Slacker YES!!

Yep that's me, I can't believe I have let my blog slack that much but I do have a pretty good excuse, our computer screen cracked and then really cracked with the help of J and M trying to stop him and made the crack much bigger and harder to see the screen. But that was only a few months ago so from June 2010 -Nov 2010 I have no excuse except busy with kids and what not.

Anyways we finally were able to get a new computer and have high hopes of getting our old one fixed so the kids have a computer to play on and hopefully that will keep ours nicer longer. But until then we will share :)

TJ is still liking his job and is still really involved with the fire department. When he is hope and a call comes in i can pretty much guarantee that he will be going and sometimes have no idea how long he is going to be gone. They just had their annual banquet and it was so nice to be able to spend an evening together without kids and honor all the hard work these men do to keep out town safe and help those in need. TJ was awarded Probationary Fire Fighter of the year for 201o and listed all the classes he has complete so far. He has I think 1-2 more classes to finish to be taken off probationary and then will be able to change the frontal cover of his helmet from Orange to Black. He is excited to be able to do this. If you would like to see some of what they do visit http://www.annvilefire.com/ He is currently the Gospel Principles teacher and for the most part enjoys teaching. So you can tell he is busy most of the time.

Makena: Oh what a funny girl she is, She is still loving 1st grade, and is doing a pretty good job so far with her writing, reading, and such. She has had a hard time adjusting to a substitute teacher since hers went on maternity leave the the end of January but she has finally come around and is adjusting better now. She is still loving ballet and we all really enjoy that hour we are out of the house visiting with others while Makena is up with her class. She is such a fun big sister and helps so much with her younger brothers, but she tells me at least a couple of times a week how she wants us to have another girl so she can have someone to dress up and play with other then her brothers. At least for now Jake thinks its pretty funny when she dresses him up in her dress up dresses, but dad not so much LOL.

Tanner: Oh tanner is such a spunky boy and is in love with going to the fire house and playing PS3 with his dad. He is getting ready to start kindergarten this fall and at times I think he is really excited to go and at the really nervous at the same time. He is still going to speech therapy and will transfer to the schools program when he starts in August. He is a good helper at home and I'm going to miss that when he is in school but it will be nice for him to be away for a few hours gaining some independence.

Jake: Jake is such a funny little boy, he thinks he is bigger then he really is and I have had to resort to tipping my chairs on their side and pushing them under the table or he things its fair game to use them to climb onto the table. In the last few weeks he has become more vocal and loves to babble. He to loves being at the firehouse and doesn't mind being inside the fire trucks and loves just to be out in the bay where they are.

Emily: Not much has really change in my live since my last update, I was released as the pianist for the choir and called as an assistant to the nursery leader so Jake and I spend time together in nursery till TJ is done with his class and takes him for the last hour most of the time. ummm not really much to report lol

Such a slacker

I have been such a slacker about blogging since Jake was born. We have been super busy since he was born and lots of things have happened and to many to blog about and get caught up. So I'll try and summarize as best as I can about what has gone on the last 4 months. I'll post a few bigger events with pictures and what not.

So basically we have been busy with 3 kids and tyring to keep up with everyone. Makena completed kindergarten with flying colors and is so excited to enter first grade and I am looking forward to her being gone all day. She is still a bundle of energy and would rather be out and about running here and there then be home and enjoying being quiet LOL. We took Her in for her well child check and she weighed in at 43.3 lbs and 45 1/2 inches tall.

Tanner is quite the little explorer, he finally enjoys going to the firehouse and checking out the firetrucks and playing on the computers they have there. There are a few guys there that really enjoy Tanner and Tanner really loves them, in fact he is always asking to go to the firehouse so he can see "so and so" Thank heavens his dad loves to go so he gets to go quite often. Tanner has been going to speech therapy and really thriving, he loves his therapist and really looks forward to Friday so he can go to speech. We took Tanner in for his 4 year check up and he weighs 35lbs and was 40 inches tall.

Jake is growing like a weed, he is rolling over and loves to get up on his side and scoot his knees under him then roll back over. He is very pleasant and really only cries when he is hungry or poopy! He loves to talk and do his version of blowing raspberry's. He loves his toes and is getting ready to start solids. I love that he is a cuddly boy and that he wants him mommy. We go in for his 4 month appointment at the end of the month so I'll update his weight and such then.

TJ is still loving his job at Farmers Pride and as well as working at the fire department. He is teaching the 14-18 year old youth in our church and they love him. Just hope one of the girls will be willing to babysit one of these days hee hee.

I am doing good, just doing the same old thing keeping kids at bay and doing what I can to keep a happy home.

Now that we have been in PA for a year I love it even more then when we first got here. its been nice living closer to family and the area is just beautiful. I love living close to many different places to go and explore. We have been to DC and Baltimore, and have plans to go to Philadelphia and New York City.

Well I'll get working on some posts with pictures and such to try and bring us up to speed as to where we are and what we have been doing!!

Our new little bundle of Joy!

We are happy to announce the birth of our third child Gery Jacob Babcock! We will be calling him Jacob. Gery is my fathers name and Jacob comes from the Babcock side. Anyways he weighed in at 7 lb 10 oz and 19 1/2 inches long he is my biggest and and almost a pound bigger then Tanner who weighted 6 lb 15 oz and he was also an inch longer then both the other 2. I feel great for being 2 weeks post delivery and I tack that to having a good nights sleep the night before the induction and only having to push a total of 9 minutes yep I said 9 minutes. Anyways here are some pictures from his birthday.

