Trenton Man is 4 Months!

I have been meaning to write an update on Trenton for awhile, but I have been really bad about it. He turned 4 months on the 1st and is growing very quickly. It amazes me how much he has grown in the past 4 months. He already fits in 6-9month clothes! At birth he was 7lbs 4oz. At his first check up a few days later he was 7lbs. Most babies lose quite a bit of weight in the first little bit, especially babies who nurse because of latching problems. But Trenton was a champ and only lost 4 oz. At 6 weeks old we had to take him to the ER because he was having a hard time breathing and our Dr's office was already closed. He turned out just to have an upper respiratory infection, but he was already up to 11lbs at just 6 weeks. At his 2 month appt he was over 12lbs. He was in the 64th percentile for his head, 65th for his height and 67th for his weight. Just recently at his 4 month appt he was 16lbs 1 oz and 25 inches long. I think his head was 15 or 16 cm. His weight was in the 75th percentile, height was 51st, and head was 43rd. It AMAZED me that his head was only in the 43rd, not that I think he has an abnormally large head, but I have the HARDEST time getting so many of his shirts/onsies over his head. Anyway, as you can see, he is a little chunky monkey and we love it! He has chubby cheeks and thighs and it is so cute! At his appt the Dr asked how he was sleeping and I told him he usually sleeps through the night (has been since 2 1/2 months) but the past 2 nights he had been fussy all night. He went to see if he was teething early and noticed that the skin under his tongue (you know the line of skin connecting your tongue to the bottom of your mouth) was extra long. He asked if he had any problems eating and then kind of laughed at himself and said well besides gaining weight. I told him he was a bit of a messy eater but nothing else. He then said that he might have  a few problems with talking when he got older. He asked if we just wanted to do a little tiny snip to prevent any future problems and I said sure, but boy did it bleed A LOT. I felt so bad for Trenton. I finally was getting him to where it was soft sobs instead of screaming crying when the nurses came in and gave him shots. It was so sad! I finally got him calm after about 15 minutes (by the way he did awesome with his 2 months shot, only cried for about 2 minutes. I think there was just too much hurting going on this time).

I feel like Trenton is kind of skipping a step in his life because he is almost sitting up and he's teething, but he isn't rolling! Oh and the Dr never told me if he was teething or not because he got distracted by the whole tongue snipping thing, but last Monday I looked in his mouth and saw those poor swollen little gums. Anyway, like I said, he isn't rolling. He is actually able to because he does it when he is tired, but when he is happy and on the ground playing he shows no desire to roll over. I don't mind though because I am scared for him to become mobile. I like the staying still phase!

Ben and I love Trenton so much! He is the cutest little thing ever. He has the happiest smile, the cutest laugh, and he is generally a pretty chill kid. He loves anything that moves, such as the t.v., cars out the window, our fish tank,ceiling fans,and anything that lights up. His two favorite toys both light up and play music. My sister-in-law, Sara, let us borrow a play chair/exersaucer without the saucer type thing and he LOVES it! Every time I put him in it he gets a huge smile on his face and looks so proud of himself for being able to be up and looking around all by himself. His favorite is the mirror. He will stare at himself for minutes and when I call his name he will look up and give a huge smile, then look right back down at himself.

He has the cutest laugh and I love that he is starting to laugh more! It's awesome. He is also starting to use his hands more and you can tell when he is tired when he wants to cuddle and then play with your hand. He still loves his daddy more than anything and gets a huge smile whenever Ben gets home from work/school. I wish I had videos of his huge smile and his cute laugh, but whenever I get the Ipod out or the camera out to take pictures he gets interested in the device I am holding and stops smiling/laughing. Well I will try to be better at keeping up with this thing, but I can't promise anything :)

The Easter outfit Ben's mom got him. She doesn't like the hat, but Ben does.

 

Tummy time! He is a champ at it!

Who doesn't love a baby in their bath towel?

This picture is a few weeks old, but I just love how he snuggles with his blankie. It is so cute!

