French Family: May 2010

Sunday, May 30, 2010

One Week Old & Other Happenings

Bree's first bath - Ahhh so fresh and so clean!

Both girls love their daddy

Big sister giving big kisses

One week photo shoot

Friday, May 28, 2010

Happy Birthday Kate

Kate turned 3 years old on Thursday. Due to the fact that I just had a baby we did a low key birthday party with just the family. Spencer got Kate the movie Tinkerbell and as we waited for the party to start Ma-moo and Nana got to snuggle the 3 wild ones as we watched the movie. Kate and Brooke have really been into the whole fairy princess thing so it was a perfect gift.

Here's Kate all smiles as we get ready to sing Happy Birthday!

After the song it time to blow out the candles

Kate as been asking for rainbow cupcakes for her birthday for the last 3 months. I had it all planned out with these really cute party theme and cupcakes but at las, with a new baby she was happy with confetti cake and rainbow sprinkles.

Present time - Kate was spoiled with lots of great presents. She got a a Dora backpack, a fairy doll, a princess crown and earrings, some princess shoes, a very cute set of golf clubs, a tea set and a doll house. She loved them all! Thanks everyone!

I think it crazy that I have a 3 year old. When I hold Bree I think to myself, WOW! Three years ago it was Kate I was holding in my arms. How the time flies. She is such a good little girl and I love her so much.

Happy Birthday Kate!

Monday, May 24, 2010

Bree's Story

I'm sure everyone who knows me knows I like things planned out so when I was about 5 weeks out I started planning when I was going to have Bree. The plan was to have her 2 weeks early so her and Kate's birthdays were at least 10 days apart. Well, all that planning didn't pan out and that next week went by very slowly.

Finally, Sunday morning at 7 am my water broke. The hypno-birthing classes that we took taught us not to freak out because you have 24 hours before you need meds to protect against an infections. So we both showered and got Kate ready to go to Rachel's. By this time my contractions are now closer to 3 minutes apart and we were now in a bit of a hurry to get to the hospital.

We arrived at the hospital at 8:45 and I'm dilated at 7 cm and 100% effaced. Perfect. Only 45 minutes later I'm ready to have little Miss Bree. In the short amount of time of 2 hours and 49 minutes I gave birth naturally to a beautiful and healthy little girl. Bree Elizabeth was born at 9:49am weighing in at 8lbs and 1 oz and 19 inches in length. Both her and I are doing great. We are so blessed to have such a beautiful little girl come into our family. It was such a wonderful and spiritual experience for both Spencer and I - we couldn't have prayed for anything more. The whole process went so smoothly and so far the recovery is going great too.

How did Kate do...? She was very excited to come to the hospital to see her new little sister. Once there she looked, she poked, she patted and that was it. When we asked if she wanted to hold her little sister she agreed and was good only holding her for about a minute. Now that we are home she's been great. I love them both so much!!!

Bree Elizabeth French

Sunday May 23rd

9:49 am

8 lbs 1 oz

19 inches in length

Bree all cleaned up with her hair all done

Kate's first time holding Bree and yes, that's a forced kiss.

The proud papa

Here we are - one big happy family

Going home outfit - which was very appropriate because it was snowing when we left the hospital... yes, I said SNOWING.

Home sweet home with our new bundle of joy.

And so now our new journey begins ...

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Mother's Day 2010

For mother's day this year Spencer took me to get my hair cut and then out to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner and dessert. Nothing like getting pampered and filling up whatever space I have left with the most delicious food. Sunday Kate made me a card in nursery and Spencer let me have the day to do whatever I wanted. It was great! I'm so lucky to have such an awesome hubby and a little girl who melts my heart when she says she loves me.

What's She Thinkin'?

Kate has said and done some pretty funny things and I'm afraid that I'll forget them so I am writing them here where everyone can enjoy them.

10-12-12 Spencer picked up Kate from school today and she proceed to tell him that she told her whole class our phone number. Spencer was shocked because he didn't think she even knew our cell numbers. So he asked her to tell him and she quickly replied "2". 2 is Spencer and my speed dial for each other. Ha!

5-18-11 We got some lunch at Del Taco where the kids could play. There was a boy with long hair playing there too and Kate says in front of everyone, "Mom, hers a boy, for real !" The little boys mom just chuckled.

4-24-11 It was Easter Sunday and Kate asked about the Resurection... the rest of the convo went like this...

Kate: Mom what's the resurection?

Me: It's when you come back to life after you die

Kate: what does that look like?

Me: Oh it's pretty

Kate: So it's Pink?

3-20-11 Kate got some Barbies from a neighbor family who now has older children. She's been playing with non-stop and when Spencer asked her the name of one of the Barbies she quickly replied, "oh her name is Porky". That Barbie is sure to have a complex now.

