Dylan's Blessing

Sean blessed Dylan on January 4th. Dylan did so great, he didn't even make a peep during the blessing. We had our families over after the blessing to eat and hang out. Most of my family was here and Sean's parents were also able to make it. They were able to spend a few days with us before the blessing also. We're so grateful to have our families close and be able to spend time with them.

Our Christmas

We celebrated Christmas Eve at my parents house. We had a good time, it was fun to watch Kate so excited for Christmas and having a great time with her cousins. It was great having Dylan home with us for Christmas, it just made it seem more complete. He was definitely the best gift we received.





We went home late and got the kids in bed and then got ready for Santa. I was really tired, but so grateful that I wrapped all the presents before Dylan was born. Kate slept in until almost 9am, which she never does, but we were grateful. We had so much fun watching Kate on Christmas morning. She was really excited that Santa had come and brought her presents.







Kate's favorite presents were her new dollhouse and dress up clothes, but she loved all her presents. Kate loves to play, she loves toys or anything that she can use as a toy. She loves to pretend and she is very creative with all of the random objects she comes across. She was in heaven will all the new stuff.

Dylan slept while we opened presents. Me, being the exhausted mom that I was, didn't even get a picture of Dylan at home on Christmas since he was sleeping in his crib while we opened the presents. Fortunately I at least got some pictures of him later that day and my parents' house.





After we opened our presents at our house and ate a Norwegian pancake breakfast, we headed up to my parents' house. We spent the rest of the day hanging out and playing in the snow. Obviously Dylan and I didn't spend any time in the snow, but Kate and Sean spent a lot of time outside playing in the snow with my brothers and sister-in-law. Kate played out in the snow for over 2 hours. She was such a trooper. It was so cold outside but she just didn't want to come in, she was having too much fun. We were finally able to get her to come in, she was exhausted. She has been boycotting her naps lately, so she hadn't had a nap. We went home around 6pm and she fell asleep on the drive home (my parents only live a mile away!). We tried waking her when we got home and she would not wake up, she was completely exhausted! We decided to just put her in bed and hope she slept through the night. Much to our surprise, she did! We had a great Christmas!

Bringing Dylan Home

We brought Dylan home from the hospital on December 18th. It snowed so much that day. I remember sitting in my hospital bed looking out the window, wondering if it was ever going to stop. Sean had to go to work in the morning and came and picked us up just before noon. We were definately ready to go home. It was good to be home, but it was hard not being able to move quickly and not being able to hold Kate and do things for her. Here are a few pictures of our cute baby boy on his first day home:














Here are some with his eyes open, I think you can definately tell he looks like Sean:

































Since there was so much snow, Sean took Kate out to play. There were out there until it got dark. She had a great time playing with him.

















Kate loves holding Dylan, and especially putting his binky in his mouth, she is a little obsessed with it.

Catching Up

I've been totally behind on blogging, you know, considering the new addition and all, but I will be updating it the next few days, so if you're interested, check back...

Our new little one...

Our little baby boy was born on Monday, December 15th at 6:56am. We had to be at the hospital at 5:30am. I had a c-section, just like with Kate. I wasn't really looking forward to the c-section, I was so hoping he would decide to come on his own, but, what do you do? Here's the stats on the little guy...

Dylan Sean Williams
7 lbs, 11 oz
18 inches

When we first saw him when he was still swollen, I didn't think he looked like either of us, but now I think he mostly looks like Sean, especially when he opens his eyes. He doesn't have much hair, just a little bit of dark fuzz. He has a little dimple on his left cheek. So far he has been a great baby, I'm crossing my fingers he stays that way!

Dylan and I are both doing well. I had a slight complication that resulted in excruciating pain in my chest and problems breathing on Monday night. They did a CT scan to determine if I had a blood clot. The scan came back clear but the pain was still there when I took deep breaths. At the time they didn't really have an answer for the pain, they just said it was probably and air bubble that got up near my chest during the surgery and it would have to just be absorbed into my body (so there wasn't anything they could do!). Fortunately (I say that now that the pain is gone) the intense pain only lasted about a half hour to an hour 3 different times that night, and the remainder of the time it was just painful, but not excruciating. When I spoke to my doctor today and explained it he said it was probably pleurisy (which actually sounded more plausible to me). Whatever it was, I am glad it is gone. I woke up this morning without the pain and I am so grateful!

Kate loves her new baby brother. She loves to hold him and give him kisses and check out his little hands and feet. It's fun to watch her with him. She has been staying home with Grandma Williams (Sean's mom) so that has been fun for her. I think it has helped that she has been able to be at home instead of having to stay at other places with different people.

She came to the hospital today to visit and she watched TV with me in bed. I snuggled up next to her and she fell asleep within a minute, so precious.




Here's a picture of our new little family of four...

Breakfast with Santaa

We had our ward Christmas breakfast with Santa yesterday. Surprisingly, Kate really wanted to sit on Santa's lap. We asked her before we went if she wanted to sit on his lap and she said "yes". We both kind of figured that would be a different story when she actually went up to him. She is always so scared of animals and statues (I know Santa is not either of those things, but he's somewhat unfamiliar to her). When we got there she couldn't focus on eating, she just wanted to see Santa. After attempting to get her to eat a little, we finally took her over to sit on his lap when there was no line. She sat right on his lap and didn't want to get off. She even played with his beard. We had been asking her before this what she wanted Santa to bring her and she would say "Christmas toys and treats". After she sat on his lap we asked her what she told Santa she wanted and she said, "a candy cane". That is of course what she got from him after sitting on his lap, which she managed to eat in minutes.

My Silly Girl

Kate has really been into her toys lately and carrying them with her everywhere. She has tons of stuffed animals and other things that she carries around. Of course, her stuff has to go to bed with her too. She sleeps with so much stuff in her bed, I think it is starting to get ridiculous. In the morning she will come into our room and it will take her several trips back to her room to bring everything from her bed into our bed. I think it is so funny. I took the picture on the right the other night after she fell asleep. Surprisingly she didn't even wake up when the flash went off!

Kate also has a Book of Mormon that we gave her that she loves to "read" and look at the pictures (the few at the front). She likes to "read" it before bed and fall asleep with it. I think it is so funny. I took this picture the other day while she was taking a nap. Too funny!

Seeing the Lights

We took Kate up to Temple Square last week to see the lights. We were trying to squeeze a few Christmas activities in before this baby is born. It was freezing cold, much colder than we thought it would be. She loved seeing all the lights and the temple all lit up. This is actually the first time we have taken her to Temple Square so we took her into the Visitor's Center to see the statue of Christ and look at the different pictures of Jesus. She loved looking at everything! It was a fun night.