Jacob's Story...

Three weeks before Jacob was born I had a doctors appointment. The doctor checked me and said he wouldn't be surprised if I had an 09' baby. Well, I left that appointment nervous and excited: nervous because I didn't have everything ready yet (I am a last minute kind of gal) and excited to finally meet this little guy. Well, three weeks later I was still pregnant. The doctor scheduled me to be induced. I was induced with Trevor and it went great so it didn't bother me to be induced with this baby. I actually prefer it rather then having a baby on the side of the road (my labors go pretty fast once my water breaks). We, (Nick, my mom, and myself) arrived at the hospital at 5 AM Friday morning. I got checked in and was started on the lowest dose of Pitocin at 6 AM. When the nurse was checking me in she asked "did you have a little breakfast before you came?" I said "no", she said "you should have because it could be a really long day and I can't give you anything to eat."...she was shocked, because, it wasn't a long day. Nick's mom Cyndi arrived at about 6:45 AM. My doctor came in at 7 AM and broke my water. By 7:30AM I was ready for the epidural (I was dilated to an eight). The epidural was painful this time for me (with Trevor it wasn't), he had to go through a ligament trying to get the drugs in the right spot and he had to try twice. Also, labor went quickly so I needed another dose of medicine for my epidural because it didn't kick in fast enough. Jacob Henry made his arrival at 8:21 AM. He was a healthy baby boy. He weighed 8 lbs. 8 ounces and was 21 inches long. The first time I held him in my arms it was a very sweet moment. He is such an amazing, special little boy. We stayed at the hospital 2 days. While in the hospital this time around with Jacob, I didn't have all the anxiety and break downs I had with Trevor (the only time I cried in the hospital was over a toilet!) We had some visitors and just enjoyed our new addition. Because of the H1N1 Trevor wasn't allowed to come to the hospital to see/meet Jacob. My mom watched Trevor the first day and Cyndi watched Trevor the second day. Thanks so much for your help.

Me, getting checked in...

My first time holding Jacob

Jacob getting weighed

Nick holding Jacob after he was all cleaned up.

Grandma Wadsworth
Grandma Cyndi

Jeana and I with Jacob in my hospital room.

Uncle Shawn

Aunt Britiany and Uncle Heath

(Other visitor's that came, but forgot to get pictures...Grandpa Brad, Liz, Holli, Chris and Lacy. Grandpa Kim wasn't able to make it to the hospital, but he came the day we brought Jacob home.)Grandpa Kim

The final belly picture

I didn't do very many belly pictures with this pregnancy so I decided to take a picture on the last day of me being pregnant.

Here I am...

Trevor and Mom...this is Trevor's last day of being an only child. (I love the smile. This is what Trevor does when you tell him to say cheese or smile. It is pretty funny.)

(It is funny, I am posting this a few months late, obviously, but I really don't remember being pregnant or just having Trevor (okay, I do) but it just feels like Jacob has always been a member of our family.)

Let it Snow (December 2009)

Nick had the chance to take Trevor out in the snow a couple of times in December. Trevor just LOVED it! I stayed inside because I was feeling rather pregnant. If Trevor could have stayed outside all day he would have!

Nick and Trevor all bundled up and ready to go.

Headed outside.

Playing in the snow.

Loving being outside!

The next time they went outside to play in the snow Nick pulled Trevor around in the sled. Trevor loved that as well.

Christmas 2009

Christmas 2009:

I had on my to do list for December lots of things to make and do for Christmas. Well, as the month went quickly many of those things dropped off my list. I did get the chance to make the advent calendar you see in the picture. I got the idea off a friend's blog (thanks Kristy). You make it with a mini muffin tin and then on Christmas morning you make muffins. I love how it turned out and can't wait till next year when i can use it for the whole time.

Christmas Eve:

On Christmas Eve we invited Nick's Dad, and his brother Shawn and his son Jackson to come over for dinner. It was a nice evening.

Jackson and Trevor playing the piano.

Trevor and Jackson opened a couple gifts on Christmas Eve. One gift they received Nick had picked out: it was hot wheels monster trucks-- the boys loved them. (All the boys loved them! Nick, Shawn, and Kim probably played with them as much as Trevor and Jackson did.) I had wanted to make the boys a Cars quilt for Christmas but it was one of the things I dropped off my list. So Nick said he would go pick out a toy for them. I am sure glad he did (my quilt would have been boring compared to those trucks) Jackson and Trevor just raced back and forth all night with these trucks, it was really cute.

Trevor with Grandpa Kim Christmas Eve. Notice Trevor has his trucks with him!

Christmas:

I still have the great pleasure of making cinnamon rolls Christmas morning so I woke up bright and early to start making them. Also, I didn't get a chance to watch Little Women Christmas Eve because we went to bed really late so while the dough was rising I watched it (in fast forward). At about 8:30 AM the house was awake and we started opening gifts. It was fun! Trevor loved opening gifts this year much more then last year.

