Catching Up...

Us at the Bellagio flower garden for Preston's

birthday.

This is to catch up on the last month. It has been so crazy with the holidays and Preston's birthday. We had a great Christmas. We spent Christmas Eve at my parent's house and had to stay there for a couple of days because of the weather. I was really lucky and had the holidays off. Zach was so funny at Christmas. In the morning Zach, me, my sister Amy and nephew Scott went to wake my parents up. When we were in there we asked Zach if santa had came. He got so excited and yelled HO, HO, HO lets go! As soon as we walked into the livingroom he started yelling truck because of all the trucks he got. Anyway it was really fun to see how much he understood. The other pictures are of Preston and me for his birthday which in on Christmas Eve. We went to Las Vegas to celebrate and had a great time.

(Sorry if the picture is too graphic)

All About Baby Tag. . . .
1.Where were you when you first found out that you were pregnant? Home.

2.Who was with you? Preston

3.How did you find out that you were pregnant? Home pregnancy test after a crappy day at work.

4.What was your first reaction to finding out you were pregnant? I was really excited we had just started trying and I thought it would take awhile.

5.Who was the first person you told? Preston was with me but then we called my family.

6.Did you plan to get pregnant? Yes, but it happened sooner than I was planning.

7.Did you tell everyone else right away? Mostly. The people we didn't tell found out because I was so sick.

8.Was everybody happy for you? Yes

9.Did you go out and celebrate? Not that I remember.

10.Did you want to find out the sex? Yes are you kidding me I couldn't wait.

11.What was the sex? Definately a boy. Preston told us wait it was before the technician said it because it was so obvious.

12.Did anyone throw you a baby shower? My mom and sister

13.Did you get any outfits at the baby shower that you just knew that you wouldnt put on your baby? No, I dont think so.

14.How much weight did you gain? well I lost 16lbs the first few months then I gained it back plus 25lbs.

15.Did you lose all of the weight that you gained? Most of it.

16.Did you get any stretch marks? Umm...yes

17.What did you crave the most? Coke icees, fruit, Dr. Pepper (which I hated before and after pregnancy)

18.Did you crave anything crazy? No.

19.Who or what got on your nerves? People telling me I was going to go early because I was little.

20.Did you have any complications during your pregnancy? I had about a million IV's from being sick and then I would have contractions every night at 10:30 for the last two months.

21.Where and when did you go into labor? I went twice. The first time was at home two weeks before I was induced. Then I went to my mom's and finally went to the hospital. The doctor said I wasn't progressing so he gave me some stuff to knock me out and stop the contractions. Then I was finally induced a day after my due date.

22.Did your water break? No they didn't want to put the baby into more stress because I wasn't progressing.

23.Who drove you to the hospital? Preston drove me to my mom's and then I think we went with her.

24.Who was in the room when you gave birth? Dr. Melling, Dr. Oakden, nurses, Preston, my mom, and Amy was at the door looking in and taking pictures.

25.Did you go early or late? Late

26.How long were in labor for? First time was like 15 hours then when I was induced 26hours.

27.Did you have any drugs for the pain? I had a spinal before my C-section

28.Did you go natural or have a C-section? C-section

29.What was your first reaction after giving birth? I was shocked to see how much hair he had. Then I got some pain meds and I was so loopy after that. I don't remember much until that night.

30.How big was the baby? 7Lbs 8oz 19.5in.

31.Did your husband cry? No I think he was to tired to cry

32.What did you name the baby? Zachary Steven Clarke

33.Does her name have any significant meaning? Yes he is named after my dad who is currently his BFF!

34.Did you have any visitors? Yes and lets just say it is not nice to have Parker and Lynden make you laugh just after having a C-section.

35.Did the baby have any complications? His heartbeat was staying the exact same the night before the C-section so thats when we decided to have the C-section. Then he just had a little jaundice when we took him home but nothing bad thank goodness

36.How old is your baby today? 19 months-he is so big!

37.When is the next one coming? Not for a while!

38.If you could would you do it all over again? Yes even though I was so sick for 5 months it was all worth it.

