Halloween Fun

 Sam LOVES to bake, so for a fun Halloween afternoon activity, she made cookies for some friends.

 I've been teaching her to crack eggs.  It still gets a little messy, but that's why we crack into a seperate bowl before we add it to the rest of the mix.

 She loves that I let her use the hand mixer now. 
She's such a big girl!

 Sam is the Special Person at school this week, so she got to fill out this poster to take back to school on Monday.  (With some help from Mom, of course.)

 My adorable little Dragon and Princesses!

 Trick or Treating with Carter!

Alison couldn't wait...she just had to have a treat while we were still out trick or treating.

We had a great time at the Oakley Ward Halloween Party!  We enjoyed a chili cook-off, a costume parade for the kids, carnival games, a spook alley, and trunk or treating. 

It was all so much fun!!

Alison was so happy to get this cupcake!

And even happier to eat it!

 

 My little moster.  So cute...so spitty!

 Sam loved decorating mini pumpkins!

And was very excited by this tiny bottle of bubbles!

This past week has been hard.  Emotions.  Hormones.  Lack of sleep.  Learning to juggle three kids.  Whatever it is (probably all of these things), I feel like I'm kind of falling apart these past few days.  I'm crying about nothing and yelling at the kids about most things and irritated about everything.  But for the most part, I'm good at faking it so that nobody really knows how I feel.  But then tonight at the ward halloween party, a super good friend asks me how I'm doing, and just the very act of it being her that asked, my eyes immediately began to tear up.  Funny how that is.

I noticed recently that my restless leg syndrome from pregnancy is gone now that I've had Jacob.  So nice! 

Then this morning, I noticed that I can take hot showers without blacking out.  Again...so nice!  I love hot showers.

It Hurts to Sneeze

It's been three weeks since I delivered Jake and it still hurts to sneeze. Like a lot! I can't remember if I had this problem, to this degree, with my first two.

Speaking of sneezes, this little guy of mine sneezes so much! I should get him a little shirt from the Disney Store with Sneezy on it.

Jake's First Bath

I gave Jake his first bath this morning. He was calm for the first minute or so, but didn't like it after that. Alison was my little helper, but really just ended up splashing him a bunch of times. I guess that's 2 year old help for ya.

I just love this kid!  Can't get enough of him!

So Foldable

Really?  This is comfortable?  I just love when babies are so foldable.  Jacob falls asleep while sitting up all the time and then totally slumps over.  It's so cute!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUNT JAMIE!!!

Sam made this J out of rice krispy treats and then frosted and decorated it for Aunt Jamie's birthday cake.

Jamie's cake!

Look at how cute Alex looks trying to blow out the candles!

Alex eating part of the J

Cake!

More cake!

Grandpa Dearman & Jacob

Alison...so cute!

Taunya & Sean with Jacob.

This is what Alison does when she's been caught doing something naughty. She wasn't supposed to be playing with the little hay bale.

 Samantha LOVES to hold Jacob!

 Alison took this apple off the counter and then all she did was lick it.

Then she pretended to bite it.  Weird.

Jake's Bear

My girls were so worried that Jacob didn't have a special bear, so we had to get him one. 

Here's what we picked!

 Babies sleep funny.

Samantha is such a proud big sister.  She loves her new brother!

2 Weeks Old

I didn't feel this way with this baby, but this comic reminds me of a funny moment after I had my first.

After I had been home from the hospital for a few days, Jason had to go back to work. While he drove away that morning I stood in the doorway holding little Samantha feeling terrified, thinking, "Now what?  Don't go."

On behalf of newborn Jake: "Yeah, you'd be screaming too if you just peed during a diaper change and it got in your eyes and mouth!!!"

Mommy's not very good with boys yet.

Aunt Taunya Comes to Visit

 Aunt Taunya came over to visit this morning and hold little Jake.

 Everytime someone comes to see Jacob, Sam likes to hold him to show our visitor that she's such a good big sister.

Grandma Stout helped Sam make this cake to celebrate Jacob's birth!

Second Day of Life

 Aunt Jamie brought the girls on Thursday morning to see their new little brother.

 My Samantha sure is growing up!

 She's such a good big sister!

 Sam is handing Jacob a present.  It's just a few baby toys that belonged to the girls.  But they picked them out of their toys especially for Jacob.

 Alison thinks he's so cute!  She says it all the time!  I love the sweet look she has right here.

 Family of five!

 Kaiser provides a nice celebration meal.



Jen, one of my bestest friends, came to visit us in the hospital.

She's a rock'n photographer and came for a new newborn photo shoot.  Thanks girl!  I owe ya! 

(I'll post her pics soon.)

Cindy came to visit us! 
(Miss you since you moved out of the ward!)

Mommy & Jacob

He's so alert!

Getting ready to go home.

His outfit says, "Daddy's Happy, I'm a Boy."

So ready to go home.

During my whole pregnancy, the girls called him "The Brother Boy".

He brought a few gifts home for his big sisters!

They couldn't get enough of him.

Alison kept saying, "He's so cute!"

Spent the evening just cuddling with our new little guy.