much of the same...

September is of course still very hot here! So are days were filled with most of the same playing indoors. If we ventured out it was usually to the pool or the splash pad. We did do a music class with some friends at the library that Taylor really enjoyed. I am thinking dance next since lately she begs to wear dresses and dance around the house. Taylor often does silly things and then requests a picture be taken of it.
Fixing the sprinklers w/ dad. She loves to do ANYTHING with dad, but digging in the dirt and trying help fix things is especially gun to her.
Taylor LOVED going to the beach pool. Just driving by it she begs to go, even when it is cold outside. She really doesn't like swimming in our pool though! She will sit on the stairs but gets so frantic if we try to take her around and get her to kick and swim. We just really want her to learn. We are hoping that this summer she will let us teach her. Otherwise I might have to do swim lessons again, which was horrible from my last experience!
Brecklynn has been such an awesome baby! Now she hasn't slept as well as Taylor did, we are just finally getting over some sleepless nights. But she is just such a content and HAPPY baby. She has always been very smiley and these days I can just look at her and she busts out laughing. Taylor has been very good since the beginning. Really helping me get things Brecklynn may need. She is very protective over her. When she was real little Taylor did not like other people holding her or even looking at her sometimes. We just love her and all the smiles and happiness she brings to our family. Now don't get me wrong, she may not cry a lot but when she does it isn't even a cry she just skips strait to screaming! So a good thing it isn't that often I guess!

I have realized all of these pictures have been taken on my phone. That is just how it is. My phone is what I always have with me. Better than no pictures I suppose.

Life

I can't believe how fast time seems to be flying! My little Brecklynn, or "Brecks" as Taylor calls her, is already 7 months old. I feel bad that I have not been good about recording all the milestones and memories, but I also have just been enjoying life! August was a busy month for us. Brecklynn was just about 5 weeks old. My little brother Glen got married. Which is still crazy, to me he still seems 13. So we had a lot of family come in town and had so much fun hanging out and seeing everyone. Taylor LOVED the wedding. She pretends she is getting married all of the time. She especially loved the dancing! That girl wanted to be on the dance floor all night with her cousins.
We took advantage of having a bunch of family in town and blessed Brecklynn that same weekend. It was a whirlwind, but we were so glad that people could be there and get to meet Brecklynn.
Two weeks after that Rob decided to have knee surgery. He has had this bad knee for years and was been told he needed his meniscus repaired for awhile. The surgery was fast and everything went fine. The recovery was not what he thought though. It still isn't back to even what it was before the surgery. He is somewhat disappointed. He was really hoping to improve his tennis game!!

This is Taylor braving the heat to play sidewalk chalk. Due to the heat and new baby we spent all of our other time mostly indoors!

Hopefully I will get around to months September - Now someday!! One step at a time...

My Girls

When Brecklynn was 4 days old my sister, Chrystal, came over to take some pictures. She got some great shots of my girls. Thank you! Here are a few...



My fav. of Taylor

I already just cherish these pictures so much! Brecklynn is just getting so big so fast, and Taylor too. I only have them this size for such a short while!

Brecklynn

It is sad I know. She is ten weeks old now! I blame it on exhaustion, losing the cord for my camera and laziness.

Here is out little girl.

