One month

Kort is one month old! This is what goes on at our house quite frequently:

notice who is always holding him?

Here are a few newborn pictures. (which is a lot harder to do than it looks)

Playing with dad:

Mom and Dad came up last week to love on the little man, so we had some fun in the orchard:

Then it snowed:

Rian now plays Futsal. She loves everything that has to do with soccer. She takes after her dad because I have no interest in playing sports. I am glad she does. 

I love seeing her play hard against the boys!

Kort-The first week

My little guy is almost 2 weeks old already. He is such a sweetheart and I feel like he has been in our family forever. I can't imagine life without him now. His sisters love him to pieces. Especially Shelby who can't stay away from him for longer than 3 minutes. 

This next picture you can sort of see his cone head and little marks on his face. The doctor had to use forceps because he was stuck. Being my biggest baby and being face up, we are very grateful he made it here safely!

Graci is a bit sad looking because she was missing her mom and didn't want to leave me. It was very sweet. 

We came home from the hospital on Thursday around noon. His doctor wanted us to take him in to test his bilirubin on Saturday. It was pretty low. Then the next Monday I had to take him in for a newborn check and they tested it again. It had gone up so they arranged for a health care place to deliver me a bilibed. He had to be in it at all times except for feedings and diaper changes. Luckily, he didn't mind it too much. The first night anyway. After that he kept getting cold even though I tried to keep blankets on him. His numbers started going down again by Tuesday so luckily we didn't have to take him back to the hospital. Afterwards I mostly used the little light that I could hold him with. He was able to snuggle up to me and I could keep a blanket around him and so he was a lot warmer and more comfortable. By Thursday his numbers were way down so we didn't have to do the lights anymore. I was very relieved.

Last Sunday when he was 4 days old, we had him on a blanket on his tummy. He rolled over to his back. At first we though it was just an accident but no, he has not stopped. You put him on his tummy, and he rolls right back over. He is already growing so much. I told Brian I think he has too many things to do in his life that he does not have time to be my baby for long. I am cherishing every second. 

My goal is to keep him healthy. The girls get home from school and I make them change clothes and wash up before they can even look at him. Im a bit paranoid about it because of what happened to our little niece, Lily. She was two weeks old when she got RSV and had to be life flighted to Primary Childrens. She almost didn't make it. Now she is perfectly fine luckily. 

I sure love my little family!

He is here!

Our boy is here! Kort Brian was born Wednesday, October 10th 2012 at 5:38 am. 

7 pounds 3 ounces. He was my biggest baby and the hardest one to deliver, but he is here and healthy and happy!

Back to school pictures

Here are some photos I took of the kids right before school started:

Being a typical guy, Brian only took a couple pictures while he was on his trip to NY. 

Here is the view from his hotel room. It was the same hotel we stayed in last time we were there and ironically was the same room just one floor below. 

One of the hotel elevators:

The UN had been meeting all week and he came upon the Italian Prime Minister arriving at the Italian Embassy:

This is the only photo of the nearly completed Freedom Tower. Part of a metal beam. It must have once been part of the original World Trade Center.

And of course the Wall Street Bull. Well, his ribs. 

He also did some running while there. He went on a 13 miler from Times Square all the way down and across the Brooklyn bridge then back again, then the next day around the whole Central Park. He said they were the most fun runs he has ever done.

Our sprinklers are almost done! They just have to put the heads on and test it out and we are good to go. Friday night we had tickets to the BYU Hawaii game. Mom and dad were here and Kim and Carl came up with some kids we we had a big tailgate party in the parking lot before the game. Brian's dad and Dave and Ty joined us as well. ESPN was there recording and apparently we made tv! Dad really knows how to show his BYU spirit:

Some cheerleaders even visited us