What an interesting 3 months its been. Since Easton has been born we have faced a lot of challenges as well as seen many blessings in our lives. I want to start off with my sweet kids and update the blog on their developments.

Oakley is now 19 months old. She weighs 21 pounds and is 29 inches. She is growing up and becoming quite the beauty. She keeps us very busy and entertained. Everyday I am surprised by her and catch my self thinking, "wow she is so amazing".
OHH the things she can do:
*WALK up and down the stairs with out holding on to the railing or someone's hand
(Everyone that knows Oakley knows how short her little legs are... 29" tall is very little for her age. I don't know how she does it)
*she can almost do a somersault with out help
*climb out of the pack n play
*do a hand stand in the pack n play
*jump
*take off her cloths and diaper
*put on ANY type and anyONEs shoes by her self
*sleep in a big girl bed
*go potty in the potty (we are in the middle of potty training)
*she loves to sing
*she climbs up on everything. She loves to climb up on the table and counters and dance, and walk around and get into trouble.
*Eats her food with a fork and spoon... Still messy but getting better
*screw on and unscrew lids (unfortunately)
*fasten seat belts and buckles on the baby's swing, car seat, and her high chair
*crawls around and pretends shes a kitty and doggy
*We will ask her to point to a cow for example in a book and she will and then says Mooo
*reads her self a book
*has full conversations on the phone
*text people haha
*call
*leads the music at church
*zip and unzip stuff

Words and Sentences- Oakley tries to say pretty much everything.. She will try the best she can to repeat us and say something that we ask her to say.. these are her most common words that she can say very well.
*Apple
*Banana
*candy
*juice
*hi
*hello
*hey
*dog
*kitty
*Miley
*Mom
*mommy
*MAMA (grandma)
*PAPA (gpa)
*Daddy
*Dad
*Sheila haha she came up to me and said "Sheila"! (the best she could) and continued on with what she wanted from me... I was dying!
*Brother
*Easton
*Baby
*binky
*nose
*eyes
*ears
*hair
*shoulders
*elbows
*knees
*fingers
*toes
*belly
*lips
*she calls chap stick "bips"
*pretty
*make up
*brush
*teeth
*cheeks
*pants
*shirt
*shoes
*dress
*ouch
*hurt
*owie
*dance
*stop
*bed
*snowman
*marshmallow
*boom!
*I Love you
*I want that
*I want (whatever it is she wants) Love that she can tell me what she wants now
*Don't do that
*I want to go potty
*I go pee pee
*I go pooh pooh
*"I said No!" grr what an attitude!
*Hello, how are you?
*go to bed
*Holy cow!
*high five
*pound it
*Tine (aunty Chrisitne)
*Jake (uncle)
*Heather (aunt)
*Shanae, or Nae (friend)
Oakley can say and do lots of other things as well but this is all I can think of right now. She is really good at listening and doing what we ask her to do or say. She loves to try to repeat things we say.


Easton is 3 months old. He weighs 12 pounds and is 23 inches long. He is a little baldy with blue eyes and long eye lashes. He is very smiley and sweet. His little personality is really starting to come out. Easton knows his mommy and daddy, he can smile, giggle,hold his head up well and roll over(not bad for 3 months old and being severely sick. He loves to smile and jabber to everyone that looks at him.
He has been such a blessing to us. I love having two beautiful children. I don't know what I would do with out either of them. Oakley loves Easton so much. She loves to hold him and make him smile. He is very tough and patient with her while she tries to pick him up, sit on him, climb in the swing with him and shove the binky in his mouth. I LOVE HAVING TWO!!!!! They already love each other so much and nothing makes me happier than seeing them interact and love each other.

LIFE ALWAYS HAS ITS CHALLENGES AND SOMETIMES ITS HARD TO SEE THE GOOD IN THEM. BUT! WE ARE MAKING IT THROUGH AND SEEING MORE AND MORE BLESSINGS COME OUR WAY THROUGH OUR FAITH AND TRUST IN THE LORD.

When Easton was 1 month old I was admitted to the hospital for four days. I had a horrible kidney infection, dehydration and some other problems they are still trying to figure out. Two weeks after I was released, Easton came down with RSV along with all the kids I babysit and Oakley. Easton only being 6 weeks old, could not handle it very well. We were doing breathing treatments and taking him to the hospital every 6hrs to have them suck out his nose and monitor his breathing. The worse came and went but he never seemed to get all the way better. I then got very sick again and spent some more time in the hospital getting IVS and having tests ran. We then moved out of our house in one day and are currently staying at Eric's parents house until our new house opens up on the 22 of this month. Seven more weeks passed since Easton had RSV and I ended up taking him back into the doctor because he was still having a hard time breathing, coughing a ton, and crying all day and all night long. They put him on medicine for acid reflux and told us his lungs still sounded bad and sent us over to get a chest x-ray on him. Two days later they called us and told us he had pneumonia. They put him on another antibiotic and two steroid breathing treatments. They wanted us to go back in at the end of the week to check his sats and listen to his lungs. His lungs were still junky and his sats were still low so they admitted him to the hospital. They put him on more antibiotics and steroids through IV and pumped him with lots of fluids. WOW what a difference the fluids did for him. They were able to send him home the next day. THANKFULLY! In the meantime of all this they told me they received my EGD results and they think i have Celiac disease which is the gluten allergy.
Life as you can tell has been crazy,busy, and a little bit scary. I have never been so thankful for the power of the priesthood and the love and support from family and friends!! We are so blessed!

