Kindergarten

Now time travel with me to August 2013 when my Shaylee started kindergarten.

It was a bit of a stressful time because bodi was born a few days after Shaylee started kindergarten.  That's a lot of change for a little girl.  she loved kindergarten from the get go though.

Beautiful Shaylee and her teacher Mrs. Ivers

First art project.  Shaylee is really great at art.

At the kiva learning.  a lot of time was spent here.

recess fun!

shaylee and her bff abby on pajama day

1st field trip to BYU-i planetarium and nature museum.
also Shaylee's first bus ride!

Nature museum

Valentine's day party

St. Patrick's Day

Centers!

Dr. Seuss week! Little miss lou who

Dr. Seuss wacky wednesday

100 days of school

Kindergarteners went on a "field trip"
across the street to visit the neighbors llamas

Graduation day.  each child dressed up as what they
want to be when they grow up.  Shaylee chose
to be a cosmetologist because "she likes doing make overs
and making people feel pretty".  Poor little girl was
too scared at her graduation to say that or even sing.  

All in all kindergarten was great fun.  Mrs. ivers and miss rigby were wonderful teachers!  shaylee loved being in kindergarten so much she would cry that it was almost over.  she didn't want to move on to 1st grade.

Bodi's 1st Year

Well I am awesome and am trying to go back in time and document my children's lives.  :)  I don't want to just pick up here because so many great things have happened.  So for now we will do a little time travel. 

                               Bodi's 1st Year

My two favorites kids in the whole world!

I just love this picture.

I mean...there are no words!

Just a tiny little guy

This was taken in December.  Love the mohawk!

Christmas 2013

at Brigham's Baptism

His legs are scrumptious

Easter

Kitzy did crazy hair day

Dad did too :)

when he wasn't mobile. Mornings were so much easier!

at i jump

first movie. went to malificent.

Love these leg warmers

drooliest baby ever!

Has always loved the vacuum

On our way to pick up dad at the airport

bodi started walking about this time - July

You better believe his sister loves to dress him up like a girl

Popsicles!

Don't tell him it's a tinkerbell scooter. :)

Bodi loves spending time with dad outside

in utah for Bodi's 1st birthday celebration with the frost's

Clean up after eating his birthday cake

One of the last days of summer before school started

Facts about Bodi:

bodi got on a great schedule at birth.  he has been an easy baby.  he is very content and even goes to bed by himself.  shaylee never would do that.  she still doesn't.  haha!

He did everything on schedule.  When the experts say babies should coo, roll over, sit up, and get his first tooth he did exactly when they said he should. except walking. Bodi started walking at 10 months.

bodi has a lot of teeth.  he has 4 on top and 4 on the bottom all by his 1st birthday. he has an adorable little smile.

bodi is a good sweet little boy.  he's just happy to be alive.  he adores his sister shaylee.  he thinks she's pretty funny.  they like to get on mom and dad's bed and jump and play around.

bodi loves being outside.

bodi's legs are delectable.  he has the fattest little knees!  i could eat him for breakfast.

bodi loves his daddy.  he would hang out with him every minute of every day if he could.

bodi's first word was "momma"  then came "daddy".  that's pretty much all he said that made sense by his first birthday.

bodi is bow legged.  It's adorable.  I think it's because he was so chunky and walked so early. Poor little legs couldn't hold up. ha! :)

We love our bodi frost!  He has brought so much life and joy to our family!

 

             

Oh yeah, and this little guy happened

Bodi Michael Frost

On September 3rd, 2013 little Bodi Michael Frost was born.  He was 7 lbs 8 oz and 21 inches long and had tons of blonde hair that is to die for.  He is perfect in every single way possible.  We adore him!

The back story on this little guy is that we have wanted him for quite awhile now.  When Shaylee was around 3 I went off birth control.  Nothing happened.  When she was around 4 Shane's friend's little baby made him want another one even more but we both knew that time was not on our side because of age.  He was 37 I was 35.  We let some time go by to see if it would just happen but it didn't so I finally went to the doctor and got put on clomid which is the same medication I was on with Shaylee.  I was on clomid for 6 to 8 months.


