Love-Sick

Despite three-fourths of our family being sick, we had a lovely Valentine's Day. It was nice to stay at home to enjoy our new couches and watch TV and movies all day. We just got cable (sort of), and so I was completely entertained watching "Cake Boss" on TLC when I wasn't tending to the sick children and husband. We did manage to make heart-shaped sugar cookies and Casey & I snuck away to a dinner/dance for our ward on Saturday night. (we left before the dancing)

Benson LOVED the sugar cookies. (or just the mountain of frosting & sprinkles on top)

Poor Benson felt sick all day and had 4 naps.

I love being the mom when my kids are sick because I am the only one they want

(except Benson ALWAYS wants Grandma Jan more than me, so she doesn't count).

Naptime is the only time we got a break from

"Mom, Mommy, Mom, Mommy, Mom, Mommy, I want my Mommy"

So Molly IS a binkie baby.

She is starting to smile and it melts my heart.

Hot Tuh-Molly

Molly has been with us for nearly 4 weeks now and we are loving her more everyday. She is such a good baby and so sweet. She has the brightest eyes, which we rarely see because she sleeps so much. She usually sleeps about 5 hours at night between feedings, which means only once or twice per night, which is lovely. We feel so blessed to have another very good baby. Here are some pictures of her a couple weeks ago. Soon I will post about something other than her, but she is taking up quite a bit of our time and thoughts right now....

LOVE HER!!!!

"Normal" life

We have had more visitors. Gunner, Trapper and Rylee came to see Molly. Now she is just waiting to meet her Boston cousins in a few days!

Casey returned to work after a whopping day and a half off. We were very lucky to have a long Christmas break! Now it's just the 3 of us trying to adjust to "normal" life.

Benson decided to take Molly for a joy ride...

His mega-blocks wagon is the perfect size for her.

P.S. I forgot to mention that Casey just about passed out while I was getting my epidural. Good thing there was an anesthesiologist and a nurse to give HIM all of their attention. Nevermind the lady in labor :)

Also, if anyone has any ideas how to make $530 fast or how to steal a google Nexus One phone, please let me know. I would appreciate it. Casey's birthday is coming up.

Sugar and Spice.... Benson, BE NICE!!!!

Well, here is my "frilly" post... Sorry if it's "TMI" or if it's boring. Just skip to the pictures if you want.

Casey and I had been trying to decide if we should have the doctor start us on Monday or not. It would be good because he had the whole week off of work and school hadn't started yet. I was hesitant, though, because I wanted to go into labor on my own and I wasn't so hip on Molly's birthday being so close to Christmas. We had been talking a lot about what to do on Sunday.

Lucky for us we didn't have to decide! Sunday afternoon I started to have pains pretty bad, so we called Tami and Nick (who just happened to be driving from Ogden to Hooper) to stop and get Benson. My family was having a Christmas party at my parents, so they took Benson there while we went to the hospital. We got to the hospital at about 3:30 and I was at a 2 (I had been for a few weeks). After a couple of hours, I was still at a 2, even though I was having strong contractions. The nurse said they didn't know if they were going to keep me because I wasn't progressing, so Casey and I took a walk around and around and around the hospital. I guess that started my real labor because after my walk, I was a 3. So, the nurse called the doctor to break my water. When he got there, I was a 4+. He broke my water and then they gave me my epidural and started me on pitocin so I would progress faster. Molly didn't like the pitocin, though, and her heartrate would drop everytime they gave it to me, so they stopped it. Casey and I took a couple of little naps while we waited for Molly to come. When Molly was ready to come, the doctor was in delivering a baby in the next room. He came in at about 1:00, and after pushing for 2 contractions, Molly was born at 1:07 a.m. It was very easy for me and I feel very lucky to have had another EASY labor. She weighed 6 pounds, 12 ounces and was 19 inches long.

I felt GREAT, and so we stayed at the hospital for the shortest amount of time possible. (We were REALLY bored). We got home on Tuesday and so far everything is going great around our house. Life with Molly has been a dream. She is such an easy baby, I feel really lucky. She is eating well and sleeping well. Benson is doing very well with her too. The only problem is that he loves her TOO MUCH!! He always wants to hug her and kiss her and give her toys. He is a good helper, though, and will usually get me things or do things for me if I need him to. We have to keep reminding him to be nice to her and not to touch her. We feel very blessed to have 2 wonderful and very healthy kids.

Here are some pictures in no particular order...

Grandma Gayle

Grandma Jan and Grandpa Wayne
Candace and Addyson

Don't mind the tired looking Mommy

Grandma Marie

Molly and Benson "ROCK ON!!!"

Grandpa Ronald and Grandma Nola (Ronola)

Benson loves her!

My cute kids

This is her right now

Her first bath. She hated it. Benson was a great helper.

He likes his picture taken when we take Molly's.

5 days old

Helllooooo Molly!

I'll let Natalie do a frilly post but I wanted to get some pictures up so everyone could meet Our new little girl Molly Dalpias.
Born: 1:07AM Dec 28, 2009
Weight: 6 lb 12.5 oz
Height: 19 inch
Mom and Baby are doing great!

Good Golly, Miss Molly

We are now 17 days away from Molly's due date and I think we are pretty much ready for her to come! A friend of mine asked me what kind of things I have done and made to get ready for her, so I thought I would post some of those...

By the way, I am WAY excited to have a girl! It's been fun picking out frilly things for her!

Here are her hairbows and her bow holder that I made.

This is her blessing dress. It's actually the same one I wore when I was blessed. My mom found matching shoes and a hair band for it.
Here is Benson being a cheese ball. I really like him!


I made this carseat cover for her to keep out the cold and the strangers hands.
The outside of the carseat cover.

I think I've posted these before, but here's Benson's picture frames. Those blocks are going to have the letters of his name on them, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.

Benson's chinese lanterns.

The saying on his wall says "Planes... Trains... Trucks and Toys, There's nothing quite like little boys." So true!

Molly's picture frames. No pictures yet!

Molly's chinese lanterns.

The saying on her wall says "Dresses, Dolls, Ribbons and Curls, there's nothing quite like little girls."

P.S. I got the paper lanterns after Halloween for 25 cents each and painted them to match the colors of the kids' room.

Molly's crib. Thanks to Grandma Gayle for the supplies to make her quilt. I love it!

And thanks to Tami for making the quilt on the end of the crib. It is SUPER CUTE!

These are binky holders. Not sure if she'll be a binky girl, but she'll be a stylish one!

Benson's side of the room.

Molly's side of the room.

We are really excited for Molly to be here. I am progressing slowly, but I'm hoping to go to her due date or at least past Christmas. It will be a lot of fun to have a baby girl in our house. I'm very excited for her to come, but nervous about having another little one around. We are ready!

We love to see the temple...

Quite often, our daily travels take us past the Ogden LDS Temple. Every time we drive by the temple, this is what I hear from the back seat...

Benson: There's the TEMPLE!!!! Jesus lives there. Jesus shoots guns!

I guess if you were 2 years old and saw this.....

on top of the temple, you might think it was Jesus shooting guns too!

Halloween

We had a really fun Halloween this year. Benson was a golfer, Casey was his caddie, Molly was a golf ball, and I was the flag stick. Benson actually understood halloween this year, which made it a lot more fun!

Here we are at the Dalpias Family breakfast carnival. It was a blast!