Going Home!

After a short stay at the hospital, it was finally time to introduce Hayden to his new home. The nurses insisted on wheeling Carly out to the car, and after adding a second car seat to our allready small Dodge Stratus, we started the cozy ride home!

Because of the H1N1 scare, the hospital was pretty strict on not letting anyone under 15 into the recovery area, so Coleton had only seen Hayden through the glass at the nursery. When we brought him in it didnt take long for him to warm right up to him. After a few minutes of being gauked at, Hayden started to cry, and Coleton jumped up ran across the room, grabbed Hayden's blanket, and tucked it nicely around him. When that didn't work, he took more drastic measures, donating his prized Utah Jazz blanket to the cause. Since Coleton always rubs the corner of his blanket on his cheek when he is upset, he sat by Hayden and did the same for him. It was pretty cute, but just one of many things Coleton has done to be a good big brother. Latter that night Hayden was in the play-pen crying and Coleton jumped up, grabbed a few small stuffed animals and began throwing them over the top to his little brother to help calm him down. We're pretty proud of how he's adjusting to his new role as big brother.

While Mom and Dad are still doing the majority of the holding, after a few days of demonstrating that he could be gentle, we decided to Give Coleton a shot at it too. Even though Hayden is a pretty big load for a 22 month old, he did great, and Hayden escaped in one piece.

In our house it's Dad's job to read to the kids. When we realized that we had our second baby on the way we decided that it was time to invest in the friend, but this was the first official reading. From the looks of things on Haydens face, it was a good investment.

Sunday morning brought yet another milestone moment, Haydens first bath. As you can see, it wasnt necessarily as big a hit as reading "the Friend" was, but he made it through anyways. I think if you go back far enough on our blog you can see this same picture with Coleton screaming during his first bath as well. I guess our hopes and dreams of having Olympic swimmers are probably not going to pan out. Oh well.

It's hard to see to far into the future for a 1 week old baby. But from the looks of things right now, I think Hayden might have a promising career in modeling. Whenever he's awake I try to snap a few shots, and he always seems willing to participate in another photo shoot.

Overall, everyone is doing great, and loving the excitement of having a new baby. We're expecially thankfull for Grandma Comstock, and Grandma Cheney who have been so great about helping us out as we get adjusted to being a family of four. It's hard to imagine how life could get much better than this?

Pictures of Hayden

Day number two is going smooth! We're planning on heading home a little later on tonight, so next post will probably include some pictures of Hayden meeting his new Big Brother Coleton!

Presenting Hayden Jeffrey!

Well it's official, baby Hayden is finally here! After teaching my first hour class this morning I called home to ask Carly how she was doing. She told me she thought we might want to go to the Hospital soon, so I left work, picked her up and we were off! By the time we got to the Hospital in St. George (25 minutes away) she had convinced herself that she wasnt in labor, and since the temple was just across the street, she suggested we take a few laps before going inside.

When we finally went in the nurses took a look at us, and told us that they were completely full, but they were cleaning out a room, and would get us in in a few minutes, and we were asked to have a seat in the waiting room.

After about a 30 minute wait, the nurse invited us back, hooked up a monitor, asked a few questions, and checked Carly. With a bit of a shoked look on her face she said "Oh my, you're dialated to an eight!" Everything started moving really fast, and in less than two hours we had little Hayden Jeffrey in our arms. The Nurse later apologized and explained that "Women who are dialated to eight centimeters don't just walk into labor and deliver and calmly explain that they're in labor."

Unlike his brother, Hayden was born with a full head of hair and dispite being 8 days early weighed in at a healthy 8 lbs 1 ounce, and 20 inches long.

Since Coleton is so young he is not allowed inside the recovery area, but they let him look through the window of the nursery, and he quickly pointed out his new brother turned to me and exclaimed with great enthusiasm, "BABY!" If we can keep that enthusiasm coming, I think it's safe to say that the two of them are going to make quite the tandem for years to come.

Both Hayden, and Carleen are doing great, and seem to be mutually enjoying the opportunity to cuddle up together outside of the womb.

Thanks for all of your prayers!

Baby Update

It seems like our life right now is just waiting for the new baby. Coleton and i spend most of our day cleaning, organizing, setting up baby items and folding baby clothes in hopes of an early arrival. For the past three weeks i have been going to appointments every week and am being checked for any progress at 36 weeks, while they were doing the strep test found that i was dialated to a 3 and the baby was head down and low. When i went in last week at 37 weeks, i was dialated to 3.5 60% effaced and still baby was very low. Yesterday i went in for another appointment, 38 weeks and they stripped my membranes, stating that i was a perfect canidate for it to send me in to labor and after the doctor was done said that he would not be shocked if i was in the hospital that night. Well today i am home, not in labor, and a little disappointed that i am not having any contractions or anything for that matter. The doctor said that he would schedule an induction for February 9th so i am waiting to hear back from the hospital to make the induction secure. I am just getting so excited for this little boy to come and i sure hope it is soon so i dont go nuts.. Here is an updated picture, i am 38 weeks in the photo and feel ready to pop!!

