Family Time

Here are a few pictures of our happenings from the past few weeks. Some baths, some cars and tracks, and puzzles.

Rebecah is doing well. She is eating and sleeping well. She is probably around 7 lbs and is becoming more alert every day. Kimball always wants her to be in on the action.





Kimball trying to get Rebecah to help hold the puzzle board for him.



Kimball has really taken to puzzles. Here are a few pictures of Kimball and Joseph putting together a dump truck shaped puzzle. Kimball did the last piece.

Announcing Rebecah Eve

Rebecah Eve was born January 7th via c-section at 8:20 a.m. She weighed 6 lbs and was 18 ¾ inches long. She was 6 oz. bigger than Kimball but the same length. Rebecah looks a lot like Kimball, but with a little more Annette in her. Kimball favors Joseph a little more.


We were lucky enough to have Joseph’s mom come down for a week and take care of all of us, but especially Kimball. Kimball loved having Grandma visit and has asked for her many times since she left.

We are all adjusting well. Kimball had a few rough days in the beginning, but after getting all of his feelings out with one swift punch to his mother’s stomach he has done amazingly well. He now wants to interact with Rebecah, play cars with her and wake her when she is sleeping. He even let her lay in his bed briefly.

Rebecah is a good baby and is adjusting to life well. She is good to her parents and even slept 7 hours straight one night.

Enough words, on to the pictures:
In the hospital









Already Daddy's little girl. Rebecah loves Joseph already and in the hospital he could comfort her better than I could.




We are a chapstick family so we thought we would start her young!

“Playing” cars together







With Grandma Coffey

Yes, we know spelling Rebecah a little uniquely will result in us spelling her name for the rest of our lives.

Sunday = Dimanche

For those of you who don't know, Joseph has been trying to learn French for the past year. Kimball has picked up a few words in French. We have heard him playing by himself counting to ten in French. Last Sunday, Joseph went to get Kimball out of bed and asked Kimball what day it was. Kimball's response was "Sunday, Dimanche!" Dimanche is French for Sunday. We thought it was so funny that on just waking he could automatically say "Dimanche". Sunday is one of Kimball's favorite days because he likes to go to church to see all of our friends.

New Year's Resolutions

I have a great husband...that's a given. But, Joseph is great at making and keeping and tracking his goals that he makes every year. He diligently keeps a planner and marks the days when he works on his goals and gets a tally at the end of the year.
A few months ago I find Joseph just sitting and pondering in our study and he said he was thinking of his goals for 2010. He wanted to set goals in different areas and have the grand total equal 2010. When I found him he was trying to think of one last goal that he could do 250 times/days/etc. I first suggested 250 diaper changes...that would be a big help. Joseph's final decision was to do 250 baths for our kids.
I'm super excited about this goal. Neither of us really enjoys giving baths; they don't take long, but we just don't like it. I don't think I have ever enjoyed any of Joseph's goals as much as I will this one. I told Joseph I would even make a paper chain to help him keep track of the baths. Here is what I did last night on New Year's Eve while Joseph was helping with our ward NYE party. I think I got off easily since I just made the chain and Joseph will be the one doing the work.

Christmas Report

We had a great Christmas just our small little family. We missed our extended family, but it was nice to have a relaxing Christmas that followed Kimball’s schedule. The best Christmas present Kimball gave us was sleeping in until 7:00 which is normal to late for him.

We woke up to a white Christmas on our deck. We let Kimball sit in it for a few minutes, but then he decided he missed his new bike from Santa and either wanted the bike outside or to be inside with the bike.



We didn’t take too many pictures…mostly video, but here are a few.





Kimball’s present from Santa was a Diego “bike”. He can’t quite reach the pedals so he just goes around the house “Fred Flintstone” style.

Kimball was a little hesitant about opening presents, but developed a ritual for each present. He would take off the bow, put it on his head, walk to the bow box and then deposit the bow in the box before returning to the present. He would rip off the smallest pieces of paper instead of just one big rip.

Here is a picture from Christmas Eve. Kimball and his “friend” are coloring while I work in the kitchen. As you can see, he has a bow on his head. I guess you could say he is our greatest present!



Mid-afternoon in Christmas, Kimball got all snuggly and wanted Joseph to hold him with his blankets. They sat like that for close to 30 minutes.



The Jenga picture is two days after Christmas, but we are including it since it was a present from Joseph’s brother and his wife. It takes an extra amount of patience to play with a 2 year old, but Kimball was surprisingly controlled when he would take his pieces out.



We had one of Kimball’s nursery workers over for Christmas dinner and we were glad she could spend Christmas with us since she didn’t go to her family and we weren’t with ours.

The day after Christmas we actually went shopping to Walmart. I’m not a shopper, but I figured Walmart couldn’t be that bad in such a small town. It wasn’t…we found a close parking spot and we didn’t even wait in line. The only crowded part of the store was the Christmas section with the 50% off sale.

Follow the Prophet

One of Kimball’s favorite Primary songs is Follow the Prophet. Recently as a family we have been talking about the Latter-day prophets so now Kimball asks us to sing Follow the Prophet about John Taylor, David O. McKay, President Benson, President Hinckley and President Monson. If we aren’t thinking fast enough he gets impatient for us to start our song…we have sung about John Taylor and David O. McKay enough that we almost have our impromptu verses memorized. At least he is learning and remembering their names.

Just Like Mom

Kimball loves it when we will put him on the bike. His arms just reach the handlebars when he is on the seat, but he enjoys it. I guess you could say we are training him early to be a cycling fanatic. No wonder I have to cycle when he sleeps because he always wants to ride with me if he is awake!