Our big guy

Where has the time gone. I have missed posting the last few months of Ruxin monthly pictures. I guess that is what I get for not updating the blog sooner. Ruxin is getting so big. I just love his smiles. It is so much fun to get him to giggle. There is just something about a babys laugh that is so contagious to me that I cant help but laugh myself.

 5 months old

6 months old

7 months old

He was so little when he was born.

A few weeks ago I got really tired of trying to fix his hair so I decided that I was going to give him a hair cut. When Ruxin was born he had a full head of hair. Other mothers always ask me if his hair fell out. Nope none of his hair fell out. So we gave him a hair cut at 6 months old.

beofore :)

During

After

What a handsome little guy!!

I have been able to take Ruxin to work with me a few times. Everyone absolutely loves him and his Hair and Eyes. He makes my days better. I have to say that he is the best office helper a mom could ask for!!

Even when is sick he is so HAPPY. He loved sitting my chair. Hopefully his two teeth come in soon!

Job Promotion!

The division of Nucor that Warren works for had a job posting for a District Sales Manager for the west coast region. Warren applied for the job and was prompted on February 17th 2013. He has the opportunity to travel to California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. Warren has really enjoyed traveling. He has some really great clients that he likes to visit.

We really like to watch baseball. (I have started liking it more since Warren took me to a game last year). Since Warren is in areas that have baseball teams he has been able to go to a few games. He also stops and takes pictures of the  different stadiums.

I love the pictures that he send to me.

We really miss him when is not home with us.  When Ruxin has a bad night we call up daddy to help the little guy relax. It is so fun to watch Ruxin, whenever Warren talks he stops and just listens to his dad talk.

Warren drives through very beautiful country. I wish that I could go with him.

We are excited about the promotion and were it will take us.

This is for Trish!!

Sorry for the long time sine I have posted. We have had a lot going on but really I just haven’t sat down to write a blog. I will try to be better about keeping the blog updated.

On February 6th 2012 we found out the we were expecting out little man! Since that day we have had quite the journey to get Ruxin here and for me to start feeling better. The first weekend in May I started to have a lot of pain. So I went to my doctor that monday. They ran a lot of test to figure out why I didn’t feel well. I spent a few days in the hospital. On the second day we figured out I had uterine fibroids, they are genetic and my mom had the same issue without the pain. I was told that I had one the size of a softball and one other that was a little smaller. I ended up being classified as a high risk pregnancy.

I have an amazing husband! Warren drove me to all of my doctor appointments in ogden with the really book smart doctors and was always at my regular appointments.

I had another hospital stay in the middle of august while Warren was at drill. I had really great doctors then. It helps when the doctors have served in the military because they are so willing to help in any way they can.

We had Ruxin a 3 weeks early. When the doctor did the c-section they pulled out the softball size fibroid and Warren was able to see what it looked like. Since May I have had pain from the fibroids. In November I was referred to a specialty doctor to decide the best way to handle the pain and the fibroids. I had been told since may that fibroids would get smaller after 266 weeks, after I had the baby, 12 weeks post partum etc. This doctor had me have an MRI done. We went back in December a few days before Christmas and the doctor told us the fibroids did not shrink and that I had 9 of them! Gosh no wonder I hadn’t felt very well. After a long discussion we decided the best thing was to have at least the one that was causing all the pain taken out.

On January 31, 2013 I went to have a multiple myomectomy. The doctor did a midline incision and was able to take out 4 of the 9 fibroids. Those four were on the outside of the uterus!  It means no scaring on the inside of the uterus.

   having the tube taken out hurt the worst. Only a few of the staples hurt.

I spent 4 days in the hospital. The doctor told me that I need to stay home for at least 4 weeks but 6 would be better. I felt so much better after the surgery that I went back to work the next week!

My mom was great and took Ruxin for a few days while I was in the hospital. I was really said that he wasn’t with me. But I was not all there the  first two days. Warren brought him down to see me on Sunday.

all tuckered out playing with grandma.

Thanks mom for watching our little man.

The freezing Rain could not keep us from seeing Grandpa!

We have not had a lot going since Christmas. We have just been trying to stay close to home. it has been really nice to relax and spend some quiet time with the family.

We have loved to watch Ruxin grow. We took him to his 4 month appointment on Monday. He is 12 1/2 lbs and 25 inches. He is like his daddy were his likes the morning and will talk and talk and likes to be asleep early. He loves to stand up while he holds your thumbs to be big and strong. He does not like tummy time but is slowly getting better at it. Ruxin is still sleeping great through the night. I usually only get up once with him. On the nights were he wakes up twice I have Warren get up with him after 4am and it never fails the moment that Ruxin sees he daddy walk in the room he starts to giggle ( he thinks that it is time to play). He will be a daddy’s boy but loves to cuddle with his mommy at night ( which makes his mommy very happy).

