Thursday Picture - 9 Weeks

9 Weeks Old

This week brought a visit to doctor Glade's office. You my sweet boy are looking a little squishy! It's delightful. Your measurements are pretty similar to your sisters.

Weight: 10 lbs 11 oz (16%)

Length: 21 1/2 in (3%)

Head: 16 1/4 in (97%)

The gal gathering your measurements was pretty suprised by your head growth. In fact she measured it twice to make sure. I laughed and assured her not to worry, we just have big heads in our family.

Mya's Preschool Graduation!

Ok, mom's out there! Whichever one of you has figured out the 'pause' feature on life please be a gem and share it with me! It's going to fast! My baby, my first baby graduated from preschool and is over the moon excited to be going to kindergarten in the fall. I however am not so sure that I want to let her go all alone into that giant building that seems much to large for such a tiny person. OK, so these aren't exactly the feelings I was meaning to share right now so they will have to wait for another time. Despite the mixed emotions I felt over this day it was wonderful! My little lady was all smiles.

Mrs. Maureen has been absolutely amazing! She adores all of these sweet, busy little beings and nurtures them and helps them grow so much! I am so thankful for her and how much she has helped Mya grow and be ready for her next adventure in Kindergarten. The progress that I've seen over school year is amazing.

 Their program was darling, filled songs, of course hand gestures and from Miss Mya, choice facial expressions. I saw myself as I watched her. If a classmate forgot to stand up she was reminding him or her to do so. Always the motherly one/boss. Each child had to memorize a part for the program, two lines about there year that corresponded with a letter of the alphabet. Miss Mya had G & H

"G is for the good friends we made throughout the year."

"H is for happy faces, filled with love and cheer."

 We practiced her part every day, I wanted her to feel confident with it in case all the parents made her nervous. She did wonderful! I was a proud mama! She stood right up with her visuals and projected that part so everyone could hear. Sweet little Miss.

 She got to hold this valentine for the valentines day song...

It sums up how I feel about her pretty well. I'm crazy about this little curly redhead.

  Their final song was an adapted version of 'Zip-a-dee-do-dah'

Zip-a-dee-do-dah, Zip-a-dee-ay

My oh my, summer's coming our way!

Plenty of sunshine, swimming and play

Zip-a-dee-do-dah, Zip-a-dee-ay

There's a sadness in the air now

It's over, It's done

But wasn't preschool lots of FUN!

Oh! Zip-a-dee-do-dah, Zip-a-dee-ay

Summer's coming, coming our way!

 Grams came and shared in the festivities and brought these yummy graduation lei's for our special girl. Thanks for coming Grams, it was so sweet of you!

 We even lucked out and had daddy here. He was supposed to be at work in ND but the truck he was having repaired wasn't done. We weren't complaining one little bit about having him here to share the big day. Miss Mya, we love you so much! You are growing up into such a sweet, smart, loving little girl. You are kind and loving to your sister and brother and you look out for them. You are learning so much and doing so well in school, we are very proud of you. You remember the things you have learned and you want share them with us. I hope your love of learning continues to grow. It may be hard, you may not always like it but I promise that the knowledge that you obtain will only help you to become better. You will do great things my little Miss, I love you!

Thursday Pictures - 8 Weeks

8 Weeks Old

Mister Hayze! 2 months, 8 weeks gone already! I love that you are becoming more responsive, 'talking' to us, smiling more. But I am not happy that so much time is passing by. It is always so bittersweet to me, wanting the interaction and to see your little personality but loosing my little baby at the same time.

You are pretty much on a schedule which is nice. More nice things involve the fact that you are sleeping longer at night and your mama surely appreciates that. We even made it to 5am the other morning! It was a little slice of heaven. 

This is Happening!

 Yep, we have two cute little cheeky's in big girl panties.

