Easter

Taking Easter pictures was a little harder than expected. Too much sun and two infants did not mix well. All the grass had gotten watered so we had to contend with wet grass. We finally found a dry spot and started taking pictures. This is how Gage really likes to be carried... I promise.

We tried to stand and make shade so we could get pictures of Gage and Landon in their matching outfits. It was hard. At least they like each other.
If we could get them to look in the same direction they would have weird faces.
Or Landon would try to sit up and Gage would stick out his tongue.

We attempted a family picture.
Then got smarter and moved out of the sun.
Trying to get a good picture of just one kid is a lot easier.
Lance was really good at holding two kids and they had fun.
Gage sleeping. He loves to sleep with his arms over his head. It is kind of awkward. Good thing Marcia doesn't mind.
We wanted to dye Easter eggs when Mindy and Lance were here, but we didn't. Even though the eggs were cooked. So we did it on ... Tuesday. Gage had a blast.
And got his egg that said, "Gage's 1st Easter!" He was kind of tired by then.

Swimming

Mindy, Lance and Landon came down for the weekend. It was pretty warm so we decided to go swimming in between General Conference Sessions. This was Gage's first time swimming. He was pretty tired, so he swam for awhile and then got out and took a nap. He was almost asleep in the pool. It was so warm that he probably would have slept just fine in it. Too bad we made him get out.

Before the swim. Gage (3 months) and Landon (6.5 months) in their cool swim gear.

These two were so hard to get pictures of together. Most of the time they would look in opposite directions. Landon made it harder by looking everywhere but at the camera.

Gage is always sticking his tongue out. He loves licking stuff. Here he is licking the water off of his shirt.
Mindy and Landon. Landon had a blast and lasted a lot longer than Gage.
Gage was pretty much asleep by this point.
Mindy, Landon, Chelan, Gage
Jeff and Gage.
Gage either yawning or smiling...
Landon loving it.

Now doesn't this seem like the perfect way to spend a Saturday afternoon. It was a lot of fun.

Gage and Landon

Landon and Gage liked to play together. It helps that Gage has some of the same toys.

3 months makes a big difference in size, Even with two big babies.

We bought a bouncer off of craigslist when we found for a great price. We put it together for Landon, and the put gage in it. His first time in the bouncer. He liked it.

Although his feet don't touch. So we had to put a pillow under it.
The next time he didn't like it so much. It was just okay.

Stuff

Gage loves his fist. He is always sucking on it. He will spit his pacifier out in favor of his fist. He tries to get it all in, but he hasn't gotten it that far yet.

He also sleeps weird. You can't quite tell but he is on his side. Sometimes I worry that he is going to suffocate, but he hasn't.
He even has his feet crossed.
This was taken a week earlier. We could have so many pictures of him sleeping like this. He kind of arches back. I have tried to move his head forward, but he won't let me.

The first few days.

Here are a few more pictures of Gage during the first few days of life. Here he is a day and half old.

And three days old. In the car and ready to go to the pediatrician for the first time. Because he had jaundice and was under the lights in the hospital the wanted us to go in and get tested to make sure he was getting better.
He doesn't seem to love the car, but he also doesn't hate it.

At the doctor.
And finally at home again.
Six days old.

And it's a....

It finally happened. At 4:30 am, I woke up because my water broke and I started having contractions that actually hurt (all the ones prior to this didn't hurt at all). Although my water was just leaking so I wasn't sure that was what had happened. I was able to stay in bed for another hour or so and get a little bit more sleep but then got up and started timing the contractions. They started at about 10 min. apart and steadily got closer together. When Jeff got up at 8:30 I told him that this might be it. We had a hard time believing I was actually in labor because it would mean the baby would be a week early. I was so convinced that it would be a week late and I didn't want to go to the hospital to be sent home. We got ready for church but by 1 pm decided that we were not going to go. Instead we walked to Walgreens and returned our redbox dvd and then walked around the lakes for a couple of hours. The 70 degree weather made the walking very enjoyable. By the end of the walk my contractions had been about 3 min. apart for about 2 hours and they were really hurting so we decided to get ready and go to the hospital. We packed a bag and headed in around 4pm. We got checked in and they confirmed that my water had broken and we would be staying until we had a baby! Here was our last picture as just a couple (in between contractions).About 7 hours after checking in we had our baby. And it's a BOY!
He came into this world screaming at 11:36 pm, on Sunday, January 3, 2010. 7 lbs 1 1/2 oz, 20.1 inches long.
Here I am exhausted after 19 hours of labor with Gage Moses. And our doctor in the background.
He's already doing the one eye open thingy.
And our first official family of three picture. It's a great one.
Jeff did really well the whole time. He even watched it all, which was more than I wanted to see.

After getting cleaned up. He



He's got a lot of hair, which is what everyone comments on when they see him for the first time.
After exactly 2 days in the hospital and some time spent under bilirubin lights we were finally allowed to go home. Here's Gage all dressed and ready to go.
We were all exhausted and ready to go. I think I had about 5 hours of sleep total in the two days (and nights) that we were there. Jeff got a little more but only because he could sleep in through the nurses coming in to check on me and the baby.
Finally home and comfy with our own blankets.
It is soo nice being home. We still get no sleep and for someone who needs a lot of sleep I am doing pretty good. It was fun not knowing the gender until he came out, but it was hard to start referring to Gage as a him. We still referred to him as it or 'the baby' for quite awhile.