Boden and Beckem

Oh I love this boy and his beautiful blue eyes!! 

 Boden has been eating really good.  We are hoping he will be coming home soon.

Day Ten

I was really frustrated during the day because Boden has been eating so well, like 2 oz every three hours for all the nurses except for one particular nurse.  This one nurse said he only eats 1 oz for her and she kept saying he is getting really tired.  He pulled his own feeding tube out on his own so she replaced it.  This made me so mad because there was no need to replace the tube, why can't they just go on his own and see what he does??  It's really frustrating, but the his night nures was great and felt the same way about him as we do and said he was ready to come home, so during his feeding his tube "accidentally" came out LOL and we were excited to have him show us what he could do.  The nurse practitioner actually came in at his ten o'clock feeding and said she would be back tomorrow and she would let him go home.  I was SO EXCITED!!  

Kyson's First Day of Preschool

Kyson has been so excited to FINALLY get to go to preschool.  After watching Tegan go for the past two years he has been so ready to go. 

 

Last night he was so EXCITED to get his priesthood blessing for the first day.  He kept telling us all day long, "Daddy is going to give me a blessing on my head tonight" and the minute we got home last night he sat in the chair and folded his arms and said, "okay dad, I am ready for my blessing" It was so cute!!  I am so grateful for the priesthood that Zac holds and the ability he has to give that blessing to our children to help comfort them. 

 

Kyson woke up this morning at 7:00 and came into our room holding his backpack and said, "mom wake up I need to go to preschool"  He was SO EXCITED!!  When we took him up there he wanted to walk in all by himself, but Tegan really wanted to walk him in so we went in today, but then he said all the other days he wants to go by himself.  He is so big and loves it : ) 

Teacher Sue has her work cut out for her this year.  Kyson and Boston are both so busy and energetic.  Teacher Sue told me there are 13 boys and only 2 girls in their class.  She was so sweet she just said, "I think this might be a rowdy bunch this year, but we will have fun"  I love her so much!! If only the boys could have her up to 12th grade, she is so amazing!!  

Day Eight

Day Eight

Boden got to meet his Aunt Nicole, Uncle Justin, and Aunt Krystal for the first time.  

Motorcycles on Monte

Nana and Papa went up to Monte camping for the weekend so we decided to go up to visit and let the boys get a little dirty.  Zac's cousins had their motorcyles up there and the boys were dying to take them for a ride.  Zac helped them a little bit, but this bike was a little much for them.  Kyson took off and almost ran right into a tree full throttle.  It was a little scary, but he LOVED it.  He jumped off the bike and ran over to me and said, "mom, I just went SUPER fast" with a huge smile on his face.  They can't wait to get bikes of their own someday. 

 Beckem just hung out, tried to eat some rocks, but mostly enjoyed treats and the nice weather. 

 

Later in the night Zac was chasing Grouse (Pine Chickens) and throwing rocks at them.  He was telling his aunt Karen (she hates people that kill animals) that he was going to catch his dinner.  Karen got so mad and went in her trailer and not too much longer Zac actually hit one sitting in a tree with a rock and killed it.  Every kid in camp was so interested in what just happened.  Zac took it over the hill and gutted it and got the meat all cleaned up for dinner.  Zac cooked it up and gave each kid a bite of the yummy chicken.  Zac tried to teach all the kids that you only kill something if you are going to eat it and that is just what he did.  Hopefully Karen doesn't hate him for too long, but it was pretty impressive to see him kill it with a rock and cook it up for dinner. The boys loved it and keep asking when they can go kill some more birds so they can cook them up for dinner.  I guess that's what you get when you live in a house full of boys.   

 

One Week Old

One Week Old

My baby is already a week old.  We got to go up and feed him a bottle and he drank pretty good, but still not that great.  It's all a waiting game now.  We sure do love this little man though, can't wait to have him home!!

Day Six

Day Six

Not much has changed, Bo still is not eating very good, we are hoping we will do better soon, but until then we are only feeding him from the bottle twice a day and the rest of his feedings are put into his tube.  Look at that face though, oh I LOVE HIM!!

Bo with Grandma and Grandpa

Ice Cream and Isolettes

Tegan and Kyson were able to go up to Mckay for "Ice Cream and Isolettes" and learn all about what Boden has gone through and why he is at the hospital.  They got to color Boden a picture and eat some ice cream and then they got to go in and see him and hold him.  They LOVED seeing him.  They ask everyday if they can hold him again.  Beckem wasn't able to go see him because he is too small.  Hopefully it won't be too much longer until Beckem can meet his little brother.