Halloween

For Halloween this year Brooklyn was a Barbie Musketeer. She was so excited about that costume. Jett was a little biker. Check out the sweet tatoo's that Daddy drew on him. He had his ed hardy shirt, jeans, and motorcycle boots on. He was not into Halloween at all though. He rebelled against going trick-or-treating, and then stayed home with me while everyone else went to the church Halloween party. {Sigh}. Oh well, maybe next year he will enjoy it. Stone wore his little skull shirt and black and white crawler-covers. Of couse he didn't leave the house though.












Our wonderful cousins, Anna and Nicole who live in Ewa Beach came down for trick or treating. I love this picture of the 3 girls. Brooklyn just ADORES her cousins.

Introducing Stone Hudson Zane Feider

Born October 23rd a little after midnight.
Isn't he precious?!?! We are just in love. Too tired to include details at the moment. Enjoy the pictures of newborn sweetness for now.

Raider of the Quarter

Brooklyn was recently chosen to be a "Raider of the Quarter". Four children from each class were chosen based on behavior and academics, and she and her good friend, Kennedy both received the award. Pete was off work the day of the ceremony so he got to attend too. We're so proud of her!



The little boy next to her is Tanner. He's in another school class, but he's in my primary class with Brooklyn and Kennedy. It was cool to have 3 kids from the Aliamanu CTR5 class up there, as well as 2 other older primary children from our ward. Woo-hoo!


I just love this age.
She looks so cute and excited:

39 weeks

In 2 days I will be at 39 weeks. After seeing these pictures, now I know why maternity pictures are taken at 7 1/2 to 8 mos. and not at term. Yikes!! Well, here you go Mom. I actually do look pregnant. VERY pregnant.

Oct 10th 2009: the Beach

We went to Bellows yesterday. It was a PERFECT day!! Gorgeous sun, the water was just warm enough, but cool enough to be a refreshing break from the heat. The waves were just the right size to be fun but not scary, and there were even sea turtles swimming around the rocks. It was the best beach day. Of course I spent the first hour taking pictures, and didn't get much because no one in my family ever wants their picture taken and will avoid looking in the direction of the camera {sigh}. But then I went out and swam by myself for a bit in that perfect, clear, cool, turquoise water. It was WONDERFUL!!! Next weekend I'm not even going to bring my camera. I'm just going to swim with my family and enjoy that absolutely awesome ocean water.


Look at that water!

Cars

Jett's newest love is Cars the Movie. He asks to watch it as often as he asks to watch Dora, which is quite a lot. We already had a bunch of the Cars the movie matchbox cars from when the movie came out and Brooklyn was into it, and he plays with them constantly. He calls Lightning McQueen "Walking Queen" and carries him around wherever he goes. If he misplaces him, he gets a sad look on his face and asks "Ohhh!! Where. Walking. Queen. go???". We've already had to buy 2 replacement walking queens.
Mommy had the great idea to buy him a Mac truck (oh yeah, gotta have the credit for this great buy). He LOOOOOVES it. He opens the back, drives Lightning in backwards, closes the door, and then opens it again and drives Lightning out. He will do that for like 45 minutes at a time. When we're playing with him and try to drive Lightning in forwards, he will take him out and drive him in backwards. He's very particular about that. Sometimes when we get home and I carry him inside the house, he will ask to "Dit down! Dit down! See Mac!!" And he'll run to go play with Mac.




In this picture he is hugging Mac. He said "Oh. Mac. So. Much!!!" I am assuming that means he loves him so much.

38 weeks and still as pregnant as ever

Ugh, can I just say that I am so ready to have this baby? I am also dreading the labor though. I am praying that my body can bring this baby out to meet the world on its own without going through the terrible pitocin experience yet again. So I'm nervous about that. I'm scared that it will end up being a complete induction this time without starting the labor on my own at all. I am very uncomfortable with that. I am also uncomfortable with the idea of not being induced and going way past the due date again. I don't want that either. Not sure which would be worse. I am also completely dreading that awful, AWFUL hospital experience. If it were up to me, I would have the baby at the hospital, and then bring him home the same day. I hate, hate, HATE being absolutely miserable in a hospital bed after giving birth, and then having obnoxious nurses come in every hour to massage your deflated-balloon belly, and check your private areas, and check to make sure you've marked down on the chart exactly when you've nursed your baby and changed his diaper. And the WORST is when they ask you every hour if you're passing gas regularly. What a horrible question!! That is absolutely none of anyone's business!! That is so violating. It irritates me to no end when they ask me that. And then there's the discharge class that you are required to attend to be able to leave the hospital- as if you're not exhausted enough- let's sit through 2 hours of instruction on how to bathe and diaper a baby. I know they have good reasons for all of it and I should consider myself lucky to get this whole "fantastic" experience absolutely free, but that still doesn't make me look forward to it one bit. I think having a baby at home seems very dangerous and quite uncomfortable... and a bit gross. But I have to admit that it would be nice not to have to deal with all the hospital protocol after the birth.
That being said- I am still so ready to meet our little guy. It will be so much better having him here than growing him inside me. I don't think I could be any more exhausted.
Luckily I have some really great friends who help out so much. My good friend, Trace has Brooklyn right now. She is such a blessing. It is so nice to have a few minutes to blog all my lovely complaints :)