Happy New Years!

The boys on their way to a friends New Years Eve party. Mom and baby decided to stay home. BTW MD is smiling-not crying :)

Caught!

Well shortly after I posted that Seth refused to smile at me Seth decided to make a liar out of me :) I am so glad that there is a happy baby underneath it all!

And then it turned into this.
But in reality Seth is still mostly like this:

The boys showing me the proper way to play the wii
Get your game face on



Don't mess with me
Yeah that kid is tough.

Storytime with MD

What my boys consider a quality story :)

MD: There was this big train full of toys and candy
ME: Toys and candy?
MD: yes. And it went up this big mountain (waving his arms around) and came to this town full of.... POOP!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
ME: poop? (Hyrum is giggling like crazy)
MD: Then it went to another town full of STINKY PEE!
ME: GROSS (More giggles from Hyrum and an occasional "STINKY PEE!")
MD: Then it went to a town full of.... (Pause and you can tell he is trying to come up with something just as disgusting)... FROGS! What do frogs say? (He pauses so Hyrum and I can say ribbet) But we just hold the frogs-thats all.
ME: Oh Ok.
MD: Then the train went up a mountain and came to a town full of LOTSO's (we have been watching Toy Story Three) but he got stuck on a dump truck.
ME: Lotso? (giggling)
MD: Then it went to one more town full of....more POOP!!!!HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Well I left the boys giggling and rolling around on their beds delighted that they had grossed out there mother (Well they thought they did. In all honesty I couldn't help giggling myself.) I am not sure when or how my boys turned into such potty mouths.

Christmas in pictures

I don't have a lot of time to put all the details that went into Christmas this year on this post so I am just going to put up mostly pictures.
However I loved watching the excitement on my boys faces as they woke up to the magic of Christmas morning.








After Christmas morning we high-tailed it to Logan to spend the rest of the day with Michaels family where I forgot to take out my camera.

My world revolves

Seth is my most difficult baby-by far :) We sure love this chunky monkey but I have realized just how much I took for granted with MD and Hyrum.
Seth is a screamer. I have wondered if he has colic, but I don't think he does. My friend voiced the opinion that maybe in the household of loud and crazy boys this is Seths only way he feels like he can be heard :) I know it is easy to become lost in the confusion over here so maybe she is right.
Seth is a BIG eater-Though my other kids were too but they were both on formula at this point. I am not nursing Seth, but I am pumping so I get the added blessings of knowing just how much he is eating at 5 weeks (Usually between 4-7 ounces a feeding) and feeling like a dairy cow. The struggle here goes back to the screaming. Usually I am in the middle of pumping when he decides to scream his head off and he won't stop screaming until I pick him up, rock him for awhile and then if I am lucky I can usually put him down somewhere REALLY close to me where he is touching me and he can see me.
He seems a bit more stubborn then your average newborn. I have been trying to get a smile from him for weeks! My doctor told me to expect them around 4-5 weeks so I have been doing everything in my power to get him to crack a smile. Sometimes it looks like he is starting too and I get really excited but then he catches himself and turns that half smile into a scream. OK maybe that doesn't make him more stubborn then most newborns, just more stubborn then my other newborns. I think Seth shows signs of a really strong personality.
One thing I have caught him doing that makes me feel like he does like me is when he is laying down in a good mood and he catches sight of me he starts wiggling around and grunting and tries to scoot closer to me. It is just enough validation for me to scoop him up and cover him with kisses- which usually leads to more screaming :)

3 Kids is a lot more work then I thought. I always heard it was though so I tried to be prepared. Sadly I failed, but I love being a homemaker. In all of the screaming, pooping and pumping I have been aware of just how happy I am in this life. I love watching each boy grow and express their own unique personalities, and I think Seth is strong willed enough to survive being the baby in this home :)

Tummy Time

Usually ends like this :)

Seths influence

This picture cracks me up-I think he looks like one of the Brothers off of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers- The scene where they are all in their long johns :) So obviously these didn't fit but it did give us a good laugh!
Here's our Santa Baby-I love that he is getting much more alert and his head is much more stable.
Seth has also just discovered who I am. (It seems) Last night was the first time I saw him turning to the sound of my voice and watching me when I was holding him. I love my babies but I do enjoy them a bit more when they start interacting with me :)