39.Tag five: anyone that wants to

YIKES! Terrible parenting

I probably shouldn't post this but it is kind of funny now it is over. I had appointments to cut mine and Zach's hair. Nobody was able to go with us and I knew that was going to be bad because Zach is usually a terror for haircuts (you think he should be use to it having one every month since he was 5 weeks old). Anyway the lady that cuts my hair has a kid that is 6 and he started to play with him so I thought that was an easy fix. So we heard the ladies back door open so she went to see if Zach went outside. She couldn't see Zach so we looked in the house and we still couldn't find him. Ok by now I was totally freaking out. It had been about 5 mins. and I went out to her back yard and saw my little boy running down the street about a half a block away. I yell to the lady and asked her how we could shortcut. Sorry this is kind of long just hang in there. So I ran to my baby with my cape on and my hair half up and cut. He was yelling for grandpa as he was running to a semi truck. Well I thought it was over but then this lady pulled up in her car and said she had noticed him at the top of the block walking right in the middle of the street. She didn't pick him up because she didn't want anyone to think she was stealing him so she called 911. Yikes can you believe it. Well we took Zach and ran in the house to finish the haircuts and didn't even wait to see if the cops showed up. The good thing though he was so tired from running all over Parowan he sat really good for his haircut.

Happy Halloween!

This Halloween ended up better than last year since Zach and Scott were both sick last year. This year the only problem was Zach was a little sick from getting his MMR immunization last week. Zach dressed as lion and we started off in Paragonah. We first went to Grandma D's and then we went to trunk or treat. It was the first year Paragonah had done this and the first time we had been to one. It was really fun except Zach was shy and wouldn't take candy from anyone. We wanted him to be a scary lion but he ended up being a cowardly lion. We then went to Beaver to visit my mom at work. It was the best part of the night. Zach ran around the hospital and even went into some patients rooms. Well it was a fun night and ended up with us eating all of Zach's candy (it's good to have an 18 month old that doesn't know it's his candy!)

October Update

Well I'm finally posting another blog. Is not that I don't get on and look at everybody else's blogs but our lives haven't been to exciting to blog about. We have been really busy. Preston is taking like 18 credits and just picked up another class so he can graduate in the spring and I have been working overtime. Zach is just climbing and running all over the place. His new favorite thing to do is climb on our kitchen table (scary!). Last week I learned that he can now reach the coutertops. I was sitting on our couch and he was playing in the kitchen yes I know not a good idea, but it has never really been a problem. Anyway he came running into the livingroom yelling cookie, which is any food, and when I looked in his hand he had an open can of spagetti o's. When I said Oh no he repeated it then threw it on the carpet and started running. Thank goodness for Green Machines and Preston. Preston came home from school just in time to help clean it up. Well that was a long story sorry. We took Zach to his check up yesterday and he is in the 75% of height which is 33in and 60% for weight at 26lbs. He had six shots 3 in each leg and this morning he couldn't even walk. But he did a great job and wasn't even upset about the shots only at people touching him.
Well these pictures that are posted are ones that my sister Amy took. We went to Heritage Park in Parowan last year and took some really cute pictures so we thought we would do it again this year. It was much harder with Zach running this year. I told Amy as long as we got one picture I would call it a success because he is not the most photogenic baby. Well I think we accomplished it.

The only way I could get him to laugh was by

throwing leaves at him.

Amy and I trapped them in this giant tree.
This is the boys trying to pretend to fish in the pond. If anyone has seen this pond lately you will know why I sat there holding my breath. The water has a thin layer of something floating on the top and I could just picture Zach falling head first into it, but luckily we only got feet in it.

Sleepover!

We have been having sleepovers with our nephew Scott when Amy and my mom have to work. It is fun because Zach just loves Scott. Here are a few pictures in their matching PJ's. Also, Zach loves phones so we took an old cell phone and took the battery out. Here are a few pictures of him talking (he usually talks to grandpa or Parker).

This next picture you can definately tell that it is time for bed!

Labor Day Weekend

Well since it's about two weeks past I decided I better post about Labor Day. Sorry I'm a little slow it has been crazy around here with Preston starting school (18 credits). Well I love Labor Day Preston always makes fun of me because I wait all year and get so excited. My favorite is the fair food. Anyway, I got off of work Friday night and we went to the rodeo. I haven't been since I was a kid. Zach loved to walk on the bleachers and show off his cowboy hat and boots. The next day we went to the fair and carnival. It was a lot of fun, but right when we were standing in line to get food it started to down pour, but I wasn't going to let that stop me. My mom, Amy and I stayed to hit just about every food booth before going back to my parent's house. That night I stayed at my parent's house because it is very hard to separate Zach and Pampa (Grandpa). Preston went back home because his brother had came for the weekend and they went to the movies. Well it was a great weekend and I'll start counting down for next year!

This is all the boys in their cowboy get up. This is very rare for me to have a picture of my dad so enjoy!

Zach dancing on the bleachers.

Here is Zach on the Merry-go-round. He wasn't sure at first but then he started to wave at my family as we past them.