I just can't believe it. I'm a mom of three!!! We just had our third boy. Lincoln Eyring was born November 15, 2008. He was 7 lbs. 5 oz. and 19 in. long. Dr. William Parker delivered him. I was scheduled for my induction at 9:00 am because they had to run antibiotics through me first before they could break my water. Dr. Parker was going to come in at 12:30pm to break my water but, I picked the wrong day to be induced... the B.Y.U. vs. U of U game was that day and Dr. Parker had to wait till half time in order to induce me ( yeah, that's what he told me! I was in shock too! He also let me know he got caught up in face book). I can understand though because my husband is an avid football fan. I was actually very shocked that he didn't watch a minute of it that day... He informed me that he knew he would be in trouble if he did. Well, it was 3:30pm when He broke my water and at 5:31 pm Lincoln was born. It went pretty fast and pain free... well, for the most part. It did take the anesthesiologist 3 times to put the epidural in...which is never fun...he told me that my anatomy is wrong! Go figure! He said that I'm higher up in the spot to put the needle in than most women and to remember to tell the next guy who gives me one of these, to go in between L2 and L3 and go high! I'm writing this down for future reference because if I can avoid getting poked like a pin cushion, I would prefer it! Lincoln came in 3 pushes which is much better than it was with my first, Logan which I don't even know how many pushes, I just know it took 41 minutes to push, which I'm guessing is a lot more than 3 pushes. Everything went smooth as can be... I had a few guests during the delivery my Mom, Gee ( my grandma), Kari (my sister), Kimberly (my other sister, who incidentally shares the same birth date as my second son Landon), my Mother-in-law, Camille (my sister-in-law), and Kirt of course! It was a party!
Well, I thought I'd explain why all of a sudden we have all these posts...I have been writing since I started the blog but, the internet has been down at our house and as it is we only have the free internet from juno so we only have 10 hours a month to use. But, my clever husband has figured out how to restore the free internet back to our computer...so I'm back! I'll try to never get so far behind and I know there will be more updates from the past.
December 16, 2008
Now this is a new one! My little 17 month old almost 18 month old did something very funny… although he can’t speak real words he is very smart and almost always copies either his brother or Mom and Dad. Well, I guess because our family is in the holiday mood with Christmas being around the corner, we’ve been watching a lot of Christmas movies…like It’s a Wonderful Life, Scrooge, The Santa Clause, Miracle on 34th street, and White Christmas. Well, I in particular love ‘White Christmas’ and I’ve been watching it a lot since, I have to sit down to feed the baby I turn on the movie for a little bit. Well, you know you’ve been watching a movie too much when your little 17 month old is trying to copy the movie. You know the scene where they’re practicing the ‘Minstrel’ number at the lodge, well my little one started saying a part of the movie. In the beginning of the number where Crosby, Kaye, and Clooney started telling jokes in one part (Clooney) says “ That a joke” and the boys go “Ah Ha”, (Clooney) “ That was told” , (boys) “Ah Ha”, (Clooney ) “ In the Minstrel days of old…..” Well, after Clooney (the girl) said her part in the movie, Landon just started copying the part where Crosby and Kaye say “Ah Ha”. It is soooo funny! Now I sing the one part to him and he repeats the “Ah Ha” back to me! He also started dancing while they were dancing. It is sooo cute! I’m going to have to record it.
December 13, 2008
This is going to be short but, I thought it was very funny! Yesterday I was watching Scrooge (the musical- and the only good version) with Logan. As we were watching he noticed the ghosts coming and trying to help Scrooge. He says “Mom, what are the ghosts trying to do?” I told him that they’re trying to help Scrooge become a better man and to repent and make good choices…he stops me and says “You mean their trying to teach him a lesson?” I said,“yes, they are”…then his eyes widened with an astonished look on his face and with his mouth open he turns to me and says…”Mom I think they’re trying to teach me a lesson too!” I thought it was really cute! December 16th- Logan wanted to get out his winter hat and gloves this morning because it had just snowed. When he arrived at his school (the Headstart program) his teacher noticed that he was all bundled up with his coat, gloves, hat, jacket and umbrella (in case it snowed…he just received the spider-man umbrella for his birthday the 1st of December from Grandma Candy and was excited to use it) and asked if Logan was cold…Logan said “I’m freezing straight down to my underwear”. He makes me laugh!
