Splash Pad
Mom and Tracie and Kelsey and Michael and Megan all helped take my kids to the splash pad. I went and sat in the shade and let everyone else feed and chase my kids. They had a blast with lots of cousins:
Day: June 26, 2015
fishing
The older kids got to go fishing with Dad and grandpa!
Except Benji was sick so he got to go the next week with Grandma and Grandpa and Micah and Kiah!
4 Generations and his name sake
Here is our 4 generations picture. I am lucky to live so close to my grandparents!
Tiago Ford Nettesheim is named after my Grandpa: Arden Ford Johnson.
Tiago’s first week
The first week of Tiago’s life. June 2nd through 8th. Everything is a little blurry but I’ll let the pictures do the talking:
pure cuteness
could’ve come home on tuesday but I just wanted to lay in the hospital and enjoy this little face.
Wright’s meet Tiago
Falabella’s meet Tiago
Mr Tiago – holding his own Paci
Grandma Time
a visit from Grnadpa
ready to get home and figure out this new world
heading home
Big Sister SMILE
look at ROSIES CUTE FACE
matching faces
fail
finally old enough to really hold and comfort the baby
smile – pure joy
Amanda and fam came to meet the new guy
chubby cheeks
I just can’t believe how cute he is.
Gus got him this outfit for Camo Fridays
Mom and the crew came on Saturday night!
Millie after church – mostly ignoring baby Tiago still
A Kelsey selfie
and another one
best legs contest
playing Bingo with the fun aunts
Millie and Bren digging the sand box
the old man look
the one time Ben got to hold him when my mom and sisters were here.
Kelsey on Bradys new bike
Millie decided to IGNORE the baby and be her crazy normal self.
Ray posing and being cute
Cali Walking with the Baby – she QUICKLY showed me that she could do it and she was fine and safe.
not sure if Rose liked the baby or the hand sanitizer more – either way she is a cutie.
smash face
cute
Big Stretch – seriously – sooo cute
june 8th
meeting the Great Grandparents
Ray holding the little man
the kids
Monday night get together
Ray loves uncle Ryan.
all these people came to visit
FIRST BATH – i think Grandma R has bathed all of these kids for their First bath.
and none of them like it
Cali captured some Saturday Chill time – Benji and Ti
handsome CLEAN boy with Grammie
Benji and I working on a project
Ray sharing his blanket with Gus
Rose and the boy – look how tiny he is.
some of the Sunday dinner crew!
Millie getting up close and personal with Gus.
comparing babies – 4 months v. 4 days
Gus is so Happy in this one
Millie is still a big baby – 21 months.
My Mom
My mom came to help when Tiago was born! She was on a tight schedule again this year. She’s getting harder to schedule with all of my other siblings fighting for mom time and babysitting and her friends think they like to go on vacations and this year her parents needed to take her on a cruise in June. She came saturday night the 6th and went home friday morning the 12th.
Mom and the crew came on Saturday night!
It ended up being good timing for me. She came on Saturday night when we had been home a few days and started to get settled and the neighbors had brought us food and … then I just let her take over… and let Ben go back to work and gave all my Netty family a little break.
I love having my mom around. She has so much energy she puts me to shame. She comes in and makes the motherhood job look easy! She cooks and cleans and plays with the kids and with me 🙂 I’m grateful that she makes a point to come each time we have a baby.
Packers Creativity
Packer is still Mr Creative. The other day we watched a documentary about the United States and things that have happened over the years. The next morning I came down in the morning to find some Lego Creations:
Twin Towers!
those are blue air planes lodge in the buildings.
the Exploding spaceship!
the red is the fire coming out.
These next 2 are injuries that have left a mark on him…
Packer and the Basketball Hoop!
Luca and the Window well!
Notes:
these were made before 8am – the kid doesn’t know how to sleep in and he zonks out at 9pm like clock work.
Also needs to be noted that Packer is OBSESSED with Mine Craft. He discovered the game early in the year and then we fed the fire by getting him the Xbox version for his birthday. HE LOVES IT. He loves to play with siblings or cousins or friends or all by himself. I can’t understand the game but I think it’s a creativity thing… and he thrives on it. And my lazy late pregnancy days and new born days have given him lots of Mine Crafting time.
I told him no more elctronics so he went and made his own mine craft looking tree.
Wrestling with his brother might be the only other thing that brings a big smile to his face.
Our Family Doctor
Ten and a half years ago I was pregnant for the first time and needed to find a doctor. Ben was working at Ancestry and I was working at Buyers Fund and so I looked up in Network Doctors and since we both worked in Orem I found an Orem doctor. I decided that I wanted one doctor that could do everything so.. he is a family practice doctor and is pretty much the only doctor any of us have ever been to. On June 1st he delivered our 7th baby! He was there for all 7 and helped me through all births and pregnancies. We’ve experienced an episiotomy, forceps, high blood pressure, jaundice, natural child birth and heart murmurs. Also a ruptured umbilical cord, BYU football games in the delivery room, circumcisions, large blood clots, weird shaped heads and lots of ear infections and strep throat. This time when he came in to check on Tiago and I at the hospital it happened to be right when Ben had brought the other kids to see us so we were able to get a picture with the Doctor and all of the kids! I love this picture:
Dr. Scott Peterson
My Mother In Law
My mother in law is one of the best out there! She really is great. Always ready to help but never intrusive. I want to be like her some day 🙂
Ben’s mom helped out a ton with the baby being born. Once we scheduled the induction date and time she cancelled appointments and changed her schedule to fit ours. She came over at 6am so that we could go to the hospital. She sat at home with 6 crazy and extra emotional and worried kids and waited for any news of new baby. She stayed at the house until the evening and then came back again on Wednesday and brought dinner. It was really nice to have her help and know that the kids were in good hands.
