Saturday, April 30, 2016

More Cute Baby Pics? OK

I hesitate to talk about some of these photos because they make me feel like the worst mother on the planet.  We were planning to have a photo shoot with sweet baby Keenan and Mike was away for work.  I plugged in the hot iron to straighten my hair to get ready for the photo shoot.  I put sweet baby Keenan in the baby seat in the bathroom on the floor so that I could get ready while he sat there and watched me.  He was being such a good baby, I was super proud of him.  There was a knot in the cord of the flat iron that was plugged in, making it difficult to straighten my hair.  As I was attempting to undo the knot, the hot iron slipped from my hand and flung down right on to sweet baby Keenan's legs.  I heard him scream and instantly grabbed the stupid, horrible iron off of my sweet boy.  I comforted baby Keenan and cried and cried at what had happened.  I called my friend who was doing the photo shoot and we rescheduled the shoot for another time.  I called my husband, and he came home and we took Keenan to the hospital to have the burns on his leg looked at.
I have never been so disappointed with myself.  I hurt the most valuable possession I have.  He was perfect and I thought I'd ruined his perfection.  The burns were pretty bad.  I am so sorry, baby sweetest Keenan.  I hate to ever talk about this happening because it hurts my heart so very deeply.  But I feel like I should post it so that someday Keenan will know why he has a scar on his leg, and so that my kids will know that I am human and make mistakes, and you should never put a baby near something hot that could fall.
Luckily Keenan was a good sport through the whole thing and babies do heal from things quite quickly.  So hopefully the scar will be minimal and the pain will subside quickly.
I love my sweet baby so much and I feel beyond horrible that this happened.
Keenan's burn on his leg 😢
my poor sweetheart baby
mommy does love you more than anything
Here is a pic Mike took during the newborn photoshoot, and you can see Keenan's leg is already starting to heal up, thank goodness
He is such a cute boy
And here are lots more CUTE baby pics, since we just can't get enough of this little angel sweetheart face:
Hi sweet baby Keenan!
Belly time
man, we really do make a cute baby!  It's just not fair to all the other babies!
What?  You think I'm handsome? 😃
well hello, ladies!
playing around with filters.  Heart exploding with love 💗
sleeping beauty, the male version
Apparently Bret used to do this same pose with his arms 😊
so much love for this guy 😍

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Love Love LOVE

I just have to say that I love love LOVE being a mom.  The girls like to put emphasis on how much they love something by using that phrase:  love love LOVE!
Avril often surprises me with notes like this:

So rewarding to have the love of a child.
McKel often makes me drawings like this:
A dragon

This is her baby brother Keenan :)
These a few of my very most favoritest things 😍

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

I Love Pictures! Especially Baby Ones :)

It's no surprise that I love pictures.  I love to have my home filled with them, our blog, my phone, my computer... they remind me of my family and that's where my heart is.
So of course, Mike said it was ok for us to order a photo shoot of our perfect little newborn son, Keenan.  Not even two weeks old, and a total heartbreaker...
My friend from high school, Kellie Larsen, from Elements Photography came up from St. George to do a little photo session in our house.  We had to turn up the heat to 80 degrees to keep the little guy sleepy.  So it was a hot and sweaty shoot, but a success.  We got several adorable pics.  Here are a few of my faves:
Keenan's baby smirk
Precious feet
Sweet baby dreams
Deep baby thoughts
Sweet baby Keenan
What does the fox say?
Stylin...
bow tie baby
awe...
one of my faves
these girls are in love!
can't get enough
tender moment
so in love
melts my heart
 Keenan was so good, and only peed a couple of times :)  We struggled at first to get him to sleep but soon he was zonked out and ready to turn on his baby charm.  Such a perfectly handsome boy!

Sunday, April 24, 2016

More Baby Keenan photos

Keenan is just so cute we can't resist taking lots of photos and videos.  So enjoy 😊
check me out!  Mittens are a necessity or I look like a cat attacked my face!
Look what Mike made me for breakfast one morning.  He's the best pancake maker ever.  Every Saturday it is a tradition that he makes a yummy breakfast.  Just like my dad did when I was growing up.  This brings me great happiness.  I'm a lucky gal.😋
Pancake, egg, bacon smiley!
Yah!  I love being a cute baby!
and I love cuddling with my daddy
and Avril likes to take my phone and take random photos 😆
And random videos.  Mike should've gone to the gym today.  The good news is Avril's getting this on video, haha.

profile shot
Big yawns for baby!
the girls are just fascinated with their baby brother :)
Random photo - my mom made this runner for our hutch to match my kitchen colors.  Turned out nicely :)
Keenan's favorite binky
Keenan always seems to have a look of skepticism.  Hmm... what is going on here?  Who are these people?
Look at my cute new outfit!
Ooh!  I am very cute!
so cozy!
Sleeping baby video.  He smiles :)
Just look at those facial expressions!

Smirk 😏
the furrowed brow
What do you think you're doing?
Contentment
the eye roll
ok, just ONE more photo!
Yay!  We are done with this nonsense...
Sweet baby dreams of mama's milk
...And the cutest little baby toes you've ever seen!!!