Happy as can be with our Davis.

Well I ended up coming home from the Hospital today instead of tomorrow. My mom was able to get here this morning so I figured she would be able to spoil me as good as any nurse, and then I could sleep in a comfortable bed.
I have to say we are so happy with our little Davis. I've just forgotten how sweet little new born babies are. He just makes the sweetest noises, and I love to watch him just look around. So far he's just been a little angel. I love to just sit and hold this him he's so snugly and content.
The kids are so good with him also. Bailee is so darling. she has honestly held him all afternoon. she puts up a fight anytime grandma tries to take a turn. she is such a little mother, she's all over changing his diaper, feeding him, burping him, or any other baby job.
Tyson is so funny, he's definitely very interested in Davis, but I think he is also wanting some attention. He's definitely used to being the baby. it's so funny he'll start crying and throwing a tantrum for the most random things. today he started bawling because we told him Davis will probably be sleeping most of the time, and Tyson wanted him to be awake. but still he has been very sweet and affectionate with Davis.
I also wanted to tell you all how we chose his name. We had been trying to decide between Noah and Tate for a long time. we liked both of those names a lot, but none of them seemed right for our little guy. Then a few months ago when my Grandpa Swensen passed away, I was reading his obituary and noticed his middle name was Davis (Richard Davis Swensen) I immediately fell in love with the name, and thought their couldn't be a better person to be named after. Ryan took a little more convincing, but soon fell in love with the name as well. So we chose Davis Ryan Bullock. named after two great men. So Davis, you've got a great example to follow and we couldn't be happier with you.

Checking out his surroundings

Sleeping the day away.

The kids' first visit to their special little Brother.

Getting ready to come home.

This picture is so funny, it's the first time we had to change Davis's diaper, We were all so interested in it, and my mom thought it was so cute so she just grabbed the picture and took a shot. Who would have thought changing a diaper could be so entertaining.

Davis Ryan Bullock Has Arrived!!!!!

Well its time to remove the baby countdown from the blog because Davis has arrived!!!! Finally...that's all that Katie can say (Even though he was still two weeks early). Anyway, they have free wireless at the hospital so I can post pictures to the blog right from our room it is really nice. So here's the story. Katie started having some contractions this morning at about 7:00 and they were getting sort of painful. She already had a previously scheduled visit with the Dr. at 9:20 so she wanted to go to the hospital before the appointment so she could still make it if she got sent home. Well she got to the hospital at about 8:30 and they checked her and she was dilated to a 5 and 90% effaced, so they called the Dr. and he came over and broke her water. I finished getting the kids read and took them to school and headed over to the hospital and got here just as Katie was getting epidural. (Her favorite part of the day). Well she progressed to a 10 so quickly that the room wasn't even ready for delivery so they were running around getting everything prepped and they called the Dr back over to the hospital (his office is right across the street) and Katie pushed about 2 times and Davis was here.
It was an awesome time and Katie and the baby are doing great. He was awake for the first couple hours and now he just sleeping. He is so cute, obviously, and has hardly made a peep except for when he came out. I'll tell Katie to post a much more exciting blog when she is feeling up to it. I am a pretty boring blogger. Bailee and Ty haven't seen him yet so I am going to get them so they can say hi to their new brother. Anyway, here are some pictures of the event and Davis' stats:

Davis Ryan Bullock
Born: 11/07/07
Time: 10:36 am
Weight: 6 lbs. 3 oz.
Height: 18 inches

Hello World!

Here's Katie just before delivery...gotta have the cell phone handy

This was taken oh, about 2 seconds after he came out...I hope its not too graffic.

Proud Mom and new baby.

"Hey Everybody, my dad is awesome!"

First Bath...check out that Hair!

More Pictures and Video to be posted soon...

shuffle step ball change

I just feel like this needs no explanation just watch Tyson's shuffle step and enjoy.

