rolling over, and he sleeps through the night. He also has the cutest smile and laugh. I can't really complain. :)

Growing Up

Okay so I've been like the BIGGEST slacker EVER about blogging lately. So here's the latest.

4 kids under the age of 4 1/2 is really hard. I'm not gonna lie and sugar coat things. It's hard. But, it will get easier. At least that is what I tell myself about 100 times a day. Okay make that 101 for today, Mayer just dumped the goldfish crackers all over the floor and Pierce just walked in them... It will get easier, It will get easier...

Anywho, I took Pierce and Tjay in for their check-ups. Doing that with 4 kids whoa! Not fun. They both needed shots, and Jovin and Mayer kept trying to get out of the doctor's office.

Pierce is doing great. He's now 20 months old and weighs, 31 pounds (93%), and is 36 inches tall (98%)! He's is talking and doing everything he can to drive Momma up the wall by pretending to not listen to what I ask him to do. He's a cute little stinker.

Tjay is doing great. He's 3 months old now and weights, 15 pounds (90%), and is 25 1/2 inches long (90%). He loves it when his brothers talk to him and he LOVES being held. He'll snuggle with you all day if you let him. :) He has the cutest smile and laugh now. He is also sleeping a good 6 to almost 7 hours at night. (Now watch I just ruined my good luck.)

Just so you know... Mayer is turning 3 this week, and loves to play on the computer and wii. Also, along with Pierce the whole pretending to not listen. Why they think it is funny. I'll never understand.


Jovin is 4 1/2 and just got glasses. He was having a hard time seeing things and tilting his head to focus. So he has joined the club of 4 eyes. :) He can't wait to start school this August either. Like Mayer he LOVES playing the wii and computer, and helping Momma whenever she'll let him. :)

Well that's it for now... Hopefully I'll be better at this. (We'll see...)

The story...

It was the 22nd of December and I once again was having stupid contractions that were about 10 minutes apart. They started around 7:30pm and continued though out the evening. I really didn't want to head into the hospital and have the off chance that it was false labor again. I didn't think I could mentally and emotionally handle being sent home again. So I sat on the couch and waited for them to stop or have more time in between the contractions. I've never gone into labor on my own, with the other 3 I have been induced and it always takes a long time to get labor going.
Well by 10:30pm I was starting to get really nauseous with every contraction that was still 10 minutes apart. I finally called the doctor and he said to head to the hospital and they'd check me out. We called our dear, wonderful friends Zane and Callie and they came right over to stay with our boys while we hopefully went to the hospital to have the baby.
We started on our way and of course Cory was abiding the traffic laws. I hate those stupid camera radar enforcement things on the freeway. I then asked, not demanded, that he speed up a little, cause the hospital was 45 minutes away.
Once we got there they checked me and I was dilated to a 3. Which is what I was the Friday before at my doctor's appointment. I was disappointed and very afraid that they'd send me home. They told me to walk around the postpartum level of the hospital for 45 minutes and they'd check me again and see if I was progressing or if they were going to send us home. So Cory and I set off on that miserable walk around the halls that we did the week before. I lasted about 30 minutes and I was getting really nauseous, so we went back and they checked me and said that I was dilated to almost a 4 now and in early labor. YEA! We didn't have to go home. So they hooked me up to an iv and they said to relax cause I would hopefully be in full labor in the morning.
Well Cory got as comfortable as he could in the chair/make-shift bed in the corner and I tried to go to sleep cause it was 2am. The nurse came in to check on me and saw that I was still awake, she asked me if I wanted some pain meds to take the edge off the contractions so I could sleep. I said sure, that would be great. She came back in and injected into my iv the meds. She told me I'd feel a little funny and then drift to sleep. Boy did I start to feel funny. See when I get heavy doses of pain meds, and epidurals my blood pressure drops dramatically, this has happened with every labor. I was so tired I didn't tell the nurse this, nor did I even really think about it. So as I start to feel funny I apparently was trying to get Cory's attention cause the nurse was gone. What I remember is telling Cory that I Love him. (Which is very true, but also a code for I'm gonna pass out. I don't like the feeling and the very first time when I was in labor with Jovin and that feeling came on I thought I was dying or something so I looked at Cory and told him that I loved him and passed out.) So Cory finally heard me and came over to me and asked if I was okay. He had no idea what the nurse had done and I was slurring my words. I kept telling him that I loved him. I apparently (I don't remember any of this...) told him that the nurse gave me meds and that I love him. Well the monitors at the time were freaking out cause my blood pressure was dropping quickly, the nurses noticed this at their desk in the hall and came running in. They told me to wake up and gave me some oxygen and some other meds to bring my blood pressure back up. Yeah, that wasn't fun. Once I was stable again Cor and I finally got to sleep around 3:30am.
At 7am they hooked the pitocin up to me and my doctor showed up not too much longer to break my water. By around 10am I couldn't take the pain anymore and I was dilated to a 6 almost 7 so I asked for the epidural. The dr came in did the epidural and left. Things were going great until I could still feel the contractions VERY intensely just up front on my tummy. I couldn't take it. So the dr came back and tried giving me more meds in my epidural... he gave me little at first so I wouldn't pass out again. So he gave me the rest of the dose to see if that would help. It did not. After 30 minutes to "give the meds a chance to work" I asked that he come back. He told me that I had a rare occurrence of what they call a "window" epidural. Where a certain nerve doesn't get numb. So my options were to deal with it, or have him take out the epidural and try again. Now I LOATHE needles, especially epidurals, but I couldn't stand the pain, (I must be a wimp) so he took it out and tried again. He got it in, but noticed it wasn't right and told me he needed to take it out and try again. So I basically had 3 epidurals... Yuck! 3rd time was a charm and I was completely numb.
I'm glad I had him fix the problem cause I wasn't dilated to a 10 until around 3pm and then started pushing. After an hour of pushing Tjay finally came out at 4:16pm. YEA!
So even going into labor on my own and with it being my 4th kid, it was still a really long labor. I'm glad that Tjay is the last and I won't have to do this ever again.
I'm grateful that Tjay came when he did, and also that I had Cory there with me. I couldn't do labor with out his help and encouragement. He was wonderful and VERY supportive. I know I'm VERY lucky to have him in my life and our boys are lucky to have him as a father. Plus we make some darn cute kids. :)