Remzley's 4 Month Check Up

My baby is ALREADY 4 months old! I can not believe it. He is getting so big way to fast!!

Here are his stats at 4 months:
Weight: 15 lbs 10 OZ 75%
Length: 24 1/4 inches 25%
Head: 40.6 cm 10%

So as you can see... he is a CHUNK!! We are loving him around our house, and Kaedynn is finally over all of her issues with him. She loves him and is always wanting to hold him etc. She loves to get right up in his face and make crazy noises to make him smile at her.

He is so much fun. I have started feeding him rice cereal -- his bottles are just not filling him up anymore. He will eat 6 oz and still act like he is starving.. every 3 hours :) He is still not used to eating off of a spoon, he rolls it around in his mouth and spits it out about 10 times before he will swallow one bite of it :) But hopefully he will get the hang of it soon. If i put it in his bottles he gulps it down like it is good. The Dr said that once he can eat it off of a spoon good for a few weeks that i can start giving him real baby food to eat. I can not wait to start it. I hope that he gets the hang of this spoon eating soon.

At 4 months he is:
-cooing and cawing all day long
-loves to spit and build a bunch of bubbles on his lips
-drenches his shirt with spit in about 10 minutes :)
-sleeps from 9 PM to 6:30 AM (sometimes 7:30 AM)
-has NO ambition of rolling..
-he is starting to laugh.. but it takes quite a bit to get him to do it
-LOVES to look at people
-loves to have people just sit and talk to him.
-if you leave the room and he notices.. he will cry until you come back.
-still sleeps on his tummy all night (in his own crib.. might i add)
-will hold onto a toy for a few seconds (maybe 1 minute) and then throws it. or smacks himself in the head with it.
-starting to jump in his jumper. His feet finally reach the floor and he can push off.

Here is him after he finished eating his rice cereal for the 2nd time.. he was MAD at me b/c i was not holding him. Notice how MESSY he is. He is not a very clean eater.. lol


Here are pictures of him on his 4 month birthday!! SO BIG! Soon we are going to have to put him in a bigger car seat.

Happy St. Patty's Day!

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY EVERYONE!! Here are a few photos of me and the kids this morning dressed in our GREEN!!!

Kaedynn wanted me to paint shamrocks on her cheeks.. since i did not have any paint i had to use one of her "washable" markers to draw and color it on her cheeks. She was SO happy and so excited that i did this. I love when little things mean so much to kids!! It made my day!

By the time i picked her up from Preschool at 12:00 PM the marker was smeared all over her face. She asked if i would paint rainbows with a pot of gold on there when she gets home from daycare for my nephew Braxten's birthday party tonight. What a sweetheart!

Rileys New Elk Mount

We got Riley's elk back on Thursday night. This thing is HUGE!! Seriously i think we need to add onto the house to add him a room for all of these creatures to be put in :)
I am against hanging him on my front wall... and Riley thinks it is the coolest thing ever and wants EVERYONE to see it hanging there. hahaha.. he pays our house payment.. so he wins -- i came home to this beautiful creature on my front room wall :).

Kaedynn did not know that the Elk was in our front room and we got home late and it was dark.. she went into the front room and DARTED out the back door in 2 seconds SCREAMING. When i went to ask her what the problem was she kept telling me that there was an animal in the house. (i knew that Riley had got it back; so i was not too concerned). Anyways so i got in the house and got the baby out of his car seat, meantime Kaedynn is clenched onto the counter top holding on for dear life. She thought that this elk was going to get her. Finally after 25 minutes i went and picked her up and hauled her up our stairs. She was pinching and grabbing me so tight. She was literally terrified of this thing. I kept explaining that it was dead and that it would not get her. She told me that, "Dad better put that in Remzley's room; so i can shut the door"
She has since become friends with it, and named the Elk Fredward Benson. --Freddy the Elk. She talks to it like it is a real animal now.

Thank Heavens that we got over this hurdle :)

Date Night with Kaedynn

Riley and I decided to take Kaedynn on a Surprise Date Night with just me, Riley, and Kaedynn. I think that it was a GREAT idea with the new baby here for her to have some time alone with us again.
We did not tell her about the date night until that day (Friday March 12th) and when we told her .. all day long she kept trying to guess WHAT it was that we were going to do. As soon as we got into SLC in the parking lot.. she finally guessed it -- DISNEY ON ICE. She had so much fun and was so excited to be there. My sister Tosha and Kevin took their little boy with us too, it was fun. I hope that it is something that she will always remember doing. I am going to try to plan more "date nights" with her. I think that it is so good for her to have these.

Uncle Kevin SPOILED her to death. He bought her a $12 snow-cone, a $10 Tinkerbell necklace, and picture with Kaedynn and Kota and Mickey & Minnie. (who knows how much that was).... I about DIED when he came back with her and all of that stuff. She was in heaven.

Oh and for anyone with little kids that like CARS the movie... HOLY COW!!! They were incredible on the ICE!!! I would recommend taking their kids to this if/when it comes again.

