Working With Dad

 Baine loves going to work with Dad and I'm pretty sure Dad loves it just as much.   I think Brady likes taking him around and bragging about him.  Let's just be honest......who doesn't love bragging about their kids?  Baine is definitely a Daddy's boy.  He still cries every once in a while in the mornings when he sees that Dad isn't home. 

Notice the pencil in his hat and tape measure on his pants.  Just like Dad. 

Maylee and Baine.  Maylee likes to dress up and it didn't take her long to find some accessories to do so.

Jodi and Blake came for a visit.  They're twins, Hannah and Maylee, played so good with Baine.  It was so nice because the 3 kids just ran around the house and played so the 4 adults just got to sit down and chat.  We hadn't seen them in forever, since we ran into them at Disneyland.  It was so nice to get together with them.  I was pretty impressed because when they left the kids hadn't really made that big of a mess.  I only got one picture.   I need to be better about my camera sometimes. 

St. George (lots of pictures)

We went to St. George over the weekend with the McKnight's.  It was a lot of fun and so nice to go to warmer weather.  I just wish we would of had more time down there.  I wasn't ready to come home. 

Family pictures at dinner for Ashley's birthday.

We went to a Hibachi grill and Baine didn't know what to think of the fire and all the cooking. 

Enjoying some Backyardigans before bed.

Went to the park at the resort. 

Baine wanting to catch Kentlee.  My settings on my camera were off.  I'm still trying to get used to my new camera.  I'm also trying to not always shoot on auto mode. 

Baine had to keep stopping to clean the wood chips out of his flip flops.

Going down the slide.  Not sure why his face looks so scared.  Haha!

Brady's new golf attire.  Looking good.

Deegan trying to hide from the camera.  He wouldn't ever look at me.

This pictures here are from Sand Hollow lake.  Brady and Kollin went golfing there on Saturday and on our way home Sunday I wanted to go see the lake and have Baine play in the sand.  It was beautiful. 

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Brady showing Baine the lizard.  He thought that was pretty cool stuff.

Testing out the freezing water.

This picture is a panorama picture off of my phone camera.  Pretty neat.

Star Student

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It was Baine's turn at school to be the student.  He was pretty proud of himself.  He kept telling me he wanted more big stickers and that he was so good at school.  Which is funny because about a week or so after being a star student, he told me how he got in trouble at school and had to face the door.  Haha!  He said he had used too much toilet paper.  Now wether or not this is true, I have no idea. 

Baine is trying so hard to be a big boy right now it's hard to remember he's only 2 1/2.   He can put on his own underwear and pants all by himself.  He tries to wipe his bum all by himself.  Which he's done an awesome job.  I just never would of guessed that my 2 year old would be potty trained by now, none the less wipe his bum.  I'm pretty impressed.  He's growing up too fast.  Notice his shoes are on the wrong feet.  That's another part of him being a big boy.

Spoiled

 I'm pretty sure we just spoiled ourselves.  We just bought a new couch and Brady made us a new bed.  There's nothing better than new things.  Am I right?  I'm loving it all!

Pictures

The Grandkids had their pictures taken for Valentines.  I thought they turned out considering all the young ages.  I thought all this kids looked very cute!

Look at that face! 

I love these two pictures!  From left to right on the bottom picture it goes, Jaxon, Molly, Mac, Baine, Brynly and Bo. 

 

These picture are just random ones that I have taken. 

Deegan and Baine.  Little mini's of their Dad's.  I swear  Baine looks a lot like my side but I think I'm the only one who even thinks that. 

We were watching The Incredibles one night and Baine loves dressing up right now.  He wouldn't take his glasses off.  He kept saying he can see better with them on. 

Last weekend we had 4 boys, age 5 and under, at our house.  I have watched Kara's kids and mine at the same time before, and I've  watched LeeAnn's 2 girls plus Ro and Baine at the same time before.  None of that could of prepared me for this babysitting job.  It was INSANE!  If my mother in law had not been there, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't of made it.  4 boys=too much for me!  Good thing I'll never have that many young kids on my own.  There's a reason I have 3 years in between my two kids. 

We're Expanding!

