A blessing

Halloween...about a week late

This year for halloween we recycled Seths kitty-cat costume and had Jaq dress up in it, she was cute but she slept through the whole event. Lame. Not that I wanted her to peep up and have her first words be "trick or treat" or "more candy" or something but still, Halloween, I found it is much more fun with a toddler. Seth was a dinasour. Not cause he asked to be one but because it was on clearance last year. Even still it was a shock to me when I got it out to dress him up he started crying and wouldnt come near it, let alone dress up in it. I couldnt believe it. Its not like we went cold turkey on the whole dinasour bit either. We were prepping ad pumping him up for weeks about how cool dinasours are and what sounds they make. Id even make Cordelle get down on the floor and imitate dinasours daily with him (although his dinasour imitations really could gave resembled a horse like cat or some sort of a dog-bear, so I'm sure this didn't help much). I should have just rented Land Before Time. Those were some cute dinasours...nothing like this costume. Come to think about it it was pretty scary looking. Long story short, I had to bribe him into the costume and once he couldnt see the dinasours head he was cool with it.
Cordelle and I dressed up as well. We took boxes of cereal, hung them around our necks, stuck plastic knives in them with fake blood dripping down and told people we were "Cereal killers." (See pictures) Thank goodness for last minute google searches. Oh yea also I made these wicked sweet chocolate cupcakes that had eyes, and legs coming out of them (chocolate licorice) to make them look like hairy spiders. Well I was really excited to show them to Seth cause I thought he'd have fun eatin them. But once again I was wrong, but this time it wasnt my fault. Cordelle (being the mean father that he is) took one up to Seth and said, "Seth look at this HUGE spider" after which he lunged it from his hands into Seth's face and growled. Needless to say Seth screamed and would not come close to the spider cupcake, the table, or even the kitchen after that. Matter of fact even after we showed him that it was candy and cake, he just freaked out watching us eat it. Days later he still wouldnt touch the chocolate licorice remembering them as spider legs. Dang Cordelle ruined my Halloween mother of the year moment. It was supposed to be such cute idea too. Really it sounds like we just freaked Seth out the whole holiday, but he realy had a good time! (I think).

Too darn cute not to post

Seth got some desperately needed new Sunday clothes and was kind enough to pose a second so I could snap this picture. Doesn't he look handsome? And this picture of Jaq is one of the only ones I have of her eyes open. Because if she's not sleeping or eating, she's crying...which never makes for cute pictures. Pretty sure she's collicky, which my friends, has not been so fun. Any of you had collicky kids? Any good advice you want to share? At this point, Im taking anything I can get. Even the other day someone said cartwheels would help (for me not the baby) and in my sleep-deprived, half insane mind I thought pretty seriously about attempting one until I thought, "Thats just plain rediculous!" Still though, any suggestions?

PARK IT!

This saturday we just had to get out, so we took Seth to Park Discovery. I dont know why they dont just call it Discovery Park. Lame. Anyways it was way nice, I am hoping that luck will prolong fall just a little longer before I am banished to my dungeon home with a toddler and a newborn all winter. Yikes.

Cousins!!

A week after Jaq was born my sister Krista and her kids came down and it was so fun, especially for Seth who couldnt stop hugging Mason the first night they were here. Mason and Seth had a sleepover that lasted only a fraction of the night but it was fun. It was so nice to have my sister here to just talk and hang out with instead of using all my minutes calling her 3 times a week! Ah, I wished we lived closer! (Thanks Kris for entertaining Seth and for the dinners, you're the best! )

It begins

So I have a lot of people ask me how Seth is doing with a baby around so I thought I'd share this funny story. Generally, the most attention Seth has given Jaquelle is a worried/concerned look when she is full out crying, or he wants to hold her for 1.2 seconds and then wants to put her back in the swing without help...dont worry we dont let him do it alone. Or he runs up to her gets right in her face and says "Hi baby" over and over again. So pretty cute, I thought. Pretty harmless and as for the jealousy factor....well it really hasnt even been one, so that was a big sigh of relief on my part. But the other day I was getting ready and once again I heard Seth saying "Hi baby" over and over again and I thought to myself I really shouldnt leave him alone with her in the same room, so I went to check on them. Jaquelle who was sound asleep in the crook of the couch was kind of fussing and moving around a bit. When I got closer I saw that seth who had been snacking on some cinnamon toast crunch cereal had pried open Jaquelle's mouth and stuck one in it while she was sleeping! Of course she being, what, days old, I was like BLA, Seth what are you doing? We then had the talk that NOTHING gets put in the baby's mouth. Why he picks this time to begin sharing is beyond me. I just thought to myself...here we go, life with two begins.

