I must admit that after posting yesterdays drama my children were very good the rest of the day. It helps that their Dad came home and is a big help with entertaining, distracting and disciplining. I also found that we have a fun picture collection going of Ben and each of our babies – so sweet!
We spent Monday morning building these shelves. Love’em!
 
 
 
Last Night at the BYU v. Colorado State Basketball game… GO COUGARS! Benji got to give Cosmo 2 high fives!
 
Bath Time. They never want to get in the bath but once they are in you can’t get them out.
My brother collects the origional GI Joes from when we were kids and on Tuesday he made his biggest and greatest purchase yet – THE USS FLAG!! CONGRATULATIONS Josh!!
Tonight we went to our favorite Chinese Restaurant for LaNell’s birthday – HAPPY BIRTHDAY LaNell! -thanks for letting us celebrate with you. (we forgot to tak a picture though 🙁 )
 
 
Cali is 2 months old now – and has given me 6 nights of sleep! Since her 2 month mark she has slept from 11pm ish until 9am – that is no waking up, no eating, just sleeping!! I wonder if she is just getting over a cold or if this will last a while! Here’s to hoping! She is soo adorable lately. I think she gets cuter and cuter everyday. She is outgrowing the newborn look. I love her soft skin and her cute smiles. I love the chubby cheeks and little toes. On Tuesday at her Dr appointment she weighed 11.8 pounds and is 23 and 3/4 inches. Oh yeah – I like when she makes eye contact and when her little tongue gets moving – so cute. And today was her first day wearing big girl jeans! (She was hungry but my sister wanted to see the outfit).
 
We stayed home for the Super Bowl and had our own little family party. Here are some of the highlights…
I opened a new jar of Peanut Butter and…
 
 
It was empty – the sides are coated and it looks full from the outside but it is empty. How does that happen? Having worked at the Oroville Cannery I have a few guesses but… very random. Is it worth returning and getting a full jar???
I made chicken quesadillas for dinner/snack and when I brought dinner down and handed Packer his BIG water jug the lid popped off and the water drenched him. He gave me the saddest “mom – why did you do that” look. He was soaked, the floor was soaked, but it was pretty funny in the end.
 
 
I made Muddy Buddy Chex Mix – One of my favorites. The boys loved it. This won’t be helping my dieting but…. I love that stuff.
 
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 And we all enjoyed the HD quality on the new TV. It felt like we were at the game! It was a great football game. I didn’t care who won but it was a thriller and a good end to my football obsession this year ( refer to Sept. 23rd post).
 
You miss a lot of blogging opportunities when you don’t have a computer for 5 days so this is me making up for that. As a side note – I do have a cleaner house after not having a computer.
Cali finally gave us her first smiles!
KANGAROO ZOO
My Brother Joel, Sister Tracie and her Husband John came over last Friday. We had a Waffle Brunch and then they took Benji and Packer to Kangaroo Zoo and I got to stay home and relax/clean. They took Lots of pictures and it looks like they had lots of fun. Benj and Pack love having so many aunts and uncles!
GAME NIGHT
We had an arcade and video game night with some friends and family. We had 4 or 5 different stations with arcade games, old school Nintendo, XBox, and Wii. Some of the favorite games were Dr. Mario, Tysons PunchOut, Brain Teaser, Ms. Pac Man, Fusion Frenzy and Excitebike. It was fun, especially when I beat Than at Dr. Mario! (he beat me 3 times before that though).
 
 
 
SLEEP OVER!
Sean (Bens old roommate)Â and Erika Thal stayed for a slumber Party. We let the kids stay up entirely too late but we hadn’t seen them for forever so it was worth it. Benji and Carter played Super Heroes and Ping Pong all night and Packer and Kenzie did their own thing. We had a great time catching up with them. Thanks for coming guys!
 
 
 
BALL o FUN
 
His Favorite Spot…
SUNNY SIDE OF THE ROAD
This is our driveway. It is Danger. The snow came during Christmas Vacation and we haven’t been able to catch up. We’ve just been catapulting our vehicles over the ice baracade to get in and out! The neighbors all have nice clear driveways and side walks but ours is frozen solid. (Someone has to have the North Facing House that is always shaded so it might as well be us). We did venture across the street the other day and the temperature was atleast 15 degrees warmer on that side! So we rode bikes and enjoyed a little bit of sunshine!
 
