The Girl Next Door

This is Sean's little buddy.  He follows her everywhere, if 20 month olds can have crushes, then this would be it.  He talks about her at home, even when we haven't seen her for a couple days.  She likes him too but really is a good sport to deal with him following her everywhere and trying to hug/grab her all the time.  The other day, they decided to kiss on the lips!  Her dad saw it happen and said, "Sean, I expect you to take her to dinner before trying anything like that!"  

He really must love her if he lets her feed him peas!

My Sweetie Poo. . .

Dylan is an angel baby so far.  In this crazy life with three littles, he is so patient and sweet.  I could kiss him all day long.

Birthday Boy!

My Maxwell turned 4 this week!  I now have my Bachelor's in Motherhood, haha.  Love you big guy!

this is my favorite picture of Max from the passed year, August 2012 (3.5 years old)

Two Months Old

Dylan,

today you are two months old.  we love you so.  you are such a sweet little guy.  you are so patient and easy to soothe.  your brothers adore you.  your parents adore you.  we're so glad you are in our family.

Disneyland in December

Jared finally finished the quarter so we thought we'd go to Disneyland all together for the last time before we had a newborn.  

They go all out for the holidays!

Max FINALLY hit 40 inches.  I was noticing his pants getting a little shorter.  Jared and Max have been talking and talking about the "R2D2 ride" but Max knew he had to wait until he was bigger, well the day finally arrived!  After they measured him, Max looked at me because he wasn't sure what they guy said.  I told him, "he said yes!" and Max's face just lit up with excitement.  He and daddy dashed in line.

After the ride, feeling so proud

Jared realized Max could also ride Big Thunder Mountain now that he was 40 inches.  While they were off doing that, Sean and I met Woody and Jessie.  Sean was in heaven!

Jessie is his favorite and he walked right up to her to give her a hug.

We went over to California Adventure to ride the fast Cars ride, (can't remember what it's called) but the wait was 90 minutes (no thanks) but the boys were happy to meet Lighting McQueen.

At the end of the day we hopped back over to the Magic Kingdom for the Christmas Parade.

37 weeks!

Sean's 18 month photo shoot

I wanted to take some of Sean at 18 months, he's actually 19 months now, but yesterday Max was occupied, Dylan was asleep and Sean wanted to play so I stepped outside the front door with him and snapped away for about 10 minutes.  I love my blue-eyed boy!

Oh the Blog!

I was doing so great, but then I had a baby and it was Christmas, and now it's nearly February and I'm so behind. . .should I just skip to now or try to go back and catch up?  Trying to figure it out!  February is going to be a busy month too. . . well, one event we've had is Max started Sunbeams!  He loves his "class" and his teachers, especially because they know how to make great paper air planes.  I haven't been to church much since Dylan was born but I've only heard good things so far about Max in Sunbeams.  I love that he is such a big boy and he is just getting so smart.

First Day as a Sunbeam!

Our friend Ben sent us this picture from Primary the other day, Max told me, "I was a knight!"

Ben also sent us this one of our two boys before church one day, they are cute little buddies, I will treasure this picture!

Maybe I should also add that Sean started Nursery in December, just three days before Dylan was born!  He still hasn't stayed the whole time by himself but he absolutely LOVES singing time, I can hardly stand how cute he is singing, "Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam".  For a couple weeks, until the New Year, I had both the oldest and youngest kids in the Nursery.  They weren't together though since our Nursery is so large, Max was in the "big nursery".

We snapped these before church on Sean's first day.

Dylan Luke

a few favorites of my littlest man. . .Dylan is 2 weeks old already!  

I was shocked at how little he was when he was born, just under 6lbs and only 6 days early.  He was 3 oz passed his birthweight at one week, so 6lbs, 3oz.  I'm thinking he's coming up on 7lbs now.  He's such a sweet baby, only cries a little here and there and sleeps a lot.  He's adored by his brothers.  I feel like the three of them are not just meeting for the first time but are being reunited after being apart for just a little while :)

Merry Christmas Card!

Merry Christmas from the FIVE of us!

Dylan Luke White arrived 12/19/12 at 3:48pm
5lbs 15.6 oz (6lbs even :))
18.5 inches long

Funny Flashback Post

Last week at my 38 week appt. the dr. told me I was 3cm.  I was 3cm at 38.5 weeks with Sean, and still went a week over, so don't really know if it means anything.  With Max I was 2cm at 38 weeks and he was just 2 days over.  Anyway, while looking back on the blog I came across a post from when i was pregnant with Max and teaching 5th and 6th graders in an after school program, and the funny things they said to me about pregnancy.

a favorite:
Bryan: Ms. Emily, do you want a hot cheeto?
Ms. Emily: uh, no tha-
Hector: "NO NO Ms. Emily can't eat those because she's pregnant!"
Ms. Emily: Actually Hector, they are fine, they wouldn't hurt the baby
Hector: "Oh I know, but THE MILK! THE MILK!"



read here for more:  http://jaredandemilywhite.blogspot.com/2009/01/out-of-mouth-of.html

Need me a studio. .

thinking about four walls and a wood floor, with a sound system in the corner blasting these songs. . . my bedroom and computer speakers aren't cutting it!


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Sean is 18 months!

I can't believe it.  Where does the time go?  He is such a sweet little thing.  I went to nursery with him yesterday and was thinking about him being 2 and could hardly stand the thought.  He gets into so much trouble, and gets his brother into so much trouble too, haha.  He un-does all my cleaning from the night before within an hour of waking up but he is just such a funny little person and those blue sparkly eyes just get me every time. Some things I love about him:

- he will sometimes just pose for pictures even if the camera isn't out, he'll just sit on a step or somewhere and start saying "cheese" "cheeeeeese".