This is his 4 month picture!

I have a lot of time on my hands at work so I crocheted him a little doggie blanket. He loves to chew on it! Because we think he is teething .

Travis is one of my boss at work and he asked if I would crochet him a beard. I was finally able to figure out the pattern and did make him one, but I didn’t get a picture of if. it is pretty cool looking. Most people laughed at him at first but now they have changed their tune and want one to keep their faces warm.

We were all sitting down stairs watching Brave!. Ruxin is starting to watch things on the tv more. He loves when things move.

He rolls from side to side but not all the way over. He thinks he is big enough to stand on his own. Every time he is laying down he tries to sit up. it is pretty cute to see him try to do things.

Ruxin and daddy playing a game.

We were able to be apart of Brex’s 4th birthday! He was so excited to see everyone there.

Grandpa Smith come to visit us before he helped Aunt Rachel and Uncle Endrit pack to move. We were afraid his flight might be cancelled because of the freezing rain but lucky for us it wasn’t. Ruxin loved to just watch grandpa and listen to him talk. It was fun to see Ruxi’s reaching to Grandpa.

While Grandpa was here he was able to see where I work at. Travis and Zack showed Warren and Stan around the plant. They were able to see how they press the bales and ship them out.

Warren and Grandpa were able to go get Cooper and Allie early on Friday. I don’t think that they left his side for very long. They looked at the computer, And Grandpa showed them were his house was at in Missouri. 

 

While Stan was with us were took the opportunity to take a 3 generation picture!

 

Another awesome Allie moment. I love the things she does.

On Saturday after Grandpa had left and we all made it home ( Warren from helping Rachel and Endrit move, the kids and I wen to Coop’s basketball game). The kids were down stairs playing and Allie comes up and asked is she could have some carrots to eat. Dad told her that she could but it would have to be at the table, that she could not take them downstairs. I put this rule in place because most of the time the food doesn’t get eaten and will be left down there or the sip it everywhere. So back to the cute little Miss Allie Mae. So with being to she could have the carrots she would just have to have them on the table….

This is what we found when we went to go downstairs to tell the kids good night. I love how Allie can always bring a smile to your face.

Allie wanted to make sure that she was able to have a picture with Grandpa to. She wanted all the girls to have a picture with grandpa but we were not able to get that one. The only time she has a normal smile and not a Dr. Seuss smile is when she is with grandpa!

It has been really fun to watch Allie and Cooper grow the last few months with Ruxin. Coop is very protective of him!. He doesn’t let Allie do to much with Ruxin if he is not right they to save him. It is pretty fun to watch. Ruxin will just stare at the kids when they do anything. He looks at Coop the most.

Ruxin loves to have Coop help him be BIG and STRONG!

Allie the last few months has been playing with dolls at lot. She always puts them in Ruxin’s swing or bouncy chair. She tells us the her baby’s name. It is always a new name because she forgets what she called them the first time. She tells how old her baby is which also always changes because she forgets. Coop will be playing with Ruxin and she brings her doll and will do the same thing. She tells/does to her dolls whatever we do with Her little brother. It is really fun to watch her.

Today we had so much snow that fell, we had to leave to drop them off early We meet Melissa half way in Malad. It took us an hour each way! When we finally got home and it stopped snowing we went outside to watch the dogs run through it. Ok we really just want to gauge  how deep the snow was to have Bert run through it. It was so deep the you could barely see him as he ran up. The only reason the you could she him was because Gracie had already made some tracks for him. Well the Warren decided to throw him in the snow. Poor Bert! It would cover him every time and he had a hard time getting back to where he wasn’t covered because Gracie would have to got after him. It was a lot of fun to watch. Then I was walking with Ruxin in the back yard and slide, the little guy was a little scared because the dogs come running to play. We went in after that.  

Now we are just trying to get things ready for the next few crazy weeks.

It’s a wonderful time of the year!!

We have had a very busy few weeks. It feels like we have not stopped going. We had tired to go see the lights several times during the month but either Melissa or one of us had something going on. We finally found a date that worked for all of us. The bad thing was that is was the weekend before Christmas.

Before we went to see the lights, we had the kids open there Christmas presents! We got the kids one present because they have some many people that love them that they get spoiled this time of the year. They have lots of grandparents and family to spend the holidays with!

Coop is always taking pictures of Ruxin with his DS, so we thought the he was big enough for a really camera. He was so excited that he took pictures of very thing.

Allie is always coloring! On everything even if it shouldn’t be colored on. So what is the best thing to get a girl that likes to color? An inkoos. We found the one that she can color on and it glows in the dark. So was really happy for it. She also got a big girl necklace that was a snowflake.

 

The kids were so excited to ride the train, so was Melissa, it was her first time. This year Allie was not afraid to ride it. It was Ruxin’s first time on the train as well.

