Dentist

Sienna went to the dentist for the first time on 9/27. She was such a big girl. She did everything they told her to and wasn't scared at all. I was really proud of her. She thought it was great because she got a balloon and a goodie bag when we left.

4 Months Old

Carter is 4 months old! He had a dr appointment a couple weeks ago and he weighed over 18 lbs! He's off the chart in his weight.

He loves his sister so much. She makes him laugh all the time. He smiles whenever he sees her and he always wants to know what she's doing.

He's such a sweetie.

Our trip to the gila valley

Garrett finished his first semester of school and had a week break so we went to visit our families in Pima, Thatcher, Safford. We were there from Sunday night to Friday afternoon. It went by really fast. We had a lot of fun and we got to spend a lot of time with our families. We went to the mountains and relaxed in the cool weather, visited family, got pedicures, went out to eat at all of our favorite places, Sienna swam at my parents. Sienna got lots of attention from Grandmas and Grandpas and got to have sleepovers with both sets of grandparents. She played lots of games, built forts, and read books.

Carter sucks/chews on his thumb a lot. It's cute. He won't take a binky.

Big boy chillin with daddy.

Carter and my dad watching tv.

Me, Sienna, my mom, and Lyndsey went to get pedicures. Sienna just got her toes filed and painted. She wasn't sure at first if she wanted to do it but she decided to just get her toes painted. She picked out red and she got sparkles on them.

She got really dirty of course at the mountains. We had lunch, made smores, went for walks, rode the rhino. She played with a beach ball with Grandma. It was in the mid 70s on the mountain and so nice.

Right after we got to the mountain Carter leaked out of his diaper so he had to be naked for a while and he took a good little nap. Carter's stomach always gets a little messed up when we travel down there. He always explodes his diapers at least once a day while we are there and he doesn't do that as much at home. Poor Grandma Sparks got exploded on more than a couple times. It's a good thing he's such a cute little boy. We are excited to go visit again. Sienna especially has a blast when we go down there because she is never bored. She has plenty of people to entertain her.

3 Months Old

Carter is 3 months old!

He smiles a lot and has laughed a couple times.

He's almost too big for his 3-6 mos. clothes.

He loves to check out his hands and try to figure them out.

He does tummy time and is getting pretty strong.

At 3 years old Sienna is 3' 1" and 34 lbs. She in the 50th percentile for height and 75th percentile for weight. She told the dr. that her favorite colors are purple and green. She also told the dr. that her favorite food is carrots and broccoli. The dr. asked Sienna if she could jump and Sienna tried to show her how she could hop on one foot. She asked Sienna what we do when we cross the road and Sienna said when we cross the road we get our mail. We don't even have to cross the road to get our mail so I don't know where that came from. The dr. told her to hold mom's hand when she crosses the road. She's funny. She's really growing up.

At almost 3 months Carter is 24" long and 15 lbs. He's 50th percentile for height and 95th percentile for weight. At 1 month I think he was 25th percentile. He's so big and chunky. He's adorable. He had to get some shots and he was pretty tough. He only cried for a minute. Then he was cranky that evening after he woke up from a nap. The next day he was fine though.

Carter's Blessing Day

Yesterday was Carter's blessing day. It was really nice. We had tons of family there. Our ward is normally kind of small and yesterday there were so many people there that they ran out of water for the sacrament. There was Carter's blessing and they were changing out the Bishopric so there were a lot of extra people there. Carter looked so cute. He was so good as usual.

After sacrament meeting. He was hungry and ready to go. I love that cute face.

Look at his red cheeks. It was hot!

Carter talking to Lyndsey. After the blessing we all went and ate at Pancho's. We had about 35 people. It was nice to get to see all of our family. I'm glad so many traveled to come to the blessing. Our families are very supportive. I meant to take more pictures but I forgot. It was a nice day.

My little chubby boy. His outfit was 6-9 months and it fit him just perfect.

2 Months Old

It's a little late, but on July 20th Carter was 2 months old.

Sienna loves him. Sometimes she reads him books. Most of the time he really likes her attention.

He's gotten so chubby! He has such a big belly and little rolls on his arms and legs. On his 2 month birthday he weighed 12 lbs 12 oz.

He's a good boy.

He sleeps pretty good at night. Usually only waking up once or twice. During the day when he falls asleep though, I can't put him down or he wakes right back up. He likes riding in the car and usually falls asleep. I took the kids to Safford by myself and Carter slept the whole way up and back. He smiles a lot and talks to us. In the picture above you can see that Carter's right eye is almost half brown, half blue. The outside half is brown. I noticed it before his 1 month appointment and Garrett wanted me to ask the pediatrician about it. So I asked her and when she was looking at his eyes she said that the coloring was normal. His eyes might change color more anyways. Then she noticed his pupils are different. In both his eyes he has what is called a coloboma. It means his pupils are elongated at the bottom of his eyes. His irises, the colored part of the eye, didn't develop all the way at the bottom. It's a birth defect that happens in the first part of pregnancy and happens in 1 in every 10,000 babies. It's not really easy to see right now unless he is looking up but it is noticeable. Colobomas can range from causing blindness or just being cosmetic and not affecting the vision. We had to take him to an eye specialist and he said that he will be able to see but right now we don't know how much his vision will be affected. We'll just have to wait and see. He also has a heart murmur so we had to take him to a cardiologist to get it checked out. It is normal and he should grow out of it so that is nothing to worry about. The eye specialist wanted to get an MRI to check out his brain since the brain is closely related to the eyes. So on his 2 month birthday we had to take him to Phoenix Children's Hospital to get an MRI. It went pretty well considering he couldn't eat four hours before it and was starving. He usually eats every two hours. They had to give him light anesthesia for it. He came out of anesthesia just fine so we only had to stay at the hospital for two hours afterwards then we were able to go home. The results of the MRI were good. There is nothing wrong in his brain. One coloboma is worse than the other so we'll just keep getting his eyes checked and see what happens. Right now he seems to see fine so we're not too worried about it. We're just glad that everything came out alright and we're lucky to have two healthy kids.