Brecklynn Charmaine Seymour

She was born June 9th at 7:45

7 lbs. 13 oz and 20 in. long

She was actually about two weeks early. She wasn't due until the 21st. I went to my doctor's on the 7th and he told me that I was almost 5 cm. I was pretty surprised. I figured I would be dilated, but a 5 seemed like a lot. So he gave me this whole spiel about not waiting till me contractions get to bead when I do go into labor because he was so worried about me making it to the hospital. Which that whole thought freaked me out. Anyway I had been having on and off contractions for days. Then early in the morning on the 9th the seemed a little more consistent. Rob left for work and just told him to keep his cell phone on him. I decided to get ready for the day. My contractions became closer, like every 10 min. So then I decided I should probably pack my bag! Around 1:00 they were about 7 min. apart. I was nervous to wait to long to get to the hospital so I called Rob. He said he would be home in 30 min. So then I called my mom to come sit with Taylor. Rob got home. I said bye to Taylor. It was almost emotional. I was weird to me that this would be our last time with just the three of us. I was worried about how she would be with the new baby and how much it was going to change her world! Anyway, we left for the hospital. Checked in, I was about a 7. They moved me to my room and got me all set up. Told me I could get my epidural and I said, "yes please!" It was all very clam. We aren't sure if it was because we knew what to expect this time, but we were both clam and just happy and enjoying our time. So I reached about a 10 but my water wasn't breaking. So we had to wait for my doctor to come and he didn't show up till 7. He broke my water and I pushed for maybe 20 min. and she was here! Way different than the two hours of pushing with Taylor!


My mom brought Taylor over right after she was born. Taylor was a little nervous being in the hospital and didn't know what to think. She has been so great though and just ADORES her now.

She is very dark. Dark hair and darker skin than Taylor. Her eyes look like they are going to be blue. Everyone still says she looks like Rob even though she will have brown hair and blue eyes like me.

Now these pictures are so old because she is so much bigger already! My goal is to be better about writing down all of her milestones and stuff like I did with Taylor. Hopefully I can do it!

Another thing I can cross off of my list!

I have this huge list of before baby things that I want to get done. We will see how much I can get accomplished, but I did want to update my sad little blog. Is it possible to recap like 4 months in a few pictures?

This is some of the highlights( or activities I had my camera around for) of what we have been up to. Besides laying around and being lazy in bed of course...

February 5th: Rob entered the tennis tournament at our clubhouse. He played some really good guys and was able to hold his own. He did not win though. Taylor and I had a good time watching and cheering him on none the less.

I love her goofy faces.

Beginning of March: It started to get really nice outside. So we had more and more days playing at the park. This was just one day we went to have a picnic lunch and play with my sister Chrystal and her kids.

March 17-19: Rob and I decided to get away for a weekend. We went to Palm Springs, Ca. where the Indian Wells Tennis tournament was being held. It was something Rob has been dying to go and watch. I have to admit that I had more fun than I thought I would. It was great to see these major player like Federer and Nadal up close and how amazing they really are. We also got to lay by the pool, read books and really just relax. We are thinking of making it a yearly tradition.

26 Weeks: This is on the trip. It really makes me laugh out loud looking at it now because I remember feeling big at the time! Nothing compared to the present belly situation.

April 12th: Took Taylor to the zoo w/ my friend Krissy and her little boy Brody. It was our first zoo trip. Taylor seemed to enjoy the animals. I am sure we will be back.

The highlight was feeding the giraffes. She was a little timid, understandably. Especially since the zoo lady was pushing her into the giraffe by her shirt collar. You can see her hand on Taylor back! Ha! It is the one thing she kept talking about after we left.

This is just an example of how silly Taylor can be. This is total ragamuffin, (that is really a weird word who knows if I spelled it right) nothing on but a diaper and stringy hair in full force. That is just how it is by the afternoon sometimes and we are ok with that :) Anyways she found some free stickers we got in the mail and decided to put them all over her body. Rob and I just laugh. We really enjoy seeing more and more of her personality coming out.

April 22nd: Ward Easter Egg hunt. It was a lot of fun. I didn't know if Taylor would actually participate or cling to me, but when she realized what to do she was all over it!

Spotting more eggs- no time for a picture!

April 26th-28th: Women's Conference. I was able to fly to Utah with my sister Chrystal and Stay with my other sister Amber who just moved up there. We were able to attend Women's Conference at BYU. As hard as it can be to leave our hubbies and kids, it was so fun. The talks were very motivating and inspiring. I do wish we had more time just to play though. We were so tired from getting up early and running around the campus all day we were exhausted by time we got back to Amber's. At least I was, maybe I was the party pooper.

