Benjamin

Is he perfect or what? I always love watching sleeping babies. This guy is the best baby. He hardly ever cries. He smiles at me when he sees me come in his room. He is obsessed with his brothers and loves to snuggle. Has the longest eye lashes, just like his brothers. 

But he does every now again puke all over me. He hasn't been sleeping well for about a month due to being congested. Hates being in the carseat unless brothers are there talking to him. 

Basically life is so chaotic and filled with sleepless nights, but he's still so precious. 

Sure do love having three kids who constantly teach me how to be selfless.

My smiley little guy. 

At the zoo for my birthday. You don't go to the zoo for your birthday? 

At the Frito-Lay annual work party, which always coincides with my birthday. Makes me feel like all of Matt's work is celebrating with me ;). People here wanted to, "sop him up with a biscuit...". Love living in the south. 

Benjamin

I can't believe June is over. It has been a crazy month. But I am doing well and enjoying my perfect little boy! He has been such a great baby! He sleeps well and hardly ever cries. He likes being around someone but doesn't have to be rocked or bounced. Which is something we are not use too--Joshua and Samuel always had to be rocked and we spent long nights trying to get them to sleep. 

My recovery has gone well, minus a HUGE detour with mastitis. That was probably the worse pain I have ever felt. I spent two days with severe chills, high fever, and body pains in every part of my body. 

People have asked me if I am getting stir crazy and I can honestly say, no! I just want to go back to my bed and sleep. I don't need "me" time yet, I just want to nap. But it is probably due to the many friends I have had visit me. I have been really blessed with visits, meals, gifts, and one neighbor even mowed our lawn. 

Now my mom is here and I am having fun monopolizing her time. 

i forgot how horribly slow recovery is and am trying really hard not to be frustrated with my lack of mobility. But life is good and we are grateful for three beautiful healthy boys!! 

My boys doing yoga with me 

My boys 

Joshua makes a great big brother

My future BYU Cougar

22 Weeks

I made it through more than half of my pregnancy! Yeah! Oh it seems like it has been forever and I often just look at Matt eating whatever he wants and just drool. I need to remember after I have a baby that I should never have a bad day because I can eat anything without the thought of what it might taste like if it came up. I told Matt one night after reading my scriptures that being able to meet a basic need like hunger is incredibly powerful. In the scriptures it is the only thing that causes people to turn back to the Lord. Not wars or threat of life, but lack of food. Incredible right?

But to be honest this time around has not been so bad. The big difference is that I can drink water. So my dehydration problems aren't so bad. I still need Zofran like people need oxygen but I do survive.

Here are some Confessions of a 22 Week Pregnant Lady:

-When in UT I ate Cafe Rio 4 times, we were only there for 6 days.
-I dream of fry sauce and miss UT's food selection so bad!
-I usually have to eat a fruit-roll up or something sweet after I have a meal to help calm my stomach
-I take a nap while Samuel takes a nap and Joshua plays on the ipad on my bed next to me
-I seem to be pregnant with everyone, including Kate Middleton and the infamous Kim K
-I ate a whole bag of gummy bears before they drew my blood to check all my levels of everything, and they are now concerned that I might have gestational diabetes but to be honest, I think it was just the fact that I didn't have any food in my stomach and had only eaten gummy bears that day...oops...we will see in a few weeks what the actual results are
-I refuse to buy maternity clothes because 1. they are super expensive, 2. they are usually very frumpy, 3. I won't be using them again so I see them as a complete waste of money. (I gave all my pregnancy clothes away after I had samuel). But I know I will have to soon.
-Joshua tells his primary teacher that I frequently puke...such a sweet boy
-My children both make puking noises for fun...maybe to be like mom?
-This is the first time that my closet isn't color coordinated, rather it's arranged according to what I can squeeze into now and what I won't be able to for at least 5 months
-I am nesting all the time
-I have a really clean house and find cleaning therapeutic...because If I am busy enough I can't think about how bad I feel
-I probably eat 2-3 bags of clemintines a week
-This baby can't get enough fruit
-I am much more tired with this pregnancy than I was with the others

I still have hard days and watch my special church movies when I am feeling bad. But life is good and now we know what gender our smith baby is. Which is nice, so now I can plan.

It is a ...
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BOY!!!!!!!!!!

Yes!

Joshua is very excited because he told me that, "Mom, you love boys the best! Yeah, baby Benjamin! That means we now have 4 boys!" He is so smart!