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Sierra: "it was so fast! Like boom-shakalaka!"

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Reid answers "negative" instead of "no" every time you ask him a question. It's pretty funny!

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The backseat conversation...

R: "when I'm a teenager and still part of your family, can you teach me to drive?"

Me: "you will always be part of our family, no matter how old you are"

S: "yeah Reid, when you're a teenager you still live at home and then when you're 20, you leave home and go find a husband or a wife"

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Reid: "isn't this freakin fun?!"

(He picks up on everything Kyle says!!!)

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Sierra: "Reid, you get three, ok? Come on!"

Reid: "roger that"

Reid's confidence

I just had a realization ... Reid doesn't ask the common toddler "why" questions. Or many questions at all.

Oh, why, you ask?

Because he makes (incorrect) confident statements about things as if he knows everything. And then when I correct him, he nods and says "yeah, I already knew that".

...this is JUST like Kyle!!! Haha

Like father, like son :)

Here are some examples:

Me- "that car in front of us stinks!"

Reid- "that's because the stinky rain is coming out of it"

Me- "it's probably the gas (exhaust)"

Reid- "or it's really the stinky rain coming out of it"

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Reid, to me : "you've never seen a snake"

Me: "um, yes, actually I have"

Reid: "but not a real one"

Me: "yes, Reid, I have seen a real snake"

(Silence)

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Oh, and the other day, in all seriousness, he said he was smarter than Kyle. 

And that he is faster than me.

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When Sierra asks me a question, I answer it and then Reid says "I already knew that". He says it all the time!

Maybe this will serve him well one day?! Or maybe he'll really have to work on humility! ;-)

Jokes

Reid: knock knock

Me: who's there?

R: Mrs.Potato Head

Me: Mrs. Potato Head who?

R: You're a chatterbox!

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Sierra: knock knock

Me: who's there?

S: Mrs. Mrs. Head

Me: Mrs. Mrs. Head who?

S: Aren't you glad I didn't say cheesy head?!

Hmmm... we still need some work on our jokes. They crack up at the ones they make up. But then I tell them real jokes and they just state at me with a forced smile. Ha!

Sierra's first letter

Sierra has been dying to have her school friends (girls only, of course) over to play and meet her baby brother. She asks me all the time to call their mommies. She's been so patient - but it's been so chaotic and I'm so tired from 3, it's been hard to imagine having more than that in our house. 

So this weekend she decided to take matters into her own hands (Daddy loves that leadership initiative!) and write letters to take to school! She decided what she wanted to say and (from across the room) I helped her sound out the words to spell them. Then she copied it and wrote one for each girl. We delivered them to their cubbies at school today. 

So sweet and so precious! She is soooo proud to be a big sister!! And her handwriting is getting better and better!

Reid is 3 and a half

This boy makes me laugh out loud every single day. He is his own little person and just so goofy and funny! The way he walks, dances, the faces he makes, the giggles, the silly made up words, the constant creativity in how he plays. I could not love him more.

And his hugs! He randomly, unprompted gives me several hugs a day. And they are big long squeeze hugs. Often with an "I love you Mommy" and a sweet grin. It melts my heart every time.

I can't believe he's 3 1/2 already! 

I love you Reid man!!

Big sister and Big brother

I am sooooo thankful that Sierra and Reid have LOVED Weston from the very first time they saw him. They want to hold him all the time!! Sometimes they touch a little too much! :-/ They always want to know where he is, what he's doing, what he's trying to say/tell us when he cries. They move stools around the house to watch me change his diaper, his clothes, feed him...everything. Sierra of course likes to pick out what he is going to wear. If she sees him wearing something new, she always says "oh Baby Weston you look so handsome" or "you look so cute in that outfit Baby Weston."

Sierra talks to him in this sweet soft high pitch voice and I love it. She truly is SO GOOD with him!! If he is in the swing and starts crying, she immediately drops what she's doing, says "I'll handle this". She goes to him saying "it's ok, sissy is here", talks to him, sings to him, puts the paci in his mouth and has even put him back to sleep several times all on her own!!!

First thing in the morning they both go looking for him and anytime they leave the house, they have to first give Baby Weston a hug and kiss. It's very sweet. If he is sleeping, Sierra says "Mommy will you please give Baby Weston a hug and kiss for me when he wakes up".

When he cries, Sierra usually says "oh! He wants his big sister". One day she got home from school and asked me if he had cried for her all day.

I can't wait to see how each of their relationships will grow as he gets older :)

Weston William

Weston William Frazier (William is from my side of the family, my Dad's middle name)

Born Saturday, October 11, 2014, at 12:36pm. 8 lbs, 12 oz, 21 in

He came 6 (or maybe 8?) days past his due date. My whole pregnancy I thought my due date was Oct.3 but at my last OB appointment they said my chart showed Oct.5. So weird. It's only a 2 day difference but when that's been the most focused on date for 9 months, it's strange to hear that it was wrong.

Either way, he was overdue! Each day past Oct.3 seemed like a whole year. I was having contractions off and on but nothing too painful or consistent. Starting the night of the 8th, I had mildly painful contractions through the night but they didn't get closer together and were gone by morning. That happened 3 nights in a row and on the 3rd night (Oct.10), they were longer and more painful - but still not getting closer together than 10min. During one of those long contractions I felt and heard a 'pop'. I went to the bathroom and sure enough, my water had broken. It was 1:45am (Oct.11). Thankfully, Ed and Glo had just gotten to our house an hour earlier - couldn't have been more perfect timing! 

We were out the door by 2am. I was still only dilated to 1.5cm but it progressed to 5/6cm in an hour and a half. Those contractions were the strongest Id felt between all three labors - long and intense! At that point I got an epidural. Ahhh, such relief! 

Both my nurses were awesome! ...but they did keep giving me false hope that the baby would be born "within the hour". Several of those hours passed by without progressing much. He wasn't dropping and things were just slower than they expected.

The doctor on call (Dr.Gooch) came in and discovered that the baby's head was face up instead of face down. Somehow he was able to twist the head and it stayed that way. Weston was able to drop quicker after that.

The only scary part was that his heart rate kept dipping low and even slowed down so much at one point that the nurse came bursting in the room. As soon as she did, the heart starting beating and got back up to a normal fast rate - she said "Phew!!! That one scared me!". Well, that definitely didn't make me feel any better. After Weston was born, we found out that the umbilical cord was (loosely) wrapped around his neck. During the stronger contractions, it caused his heart rate to drop.

Once I felt pressure and was ready to push, the doctor and extra nurses came in. Each of them commented on how much hair they could see on the crowning head!

He had be do one big push and 2 small ones and then I saw my baby boy! Kyle cut the cord and then they placed him on my chest right away - so sweet. With our other two, they wiped them and wrapped them before handing to me. He was so warm, chubby, puffy, red and sweet! He kept his eyes closed for a lot of the first couple days. 

We are so happy that he is finally here!!! We all love you so much, Weston William!