Jubilant June

June 2, 2017
My sweet baby Caleb

June 7, 2017
I have fond memories of growing up and my dad would make Chocolate Chip Cookies. It was always so much fun to try to be as sneaky as we could to "steal" some cookie dough. My dad was the best; as an adult, I'm sure he was pretending not to see. My boys share the same love of cookie dough! And love to sneak it as well!

 Someday you'll get to enjoy the yumminess of cookie dough too, Caleb.

We haven't been getting out of the house as much lately as we are use to. It's just so hard when  you have a newborn. Today we got some much needed fresh air! 

June 9, 2017
Because Conner didn't get to go to Grandpa and Grandma Dietz house in May, they took him for a special outing today. The went to the store and he got to pick out this super cool Mickey car. He loves it!

I see a lot of bike rides with Grandpa Eggett in Isaac's future. He loves bikes! Whenever he sees one, he says "a-mine" to tell you it's his bike. And he wants to get on it too!

June 10, 2017
We had an awesome day celebrating Conner's 3rd birthday. Ammon and I have chosen to do birthday parties for our kids odd birthdays, and a family gathering for their even birthdays. That means this was a birthday party year! We decided instead of us giving him presents (he'll get presents from his friends and extended family) we were going to have a birthday party somewhere fun. We decided on The Jumpy Place. It's a play center that has a bunch of blowup toys. We invited Conner's friends and cousins. We had pizza and cake and ice cream. It was such a fun party!

 Conner LOVED his cake! It was a fun one to make! I wish I had made it two layers though, we had a lot of people at the party so everyone got really small pieces.

 This party boy didn't want to stop for a second to get a picture with his mom. How embarrassing!

 Conner is such a sweet, loving boy. He's always concerned about everyone else's feelings and wants to make everyone happy. He is very obedient. Even if he doesn't want to do what your asking him to do, he will do it anyways (with moaning and whining so you know he doesn't want to). We sure love our Conner and know he is going to accomplish great things in his life!

 Caleb slept through most of the party! haha

June 14, 2017
Conner got the game "Cooties" for his birthday and loves playing the bug game! He'll play with his bug for a while after we're done with the game of putting it together!

Caleb wants to play...just kidding, he wants to sleep!

June 15, 2017
The kids can earn a few smarties when we are getting in the car. To earn them they have to get in their own car seat (not somebody elses) and start bucking. This is to motivate them not to play around when we are trying to go somewhere. Today as we were getting in the van to go home, Conner earned his smarties. When we were almost home (it was nearing afternoon naptime), Conner asked me "Where's my treat?" It's not uncommon for him to drop it, and I always respond, "We'll find it when we get home." But then he said something about it being "in here" and kept asking about his treat. I asked him if he had dropped it and he said no. When we got home I asked him where it went and he pointed to his nose. I looked and sure enough, there it was; lodged way up in there! OH GREAT! He just turned 3 and he's already shoving things up his nose! I call Ammon and we decide I need to take him to Texas MedClinic to get it removed. Which means I (preferably) have to find somebody to watch the other kids while they're napping. I call Melissa (my SIL) and decide I'll go pick up her 11 year old daughter to sit with the other kids while they're napping and I take Conner to get it removed. After picking her up and we're driving home, Ammon calls me again and starts discussing ideas of how to remove it on our own that he found online. One of which is using a vacuum. LIGHT BULB! I can try to use our NoseFrida! When we get home, I try it and the hardest part is everytime I stopped sucking on it to grab it, Conner would sniff in, sucking it back in a bit! But wala! I got it out! And it had dissolved a lot; so my take away from that was, if it's a candy that quickly dissolves, don't freak out. It'll just melt away soon!

June 16, 2017
I think every mother loves the moment when it gets really silent, they start to wonder what mischief their kids are getting into and when they find them, they're actually playing/reading nicely together!

June 18, 2017
For Father's Day the boys got Daddy a few things. But this one was really fun. It's a back rub shirt. If Daddy wants a back rub, he just puts this shirt on and the boys play cars on his back (that's the back rub).

June 25, 2017
Isaac loves to wear other people's shoes. When we're at a family gathering, he'll pick out his favorite shoes from the pile. And when it's time to go, he will bring everyone their shoes. We're not sure how he knows which shoes belong to which person, but he normally does!

You'll wear shoes soon too, Caleb.

June 27,2017
One of Conner's friends gave him a gift card to Toys R Us for his birthday. Today we went to spend it. We walked around looking at all sorts of toys but this is the one he wanted. Hands down! He was so proud to buy it by himself!

