Happy Halloween!

The last few days have been filled with Halloween activities, maybe too many activities for a mom with a newborn. But it has been very fun.

Thursday we went up to Jonathan's work to go trick-or-treating to all the different offices. Colton was really good at grabbing huge handfuls of candy whenever he had the chance and ended up with tons of candy.
Kirsten and Colton dressed up like a cowgirl and cowboy.
This was pretty much the only picture I could get of Colton.


Kirsten knew exactly how a cowgirl is supposed to pose, and apparently this is it.


Saturday Morning Daddy helped Kirsten decorate her pumpkin.




That night we went to the ward trunk-or-treat. Max got to wear Colton's old pumpkin costume. Unfortunately, it was about 90 degrees outside so it didn't last long.


Kirsten's favorite part was the cake walk and pretending to shoot people with her cowgirl gun. Jonathan was busy chasing Colton around all night and I was busy trying to keep Max away from all of the excited kids. So we didn't take very many pictures.
Here's our car all decorated.


And one more picture of Max looking cute.


Pumpkin Patch
I realized I never put pictures of our trip that we made to the pumpkin patch a few weeks ago up.






Eating worms and dirt...

A Baby Story

Well it's been a week since little Max entered the world. Here's his story...
I was supposed to be induced last Wednesday. But early Sunday morning, at about 2:30, I woke up for one of my frequent bathroom trips. When I went back to bed...my water broke. At this time it was at 2:45 and I was really hoping I had just wet the bed because my number one nightmare at the end of pregnancy is having to call someone in the middle of the night to watch my kids. But after the contractions started I realized I better just suck it up and call someone. So we called some really great friends at about 3:00 and they came over. As soon as he got here, at about 3:20, we left for the hospital.
My contractions were about 2 minutes apart at this time so Jonathan rushed us to the hospital. Luckily it's only about 5 minutes away, especially when you run all the red lights. I have never been to the birthing center before so I did not know where it was. Of course there were no signs, so after wandering around the hospital for a few minutes we finally found it. The nurse started checking me in, taking her time, getting my weight...She took me in the room and had me change. While I was changing I had a horrible contraction. I went and laid on the bed and had another really bad contraction. Jonathan started a timer on his phone to see how far apart the contractions were. But before that contraction even ended I told Jonathan that I thought the baby was coming. He called the nurse, and I said "I think the baby's coming". She casually said "okay" and walked into the room. I think she thought I may be overreacting a tad. After taking one look she ran out in the hall and grabbed the on call doctor who happened to be just down the hall. He pretty much had time to put his gloves on and catch the baby. When Jonathan looked at his phone it had been 3 minutes 20 seconds. Max was born at 3:38. So we left for the hospital at 3:20 and had the baby 18 minutes later. It was completely insane! And definitely the way to do it. 2 bad contractions and there he was.
I am just so grateful that everything went the way it did, that i was in the hospital and not in the car.
My mom and Emily came on Tuesday and my dad came on Friday. It was so nice to have them here. They all had to leave today, so now we are on our own.
I'm so mad at myself for not taking more pictures of him with my family. But anyway, here are some pictures of Max's first week.


Kirsten has loved baby Max. I've caught her just staring at him. Although when she came to see us in the hospital she wanted to leave after about 5 minutes to go back to her friend's house. She had tons of fun while I was in the hospital.








Colton pretty much ignores Max. He likes to pretend like he doesn't exist. Better than than him hitting Max, which is what I expected.

Baby Max

Baby Max Davis arrived early in the morning yesterday.
He weighed 8 pounds 4 ounces and was 20 inches.
We are all home and doing great!

Toothless

Well, we have been dreading this day but we made it. And now Colton has a cute little toothless smile. Jonathan had to come to help hold Colton down. He held Colton with his legs facing him and the doctor held Colton's head in his lap while he put gel on his gums to numb it and then he gave him the shots. That was the worst part. Colton screamed bloody murder as he was given about 5 shots in his mouth. Colton is definitely a fighter, Jonathan had to use all of his strength just to hold him down. Isn't it the worst to watch your little babies hurt? I had to try really hard to keep it together. Then they pulled out the teeth. Luckily the teeth weren't at all attached to the bone and they weren't broken. They came right out all in one piece. In between all of this he just laid his little head on Jonathan's shoulders. He was sweaty and tired, but he made it and he was so happy to leave.

It's crazy because Colton has not been this happy in weeks. Which makes me think he's been uncomfortable for a long time, so sad. I'm so glad this is over and that Colton is a happy camper again.

Random

We took Colton to the pediatric dentist last week and learned that his front two teeth are completely separated from the bone, so he has to have them pulled this week. I was attempting to get some pictures of his smile with teeth...but he wouldn't open his mouth. We'll take pictures this week of his new toothless smile.


Last week for family home evening we decorated pumpkin cookies. I had these cookies every fall growing up so of course I have to make them for my kids too.




A couple of weeks ago we had a pretty big rainstorm. This bin was completely full of water and the kids had a blast splashing in it.






Kirsten was playing with chalk one night last week. When I walked outside in the morning this is what I found...totally made my day.


Kirsten's Art Work
I'm a bad mommy and I don't like to save every art project Kirsten does, much to her dismay. So, I take pictures, post them on my blog where they are nice and tidy and not taking up space on my counter, table, drawers...



Kirsten's favorite thing to do is to pretend she is her teacher. here are some of her drawings for her class.


Jonathan had a birthday a couple weeks ago. This is what she drew for him. And she is doing more art.


The hat she made on her meet the teacher day.


They've been studying sea creatures in science.


From the talent lesson in primary.

Nutcracker

Ever since Kirsten saw Emily in the Nutcracker last year she has been so excited to be able to be in it when she turned 5. So, two weeks ago she went to auditions. When we showed up at the ballet studio there were TONS of kids there. They were auditioning 5-7 year olds. The kids were taken into a room with a number pinned on them, the doors were closed and all we could do was wait. They did give us some reading material though..."how to help your child deal with rejection". An hour later she was done. I guess it wasn't at all stressful for the little kids. I think Kirsten thought it was just another day at ballet. The parts were posted the week later and Kirsten is a Mouse! We are super excited. Kirsten was disappointed because for some reason she wanted to be a soldier. We went to her costume fitting yesterday and I think she got excited when she tried on her mouse costume. I can't wait for December 11 to see her scampering across the stage kind of like this...