Random Cuteness!

Everett is now 3 1/2 months old!!  Man this is going by too fast!  He weighs in at a whopping 17 lbs and is in the 98th percentile!  He is such a happy fun baby!  He smiles all the time and is just starting to laugh.  He loves jabbering.  He will just sit and talk to us for a long time.  He loves standing up and hates bending to sit. 

Everett is starting to grab at things now so he always ends up taking his binki out of his mouth but then starts to cry because he wants his binki back in.  (I love that he takes his binki, Kayson didn't want anything to do with them.)  He also loves sucking on his hands but hasn't quite found his thumb.

Everett can sit up in his bumbo now but doesn't like it because his thighs are just too chunky.

One of these things is not like the other.........

We went to Old Navy the other week and Kayson loved the mannequins!  He stayed up there for a good 15 minutes touching them all and petting the dog!  I didn't even notice how perfect he fit in with his Old Navy jacket until later when I was looking back at the pictures!

Kayson stealing a kiss from the cute fake girl!  Such a ladies man!

Kayson is now potty trained!!!!  Yippee!!  It's been sooo nice!  He did it really easily this time too.  We just put him in some big boy underwear one day and kept telling him that he couldn't pee or poop in them and that he needed to tell us when he needed to go.  The first week he only had about 5 accidents and now he rarely has an accident!  We are so proud of him!  He even likes to use the urinals in the men's room!

Everett is such a good sleeper!  He will actually sleep in his bassinet!  He has even slept through the night twice!  He is starting to get too big for it though, so it's off to his room soon.

Kayson LOVES to cook!  Here he is helping dad make some dinner.  I just love this face he is making!  Kayson is such a funny boy and loves to make us laugh!

Halloween 2011

Hallween this year was so much fun.  Kayson was so excited to go trick-or-treating all month!  He is very into The Lion King right now and begged to be Simba for Halloween.  I was so excited when I found his really cute lion costume for cheap!  He loved every minute of Hallween from dressing up, to putting on his costume and getting free candy!  On the Friday before we went to our ward's Trunk-or-Treat.  Kayson had soo much fun running around to all the different cars and saying "Trick-orTreat!"  He would even say "Thank you," and Rawrrrrr at everyone. (Ok so everyonce in a while I think he got confused cuz he ended up meowing at a few people.)  He even wanted to try and go through the haunted house they had set up but once we got close enough and they opened the door he saw the strobe lights going and didn't want anything to do with it. 

Here is Kayson with his buddy Covey.

Kayson loves people watching and loved looking at all the cool costumes.

Everett went as a stinkin cute little pumpkin.  He slept the whole time during the Trunk-or-Treat.

Here is Kayson running to his friends house.

Everett smiling away.  He is such a happy boy!

My two cute boys!! 

I can't believe my baby is almost 3 weeks old!! Last week we took him to his 2 week dr. Appointment and he weighs 9 pounds 8 ounces and is still 21 inches.  He is such a good baby. We love having him as part of our family!

Everett Neil Larson

The birth story:

