beauty is in the eye of the beholder....

Most of you know Alivia does not have much hair and we really have only trimmed her hair through her 5 years.

Sadly my childhood years my hair looked very similar, it wasn't until I was older that my hair got dark and became thick.

This is what what we get to comb every day;)

Sadly she often asked when she will have long hair and loves to put wigs or little hair pieces in her hair.

Cooper this is his idea of it being too hot outside and altering his shirt, so he could cool down

Kessler and a few other things..

So here are some of the latest pics of Kessler, he went to the Doctor today he is 9 pounds 5 oz, and a really good baby. Just the usual wakes up a lot at night. I am not sure if my milk can keep up with him.

The kids have been loving him a lot. Livi is my little helper all day long, she asked to hold him all the time and loves it when he wakes up and looks at her.

Cooper does not call him by his name, he is referd to as 'my baby brother' and if you ask Cooper what Kessler's name is, sometimes he doesn't remember.

And Bauer he has definitely gotten used to him, but has had a hard time adjusting to not being mom's baby anymore. Bauer now feels like a giant to me. He is still so funny, I posted the pic of Bauer casting a spell on us.

His latest saying is "crazy" everything is "crazy" it is so cute.

And the other pics, Ben's latest project. A deck, keeping him busy on his days off. It will be nice to have some where to sit once it is done.

Ben at work has been finding my great deals, he got 3 boxes of huggies that are normally 25.00 each for 7.00 each, they were clearance, pushed back on the shelf, and when he pulled them forward and looked at the price, marched right up there and bought them, way to go Ben.

We have been busy with school, field trips, some shopping, I have only gone a few places with FOUR kids, (what the heck, I still can't believe it)

and it was okay, not great or awesome. We managed, I have spiffed up my game though, with snacks and drinks, stuff to keep little people occupied.

We are looking forward to going to Canada the first weekend of May for Gary and Allie's Wedding in Edmonton, we had to get Kessler his passport, his poor picture you can't have your hands in the picture so his head was a little crazy.

Thanks to Ben's parent who came down to Utah and enjoyed the sunshine but not the warmth. They did quite the trip from Canada, to Oregon, Utah, back up to Alberta and through south-east B.C and then home.

C-Section......whaaat???

So I thought I would post a bunch a pictures from, random, to Easter, to the birth of Kessler.

Easter turned out to be a great day just to spend with family. We obviously had a great Easter egg hunt in Grandmas backyard and Alivia was so excited, the excitement wore off for Cooper pretty fast and Bauer really go the hang of it pretty quick.

Monday morning rolls around by the way it took a really long time for that Monday to come.

We showed up for a normal Induction.

So the whole day ended up being quite slow and finally by 8:00pm we were ready to go, well Kessler's head was called a brow presentation and his head was tilted so after pushing 2.5 hours and having the epidural fade away a few times they decided that c-section was the only alternative. So into the the OR about 11:00 pm and at 11:36 baby Kessler was born.

Let's just say I do not do well under anesthesia, I am totally delirious (hence the photo up top that Ben lovingly posted, I look like I am totally faded) I am. I was only under local epidural and a few others, but I could hear everything and would comment about everything that was going on but could not open my eyes. IT was crazy.

Anyway we are SO glad he is here and so glad we decided on a name. He is so sweet and par for the course for a Whidden child, is Jaundice so he is a little yellow and very mellow.

I loved the photos up top Ben posted you can see a yellow strip across his eyes, he was under the lights and the hospital and has to wear a little mask, so it left the spot there yellow and mostly cleared everything up, until we get home and it rebounded back.

Thanks for all the posts, I will post more pics soon.

Kessler Robert Whidden

Born March 24th 11:36 pm

8lbs, 7 oz

21.5 in

Rescheduled.......

Darn it......so later this week or the beginning of next week they will schedule an induction. If I go into labor this week I will keep you all posted.

Stand by???

What???.... so I got a call this morning at 5:00 am asking if I would go on 'stand by'. I am not sure if it was a question more than a statement.
My beef with being on stand by, isn't there really another way of stating it.
I feel like working for an airline and being on stand by, should I be used to it??? really I am just being sarcastic, I hope you can tell. I guess a lot of lucky mom's went into labor last night and took up the few last beds.

So as of right now, we are on stand by, luckily in the comfort of my home in my pajamas. I am supposed to call at noon and see what the status is.
If not today I will have to wait until my doctor comes back from Easter vacation NEXT WEEK!!!...........unless some miracle happens and I go into labor on my own???

We will keep you all posted on the 'stand by' situation.

Alivia

Today we are going to post a few things about Alivia. Since she is helping me with the blog header. Since it was pink and a flower (originally for Easter and Spring) she decided that we should have pictures of her, because she loves pink.
So today in church. I asked Alivia to spit out her gum before she went to class, (my kids, don't usually chew gum) because of not knowing if she would make a mess of it in class, I asked her to spit it out.
She later told me she swallowed it, and happily went to class.
After church I saw her chewing gum and asked her where she got the gum. She then told me it was the gum before and just hid it in her mouth.
LOVELY......so standing in the kitchen after lunch she was in trouble for not doing what she was supposed too and not being honest (even though later, she was honest, too honest) well the punishment was she couldn't have an after lunch treat.
Ben asked what was going on and I told him that Livi hid her gum under her tongue. She said, no I didn't mom, then pointed to the top of the inside of her mouth;)
Ben then tried to signal to Livi, she was saying too much.......it was cute.....