Porter Clapping

Porter learned how to clap about a week ago. Here is a little video of him clapping. He was really interested in grabbing my phone too, the little stinker. He is so much fun!

Mr. Heater, Justin Bieber

We were driving to the park in our car earlier this week and Emma says out of the blue, "I like Mr. Heater." (Our little propane heater we take camping.) She pauses and then says, "He keeps us nice and warm." Pause. "He's a great guy." Emma, you make us laugh!

Madalyn and Savanna, (but mostly Madalyn) really like Justin Bieber, sigh. They have a cousin that really likes him, (and many friends I am sure), and so now they really like him. A couple of months ago I was telling Nick, "I don't know why anyone likes him", so of course my children have to love him. Nick played a song for them from the Internet, and we were mock singing along to tease the girls, and Madalyn says, "I think you have Bieber Fever." Emma was singing along too, and it was pretty funny.

We almost have all of our medical bills from Porter paid off. I think his total bill cost more than my house. Thank goodness for insurance though, 0r we would be in big trouble right now.

Pictures

We had our pictures taken at the end of June by our really good friend Craig Newbry. We just got them back recently, so I thought that I would post some of our favorites. We were really happy with how they turned out. Porter's baby pictures are included in the mix.

Lemon Poppyseed Muffins

Savanna eating a lemon poppyseed muffin-

Savanna: This is the worst muffin in the world!
Emma: Not it isn't, it is the best muffin ever.
Savanna: Then why aren't you eating it.
Emma: Whycause (because) I don't like it.

The lemon poppyseed muffin was Madalyn's favorite, but for some reason she calls it poppynickel. Not sure where that came from, but she has a hard time calling them poppyseed.

Love My Kids

When Emma was born, and for the first 2 1/2 years of her life, Savanna would tell me that Emma was the cutest, prettiest person in our family. She would tell me how much she loved Emma all the time. Well, the other day Savanna was thinking out loud, and said "I wonder if Porter will still be cute when he is 3, or if he will just be annoying." I laughed and asked her if she thought Emma was still cute, or if she was just annoying. She told me that she is pretty annoying, but still a little cute. (In Savanna's defense, Emma really likes to tease her sisters, so I can understand that she is probably really annoying.)

Last Sunday we were in Sacrament Meeting, and during the opening prayer Emma could be heard saying "Porter, close your eyes. Porter, close your eyes. Porter, close your eyes, etc..."
When the prayer was over she turned to me and said, "Mom, Porter didn't close his eyes!"

Madalyn is a really great helper. She really has a talent with helping with her siblings. It is so great to have her around to help me when my hands are full.

This is for you Tiffani!

These are pictures from New Year's Eve. Tiffani, I hope you are really happy. I had forgotten that we had taken the girl pictures and sibling pics. I included all the pictures from the evening.

Finally, An Update!

It has been so busy over here lately, that it has been hard to get more pictures posted. I finally found some time so you could see how little Portey, (as Emma calls him) is doing.

These are pictures of him when he was taken off the oxygen in the hospital. He still has an IV in his arm for some meds.

This is Porter off of everything. They were still monitoring him to make sure he was handling being off of everything

His sisters finally got to come back and see him again. They all had colds, or were sick and weren't allowed to visit him.

This is the day we brought him home. Here he is all dressed and ready to go!

We brought him home when his 2 oldest sisters were in school. Emma got to come to take him home, and was really excited.

He's home!! Hanging with Nick.

When Madalyn and Savanna came home from school, Nick didn't tell them that we had brought Porter home. It was really cute to see how excited they were when they saw him. Of course they had to hold him! Here is Madalyn holding him for the first time.

And Savanna holding him for her first time.

Little Emma holding her Portey.

Here are all the sisters with their little brother.

Mama and Porter, about a week after he came home from the hospital.

He has been smiling since he came home from the hospital, but I finally had a camera when he was smiling. He smiles a lot now, which makes his sisters happy. These pictures were from a couple of days ago. He is gaining weight really well, and only needs one more visit from the home health nurse. Thanks for all the prayers and thoughts. I had many nurses tell me that they were so amazed at how fast he turned around. They all thought that he would need to come home on oxygen, and that he would have a harder time with eating. We have been so blessed and I know it is because of all the prayers and the father's blessing he received. We are so grateful that he is a healthy little boy.