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FUSSY BABY
Cali is going through a fussy stage the past week. Every night around dinner time until midnightish she is fussy and wants to be held and bounced and fed. She usually doesn’t fall asleep and stay asleep until I do… hopefully it is just a stage but in the meantime I am going to change my eating habits to see if that helps.
BROTHERS
This is where you will find my boys right now and most mornings. They love to watch their show while they drink their milk and eat cereal in a bag. Mom loves this time because it’s nice to shower without company and get things going for the day.
We visited Ben’s maternal grandparenst in West Valley City to show off new baby Cali and wish them a Merry Christmas!
On Christmas Eve we went to hang out with the cousins. The kids all did the nativity. We had some confused but very cute role players. Benji was Joseph and Packer is a Wise Man trying to be the donkey…
 
 
CHRISTMAS MORNING! Superman and Batman were very entertaining. We had a great morning enjoying the holiday and our three children.
 
The day after Christmas we drove to California to be with my fam 🙂 Anyone that grew up in the hood might recognize the “sour grass” that Packer is eating. The cousins introduced it to him and I’m pretty sure that is all he had for dinner that night!
We loaded the 4 vans and treked up to Bald Rock for a day. It is beautiful up there. We hiked to the caves and did a little rock climbing and mostly chased kids to make sure noone fell off an edge!
  
 
SUPERMANS! Packer and his cousin Payton were SAMERS – Payton is 6 months younger but they are the same size and were very cute running around in their too long pajamas.
Rocket Launch. Benji got to launch the first rocket. You will see him running away in the last picture. People at the school thought that we were a day care or something – nope – just the Robertsons!
 
 
New Years Eve! We went to Katies Parents house and got to hang out with some of the gang! This was my first attempt at Rockband and I was pathetic ( I don’t know what Angelee’s excuse is!)
 
New Years Dinner – 9 of the 16 grandkids.
Here are all of my parents grandkids – Liz stuck her belly in so that the picture won’t be outdated tomorrow when she has that baby!
And here is our little angel. She didn’t get as much camera time with all of the vacation Chaos but she did get held for most of the time we were there. She doesn’t look too comfy here but she didn’t cry at all on the 11 hour trip home!
We had a fun vacation . And played lots of games. One day I counted 8 games that I played ( puerto Rico, Zooleretto, Hand and Foot, Settlers…) and each game averages an hour to play! That is a lot of GAMING and I loved it! We had a wonderful Christmas month… we got to spend time with lots of family and friends and made it through without any illness… we were very blessed in 2008 and look forward to another great year.
Cali’s latest picture. Holding her head up like a big girl. Today is her 1 month birthday!!
Since My Last Post… It Snowed again. Packer had his first encounters with the white stuff – It caught him off guard when his hand just kept on going a foot deep in the snow. Looks like we WILL have a white Christmas! and I am OK with that because I have my sweet decked out All wheel drive Mini Van with Studded tires!
Since My Last Post… We received Christmas package deliveries from FedEx, UPS, and USPS!! And we got lots of Christmas Cards!!! Christmas time is so much fun!
Since My Last Post… I got scared – really scared – like big eyes and startled… My husband waited in the closet at the bottom of the stairs – 11:00 at night – and when I came down from putting the laundry away he jumped out! My eyes got real big but I was too genuinely scared to actually jump.
Since My Last Post… BYU lost their bowl game 🙁 even with Cali dressing up for it 🙁
Since My Last Post… You can see the tops of my washer and dryer! I was a cleaning machine and these machines are really white and beautiful when they are not covered in 3 years worth of odds and ends that don’t have a spot so the top of the washer becomes their spot… I like having a clean laundry room.
Since My Last Post… We made our yearly trip to Cabelas to see Santa! Lots of cousins came and we had a great time.
 