The birth story.

I went in to see the doctor on Monday Feb 8th because I had been in labor for 3 days and knew my body or mind could not make it much longer. Anyways while there she stripped my membranes again and I found out that I was 4 cm and 70% so I had progressed some during all of this but still wasn't having consistent contractions. So we set up the induction for the next morning at 6am. I started having stronger contractions Monday night but still they were not getting any closer and I was able to get some sleep Monday night. We woke up early Tuesday morning and called the hospital to make sure we were still ok to come in. They ended up calling us back like 5 mins later saying come in an hour later. We get to the hospital, check in and they get me all hooked up and the anesthesiologist came in and did his thing so I could get my epidural (cool side note the anesthesiologist was LDS and grew up in North Logan). So after receiving my epidural they broke my water about 9 am, but because he was so far engaged no fluid came out so they had a hard time even telling if they had broken the bag of water. They let me labor like this for 2 hrs and after that my contractions were still 2-5 mins apart and I had only dilated 1 cm. So around 11 am they gave me the smallest dose of Pit they could to help get the contractions more consistent. For some reason my right side had a harder time staying numb then my left so I rolled on to my right side to have gravity help the epidural move to my right side. Well after an hour or so they wanted to empty my bladder so I rolled back over and nurse did her thing and when she was finished I was like oh there is a lot of pressure and so she went and got the doc, she checked me and I was complete and +1 and its maybe 12:45 ish by this time. We decided to labor for a little bit to see if he would move down on his own and shortly after another doc came in with the resident and wanted to see if i could push him down some. So with the next contraction I pushed and he was like "OK" and he was out the door to get the other doc that would be helping the resident and my OB deliver the baby. So by this time its about 1:00 ish and she wanted to see how I did pushing so again with the next contraction I pushed and she said stop and told the others to break down the bed and got dressed. I started pushing at 1:02 and he was born at 1:11pm it was maybe a total of 6 or so pushes and he was out. They put him up on my tummy and TJ got to cut the cord. After that they did the normal baby stuff and weighted him and they even gave him his bath right their in our delivery room which I thought was very cool since that is always the part I missed with them going to the nursery. He weighted in at 7 lbs and 10 oz and was 19.5 inches. He latched right on and has been such a great nurser. Over all he has been the quickest delivery but by far the longest labor

Weight

First bath!

My superman!!

All clean

Our first family photo!!

Makena and Jake

Getting ready to come home! This was the first outfit that we picked up for him.

My three beautiful children

My boys!!

Tanners Birthday

It has been a wild and fun 4 years with this little boy, Starting off life with a week stay at 17 days old with RSV, then a move to Oklahoma where we spend 3 years and now here we are in PA. You have grown up so much, achieved so much and are constantly on the go,

until your little body says "I need sleep." You are such a joy to our family and we could not be complete without having you with us. We love you and are excited that you are going to be a big brother and what a wonderful big brother you are going to be!!

We asked him what kind of cake he wanted and he always said a race car cake so this is what we came up with! Thanks for Grandma who did the decorating of this cake!!

He was so excited for his cake and couldn't wait for Grandpa and Great Grandm

a and Great Grandpa to show up so we could open presents and eat cake.

Such a cutie

Still waiting for Grandpa to show up

She was so happy to help celebrate his birthday

Finally its time to blow out the candles!

Opening presents

His cool woody video game

He had found one of TJ's old airplanes and loved taking it everywhere he went, so we found him some airplanes he could take home and play with.

This has to be his favorite present, Its like the fishing game but with the aliens from Toy Story. He has played that thing so much i'm surprised the batteries are not dead yet.

The beautiful quilt he got from Great Grandma and Great Grandpa.

Getting ready for cake and ice cream

Great Grandpa and Great Grandma watching Tanner open presents

Grandpa enjoying his grandson opening his presents

The kids playing with his fishing alien game

here is a video of us singing to tanner and him blowing out his candles, (don't forget to turn off the music)

New Years

New Years was fun this year!! We went over to a members home and played games, ate food and just enjoyed each other's company.

The kids playing

The adults playing a game

Shortly before midnight Tanner crashed so this is how he rang in the new year!

Makena after midnight

Watching what ever was on after the ball dropped.

Us ladies visiting waiting for the boys to finish their game

This is where the boys mostly were. Enjoying the new TV while playing PS3

I love that the girls had to be right in the middle while they were playing.

Sledding!

We had so much fun sledding while in NY for Christmas. Here are just a few pictures and videos of the kids going down the hill.

Climbing up to come down. It was slippery and they had to pretty much crawl on their hands and knees to get up to the top!! WTG Dad for trekking up with them.

Makena getting ready to head down.

Crash!!!

This is probably the only picture I got of Tanner, He was so fast and was either facing away from me or walking back up the hill but I did some video of him.

TJ wanted to join in the fun so he went down but didn't get his feet up enough and was covered in snow

Tanner chasing after his runaway sled

Another Crash

Pure joy!!

Grandpa hitching a ride with Tanner

Makena riding with TJ

Just us

The kids getting pulled to the Tahoe so we could go get some donuts and head home to warm up!

We had so much fun and I even went down just a little part of the hill with each of the kids and it was so much fun. I can't wait to go sledding again with them and hear them laugh and not care about rolling or crashing into the snow!!

Turn the music off so you can hear them laughing.