Stitches

Yesterday I was feeding Andrew when I heard a loud Thud in my bedroom followed by a loud cry. Bodell ran to see what had happened. She carried Brigham into me crying. When I looked at him there was blood running down his face and a nice gash around his eye. I guess he was trying to reach his balloon that was on the ceiling. He climbed on Josh's nighstand. Fell off and hit his eye on the way down. I immediately called Josh at the clinic and told him I thought we were going to need some stitches. At that point we had to run to take Bodell to piano. We ran into Nicole Ivans, Stephanie Ivans, Danelle Shumway and of course Callie Randall. They all got in the van to see Andrew. Then they saw Brigham. He looked pretty pathetic. I hadn't taken much time to clean him up because we were late. So there he is sitting with a swollen eye, blood still coming out, blood stains on his face and shirt and chocolate all over his face from some pumpkin bread he had eaten just before the accident. All I could do was laugh at the poor child. When Josh came home he stitched him up. I wanted to take pictures of the process, but it took both my arms AND my legs to restrain Brigham so that he wouldn't move while Josh was stitching him around his eye. Brigham was histerical!!! We finally got him sewn back up and now Brigham is quite proud of his stitches. He also has a nice little shiner to go with it.

Andrew is 1 week old!

Andrew is now 1 week old. He is still such a little bundle of joy! Right now about the only thing he does is SLEEP! The kids keep asking when he is going to wake up. He has his days and nights mixed up, so about the only time that he is awake is around midnight for a couple of hours. Saturday night I was changing his diaper. Josh and I were watching a tv program so I wasn't paying very close attention to what I was doing. I lifted Andrew's bum to place the new diaper underneath and he started peeing. It was a perfect rainbow that shot over a yard, over Andrew's head, and sprayed all over Josh. I thought it was hilarious! Josh didn't think it was quite as funny as I did.


Here are a few pictures with Andrew's eye's open. It is a rare moment.

What is he thinking here?

Bodell is a great helper and LOVES to hold Andrew.

Shae, where did you get that pose?

Announcing the Arrival....

Announcing the arrival of the newest family member:
ANDREW JENSEN NIELSON
6 lbs. 10 oz.
19 1/4 inches

Andrew was born yesterday. Delivery was nice and quick. It has been so fun to bring a new baby home. The kids have just giggled at every little squeek and move that he makes. They are all so proud of him!




What a cutie!

Can you tell that Brigham was bored with the hospital? Bodell and Shae were VERY EXCITED about the arrival of their new brother.

The whole family. WOW-- FOUR kids!

I always think newborns look so funny in their big carseats!

Picnic at Comb

We decided to take advantage of the beautiful spring weather in January on Saturday. We packed a lunch and headed for Comb. The kids had a great time climbing the trees and playing in the dirt. At one point we realized that we hadn't seen Brigham for a while. When we found him he had stripped down and was playing naked in the soft dirt. When he saw Josh coming he quickly jumped face forward in the dirt (still naked) and did a reverse snow angel. It was quite a funny site. Brigham could have stayed out there all day.

Brigham after the naked escapade.

Sydney posing in one of the many trees she climbed.

The rest of the kids, not quite as brave as Sydney.