I put this picture up on Facebook already, but it is my all time favorite picture. He was talking (yelling and gagaing) for a long time telling Ben a story. Cutest thing ever!

 

 

 

Christmas

Christmas was a lot of fun. We had my parents and my sister, Marissa, and her whole family at our house. Sleeping arrangements were a little tight, but we made it work no problem and we had a lot of fun. My mom arrived on Thursday afternoon and Marissa's family arrived on Friday night. We stayed up talking for a little bit on Friday, but not too long. Saturday we woke up, relaxed, played Wii, and did lots of crafts. Sunday we went to church, watched Christmas videos, and made Snoopy gingerbread houses while watching "Charlie Brown's Christmas". I didn't get any pictures of it, but boy were they COVERED in red frosting. It was great. Monday was Christmas Eve and that was when my Dad was going to be getting into town, but with the weather he didn't get here till late afternoon/early evening. While we waited for him we got all bundled up and went to the church parking lot for some fun. We tied a big tube to the back of Ben's car and pulled people around on it. Kalei (Marissa's daughter) was kinda bored because we had to be careful with her and had more fun making snow angels, but the two boys, Brayden and Tavita, had a blast! My mom has a video of it on her facebook, but I don't know how to get it from facebook to here. If you are friends with my mom then you can go to her videos and watch because it was hilarious. Brayden was yelling "Ahhh we're gonna die!!" (He was of course enjoying every second of it even though he "thought" they were gonna die). Christmas Eve night we acted out the nativity scene (an Orme family tradition). I thought I had gotten the pics of it off of my Dad's camera, but I guess I missed those ones and only got Christmas and the day after Christmas, so I will have to describe it to you. Trenton was baby Jesus, Kalei was Mary, Brayden was Joseph, Ben was the Donkey, Marissa, Tavita, and I were the three wise men, Junior was a Sheppard, and Taiven was the angel (Ben also turned into the angel holder after he was done being the Donkey). It usually is only kids that act it out, but since we were low on children we had to call on the next generation while Grandma watched and enjoyed and Grandpa read the story. It was a lot of fun. We then sang Christmas Carols (another tradition) and had some dessert. Then we wrote letters to Santa, left him out some cookies, and then went to bed. The next morning we actually had to wake up some of the kids because Ben had to be at work by 8:30. Cousin love while waiting to go down stairs

Waiting on Grandpa and Uncle Junior to take pictures of the before

The before

The during

The after

That afternoon when Ben got home from work we decided to go sledding. Now Rexburg doesn't have very many hills to go sledding on and the one good one was up on campus. Well BYU oh so very kindly decided to do construction on that hill so it is no more :(. We ended up going to a basin/field by our old apartment. The hill was not very big at all but it still ended up being a lot of fun because we were able to do a lot of crazy things and no one got hurt. Even Taiven was able to go down!

Mommy and Taiven

The day after Christmas we got to bless our handsome baby boy! It was the day that we would be able to get the most amount of people up here. We did it at the church even though it wasn't Sunday (we weren't about to try and squeeze even more people into our house). Ben did an awesome job on the blessing. I love that Trenton has a Priesthood holder to look up to just like I did. The men who did the blessing

Everyone

Cousins (Taiven on right and Carter one left)

The cute little guy

Mom & Dad

Grandmas & Grandpas

The next day Marissa's family left and the day after my parents left. It was a lot of fun having them up here since I don't get to see my family too often!

