First Day of Preschool

Today is Aidan's first day back to preschool! This time, he gets to go through the whole school year!

He is so excited that he is ready hours before the bus arrives.....and he was so sad last night around bedtime that the bus wasn't here for him yet. I'm glad that he likes going to school and riding the bus!

Melody's birth story

My original due date was August 20th. When I went to my last doctor's appointment (August 7th), he told me that he could induce me in a week if I wanted to. I told him YES! because I was SO DONE BEING PREGNANT! 

That morning, I called the hospital at 6 am to see if they were ready for me. They told me that they were busy at that point and to call back at 8 am. I call back at 8 and they told me they were short staffed, but trying to get another nurse in. They told me they would call me when they found someone and could then take me. Josh came back from somewhat of a "third interview" for a new job at about 8:30. When he got home, he had the thought that since we were playing the waiting game, we could play it over at his mom's house since she would be watching the boys for us anyway. Josh had just told Aidan to get his shoes on to go in the car and the hospital calls right then and asks me to come in.

Since we needed to get there, we just loaded the boys in our car and would meet Linda there for her to take them. We got there just a few minutes from the time we told the hospital we'd be there, so I went up to labor and delivery while Josh waited to hand the boys off.

The nurse they had to bring in turned out to be the nurse that would be with me in the labor room. We got me started on the pitocin and decided to give me a higher dosage than others (we think because they wanted things to move along and they thought if they didn't give me a higher dose, that it wouldn't move along quickly).

Long story short (haha) I started having some contractions about 10 minutes after getting the pitocin. I had my water broken by someone and there was a LOT of liquid, more that they have seen lately! The anesthesiologist had 2 scheduled c-sections that he needed to give epidurals to starting at noon and he got to my room about 5 minutes before noon to get mine started. He had just marked my back as to where things would go and I just started to feel intense pressure and I just started SCREAMING!  I was screaming so loud that I wasn't really hearing anything anyone was saying until the nurse got right in my face and said "Sarah, what are you feeling?!" and I said something like "I think she's coming". (obviously from my screaming I don't remember what I said)

They had about 3 people move me to lying on the bed and the nurse checked me and said "she's right there!". My doctor was nowhere to be seen and all of a sudden there is another doctor there telling me to push. The whole time I was pushing, I was just screaming (I didn't stop screaming until she was out)

Melody Paige Bowe was born at 12:17 pm on August 14th!

My mom and dad got there as I was being stitched up. My doctor finally showed up and said "I didn't even know you were here!" (The nurse I had tried to page him around 11:15, but he obviously never got the page.)

First day out

The next morning after a feeding

going home with dad, mom, Aidan, and Lucas

Sunday sleeping the day away

David/Joy wedding

My brother-in-law got married yesterday and I gained a new sister-in-law! Here are a few pictures. I was a bridesmaid :)

Josh in the quartet for the reception

Josh and I at the reception

feeding cake

 they were too nice to each other, where's the shove?!

Kyler was starting to get tired

cute Kyler

Aidan was SO HANDSOME in this suit!

Lucas looked darling, even though he didn't want to stay still for a photo.

Birthday Post #2

I wanted to put some pictures up from Lucas' birthday (even though I already did on Facebook)

Happy 1st Birthday Lucas!

Lucas turns 1 today! He is such a funny little guy and we love him to pieces!

He is so mobile (has yet to walk) and he never wants to stay still. It's very hard to change his diaper or change his clothes. He gets into everything, giving us a run for our money. He loves his big brother Aidan and wants to be everywhere that he is.

He loves to crawl between your legs whether you are standing or sitting, never goes around you. He is so adventurous and has to try things out the hard way. Here are some of my favorite pictures from his first year: (in no particular order)

coming home from the hospital

first time being held by big brother

this was heading out to Temple Square for ward family night

he loves getting his picture taken

he always has been so strong.....holding his head up by himself at maybe a month old

Aidan wanted to share his dinosaur hat with Lucas

he has the funniest facial expressions!

loves squishing his face against things

finishing Aidan's apple

big brother holding him again

he learned to go up the stairs really quickly!

\playing outside

4th of July fun

This is what Aidan did on the 4th of July.........and didn't want to stop doing after he tried it out once.

Primary Activity

Today, Aidan got to go to a primary activity where they played field games with their dads. Josh really wanted to go with him, but he is at Suzuki Institute this week and today is the last day.

So Grandpa Rigby came up to go play with Aidan, even though his arm is in a sling from surgery. Here are some pictures I took. (They aren't the greatest, but Aidan is in there with the tie-dye shirt)

not paying attention to the rules, looking at me

They had to have a ball in between them somehow and race to the fence.

Playing with balloons

spelling out words that had to do with families

monkey see monkey do