My Grandma Faye

My WONDERFUL Grandma Faye passed away last Tuesday, March 9th 2010. Words can not describe my grandma. She was always so nice, caring, compassionate, and NEVER said anything bad about anyone. In all of my life i have never heard 1 bad thing come out of her mouth. She is such a great example and i wish i could be more like her.

One of my greatest memories of my grandma is writing her letters when my parents were going through their divorce (some 15 + years ago). She would always write me back and give me advise and always make me see the brighter side of things. I truly believe that she is what helped me through a lot of my hard times and i always knew that she truly cared and meant what she would tell me.

Grandma ALWAYS said.. "Oh Happy day." Everyone that knows her knows that she said this VERY frequently. I have to laugh about it because this has lately been my new thing to say. I have no idea why i keep saying it; but it sure makes me think about my grandma and all the good things and times that we have had together. At the funeral my uncle told us about the morning that Grandma had passed away; and on the way to the hospital, she was in SO much pain and hunched over in the car... and all she could say was "Oh happy day". What a wonderful woman.

The morning that my Grandma had passed away, I got a call at work telling me the bad news. We decided to head over to the hospital to see Grandma one last time before the mortician came to get her. We made it about 10 minutes before they arrived and it was so crazy. She did not look good at all and i hardly even recognized her. I did get to give her a kiss on her cheek before they took her to the mortuary. I will never forget this moment in my life.
After we had left the hospital my dad called me and said that the mini van in front of us driving was the mortuary with my grandmas body in the back. We DID NOT believe him... so we followed the van, and sure enough they pulled into the Wing Mortuary. They were very safe drivers and delivered my grandma's body just great. I am glad that we got to supervise :)



This is my Dad, Janice, and Grandma the day of her funeral.


This is my dads brothers and sisters.
Kenny, Kaye, Barbara, My Dad, and Janeen.


Grandma's final resting place. What a beautiful Casket.


The paul bearers -- mostly my cousins.



Here is my grandmas obituary:

Alta Faye Dickerson Fox

1921-2010

Alta Faye Fox, age 88, of Lehi, died Mar 9, 2010.

She was born July 16, 1921 in Lehi, Utah, to Ernest Rodney and Goldie Olivia Clark Dickerson.

Faye married Eldred Winn Fox Sept. 18, 1940 in the Salt Lake Temple.

Faye served faithfully in the LDS Church in many capacities. She left a great posterity which she loved dearly.

Survived by her children Eldred Kaye (Lona) Fox; Jeanine (Quinn) Erickson, daughter-in-law Christine Fox Finlinson, Eldwinn (Janice) Fox, Barbara (Kevin) Roseman, Kenneth (Jill) Fox, 35 grandchildren, 78 great-grandchildren, several great great-grandchildren, and a sister Doris (Joe) Southworth.

Preceded in death by her husband, Eldred and a son Merrill C. Fox.

Funeral services will be held Friday Mar 12, 2010, 2:00 p.m. at the East Bench LDS Chapel, 1630 E. 900 N., Lehi. Friends may call at the same location on Thursday evening Mar 11, from 6-8 p.m. and Friday one hour prior to the service. Interment will be in the Lehi City Cemetery. Online guest book at wingmortuary.com.



Grandma Faye I sure do love you and know that you are in a better place. I thank you for everything that you have ever taught me and helped me with. May you rest in peace.

Remzley is 3 Months Old!

Our baby is now 3 months 1 week and 1 day old today. He is already 14 Lbs (as of last Wednesday). He has been going to daycare, as i had to go back to work and the poor little guy is already sick. He has been coughing and wheezing and sounds terrible. We went to the Dr on Wednesday Feb 17th and was told to have him go to the hospital to get "suctioned" out. This entails the nurse sticking about 3 inches of tube up each of his nostrils and pushing a "button" that sucks all of the snot out of his sinus's. Pretty heart wrenching. He just sits and screams and acts like he is going to die while she does this. I was told if he doesn't get any better by the next Wednesday February 24th to take him back to the doctor for another exam. --He wasn't any better in fact he sounded worse, so we took him to the Dr again and the Dr had me do breathing treatments on him. We are still doing them and he is sounding a lot better -- but his nasty cough is still there occasionally. I keep making myself feel so bad that i have to work; and put him through all of this misery. We did this with Kaedynn (sent her to daycare) -- but not until she was 9 months old, so it didn't seem quite so bad.

He has been being a lot better baby. I started mixing his breast milk with formula on February 17th -- and he is a 300% different baby. He sleeps all the time and waits more then 3 hours to eat everytime. He is seriously so much better. I decided that it was time to get him moved to formula. He has been doing so good on it, he doesn't spit up, or have gas, or anything. Makes me feel really stupid for not trying it before now :)







We did his blessing on Feb 21st (his 3 month birthday) it was really good. My wonderful Brother in Law Cory blessed him and we had dinner at our house afterwards. I really love my family and am so thankful that they are all so wonderful and caring and supportive of us. It makes me feel so good.
My mother-in-law took some pictures of Remz on his blessing day. I will post his pictures as soon as i get them from her.