2 Months old

Celeste is two months old today. I know, I can hardly believe it myself. I look at her and she hardly resembles the 6 lb 15 oz newborn from a couple of months ago. She has almost doubled her weight and grown about 6 inches I think. Her doctor's appointment is tomorrow, so I'll know for sure then, but those are my innacurate, I'm sure, tries at weighing and measuring her. I haven't been very good at updating my blog, having two kids is a little tough for me. It's getting easier as I'm getting less and less tired, but it's still a challenge. Taylor loves his little sister, he always is asking to hold her and is kissing her everywhere he can get to. I can tell he is proud of her because whenever anyone comes over, he asks to hold her. I think it is very cute because it is like he's showing off. Celeste seems to really like him too, when he is being gentle anyway. She smiles and coos at him when he talks to her.

Celeste has been sleeping about 7 to 8 hours every night for about a week and a half. I know, how could I be so lucky. But even with that, I still don't feel like I get enough sleep. We are moving her out of our room and into her crib as soon as we get it set up. I think once she is no longer in our bedroom, I'll start getting better sleep. She is smiling a lot now, she loves her daddy, she'll just stare at him when he's not even paying attention, and as soon as he notices her, she gets a big smile on her face, that lights up her eyes. She actually does that with me too, I don't want to brag though;) She loves to be held. If she is awake and sitting in her bouncer or laying on a blanket, she will stay content for exactly 5 minutes, and then start to complain. It's hard to get anything done, but that really okay with me, most of the time. We love our little princess, Celeste. She is everything that I imagined when I found out I was having a girl.

Celeste Carolyn Behling-May 29th, 2009

Well, she's here. And has been for a few days, but I'm just getting to this. You understand. After only about 7 hours of labor and 15 minutes of pushing...I know, not bad, Celeste Carolyn entered the world at about 5:11 P.M. weighing a whopping 6 lbs 15 oz. And measuring 20 inches long. Long and skinny. It took us about 24 hours to come up with a name for her, the ones we were thinking of just didn't seem to fit, but the one we picked is perfect. Celeste means heavenly, and she definitely is. She's a very cute, sweet little girl, and we are so happy to have her here.

Baby Time!!!

Well, it's finally here. We are going in the morning to get this baby out of me! Well, they are inducing me anyway, and I'm really hoping that everything goes well. Since things did not go particularly great with my last delivery, I think I am entitled to a smooth, free of all things difficult, delivery. I really hope that that is what Heavenly Father has in store for me. Anyway, no matter what happens, I pray that I deliver a beautiful, healthy baby tomorrow. I'm sure excited to see her and hold her finally. And my belly will finally be free of all the torture it has been enduring the last little while. So, send all the prayers you can our way, and good vibes. We'll post pics soon.

Matt and Alisha

My brother-in-law got married last Saturday to a wonderful girl, Alisha. She really fits into the family, and they are so cute together. Anyway, here's some fun pics of the wedding and reception.

Taylor's Uncle Jer tying his shoes that seemed to be constantly coming untied no matter what we did.

My handsome hubby.

Mike(cousin), Matt, and Scott(brother-in-law)

Alisha and Matt

Walking back down the aisle after they were officially declared man and wife. Don't they look happy?!

Justin and I.

Taylor looking oh so cute, as usual

The Groom's Cake. Justin's Aunt Judy made this, she is amazing. They put a sign out so that people wouldn't try to pick it up, it looked so real.

The wedding cake, once again made by Justin's amazing aunt. I wish we had known she did this when we got married.

Taylor and Lucy hugging.

About to cut the cake

Smashing the cake! Such a fun tradition!

First dance, a Waltz

Everything turned out so beautiful. It was a really great day, and I'm glad that I got through it without going into labor. Alisha was really worried. But I held off, just for her:) Oh wait, it's been a week, and I am still pregnant. Darn it.