I'm telling you though, hiking up the Smith feild house stairs, if you know them, at 32 weeks pregnant I thought I was going to go into labor! Ok, not really I am just out of shape too and I know I probably would have felt the same even if I wasn't pregnant!! And it was snowing while we were there which was pretty crazy, for us anyway. It was so much fun just to be with my sisters though. Something else I need to make a yearly ritual!

36 Weeks: This was just last week. Feeling big. I am already 3 cm. dilated. We will see if I go into labor early or just walk around this way for 3 more weeks. Probably the latter.

Memorial day weekend: We had a nice long weekend together. Had the family over for a BBQ and did lots of swimming.

This is what happens when dad gives you a bath. It is way more fun with tons of water and bubble and jets on in the tub. She thought it was the greatest, just like almost everything else Rob does with her.

Maybe the next post will be of our new little one! I am so excited and my thoughts are consumed with this baby and all that is involved. I keep telling myself to enjoy these last few weeks. I want to spend time playing with Taylor just one on one because I am feeling bad for her already and the probably lack of attention she will get, compared to what she is used to at least. I am also telling myself to enjoy actually sleeping. These things are hard though when I am not sleeping well and feel too BIG to really play around with Taylor. That is just how it is and I am not wanting to complain because all in all I feel good!

Recent developments.

( Rob walked into our bathroom one day to find that Taylor had put on some of my lipstick and shoes!)

Taylor has become a bit of a drama queen lately. Maybe it is being two or maybe it is the fact that she doesn't want to nap anymore. Whatever it is I find myself mentally exhausted some days. She can go from totally happy running around to crying over something in less than a second! She has developed this new whiny voice too that she likes to use instead of actual words a lot. She has also just become more demanding. She wants what she wants and a lot of times that is me. So I hear a lot of "come on, come on"! all day and since I am often trying to do something else there is a meltdown. The problem is I know she can be this wonderfully happy child! And she really is so sweet sometimes. When we put her to bed lately and say "I love you" she says it back, but then after we shut the door she keeps yelling it over and over. It is so cute to us so we always end up yelling it back and forth a bunch of times. I guess it is the sweet moments that get you through the crazy ones!?

I just had been hoping the nap would last till the next kid was ere. Maybe that was too wishful thinking? It went downhill around Christmas. She was still napping, but then couldn't fall asleep for hours at night. So when we don't nap her she will go right to bed earlier. OR sometimes she just refuses to nap. So depressing.

I guess I am just hoping all goes well when our next little one arrives. On Taylor's bad days I am a little scared! Things with the pregnancy have been very uneventful which is wonderful. Besides being a little tired, which I think I always seem to be pregnant or not, I have been feeling great.

We did find out on Monday it is another little GIRL! We are totally thrilled to have two little girls and we are excited for Taylor to have a sister close in age. I love, love my sisters and want that for her so much! It is going to be an adventure.

A pitiful Christmas post.

I have just realized this is really all of the pictures I took at Christmas, which are all from Christmas night at me parents house and not a single one from Christmas morning! We did get a lot of video! Christmas was really fun this year because Taylor was so excited to open presents. She did really get any of the anticipation excitement or any of the Santa business, just really liked tearing off that paper. We had a really quiet Christmas. It was just us in the morning. We slept till Taylor woke up around 8:30 and then took our time, mostly watching her, open presents. Her big gift was this adorable play kitchen that I scored at a yard sale. I had been wanting to get her one and this was a wood one in mint condition for a pretty good price, so I was pretty excited about it. This is the Costco version of the pillow pet my mom got all the grand kids. It is huge! Taylor loves to lay on it at night and read books.

Do you notice the trend with the smile? That is usually what I get when I ask her to smile now. It is such a cheese, better than a frown though!