Pinewood Derby

So I feel like I hit a huge milestone as a mom tonight.  It was my first pinewood derby.  Of course we didn't start working on the car until tuesday...and I went and picked up some paint today for it.  We are the ultimate slackers.  

 Oh Henry...why is your face always messy. 

 This is how my boys look at all times.  Our primary meets right here in the gym and this is what my boys are doing every week as I clean up. 

 Oliver...what a good boy.  You can tell how inwardly nervous he is in this picture. (he's just like his momma like that)

Racing

Here he is watching his car race. 

 So serious. 

 His is the black truck coming in last place.  He actually didn't do too bad and came in second almost every single time. 

 Hens 

 Me doing what I do best. 

 He got the nitro ninja award.  

Weird that we didn't get one picture of the actual truck. 

I just remedied that and took a couple quick pictures of it with photo booth.   Not too shabby for throwing it together last minute.  Cortney just told me "next year I am pulling out all the stops".  We will see. We have a family in our ward with 3 boys and they have never not gotten 1st place.  This was their last year and the dad of that family told Cortney some of his secrets.  Huh...we will see. 

 Oliver thought it was awesome (although he did say it needed to be sanded better and painted again...hahaa)

So TWICE now I have found random computer t-shirts in our laundry.  Cortney and I both have NO IDEA whose shirts they are.  It is blowing my mind.  Either one of us is having an affair with a super nerdy computer person...or some one is sneaking into our house and doing their laundry.  

Is this your shirt???

Weird right?

A blessing and a name

Bright and early this morning we blessed our little 

Theodore Bunker Boice

Our church starts at 9:00 and we can barely make it there on time when we don't have a blessing to get ready for.  We woke up at 7:00 and surprisingly enough made it to the church before it started.  

From Cortney's family we had Bob, Roberta, Cameron, Leah and Tyler.  It was so nice of them to come down and they really had to brave some horrible weather.  Then they turned around and drove right back home.  Hard core huh? (we saw them for a couple of minutes and then they were back on the road)

From my family we had Jason and KaeLynn's Family, Justin and Angelique's Family, Joey and Cali's family, Isaac and Linh, and then my Mom and Dad and Grandma Jones.  

Cortney gave a beautiful blessing.  

After sacrament I had to teach Sharing time and everyone else in my family had to teach too so we all separated and did our duty.  My mom stayed in primary with me which was fun.  

I had Cortney snap a couple of pictures after church of the special guy.  He wore Tyson's blessing outfit because mine was still too big.  It is a funny little outfit and we can't help but call him Chappy or Pip when he wears it.  (oliver also wore this outfit.)

 huh?

 I just wanted a picture of the three of us but Henry has been feeling really left out today.  

 He just started kinda smiling on Tuesday. 

What a cute little profile (his not mine :)) 

 Poor Henry.  All day he has been saying to me "hold you." Don't worry...I held him.  I held him all morning. 

 He loves to hold baby Theo. 

kisses

Theo started crying and Henry was telling him SHHHHH...  

 I love Theo's face in this one. 

Cortney's going for the prophet of old look. 

 Henry was going crazy cause he wanted to hold Theo.  I love how Cortney is with our kids.  He is the best dad.  Seriously.  I asked Oliver today if he thought dad was scary when he got them in trouble.  He said "yeah, but you are scarier."  No kidding. 

 Two old fashioned men. 

After everyone got home from church we met at Cali and Joe's for a little dinner.  It was nice to all get together and our kids love it with all their hearts when we are together as a family.  I love that they love their cousins...they always get along too.  Well...except for the two year olds. 

 Brook and Stella. 

I spend a lot of my time doing just this.  Theo takes a long time to drink a baba.  30 minutes at least.  When I nursed it was 10 minutes at a time max...so this seems long to me. 

 Cali and Dad working in the kitchen. (LIKE ALWAYS)  

Have I mentioned Cali is PREGGERS.  Yup.  She is pretty darn sick right now and still working in the kitchen.  I am pretty sure it is okay to mention it on here because she told her young women today...if not...oops the cat's out of the bag.  

6 kids.  Yikes. 

She is due in July. 

Ty watching football.

Noni.

Yup still feeding the baby. 

We just started yesterday trying out the Dr. Brown bottle.  So far it hasn't really changed how much he spits up.