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

One CRAZY weekend

It all started with Tyler's (my brother) wedding. He got married on the 15th of December. So on the 14th we headed on down to Utah. My dad got 2 hotel rooms, with living rooms, for the family in Salt Lake so we would be close to the temple in the morning and we also could have a little family Christmas party since a lot of the family would be there. Ben and I were in charge of bringing our Christmas tree (a fake one) and stuff to cook dinner with. So that in itself took up quite a bit of room. But it is AMAZING how much room a little tiny baby takes up in the car. First you have the bulky car seat. Then you have their stroller, pack and play, blankets, diapers, wipes, and lots of clothes just in case they pee out or poop out. So it was entertaining trying to pack up our little car. Ben and I were the first to arrive at the hotel so we checked in for the family and dropped off our VERY VERY full car. We then ran over to the airport to pick up my brothers Ryan and Jason. Their wives and kids were unfortunately unable to make it. Then back to the hotel we went and set up the tree because we thought the rest of the family would be there in the next hour or two, but they were not. My mom and dad had to finish up their Christmas shopping so they were not able to make it up in time for my mom to make the dinner she had planned so we ended up getting pizza instead. My sister, Marissa, and her husband, Junior, got a late start so they didn't get to Provo till later than planned and Marissa still had to make the wedding cake. Tyler and Michelle (his wife) were late too and so everyone got to Salt Lake a little later than planned, but we still had a fun time and ended they night having ice cream at Leatherby's (best ice cream in Utah). The next morning we actually did not do too bad in getting ready in time and to the temple in time. We were only a little late wich is really really good for our family. The wedding was beautiful and it was awesome to see Tyler get married in the temple bceause that makes 6 out of 6 of us married in the temple wich is awesome! Michelle is an awesome girl and gets along with the family well. Here is a picture I stole off of her facebook After the temple we packed our car full again and started down to Provo for the Luncheon, but unfortunately 15-20 minutes into our drive Tyler calls up telling us to turn around because we somehow ended up with his bag in our car and they had his car keys in them. So that added about 40 minutes to the drive so we and the Bride and Groom were almost an hour late to the luncheon, but it is all good cause that's just how our family is :) The reception was held that night and it was a lot of fun (minus a candle freakishly falling over and spilling wax all over Ben. Luckily he wasn't hurt, but no one knows how the candle fell.) The next morning we were supposed to head home, but unfortunately we had to drive down to Arizona for a funeral. About a week before we got a very sad call from my mom saying that my sister in law Janica lost her baby at almost 5 months along. So we carpooled with my parents andleft Sunday morning and got to Mesa late Sunday night. Woke up early Monday to Trenton not breathing very well because he got a stuffy nose. Spent all of Monday morning driving around Mesa and Tempe getting ready for the funeral. The funeral was just a graveside service with the family and it was one of the most spiritual/saddest experiences of my life that made all of the driving with a newborn COMPLETLY worth it. The spirit was so strong and the spirit of little Fenton Lila could not have been stronger. Although we are really sad that we never got to meet her in this life, we are glad to know that she made it straight back to living with our Heavenly Father. They had a great quote on the program that I loved. It said, "The best way to have Heaven in your home is to have someone from your home in Heaven." I loved that quote and it has become my new favorite. After the funeral I could just see that Jonathan and Janica were more at peace. Afterward we had a little lunch/dinner get together with both sides of the family. Then that night we left Mesa drove to Las Vegas and slept in a hotel for no joke 3 hours. That is it because we had to get to Salt Lake for my Dad to make his 12:50pm flight. We picked up our car in Provo, drove up to Salt Lake where my Dad dropped off his van at the car rental place. Ben hurried and drove my dad to the airport while I emptied out the van. I got the van totally emptied and the carried a suitcase, duffle bag, a bunch of presents and a baby in a car seat up to the building to turn in the keys and THEY HAD LEFT! They knew we were there, but the left for lunch!! (It is a really small car rental place where there is only one or two workers at a time) I was so annoyed. It would have been fine if it wasn't 10 degrees outside. So I carried it all back to the van and chilled in the van till ben got back where we loaded up his car and by then the people had come back. By then we were starving and were looking for not fast food. We couldn't agree on anything but Denny's and we could not find one for the life of us even though I know they are all over Utah. We ended up eating at McDonalds (so healthy and non fast food right?) Then we headed on home and by the time we reached Blackfoot we were soooooo tired that we just spent the night at Ben's parents. The next day we headed home so Ben could get to work and we were FINALLY home after the longest 5 days of our lives. Trenton was as good as a 6 week old can be for 36ish plus hours of driving in 5 days. He would cry really hard because his car seat would make him super super sweaty. But what can you expect out of a him? It was all worth it though to see family, support family, see friends, and make memories :) This is what we looked like on the way down to AZ, imagine how we looked by the time we got home!