Easton is here and life is amazing!

 

On December 3,2010 at 7:18pm, our family welcomed Easton Mitchell into our family. He was six pounds six ounces nineteen inches long. He is healthy and beautiful and has already blessed our family in so many ways. Easton is the best surprise we have ever gotten and he couldn't be here at a better time. We know that Heavenly Father has a special plan for our family and we have never felt so close to our Father in Heaven and to eachother. I can honestly say I have never been happier. I am the luckiest mother in the world to have these two beautiful children to learn from, to raise, to love, and to teach them in the Saviors way. I have never felt so blessed!
Oakley absolutley loves Easton! She is so fascinated by him and wants to help in everyway she can. She gives him his binky, covers him with his blankets, helps burp him, and gives him lots of loves and kisses. She is very worried when he cries and will tell him "shh shh".oakley has not shown a single sign of jelousy, I am honestly amazed with how well she has done with him. She acts like he has always been here and she knows who he is. She loves to sit on my lap with him just so she can be next to him and give him lots of kisses.
I love my kids so much! I didn't think it was possible to have more love than I do for Oakley, but the love is just doubled and there is a whole new meaning to it now that I have two.
If you are wondering how I am handling two kids so close in age, or if it is way hard, I can honestly tell you that my life has never been better. Yes Easton has only been here for a week, and I have my mom's help, but I still do all of my motherly responsiblities and I have not once even thought, "this is hard" or "how am I going to do this". I have only thought "wow I am so lucky" and "WOW my life is perfect". Yes, life is busy, very very busy, but I would not have it any other way. I have the perfect husband who I love with all of my heart and who is the best Daddy in the world. Eric and I make a very good team and have never felt so close as a couple. Our children are our world and we can hardly wait till it is time to add to our happy family. We have so many hopes and dreams for our children and we will do everything in our power to make sure our children know they are loved, feel our support, and have everything they deserve.
I love you and oakley and Easton, thank you for making my life so amazing!

Oakley is growing up

I havent been very good at writing down the cute things Oakley has been doing lately and I really don't want to forget!! Sooo here are some of the milestones she has hit in the last few months to the best of my memory

Oakley started walking at ten months old, since then she has taken off and turned in to a toddler, its trues, she is no longer a baby :(

She climbs up on the couch and gets her self down
She climbs off of our big bed
she walks up and down the stairs either holding someone's hand or on to a railing
she carries her babies around and feeds them, puts them in her old car seat, and gives them loves and kisses
she knows where her eyes, ears, mouth, nose, teeth, head and hair are
When we ask her to do something she understands and tries to do it, like gets her diaper when she needs a change
when were reading a book and I ask her to point to the dog she does
she sits down and reads her self her books
she can blow her own nose
she folds her arms for prayers
at church she sings along and wavess her arm like she is leading the music
she can sign please and thankyou, and some others
she blows kisses
she gives kisses
she feeds her self with her fork and spoon
she dances when she hears music or when we tell her to
she knows the hand motions to twinkle twinkle little star, five little ducks, five lttle monkeys in the tree, five little monkeys jumping on the bed, and patti cake and tries to sing along
She points to the alphabet letters on the wall and says "B" "C" and "G" on a letter
she loves her shoes and can take them off and can put some of them on depending on the kind of shoe

Words-short sentences
Mom
Dad
Daddy
Hi
Bye
Dog
Fish
Teen
Want that
No
UH HUH
I'm done
want down
stay down (she says this to our dog)
miley (our dogs name)
mine
lets go
stinky or "tinky"
book
jump
Uh OH (learned at 8 months) and is still her favorite word and game
She repeats little words I say to her all day it really amazes me

This is what I can remember right now but she is learning and picking up new things everyday. She is very girly, she loves to get her hair done (most days), she puts on necklaces and bracelets, tries to put on make up with me, carries around purses and loves her babies and stuffed animals. She has the cutest personality, she can be quite the firecracker, but is still very sweet. She is very independednt and opnionated. If we let her get down and walk in the store, church or anywhere else we are, she takes off and doesn't care if were right behind her or not... she is very brave and thinks she can get where she wants all by her self.
Everyday I wonder how I am so lucky to have such a beautiful, smart, perfect little girl! Words will never be able to tell how much I love her and am thankful for her.

OH BOY OH BOY

I finally got my 16-20 Week ultra sound done at 22 weeks. Oh life is crazy but the ultra sound was amazing! I love being able to see the baby and have reassurance that he is growing and developing ok. He looks pretty cute already! He has super long legs! I can't believe it... I don't think we are getting another teeny tiny baby. The ultra sound got me so much more excited for him to be here, its amazing how much I love this little guy already! I LOVE BEING A MOMMY!

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