When Ethan and Madeline were Babies: May 2015

Saturday, May 30, 2015

My Pregnancy

December 23, 2007 - 32 Weeks Pregnant

October 7, 2007: "It a GIRL! I knew it was, but I still cried when I found out at the ultrasound. I am so excited to have a girl. It will be so fun and wonderful. For some reason, ever since we moved into this house, I knew a girl would live in that room."

November 18, 2007: "I never would have expected or imagined that I'd have a very rare blood antigen problem with my pregnancy… definitely not what I expected, but if it holds true to past experience, it should turn out to be better than my original self-made plan… perhaps because I'm learning about faith and long suffering. I'm learning about sacrifice. Perhaps I'll love her more than I would have, had the pregnancy been a breeze."

December 8, 2007: "They told me most likely things will remain on edge but be okay and we'll just end up scheduling my inducement for the end of January…all I know is that, 1. I hope she can make it past 34 weeks, 2. I hope when she's born she won't need transfusions and she'll just be healthy, 3. I hope we'll have enough warning that my mom can get here in time to be with Ethan and, 4. I'm tired of all of this."

December 21, 2007: "I'm a little Utah homesick tonight. Raelynn and Eric and their families are all there. Brian is in Utah on a 2 week leave from Iraq and Ben and Carrie are going to be there too. I wish so badly we could be there…I'll be 32 weeks on Christmas…I can't say it enough that I just want this baby to be healthy - now and when she's born."

Happy Birthday Ethan! Two Years Old!

December 13, 2007 - Ethan is TWO!

"I asked Ethan what he wanted to do for fun since it was his birthday. He thought about it, then ran into my room and said, 'wear dada's shirt!' I couldn't help but laugh and so we got one of Todd's shirts and put it on him. He wore it around happily for quite some time until I finally asked him if he wanted to go to the mall.

"The play area there is one of his favorite places to be. It was like a light came on in his head when I asks him, as if my idea was an incredible concept even better than wearing dada's shirt. He immediately said, 'all done dada's shirt. Go now!

"He was so cute shouting 'weeeeee!' every time he went down the slide.

"He was very spoiled with presents and loved opening his 'happy birthday new toys'."

Holding up two fingers

"But the highlight of the day was Todd walking in formwork with a big bouquet of balloons! Nothing could have topped that. Ethan was beyond thrilled and could hardly bring himself to let go of them to do anything else. And repeatedly he'd say, 'Thank you, Dad! Thank you, Daddy!'

"He had a football cake for his birthday…he loved it and said 'oh wow!' a few hundred times.

"When we sang, he grinned the entree time and said, 'eat it!' as soon as we were done. After his first bite, he enthusiastically said, 'mmmmm, num, num!'"

"I can't believe my boy is 2!!!"

Big Boy Bed

December 12, 2007 - Someone might just wake up tomorrow morning, on their 2nd birthday, in a big boy bed!

Ice Skating

December 8, 2007 - Ice Skating with Dad

The Magic of Christmas

December 4, 2007

"Ethan is charmed by everything: the tree, the lights, and most of all my little magnetic ice skaters. He watches the ice skaters ALL DAY LONG! He crouches down and rearranges the trees and holds the pieces and talks to himself about it constantly saying, 'oh wow!' My heart has never seen anything cuter.