home again!

well, we're home again! it was another surprise for the parents as they weren't expecting beckam and i til the week after and weren't expecting kristen's return til friday and had no idea she'd been chillin in portland with me for the last few days! kris came back from a year of teaching english in korea on tuesday night, and we shopped and got our hair done (thanks brandalyn!!!) and went to dinner and played with becks and just hung out and caught up til our flight home on friday. beckam took a little while to warm up to his long lost aunt, but she won him over eventually and makes him laugh all the time :)



we flew to great falls, and it was soooo nice to have someone to help with becks and to keep me company too. kris' friend kenzie picked us up there, and we headed to lethbridge and timed it perfectly to surprise our fam at the LCI bball games. dad had a suspicion that some sort of surprise was in the works, but he wasn't expecting all of us to show up at the games that's for sure! mom and kait had no idea as you can see from the amazing video job that kenz did while we made our grand entrance :) there's nothing better than a good surprise!









we have been loving the home life so far! becks love loves loves the cat and dog to chase around. he's so gentle with them, and it's so nice to have some extra distractions around for him. he especially seems to love the cat this time around cuz he's the perfect height for nash's tail to wap him in the head now, and he's not so into that! haha



becks is also loving the new toys that grandma collected between our last visit and now. he LOVES the ball popper thing but is more into pulling it behind him instead of pushing it! he loves all of the attention and hasn't taken long to warm up to the different house and people in it every day. he loves reading and playing with grandpa. he is constantly giggling at his crazy aunt kristen, and he says kait's name the best out of everyone else. grandma is mom #2 around here and has been subbing in for bath time and takes him on walks and drives, and he can't get enough of her spoilage!



yesterday was another appt at the children's hospital for little becks, and it sounds like not much has changed with his little heart. it's still a little big, and he's still got a good murmer going on. it sounds like they'd rather hope for time to close his little hole instead of the invasive open heart surgery option since it's not causing him any problems as of yet, but we'll hear back from our doctor soon to see what the final word is. becks sure hates the hospital, that's for sure! he freaked out every time anyone besides my mom or me even looked at him much less came at him with goopy ultrasound gel or a stethescope, but he calmed down quickly and didn't move from this position until he felt it was safe to look up again. poor boy! enough hospital trips already eh!


oh ya and has anyone ever seen this crazy child immobilizer seat thingy for baby x-rays??? beckam has had many a chest x-rays, but we've always just held his arms up for them to take their pictures. this time though, the lady told me to put him in this little seat and then to hold his arms up while she closed a plastic tube around him to keep him in that position. basically, he looked like this little guy, but he was screaming his little face off trying to get free! i couldn't stay in the room cuz i'm prego, so i had to stand in the hall and listen to my boy scream and cry while she got her pictures - not cool at all! then i got to pick him up and give him some snuggles thankfully. it was sooo sad to watch and seemed kinda really disturbing and torturous, but i guess who am i to question! no wonder he hates hospitals!


anyway, we miss our dad/friend soooooo much and can't wait for 2 weeks to pass when 2 of my favorite boys join the party here in raymond! my bro gets home from his mission, and dust finishes another quarter full of finals and boards, and then we get to party like it's 1999!!! march has been pretty great so far and will only get better - woohoo!!!