Eden Meets Grandma Lyril

It took us a while, but we finally got Eden over to meet Grandma Lyril.  She must've liked it because she slept the whole time we were there.  

Barrett was excited to go over there so he could play with the catties!  He went out in the backyard for a minute to play with Harley and when I went to check on him, he was crawling through the cat door to get back in the house.  It was hilarious and I was super bummed I didn't have my phone to capture it!

Bear & Eli

Nicole only really had a 2 week summer vacation because she teaches summer school.  We had lots of fun during that 2 week break though.

We went to the park.

And gymnastics.

And Lagoon.

And the gym, but I didn't get a picture, dang it!

My Busiest Week in a Long Time!

I left the house every day last week, that is a huge change of pace for me since we've mostly been home since I had Eden!
On Monday, I went up Ogden Canyon to The Oaks for a baby shower for Annie Williams.

While I was there, my mom sent me this picture of the boys eating their dinner.  Neil was wearing Eden in the Solly Wrap and put a napkin over her head to protect her from the corn.

They gave her her first bottle ever that night too.

Bear put my Boppy nursing pillow around him and said, "Now I'm the milk feeder!"  A couple days later, Neil put the pillow around himself when he was holding Eden and Bear told him, "You're not the milk, Dad!"

Tink was swimming on Tuesday and tried to do a backflip off the edge of the pool.  She's done that a million times before, but this time, she misjudged the distance or something and landed her little head right on the edge of the pool.  Even worse is her parents were out of town.  Well, I guess that's not worse, but it was unfortunate.

She was SO brave! She didn't cry when she split her head, when they numbed her head, or when they stapled her head!  Amazing!

Me, Bear, and Eden (yes, she's even been getting out of the house a little bit!) went to the Clearfield Aquatic Center and met up with Kelsey, Tyce, and Rylee.  For a while, me, Bear, and Eden had the entire place to ourselves!

But it was more fun with friends.

My mom took Barrett and Tink to get ice cream and Barrett only wanted this ice cream cone with sprinkles on it.  That's progress though because every other time we've gone there, he's ordered a hard, crappy cookie!  At least he got an ice cream cone at the ice cream store this time!

He loved having Tink stay with us until her mom and dad got home.  I thought it was so cute that he wanted to hold her hand while they ate dinner.

Liv came over and played on Friday, but I didn't get a picture of them playing blocks (or anything else) together.

Saturday, the triplets got baptized.

It was a very fun and exciting day!

And we had a BBQ at our friend Monica's on Saturday night to end it all!

Last week, we got the baby swing out of storage.  I don't know what took us so long to get it out, she loves it!  And I love it because she'll stay in the swing long enough (usually) for me to get a few things done with two hands!  Win-Win!

I just love these kids :)

I say this all the time, but Bear really is the absolute best brother.  He's always getting her binky for her and trying to calm her down if she's fussy.  They are lucky to have each other.

I'm Baaack

On Saturday I went back to the gym and did my first class in almost 2 months!  I quit going to the gym at 39 weeks thinking (hoping) I'd be going into labor at any time, but since I didn't have her til 41 weeks and then I waited til she was almost 6 weeks to go back, it was a long break.  I went a few days before and just did the elliptical with my friend Nicole and when that went okay, I thought I could try a class.  I went to pump and just kept my weights light.  It was awesome to be back, see lots of my friends, and get a bit of exercise too!

Now I have to figure out how I can keep going on a regular basis without having to take Eden to the daycare there...

Poor Pops

My parents went up to Burley, Idaho this weekend to participate in the Spudman Triathlon.  While my dad was doing the bike ride, he got a flat tire and as he was getting off the road, another rider's bike touched his back wheel causing both riders to crash hard.  When my dad fell, he broke his collarbone.  It's broken all the way through and he can feel the bones sliding against each other when he moves. OUCH!

This was after they'd gotten back from the hospital and were getting ready to drive home. He also has a HUGE black bruise on his side. They thought that might be a ruptured spleen, but a scan showed his spleen was fine, luckily!

It's broken on the same side as his broken shoulder 5 years ago.
http://callsandneils.blogspot.com/2010/12/long-story.html

We've had a few bad bike crashes in our family in the 5 last years.
http://www.callsandneils.blogspot.com/2010/06/bear-lake.html
http://callsandneils.blogspot.com/2011/06/family-curse-continues.html

We got two huge packages delivered last week and when I opened them, they were gifts for Eden from Neil's boss.  He sent a great big gift basket filled with lots of cute stuff like burp rags, bibs, etc. My favorite part of the gift was this cute picture (? I don't know what to call it) with her name and birth info on it.  Such a nice surprise!

I also loved that she just happened to be wearing her elephant outfit/jammies when it arrived.

It was also quite a rare treat that she was sleeping on the blanket and I could use both of my arms for a short period. 

Baby Friends

Eden got to meet her new buddy Weston the other night.  He is our friends Jason and Heather's 4th(!) child.  He's about 6 weeks older than her and as you can see, quite a bit bigger.  He was a 9+ pound baby and she's still not even 9 pounds! 

They were both kind of stretching.

You can see with their legs stretched out a little more how much longer he is than her too!

It reminds me of when Barrett, Eli, and Zeek were all first born and we took these pictures http://www.callsandneils.blogspot.com/2012/02/1st-play-date.html I couldn't believe how much bigger Bear was then the other two at the time, but they just grow so quickly!

Bear Lake

We spent last week with my family up at our cabin in Bear Lake.  None of these pictures are in order and I just don't care to fix them, so...

Nick and Bear on the paddle board. 

Bear and Tay.  Pretty sure Bear was doing some Karate on Taylor.

Barrett loves Cheetos. I mean, who doesn't though!?

My cousin's daughter Olive, was there with us for a few days.  She and Bear had fun in the kiddie pool.

I think this was the first time in Bear's life that he hasn't slept in a crib, pack n play, or his toddler bed.  I wasn't sure how it would go, but he did pretty well sleeping in his new Lightning McQueen sleeping bag.

SO much tv time!

Jeff brought up his calligraphy ink and pen and let a few of us try it.  It was really fun but pretty hard!

It took me several tries before I could write anything!

Barrett really loves his baby sister and is so good to her.

Bear and Lindsay at the beach.

Bear, Daddy, and Eden.

This was before we left for the lake, but we set up his new Lightening McQueen tent in the house to play in.

Berrie and Eden.

Pops at the beach.

Sean, Jeff, Pops, Tay.

Can you tell who's who?  I can 99% of the time, but I do get tricked occasionally.

Neil was the designated jet ski chauffeur for the kids.  We had lots of fun with that. I wish I would've had more time at the beach to ride it!

Neil and Nick.

That's Pops and LaLa going out for a ride, my mom was terrified!

Reagan and Ollie reading.

That's talent!

Tay, Jill, Berrie, Shelley doing s'mores.  One of my very favorite foods!

At the end of the week, we stopped at La Beau's for some dinner and a raspberry brownie shake.