Even Superman Gets Sick

My poor poor little Jaxie has been so so sick this week. On Tuesday night the poor little guy had a fever of 102. The next morning he still had a fever and me being the paranoid mom that I am decided to take him in to the doctor. After the doctor discussed with me that you don't usually bring kids in until they have had a fever for 3 days, she proceeded to check him out. The doctor checked his ears and said they looked great she then looked in his throat (which Jax fought)and said that it was extremely red. She then much to Jax's protest did a throat culture. And the verdict is he has STREP.

Poor little guys has been so miserable.

Look at those sad eyes.

Jax just has not been himself. He has been extremely lethargic and grouchy.

*On the positive note Jax has been much more cuddly. It has been nice to just sit and hold the little guy. Another positive is that he has been sleeping until 9:30 in the morning. It has been so nice to sleep in. Not that I like him being sick, but heck I will take these few advantages anytime.

Swimming, Sleeping and Growing Big

Jax absolutely loves the water!! He loves taking baths and swimming. This last week Jax went swimming with his cousins Lily and Paige in their little pool. He loves his cousins and loves playing with them. He is already starting to prefer playing with kids rather than playing with his parents. He is getting too big way too fast!

Eating is really quite the chore! After eating his breakfast Jax crashed. Honestly can that really be comfortable?

Jax and Bennett bonding! Jax definitely loves Bennett! Bennett has not decided how he feels about it. It is fun to see Jax get more and more interested in Bennett. Jax now thinks he needs to hold and burp his brother with his mommy.

Bennett loves attention! He loves to be held like this and loves to be talked to. He is very expressive and pulls some great faces and is cooing like crazy. He seriously has the cutest smile I have ever seen (well it is a toss up between him and Jax), it makes my day!

Bennett talking!!

Like I said he is very expressive with his face. This is him thinking "wow my mommy is crazy!"

Jax is now 11 months. Wow time has flown and my sweet little baby is getting big. It is crazy to think that he is almost 1. A year ago I was aching for a baby and now look at my life! I can't imagine life without my little man.

Bennett is now 2 months. We had his dreaded 2 month appointment today. The poor little guy had to get 3 shots. It broke my heart to see him get poked and to watch is face and his little lip quiver. I hate watching my babies get shots it really breaks my heart (you would think that being a nurse would make this easier but this is definitely not the case with my babies). The doctor says the Bennett is doing great and that he is growing like crazy. He is a pound bigger than what Jax was at 2 months!

Weight 11 lbs 4.5 oz (50th percentile)

Height 22.5 inches (50th percentile)

Head Circumfrence 40.5 cm (60 percentile)

Bennett's Baby Blessing

August 1, 2010 our little Bennett Chase was blessed. It was such a wonderful day and we received so much love and support from family and friends. We feel so blessed to be surrounded by such great people. Bennett was so good during the blessing and he looked so handsome in his outfit.

Bennett and Jaxton with their Great Grandma and Grandpa Beckstrand.

Bennett and Jaxton with Grandpa Bill, Grandma Cindy and Great Grandma Tripp.

We definitely had a very full house with so many family and friends. Our boys are so lucky to have so many people who love them. Our family made this day even more special and complete.

Bennett with is Grandma Donna. He is so funny and is starting to interact and talk and pull faces when you talk to him. He loves attention already!

What a special day. Gary did an excellent job blessing my sweet little baby. I am so grateful that my husband carries the priesthood and so grateful how much the priesthood blesses our home. In Bennett's blessing it talked a lot about the relationship he needs to and will develop with his big brother Jax and how important and vital the timing of his birth is (these boys are meant to be together). I feel so blessed to be the mom of these 2 boys! I look forward to watching them grow and develop and watching them be the best little buddies!! I love you Bennett and am so grateful you are part of our family!!

Walking the Jordan Parkway

Last week we went to the Jordan Parkway and went for a little walk. The boys both loved it. Stroller rides seem to calm Bennett right down and Jaxton loves to watch people and dogs. We ended up at a park. Jax absolutely loved going down the slide and loved climbing back up the slide.

At the end of the slide he always looked so proud of himself!!


Bennett loves to just chill out in the stroller.

Our little (sarcasm noted) caravan!!

What a fun date night!!

BROTHERS

It has been quite fun trying to balance my attention between these 2 little boys. Luckily Jax loves his little brother and loves to hold him and give him kisses. It is so cute to watch! Hopefully Bennett will one day love Jax just as much and the love will be shared.

Jax loves to give his brother kisses. We just have to be careful and make sure it is a supervised kiss. Jax has not quite gotten the gentleness aspect down.

Jax is so proud of his brother and even more proud of himself when he holds him.

This makes me excited for them to grow up together. It will be so nice to have them so close in age and hope that they will be best friends most of the time (I know I would be asking way to much if I said all of the time!!). I love these little guys so so much!!!

New Deck and Busy Helping Hands

We have had the idea and planning for our deck for quite some time. Saturday we were able to get a lot of the deck completed finally after Gary slowly working on it for over a year. We had tons of help from so many family members We are so grateful to have such a supportive and loving family. The deck looks great and we are so excited to use it.


Jax thought that the deck building was great and wanted to help out!

Jax is such a busy body and is all over the place. He wants to be involved in everything and anything we are doing. He thinks he is so helpful!

Busy Busy With 2

I never imagined how busy our lives would become with having 2 babies!! I hope and pray that one day we can develop some sort of routine. Until then I guess our home just may be chaos (a happy chaos). As busy as we are, I can't imagine life any different. I love these two little guys more than anything and love being a mom!!