November 11, 2008
I’ve decided that I’m going to share some of the things that my son, Logan says. Sometimes they’re so funny I can hardly stand it! Tonight I had a parent committee meeting at Logan’s preschool! His teacher says to me “Oh he is so funny and so opinionated.” This of course had me interested. I asked her what made her say that. She
Said that today at school he mentioned something funny… I guess he was complaining because he was hungry and wanted to have snack right away. She told him in a little bit they’ll have snack. She said that he then turns to her and says, “I’m sooooo hungry, I’m like an empty piggy bank on the day after Christmas!” I just started laughing…she asks me if we say that all the time…I told her I had no idea where he gets the things he says sometimes. I have to tell you about two days ago. It was Sunday and we were at church and Logan had to use the restroom. My husband Kirtis took him to the boys room and he said that Logan went into the stall used it then came right out and looked at him and said, “Enter at your own risk!” and went right back in. Yesterday was just cute, Kirt asked Logan to put something away and Logan looks at him and says, “Yes dad I’ll do it with Glee!”. How many 4 year olds say they’ll do it with glee, honestly! He just cracks me up. Life without Logan just wouldn’t be as fun!
Side note: The count down is on! I’m scheduled for an induction on Saturday. I’m kind of scared, I’ve never been induced before. I’m secretly hoping that my water will break the day before. One can only hope. I guess it’s a good thing because the doctor said I tested positive for Strep B and that it could hurt the baby if they don’t run antibiotics through me just before he’s born. I asked him why I would get it, I didn’t have it with my other two. He said it just happens, some women get it all the time, some won’t get it at all, and some will have it with some of their kids. I’m just lucky this time around. It will be weird to have 3 kids. I hope I don’t go crazy!
October 11, 2008
Today Kirt and I took the boys to get their flu shots…that was really fun ( I hope you can hear the sarcasm) there was a flu clinic at the pediatrician office we go to and a short line. Well, they decided to speed it up and take a couple of families to get their shots at the same time. As we were leaving (we were a part of the line) there was a line of screaming, crying kids. All the other children who were just waiting there to see the doctor for there regular visits were grabbing onto their parents, looking terribly worried. It was actually really funny to see a whole bunch of kids screaming all at once in a line. Well, we took them to Macey’s to get an ice cream cone and that seemed to make them a little happier. On the way home from Macey’s I was telling my husband that my Mom had BYU tickets to the game but didn’t want them so she gave them away. He was shocked…he would have loved to go to the game. Well, on our way to get our car checked to see if we could get it fixed (I was rear ended the day before) we heard that 1280 ‘the zone’ was giving away free tickets to the game at Wingers in the mall. Sooo Kirt drove by there to see if there were any tickets left. There was! We got four tickets and took our boys a long with his brother Koster to the game. Landon didn’t need a ticket so we had an extra. We had a blast, up until the 4th quarter when Logan had officially decided he had enough of being out in the cold and was bored to tears. He did really good until then though and was jumping around and shouting “Go Cougars!” and loved singing the fight song. Landon was as good as gold… he just sat there the entire time, enjoying himself…it may have been because he was a popsicle and couldn’t move…one of the two. BYU won 23 to 3! I’m sure it was due to Logan’s stomping of his feet which we told him helped BYU score against the other team.
October 10, 2008
We had a family campout inside our house. Logan had been begging us for forever to set up his mini tent in the living room and bring out his sleeping bag and flashlight. So tonight I promised him we could. We went to the store and got some stuff for smores , I told him though that we wouldn’t be able to light a fire in our home to roast the marshmallows, but he kept insisting that we should do it. Well, we waited to be able to have our campout with dad and then got his tent up. He told dad that he wanted to roast marshmallows in the house because that’s what you do when you go camping. Well, dad decided we’d pretend… he went outside and got some big sticks and got our Halloween pumpkin lights and put them underneath the sticks so it gave it an orange glow…then he had Logan color a picture of fire flames. Logan thought that was so cool! He kept rubbing his hands together and saying things like…”Oh, the fire’s hot”, ”I’m getting warmer” , “Isn’t it a nice fire mom”. We had him get in his pj’s and pretended to roast marshmallows in our “nice fire” and then heated up the marshmallows in the microwave with the graham cracker and chocolate. We ate them and then read a couple of ghost stories before going to bed. We have the old Troll house books on tape…we read “ the mystery of the witches shoes” and “ the mystery of the haunted piano”. There fun to read and not too scary. In the morning we made cinnamon rolls to end our campout extravaganza.