St. George "Get-Away"

This last weekend, we were invited by a good friend to go down to St. George to stay in her family's condo and have a nice, inexpensive vacation. So, After Justin's graduation on Friday night, we packed up the kids and drove the 4+ hours down to Southern Utah to enjoy the warm weather and just to relax. It was a pretty fun time, I really wish we had been able to stay longer. Oh well, maybe next time...if Rachel ever invites us back. Our kids kinda went crazy while we were down there.

Checking the GPS

I love this picture of Taylor. He was really enjoying this piece of Watermelon.

Big smile for the camera. A rare moment.

Toad Races! There were tons of toads out at night. They really loved the driveway, I guess. It was probably really warm still from the sun.

The little one in the top right hand corner kept jumping out the holes in the box. Taylor would not let go of me or Justin while we were outside. He was not happy either that I was sitting on the ground next to them. He really wanted me to stand up.

I have a very boyish boy, he loves frogs and snakes and all that, though not if they are real and could possibly get near him, but Lucy was definitely the brave one here. She wanted to hold them and touch them. Taylor wanted nothing to do with them.

Hanging out in the Expedition. Thanks again, Alisha, for letting us borrow it to drive down together with the Todd's.

I'm kind of disappointed in us for not taking any more pictures than this of our trip. I don't know why we didn't, maybe because everyone else had their camera's and got tons of good pics. I guess we'll have to steal some from them.

Easter

This is the first year we've done an Easter Egg Hunt with Taylor. I just figured it would be the first year that he would really enjoy it, and my family has never done one with all the grandkids until this year. It turned out to be really fun, Taylor really got into it, and it's like he's been doing this forever. It was pretty funny to see him pick up on it so fast. He knew almost immediately that when he found an egg, it was supposed to go in his basket. There were rules on how many eggs he could have, but he did not understand that part of it, so we just let him go for it.

This is right before we started, and yes folks, that is my big humungo belly hanging out into the picture. But I'm sure it was the camera making me look so huge...

Taylor was so funny, it was a race to him to get all the eggs he could. He kept on giving us his basket and running and grabbing all he could fit in his arms. Which he dropped, a lot.

Carrying his full basket. It got a little heavy for him, so we ended up carrying it sometimes.

Taylor and his cousin, Jaiden, racing down the hall. This is before they started eating all the spoils.

I'm excited for next year when Taylor is even older and gets into this even more.

Giggle fest

This is the gist of Taylor's bedtime last night. I think this happened the second or third time I put him back in his bed. "Mommy, I want a hug" I lay him down on his bed with his arms still wrapped securely around my neck, so basically I'm laying half on top of him with my arms stuck under him. I whisper into his ear "Okay Taylor, are you going to be in a good mood in the morning, because it's really late and since it's basically your fault (and your daddy's) that it's so late, you can't be in a bad mood in the morning" Taylor giggling because I'm tickling his ear with my breath. "Are you going to be happy tomorrow?" Taylor still giggling even though I'm not whispering in his ear anymore. "Okay, I have to go now, go to sleep" Taylor still clinging with all his strength onto my neck, and giggling. So, by this point, Taylor's laugh is so contagious, I start to giggle too...and neither of us can stop. Every time we stop to take a breath, he starts giggling again and then of course, so do I. Five minutes later...I'm crying because I can't stop laughing and Justin walks in the room and looks at us like we are crazy. I say "he's making me laugh, I can't stop" He laughs, turns around, and walks back out. Okay, this is getting out of hand, so I tickle his side a little bit so he'll let go of my neck, then he says "Daddy's Turn!" Yes! So I walk out of the room calling for Justin and telling him it's his turn. He goes back into to room with a detemined expression on his face. All of the sudden, I hear Taylor giggling again, and yes, Justin starts to laugh too. Good. Justin says "I was not going to laugh", and I say "It's impossible not to, huh?" He finally extricates himself from Taylor and tells him to go to sleep. We close the door and don't even hear another peep from Taylor. The laughing wore him out, and he went right to sleep. And guess what? He was in a great mood this morning! I love my toddler! Sorry, this was just such a funny experience, if you don't think it is, you probably just had to be there.