Twice Blessed!

Introducing Logan and Jaxson Brimhall !!! My sister Joanna just had her 1st & 2nd baby on Thursday afternoon! In fact when I was writing my Disneyland post and saying Joanna was in the hospital trying to keep them in it was about that time that they were taking them out! They were born at 30 weeks and are doing great and so is Joanna!! They are both 3 pounds 14 ounces. Logan is 17 in and Jaxson is 16 in. These pictures are right after birth so they have on the c-pap masks but now they are both breathing on their own. They have quite a bit of dark fuzzy hair and are super cute I can't wait to hold them! Welcome to the family Logan & Jaxson ... Caleb is excited to have some new boy cousins to play with! 

Caleb's Birthday

  
Caleb's birthday was on October 20th which happened to be on a Wednesday and I had a board meeting for RS that night and the next night Rory's school's fall festival so we celebrated his birthday on Friday night with the rest of Mike's family.

 It was pretty standard, we had pizza, opened presents and then had cake and ice cream, it was fun and crazy but poor little Caleb wasn't feeling his best (in fact he had a fever the next morning) so when it was time for the ceremonial first birthday cake he wasn't really into it. 

I think there was just too much going on and too many people trying to get him to look, smile, laugh, clap or do whatever besides it was past his bedtime so he was totally done after about 2 min. as you can see by the look on his face in the pictures!

 He did like opening his presents and we officially have boy stuff in the toy closet instead of just girl stuff! He is such a boy look at that already crashing his cars!

We also had his 1 year check up at the doctor and I was surprised that he only weighs 21.6 lbs which drops him down into the 25% for weight is 28.75 in long which puts him at about the 50%  and is still in the 95% for his head at 19.25 in circumference. 

 He is such a sweet little boy I can't believe he has been apart of our little family for a whole year now! Love you Caleb! 

p.s. the great pic's of Caleb (1st & last) are courtesy of  Liz  Farnsworth of Red Bucket Photography, so if you live in the San Antonio area you just gained an amazing photographer! Miss you Liz!

Disney Vacation

Way back in January my family signed up for Disney's program Give a Day Get a Day, the service project we did was making blankets for project Linus. Rory got all excited about picking out her fabric and even helped with the sewing machine and learned to tie a quilt, but then both girls asked everyday when we were going to Disneyland.

We planned to go the first weekend in November but then my sister Joanna found out she was expecting twins and her doctor told her she wouldn't be able to travel then so we moved it up to the second weekend in October but she still ended up not being able to go and is actually in the hospital right now trying to keep those little boys in there a few more weeks! Anyway we packed up and drove over Friday morning and my parents and two of my sisters and their families got there later that night. We spent all day Saturday at Disneyland and had a wonderful time!

The girls we so excited and Caleb did amazing! My parents stayed with us most of the day to help with Caleb so that was nice to be able to experience it with them.

 Rory and Paige did awesome they even went on the big rides like the Matterhorn, Splash and Space mountain! Well Rory did those last two because Paige wasn't tall enough but they did great!

We went back to the hotel around 5pm for a nap and then ate dinner and headed back over about 7pm and stayed there till the park closed at 1am!  My camera broke before lunchtime so we only got a few picture which was a totally bummer we gotta  few and my mom has some better luck next time I guess. We drove home on Sunday so it was a quick trip but we had fun!

Caleb Michael Hanchett is 1 year old!

I haven't done a real post in such a long time and since this is such a big milestone I thought I would do a quick recap of the last 6 months, which was the last time I gave a Caleb update. So since then at 7 months Caleb learned to sit up all on his own!

    At 8 months Caleb took his first plane ride and we visited my sister that moved to Seattle 5 days after he was born!

At 9 months we were still in Seattle having a wonderful time! When we did get home and went in for his check up though his stats were... 20 lbs 14 oz ... 29.5 inches ... 19 inches for his head!

At 10 months he was still content to be stationary and didn't seem to have any plans to do otherwise! Toward the end of that month he did start moving around a little more but never in a consistent fashion, he would roll, army crawl, flip over on his back and inch worm on his head etc. but could go up the stairs so out came the baby gate! And then he started pulling himself up on the furniture and walking back and fourth on that a little but still no conventional crawling, silly boy!

At 11 months he decided he could walk around the whole house holding on the couch, table, wall etc. and then started doing the army crawl on a regular basis.

It wasn't until about a week or so ago that he actually got up on his knees and crawls conventionally. He also stands unsupported for a few seconds at a time now and has actually taken a couple steps between things unknowingly. So we think he maybe walking before we know it!

And then of course 12 months...I can't believe it has been a year already! Where has the time gone. I am so thankful to have this sweet little boy in my home and in my heart, I just can't get enough of his smiles and giggles and he gives the best hugs I have ever had, hands down, seriously! I love you Caleb!