It's time

Well, I've been thinking about this for a very long time, and I've finally decided to make our blog private. I'm sorry if that's a hassle to the five of you who read my ramblings, but I would just feel a whole lot better (safer) if my kids were more protected (i.e. Their pictures weren't all over the Internet). I think I'll give it a week or so, so hurry and leave your email address so I can send you an invite. If you'd rather, you can email it to me: nirat2004{at}yahoo{dot}com. Don't be shy, if I know you, I'd love to invite you! Thanks for understanding!

-Tarin

Caydence's big day

This was a pretty big day for Caydence and she couldn't have been more excited!

She started joy school today with a group of friends.



We are taking turns teaching, so you teach two days and then get 4 weeks off! It was great to just drop her for 2 hours! She loved it so much that she cried when she had to leave.

She also started dance, and she is in HEAVEN!! She has been talking about it every day for months. She asks me EVERY DAY, "when is my dance class?" I watched her for a little while and she did GREAT! She was so good at following the teacher. She is going to have a blast!


I could not get her to leave because she wanted to take home one of the big trophies on display. She said "I really want to take that piston cup. (from Cars). The one for you be a winner." Classic! Yep, I'm raising a winner :)
-Tarin

Things get tricky with 2...

Sorry , these are phone pictures, but you get the idea. We took both kids golfing last night and we had a blast! Caydence was having so much fun. She was so cute! Will slept almost the whole time (I LOVE my knock-off Moby wrap), and it turns out I'm a pretty good one handed golfer :) The best part about it was that the last hole shoots a HUGE flame when you make it in the hole and Caydence was TERRIFIED of it. She wouldn't even go near it and she RAN past it screaming like crazy, straight inside. Too funny.
-Tarin

Will's Blessing Day

Since my brother, Michael, had his mission farewell yesterday it just made sense to bless Will the same day. All my family could come for both at the same time! It was such a great day. Their church isn't until 1:00, and we still almost missed it! I just totally lost track of time! We walked in the building as the meeting was starting and RAN inside the chapel. We made it just in time, but I felt really bad for Danny because he was a bit frazzled. He still did an amazing job; such a sweet blessing.

We started a tradition with Caydence to bless them in our blessing outfits, so here is Will in Danny's.

We have some cute kids!
The family of 4!
Some of our family that was there:

Richie and Lauren
The boys.
Danny's parents.
Will's cousins.
Danny's Grandparents.
My parents.
And my grandma. (We mostly came up with Will's name from my grandma's husband William, but it is in the family on both sides)
It was such a great day. Thanks to all who came!

A couple random moments this weekend.

We were lucky enough to be invited to the Bee's Game on Friday night with Richie's in-laws. They had a suite and it was so nice! We had a blast, and Will and I got to sit inside with the air conditioning! Now that's my kind of game! The Bee (I think his name is Bumble) came to visit all the suites, and Caydence LOVED him!

Then on Saturday I went with my family to a wedding reception for my cousin. I was excited for everyone to meet Will, especially my Grandma Preece (Will's Great-Grandma) so I had to get a picture of the two of them.

Caydence

So it seems like our blog (and pretty much life in general) has been focused on Will lately. It's been a really hard thing to balance my energy and attention between the two kids, especially when Will is still SOOOOO dependent- and he doesn't talk back to me :)

So I've decided to dedicate this post to Caydence, and let's face it, she's been coming up with some pretty cute things to say that I'd like to remember.

•At church the Sunday after Will was born Caydence went around telling everyone "this is my perfect baby brother I wanted." It was too cute!!

•Last night she was dressing up as a bride (even using suckers as her bouquet) and telling everyone she was marrying William- which she pronounces Wee-um. I said "I don't think that's legal" and she kept saying "yeah, it's legal!"

•I bought her a little witch costume in the after-Halloween clearance sale last year because she LOVES to dress up. She calls it her "scary cow-stume.". She always asks "How I look?" but she tells you how to respond. For this outfit you are supposed to say "scary!" Don't say cute, or she'll correct you :)

•Every time Will cries she has an explanation: "I think he's hungry," "maybe he wants his dad," "maybe he wants his finky (binky)." But my favorite was when she said, "I think he doesn't like that shirt." I asked her why and she said, "he's scared of the scary monster on it." (It has a little bulldog face, which she thinks is a monster because of the two sharp teeth sticking out )

•She wants to be very independent and do everything by herself, which is good and bad. I really like that she can help me out but sometimes she is pretty slow and sometimes it's things I don't want her to do. I don't know how people have kids so close together, 3 years has been pretty nice.

•Caydence is such a good big sister. She just wants to love him and hold him all the time. I went in the bathroom to brush my teeth really quick and left Will on my bed. In the 10 seconds I was in the bathroom she slipped into my room and picked him up!! It scared me to death! But she actually did pretty good. I ran to grab him and everyone was ok.

•I wish I could remember all the things she says. She just makes me laugh all day long. I sure love that little (actually BIG) girl!


-Tarin

William James

So, now that Will is 2 weeks old I'm finally blogging about his birth!! Was I overwhelmed and busy? No, actually quite the opposite! But I wanted to collect everyone's pictures first.....and we don't have the internet. Well I finally have both, so here it goes.

I was scheduled for July 27th, but with 1 week to go the doctor changed it to the 26th because he was going out of town. He said the hospital would call me the day before and give me all the details. Well, 10:30 the night before and I finally called the hospital and they tell me my doctor never called to change it, so I was still scheduled for the 27th. I went to bed that night not knowing what day I was having him. I think that was actually better because then I was able to sleep that night without anxiety :) So the next morning I played phone tag with my doctor for half the day because he wanted to change to that night after all. So finally we got it all worked out with the hospital and I had just a few hours to get ready.

We checked in at 4, and I was very nervous but I actually felt a lot better than last time. After all the paperwork and stuff we walked into the O.R. at 6:00 and little Will was born at 6:17. Everything was great (other than the epidural!! It was WAY more painful than last time, and I did not like the anesthesiologist very much). Oh, and I forgot that his head got stuck. Is that possible with a c-section?! Yes! 2 of the doctors were putting all of their body weight on my chest trying to push him out. I was literally waiting to hear my ribs crack! It was pretty painful. But once his head was out everything was good. He ended up only weighing 8 lbs 14 oz, but they were all freaking out about how big his head was. I don't think it looks disproportional, but they were all surprised.

Anyways, here he is:

And this one is Caydence. Twins? Yep. Clones of Danny? Yep.

Love this face!

Caydence LOVES him!! Maybe a little too much, ha ha.

I love this picture; Caydence and Will have the exact same profile! Those noses are identical!

Our first family photo.

Proud papa.

Going home 3 days later. You forget how tiny they are!

Our first night home together. What a cute bunch!

Things have been great! It helps that Danny got 2 whole weeks paid paternity leave!!! He has to go back to work tomorrow, and then we'll see how life really is. I'm loving having little Will and 2 kids is great! I can't believe that he is almost 2 weeks old! I wish he would just stop growing so fast! He's been an amazing baby so far (he only wakes up once a night!) and we just can't get enough of him!