Trevor opening a gift with Grandpa Kim

Trevor wearing his apron he got from Grandma Wadsworth (I am on the phone coordinating breakfast with Jeana). My mom made all the grandkids aprons this year. They turned out so cute!

After gifts: Jeana, Rob, and Brooke came over for our annual Christmas breakfast. This year Kim, Heath, and Britiani joined us. It was so fun. We had lots of great food! After the food we went downstairs to play the Wii.

Here we are in our Christmas PJ's. I started this last year (where I make each of us pajamas bottoms that match) and I really wanted to keep it going so I made sure this stayed on the to do list.

After Christmas breakfast we headed down to Provo for dinner at Grandma's house. It was fun to spend the afternoon with Grandma Cyndi and Grandpa Brad. We enjoyed each other company and watched some movies. Trevor loved watching Tarzan!

Trevor with Grandma Cyndi and Grandpa Brad

Our family Christmas day!

Merry Christmas!

Santa Claus 2009

Trevor had the chance to meet Santa Claus twice this year.

The first time was we went as a family to a Polar Express Night at the Kauri Sue Hamilton School. It was a lot of fun. There were different activities Trevor could do (he had to do at least 3) and then he got to meet Mr. and Mrs. Claus. The activity he loved the best was the music class. The teacher got all the kids to sing jingle bells, while shaking bells, and then she read The Polar Express, which Trevor loved! He was so excited to meet Santa. (You wouldn't think so from the picture, but he was in awe!)

The second time was when we went with his cousin Jackson to the South Towne Mall. Laurel was running a little late, so it was a little crazy trying to entertain Trevor and let people pass me in line, and right when Laurel and Jackson got there Trevor had to go to the bathroom. So I had to leave and ran as fast as I could, being 8 months pregnant, to get Trevor to a bathroom. While Laurel stayed in line and let people pass her. We found a bathroom, and returned with no potty accident. We saw Santa. Trevor loved it again. Jackson was a little scared, but the picture turned out cute (I don't have a scanned copy to post). We have done this every year since the boys were born. It is fun tradition. We then went out to lunch together.

Gingerbread House (December 2009)

Nick and I decorated a gingerbread house with Trevor. All the grandkids did it on December 6th at Grandma Wadsworth's house (my mom) but we couldn't go up to Idaho to do it so my mom sent all the stuff to make one back with Jeana and Rob. It was so fun putting it together with Trevor. He loved putting the candy on the house.

Trevor and I putting candy on...look at our concentration!

Trevor and dad decorating the house.
The finished product! Great job Trevor! (Good job helping mom and dad...maybe next year I will just let Trevor decorate it himself. We will see.)
Can't wait till next year. Thanks mom for sending the stuff.

Also this Christmas season Trevor loved watching the Polar Express. He would watch it over and over again. He loved the Hot Cocoa song. He would sing "Ha cho cho!" It was so cute. He loved drinking it as well, he would get a huge chocolate mustache on his face.

Cool Whip Art (December 2009)

In the middle of December I was trying to think what I could do with Trevor that would be fun. Well, in the back of my mind I remember Jeana telling me about an art project where you use cool whip to paint on a window. I had some extra cool whip and thought it would be fun.

Trevor painting with cool whip

What a work of art!

All finished! What a mess we have to clean up!
I thought this would be easy to clean up. I was wrong. It took a lot of elbow grease and hot water to get the sugar off the window. So I called Jeana to tell her that I tried the cool whip project but it was hard to clean up and why would anyone do this (unless you were planning to take 45 minutes and clean your window anyways...then it is a great idea). She said that you weren't suppose to do it on a window, but in the bathtub! Oh, my mistake, at least I have a clean window now and Trevor had a great time drawing on the window. Next time though I think I will try the bathtub.

My 28th Birthday!

I turned 28 in December! I had a great birthday. I woke up and thought it was just going to be another day, but...Nick surprised me and stayed home from work so he could watch Trevor. I had no idea that he was going to stay home. Nick got up like he does every morning and left for work. I work up a little later and he had sent me a text on my phone, it said go look at the computer. I had accidentally closed the program he had open so I had to call him and he told me how to open it. It was Nick and Trevor singing Happy Birthday to me. It was so cute I teared up. I thought so sweet thanks for making this a great day and then I got another text that said go open the front door. I thought oh he left me a present. So I went downstairs and opened the door to find my present...it was him! I screamed! It was such a fun surprise. He had gone shopping that morning and was just waiting till I woke up to come home. It was such a fun day. Jeana and Rob were coming back from Idaho on this day so they come over after they got home and we had Cafe Rio, had cake, and opened our gifts.

Here we are with our tree cake. Every year we have a tree cake and this year was no different. Thanks Nick for making them. Nick was also so sweet because he made me a sugar free jello tree cake because I couldn't have cake this year (I had gestational diabetes). Nick is so thoughtful.