Happy Halloween....without baby brother :(

Ok, so first things first, Baby news. NOTHING!!!!! ya my hopes have officially been crushed. both of my sisters were dilated to a 4 and 80% effaced for 2 weeks. and my friend told me she was a 5 and 100% effaced for 2 weeks also (Maddy who was your doctor and why didn't he induce you!) I think I will be just like them, like my sisters, my contractions have just stopped. and believe me I have tried everything. including the obvious ones. but I am kind of considering castor oil. I think I'm too chicken. Let me know if any of you know anything about this. yesterday I ate a whole pineapple because I heard something in that is supposed to get contractions going, my mouth is so raw now. anyways I guess maybe I should just suffer like anyone else.
ok, enough whining. we really did have a fun Halloween. it was a very eventful day. I got a taste of a true soccer mom. first the kids had school in morning at 9:00, then Tyson had a Birthday party at 10:30. so I ran back to the school and picked him up and dressed him up like pirate (for the party), then ran to the store for a second, and turned around to get Bailee. after I picked Bailee up It was time to go and get Tyson. so I picked him up ran home fed them lunch and took Bailee to her dance Halloween party. While she was at her dance party I tried to go and get a flu shot.
this is kind-of a funny story. I signed all the forms and everything, and the pharmacy tech that was about to give me my shot, (he was holding the shot up to my arm)
him: now you're not pregnant, right
me: um is that a joke
him: (as he pulls the shot away), um no
me: well I'm like due any day
him: oh well then I can't give you this shot, you need a special one.

so it ended up that I didn't get my flu shot, I thought it was pretty funny and he must have been pretty delusional to not notice a 9 month old prego.

anyways back to our day, so I attempted to get my flu shot, then ran back and picked Bailee up from dance. we had a little break after that, then we headed over to some friends and had dinner, and went trick or treating. the kids had a blast, they were so cute, and soooo tired at the end of the day. I like busy days, they are a good distraction from the fact that I have an eight pound watermelon wedged between my legs. (I love you baby)

arrrrr me hearty!!!!

Bailee and her school Buddies

Bailee and her dance friends

at our friends , getting ready for Trick or Treating!!

this was one of the houses we went to, it was so fun, they go all out, I wish you could see their whole yard there are monsters everywhere, and a few real ones ready to jump out and scare you. they are good with the little kids though, they just wave. and they give everyone a full sized candy bar. this is the way home, you can see they are totally tuckered out from a fun day.

here is our little brother wearing his cute costume!!!!, I realize he's wearing it upside down but I thought that would be weird.
to end I want to tell you some cute Tyson quotes.
yesterday he came out of his bed at night time and told me "mom I think I'm a little bit scared of monsters because I think I'm a little bit allergic to them. I told him to go say a prayer. it was so cute, I heard him go lay down and say a little prayer that he wouldn't be scared or allergic to monsters. (I don't know where he heard allergic from)

this is a Bailee and Tyson conversation, Ryan told me they had on the way to school yesterday
Tyson: Bailee you sometimes talk mean to mom and you need to talk nice to her
Ryan: ya we all need to talk nice to mommy and to everyone
Bailee: ya dad you sometimes talk mean to mom... just when she spends all of our money (oops!)

one last Tyson thing. it is so cute, I don't know where the kids got this but if they want to talk to the baby then they make me open my mouth and they yell down it. so this morning Tyson asked me to open my mouth and then he sand twinkle twinkle little star to the baby, I thought it was sweet. well pray for me to have this baby soon so you don't have to put up with my whining any more. Bye

Come on Baby

Ok, so lately I have been sick of hearing myself talk about when this baby will come, so I'm sure everyone around me is definitely sick of my talk as well. And this past week I have done every old wives tale under the sun to try and speed along my progression (except for drinking castor oil). But I am excited to say that I just came from the doctor and they told me I am dilated between a 3 and a 4 and I am 80% effaced. the nurse saw how excited I was and told me not to get my hopes up, but it's too late, they're up (until next week when I'm still pregnant.) I know I've already jinxed myself with making a Halloween costume so the baby won't come in October, lets just hope I haven't done it again by getting to excited. Heaven forbid I have and on time "healthy" baby.
that was a joke I really do want a healthy baby, just a healthy, early baby.
so lets hope my next post is of our cute baby brother. well to be safe lets say one of the next few posts is of our baby brother.

