Eden Grace

Our sweetheart Eden Grace was born 7/19/13 at 7:53 pm, weighing in at 9 lbs 2 oz, and 21 " long.

We all love her so much! She is so special, and cute. She is already being good to her parents, and waking up only once or twice a night. Harper is a bit jealous, and has trouble stopping herself from sitting on her and other devious methods of attack.  Jackson thinks she's cute, and Jasper loves her. Both big brothers have been super helpful. 

Harper and Jackson are now sharing a bunk bed downstairs, and it has worked out pretty well! They chat in there for a while after we put them to bed.

Jasper has his friends over here quite a bit during the summer days, playing x-box and other teenage shenanigans.  He just got back from a trip to Ohio, visiting his cousins the Correas there with Lori.  He had a great time!



The labor went pretty smooth. I went into labor on my own, a day short of a week overdue.  I was set to be inducted the next day.  I went into the hospital around 10 am, and was dilated to a 5, and then stayed there for hours.  A nurse finally realized the baby was posterior, and moved my legs in weird position to help her turn over.  It worked and after that she came pretty fast! I'm happy my body can accommodate such big babies. :)

We love her.  I love giving birth, is that weird? I just think it is so incredible. 

Welcome to our family Eden Grace! (Jasper wants to make sure he gets credit for choosing the name, so here you go Jas, credit is yours!)

What's New

I'm not making any promises of a return to the blog, I know so many of you have been anxiously waiting for a post.  But here is a post today.

I'm 32 weeks and 4 days pregnant with baby #4, who will be a GIRL. We are very excited, and have no clue what we'll name her.  Jackson says he wants the baby to hurry and fall out so that he can go have an adventure at Grandma and Grandpa McKinnon's house.  Harper just loves to slap my tummy and say "Hi, baby!" And Jasper has given us a few name ideas.  He is concerned that this new baby won't know him very well by the time he turns 18 and goes on a mission. He'll be 14 almost 15 years older than her.  I told him he just needs to make the 4 years he does have with her really special and then make an effort after he comes home. 

Poor Harper got the shaft on this blog compared to Jackson, but I've turned to instagram for all my scrapbook/life documenting/memory needs. You can find me there as michellelbenn. 

So, what is new?

Jackson is on his first sports team playing Soccer. His team is called the Dragons, and he is definitely not a natural.  He spends most of his time fake falling and shooting imaginary spider-man spiderwebs out of his fingers, while the soccer ball flies right past him.

Harper says a lot of words and loves to push kids smaller than her.  Then she says "poops" for "woops" as if it was an accident and makes cute smile.  She loves to watch Bubble Guppies, and demands it every morning. "mama, BUPPIES!" she says.

Jasper is going early to the high school every morning to lift weights and get in shape for football this fall.  9th grade is in high school for the first year this year, and he's excited.  So David is the lucky guy who gets to drive him to the high school at 5:15 every morning. FUN!  He's also still playing basketball.  A lady on the opposing team asked me which kid was mine the other day.  I said "#21". She said, "you mean that man boy who shaves?"   "yes, that's him." :) 

What else... David has been traveling for work a lot.  Right now he's on day #1 of an 11 day trip to Vegas then LA.  I hate to admit that I'm one of those wives who absolutely hates it when he's gone.  I do love freely watching shows on TV that he would mock me for, but that's about it. 

This pregnancy is kicking my butt, mostly hormonally.  I think I'll survive though, so yeah!

That's all for now, maybe more later. :)