Drum roll please....SHE'S HERE!!

Wahoo! So Friday morning (Sept. 26th) at 9:57 I finally had Jaquelle Lynn Morris. The whole birth this time around was like night and day to Seth...short and relatively painless. All I can say is my new best friend is Mr. Epideral. Dont know how some of you do it without it. Anyways, yea, this time it was a really cool experience and she came out in just 3 pushes! She weighed 7 lbs and was 19.5 inches long. She is just beautiful and get this...she has a head full of hair (dont know where it came from cause I was bald till I was two but I love it!) And I think I can spot dimples on those cheeks too. OF COURSE I posted pictures...but hospital pics are always weird so more will be coming.

Grannie Annie and Jaquelle

Then the next day of course was Cordelle's Birthday! We spent most of it in the hospital still, but finally we got home in time for a big Spaghetti Dinner (Cordelle's choice) and cake and ice cream. It was fun and crazy all at once! ( Thanks for being so much help even though it was your b-day Cordelle!) He did get to watch endless hours of college football at the hospital so he was probably pretty okay with the way things went that day.

Two birthdays right in a row! Jaquelle and Cordelle...Ha they rhyme, how trite. Alright better go, looks like sleep deprivation is taking over to craziness.
Pics of the cake thanks to my awesome mom and my little bro Scott!We didnt have 28 candles so we had to improvise with candyCassidy (Cordelle's neice living with us), Grannie Annie, and Us

Very Prego

So sorry I look nasty but I thought I'd put a picture of me and my big 'ole belly at almost 39 weeks (It seems to be the trend while your prego)! Usually I avoid the camera at this stage, actually I dont think I have any pictures of just me while pregnant. Hum...probably better that way. So any fun or fabricated wives tales as to how to go into labor? I love to hear these, cant say I buy any of them but it makes me laugh.

Seth's Dad

So tonight I was on the computer and I could hear Cordelle and Seth in Seth's bedroom playing basketball on his nerf hoop. Seth was way giggly and Cordelle was saying all sorts of funny things like "air ball" or "off the front of the rim" in funny voices that Seth would repeat and then laugh that kind of laugh where you cant help but smile at. And I just started to think there is nothing better than being married to a man that loves to be with his kids. Its just one of those qualities you didnt know your husband had when you met and married him but now if you had to start it all over again would be at the top of your list. I love watching him be with Seth cause Seth adores him. But Cordelle seems to be having the time of his life too. Its like he's just impatiently waiting for Seth to grow up so he can do more things with him. On Saturday morning he woke up early and then woke Seth up and took him to Cedar City's Sky Fest. Basically, its a festival where they launch like 20 hot air balloons up in the sky and its pretty fun to go to. So while I slept, the two boys had a fun morning out where Seth was totally enthralled with the Big Balloons and then they went out to breakfast, just the two of them. Seth came home on the biggest high and couldnt stop making the sound of the hot air balloons (cause apparently it was pretty loud) and telling me how they go up, up, up. Over and over he was telling me stories about the morning, either about the big balloons or how he got to eat ketchup with his hashbrowns (which he loves). It was just so cute of Cordelle to want to do that with him and let me sleep in. I just couldnt go without saying somewhere that I truly am blessed with an incredible husband who turned out to be pretty darn good dad as well.

GRASSY business!

We have GRASS!  Whahoo!  Our summer dream is fulfilled.  It was a long time coming but doesnt it just make a house look like a home?  I never thought I'd be so excited for the green stuff.  But yea, that picture is where we're leaving our yard for the rest of the year.  Any more flowers, shrubbery or landscape will commence in the spring...cause uh, we're broke.  And here is a picture of our BABY corn and carrots.  Okay so pretty much we just stunk at watering our "experimental" garden, but next year when we have our REAL garden we'll have a better crop. FYI the corn was nasty tasting but the carrots are quite good.  Matter of fact its the only way I can get Seth to eat them.  He loves to go with his dad and dig them out of the ground.  He's funny though cause he carries them around with him, green stem and all and he looks like a mini Buggs Bunny. 

  Other than that we are just waiting around for this baby to pop out.  Im almost 38 weeks!  Oh yea, and there was a funny story I wanted to share about Seth.  We were walking through our kitchen heading outside to play when Seth walked by a pile of dirt I hadn't swept up.  He literally did a double take, turned around and said, "A Mess!"  He immediately went and got the broom out and "swept" up my mess (aka spread it even more all over).  But still, I realized how anal I have been about cleaning lately when my toddler gets distracted with cleaning a pile of dirt on his way to go play outside.  It made me laugh.  Hey at least he recognizes when things are messy.  Guess I should ease up a bit with the cleaning.