Friday, November 30, 2012

1 MONTH!

Trenton is 1 month already! Well tomorrow that is, but close enough. It is crazy how fast time goes. He is already around 9lb 4 oz (2lbs more than birth weight). I just weighed myself and then held him and weighed myself again so I don't know how accurate it is. He has already out grown newborn diapers and a pack of his newborn onsies. He is quickly growing out of his newborn clothes which makes me sad because some of his cutest outfits are newborn. But I am excited with what comes with a baby getting older. He is awake more often and can keep eye contact better. He is lifting up his head quite a bit. Ben and I just want him to start smiling already :) Trenton already has quite the personality. His likes are: His binki. It is like the end of the world to him if his binki falls out. He doesn't cry, but he fusses really bad. He likes sleep, but also likes to fight sleep. Kind of a difficult thing, but once he is asleep he will sleep for hours if he is on his stomach and for almost as long if he is on his side. He likes to sleep on our bed. He likes to sleep on his daddy's chest. He loves to grunt and squeak. I've never known a baby to make so much noise. It is very entertaining. He likes getting his hair washed. He gets very relaxed when we wash his hair. He LOVES music, ecspecially primary songs with Christmas a close second. He instantly calms down as soon as I start singing to him or we start playing music. He likes to pass gas like an old man. He has let some go that could give any full grown adult a run for their money. It is gonna be embarassing when we start to bring him out places because no one is going to believe that it was the baby. And lastly he likes the lights on Christmas trees. He just lays there totally calm and stares at them. His dislikes are: sleeping on his back. He will wake up in a few minutes if he is asleep on his back. He HATES bath time, except for his hair getting washed. He does not like to get his diaper changed. He does not like to sleep in his cradle. If he is not in the deepest sleep possible, he will wake up as within 2 minutes of putting him in there. I don't let him sleep on our bed till after 6am because I don't want him to be that baby that sleeps in our bed till he's 2 or 3. And I swear this kid has a built in clock because he starts fussing every morning between 6 and 6:15, even if he just ate at 5. He falls asleep the secong I pull him into bed with us unless he is hungry. For the most part he is a pretty chill kid. He has his times where he has to be held, but he is pretty content with laying by himself just as long as he has his binki. The only thing that has me worried about him is that he chokes often (3-6 times a day.) The doctor said that if he keeps it up we need to bring him in to get checked for reflux problems. Hopefully it will go away though. All in all Ben and I love Trenton to know end. He is the greatest blessing in our lives and we are so happy to have him in our lives!

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Announcing Trenton Isaac Fawcett!

