Arland

My Arland, 

This past week aunt Chelsee invited us to go to thanksgiving point farm or as you call it the "chicken farm." You were more fascinated with the chickens then the horses, cows or goats! Funny kid. We got to go on a pony ride and you named the horse bullseye and you were telling him to giddy up the entire time! Haha 

We also went on a carriage ride! 

It was so fun to see you and Porter sitting next to each other. Porter just loves you so much! You are such a good big brother! You are always making sure that he is taken care, "mom Porta hungy!" And "NO PORTA! You no do dat!" 

You have been taking gymnastics the past couple months and you can't wait to go "jumping" every week! A couple of weeks ago you went to gymnastics with Grammy and you started hitting your teacher. You were screaming and crying and so Grammy dragged you home that same way. Mom had to take you back to apologize to your teacher but she wasn't there so all week we talked about how we don't hit people and how it makes people sad. That day at gymnastics came and you wanted to color a picture for your teacher, she said thank you and told you how important it is to listen to teacher. You have been GREAT ever since then! Of course we have a pep talk before class every time but you are doing great now! 

Arland you are still loving trains and you love to go on walks with your toy lawn mower. I love to listen to you play with your toys, that wild imagination of yours! Thanks for being my buddy! Love mommy

March 2

This month marks a very important day in my life. It is a day that changed what I had "planned" forever. One year ago Heath and I had found out that we were going to be expecting a new little addition to our family. Arland was going to have a brother! We couldn't be more happy. We had been "planning" our future. Our little family would be growing and soon we would outgrow our little red brick house. We put our house up for sale and had big  plans to move back to our small town we grew up in. We found our dream house and we were determined to have it! We had a buyer for our house and everything was falling into place. Heath was in school and was debating on whether he wanted to take a semester off to work on the "new house." We both felt like our life was so exciting! But in the back of both our minds something felt different. I started showing signs of my little babe having problems. At 18 weeks I went to the hospital for bleeding. Dangerously low amniotic fluid followed that with "signs" of my water breaking. On march 2, 2013 I woke up feeling extremely cramped on my lower right side. It was so painful that I laid on the bed crying. Heath called his parents to take arland and off to the hospital we went. I sat on the hospital bed doing a non- stress test making sure the baby was ok. Heath and I waited for a couple of hours before a doctor came in to do and ultrasound. They were optimistic everything was ok. Baby was sounding great, and I was no longer in pain. The doctor left the room and I felt like I peed my pants. My water broke. I yelled to Heath to get the doctor. They tested the fluid and it came back positive for amniotic fluid. I couldn't breathe or speak. They told me that they would be sending me to the university of utah by helicopter. Heath would have to drive. I couldn't think. I felt so alone, and scared. My doctor held my face in his hands and looked at me in the eyes and said "It's going to be ok, you are not alone. And this is not your fault." I cried as the life flight team came in. One of the life flight nurses held my hand and told me that she wouldn't leave me. I felt comforted by her. Like I had known her forever. I felt connected to these people that helped me that took care of me. I wrote more about this day 1 year ago on my blog. I wrote about my fear, my faith in these people and the love I was shown that day. But I will never forget the comfort I felt from my Heavenly Father that day, and every day after that. It is a time in my life I will never forget. 

Best Friend

This past week has been filled with errands and finding fun things to do with cousins and playing outside. Heaths brother josh has been remodeling a house and Heath has been helping on it when he had the chance so the boys and I packed up one day to go play over there and to see daddy! As we are in the car driving over I told Arland that we were going to play with his cousin Adie ( he loves her) and he got excited and started shouting "I love adie!" Then I told him, " arland did you know that Adie is going to have a baby brother just like you have baby brother Porter?!" He paused for a second and then said " ya I love Porter, he my BEST FRIEND." I Had to turn around and ask him, "what did you say?!" And he said it again "Porter my best friend." I was so happy I could cry. Ever since I found out I was pregnant with Porter I hoped that they would stay close through all their years. I was so happy that Arland would have a brother close to him. Someone to be "best friends" with. This little moment made my heart flutter with happiness! I truly love these boys more then they will ever know and I am so happy that for now they are "Best Friends." 