Or should I say I'm expanding right now.  Another little Bobka is going to bless our home!  We could not be more excited!  I think Brady is more excited about #2 than he was about #1.  Haha!  I'm due in July.  I'm getting a c-section again so my date is already set to July 18.  The day before Baine's birthday.  We couldn't be happier about this and we are so excited to have 2.  Blackett tried to see what the baby was last week when I was in there but the baby was not really cooperating.  Plus I'm thinking I'm not going to find out what the baby is.  I want that experience at least once.  To me, I don't get the experience of having a child vaginally.  Sure I could see if I could do it this time but my uterus is weirdly shaped I guess and Blackett says that it would just be so hard to go through labor and then most likely have an emergency c-section.  So I'll just stick with the plan, which was so easy last time, and just get cut open again. Brady is going to find out.  He can't wait.  He has sworn to me that he won't tell anyone.  He had better not, because I'm in charge and he won't come to the birth if he's going to ruin this for me.  :)  We will see if I stay strong and don't cave.  This pregnancy has been different from Baines but not extremely. We found out the night before Thanksgiving.  I take a lot of tests, usually 1 a month, Brady always teasing me that all I have to do to get my period to come is take a test.  When we found out we were excited but we also didn't know what was to come to we weren't overly excited.  Which sounds sad but it wasn't.  Considering our track record there was reason for us to feel that way, but here we are!  I can't wait for my 20 week ultrasound to make sure every little part is developing correctly.  Here's a little picture.

Here's a side view of the baby.  Baby is faced down.  Head is up top on the left.  You can also see the spine really well.

I just want to write down a little of our journey to this point.  It's really just for my records. 



After we had Baine we decided since it took us a while to get Baine that we wouldn't go on any birth control.  Although we were careful until Baine was about 8 months, then we did start to actively try for another one.  My problem is getting pregnant and then sometimes holding on to that baby is hard for my body.  So when Baine was a year and a half we found out we were pregnant.  Everything seemed right.  Unlike my miscarriage before Baine, I actually had all the symptoms of a pregnancy. We didn't tell anyone because for us, we were embarrassed with our first miscarriage when we had to tell everyone, "just kidding".  I hated the pity party and the phone calls from everyone telling me they were sorry and what could they do.  It sucked.  So my pregnancy symptoms literally only lasted 2-3 days.  I went into the doctors office to get a pregnancy test there.  After I took it the lady came and showed me the stick, there was a barely a hint of positive.  At that point I kind of had a feeling what was happening.  I wasn't feeling the symptoms anymore either.  A couple of days later I started bleeding.  I wasn't sure if I had lost anything or not because this was not like my first miscarriage what-so-ever.  Blackett made an appointment for me to come in and talk to her since we had been trying.  I went in and told her what had happened.  She said most likely is was a miscarriage.  She asked if I wanted to go on Chlomed.  I said no.  I wasn't to that point yet.  She said that we can do artificial insemination.  I thought, well that sounds alright.  When it came down to it I just thought, I've done this on my own before.  Baine isn't very old.  Obviously it isn't my time yet so I just needed to be more patient.  After about 8 months of researching, I figured out that a lot of women who have a hard time getting pregnant is due to inbalance of hormones.  Also you could be low on estrogen.  I've started using the Doterra Essential Oils and there is some pills for helping balance out your hormones.  These pills are all natural.  It is all stuff that even if you start reading about hormones, these things come up.  So long story short I wasn't putting chemicals into my body. I was all natural.  I took these pills for 3 weeks, went to Disneyland and apparently it really is the happiest place on earth.  Now all I need to do for a 3rd child is go on vacation and take some pills.  We were able to get Baine on vacation too. I'd like to say that since I haven't had any bleeding this pregnancy that I feel normal but since no one's pregnancy is normal and I'm a freak and always think bad thoughts, I've haven't felt easy yet.  Hopefully I'll have a little more closure when I go to the 20 week appt. Hopefully it will ease my fears.  It might feel like it takes us a while to get pregnant, but it doesn't.  I might feel sorry for my self at times, but I shouldn't.  It is hard to remember that sometimes but I know a lot of people who have had harder times.  I have a lot of family who have had hard pregnancies, hard labors, miscarriages, hard times getting pregnant.  I have friends who can't even have babies.  I just wish we could all have them how we wanted and when we wanted.......but what fun would that be?!  We wouldn't be able to bitch about our lives!  Haha!  (there is no other word to use than that)    :)