Sean's Blessing part 2

The Big Day!

Sean Jared White was given a name and a blessing on August 7th, 2011. He was 8 weeks old. Jared gave a wonderful blessing, other Priesthood holders were his Grandpas David White and David Wright, my cousin Richard Magleby, our Bishop Andrew Nelson and one of Jared's counselors in the Young Men's Presidency Damon Lines.

It was a very special day for us. I loved getting Sean all dressed in his blessing outfit. It was just one of those very special moments where I felt so blessed by Heavenly Father to have another little baby. Thank you everyone who made it! Sean is so loved.

Dad and grandpa taking Max back to nursery

I took these the next Sunday when Sean was 9 weeks. I really wanted to take some of just him in his outfit and finally found some time to do it.

and just for comparison, because I haven't done this yet, here is Sean at 9 weeks in his blessing outfit, and Max at 9 weeks in his blessing outfit. You can see some similarities in these pictures but to me they look SO different, except for the fact that they are chunky monkeys.

flashback to Max's blessing here

Sean's Blessing Weekend Part 1

My parents, my sister and her three kids came out for Sean's blessing the first weekend in August. It was our big thing this summer since we didn't travel to Utah, we were so excited. We picked up Grandma and Grandpa Wright at the Long Beach airport. Max still talks about taking them to and from the airport and the tunnel you go through to get there. They arrived Thursday night. My sister's family didn't arrive until Friday night so I had my parents all to myself on Friday. They helped with some things around the house and came along for some shopping. That night we went to the Irvine Spectrum where we rode the Carousel.

and played in the splash pad/fountain

While out shopping, my parents bought Max his first bike. My dad put it together. Max always loves helping with the tools.

we gave it a spin in the family room

My Sister Becky and her kids slept over at Jared's parents. They arrived at our place Saturday morning. Nathaniel, her oldest, was so excited to meet Sean, they have the same birthday!

Sean first meets his cousins Eliza, Nathaniel and Julia.

Later all of us hit up the beach at Corona del Mar. It was packed of course being one of the last Saturdays of the summer but luckily we found a little spot. I told my mom to come visit in the winter because often we'll go to CdM and we're practically the only ones there!

It was also our 7 year anniversary, my mom took this shot to commemorate the day.

Nathaniel found this super long piece of sea weed. He and the girls held it up to their hair pretending they were Rapunzel from Tangled.

Stay tuned for part 2!

"The Tank" is an understatement

Sean is 2 months!

15lbs 13oz

24.5 inches

I'm not joking! He's off the charts for weight and height is 95th percentile. Would you believe me if I told you he doesn't eat that much? because he really doesn't! He nurses 5 or 6 times a day and often it is pretty brief. Lately he'd much rather stare at me and talk with me than nurse! I sure love my squishy baby boys!

When he turned two months I started trying for an earlier bedtime and it's been going well for the past week or so. The first night I put him down at 8pm, he settled him self down, went right to sleep but then woke up after about 30 minutes, when I checked on him he was literally COVERED in spit up! his hair, his face, his bed, even UNDER his little mattress in his cradle. I cleaned him up and got him back down. Since then, (I don't want to jinx it) but he's been going to bed between 7-8pm, is up once in the night to eat, then sleeps until 7 or 7:30am. I could certainly get used to that, it took much much longer before Max was sleeping like that. Sometimes Sean wants to play in the middle of the night after he eats but most of the time it's right back to sleep. His longer afternoon nap often overlaps with Max's so that is nice.

He's already had two colds :(

He coos and "a-guooos" at anyone who will talk to him. He loves to look at your face and smile a big gummy smile. The nurse was measuring his head and he just looked up and gave her this big huge smile, she was kind of in a hurry but stopped and smiled back.

His hair is thinning on top but no big bald spot in back yet. His eyes are dark blue at the moment. He's feeling more sturdy and less in that fragile newborn state, getting better at holding his head.

He loves to sit in the Bumbo for brief periods and watch his brother play with cars and trains.

I'll do a post about his blessing day soon, the picture above is his blessing outfit. We love you Sean!

Max's Favorite Movie

Max talks a little bit about his recent favorite movie

July

Last year July was one of the busiest months we've ever had! We traveled to Utah for the 4th and then had visitors non stop. This year July was pretty quiet and slow, mostly just spent at home or close by. I think I will always remember summer 2011 as a quiet summer for us, just how things are with a new baby! We're enjoying our time together.

Tri-ward 4th of July parade!

Sean's 4th of July onesie I made for him.


Swimming at Grandma's
Max loves baby Sean! The other day he even kissed him good-bye without us even asking.
Watching Fireworks with our friend Jesus.
Sean frequently naps on our bed
We're growing all this plus red peppers in our garden! Kudos to Jared for keeping the garden alive while it's been harder for me to leave the house.
more of Sean. . .



Slash pad at Heritage Park in Irvine.
Max loves to ride on his bike seat attached to Jared's bike. Here are the boys in their helmets and "gasses"
Sharing toys
both home sick from church with runny noses :(
We read scriptures every night, some nights are harder than others. . .
Wearing his helmet again, just for fun!
I love being a mommy!