One Month Old!

Aiden is one month old today!  That month went by so fast.

He is seriously the best baby ever.  He only cries when he is hungry, cold, or sometimes when he is getting his diaper changed.  When he is awake, he is happy.  I can't believe how much he smiles.  At night I feed him before we go to bed around 10:00 and he sleeps until 1:00 or 2:00.  Then he goes back to sleep until 5:00 or 6:00.  He has pretty much been doing that since he was born.  At this point he wakes up to eat and is awake for an hour or two and then falls asleep for an hour or two.  He is so fun to watch when he is awake.  He is finally starting to gain weight.  We went to the doctor on Friday to have his weight checked and he was up to 8 lbs. 3 oz.  So that is good.  We are all totally in love with him.

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Smiles!

Aiden started smiling on Sunday.  We were able to get pictures of it.  He is so cute!  Sometimes when he smiles he makes a noise that almost sounds like he is trying to laugh.

Good Luck Aaron!

Aaron's first day at his new job is today!  He was offered a job with an awesome company in Provo.  They called the Wednesday before we had Aiden to let him know he got the job.  He will be doing web programing.  He is such a smartie.  He is totally self-taught when it comes to programming which is so impressive.  He will start talking about programing to me and it goes completely over my head. 

I just have to say, Heavenly Father definately looks out for us.  Last year when we got pregnant with Aiden we really were in no position to support another baby.  Not to mention the place we live and the car we drive were way to small for 3 kids.  We felt that it was time to add to our family and had to have the faith that we would be blessed with what we needed.  We are so grateful that Aaron had a job at all and we are even more grateful that he was able to get a job that actually pays him what he deserves.  This was the reason we were able to buy our van, and we will now be able to (finally!) buy a house.

Aaron hasn't even started working yet and already we are so impressed with how we have been treated.  It seems like they actually care about their employees.  They wanted to start early than we thought which leaves us uninsured for 2 weeks, so they offered to pay for COBRA.  Oh, and the whole time we were waiting to hear if he got the job or not (which was like 3 weeks), they updated us at least once a week so we weren't left wondering.  It made the whole waiting thing a little bit better.

Good Luck Aaron!  I am so proud of you!  You are going to be awesome.  I love you babe!

Happy Father's Day!

Aaron

Doug - Aaron's dad

Steve - my dad

Happy Father's Day to three of the best dads ever!

Thanks for all you do!

We love you all!

Love,

Ashley, Dallin, Brooklyn, and Aiden

3 Weeks Old!

Aiden is 3 weeks old today!  We went for his check up yesterday.

Here are his stats

Weight: 7 lbs. 13 oz. (not sure about this, I thought the nurse said 7 lbs. 3 oz. but she wrote 7 lbs. 13. oz. on the paper she handed to the doctor)

Height: 21 inches

Head Circumference: 37.1 cm.

He is doing well.  He hadn't gained enough weight so we have to feed him a couple of ounces of formula after each nursing session and go back in a week to make sure he is starting to gain weight.  He had his heel pricked for the PKU test and was sleeping when she did it.  He cried for like 1 second and went back to sleep.  Even though he was asleep he had this look on his face like he was really bugged.  It was really funny.  We have been doing the formula thing since last night and he seems so much happier.  I mean he has been a happy, easy baby, but now he is even better.  I guess I was starving the poor thing.

Family Pictures

On Saturday we went to FotoFly to get our family pictures done.  I am so happy with how they turned out!  Here are some of our favorites.

I am so lucky!

We just brought home a new (to us) van!  We never thought we would be so excited to get a minivan, but we are.  The kids were crammed into the backseat of our Neon and were constantly bugging each other and the baby.

 See?  Not good.

Here it is!  It's a 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan.  I feel so blessed that we were able to get this and keep the Neon for Aaron.

We bought the van at Henry Clay and we have never had such an easy time buying a car.  They were so nice and they didn't play any games like previous dealerships we have been to.  They also installed a DVD player for us!  This will make our drive to St. George this summer so much better!

Pictures from the Hospital

Ready to go into surgery

Waiting for my spinal

Aiden is born!

Seeing my baby for the 1st time

Grandma gets to meet baby

The kids meet their little brother

1st bath

Getting his footprints done

Ready to go home

Aiden Marcus

Aiden was born Friday May 27, 2011 at 7:58 a.m.  He was 7 lbs. 13 oz. and 21 inches long.  By the time we left the hospital on Monday he was down to 7 lbs. 1 oz.  So he is really small compaired to our other two kids.  He is a really good baby and the kids absolutely love him.  The c-section went really well and I am feeling pretty good.  We delivered at LDS and it was awesome.  We really liked it there.  We had our other kids at Salt Lake Regional and didn't really like it. Aaron has the week off, so we are just hanging out at home trying to get used to having 3 kids.