I love your Blogs

I just have to say, I love reading all of your blogs. It's so good to hear from other moms and to see what's going on in there lives. and to hear your thoughts and struggles. I loved Heather's quote she posted last week from Henry B Eyring reminding us to take a look at our day and see where Heavenly Father had his hand in our lives. I think that is such good advice, and helps so much in having a more positive perspective.
so anyways today I think Heavenly Fathers hand was in helping me just enjoy my kids, I love those times when you just sit and listen to them. (P.S I totally think a quick nap in the middle of the day also helps) they were both so cute today, and just made me laugh.
it's so funny because on the nights that I am totally exhausted (those usually end up being the crying nights) they still are so innocent and still make me laugh by their funny comments, which can totally lighten the mood.

I've been trying to write down funny things they say as they say them, it drives me nuts how fast I forget their funny comments. I need to just walk around with a pencil and pad of paper so I won't forget but here are a few funny comments.

last night at dinner I made noodles that had chicken and vegetables in it.
Bailee: I can't eat this, look at all the red stuff (vegetables)
Me: just take it out and eat the chicken and noodles
Bailee: I can't just eat that they already have vegetable germs all over them now (she is so Ryan)

Last week Ryan came up stairs and had just gotten out of the shower, Tyson was on the bed laughing
Me: Tyson what's so funny
Tyson: I just saw daddy's "something"
p.s. I'm so glad that is how he refers to it

tonight Bailee was in her room laying in her bed and she came out and said
"mom guess what, I keep tooting and it stinks really bad, But I love to smell it"

that's all for now, but I'll have to keep you posted on my little comedians.

ok so these pictures are out of order but Ryan isn't home and I can't figure out how to change them around.
yesterday was such a fun day. The kid's school went on a field trip to the pumpkin patch and I got to come along. I can't believe how much stuff they gave us. we each (including me) got 2 ears of corn (that you let dry out until Thanksgiving and then it becomes pop corn.) 2 mini pumpkins, 2 gourds( I hope that's spelled right) and 1 medium pumpkin. so this first picture is all the fruits of our labor. these pumpkins are from what Suzy likes to call "the white trash pumpkin patch aka Wall-mart"


Here is Ryan getting the pumpkins started. Bailee wanted a scary pumpkin with heart eyes and a heart nose, I think Ryan did a good job at putting both of those elements into it.
It was so fun to finally have Ryan home for an evening. His schedule has made it so he usually isn't home until around 9:00, but now on Mondays he gets to come home around 6:30, we all loved having him with us.

here is the finished product, you'll have to look close to notice the hearts. and I think Tyson was a little afraid of his. My artistic ability isn't as good as Ryan's. but at least all he wanted was spooky, he didn't have a lot of requests to fill.Scary but with love in his eyes


Here is Tyson on the school bus ready to go on his first field trip. notice his Gonzaga hat, he is so proud of it. Ryan got it for him over the weekend. it was so cute, he was telling all his friends that he had a Gonzaga hat, and that that was where his dad went to school. This was Bailee and Tyson's first ride on a school bus, they were pretty excited.
picking pop corn.
picking Mini pumpkins.
Bailee took her time to find the biggest of all the Medium sized pumpkins that she could. I think she did a pretty good job.

to all the moms

ok, so I'm totally using my blog as a journal now so sorry if this is boring anyone. I was talking to my sister-in law, and we were talking about how guilty we always feel as moms. I swear every night I cry because I know I have yelled at my kids for something, (which I am totally trying to work on.) But I totally think that we are doing the most important job that there is out there and I think that satan is totally trying to make us feel discouraged. anyways she was telling me about this speaker she went to that told her to just go to pray to Heavenly Father with out back talking (as in; no saying sorry I meant to do this, or I'll do better at that) and just ask him if he loves me. and just wait for an answer. anyways I know that Heavenly Father does love me, and I know I am still a work in progress.
So my goals this week are to try to do a SMALL project a day with my kids, and to talk to them in a kind voice. we'll see how it goes.
and If your a mom remember you're doing the most important job there is.

ok, so I wanted to show you guys these cute hats that another law student wife out here sells. I thought they were so cute. you can change the flowers on them, you can buy different colors to match outfits.
anyways if you want to go see her hat blog it is babycoquette.blogspot.com she is out of brown. but the hats are $14.00 with one flower and $3.00 for any flowers after that. she also has baby beanies for $12.00. so anyways if you want me to get you one and then I can send them up with my mom when she comes down or I could mail them to you. I just thought they were way cute. and I'm so sad because I'm sure Bailee won't wear hers for longer than 2 minutes.
Here are the kids all dressed up for the ward Halloween party and of course Bailee's doll all dressed up in the baby's costume. here were all of the little animals, they were so cute. it was obviously hard to get them all to sit still for a picture.
here is all of the wizard of oz crew. I was so sad my camera ran out of batteries so I'll have to get more pictures on Halloween.
the kids had so much fun seeing everyone els in their costumes and going trick-or-treating.
they already have enough candy to last forever.
oh and I was going to tell you all, I had my doctors appointment on Thursday and I'm dilated to a one, so I guess it doesn't really mean anything either way. he said that that is pretty normal. I have my next appointment on Wednesday so I'll let you know if anything changes.

