Colby's mini catch up

Life keeps passing me by. Colby is already 6 weeks old and my sister informed me last week that I hadn't added any pictures recently. Hehe, yeah oh well! So, Colby is now 13lbs!! Yeah, in 6 weeks he gained 5lbs (actually 6 if you count getting his birth weight back). Needless to say, he is a healthy little boy!

When the kids are babies I take pictures every week for the first 12 weeks because things change so rapidly and in the blink of an eye they are sitting up then you blink again and they are crawling and into everything. I like to remember these early days (so I can look at them on bad days and love them again) so I take lots of pictures.

I will post later with Kinsley and Kenton who are actually handling having a baby in the house quite well! They actually like him and love to give him hugs and kisses and talk to him! I don't know how we got lucky enough to have three good kids, but I am not going to complain!

First Bath

This was actually a week ago but oh well. Time flies when you are sleep deprived!

Belly Buttons

Here is what the journaling says on the page if you can't read it:

Colby’s umbilical cord had just fallen off and Kinsley and Kenton discovered that he had a belly button just like them! I came in to see them talking about and pointing to his and asked them what they were doing. They then proceeded to pull up their shirts to show me theirs and point out his. I thought it was such a cute moment! These two definitely love their little brother and like to be around him as much as possible. They are constantly asking questions about him and wanting to know about his well fare. I don’t think they trust
us to take as good of care of him as they would! Oh the love of siblings!

1 week old

Since Colby's baby book is going to be purely digital I will be digitally scrapbooking these pictures so I will be putting those pages up instead of downloading all the pictures. I hope you don't mind, but it is easier for me anyways. Plus the pages get double duty:). So, as with Kinsley and Kenton I do pages of their first 12 weeks (1 per week) because that is when you see the most growth plus other major milestones (first bath, blessing, etc) so you will see a lot of Colby in the next couple of months, but also with Kinsley and Kenton as well. Here is Colby at 1 week old.

Going home

Just pictures of us bringing Colby home

Colby Wayne Bingham

Ok, so Colby will be 2 weeks old tomorrow and I have shamefully neglected this blog. Sorry I haven't posted any pictures of him yet, but that is about to change.

He was born on September 10, 2010 just before 8am. He was 8lbs 3oz and 20 inches long. He has darker hair, but it is not as dark as Kenton's was and you can tell what happened to Kenton's hair color. Actually, in some lights it actually looks like there is a hint of red in it, but that could be me just imagining things. He is a healthy little boy and quite a bit calmer than his older brother and sister, of course I can't quite remember how calms (or not so calm) they were as newborns, so that could quickly change as well. Only time will tell.

Baby #3

Ok, so since on Friday I am having another c-section I figured I would do a little catch up on this blog (hence the previous 2 posts). I guess I have been caught up with so much on my mind with getting Kinsley ready and wardrobed for school, getting the house set up for another baby, and just keeping my wits about me. This pregnancy has worn me to a thread and I am so excited that the end is near. I am excited to have a new baby, but I am tired of taking sleeping meds to sleep at all at night, the endless hearburn I have to medicate with tons of milk, the swelling, the lack of clothes that I am able to wear, my emotions, blah, blah. I feel very blessed that we are able to have this child, but it has been a really rough couple of weeks and today I sort of melted when I realized how little time I have left and how much I have left to do. My husband and my mom keep reminding me that I don't have to do most of that - they will take care of it - but I can't help the nesting feeling I seem to be feeling.

So, Friday morning at 5:30am we will be arriving at the hospital and at 7:30 I will be in surgery. I am a bit anxious about serious surgery again, but I have survived 2 previous and I will be getting a blessing from Geoff tomorrow evening. I have to keep reminding myself that this too shall pass and I will look back on all of this and laugh.

We keep getting asked about names for this child. We know it is a boy (we are 150% sure of that, but that is a story that Geoff would be disappointed in me telling) and we have narrowed down the names to Colby and Corbin with the middle name being Wayne. It is hilarious and kind of scary that we are 36 hours away from this child being born and he has no name, but it is not like he will be 8 years old and still nameless. Maybe we will know when we see him, or just more confused. Whatever.

Just for those of you who care the baby blessing will be September 26th in our ward at 9am. We would love to have any of you attend, but understand that is not always possible.

Sorry you had to hear my complaints. I needed to let off some steam and Geoff has had enough of it I am sure lately. The next post you will see on here with have a picture of baby C (whatever his name is) so tata for now!

Nap Time

Life has been to say the least exhausting around here for the last week and a half so it is not surprising that this is what I found 10 minutes after the kids had started to eat lunch:


Kenton has fallen asleep many times in the high chair, but he has never done this since he has been sitting at the table. It is amazing that he was able to get comfortable enough to accomplish sleep, but obviously it is possible. He didn't even wake when I picked him up to put him to sleep. This is definitely when you fall right back in love with your kids!