My loves

Today we made our way over to the doctor. It was a pretty breezy visit though, no shots for Arland and Porter got a booster shot. So minimal tears were present. 

ARLAND: 28 lbs (15%) and (60%) for height! This is fantastic because he never even makes the chart in his weight but the doc said that is just the way he is built tall and skinny! (Lucky him) 

PORTER: 15.10 lbs (2% birth) and (20% birth) height! My little premie is catching up to the big kids now and I am so happy about this! He is LOVING food ( all kinds) right now and eats constantly! His development is perfect and right where he should be. He wants to crawl so bad and is so close! But he can sit up and he growls at you when he wants something, and he is loud! 

Oh and we rode the train after at the mall because this little boy LOVES trains. Notice the conductors hat! 

three

You see I have this love/hate relationship with birthdays. He isn't 1 or 2 any more he is 3! When they are 1 and 2 they are still babies. They are learning to walk, talk. They have to still be rocked to sleep at times.  When they turn 3 they are no longer baby..... He is now a little boy. So you see when birthdays roll around I get so sad that all their "baby" moments are going so fast. On the other hand I love who Arland is right now. He is funny, smart, snuggly. He is caring and thoughtful "momma you fine?" He is sassy " momma I NO do that!" He is ready for adventure "momma I ready!" He is loving. 

For Arlands birthday he awoke to a choo choo track outside his room! He was thrilled! Then we had birthday pancakes with sprinkles and then daddy took Arland swimming at the pool. After that they went to Mcdonalds and played! He was exhausted after that! So home it was and he spent the next 3 hours taking a much needed nap before his guests arrived. When Arland woke up he had a fun choo choo outfit to put on from Great Grandma Jepsen! He LOVED it! Then his guests arrived. Trevor, Chelsee and Flynn.  Josh, Whitney and Adie. Great grandma Pulham. Jason, Melissa, Charlee and baby Ruby. Grandpa and Grandma Neubert with Aunt Sophie and uncle Noah. And our cute neighbors Kaitlyn and Maycee. We had so many fun people here and you loved playing with all your friends. 

Happy number 3 my sweet boy. 

The Dentist

Oh yes it is now time. Time for arland to take a friendly trip to his friend the Dentist. We rushed there this morning because I always push appt to the (very.last.minute) anyway. We got there and they showed arland to a chair where they would take his xray and wasn't having it. So forget that the dental hygienist said and moved him onto the chair where they would clean his teeth. He climed on the chair and laid down watching tv while they cleaned his teeth, he did great! He even let the dentist look in his mouth! No cavities and his teeth looked great! 

The littles

Arland,

Where do I start you have a few sayings that you say over and over. "Mom you ok? I'm fine mama I fine"

When I ask you to do something: "NO I NOT!"

When you are talking to Porter: "I know Porta I know Porta"

"Mom I hungy!" And then you pretend burp after that. 

Kiddo you make me laugh! 

Arland you are also fully potty trained now! Woohoo! It is the BEST! You also LOVE  planes, cars and of course your all time favorite is trains! You love to take pictures and pretend cook. You LOVE to go to bed! ( luckiest mom right here) you say " mom I go home my bed" when you get tired. We love you little guy! You brighten my day and keep us laughing! 

Porter, 

Happiest person ever right here, you rarely make a fuss and you are constantly smiling! You are my joy baby and keep us on our toes! You love to just watch everyone and be apart of the crowd, quiet as a mouse! Grandpa Dave said that you are just like auntie Emm. Quiet and content. The past couple weeks you have been really sick, double ear infection and pneumonia. After trips back and forth to the doctors we finally got you some medicine and now you are just peachy! I hated seeing you so sick. Now you are back to your old self, after a trip to the emergency room and several doctors we are just glad that your happy self is back! We love you porter and are so happy we can call you our little peanut.