Before we got to Salt Lake we had to get Ruxin all bundled up. Very time I put him in this thing I think about the Christmas Story and the little boy crying thelling his mom that he couldn’t put him arms down. Makes me laugh.

Allie’s received a little toy type camera from her Nana. It takes pictures and you can upload them to the computer but it is a plastic one. So was taking pictures left and right. She took so many that we were always behind everyone, which on that night it was not a good thing. When we went into the visitor center she took a picture of ever paint of Jesus. it was really cute!

Our Little Family!

This is Warrens I am ready to leave face but I will let you take my picture because I know that you like to. I love this man he is really good to me. we left right after this.

Earlier in the week the kids had their Christmas program. It was fun to watch them in it.

We went to Logan one day did a little shopping. I told Warren that I wanted to have Ruxin in a picture with Santa. Again this is were he is really good to me. We went to the mall and found Santa.

Then we went to Macy’s to pick up a few grocery’s and found the Grinch! The Grinch sure did love Ruxin. I do believe it made his heart grow seven times its size that day.

12-21-12. Ruxin was 3 months old that day. Time has gone by so fast. He is getting so big. He talks more ever day.

Over the weekend we did hair cuts. When I cut Coop’s hair is have to go slow because he has so much thick hair that my clippers catch and pull his hair. Allie also has a lot of hair. the problem with Miss Mae is that her natural curl on the bottom of her hair makes it really hard for her to brush it out. So Melissa and I decided what to do with her hair. it made me really sad to cut off all her hair. But Allie was really excited because she now has hair like Baylee Hatch. I made a deal with Allie, that she has to brush her hair morning and night and not be asked to do it and we would help her get her golden hair this summer. She really wants hair like Rapunzel.

Allie with her pill of hair.

We had the Dude Ranch Christmas party on Sunday. It is always good company and good food. Gary and Sherma always go all out. I have enjoyed working for them and was really sad when I was told that I could no longer work during my pregnancy.

Ruxin snuggled up with Sherma

Ruxin woke up from his nap when Gary was holding Him. By this point he was tried of people passing him around.

We had the kids again on Christmas eve. We first stopped at Grandma Sandy’s. The kids were so excited for toys that she found for them. Coop wasn’t as impressed with the purple shirt that he got but would not so raving about the batman legos. Allie just loves anything Barbie.

Later we went out to Grannin and Pops for a little party. Ok little is not the right word. Big, loud and crazy. There are 8 kids between my dad and Janis. Jayson is missing because he is on his mission and Shannon wasn’t there either but 2 of her kids were.

Maggie is the oldest grandkid and just loved Ruxin. I cant believe that she will be 11 in a few months. The funny thing is that is how I remember how long dad and Janis have been married.

The only time that night that the kids were quiet. The loved the listen to the story being read.

Allie was listening the story while Coop was looking at the TV to see what all the adults were laughing at.

Opening presents from Grannin and Pops.

Pops Ruxin to fall alseep with all the screaming that the 10 grandkids were doing.

 

El cunado! We don’t know who was more worried Ruxin or Chad.

Warren captured a really AWW moment with Brex but Brex was really just waving his had in Ruxin’s face. Kids don’t seem to have a concept of a personal bubble. I still like my AWW moment when Warren showed me the picture.

Allie asked Santa for a GIANT Teddy bear, one that was bigger that her. Well Santa Listen and brought her that Teddy Bear named Noel. Coop wanted Lego Batman 2 for his DS.

Melissa snuck a picture of Allie having lunch with her bear. Melissa told us that tu-tu grannin gave to Allie was on her bear. It was a little snug.

Ruxin had been a sick the last few day and has slept most of christmas. My poor little guy.

We went to Grandma Sandy’s to open presents. Brex was really nice and helped his little baby cousin ruxin open all of his presents until he opened his race track then we were all old news. He watched the cars go round and round and then started to put more on the track. Before we opened presents when Brex got to mom’s house I went out to see if I could help bring anything in and Brex runs up to me and yells grandma I am ready to open presents. he stops and looks at me and says Coo I thought you were my grandma. I think maybe its time me to change my hair. ha ha.

Lots of loves for Ruxin.

Later we went out to my dads. In the evenings Ruxin gets a little fussy. But the one way to may him happy is to off his clothes. He loved to the be a naked baby. He is all smiles. earlier at my moms Ruxin sat and stared at Uncle Lance and would at him but Lance didn’t talk to him. So at my dads I stripped Ruxin down and once again he was my happy little man. Then he was looking at Uncle Lance again so this time I handed him to Lance. He was showing everyone how big and strong he was.

Ruxin loves to stand or sit so he can see everything around him.

We are happy to finally be home and relaxing. We had a wonderful Christmas with the kids and family. But are looking for a few weeks of quiet before I go in for surgery. We hope that everyone had a very Merry Christmas.