Photo Shoot

My friend Cherylann does amazing photography. Today she came to our house and did a photo shoot for Heidi's newborns. She also did photos of the other three younger ones as they didn't get school photos.  She sent me a sample today and said the rest are coming next week. So here they are! In particular order since blogger wouldn't let me put them in order...

Girls Vs. Boys

As Ashley has gotten older I've noticed small differences between girls and boys. Well, besides the rather obvious ones.  But here are some I've had to laugh at.

If Steve and I kiss when the boys are around,  the automatic reaction is 'EW GROSS!!!' and they cover their eyes.  On Sunday Ashley was going to show me a picture she colored at nursery.  Steve told her "you need to wait, I'm going to kiss Mommy"(he was joking).  What does she do? She backed up so she could watch...

Boys watch the movies and quote all the funny or gross parts of a show.  Ashley watched Little Mermaid the other day. She would let me know what was happening throughout the movie. After it got done, she came running in "Mommy! She got her voice back and then they got MARRIED!!!" She was giddy. And when she's happy those little eyes sparkle!

The boys are very much in love with their new little sister. They fight over who gets to hold her but are just as happy walking away and going about their business.  Every night Ashley prays that Heidi will get big and grow teeth and eat big food and learn to walk. She wants her little sister to play with her!

I have loved my boys and girls and have enjoyed watching them grow up into their own little people. It just makes me more excited to see who these little people will grow to be!!

A Rather Telling Story...

Jakob was supposed to read a story on different points of view - or something to that effect.  The day he was writing went along like any others.  And this is the story he came up with (it was typewritten and this is the exact spelling and font sizes he used...):

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Mommy sense we got home from school can I have some
 banana balls?  No.  Monkey I already told you that.
 But why not? I’m really hungry! No.

Can I play the wii?  No! Please can I?
Stop asking for things!!! But I’m bored.

Noooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

can I play on the computer ? No! How about now?

No! Please? Stop asking!

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Now I must say, I don't say no NEARLY that often but to an 8 year old apparently this is how his day goes.  And to justify myself I DID let him have the "banana balls" which were actually cheese balls. I might have said no to the other things. ;)

Some Updates and Our Little Heidi

We haven't posted since we got the entertainment center (except for the vote for us thing that didn't work right...) so here is the last 3 months in review(quickly) before we move on to what everyone wants to see - our cute little girl!

December passed in a blur. We  were home or the store where we had some great business. It was fun having everyone come in for the first time to see our store.

Christmas was FUN!!! We enjoyed our time in Idaho with siblings and cousins.  Steve and I got to go to the temple the next morning and enjoyed some yummy Thai food while we were in Twin Falls. YUMMY.

For New Years we went to a party at our neighbor's house and had a blast.  We played games and ate lots of good food.  They let all the kids bang on pans at midnight and it was lots of fun!

In January we were busy getting things ready for an author signing.   We got to have Brandon Sanderson come to our store.  We had our store packed to capacity!! It was amazing.  He is my favorite author so just having him there was great. The publicity for our store was great. :) We were even in the newspaper a few days before!!  We sold out of some of his books and its fun to tell people the ones we still have were signed. He's planning to come back and we can't wait!!

In February we started getting ready for the next event. We had 7 authors come in and sign their books. It was fun. While we didn't have as many people show up, it was still an awesome turn out and it was fun to meet all the authors!

Valentine's Day was nice. We went to Cafe El Lago and had a yummy dinner.   We'd also gone to a church dinner/ dance a couple weeks before. They did an AMAZING job with it!!

Oh I missed another thing. I was called for the Women's coach for basketball. 23 women signed up. 12 - 14 show up every time.  How do I make that many women feel they had fair play and make sure we have fun? Good question.  But I tried my hardest.  We lost some, won a couple, had a battle or two but its been fun.

So on we move to the main event.  Anyone that's been around me for the last oh, 9 months, you know how much I was looking forward to this little girl!!

March 1st I got the call at 5:15 to go into the hospital. I called my sister and she came over to stay with the kids.  Jakob was at his friend's house for the night (which he loved but said he didn't fall asleep until 2 AM).  We got to the hospital at 6:20 but got set up with pitocin at 7:35.

They slowly moved the pitocin up every half hour and it didn't get hard until probably around 10 or 11.  By that time I wasn't having fun anymore.  Steve was entertaining me with shows on YouTube and asking me questions about orders for the store.  I finally gave in and got the epidural.

It took FOREVER to have it kick in. At about 12:00, I was at 4 and then jumped to a 4 1/2 in 15 minutes.  The epidural finally kicked in just as they said I was ready to have the baby. It took more time to track down the doctor than it did for me to go from a 4 to a 10!!  1 1/2 pushes later, Heidi was born.

I thought she looked like Ethan at first but then noticed Ashley's chin.  Now I think she just looks like herself...  Everything went SO well and I felt better after this delivery than any of my other 5!!  It was great from beginning to end (except for the whole epidural not working at first).

So Adelheid (Heidi) Pearl Weist was born at 1:14(Steve guessed 1:38) PM.  She was 7 lb 4 oz and 18 1/2 inches long. She's my smallest and has been a joy.  My kids love her. Ethan even says her name and loves to touch - which means Mom has to be right by her!!

So here are pictures of my little girl!