Seths Birth Story

As I have already mentioned in previous posts is that I struggled with this last pregnancy.
One thing that was so much worse were my Braxton Hicks contractions. They started around week 20 the way they are suppose to-Harmless and mostly painless. However around week 30 they picked up and started to hurt. At 35 weeks I started having timetable contractions every evening but they were not doing anything at least not dilating wise. At 37 weeks I had a night where the contractions were 1-2 minutes apart and we headed to the hospital. They lasted all night and the doctor showed up all ready for a c-section except around that time they started slowing down. They sent me home and told me to come back if they came back. They did so Michael made me go right back. The nurse decided that I had an irritated uterus and told me she didn't think I was in real labor so she sent me home. The next week the contractions were still coming pretty strong but I refused to go to the doctor because I didn't want to get sent home again and we already had a c-section planned. Sunday night however the contractions were so bad I didn't sleep. Monday I had a doctors appointment where the doctor hooked me up to a monitor to watch. He told me that if the contractions continued, to come into the hospital and he would go ahead a do the c-section since I was so close to my c- section date and he was worried about my uterus rupturing. That evening around 6 we headed back in and after I was checked in they hooked me up to a monitor. After about 15 minutes the doctor came in, looked at the monitor and decided to go for it. He checked me again for dilation (NOTHING) and informed me that I was one of those lucky people who had a stiff or thick (can't remember exactly the term he used) cervix and that it had problems dilating (Explains why MD's labor yielded no results since I was on pitocin for a day after my water broke and I still wasn't dilating)

Anyway I got prepped for the surgery, got my anaesthesia (It was wonderful-I didn't feel a thing!) and had the c-section. I was pretty nervous about this c-section since Hyrums had been so traumatic, and a couple of times at the beginning my blood pressure dropped pretty low. But pretty quickly after the doctor came in I calmed down. After I was cut open I heard the doctor say that I had apparently been having real contractions because my uterus was paper thin. I was so glad for the validation of all those painful weeks!

This c-section went well as as soon as they pulled Seth out and I heard him cry I started to cry. Michael was a fantastic help and held my hand through the whole thing until I sent him off with Seth to be cleaned up.
The biggest shock was Seths size. I couldn't believe he was such a little guy- 6 pounds 15 oz is tiny!!! After three weeks he finally looks like the size Hyrum was when he was born :)
Newborn Seth
(Almost) Fresh from surgery. One side effect I always have is I itch like crazy so this is me after I scratched my face for a couple of hours. Swollen .
Meeting Grandma Ross
And Grandma Huish

My early Christmas Present

Sitting Pretty

I am pretty far behind on my blogging but I did want to throw up some pictures of the last couple of days before I start backtracking.
Seth is a completely different baby then my first two. MD was as solemn as you can imagine. He seldom smiled at anyone but his parents (He smiled at us pretty frequently:) and especially after his father was deployed became completely attached to me in a since that he refused company from anyone else.
Hyrum was the exact opposite. All smiles and contentment he was happy with anyone and everyone. Seth is somewhere in the middle I guess...Maybe not I have no idea how to judge these things, but he is neither solemn nor all smiles. He is fairly easy, though his cry is enough to grate anyones nerves. When he is hungry he starts out with a scream as if he was furious and then starts wailing like he is dieing. He also is not content to be left alone. If he is awake he wants to be held. For someone who is the third in this line of boys he definitely considers himself to be the most important.
Fresh from the bath
The boys are doing pretty well.. Surprisingly MD is struggling the most- though not with Seth, I think it is with me being an invalid and his routine being upset.

Seths Blessing Pictures

Sledding

After the "Blizzard" hit (Wasn't anything but very mild snowstorm here) the boys went outside and played with our neighbors! I can't wait until I can join them again for these activities. As it was I watched from an upstairs window :)

This is how Seth celebrated the snow

It looks like a smile :)

But really it wasn't. I was taking pictures and this was him changing expressions from sleepy to grumpy :)

Seth has made quite an impression on MD. MD considers Seth (or Sep as MD calls him) HIS Sep that he has to share with Hyrum. After he came up to visit us in the hospital he wanted to know where Hyrums baby was. Apparently I was suppose to come home with a baby for each :) It has been fun to watch MD bond with little Sep. He always wants to hold him and asks us to let him feed Sep and change his diaper. I wish MD was a little older so he could! But right now I get to just enjoy watching brothers bonding.
Meeting Seth in the Hospital
One of the many times he has held him since we came home
Hyrum doesn't seem to care one way or the other about Seth except every once in awhile he asks to look at him. After a minute of looking he runs off to do things more interesting. I think in his mind he keeps trying to figure out what all the commotion is about but can't seem to figure it out since all Seth does is lay there.I love that Hyrum still thinks he is superman. BTW-it is not a game, he really IS superman :)