Then and Now

We all know anything done at a hospital is expensive, so I'm not going to complain because really I would pay any amount of money to have my wonderful children, but I just want to give everyone a little bit of an idea of how much more expensive having a baby has gotten since my parents were having children.
For the twins (1984), with no insurance and using the same doctor I did for Mya and the same hospital my parents paid about $1,000 total.
With insurance and only having one baby we have paid and will be paying for Mya a lot more than that!
Just an interesting thing to think about!

I Love Gladys!

I love the Ellen show and Glays was my favorite! This is my most favorite Gladys moment, the first time Ellen called her. So for all of you who have never seen the show, or have and want to see it again watch this clip. I promise you will laugh!

Mya & Evan's Blessing Day

I don't know why blogger uploads these backwards, but I don't want to change the order of the pics, so they will be out of order. It is Evan's first birthday next week, so since they were in town we celebrated it early last night. Notice the broom in the photo, that was his favorite toy. I guess he fights Leah for the broom at their apartment, so when he opened it he didn't even care about his other presents! It was so cute!

Eating his birthday cake.

Braden and Kylan eating their cupcakes. Great-Grandpa Sorensen was getting a kick out of watching these two eat because notice how clean Braden is (he is the cleanest 2 1/2 year old that I know) and notice my child shoving his in his face (and it got worse). Then when I was cleaning them up Ky was screaming because I was cleaning him and Braden was getting upset because I wasn't cleaning him up fast enough! Funny Boys, but best friends!

Great-Grandma Schank holding Mya. This was the only pic I got of her last night, but Kade did a whole photo shoot of her on Saturday in her blessing dress and he got some really cute ones that he is fixing up for me. This is the same dress I wore.

Evan and dad. Evan did pretty good. He was crying by the end, but he is so quiet and calm that it wasn't too bad. Notice his cute little mouth! I love it! He was so excited to be here with everyone. He even hugged me for like 5 minutes and let me kiss his cheeks. He is the sweetest boy! And yes, he is only a year even though he is about as tall as Kylan and probably bigger than him! His mom calls him monster baby!

Our Valentines Day

Well, I'm not a real Valentines Day person, in fact since Mya only slept for 1.75 hours last night (I was up with her until 3am, then Tim was up with her from 4:45 until 7:00) I totally forgot it was even Valentines day until we had been up for a few hours! Tim is more of a Valentines person, but since we have kids now doing something on Valentines Day doesn't happen due to the fact that our babysitters are all doing things. So, here is what we have been doing today:

Keeping Mya awake. I finally had to strip her down to her onesie to get her awake tonight. Don't worry, she isn't cold, I am keeping it about 75 to 80 in our house right now so she won't get cold, she just hates to be exposed at all!

Before everyone headed off for their Valentines Day plans, we all (including the Adams') ate at the Slanted Porch - Their gobler sandwich is to die for and I don't like turkey, cranberries or onion on my sandwich, of course cream cheese makes everything better!

The grandkids were all pretty tired. Here is Evan. Dad rubbed his head until he fell asleep. It was pretty cute!

Kylan also fell asleep shortly after this. He didn't go to bed until midnight because we were at my parents house that late hanging out with all my siblings and then he got up at 7am. Oh, and his new thing is to take his shoes and socks off everywhere. We didn't notice he had kicked them off until right before he wanted to fall asleep on dad.

It's been so much fun having my whole fam in town. I remember when I was little wondering if I would be as excited as my parents were when all their siblings were in town, and I am happy to say that I am! I love them all and have the best sister-in-laws ever (Kent and Kort the bar has been set high, don't disappoint us)! Kent's girlfriend Katrina came with the Kade and Leah and she has been fun! Kylan already loves her and she can put up with Kent - that is quite an accomplishment!

Conversations with Kylan and Cute Pics

Kylan had a sleep over at Grandma Sorensen's house last night (thank you again Grandma). He loves spending time with grandma and is usually very tired when I bring him home, which makes for good napping. He is now old enough that I can kind of have a conversation with him, so we were talking on the way home and I told him I missed him. I wasn't sure he understood what this meant, but he said back to me "Ky-Ky missed momma, missed daddy, missed baby sister." On the same ride home, while listening to the radio he said "Like this song." I said back it makes me want to shake my boodie and he replied "No shake boodie, dance" and started dancing. I love how he is starting to talk in sentences and understands what I am saying to him and can reply back. It is so much fun!

This pic is for Reed and Carissa - here she is in the little outfit you guys got her. She looks so cute in it!

At grandma's house last night Kylan was suddenly quiet, which is a bad sign usually. When I went to find him I found him like this watching a movie in the extra bedroom. Rayanne got him this cow when he was born (Braden, Leah and now Mya all have them also) and it is the only stuffed animal he has ever liked and he absolutely loves it!

Grandpa Sorensen and Mya. She sat with him like this for at least a half hour last night. Both of my babies have loved their grandpa's and are always so calm with them, I guess they just have the special touch!