We went to my 38 week Dr. appointment on wednesday August 24th at 4:15 p.m.  I was dialated to 4 cm and 80 % effaced, so I asked Dr. Ward if he would strip my membranes to get things going.  He said that since I had already made progress he would probably see me again at the hospital in 12 hours.  We were super excited and anxious to see if this would work.  We got home and my Dad came over to pick up Kayson for some ice cream.  By this time (5:45) I had started to get some contractions.  Todd and I decided we should probably clean up the house a little bit and pack our bags just in case tonight was the night.  After cleaning and packing the bags I got in the shower and when I got out I thought the contractions were dying down a bit so Todd told me to go run up and down the stairs and walk back and forth to get them to pick  up again.  Well about 8:45 they were getting pretty painful and were staying at about 3-5 minutes apart so I decided to call my Mom to see if she could come help with Kayson.  After my mom got here we loaded up and drove to LDS Hospital.  We got checked in at about 9:30 p.m. and I was now at 5 cm.  I got my epidural around 10:30 and felt much better.  Kayson was there and just loving every minute of everything.  He wanted to be so involed and was asking "what's that?"  "What are they doing?"  He even begged to watch me get the epidural but had to stay on the other side of the curtain.  Around 2:30 a.m. I started getting extremely painful contractions again and when the nurse checked me I was ready to push.  Todd had left the room to update his family so I had my mom go find him and tell him it was time.  After Todd got back in the room the nurse left to go call the Dr. and didn't come back....  The contractions were extremely painful and I had the feeling like my baby was gonna come out on his own.  So after 10 minutes Todd called the nurse and told her to come back in and check and make sure the baby wasn't just gonna pop out.  At 3:08 a.m. on August 25th Everett made his way into this world with two big pushes.  He weighed 8 lbs 4 oz and was 21 inches long.  He was really purple when he first came out and kept holding his breath so they had to put some oxygen on him to get him breathing better and to turn pink.  I loved experiencing going into labor on my own this time and loved every minute of it.  I wish I could just skip the pregnancy part and go straight to delivery!!!  I have been so lucky to have 2 extremely easy deliveries!!  Kayson was there in the room for the whole thing but ended up falling asleep just before 1 a.m. and slept through the entire delivery!!  We woke him up to meet his new little brother after he was born but he was just too tired and confused, so he was screaming the whole time. 

Here is where it all began...huge and contracting!

Everett Neil Larson

8.4 lbs 21 inches

He looks a lot bigger in photos than he seemed in person.

My cute little family of 4!!!

Wow that's so weird to say!

Mommy and baby Evers.

Kayson is such an amazing big brother!  He loves his brother so much and is always wanting to hold him, hug him, and kiss him.

My cute boys!!

Daddy and Kayson watching a show.

Our bundle of joy.

I love my three boys to pieces!  Todd is an amazing father and I am so lucky to have him!

Loading up to go home.  Everett's first car ride.

Our sweet neighbor made this sign for us.  It was so cute and made my day seeing it as we pulled up!

Kayson loves being with his brother.   

Spring Time

Here is my cute lil cowboy Kayson!  He LOVES riding around on his toy horse wearing his cowboy hat.  When he is riding he yells out "Giddyup Horsey!"  and "Ridin Cowboy!"  He also loves to dance around to the song She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy.....which he calls Tractor Sessy!

 Kayson sure loves Cheetos.  One day we caught him hiding in the fridge eating his Cheetos.  Silly boy!

For St. Patrick's Day Kayson helped me make green German Pancakes...MMMMM......

Kayson likes to climb into the empty diaper boxes and drive them.  He also enjoys hiding from us in them.

Kayson LOVES art.  He was so excited when they had a picture for him to color at the Ward's Easter Egg Hunt.

And the hunt is on!!  He loved running around finding as many eggs as he could.

Kayson's little smirk when he discovered "Bunny Poop" (jelly beans) inside one of the eggs.

Kayson is my little cheese ball.  He loves the camera and getting his picture taken.  If I am touching the camera at all he will run infront of me with his cute little smile and say "Cheese!"

He got to have another Easter Egg Hunt at my Grandma's, and he enjoyed every minute of it!

He is very good at the hunt now and we don't have to tell him go pick up the egg.  So it was nice just watching him go and taking lots of pictures.

Kayson with his cousins...

Kayson, Haven, Camryn, Brooklyn, and Nicole.

He did the pinata all by himself and did such a good job!  He gave that ball 3 big smacks!

Kayson has a new found obsession...Daddy's phone.  He knows how to navigate through that thing like it's nobody's business.  He loves to play all the games and watch his shows.

Kayson and Dad at the Pinewood Derby.  I love that our ward included all the families in this event.  Todd and Kayson had so much fun making their car and racing it. 

Isn't he just the cutest darn thing that you ever did see?!?  I sure think so!! 

Kayson is also VERY excited to be a big brother.  He loves his little brother so much!  He is always asking to see my tummy so he can hug, kiss and talk to his brother.  When we ask him what he wants to name him he tells us every time "ABC's".