- if he gets an owie, he'll say, "ow! ow!" then come to me smacking his lips asking for a kiss, so I kiss his fingers or his cheek and he's all better and ready to play again.

- he loves "ring around the rosie" at bedtime we'll say, "ok, time to sing a song" and he'll say, "ashes!  ashes!"  he's also very good at saying the , "down!" part.

- He has just started to say, "thank you, mommy!" when I give him something, I have a little video of it.  He says and signs "please!" and then when I give him his snack, or toy or sippy or whatever, he says "Thank you mommy!" it is just to die for.  It is so great to hear your kids say thank you!  You know those middle of the night feedings during the first year when they look up and smile at you and you know that is what they are trying to say. . . and then when they finally say it, it's just a great mommy moment.

- He loves his brother, he loves to push him on his steer-n-stroll trike, he wants Max included in everything.  He will randomly hug him while playing and say, "huuug!".  He gets sad when Max runs off with the big kids. This is why I think it will be good for him to have a younger brother so soon.  I think he'll like not being the smallest all the time, and having someone who actually follows him around..

- He is good at hugs and kisses, he also adores his dad.  If we come home from something in the afternoon he will open the door and say, "daddy?  daddy?"  I have to remind him that daddy is not here but will come home later.  I love seeing them play and cuddle.

- We really don't watch Toy Story often but he knows all the characters and can say their names almost perfectly.  Buzz is his favorite, then Jessie, Woody, "sye" is Bullseye and then "oink oink" for Ham.

- He still loves Disney Cars.  Again, we really don't watch the movie that often but he loves his Holley Shiftwell and tells me that she is "purple".  For awhile he called Lightning McQueen, "Mean" but now he says "Lighting".  For Mater he calls him "Eeo"  it's pretty funny, Max will call him "Eeo" too just to be silly, "Sean, here is your Eeo!".

- He sings the best "E-I-E-I-O" you've ever heard, loves farm animals and is pretty good at their noises.

- He is all boy.  So active, has to get out of the house and run around at least twice every day.  He hangs on the bar above the slide saying, "monkey! monkey!"

- He can do the shape ball puzzle.  He can also tell me what things are "circles".

- He has long blonde hair that curls in the back, blue eyes, a round belly, 12 teeth, and a sweet smile.  He has long fingers and toes.

- He loves fruit, cheese and yogurt.  He will not drink milk!  He was great at nursing but cows milk has been a struggle.  He sleeps through the night well bedtime is 7pm, but is a bit of an early riser, usually up by 6am on the dot, 6:25ish is sleeping in.  Afternoon nap everyday.

- He knows what the temple is and along with that I can't believe how much he has picked up so quick about Christmas and the Nativity.  We have a little Nativity in front of our temple and he overheard me say "temple" to his Aunt tonight and looked at me and started naming all the nativity, "baa baa!, moo!, baby!  donkey!".  He also heard me say "Joseph" talking about a neighbor and started doing the same thing.  I tried to explain to him that the Christmas tree and ornaments are "special" and now he points and says, "peh-shell".

I love you Sean.  You are still the baby in the family for a short while longer.  I love all your baby-ness that is left but love seeing the independence growing and watching you learn.   I love being your mom, I love feeding you and dressing you and bathing you.  You are such a sweet piece of sunshine in my life!  You are still so little but are going to be a great big brother.

November 2012

We were SO happy when Aunt Annie called and said she was coming to visit!  She got to come down here for her job for a couple days, she only had a few obligations and then hung out with us!  We went to Cafe Rio the first night, and then hit Balboa for sunset dinner at Ruby's on the Pier the next.  

33 weeks I think, I'm now 36.

 Max loves her Iphone.  He probaby can work those things better than me!

 What a great Auntie, bathing the kids, even washing their hair!

This month we sold my college car, the Honda Civic.  If you knew me in college you probably remember it.  It has been a great car, and commuted me to Salt Lake for two years in the ice and snow with no accident and no tickets!  It's new owners are basically the coolest people we know, it's in good hands!

I don't even remember taking this!  He can be cute and pose for pictures sometimes.

The boys love to play on our bed, what kids don't like mom and dad's bed?

Took the camera out while we walked to the playground one day to snap some photos of the pretty leaves in  my neighborhood.

Our neighbors cute wagon that the kids love.

I just love his curls, can't bring myself to snip them.

Thanksgiving was at the White's, I made these little place card turkeys.

Grandpa and the Turkey.

 the fam.

 Sean just stayed on the stairs after the family picture saying, "cheese!  cheese!"

Auntie Meridith

Max was especially excited for Thanksgiving because the Sunday before Grandpa told him they were going to go camping Thanksgiving night.  I think a couple tears were shed during the week because Max was so excited to "go to camping" and was getting very anxious.  He was so excited as we packed his backpack.

Just before hitting the campground, Sean is sad because he wanted to hold Max's had for the picture, but Max wanted to hold Grandpa's and Daddy's had because they were the ones who were "going to camping" with him.

we made this little "Thanksgiving Tree" with sticks we found outside and leaves I found here.  Our leaves said we were thankful for; healthy kids, pirate toys, milk, soccer, apt. with no stairs, music, parents, cereal, wife, church, Max, naps, kids, racecars, husband who does the dishes :)

The day after Thanksgiving we walked over to Mason Park, a beautiful park that's just far away enough for a good walk.  It has great playgrounds, ducks, geese, ponds and bridges.

Top of the slide . . .

 . . .bottom of the slide.

Sean in his shades at our playground.