Officially 5 weeks.

ok, so I know that the way I talk it sounds like I will go into labor any minute. but this is me with "officially" 5 weeks to go. it's so funny, I think I truly have a disorder. if anyone asks me how much longer I have, I tell them my due date, but I have to tack on the end that I was early with both my others. I have to make sure everyone knows that I could possible go ANY MINUTE. so there you go.
p.s. I wouldn't mind the big stomach if I could just shave 20lbs off each thigh.
and here is Ryan after A big meal of top Raman and hot tamales. I wonder who will deliver first??? (I don't know what that means)

Fall Fun

Ok, so I know that I am totally jinxing myself but I was too excited to not follow through. (I'm a house wife, these are the kinds of things that get me excited.) anyways, for Halloween Bailee is going to be Dorthy and Tyson is going to be the Lion, so anyways I was at the fabric store and saw this silvery looking fabric normally $8.00 a yard and I got it for $2.00, and then a girl in my ward sewed this onsie for me. so if the baby is 3 weeks early, then he can be the Tin Man. and if he's not then the kids will be getting Halloween pictures on Nov. 20th. I know that the baby will not go out for Halloween, but won't this make a cute picture?
The ward Halloween Party is this Friday, so I'm making Bailee dress up her doll in this, in the place of our little brother, and parade him around the party. and then I also thought this would make a cute baby announcement picture, so If you can think of any cute Wizard of Oz sayings to go with it let me know. All in all I think this outfit will get some good use.
p.s if any of you have a baby and would like him to go to the moon, than I also could provide the outfit.

These last 2 pictures are just some trees on our street. I love fall in Spokane, I think it's so pretty, I think because it's an older city, there is just a lot of huge trees, with tons of color. If I wasn't such a chub-o at this point, I would totally get a family picture. but you'll just have to settle for a picture of just the trees.

Too much fun...

So we finally finished our spiders, and I must say I think they turned out pretty cute. usually when I have an idea for a project, what ever I have pictured in my head doesn't really come out in my "creative abilities" but I think these are pretty cute.
I have decided that I am totally like Clark Grizwald. I get these huge ideas planned in my head and I think they'll turn out amazing. and then when it all comes together it looks like a lot of work for a white trash result. if I could afford it I would totally try and cover my house with 50,000 Christmas lights.
so these are a couple of pictures at the jump and bounce by our house, I love taking the kids there. I can totally sit and relax and they are totally entertained on their own. this is my favorite winter place to go and visit. and it gets a lot of their energy out, so I can keep up with them a little easier.
Today the kids had all sorts of fun, First off they got to go to a princess/super hero birthday party. (while I got to go out to lunch with all of the moms. ) it was a nice break for all of us. then, their school had a family fun night. so we got to go eat pizza, decorate cookies, paint pumpkins, jump in a bouncy castle, and win prizes.
I love their school, I can't say that enough, It is such a blessing for all of us. It's such a good break for me with Ryan gone so much. (not that I don't love to be with my kids, but a little break makes me love to be with them a little more.)

Bailee and her friend Madison

Ty trying to decorate a cookie with frosting, I think most of it is on his face

All in all I think we've had a pretty fun week. and I think it's safe to say we are ready for our baby brother to get here. I'll give him 2 weeks before I try anything drastic, maybe I'll go to the jump and Bounce and join in with the kids.
p.s. did you see my number on the count down, it's in the 30's.
Also, I tried to organize and dejunk the kid's rooms the other day and I think I about killed myself. it's so funny now how the slightest thing can totally wear me out. I think everyone around me is sick of the whining, so I guess if your not around me at this point be grateful. But that doesn't mean you can avoid my whiny phone calls!!!!