Dexter Heath Aplington

Dexter

Born on December 2oth at 6:10am weighing in at 8 lbs 1 ounce
21 1/2 Inches

Our first family picture

Cousin Koen was so excited to finally hold his buddy.My kids were so excited when he came home and they saw him in a stocking. We have had the best Christmas this year. Words cannot describe the joy I feel to have this new special baby join our family. He is very special!! I am grateful for my Heavenly Father for sending him to us. What a perfect gift to receive for Christmas!!!

Labor and Delivery

This time I had to be induced. When I got there I was already at a 4 and 80% Effaced. They started me at 11:15 pm and at 6:00 am It was time to push and I had him at 6:10. Not too bad of a labor. Apparently the scales were wrong. It says he weighed 7 lbs 9 ounces. But the next day at the nursery he weighed 8 lbs 1 ounce.

Christmas Sunday

My last day of being pregnant.

Halloween

This Fall has been so beautiful and I think that makes Halloween even better. The kids had a great time this year. They loved going Trick or Treating with Daddy around the neighborhood. Parker was a GI Joe and Tandi was an Angel. I love checking on my kids after they go to sleep. Tandi was sleeping so peaceful and it looked like she was praying.

Parker had crazy hair day at school! I think he kind of looked like wolverine or Heath said the mayor from the "Grinch that stole Christmas."

This last weekend we had a shower for Jessica. We decided we better take a picture of us before Jessica has her baby. This is a pretty unique circumstance to have all three of us pregnant at the same time and due within a month of each other. These cousins will have a good time growing up together.

Parker's Happy Birthday

I can't believe my baby boy is 6! He is growing up way too fast. He loves Lego's, so I decided to throw him a Lego Party. He got to pick 6 friends to invite and I found some games they could play. The cake was pretty hard to make, so don't look too close. I was frosting it as the boys were showing up. The cutest little girls ever.They first played for a bit. Then we had a contest to see you could build the tallest tower in under three minutes.The tallest tower winners.
They also played pin the dot on the lego.



Then they had a lego hunt in the backyard.




We also had another B-Day party for Parker and Uncle Nate. It was good company and yummy cake (which I did not make, but it was well worth the money).

Teeth & Bedrooms

A few weeks ago while brushing Parker's teeth we got a big surprise. His permanent tooth was coming in behind his baby tooth. So we took him to the dentist and he had all four bottom teeth pulled. To make more space for the new teeth coming in. He was brave and didn't even cry or whimper. I just can't believe were already to this phase in his life. He did get a little spoiled with a jamba juice, how to train your dragon movie, and some money from the tooth fairy. I also took on a few projects. One was I switched the kiddos rooms around. Tandi had the bigger room before and now that we are having a boy it made sense to switch the rooms. So in two days and with the help of my sis we got them done.