New Wardrobe and Kindergarten

Ok, so this post has been a looong time coming. Kinsley started Kindergarten this year! Yikes! And only a week and a half before having baby #3. Double Yikes! So, I am going to give you a little summary of school and her first day, yada, yada. So, the school she goes to has what they call standard school attire (which I completely abhor - sorry to all of you out there that like it, but I am sooo against it, but don't get me started on that one) so she can only wear cherry red, navy blue, or white shirts (with nothing on them like jewels or designs, blah, blah) and pants those colors or dark jeans or khakis. So, we have one of the girliest girls ever who's favorite color is pink complete with tons of jewels and glitter, hearts and ribbon....you get the picture. She was quite upset to find out that all of the above was out. Unfortunately we really didn't have much in the way of clothes that would actually fit the bill of the new dress code so we went to every store we could to find a descent wardrobe. She is allowed to wear whatever on her footwear - which would explain the super glittery hello kitty ballet shoes. That definitely helps :). To get her excited about her wardrobe and going to school, we had a little fashion show to show her all of her options. Here are a few of the pictures we took:




So the first day of school was August 30th. She has the morning session and has been excitely anticipating the first day of school, but with bits of anxiety as well. I have too, to be honest. We had an interesting morning. It took me until I was taking her pictures to figure out that she was reacting due to nerves. She was having emotional melt downs and fits of anger off and on all morning. By the time I was taking the pictures we were all a bit of an emotional wreck, but I still managed to get a few good pictures. Kenton got jealous and had to have his pictures taken as well. So, getting to school was an awful crowd of cars and people. It took me 45 minutes from the time we left before Kenton and I were driving away! We parked and walked Kinsley into school. She was still anxious about going until we got into the classroom which we had visited the week before to meet the teacher and then she walked straight to her desk and sat down, waiting for class to start. I had to remind her to actually give me a hug and say goodbye. She was sooo ready to be there and excited to be there. Kenton went to sit down at the desk next to her, thinking he was staying as well, and was in all an uproar to hear we were leaving. He was devastated to know that his best friend was staying and he had to leave. He cried halfway down the hall before realizing he was going to live. It is really cute how attached he is to Kinsley. They have so much fun together (most of the time) and it is so understandable that he would be upset about having to leave her side for the morning.


So, since we had such an interesting time getting into school, I didn't have any time to take pictures when we got there so I took a few pictures when we picked her up. Kenton ran right up to her when she got up and gave her a hug. My emotionally charged daughter of the morning had turned into a excited ball of excited words of her first day from what they did, her new best friends, and so on and so on. She really was cute about it! I am so glad that it was such a good experience. I had a horrible fear that she would come out the first day in tears and swear she would never return because it was such an awful experience....but that is the parent in me. I was so glad to know she loved it and she has loved it ever since. She has gotten into her wardrobe (mostly) and looks forward to going to school everyday. She was disappointed for the first week because she didn't get any homework. We assured her there would be plenty to come...unbeknownst to her that she will rue the day that she wished for homework. I have a video of her telliing me about her first day of school, but I am too tired to include that right now.

little chefs

For Father's Day the kids ended up helping me with the cooking in the kitchen. Kenton was up early and crawled up on the counter to help stir up the eggs. Kinsley helped me make the apple pie for dessert. They are great little helpers!

dress up

Since these two play a lot together - and since Kinsley is pretty much the master mind behind what they do - dressing up is a constant occurance here. Kinsley really likes to dress up her little brother. This day looked liked casual beach garb, but other days he is the daddy and is wearing his sunday vest and tie. Kenton could care less because Kinsley is paying extra special attention to him and playing with him. It is always interesting to see what they will come out looking like!

Geoff turns 30

It is weird to think that I am married to someone in his 30s, but alas that is where I find myself. Actually, it doesn't bother me at all and Geoff really could care less. I don't think it will bother him at all when he turns 50 or any age for that matter. All he cares is that he keeps his body to where he can still play basketball. Silly man! When I asked him what I could do for his birthday he said nothing. Well, that wasn't good enough for me so I did a little surprise party for him with friends and games and ice cream cakes. He definitely was surprised! I couldn't let 30 pass without some type of excitement in our lives!

Chalk Monsters

In March the weather was perfect to send the kids out to play for a while and I could leave the door open. This time I had given them the sidewalk chalk and they were to draw pretty little pictures all over the patio. Well, they did that and then drew pretty little pictures all over the brick wall in the background, extra bricks, and THEMSELVES! Actually it was quite cute and they had such a good time together I couldn't help but take pictures!

another blue marker

The top one is of Kinsley and the next are of Kenton, near to the same age




Ok, so I think it is kind of ironic that both of my kids have tried to eat blue markers and had the evidence all over their faces. Now, my kids have gotten into plenty of trouble during the day while Geoff is at work and I am in charge, but also ironically both these blue mouth moments were while Geoff was in charge and I was away from the house. But that is besides the point. With Kenton, I came home from mutual one night to find Kenton had covered his face, clothes, kinsley's clothes, her stuffed animal, and a few other various items with blue PERMANANT marker. Yeah, great. Oh well, it is fun to blog about anyways!

Grandma's funeral

My Grandpa Connell died February 26, 2008. We thought it was only a matter of time before my grandma died. Well, she definitely had some sort of mission left on earth because she survived 2 more years. She died February 25, 2010. My grandpa was extremely dedicated to my grandma and when he died we figured that he wouldn't let grandma out of his care for long. I kept picturing in my mind him telling the Lord that he wanted her back, but being told she still had things to do here and to give her 2 years. So, almost to the day she passed away. Her death was so much easier than my grandpa's. His was unexpected, while hers....well, she has had really bad health problems for as long as I can remember. It was definitely more of a blessing for her to see her leave this mortal life behind. I can just picture her running around, finally free or her body and mind. It is still sad to know that both of my dad's parents are gone, but it is so freeing to know the Lord's eternal plan for all of us. I know I will be with them again and I look forward to getting to know my grandma, her real self!