I've always wanted at least 4 kids.  I look at my Mom with 7 and how wonderful it is for all of us to get together with our own little families.  It is probably my favorite thing to do.  I look forward to holidays so much for this very reason.  I just love my siblings and their families.  So I look at my life and I have this one little girl who will marry someone who will take her away from me some day and she'll visit Mom and Dad every other holiday and what do I have to look forward to?  What a sad sad future.  I have to have more babies!  On the other hand, Shaylee is 5 and if we have another baby will they be so far apart they won't enjoy their relationship? We will be starting over from scratch and babies are no cake walk.  How will I work and stay up with a baby at night?  All these doubts would fill my mind.  But I would always go back to my patriarchal blessing that talks about my children.  As in multiple kids.  So I never really felt hopeless about it like I did with Shaylee.  However, the doctor was saying if the clomid didn't work in the next month she would refer me to a fertility specialist.  Then the question comes to mind.  How far are we willing to go to have another baby?  We can't afford all of these expensive options.  

So one day I prayed.  I told Heavenly Father I was going off of the clomid.  I told him I would not be able to do the fertility treatments and that if there was another spirit for our family then please send him to us. I went off the clomid and the very next month I found out I was pregnant.  

I kept it to myself for a couple of weeks.  For some reason I was unsure how Shane would react.  I was worried he wouldn't be happy.  Work had slowed for him and I know he worries about money so much and this would stress him out.  We were watching the Super Bowl and I was feeling sick.  Shane said, "Maybe you're pregnant."  I told him I was and his immediate reaction was, "Why didn't you tell me?".  He was taken aback but said he was happy.  Shaylee was VERY happy.  She had wanted a baby for a long long time.  

Finally the day of the 20 week ultrasound came.  We were all adamant that we wanted a girl.  I just had zero desire to have a boy.  ZERO.  The ultrasound tech asked us what we were hoping for and we all said GIRL.  She kind of chuckled and said it's a BOY.  I was NOT happy.  None of us were.  I just couldn't get my mind around it.  It was such a major disappointment.  I feel horrible about that now as I type this because I think of this precious perfect little boy that I adore and I think, "if I only knew."  Heavenly Father did know and we love love love our little boy.  For a long time it brought up some weird bad feelings though.  I just didn't have an interest in anything boy.  I was bitter for quite awhile.  

Picking Bodi's name was not easy either.  That's another thing about boys.  There are no fun names.  Boy names seem either very biblical or outright weird.  Shane and I could agree on nothing.  I kind of liked the name Liam and Shane's choice was Saylor.  We were just not on the same page.  So when I said Bodi Shane said he liked it. We could just never agree on anything else so Bodi it was.  Michael is after Shane's brother Michael.  

Kind of funny side story about the name Bodi.  Apparently when Shane and his buddy Marty would go "out" at night they would give themselves alter names to give out to girls.  Shane's alter name was Bodi.  Haha!!! 
 

I had a good pregnancy.  Everything went as expected.  Bodi was born by scheduled c-section at 2:38 (or something like that) in the afternoon.  I thought c-sections were supposed to be the easy route.  I didn't know you could have complications.  Apparently you can.  Bodi would not descend.  Meaning he was clinging on for dear life in there and was not wanting to be extracted.  I could feel him clear up in my rib cage for days so it shouldn't have been a surprise.  He had so much hair that when the doctor tried to use the vacuum on him it couldn't get any suction.  He had another doctor in with him and my doctor literally got up on the operating table and was forcing Bodi down by pushing on him from the outside.  The bad was rocking back and forth as he applied pressure and tried to get him to come out.  It was quite a process.  I'm so glad I couldn't feel anything but pressure but it still wasn't comfortable.  Because of that complication I lost a lot of blood.  If I remember correctly they said that I lost 90cc's of blood and a hemorrhage is when you lose 100cc's.  So I was pretty close to hemorrhaging.  It wasn't so bad until the healing process began.  I retained a lot of water because of the blood loss.  My feet were enormous and just ached.  I had air trapped in me from the surgery so I would get intense pains in my shoulders.  That along with the incision pain made it no fun at all.  Shaylee's c-section was significantly easier.  

Bodi is a great baby.  He sleeps a lot.  He eats fairly well.  I nursed him until I went back to work and then I nursed him in the evenings.  He got on a really good schedule for me early on so he ate, "played" and slept every 3 hours like clock work.  I wish I knew to do that with Shaylee.  He has been so much easier.  Shaylee is an enormous help.  We have just thoroughly enjoyed having him in our family!

Oh my goodness, THAT FACE!

Dad helped Shaylee feed her first bottle to the baby.

Old Pro now :)

What a pretty baby!

Bodi's cousin Remmington was born 3 days before Bodi.