2 Whole Weeks!!

It's hard to believe that today is Carter's 2 week birthday! My mom was here for his first week of life followed by a week with Mckay's parents. Last night as McKay and I went to bed we said goodbye to our 2 week vacation. Today is the start of finals for McKay, and life with 3 kids...on my own...for me. Wish us luck!

Somehow I didn't get ONE picture of my mom while she was here...and I only have pictures of McKay's parents because they took them. Here are a few pictures of the last two weeks.

P.S. These are not in order...it's taken forever for them to upload, and I'm not in the mood to sit and try to move them all around...sorry...

This was hanging in the doorway when we got home from the hospital.

Sydney drew this picture of me and carter. Too cute!

Oh ya, I had a birthday! The big 25!!

Sydney and Jackson helped Grandma Gifford wrap and decorate my gifts.

Yup...25 candles!!

Carter fills out his newborn outfits perfectly. I have a feeling this outfit won't fit him next time I try to put it on him... :-(

Carter in the hospital right before we left for home.

McKay all ready for the c-section.

Grandma and Grandpa Whitney with Carter.

So there's the jumble of pictures! We can't wait to see all of our Vegas and Tucson family and friends in just a couple weeks!

Welcome to the World

Carter G Whitney. The G represents his mother's maiden name: Gifford.

Born Nov 16, 2009 in Richlands City, Tazwell County, Commonwealth of Virginia.

8lbs 13oz, 22.5 inches tall. The doctors and nurses called him bubba because he looked big. His feet are huge.

The doctors performed a textbook C-section, Mom is recovering as expected, Carter is alive and well, and the other kids are excited.

Today's the day!

The day I've been waiting for for 9 months. Today's the day our baby boy will be here. I can't believe it's actually here. I can't wait to see him...and hold him...and love him.

Halloween 2009!

Like our past two Halloweens in Virginia, this one was filled with activities for the kids. We started the week off with the library party, then had the preschool party, and spent Halloween night at the branch trunk-or-treat activity. The kids got so much candy from the first two parties that I (secretly) used it to hand out at the trunk-or-treat. Isn't that horrible? Haha. Don't worry, they both got TONS of candy at the trunk-or-treat and didn't even notice that they only ended up with 5 pounds of candy instead of 10....which is better for ALL of us!

Here are the pictures I got throughout the week.

This is one of the Halloween songs they learned at the preschool. Sydney and Jackson sang it for weeks at home and it was fun to finally hear the whole class sing. Accents and all. ;-)

And lastly, here's a picture McKay snapped yesterday before church of our handsome little Jackson.

37 weeks

Due to some issues with my placenta (which I won't go into detail about) and a stubborn baby who loves to act up during fetal monitoring, I have been able to have several ultrasounds over the last couple of months. Today was one of those visits where I got a surprise ultrasound to check on our little guy. From the looks of things he's got lots of hair, chubby cheeks, and the ultrasound tech asked if his Dad is tall (um, no... he's not)but maybe that means that the baby looks long..? Anyway, here's a cute little picture of our baby. 18 more days and we'll finally be able to hold him in our arms. (Thank heavens because there just isn't any more room for him to grow inside of me.)

Fall

Fall is in full swing here in Virginia. It's beautiful everywhere you look and we finally got out and took a few pictures. I don't have any good pictures of the red and orange trees, but here are a few cute ones of the family.

In our front yard.

Across the street from our chapel.

Jackson and McKay doing the "Grandma Gifford Eye".

Jackson showing off how strong he is.

And here's me 9 months pregnant with twins.
(Ok fine, I'm only 8 months pregnant with one, but I could sure pass for the other...)

Last year we waited until a week before Halloween to go buy pumpkins and everywhere in Grundy was sold out. It was sad to miss out on carving. So, this year we bought our pumpkins nice and early and went over to our friends the Gilberg's house to carve. We had lots of fun.

Jackson with a pumpkin lid. I'm not sure why he held it to his ear...

Our finished masterpieces....oooh... ahhh!

It was funny how grossed out both kids were with reaching inside the gooey pumpkins. Here's a video.

We've got a busy busy busy week ahead. I'm looking forward to getting lots of fun Halloween pictures to post. I really love this time of year!

Also, just 22 more days until baby #3 will be here!!

Coming soon...

-Fall pictures

-Pumpkin carving pictures

-Pregnant belly picture....we'll just have to see about that.

What's going on with the Whitneys...

Just a few random things that have been going on around here.

On the way to church on Sunday our car was flashing between 'ICE' and '33 degrees'. Brrr. I'm loving every second of the cool/cold weather!

Curious George visited the library this week. We read lots of books about him and other monkeys before he made his appearance. After every book Jackson would ask, "NOW is it time to wake him up?" (I think the librarian told Jackson that he was sleeping when we first got to the library.)

I love just-out-of-the-bath-kids. It's been a while since I took a picture like this...so here ya go.

This is the last picture I took of the kids in their towels. It was shortly after moving to VA in 2007. Crazy how fast they grow!!

We made a chain tonight to help count down the days until some fun things that are coming up.

-Primary Program (there are videos of the kids doing their parts at the bottom of this post.)

-Library Halloween Party

-Emilie's (Sydney and Jackson's friend) birthday party

-Preschool Halloween Party

-Branch Trunk-or-Treating

-Grandma coming (in preparation for the new baby)

-THE NEW BABY!

Jackson's primary part.

"I am a spirit child of Heavenly Father."

Sydney's primary part.

This next video is of Jackson singing I am a Child of God. He's known the words to the song for a long time, but is recently learning how to carry a tune. Of course when I took the video he sang the wrong tune a few times...but it's better than his usual monotone singing. Cute boy.

And lastly, tonight when I was helping Jackson put his pj's on he showed how he can be a "muscle guy". Maybe some day there will be some muscles to go with those nice ribs. Haha. (Sorry...I turned the camera and can't flip the video.)

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Funny boy.

Something Jackson often says is "I'm just tired and hungry!"

The other night at dinner he proved his point.

On another note, it's cooling off in Grundy and we're loving it.