Trenton Isaac Fawcett was born on Thursday evening. He was 7lbs 4 oz and 20 in long. On Halloween I went to the doctors for my weekly check up and I had not progressed at all from the week before. Ben was getting anxious and I was getting rather uncomfortable so I had him strip my membranes to move things along (if you don't know what that means don't feel bad because I didn't either unitl a few months ago). All that day I walked around with minor contractions, but I had been having that for almost 3 weeks so I didn't think much about it. Then at 2 in the morning I felt a drop so I hurry and stood up out of bed and my water broke. I've never seen Ben wake up so quickly. After waking up my mom and cleaning up we headed off to the hospital. my contractions picked up fast and were 2 min apart, but they slowed down once I got in bed. Ben's parents got to the hospital around 5 and the waiting game began. I didn't get my epidural for awhile because I hear they slow labor down. So around 11 I got my epidural when the contractions got bad. By 3 I was so sick of just chillin in bed. Also my epidural wore off in my lower back and I was in a lot of pain. I got a shot of liticain and that helped A LOT, but only lasted for a little over an hour befor my left side regained feeling. Then they gave me a shot of something else and it helped a little but then I started pushing at 5 and was in a lot of pain. I don't know why people go with out an epidural "just to say they did it with out one", I'm sorry but that is just dumb to put yourself through that pain for pride reasons. I've heard people say they don't get one because you recover faster, or you feel closer and more connected with your baby and that I can understand and I say more power to you. Anyway at 6:25 our little man was born and he came out very healthy looking. It was a good thing he came out when he did because I felt like punching the docotor and the nurses because for an hour and a half they kept saying "Good job, you are almost there." An hour and a half of hearing that when you are in major pain gets quite annoying, but that is besides the point. Trenton came out healthy looking and didn't even cry at first. Just came out with wide eyes and taking in the world. He did fuss after about 30 seconds when they were cleaning him off but he stopped once they laid him on my chest. It was the most wonderful feeling in the world. We stayed at the hospital until Saturday morning and then came home. The first night home he woke up every hour and a half, but the next night he slept in 3 hour stretches and now he is sleeping in 4 hour stretches so I can not complain at all. My favorite things about him are: he only cries when getting his diaper changed. He does get fussy in the evening because of an upset tummy, but nothing too bad. He loves to lay on people's tummys to sleep, especially his daddy's. He makes funny cute noises all the time He always puts his hands around his face which usually results in him holding his binki in all by himself. Ben and I love having this little bundle of joy with us and wouldn't change it for the world. It also has been very helpful to have my mom here helping us out. Very thankful to her for that.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

The 3rd Trimester Blues (Don't read if you don't like complaining)

So I was VERY blessed with my pregnancy compared to some stories I hear. I would only get sick if I didn't eat and I only threw up once in my first trimester. My second trimester was a little rough at the beginning with migranes twice a week, but that was only for about 3 weeks. I would get acid reflux/heart burn once in a while but nothing that a few tums wouldn't fix. Other than that I had no problems with being pregnant. I thought to myself "Why do people make pregnancy sound so bad?" And then I reached the third trimester. Once I was in my third trimester I got KILLER acid reflux. Tums did very little, but milk worked. And then my body so kindly decided to become lactose intolerant. So the milk ended and of course my chocolate cravings kicked up to high heaven which makes acid reflux even worse. NO BUENO! I also developed carpal tunnel. Not too bad at first, but now I can't feel my right finger tips ever and if I ever do anything where my wrist has to move over and over, I get a pain that shoots up to my elbow. I was lucky to find a way, up till about 7 1/2ish months, to sleep on my stomach (I would just put the weight a little to the side) but that ended and now I pretty much don't sleep at night. I also can't sleep on my back because I have killer lower back pain when I lay flat on my back even when I am not pregnant (thanks to not knowing how to lift weights properly in high school). And up until about 4 days ago I was totally fine with all of these problems. I just told myself, "Hey it's pregnancy, you've been blessed with a fairly easy pregnancy so just live with it." But now I am just getting sick of it. I am ready for this little guy to come out so I can sleep on my stomach, feel my fingers, drink milk/eat ice cream, and not have a burning esophagus all the time. I know I shouldn't complain because I have been blessed with a fairly easy pregnancy. I am blessed to have the opportunity to be pregnant. I feel sorry for the women who try and try and can't get pregnant. So I know I shouldn't complain, but sometimes I am just ready to be done being pregnant. Most of all I am excited to hold my cute little man in my arms and look at him. I do also LOVE feeling hime kick and move around. At first it was kinda weird feeling, but now I get worried if he doesn't move. I also love seeing how happy Ben gets when the baby kicks or decides to make my stomach do the wave. It's so cute. He is going to be a very loving Dad and I love it. I still have two weeks left, but I am 80% effaced wich can mean 2 days or 3 weeks. We will see. Well that is the end of my complaints, sorry to sound like a Debbie Downer. In all reality I am very happy to have the blessing of being pregnant.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Our Fantastical Vacation

