Landen is 2!

Last month Landen turned 2 and we had lots of fun celebrating him! We had family and friends over on his birthday for cake, presents and a piñata! He loves balls and he saw a basketball cake while I was perusing Pinterest and once he saw the "baketball" there was no changing his mind. So I did a basketball cake and had some help decorating the ball cupcakes. They all turned out pretty cute! 

Since turning two his vocabulary has exploded and he is talking so much more now. He is such a sweet boy and we are so happy he is part of our forever family. 

Summer 2014

This summer is slowly coming to an end and it has flown by. I feel like our entire summer was made up of packing, moving, unpacking cleaning and organizing at the new house, and trying to adjust to life with 3 kids. We did manage to sneak some fun in though! 

The beginning of July Marshall's parents left on a mission to Denver and we moved in to their house. We are in the process of getting our house sold and we will hopefully start looking for another lot to build on here soon. Moving with 3 kids, one being a newborn was quite the experience ha! We did it though and are now settled in the new place. The kids have done amazing with the move. 

I also spent a lot of time teaching Sydney at home this summer to help prepare her to take the early entrance test to see if she could start kindergarten. She is so smart and retains every bit of information. She took the test a little over a week ago and we quickly found out that she passed. She will be starting kindergarten this week! I still can't believe she's old enough to be in school. We are so proud of her!

Some of the fun activities we did were:

• 4th of July parade and fireworks

• swim

• water gun fights

• car parade

• jump at indoor trampoline park

• take the boat out

• spending the nice nights playing outside with the kids

• birthday parties

Next week we are headed to the Oregon coast with my family and I can't wait!

2 Months

Jace is 2 months old! 

Stats: 

Weight: 12 lbs

Height: 24 inches

Clothes: Size 3 months

Diapers: Size 1

Likes:

-sleeping through the night

-eating

-being held and talked to

-snuggles

-his dad, he can instantly calm him down

-baths

-the swing

-watching his brother and sister

-car rides 

-being swaddled

Dislikes:

-loud noises

-being outside if it is too hot, windy, etc. 

-being hungry

He is still sleeping amazing and is seriously so snuggly and sweet. 

One Month

Baby J is already a month old. I'm not really sure how that's even possible. I guess time flies when life is chaotic :)

Weighs 9lbs 15 ounces is in size 1 diaper and wears mostly size 3 month clothes. 

Likes:

•eating

•sleeping amazingly well at night

•being held

•car rides

•being swaddled

•snuggling

Dislikes:

•bath time 

•being poked, hit, and "loved on" too much by Landen

•loud noises

He is starting to smile at us every now and then and we really got lucky with this bebe. He is such a happy baby and he could not be any more perfect. 

Jace Tanner DeCoria

My pregnancy went really well with baby number three. No problems or issues. Landen arrived two weeks early on his own so I was sort of expecting the same thing this time around. Which was a mistake, because that did NOT happen. At 38 weeks I was dialated to a 3, at 39 weeks at a 4, and I figured this boy would come on his own anytime. But he had other ideas so I ended up scheduling to be induced on the 18th just two days shy of my due date. This was my first induction, and I gotta say it was kind of nice! Marshall had been insanely busy at work and one if our employees up and quit on us, so to be able to schedule a time on the weekend when Marshall was already off was really nice! It was also amazing to finally have a baby during the day instead if middle of the night!

We arrived at the hospital at 830 in the morning and ended up hanging out and waiting for a little while. They hooked me up for a bit to monitor the baby and around 1030 finally got things started by giving me pitocin and then broke my water. For the first hour on pitocin it didn't really do much. I just has random contractions that weren't the least bit painful. Marshall left to eat lunch before things got crazy and my parents stayed and kept me company. About 1130 the nurse informed me that if I wanted an epidural at any time then it would be about a half hour out when I did ask for it because the anesthesiologist was in a surgery. I decided to go ahead and request it so I could get it before the real pain started. Right after requesting it the contractions started hitting me super close together and they instantly got super painful. The half hour wait ended up being an hour and a half wait so I unfortunately did not get the epidural before feeling quite a lot of pain. After finally getting the epidural the nurse checked me and I was at a 9.5 and informed me that I was pretty close to being too late for the epidural. I was relieved I got it when I did! They had me push through 2 contractions because the baby was turned the wrong way. After those contractions he was turned the right way, I pushed through one more contraction and baby Jace was here! It all went super fast which was really nice! He weighed a whopping 8 lbs 10 ounces and was 21 inches long. We all couldn't believe I was carrying such a big baby! He has been the sweetest and best baby and such a blessing in our family. We all just love him to pieces!

Still Here

Well here I am super far behind again and wanting to try to catch up and stay up to date. So much time has passed since the last time I wrote though so I will just give a quick update on each family member. 

Marshall is back to working and busy busy! He spends his days working all day long and comes home just in time to eat dinner and see the kids briefly before bedtime. We recently acquired a large account that adds a lot more work which is great news. With this addition we will probably be looking for another work truck and employee to help keep up on the work. We have really been trying to get our house sold, and next month we will be moving into Marshall's parents house while they are on a mission. We are hoping to sell our house quickly so that we can start building again soon. 

I had a very uneventful pregnancy this time around which was so nice after having gestational diabetes the last time. We welcomed baby Jace into our family on May 18th, more details on that another time. I am adjusting to life with 3 kids and so far it hasn't been too difficult except for making sure Landen doesn't smother the baby with love. 

Sydney finished and graduated preschool. She loved doing preschool and will definitely miss it. We are hoping she will get to start kindergarten this year but we won't know for sure until right before school starts. 

Landen has quickly grown into a little boy. He loves cars trucks and balls and loves playing outside. He is talking more and more but is hard to understand most of the time. He loves his sister and loves to be doing exactly what she is doing. 

Baby Jace is about 3 weeks old now and is the best baby ever! He sleeps amazingly well at night only waking up to quickly eat then go back to sleep and very rarely wakes up more than twice all night long. He is a very happy and content little guy and we love having him in our family. Life is bit more chaotic now but I'm hoping to try to stay more up to date about what's going on in our lives. 

Landen Lately

I haven't done a post about Landen since his first birthday and he has grown so much since then. He does and says new things on a daily basis now. I love this stage and I love that he is finally learning to communicate with us. 

~still only has 6 teeth and is a pretty good eater

~naps once a day

~still in 18 month size clothes

~wears size 5 shoes but it is so hard to find shoes that fit because his feet are so chubby heighth wise!

~says mama, dada, sis, ball, bye, hi, papa, diaper, berry, all done, more, no, go, belly, balloon. I'm sure there are more that I can't currently think of. 

~points to body parts if you ask him to

~likes to "smell" things

~loves waving to people

~likes dogs from afar but he freaks out if they get too close

~doesn't care for tv

~continues to love and prefer his dad 

~likes dancing to music

~loves balloons and balls

~is suddenly a hitter and he is very sensitive and gets very sad if anyone is stern with him

~doesn't like loud noises

~loves Christmas lights

~blows kisses

~likes to "wrestle" and if you lay down on the floor you are fair game!

~is getting better and better at stairs and we don't always have to put the baby gate up now

~had his 3rd haircut and he still cries through the entire thing

~is all boy and loves cars and boy things. He does however enjoy putting on Sydney's play necklaces and other jewelry and carrying around her play purses :)

~likes giving high fives and knuckles

~loves reading books

He is getting to be such a big boy!