3-20-11 Spencer and Kate were talking about the garden we want toplat this year and Kate said this... "Daddy, I want to grow a hugen pumpkin and call it Humpkin"

2-10-11 Kate and my mom were talking about riding horses and my mom asked Kate what her horses name was, she took a second to think about it and then replyed, "He's a pink horse named blue. "

9-29-10 Kate was in a bad mood and wanted something that I wasn't going to get her so she gave me the stink eye and then said,"mommy i'm magic and going to disapear from here and then ride my bike to get a treat at the store with daddy!".

9-17-10 Kate is in Spencer's football pool and she makes her picks each week by pointing to the team she wants to win. The other day she was coloring and Spencer was reading off the teams and Kate was telling him who she wanted.

Spencer: Jets or Patriots?

Kate: humm.... Jets because they're in the bathtub

Spencer: What?

Kate: daddy i said Jets because they're in the bathtub!

We have a jetted tub that kate likes to play in and turn on the "jets" and once he remembered that it was just common sense to pick the Jets... because they're in the bathtub.

7-26-10 Kate was telling me how she wanted someone to play with. I told her that I would play with here but she looked at me with her big eyes and said, "no mommy, not you. I want someone little like Brooke, Austin, or D-Bo." (D-bo is my dad)

5-9-10 After church we decided to go to the park. When I asked Kate which park she wanted to go to she said the red one. I told her I didn't know where that one was and then she said... "It's in utah idaho american south." Got it.

10-4-09 Spencer asked Kate if she wanted some ice-cream and she replied, "I sure do!"

10-1-09 Kate was in the tub while I was getting ready when I heard her singing like Ariel, "ah ahh ahh, ahh ah ahhh". When I looked at her she was on her belly and I started to laugh. She then quickly sat up and said, "what mommy?"

9-16-09 Kate's new favorite movie is the Little Mermaid. She was watching it when she turned to me and said, Mommy, I want to go to the ocean floor to say HI to Ariel and all the fishies".

9-1-09 It was past Kate's bed time when she asked to watch "Dora". I told her no because it was time for bed. Then she asked if she could watch football. Spencer perked right up and gave me a look like how was he supposed to turn that down? I guess she was willing to do anything to say up. Te-he-he We compromised by reading books together as a family.

8-27-09 Kate and I were driving in a construction zone in Provo when she saw a very large building crane. Then she said, "Mommy, I want to get in my bathing suit and ride that dinosaur."

8-23-09 Kate went into Spencer's office and said in a very frim voice, "Dad, I need my own computer." My dad says we're done for because Kate is already smarter than both Spencer and I.

8-20-09 Kate's new favorite things to do is hide things in drawers and cupboards. Just recently I have found Monk-monk in almost every drawer in the house - she even hid him while we were camping in Grandma camper. I have also found a hot pocket, a beach ball, sippy cups, hair accessories, shoes, measuring cups, small books and toys, and all sorts of stuff. I still giggle when I find things but I'm sure this will get very annoying very soon.

8-9-09 We were late to church so we just grabbed the first chairs we could see in the overflow. As soon as we sat down both Spencer and I looked at each other and gasped - the young lady in front of us had the worst body order EVER!! Kate didn't notice at first but it didn't take her long before she said very loud, "Eww that's stinky! Stinky mommy stinky!" As most 2 year olds do, she kept repeating those words. Needless to say we had to get up and move after the opening prayer.

7-22-09 "Mommy, see the mountains. I love them so much!"

6-22-09 We were all watching some T.V. when Kate came up to Spencer and I holding her Mrs. Potato Head and said, "What the Chicken?"

6-1-09 Spencer and Kate were looking at a rainbow in the sky when Spencer decided to name off all the colors in the rainbow, "Blue, purple, green, yellow and red" Then Kate looks at him and say, "And orange daddy, and orange". What 2 year old would know what color he didn't say?

5-30-09 Kate was having a hard time falling asleep so I laid in the guest bed with her to help calm her down. I was almost asleep when I heard some strange noises. Then a small voice says, "that was me". This went on for a good five minutes and I couldn't help but to snicker a few times at the silly noises she would make and then follow with "that was me" just in case I didn't know who or what was making those sounds.

5-20-09 A man with brown shoulder length hair walks onto the airplane. Kate points at him and says, "Jesus mommy, Jesus!!" She repeats this about 4 times while pointing right at him and each time she says it louder and louder.

5-9-09 I was taking some vitamins and Kate wanted some so I filled a syringe with water when she wasn't looking and told her to open big for her medicine. She did and then looked up at me with her big brown eyes and a face of disappointment and with a sigh said, "water mommy?" My mouth fell open and for a second I didn't know what to say then I started laughing.

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