Lots has happened these last few weeks. Jax now has not just one but two teeth, is now crawling, pulling him self up on furniture, and making big messes out of our dvd and cd collection. Bennett is doing a little better with sleeping in the night, although we still have good and bad days. Bennett still sleeps, eats and poops a ton!!

So we have been trying to teach/encourage Jax to pick up food, bottle, sippy cup on his own. He will pick it up but just can't figure out how to make it to his mouth. This week I was practicing with cereal and Jax came up with a better way to eat!! I think he watches his puppies a little too much.

Jax is definitely starting to cruise around the furniture. He is Mr. mobile now and thinks he can go just about anywhere. This is him losing his pants, I never thought I would have a problem with him trying to sag his pants already.

Jax seriously has the funniest personality ever. He is such a social baby. He honestly has the most contagious laugh and smile, you can't help but be happy when looking at him like this.

Bennett is growing like crazy! This kid constantly thinks he is starving and would seriously like to eat all day. I have nicknamed him my "little bird" due to him looking like this a lot of the time opening and closing his mouth like a baby bird. He also has skinny little bird legs just like a "little bird"!!

1st bath at home for Bennett went great and he loved every minute. He really didn't make a peep and just sat in his little chair. He already is just like his brother and loves the water. I think we are in big trouble when Bennett is a bit bigger and we bathe them together (we are going to come out soaked!)

2 Weeks Already???

Wow time flies!! I can't believe that we have had this little guy for over two weeks now. It has been a crazy past two weeks, with lots of adjustments. Between the 2 babies I feel like I am always feeding and changing diapers. I think I have finally adapted my morning routine and can get myself and them ready by 10:00 (pretty amazing if you ask me). So far I think we have all adjusted to the baby well.

Bennett had his 2 week appointment yesterday and he is a whole 7 lbs 3.5 oz and is 20 1/4 inches long. Pretty impressive if you ask me. The doctor was very impressed that he had gotten well past his birth weight already. This kid loves to eat!!!

Some things we have learned these last 2 weeks...

-There is absolutely nothing on television at 3 am that is worth watching (we have quite the night owl that likes to be awake all through the night)

-Jax loves all binkis including his little brothers (poor Bennett is going to have nothing of his own)

-You have to be fast with diaper changes, you never know when more is to come!!!!

-Laundry really is a never ending task

Crazy about hAiR!!

Everyone keeps telling me that I need to take lots of pictures and document Jax's hair. As many of you know his hair is absolutely crazy. This picture really does not do justice to how crazy it really is. He has a huge bald spot from laying and then has hair that sticks straight out on the sides. Jax's birth mom has asked us not to cut his hair for at least a year so we are counting down the months until we can put some order to this craziness.


As crazy as his hair is, I absolutely love it!!! I really will be very sad to cut it!!

Bennett is well on his way to having crazy hair as well. He almost has a mullet in back. I was completely shocked that he came out with hair. I was certain I would have a bald baby!!


BED HEAD!!

He's Here!!!

So we are happy to say that Bennett is finally here. I thought for sure on Monday (6/14 his due date) that I was going to have to blog that I was 40 weeks and depressed (my doctor had set an induction date for 6/24 10 days after my due date and I was not happy about it).

Dooms Day!!

My contractions started on Friday night and were very regular. I was keeping track of the frequency and found that for about 3 hours they were about 6 minutes apart. We thought for sure we would be going to the hospital that night. After the 3 hours they continued but the time between started to space. I couldn't bare the idea of going to the hospital and being sent home so we stuck it out.

Finally after laboring Friday night and all day Saturday we decided to go to the hospital early Sunday morning. We got there at about 1:30. After evaluating me the found that I was 5 cm and was contracting every 2-3 minutes. They decided to keep me. Finally after waiting what seemed like forever I got my epidural at 4:30. I was finally able to go to sleep after being up for over 48 hours. They then checked me at 8:30 where they found that I was now 8 cm. We got excited and nervous as we thought about having the baby soon. They set up the delivery table then which made me even more nervous and anxious. They then broke my water.
Much to our disappointment my body would not continue progressing and I was stuck at 8 cm until around 11:45. I had finally reached a 10. After 20-30 minutes of pushing he decided to make his presence.

Finally Here!!!

He weighed 6 lbs 12 oz. and is 20 inches long. He is so tiny but surprisingly longer than we thought. He has tons of brown hair (which was a surprise for both of us!!)

Just following delivery, we were both so relieved that he was healthy and that the delivery went well. We were also both so exhausted and tired!!


Bath Time!!

Bennett loved his bath and was surprisingly calm through most of it!!


Proud DADDY!!!


Our Family!!
Jax loves his little brother and always wants to touch his face!

Jax looked so proud. Little does he know he now has to share his mom, dad, puppies and toys. Poor kid has something coming to him.

Jax giving his brother and mommy a hug!! Gary and I had such a hard time being away from Jax. Luckily I have a wonderful sister that brought him to the hospital each day so we could see him. We are so excited to have 2 super cute boys!! We love them both so much!!


Look at how BIG and how little!!
Jax definitely makes Bennett look super tiny and Bennett makes Jax look huge. This is their cute little and huge feet!!



Our handsome little man!!!



Discharge Day!!!
We were definitely ready to go home. We loved Riverton IHC hospital but after 2 days of being cooped up in a room it was time to go home!!

Dressed and ready to go!!

I thought this picture of my boys was so cute. Can I say I think I am a little out numbered!


We are so excited to welcome this new little guy to our family!! We finally think we are ready for the challenges and happiness of having him in our home! We are so grateful for him and so grateful that he is a healthy baby. We couldn't have asked for a better pregnancy and delivery!!