Nathan's Newborn Pics

My talented friend, Annie, took Nathan's newborn pictures and Olivia's two year pictures (as seen on previous post). As always she did an amazing job and she gave me way to many to choose from. Here are some of my favorites:

Birthday Girl

My baby girl turns two today. She is no longer a baby, but a fun, spunky, stubborn toddler who captured our hearts the moment we met her and somehow makes us love her more everyday.

Happy Birthday Baby Girl- We love you so much!!

Time is flying

I can not believe it is already February 1. Time is flying... I had big plans while I was on leave with Nathan and unfortunately I have not accomplished most of them.  One of the things I wanted to accomplish was potty training Olivia.  We started today and we have already had five accidents and have not made it to the potty once.  The most frustrating part is when I take her and sit her on the potty and she doesn't go, but two minutes later she comes to me and says "Mama I tinkled (all over the floor)".  The joys of parenthood:).

I have not made it to the gym everyday as I promised myself that I would,  Scott's "honey do" list, which included cleaning out the kitchen cabinets, is still pretty long, I did not get my Superbowl party invites made, and I have not gotten Nathan's room put together, but on a positive note  I have done the following: I cleaned out craft room and my pantry, I finished my nephew Evan's birthday gift (some BYU PJ bottoms), I finished skirts for Olivia and Emma (see picture below), sewed two baby blankets for Nathan, got some scrap book pages done, and have spent many hours of quality time with my little daughter and her baby brother. 

I am so excited how this skirt turned out.  Liv has a similar one and I really liked it so my amazing mom helped me put this one together without a pattern.  My next adventure will be a jumper for Liv and I am going to try to do it all by myself- (could prove to be interesting).   I have decided I have to many things that I would like to do and not enough time- I need to figure out how to survive on 4 hours of sleep and stop being so lazy. 

 Here are some random pics from this week...

The little man is starting to be awake for longer periods.  I finally got  a picture with his eyes open last night.  We are slowly getting on schedule.  The other night he slept for six hours and I was so grateful (the sleep deprivation is catching up to me). Most of the time he is sleeping for about 3-4 hours.
 

This past weekend I took the kids to Idaho for a few days.  It was good to spend a few days with my family and Olivia got to spend some quality time with her cousin Taylor.  One of her favorite things to do at Grandma's is play the piano. I think I have mentioned this before, but this girl loves music and she sits and pounds on the keys belting out the ABC song and the Itsy Bitsy Spider.   We got see most of my siblings this weekend and Aunt Chelsey let her play on her scooter.  Liv loved it. 



Earlier in the week, Brittany, Emma, and Gracie came for a visit.  While they were here we made Valentine's Day cupcakes, went to storytime at the library, and watched Sesame Street on Mama's bed.  Britt and I even got some scrapbooking done while the kiddos slept. 

Here is Liv at the library.  Since I can remember I have loved books and I really hope to pass this love to my kids.  In hopes of fueling her desire to read we go to the library once a week and have started to go to story time on Tuesdays.  For those of you in Springville you need to check it out- they have a theme each week and do a little puppet show, read a story, get a visit from letter hero,  and get to do a craft. 

Two Weeks

Little Nathan is two weeks old today.  At two weeks he is 8 pounds 6 ounces and 21 inches long and is doing great according to his doctor. Here are some pics from the hospital- he is a day old in these pictures.  Stay tuned for newborn pics.

Adjusting to Two

Little Nathan is almost two weeks old and we are slowly adjusting to having two little ones to care for. My mom came down for six days and I am really missing her. I forgot how much work having a newborn is. Thankfully Liv has been very good and for the most part has not had any jealousy issues. We have had a couple of major tantrums, but I think they are more related to the fact that she will be two in a couple of weeks and does not like to be told no.  If anything she loves him a little too much and I have to remind her that we have to be careful around the baby. Other than his desire to be awake at 1:30 a.m. for a couple of hours Nathan is a very good baby.  Here are some pics from the last several days...  

Couldn't you just eat him up???



Two cute Cougar Fans.




She loves this kitchen- Santa did good.



Two cute cousins



Britt's and my babies...



Grandma with the Liv and little Nate

Nathan's Story

As previously published Nathan Scott Grant Magleby arrived on January 10 and was 7 pounds 11 ounces and 20 inches long.  Seven baby boys were born that morning so his c-section kept getting pushed back, but he finally arrived at 12:38 p.m. We were there shortly after he was born and got to help him with his first bath and his first bottle.  His hair was the talk of the nursery- It is curly, thick, and so soft.  The hospital set us up with a room and we were able to spend the next day and half falling in love with this sweet little guy.  Our birth mom, K, requested that we give him the middle name Grant.  Since we had already chosen Scott - we decided the we would give him two middles names. We had our placement on Tuesday and came home on Wednesday.  Big sister loves this little guy and has not gotten jealous of him (I think it has helped that grandma has been here since Thursday), but is very affectionate toward him with lots of hugs and kisses.

 

It's a Boy

Nathan arrived 12:38 p.m.-  Weighing in at 7 pounds 11 ounces and 20 inches long - he has a full head of thick black curly hair and a dimple on his chin just like his big sister Livy.