Boston's Baby Blessing

It was so nice to have both of our families here for Boston's baby blessing.  We missed those of you who couldn't make it.  

Trip to Washington

It was so nice and relaxing in Washington.  We went to the beach and down to the Columbia.  We also got to visit a few friends and of course, eat at Burgerville!  Haylee had her birthday while we were there and was so nice to share her new toys with her sis.

The 4th of July parade was as entertaining as ever!  

Super Heroes

Here is one of my favorite pictures of Boston.  Cute boy!

 Looking sweet... Check out those big beautiful eyes.  I tell ya, she slays me.

 Olive fingers and you get a glimpse of Jason's hairy face.  He went for a full month without shaving his face. He did shave his neck which cleaned things up.  I thought he looked great!  If only he could have shaved swirly shapes in there like the game maker on The Hunger Games... ha ha!

 I love that their legs are the same.  They both take naps on the way home from visiting their cousins.  The entire time we are at my brother's house, they are running, not just walking or standing, running everywhere.

Here are the super heroes.  The girls took turns with their cousin, Mason, being villains and heroes running around in the back yard.  Haylee's pose is the best! And Whitney loved that her cape matched her outfit...

Boston Rich Tippetts and other cute pics

So we really have had some great moments in the last little while.  This first picture was at the BYU Museum of Art.  We went there on a preschool field trip and Haylee got to wear glasses which she loved since Whitney and I get to wear them all the time...  I think I had this same pair when I was growing up.  My glasses were so thick and heavy!

 Here is Whitney's last game of soccer.  I asked her to pose and you will see her dance pose and soccer pose are very similar.  By the way, I asked her if she would rather do soccer or dance in the fall.  I don't want to do both because she will be starting Kindergarten and I will be teaching again and I fear the busy-ness of it all.  She chose soccer... YES!!!!  Did I mention and I love being a sports mom and don't like me as dance mom so much?  I do not have to curl her hair for soccer, ever!

 I have to admit that she is a pretty good dancer and she really loves to perform.  She fell asleep at her recital about 10 minutes before her second dance and woke up disoriented back stage having been carried there by grandpa but when she realized that she either had to get out on the stage right then or she was going to miss it, she ran right out (about 30 seconds after her classes' dance started, it was hilarious though it stressed me out when I couldn't see her on stage when they started... everything about dance stressed me out.)

 Cosmo joined the fray at the Provo City Convention Center Grand Opening!!  We scored on candy, free food, and prizes including an essential oils starter kit and free t-shirts.  Woot woot.

 She just looks cute!  My sunglasses fit right over her real glasses...  One thing about having bad eyes is that unless you pay for transition lens or get perscription sunglasses, you pretty much just have to squint in the sun.  I am not quite ready to spend money on that stuff when she is so young and prone to losing/breaking things.  We will pay for lasik surgery when she graduates from college.  I already made Jason promise.  Sorry I gave you my bad eyes, sweet child of mine!

 Jason took Whitney on a daddy-daughter date to see a movie.  She even got her purse, she just doesn't know that most women take their purses to sneak in snacks.  I extra love these moments when I see Jason being an amazing dad and how much my girls adore him.

 Here is proof that I was pregnant.  This was taken the day before I had Boston.  I usually avoid pictures during the pregnancy which isn't hard since I'm the picture taker.

 Here is Boston, ready to head home from the hospital.  This is probably him at his smallest since he wasn't getting much from me yet.  He looks so funny to me!

 Grandpa is the best!  The girls were both huddled behind him wimpering at first but when I asked them to look up and smile, this is what I got.  They realized right then, that riding the motorcycle wasn't scary but awesome...

 Boston weighed in at 10 lbs 10 oz and was 22.25 inches at his 2 week appointment.  The poor boy got circumcised that day too instead of at the hospital.  Jason actually watched which I could not bring myself to do.  He is fine now that it has been a week but the poor boy was hurtin' and didn't have all the pain meds in my milk to help him out like he would have his first week of life.

 The girls just love him.  That's all there is to it.  We all do!

Mother of Three!

It has taken me forever to post about this baby!  I've had some questions about labor and delivery and so I will fill you in...

Against my better judgment, I was persuaded to be induced the Monday following my due date.  I was technically due on May 18th but my doctor had been trying to persuade me for two weeks before then to be induced because I was dilated and effaced and my personal opinion is that he didn't want to rush to the hospital in the middle of the night...  He kept telling me that I would go fast and probably wouldn't need pitocin or anything to help me along if he broke my water.

We got to the hospital at 11:00 AM and the doctor came at noon and broke my water and then said, "it is going to be a while".  As he was leaving, he told the nurse to start me on pitocin at 1 PM if I hadn't progressed significantly.  I said I didn't want pitocin and he said I didn't have to have it but it would help things move faster...

At 1 the nurse came to start the pitocin and I asked her to check me first to make sure I hadn't progressed and I had but only to like a 4.5 and I started at like 3.5-4 ish.  So, I decided to get an epidural because I know pitocin makes contractions way harder and I was under the impression that it would be a long time.  I got the epidural, which totally numbed me, and she started the pitocin at about 1:30.  That's when I had a little meltdown.  It felt all wrong to me.  I was shaky from the epidural and I hated that I had to have pitocin. I swear that stuff makes me mad, triggers some angry chemicals in my brain or something.

At about 2:30, I asked for a nurse to check me because I could tell things were happening but I couldn't tell how far along things were because I couldn't feel anything.  She came in and I was all the way dilated and ready to go so she called the doctor.  When he got there, I was so frustrated cause I couldn't even feel to push or anything so he asked the nurse to get him forceps which I didn't want.  He said either we could do the forceps or he would go back to his office and wait an hour for the epidural to wear off enough for me to feel it.  So I gave in again.

Once he used the forceps, I pushed twice and Boston was out.  I tore badly and I really feel like that wouldn't have happened if I had just let things happen naturally.  No breaking the water, no pitocin, no epidural and certainly no forceps.  Our bodies are made to have babies and I have had one naturally and my recovery was so much better that I really regret not holding to my guns and doing it the way I felt was right.

Anyway, I am healing fine and Boston is great!  He ended up being 8 lbs 14 oz and 20.5 inches long.  He was born officially at 2:55 PM on May 21st.  He is here and I am glad and I learned a lot yet again.

Still Pregnant

So despite pressure from my family and doctor, I have continued to wait for this boy to come at his own time.  Turns out he doesn't want to be born.  I am technically only 2 days past my due date, but have decided to help things along tomorrow.  I have some seriously mixed feelings about this.  From my experience, having a baby naturally was quick and easy and I was just hoping to refine the process this time.  I am torn between being sick and tired of being pregnant and wanting to see my boy and doing things the way I think they should be done.  My doctor reassures me that he will just have to break my water and things will take their course, no pitocin or anything, but who knows?  Now I have to decide if I get an epidural because I will have time to make that decision.  It will be in the middle of the day which is nice and my birthday is coming up and it would be nice to be functioning again when it comes around.  We are going to do it tomorrow and I am just going to pray that it goes well! Or even better, let's just go into labor tonight!

Pregnant Lady

So, I went to the doctor today and he said that I am "ripe"... he also said that he could just break my water and we could get this done.  Turns out my mom just left for Mexico today and doesn't get back until Sunday and she really wants to be there.  Besides, I think next week might be easier with a baby inside of me.  Jason and I talked and decided that we'll just wait for things to happen naturally which we both think will happen soon.  If not by the end of next week though, I might seriously consider helping this baby along.