Picture day!

We are beginning a family tradition of taking family pictures every Mothers Day as my gift. Here is our first annual Mothers Day Photoshoot. 

I love this picture. These boys have so much fun together.

Austin really doesn't like it when we kiss on the lips, so here's to you, babe!

Wow, is it hot in here? Or is it just me? Look at that stud.

Mothers Day 2012

My first official Mothers Day. It rocked. We got family pictures taken for my present and I am pretty sure I love them. I've only seen a couple but they made me super happy. I would show you but I don't have them yet, so that will have to wait. I think we will make it a Mothers Day tradition to get our family pictures done. It was a great gift that I am pretty sure I will love every single year. Austin didn't make me breakfast which apparently a lot of moms get, but he did offer to mix me up a protein shake. He's a good egg. He did buy me an ice cream cake from Cold Stone, however, which was waaaayyy better than breakfast. And yesterday he gave me a massage and he has let me be the queen for a few days now.

Austin's family came to town to visit and we have had a great time so far. We had a big get together at our Grandma LeBaron's house today and ate a MILLION different kinds of meat. I guess nobody could decided between brisket, ham, chicken, or sausage. It was all super good and we had MORE ice cream cake to follow.

Here are pictures of our beautiful, sunny Mothers Day


This is what I woke up to after my boy slept for 11 hours. That was his Mothers Day gift to me. What a good boy! He is such a crazy sleeper. For instance, how did he get out of his pants?

His favorite food used to be his fingers, until he found these little sausages. 

Irelynd, Zach, Grammy, Oliver, Savannah, and my one and only, Austin.

My husband is so handsome. 

 This gorgeous girl is our cousin, Irelynd. She has the most brilliant blue eyes.

Grammy was helping Shark climb a tree. 

Cutest little monster twins I know--Keaton and Waverly

This is our cousin Brighton, he got a new awesome mountain bike that is way faster than his old one. 

Another cousin, Megan, and brother Zach.

Oliver and his Papa.

Lynn and Grandma probably talking Scott's ear off.

He is such a champ when it comes to eating. All he needs is a comfy place to kick back.

Kisses from Grandma LeBaron. We love her tons!

Happy Mothers Day to all of you mamas. I'm glad I have so many awesome women to emulate. There is no reason for me to fail as a mother with such great examples to follow. Especially my own mother, I love her dearly. 

And the Mother of the Year Award goes to...

I haven't had much to blog about lately, as busy as this new baby keeps me, there is surprisingly nothing going on. So I decided since I probably come off as the perfect mother sometimes (wink-wink), that I would post about my most recent imperfections to make all the other mother's feel better about themselves. (I hope you caught the sarcasm there.)

The other day I was leaving the grocery store and carrying my PLASTIC grocery bag in the same hand that I was carrying the car seat. The swinging bag of food hitting the baby in the face didn't bother him at all, in fact,  he found the bag to be pretty entertaining. As you all know, babies that age put everything in their mouths. I always feel bad sticking him in the back seat alone because he isn't interested in toys and I think he gets lonely back there all by himself. So of course I thought "Oh cool, this can keep him busy while we drive home!" I pull out of the parking lot and realize I just gave my 4 month old baby a plastic bag to play with. To stick in his mouth and cover his nose and suffocate on. So I had to pull over and take it away.

Today Oliver was getting restless and fussy and it wasn't time to eat and it was too early for bed so I decided to take him on a walk to make him chill out. He loves walks, thank goodness. His car seat clicks into the stroller so I set him in and picked him up. Go figure I didn't buckle the straps. The handle didn't snap into place so as I lifted the car seat off the ground gravity didn't do me any favors and poor baby Shark fell out and landed right on his face. He cried harder than he ever has. You know the kind of cry when their little face turns red and they don't breathe. Fortunately he didn't fall from very high and I think most of the trauma was emotional. It was a scary fall, not a painful one, from what I can tell. It still wasn't time to eat but I fed him anyway to stop him from crying. He's an emotional eater. A warm bottle can mend his entire world. He probably gets that from me...did I just say that?

Of course I should add a cute picture or two of my living, breathing, still healthy baby boy.