Side note: Logan said something so cute to me today… I’m going out shopping with my mom and grandma (Gee) soooo…I actually did my hair and make-up today ( I know a shocker) and as I was putting on mascara, Logan says, “Mom what are you doing?” I told him I was trying to make myself beautiful, he then says “Mom you always look beautiful, even when you put that stuff on!” It made me want to cry…I love it when he’s sweet with me!
October 9, 2008
Well, today we had the Kirby vacuum cleaner guy come to show us the vacuum. They called us the day before to see if we were interested in a free carpet cleaning in our rooms. I told them that I’m not that interested in having them come because I’m not going to buy anything. They said that it was just an opinion poll to see how well it cleans the carpet and that they definitely wouldn’t be charging anything for the cleaning. Well, they didn’t charge for the carpet cleaning but, they gave us a 2 hour presentation on how wonderful the Kirby vacuum was. It was pretty cool but, they wanted $2199 for this vacuum. I’m not sure why anyone would spend that kind of money on a vacuum, even if it did last 50 years. You could buy a Bissell for $69, at least 17 times over to equal that price. Anyways, it was funny though because our kids were really into the vacuum guy. He kept saying phrases like, “ Isn’t it the best vacuum ever!?!” and Logan shouted like in the game shows “YES IT IS !!!” It was soooo funny. He was so enthused! I think the vacuum salesmen look for people who are like Logan when they sell. Logan got out his toy Dirt Devil vacuum to show the vacuum salesman that he is a good cleaner and knows his vacuum’s. Landon was just attracted to the shininess of the vacuum…he kept drawing near it and touching it, but every time the salesman went near him to show him something he would quickly run to me or dad to hide from him. Anyways, Logan had a great time with the salesman and was sad to have him leave after we let him know that we wouldn’t be purchasing the vacuum but appreciated the free cleaning. It’s the simple things in life you treasure!
Sept. 18th 2008
Oh, I love this day…I know this may sound psycho which I already know my sisters think I am… but I love this day! It’s the day where we celebrate my husband’s mission!
My husband left in Sept. 1998 to serve an LDS mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He labored two years preaching the gospel and serving the people of Santiago, Chile. He loved that experience! Well, I was pondering one time what I could do to encourage my son’s to have the same desire and it came to me Chile day’s!!! Logan and I decorated the kitchen in Chilean colors with balloons, streamers, and of course the Chilean flag. Well, I tried to make a Chilean dinner ( I ended up using the wrong recipe). It was good though. We had brussel sprout casserole, Fanta (an orange soda drink they have in Chile), peaches and salad. (I also didn’t make the salad true to form either... I should have though…all they have for a salad there is lettuce and tomatoes with lemon on top) I needed my ranch dressing. Anyways, Logan helped me make a cake and we decorated it like the Chilean flag. Then we played pin the tie on the missionary, and watched a video of Kirt’s mission he received. Later, Dad had to leave to work on homework, but the kids and I painted a piggy bank for our new baby that we’re having in November. We have a tradition in our family that when we have a baby boy…which so far we’re 3 for 3, that we make a mission piggy bank. We buy a ceramic piggy bank at a ceramic store, paint it, have the letters RWH (Return With Honor) on it and then send it back to the store to have it fired. Logan really enjoyed it and did a great job covering the entire piggy bank with my help….and Landon well, he mostly just ate the paint off the brush. ( I knew that was going to happen!) But, towards the end when he saw Logan painting, he started to stop eating paint and start painting. It was a great day! If anyone has any ideas for mission games or missionary related activities for future Chile day’s I would love to hear it.