Look at that cute little hand.   (i lost my thumb nail the week Theo was born, it's finally coming back in)

Eliza

Jack

Rob

It has been so nice having my parents back. (they leave again on Wednesday.  It went TOO FAST.  They head to Mexico for a month and then on to Arizona.)

Tyson and Zac.

It was a nice day.  I am glad everything is over (this weekend I had a breakfast for all my teachers here at my house...5 people showed...then I had the blessing and dinner, sharing time, and rob had a talk.)  I am EXHAUSTED.  

Thanks to all of our family that came.  We love having your support!

shock to the heart

So I called the cardiologist yesterday to schedule Theo's appointment.  They said they couldn't get me in until feb 7th.  I told them my doctor wanted me to come in sooner.  They called my doctor and then called me back and scheduled for me to come in this morning at 8:30.  My doctor was concerned that the murmur wasn't a "normal" sounding murmur and wanted them to see me right away.  Especially since he hadn't heard the murmur before. They said that the appointment would last 3 hours so to come prepared for that.  It was pretty scary going in I am not gonna lie.  I didn't know what to expect, but I knew I would be able to handle it.  No way this baby was healed to have serious heart problems.  

My mom came with me for a little bit of the appointment (they had a lunch in salt lake today).  It was nice having her there.  

 First they hooked him up to an EKG.  Everything looked good.  He hated when they took off the stickers. 

After the EKG he had and echocardiogram.  Which was basically an ultrasound of the heart.  It lasted over one hour.  Little Theo was good and slept most of the time.

They have to hold still to get the images they need.  I was amazed at how good he was. 

After a LONG nerve wracking 3 hours the doctor came in and told me his heart looked normal.  NORMAL.  Hallelujah.  He does have a small hole in his heart but it is common for a baby his age to have that and it will most likely close on its own.  

Theo is seriously amazing.  He passes EVERY test with flying colors.  I swear he is going to be a prophet someday.  Cali says he will probably get a 1600 on his SAT's.  hahaha.  What a good baby.  I was so relieved. 

Theo 2 months

Length 21inches 2.62 percentile
Weight 8.33 lbs 2.25 percentile
Head Circumference 14.7 inches 7.22 percentile

I can't believe how big he has gotten.

They heard a heart murmur this time around so we will have an appointment with the cardiologist sometime in the next week or so.

I don't feel like it is anything big.

He is so cute...and exhausted from getting his shots.

baby it's cold outside

here we are all ready to go to the grocery store.  NEVER mind that henry has no shoes on.  I have no idea where his are.  

 Poor baby really has a lot of baby acne right now.  He needs a little proactive. 

 Yup.  I have 4 boys (and I have to bathe them all tonight...YICK).  And yes rob is eating a pepperoni stick. 

sitting in my room

I have been sitting around in my house a LOT since Theo was born. It gets pretty boring but for some reason I can't face getting everyone ready to go and run an errand.  I don't think there has ever been a time in my life where I have spent this much time in.  

Rob and Henry love their Christmas pajamas.  Rob thinks they are so comfy that he has worn them almost every single day since he got them.  He puts them on the second he gets home from school.  Every couple of days I throw them in the laundry.  It is kinda becoming a problem.  He REALLY wanted to wear them to the airport when my parents came...but I told him no.   

Henry wants to wear them too but his pi's get dirty much faster than Rob's.  This day he was freaking out because his were dirty so we had to find other pants he could wear with them.  

 I love it when my kids are getting along. 

 I love how Henry is looking at Rob in this picture.  He was talking to him about the movie. 

My little guy all dressed up in a big boy outfit.  (size newborn)  I got my 0-3 month clothes out today and they still DROWN him.  It is amazing.  He looks HUGE to me. 

He is 7 weeks old now and spitting up like CRAZY.  I have tried everything (even the gripe water in the bottle trick Melissa) and nothing is working.  All my babies spit up so it isn't anything new but STILL I would like for once to not have to carry 30 burp rags with me.  I always tell people they will need a lot of baby blankets.  But then it turns out they don't.   I always need a lot because my babies are spitting up on them.  Hmmmmphh.  He is still pretty awesome though and is sleeping really good.  I even had him sleep 7 hours straight once this week...which is very exciting for me.  I can't wait to get a little more sleep around here.   

I can't help but think he looks just like this guy from Charlie and the Chocolate factory.  (it was playing while I was in the hospital)