I would be lying if I told you that I was excited about this or ready to take on this challenge. I'm not. I'm terrified this time around. I don't know why this time it is so different. Mya's wasn't that bad in fact I think she did quite well. So, why does my heart palpate when I would think about starting the process with Sadie. I have known I should get going since probably December. I told myself I would do it after we went to Disneyland. Then I put it off until after the baby came. I kept buying the small packs of diapers telling myself that when this pack runs out I will do it. Well, like the addict I am, I always kept buying just one more pack. Finally last night I discovered that I was using my last diaper and something inside told me that it had to happen now. When I broke the news that there would be no more diapers in the morning little miss was down right excited about it. That gave me a little hope. Still after feeding Hayze at 3am and crawling back into bed I wanted to cry. All the crazy scenarios played across my mind....I'm feeding Hayze and we have to drop everything and run, I'm literally stuck pumping when the call comes (for those of you who know this is not a quick stop), carting all my kiddo's to the bathroom multiple times while at church on Sunday, worrying about how she will do in nursery, all the clean up and laundry that was about to hit became very real and daunting. 

Morning came and this cute little lady was thrilled to ditch her dipe for panties. For the most part I feel like today was a success I would say C+ maybe. We've had a couple great successes where she told me she had to go and we made it. We had a nap time accident and quite a few 'I have to go potty' after things were already in motion and a few lets just go sit to see if you will give me a sticker experiences. I did have to jump up mid feeding like I expected but it was fine. I'm sure it won't be the last time and that many of my other fears will come true too. But, just like today we will live, they won't be as bad as I had imagined and we will move on. I'm proud of her for hanging in there and reminding me that accidents are OK. I love you Sadie, you're doing great!

Thursday Picture - 7 weeks

7 weeks old

As evidenced by this picture you are still pretty stingy with your smiles. Mom tries to talk, oooo and aaaahhh as much as possible but with little success. That's OK though, you are my snuggler and I love that. We have some fussy times that we have to work through lately. Usually in the evenings, sometimes I'm pretty sure I've eaten something that didn't agree with you and others I thing you are just grumpers and want to let us know about it.Your sisters are madly in love with you and think they can do whatever they want with you. The other day Papa asked for someone to bring you to him and Sadie hopped right up and had her arms around ready to help him out. Both Nana and mommy were quick to assist her. Today's game was to see how much air you could get in your bouncer. Sweet Hayze, you are going to have to be a rough and tumble little boy to keep up with these two ladies.

Thursday Picture - 6 Weeks

6 weeks old

We did it little buddy!! We have survived all by ourselves with big daddy back in ND. You are being super helpful as you assume your duties as man of the house, you have lengthened your sleeping schedule to include five hour stretches which has given mommy a whole new boost. You also decided to flash me a big gummy grin this week. It made me absolutely melt. Of course try as I might I couldn't capture it on camera but it did happen and it was darling!

We did manage to get a little grin but the picture is blurry. Still pretty cute.

A quick visit...

Our Uncle Adam graduated with his master's degree in international business! We are so happy for him and very proud of him and his cute family for all that they have sacrificed and how hard he has worked to accomplish his goal. His hard work has paid off and he was offered a wonderful job! The only downside to this is that it is all the way in Wichita, Kansas. Thankfully before they moved they paid a quick visit to the Utah clan. And when I say quick I mean it, like 3 days quick.

 The last time we saw little Abigail was when she was at Christmas when she was just a little older than Hayze is now. My how quickly little ones grow and change! I can't tell you how many times I kissed those luscious cheeks and squeezed her squish-tastic thighs in the few days they were here. As you can see they just beg for it.

The 3 Hansen girl cousins. 

Mya and Sadie were just thrilled to have Adam and Cami here! They know that Adam will play, wrestle, toss them around and do about anything they ask. They also enjoyed miss Abby and Mya was thrilled by how easily Abby would smile at her. I will admit to doing all I could to get her to smile as well because when she does it just lights up her whole chubby face. So cute!!

We love you guys, thanks for the visit! Good luck on your new adventure!

Thursday Pictures - 5 Weeks

5 weeks old

Real live clothes don't look so gigantic on you this week little man. In fact you look down right dashing in them. You are still waking up at night more frequently than mommy would like, it makes her nervous for when daddy goes back to work next week. He's been a big help trading off feedings so that I can get a little bit of rest.