only dolls kaydence will play with

here is Soren in the same outfit around same age as Ivan now. Ivan has a lot darker complexion and more hair and his head is not as big.

BATH TIME

Ivan really liked his bath today. He has been a liitle colicy and/or gassy the past two days and it was nice to have him calm and content for a few minutes.

LARGER CAR

While my mom was here we had to take 2 cars anywhere we all wanted to go since we are at full capacity with the explorer. I've been telling craig, who has been looking at suburban's and tahoe's for a couple months, we didn't have any money for one. But he found this used one off of Craig's list for cheap. (which we still didn't have money for) A man traveling from washinton to utah for his daughters wedding broke down and had to leave it behind as he got a rental to finish his trip. Craig was among 30 others who had called for it over the 2 days it was posted and for some reason the guy liked Craig the best.

It has a lot of miles but the owners were OCD (Craig believes) because it's in really good condition for being a 1999 and he had every strap of paperwork dealing with any work it has had over the last 11 years.

Perk about parents being farmers... a great mechanic's shop

not so much a perk..... permanent greasy dirty hands.

COUSINS

Last night...I guess very early this moring the 6th out of 6 boys was born. ( 6 boys in 6 weeks)

**also not to mention 3 others in the last year were boys as well..on my side (Ethyn, Legend and CJ)***

Chris (craig's brother) and Karen had Keegan feb 15th

Justin (katy's brother) and wendy welcomed Braxtin (not pictured) March 2nd

Craig and Katy (me) welcomed Ivan March 4th

Derek and Lindsey (craig's sister) welcomed Luke and Cole March 23rd

Richard (craig's nephew) and Brianna welcomed Landen March 28th (not pictured)

Cole, Keegan, Ivan, Luke

(if you happen to live on west idaho in Emmett, don't drink the water or you WILL get pregnant) all the 5 "idaho" babies out of the 6 cousins have recently or currently live on that street.

Here is a picture of Grandma Connie and baby Ivan. Connie didn't like me taking a picture at this angle (thought I was shooting up her nose) I told her it was a sliming angle...then she allowed and smiled graciously :)

Ivan caught with grin

I was taking a picture of Ivan on Craig's lap and as I snapped the button he gave me a grin. :)

the 3 amigos

Here is a picture of the 3 children before church. Ivan of course not dressed in sunday attire but we did manage to get dressed and attend sacrament meeting. (which is the last hour) We stayed in the foyer and all bundled up in carseat to avoid germs but we tried and were successful.

WELOME BABY IVAN!!!!!!

It is now 6 in the morning and the nurse at St. Luke's hospital just came in to check my little boy Ivan's vitals. He has been asleep since 9 last night. They woke him at 3 to do more vitals, gave him a shot and weighed him and I nursed him and that's it. he has slept so good for only being less than a day old. I however have not taken advantage of this because I have been up every 2 hours checking on him and not at all tired!!! (weird) I just want to look at him and cuddle with him.

At 7.30 am Craig and I entered the labor and delivery devision at the hospital for our scheduled induction. By about 9 I was on pitocin and ready to go. But by noon I had not progressed at all!!!!! My sister had 2 failed inductions just a few months earlier but they reassured me that it doesn't happen often....Well apparently pitocin doesn't work in my family :( The doctor came in around 1 and broke my water to see if that would start anything. I have had success starting by just breaking my water with the other 2. My contractions actually started to pick up and do something. I was a 3 by 3 in the afternoon and 50% effaced. I knew I wanted an epidural but just didn't know when to get it. I didn't want to get one to early and have it slow down any progress. I waited till about 4:15 when I finally asked for one. (which takes about 45 minutes to get the right fluids in me and call anesthesiologist to prick me) Everyone was telling me I was such a trooper and a stoic since I wasn't making any fuss with pain all day. They had to stick me 3 times to get an iv in which didn't phase me a second. The epidural guy had to stick me 3 TIMES as well because apparently I have very tough ligaments. My blood pressure has always been low but the machine beeped at us every 15 minutes all day because of it. The contractions were pretty painful as i was waiting for epidural and I felt very nauseous and had to consintrate on breathing. When they checked me after putting in epidural I was at 9.5 and ready to go. Contractions turned into very heavy cramps in lower abdomen and I could now feel this kids whole body plunging forward out of me. But had to wait a few more contractions for doctor to arrive and for me to reach the full 10 centimeters. Finally!!!!!! doctor arrived and we got ready because the urge to push was getting to hard to pull back. When we were all ready to go it took one contraction and about 3 hard pushes to get him out. The second got his head and the third got his body. Not gonna lie that last push hurt just a little :) And my very calm stoic silent nature vanished as i let out a scream heard around the world which felt like I shot Ivan across the room. And yes I actually do remember apologizing for that thinking I did actually just shoot him across the room :) He was born at 5:07 PM And about 5:20 i started to get some relief with the epidural. :P

Ivan weight in at just over 9 lbs and was 21 inches long. he had quite a bit of really dark curly hair and dark eyes that appear to have a blue halo. He has a little birth mark we noticed on his left arm. He was awake and alert until about 9 when my family left the hospital so we could sleep. We went and gave him a bath and I nursed him and he has been asleep ever since. We can already tell he is just going to be a great easy going kid.

His eyes are starting to wake up now! and he is just laying there looking around very quiet and calm. Im going to get off computer now so I can hold this cute little perfect baby so good morning to everyone and WELCOME BABY IVAN to the world :)