I will never get over this adorable hat!

 Love those rosy cheeks!

This picture is a little blurry but you can obviously see the intensity of the story being told here!

It's gripping. 

Be happy and don't beat yourself up over, well, beating up your child. I can't do any worse than my parents did to me and I turned out just fine. 

4 Months and Still Alive!

Today was Shark's 4 month well-baby visit. He weighs almost 17 lbs (wowie) which puts him in the 77th percentile for weight. He is 27.5 inches tall which puts him in the 99.9 percentile for height, he got mamma's genes..grrrreat. Good luck finding pants that are long enough, Oliver. He has successfully met all of the regular 4 mo milestones and this Thursday he has a consultation to get his circumcision which should have been taken care of a LONG time ago, like 4 months ago when he was born. I will be so relieved to have that all done. It makes me nervous that he will have to be put under general anesthesia but I will survive. It's funny that I can sedate people like nobody's business all day at work but when I'm on the patient side of it, or rather, my child, it is suddenly a major big huge scary deal. I will stop criticizing and complaining about the over protective moms that bring their children to me now.

A piece of exciting news--in the last month and a half Austin has lost 18 lbs and I have lost 25. If you count since last Decemeber I have lost 55 lbs in 4 months, but I think having a baby discredits most of that weight loss. But we are having fun working out and and feeling good about our bodies. I've probably eaten more vegetables in the last month and a half than I have in all of my 20 young years. I'm still adjusting to that. For some reason there are certain vegetables that wreak havoc on my gag reflex. I can't even look at them without dry heaving. It's juvenile and pathetic, I know.

Doc says Shark can start eating solid foods, which is funny to call them solids because its just soupy, pureed peas and squash and there is nothing solid about it. It's really cute to watch and along with Mom's long legs, Oliver also inherited that same gagging-at-vegetables trait. It's so cute! Probably not to him...

Austin has the summer off of school and I'm pretty jealous that he gets to stay home and do whatever he wants. He would kill me if he knew I said that because he works very hard. It just seems like when you work from home it's not really working. I find myself expecting too much of him, like having the house clean and dinner made when I get home and I get upset for a second when it's not done but I just have to remind myself that he is working too. Lucky guy could roll out of bed and work in his pajamas all day if he wanted. He doesn't do that though. He still gets up bright and early, showers, gets dressed and goes to "the office" which I have named Austin's Laboratory. He's so disciplined! He can stay in there working for hours. I could never do it.

  I love this scared face!  

He loves his papa so much!

This little gem is his fist solids experience. Enjoy. 

This quick video clip was for Grandma but I like it :)

Picture Post

Not a lot is going on around here but I thought I should keep updating with pictures at least. Austin just registered for his last semester at BYU. Woo hoo!! He is almost done and I am so proud of him :] He is excited to get out in the "real world" (whatever that means) and start working. We are both successfully dieting and losing weight together. It's nice that I don't have to watch him eat all the good food while I am practicing self control. He's a good partner. Oliver is getting to be a lot of fun. Tons of giggles and blabbing. His legs move at about 100 miles an hour. As soon as they can hit the ground I will have a hard time keeping up with him. He is a great sleeper. He's made this whole having a baby thing a piece of cake. I keep thinking I am getting way too lucky and I'm sure I've got a new thing coming to me with the next baby. But for now I will just count my blessings and enjoy every little moment with Shark. He rocks.

This is Shark's little buddy, Cooper. Every time I turn around I find them holding hands. So sweet!

Getting cuter everyday!

He is almost able to hold his bottle all by himself. He just can't get the right angle yet. 

Loves lounging with daddy

He looks so old! And adorable. 

New Easter shirt. Holy smokes, cute or what?

Oh! I almost forgot. We also had Shark's baby blessing. It was so cool. Austin said a beautiful blessing. My kids are lucky to have such a hardworking and inspired father. There were so many people at the blessing showing love and support. Shark is one blessed baby. And I appreciate each of my family members so much. 

He is an angel!

Four generations of LeBaron

I can't wait until he grows into this adorable hat. Thank you Kyle and Emily! It is super cute.