June 29, 2017
We've got some Cougar fans here!

June 30, 2017
Conner asked me to take his picture today. So here ya go!

Marvelous May

What makes May so marvelous? A new baby!

May 9, 2017
Every time Isaac sees a bike, he wants to climb on it. He absolutely loves bikes!

May 10, 2017
This is the boy's bedroom. And this is them waking up. Isaac pops out of bed and Conner takes a while longer (normally NOT with a smile!) Isaac sleeps on the car bed, Conner on the top bunk. And soon Caleb will sleep in the crib!

May 14, 2017
Conner and Isaac made me these cute flower pots for Mother's Day. I love little home made crafts from them like this; they're so cute!

The paper says:

If mothers got a flower

for each nice thing they do,

You'd have a great big garden

all growing just for you!

May 15, 2017
Today is my scheduled c-section! We're so excited to meet this little boy! As we were going out the door to go to the hospital (really early in the morning) the hospital called us and said we were an hour late. Oops. I'm not sure where the miscommunication happened. Spoiler alert: the baby was still born this morning. He was later than planned, but that was NOT because we were told the wrong time! After checking in and all that hoopla, they tried to get my IV started. I've always thought it was funny when they tell you "no eating or drinking" and then are surprised when my veins are small (lack of water). Anyways, after 5 sticks they had to call in the anesthesiologist to  numb my hand and get the IV started...THIS is what made my c-section behind schedule. Lol. After that, everything went smoothly!

Welcome to our family, Caleb! We love you so much already!

Grandma Eggett came into town for 2 weeks to help with Caleb's birth. She stayed with Conner and Isaac while I was in the hospital and after I got home. Because I had to have a c-section, it makes it so much easier to have somebody else around to help with my 2 toddlers! Thank you, Mom! We really appreciate all of your help!

Conner calls him "Baby Cay-Love" which we think is adorable

This is one of my favorite pictures. There's just so much love in the picture!

Conner and Isaac both had jaundice, so it was a safe bet that Caleb would have it too. Conner's was caught while we were in the hospital and taken care of before it was time for us to go home. Isaac's wasn't caught for a few days after going home. He was "borderline" so we had to go to the lab and get his blood tested every day until they finally decided to readmit him to the hospital to put him under the bili lights. It was a huge ordeal for me(probably because of all my hormones). With Caleb I told the doctors about this and asked that they don't send us home without bili treatment if he was borderline. Thankfully they listened and since Caleb WAS borderline, they put him under bili lights. All better.

 Getting ready to go home!

 It always takes so long to get discharged...

 Yup, we're still here...

May 21, 2017
Since Grandma has been in town, she decided to give Conner his birthday present a couple of weeks early so that she could watch him open it. We had a fun mini-celebration. I wish so badly that I had video recorded him opening the hot wheels cars, because that face was priceless. He was so overjoyed and excited and just couldn't contain all the emotion!

 The next 3 pictures are best if you can flip through them quickly to see his face changing, but this will have to do.

 He's in love with the "cars like JD's" already!

When Isaac was born, we took a picture of Conner and Isaac sitting in these chairs. We thought it'd be fun to get another one with Caleb :)

May 22, 2017


During breakfast Conner started singing the Itsy Bitsy Spider and knew all the words, I was impressed because we don't sing it that often. I tried to get him to sing it again for the camera, but of course it wasn't as good as the first time!

Ammon decided to have a backyard campout with Conner and Isaac tonight. They were so excited and had so much fun! They both seem to love camping a lot! Momma, Grandma and Baby Caleb slept inside the house.

May 24, 2017
Ammon made a tether ball pole for our backyard. Since we have older cousins, we want to find things that appeal to them in our backyard as well.

May 27, 2017
Here is Caleb's baby picture and baby announcement!

Today Ammon left to go to Illinois to help his parents pack up one of their moving trucks. He took Isaac with him to help me out since I just had a baby and abdominal surgery (c-section). The Powell's also went, but they left Sadie with me to help out with Conner. Ammon and Isaac will be gone for 5 days.

May 29, 2017
Happy Memorial Day! We went to Elise's house and spent the day with her!

May 31, 2017
We went to the children's museum today. Since I didn't have two toddlers to manage, I let Conner paint. (I made the mistake of letting Conner and Isaac both paint one day. I was completely frazzled by the time we got out of the art room!)  Today's painting went much better!