Since My Last Post… Cali had her 2 week check up! The Doctor said she is a perfect and beautiful baby 🙂 We agree.
Since My Last Post… We went and visited my moms parents that live here in Orem. We had a great Christmas visit. The boys were excited to see their great grandparents and they had a blast playing with Christmas decorations, snow globes and Santas. And Grandpa even sang Christmas Songs with them. They seemed to really enjoy our visit and it put me in a Christmas Happy Mood! I can’t believe that tomorrow is Christmas Eve! I love this time of year!
Here is a look at what we’ve been up to these first 2 weeks of December:
PACKER and TRAINS
Packer just loves playing trains right now and I love watching him play trains. He gets so excited to hook them together. Too cute.
THE HOGLE ZOO
Before Cali was born we took the boys to the zoo to see the lights. They had tons of animals made out of lights. It was really cold so most of the real animals were not there but the Penguins were! The boys were super excited with the lights so it made for a fun night. The Falabella cousins also made it fun.
 
and ever since Ben and I went to New York our eldest child is obsessed with the Statue of Liberty – he spotted this one at Red Robin when we stopped for dinner.
2 Days in the Hospital
Cali was born at the Provo Hospital, early in the a.m. so Ben and I tried to get some sleep afterwards – -Â the little snow men down below sang Jingle Bells all day and then we were bombarded with some sort of Motorcycle Riders something – not a peaceful morning of recovery!
PROUD PARENTS
baby Claira came to visit. Cali looks very intrigued. and I thought a crying Claira picture would be good to balance out the perfect baby pics that we find on Ericas blog. And below is baby Packer! He is having a little bit of a hard time adjusting. He has taken to grunting at the world and ignoring mom. But he is very sweet with his little sister and Dad has become first choice. Benji is loving having a little sister and just has a million questions about life!
3 DAYS OLD
4 GENERATIONS
FRIDAY DECEMBER 12:
That would be a pile of Turkey and leftovers on our roof! To make a long story short we clogged the sink/disposal on Friday afternoon: Jana and Mom called Mr Fix It Robertson and decided to find the clog and fix the sink before Grandparents, Aunts, and Siblings dropped in to visit. Undoing the plumbing to the kitchen sink was a peice of cake BUT the clog was not there – – so it must be further down the line… I’m not about to bring a hose in the house and start spraying it in hopes that it goes down a pipe so… I call a ward member and he brings the hose in! Again to make a long story short the food found its way out of the ventilatuon pipe on the roof and tried to come up out of the Washer drain before we finally got it flushed out and working. So thankful for willing and helpful neighbors!
here is Benji with his Uncle John. My boys love it when their aunts and uncles come to play with them… so much fun.
GOODBYE GRANDMA
We were very sad to say goodbye to Grandma Robertson on Saturday. She spent the week taking care of Cali, reading books to Packer, playing make believe with Benji, and feeding the whole family. I think we wore her out pretty good and we definitely appreciate all that she did while she was here. Thanks mom!
SATURDAY
Baby Cali has been a good sleeper. She seems to sleep best when the rest of the house is up and going. Nights and days were mixed up at first but now she’s sleeping night and day.
Here is Cali with her cousins: Cali = 1 week, Mia = 3 months, Anna = 6 months. They grow up fast!
December 5th – Due Date. 6:00pm no baby – go to Bens work party. 9pm Boys in bed – watch “Pushing Daisies”, “the Office”, and fall asleep. Dec. 6th – 1am – kept waking up every 10 minutes. 1:50am – are those contractions?? 2am – a hard contraction – felt like the baby kicked me and my water broke! Wake up Ben! Pack Hospital Bag. Call Uncle Pete to come stay with the boys. 2:30am – drive to Provo, Register with Hospital on the phone. Ben got to run a red light to get us there quickly! 3:00am – all checked in. Contractions are 3 minutes apart. 4am – Contractions start to require some breathing and concentration – only a 5. I refuse the epidural - in the olden days women always gave birth without these conveniences! 4:20am – Dr shows up – watches me squirm in pain. Nurse says she’ll check me at 4:30 so I say “I can handle that”. But the contractions are killer at this point and if this baby isn’t coming then I need the EPIDURAL! 4:30am – 100% ready to go – Dr says I can push! 4:40am – “WHAT WAS I THINKING!!??!” 4:46am – baby on my tummy not in my tummy! most relief I’ve ever felt! “Hi little Cali”!
 
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So that is the story of baby number 3! We are so excited to have her in our family and very blessed that she arrived in perfect condition – 7 pounds 8 ounces and 18 and 1/2 inches long.