Blowing out the candles with help from Trevor and Brooke.

Opening up presents.
Here are Jeana and I...28 years later. I love Jeana and I am so happy I have had the chance to share a birthday all these years! She is the best twin sister.

Thanksgiving 2009

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a great Thanksgiving this year. We went down to Cyndi's house. It was yummy food and great company. After dinner we were just hanging out when Trevor wanted to put the chairs in a line and sing the wheels on the bus. Nick and Cyndi did most of the singing, but it was pretty cute.


On Saturday we were able to have lunch and dinner with Nick's dad and all his brothers. Heath came for lunch and Shawn came for dinner. Trevor was able to paint with Grandpa. He had a lot of fun!

It was a great Thanksgiving weekend. I was even able to do some Black Friday shopping. I had to go by myself because Jeana was out of town so I did not get up early, but I still got most things that I wanted and not so much of the crowds. Big plus!

Trip to Idaho November 2009

The first part of November, my sister in law's mom passed away from a 18 month battle with breast cancer. She was such a amazing wife, mother and friend. Our family loved Sheryl ! Jeana and I were able to go to Idaho for the graveside service. Jeana took pictures during the service and I watched Brooke and Trevor (my dad helped me, thanks dad). Brooke and Trevor did okay...the only problem is they thought the headstones were things to climb all over, and they wanted to run around everywhere (other then that they were perfect). After the service we went over with my family; Jon, Lisa, my dad, my mom, and my grandma to my grandpa's grave (and my aunt's) to feed the squirrels and the birds.

Here we are getting ready to feed the birds and the squirrels.

Trevor getting bird seeds from Grandma Jean

Trevor and Grandma Jean throwing corn off the hillside to the squirrels.

Brooke and Trevor feeding the birds.

It was nice to go home and visit with family.

Julie...

...if you have forgotten what she looks like. This is Julie's sister Jeana (you should never give your password out to people you don't trust :)). Julie is an amazing mom, sister, and friend...however not the most consistent blogger so I thought I would help out. Julie and Jacob around 3-4 weeks (isn't she gorgeous and just look how beautiful Jacob is...he is one lucky boy and so is Trevor).

I am a big kid now...

Trevor has accomplished three great things since October...

#1: He no longer has a binky!

#2: He is potty trained!!

#3: He sleeps in a big boy bed!!!

(I didn't take any pictures in the moment so these were reenacted or from when he was little)

When I found out I was pregnant I wanted to do these three things with Trevor before the baby was born: take away the binky, potty train, and switch to a bed.
So the beginning of October we took away his binky. I had heard a couple of different ways to do this and decided to cut the binky and throw it away because it was "broken". I picked this one because, Trevor understood when something was broken that you threw it away. So each time we put Trevor to bed we would cut a slice in one binky (we had about 6 of them) so Trevor couldn't suck it anymore. He then put it in the trash and then he and Dad would take it outside to the big trash. I was so worried this was going to be so hard, but Trevor surprised me! He did great. He was sad for a couple of days after all the binkies were "broken and in the trash", but he only cried for about 5 minutes total once they were all gone...once that night for 3 minutes and for about 2 minutes at his nap the next day and that was it. He did go around for the next month or so saying "Binky broke...Dad big trash...Binky all gone!" but that was it.
So, one down and two to go...
The first part of November I decided to potty train. Just one day I decided to do it. I found some stickers and made a chart and we started. I put him in underwear from the start and we just watched movies and ate lots of junk food and pop and he would say pee pee and we would go to the bathroom and sit on the potty and read books or if it ran down his legs we would run to the potty. I made a very detailed chart that I used to chart his progress (it was the teacher coming out in me) day one he had lots of accidents, day two he had about half as many and by day three he had even less and I think he had it by day four (I will have to see if I can find my chart :))!!! I still was really nervous so we stayed home for a couple of weeks. He also used a pull up for nap and bed time (I was still cautious so he wore them for about a month). For Trevor, potty training went great...he was just ready. Brooke, his cousin, had been doing it for awhile and I think Trevor just wanted to do it as well! Now, he has to see every bathroom at every store and he uses the bathroom at church a number of times every week, and he still has his occisional accidents and we have to help him in the bathroom, but he is off to a great start.
Two down, and one to go..
So the first part of December came the big boy bed. I was so worried he would not stay in his bed and would get up every 5 minutes but it wasn't that bad. We had to take his crib down so he thought it was broken, but then he slept in his bed. He got up a couple of times at the start. And we thought wow, easy! But a few weeks in he started getting out of bed again. We tried a couple of different things leaving the door open, but if he got up we shut it (then he would cry and we would open it again), reading him stories, singing songs, leaving lights on, anything to get him to stay in bed and go to sleep, finally after a couple of weeks we worked out a system that worked for both him and us. Now he stays in bed (that is once we get him there. He is great at stalling.)