Thanksgiving

We had a pretty laid-back Thanksgiving this year. We had it with my family (we didn't feel like traveling with a week and a half old baby). All we were asked to bring was my Spiced Peach Jello Salad and my No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake. My brother and his wife came over from Las Vegas along with two of her nieces. We all ate at my sister's house, then either played Apples to Apples or napped. It was fun just hanging out.

Can you tell Liam thought he was starving in this picture?

Just chillin...

I just love these three. It was such a peaceful moment, I had to capture it.

All Joey wants for Christmas is...

... her two front teeth.


Jordan lost her second tooth on Friday, November 20. It was her first tooth that wasn't knocked out though... so that counts for something right? We had sent her to bed like normal, and at around 9:45 (she hadn't yet fallen asleep) she comes out saying something about her teeth, but we sent her back to bed. About 2 minutes later she comes running out of her bedroom saying she lost her tooth. I looked, and sure enough. There was her tooth in her hand and her mouth was bleeding. Great?!? What did she do this time??? She's too young to lose her teeth! But no. I apparently was just wiggly and she was too scared to tell us. She eventually told us that she pulled her tooth out because she was afraid she's swallow it again. Oh, to make it worse... apparently for the last couple weeks when Ty was helping Joey brush her teeth at night, he'd tell her that if she didn't brush her teeth, they'd fall out. So we're in the bathroom cleaning up the blood and she's crying "But I brushed my teeth. Put it back!!" I promised that she wouldn't have to wait long for her new tooth (after losing her first tooth, she was worried she'd have to wait a long time before a new tooth would come in), and thankfully her new "big girl tooth" is well on it's way! Oh, and the bottom tooth next to the missing one is loose already. So it could come out anytime now.
When did she get big enough to lose teeth?

P.S. Want to know how good she is with shapes now? She looks at the hole in her mouth and says "Look, Mom. It's like a hexagon. The hole is a hexagon."

Meet Liam

We would like you all to meet Liam Thomas Staheli. He was born on November 16, 2009 at 3:53 pm. He weighed 8 pounds 9 ounces and was 21 1/4 inches long.

Here are some of the more memorable moments.
11.5 hours of labor seems like nothing compared to the 29.5 hours of labor I had with Jordan. We discovered that epidurals don't work that well... this one only worked for two hours. I learned that the feeling of being on Stadol is... well, you know in movies and on Tv when they show flashbacks to the 70's and someone is stoned... the bright colors flashing. Yeah, that's what it felt like. It wasn't all that weird to have a good friend as the nurse in the room when I delivered him. Ty can't stand while I get and epidural. Literally... He had to sit down and get food so he didn't pass out (good thing I love him anyway huh?). Liam looks a lot like Jordan did... especially the chubby cheeks and dark curly hair. It's kinda hard to be in labor when you have a cold and can hardly breath anyway.
Well, I know there were more, some you guys probably don't want to read about, and some I likely forgot about (it really it just a blur until after I actually had him), so I'll leave you guys with that. Oh, and some more cute pictures.


P.S. Notice that I am not in any of the pictures... well I looked as stoned as the stadol made me feel, so those pictures will never be released to the public. We'll get some pictures with me in them eventually.

Halloween

So Jordan got to dress up three days in a row for Halloween this year. She loved it! The first time was Thursday for her preschool class parade. They parade around the city center (where her preschool is) then on to city hall, so she got to see Ty during her parade. She loved it. She was a cheerleader, and was waving her pom poms the whole time! I did her hair in sponge rollers the night before so her hair was super curly, then we also sprayed glitter all over her hair. (She now thinks she always needs glitter in her hair.) The next day was my sister's ward carnival and trunk or treat and my niece really wanted Joey to come trunk or treating with her, so I put the costume back on and took Joey. She had a blast, though didn't want to do anything at the carnival. I don't know if it's because she doesn't really know many kids besides Nerissa, or what, but all she wanted to do was the sucker pull. She wouldn't get her face painted, do the doughnut eating contest, do the ball toss, be in the costume contest... nothing. Oh well. And lastly, on Halloween, we went to our ward trunk or treat. Joey went around with Bop bop until Nerissa came, then went with Rissy. I thankfully got to stay in the car and pass out candy. And, we actually had no trick or treaters come to our door while we were home. None. And we live on a street that I remember used to have a lot of trick or treaters. Last year even we had kids coming until like 10 pm. But I shouldn't complain because we ran out of candy during the trunk or treat.
So it was a relaxed Halloween for us. Probably because I'm 9 months pregnant and didn't feel like getting too festive for it. Maybe next year we'll do something cool.


Our little cheerleader.

Joey and her friend "D." I have to say that the R2D2 costume was one of the cutest ones I saw!!

Her preschool class.

Baby Shower

So I told you guys that I had a baby shower thrown for me. Well here are the pictures from it.

Silly girl

So Jordan was watching a show (for the life of me I can't remember what show) and they were playing the cup game. You know the one. Where you try to remember what cup the ball is under as they switch them around. Well this is her version of the game. She wanted me to find the penny.


She also has come up with a new pouty face.