On September 5th we started our vacation by going to the East Idaho State Fair. In case you didn't know this is a HUGE thing. People come from all over to this thing. It was a lot of fun and we got to hang out with Ben's family which we hadn't done in awhile. One thing Ben and I really really wanna buy from the fair and we planned to do it this year, but we had to spend $100 on a new car battery for Ben's car, is a temple picture from these people who have AWESOME pictures. This isn't necessarily the one we want to buy, but it's the only picture I can find online and it is still really pretty We then spent the night at Ben's parents house cause the fair is 10-15 minutes away from there house, plus it was an hour closer to our 10 hour drive ahead of us. We woke up and were on the road by 7:30 and stopped in Provo to hang out with my brother Tyler and meet his then unofficial fiance and now official fiance. She's a cute girl and really nice. They are getting married in December. Hope she's ready to be married into the Orme family cause she hasn't met most of us and only my parents via skype, but that is enough to get to know how weird we are I guess. Haha jk. Anyway so we then continued our long drive down to Las Vegas. We got there and we were DYING with how hot it was. How I used to live in that kind of weather, I do not know, but being pregnant probably didn't help. We stayed there for 2 nights and were able to walk around on the strip. It was not Ben's favorite place in the world, but I think the heat had a huge thing to do with it and he wasn't able to see it at night when it looks really cool, but we were too tired to go out at night. Then on Saturday morning we were able to get on a plane to my lovely home, Hawaii. I didn't realize how much I missed it till I went back. My parents were kind enough to pay our tickets out there in exchange for us painting there garage. (I know I broke a huge pregnancy rule of not painting while pregnant, but I looked it up and there is no proven side effects of it people just assume that the fumes are not good for you. But I was outside in Hawaii where it is very breezy and it was water based and it's not like paint has lead in it anymore. So I figured it was fine.) So after a week of work and a little play we got the garage done and had the next week all for playing. On Sunday one of my good friends was kind enough to do a maternity shoot for me and I LOVED the pictures. Here are some of my favorites. If you live in Hawaii and you need a photographer go to this girl, http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Jennifer-Lemalu-Photography/474270945925075 cause she is fantastic. Then on Monday we were able to go to the PCC(Polynesian Cultural Center) for free thanks to a wonderful old man in our ward who has worked there I think since it opened. It was Ben's first time and we had a lot of fun. I forced him to get one of the tattoos in the Maori village cause you can't go to PCC for your first time and not get one. Haha. But here are some pics of the occassion (I am really bad at remembering to take picture or being creative with pictures so there are not too many pics from our vacation so enjoy these. haha.) Ben really enjoyed the whole thing, so did I, I just have been there multiple times before. The rest of the week we just chilled and enjoyed being on vacation. We went to the beach and Ben went "snorkeling". He just used goggles and went by the edge of the reef to look for fish. Like I said earlier I am bad at taking pics so I don't have any pictures. Sorry. Hopefully once baby comes I will get better at taking pictures :) Another thing Ben got to experience was a Kahuku football game. It was a lot of fun and we of course crushed the other team. Ben also discovered his new favorite food, a loco moco. I told him I would make them for him once I learned how to make good gravy. But he LOVED them and wanted one every day. haha. Then on the 21st we sadly had to come back home to real life :( We landed in vegas at 11 pm and didn't get on the road till midnight and then we drove straight through till Rexburg. It is a 10 hr drive. We were up for 25 hrs and 18 hrs were spent driving with me having a 30 min namd and Ben have a 1 hr and 30 min nap, but Ben did most of the driving. When we got home we slept...a lot. haha. Then the next morning Ben went back to work and I went to church and got called to teach CTR 7. Now we are just waiting for the baby to come!! Only 30 more days! Kind of insane but very exciting thought that we could be parents very soon, but we are hoping he holds off till my mom comes on the 25th.

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