Christmas Eve!!

We had such a great as a family on Christmas Eve!! The day started off with a breakfast with cinnamon rolls and sticky rolls with juice and fruit!We then headed up to Cedar so that Brandon could get some help designing a life size tetris game and then headed back home.For our dinner, we made a foot and a half foot sandwich, with BBQ chicken/Sweet teryaki chicken/ chicken bacon ranch. After dinner we opened a few presents.. Coleton didnt really understand wrapping paper but thought it was entertaining!

We got some really fun and amazing gifts and so did Coleton..He got a new sports blanket from grandma cheney and also a new pair of PJS (there the brown stripes) which are adorable!!We also got some family books that are really nice! There is a cookbook, family history of my grandparents, and a family book of pictures!The day turned out great and we had alot of fun spending time together! After reading The Night Before Christmas it was time for bed!! Time for Santa to come!!

The 15 days of Christmas!!

We had so much fun doing the 15 days of Christmas that my parents prepared for us!Coleton loved opening a bag each night and would carry around the different gifts for days.

Coleton would really get into opening them but this was the best video we could get of him opening them.He loved that most of them had glitter and you could see which one he had been carrying around by the color of glitter that was covering him. It was so fun to watch him get so excited for each ornament and i cant wait to see him on christmas!! Thanks mom and dad!

Gingerbread Candy Train!!

For my birthday, Brandons parents gave us a gingerbread kit, so for family home evening we had Coleton put it together and boy was he excited! He actually did a really good job of placing the candy on and occationally sneaking a bite!

We got a little video of him assembling!

After we had finished decorating we went to the basement to watch some tv and we noticed that Coleton had snuck away and when i walked upstairs i could see that he was by the train so i asked him what he was doing and he shrugged his shoulders and said "elmo? elmo?" When i walked closer to the table this is what i found?Him and his elmo doll!!I told Coleton that elmo would get sick if he ate all the candy and Coleton was so disappointed!

What a mouthful and a sticky mess!

Here is kind of a long video of what we found!!

Happy Birthday, Carleen!

This year for my birthday we kept it pretty simple. We actually we able to attend a baptism for one of Brandons students, Kody. Brandon was just so excited for him and it was the first student that he has taught that has been baptized. After the baptism we came home and had family come over for a little party. Before the little family party, Brandon and I went to Olive Garden for dinner by ourselves! After dinner, Brandons grandparents and parents had cake waiting for us. I got a extra large gate for the house to keep the kids from touching our couches and getting them dirty so i was pretty excited. Other than that it was a pretty simple day but it was good non the less!!

Santas Little Helper!!

Santa sent us an elf!! We woke up to an elf on our door step. Santa sent him to watch us (mostly Coleton) and see if we were being good or not!The elf watches us through out the day and keeps note of what we are doing and periodically reports to santa at the north pole at nights while we sleep. When we wake up in the mornings he is often in a different place in the house. We were able to name him and since Coleton would have named him choo or elmo we let Brandon decided what we would call him...first he wanted buddy, but i vetoed that. Then he wanted kebler and again i vetoed that! Then he decided Heber would be good so i agreed and our elf in named Heber Comstock!! Coleton does not really understand why the elf is around yet but we hope through out the next few years he will grow to love Heber when santa drops him off!!

Happy Thanksgiving

This year for thanksgiving, we were able to head up toKaysville after Brandon got out of school on Wednesday and spend it with some of the Cheneys! The house was decorated for christmas and Coleton had a ton of fun looking and all of the great decorations and of course seeing my parents cho cho train which he asked to see often. We were able to have thanksgiving dinner with my parents, my brother Curtis and his family, Caralee, and my aunt Crystal and uncle Danny. It was a lot of fun just chatting and doing the normal thanksgiving stuff. We had cinnamon rolls, regular rolls, turkey, potatos and gravy, jellos, green bean casserole and of course pies and my moms famous christmas candy. We had a chance to watch he parade, which is one of my favorite things to do. e went up to salt lake to watch the lighting of temple squareon Friday night with my sister caralee. It was pretty cold and really packed so we didnt stay long but it was sure fun to head up and see them. Saturday we went window shopping, like we love to do, and just had a ton of fun spending time with my parents. Sunday came to fast and we had to headed home. Thanksgiving was so much fun and we were so lucky to be able to spend it with family! Happy Thanksgiving!