Life with Mae

So... Mae is a dream baby. She literally never cries. She still sleeps a lot of the time, but even when she is awake she is the most pleasant little babe to ever exist. This probably sounds cliche, but Dallin and I seriously cannot get enough of her. We argue between us who gets to hold her. He has all of October off, which made it nice that she ended up being born the very beginning of the month. She is a champion nurser and takes bottle. Nights are kind of hit and miss, but we really don't mind yet because it has been so long since Cal will let us hold him while he sleeps. Also, nighttime seems like a piece of cake with Dal taking turns too.

After Dal's family came to the hospital to see Mae they took Cal back to St. George with them while we finished out our hospital stay and so that we could get settled at home. It is crazy how much we missed him while he was there... but it was nice to have just the 3 of us and know Cal was having fun there.

We were pretty thrilled to have Calvin back and he has done great with Mae!! He only pays attention to her for 30 seconds at a time, but he is never mean to her and gets really excited to see her in the morning. He is still quite the handful, but he was like that before :) He doesn't seem to have changed at all since she has been born and I am happy that he has adjusted so well. 

Cal is obsessed with "sharing" his toys with Mae

We went to Cedar City for a weekend to go to Russell's wedding with the Mitchells. We took turns being out with Mae since she was only a week old and we didn't want her around so many people. It was fun to see Dal's cousins and I was so happy to see the fall leaves since autumn in Vegas is lame. Our drive home was not quite as good. {Side note: we had our friend's mom with us in the car}. About an hour into the drive, Cal woke up and vomited allllll over himself and his car seat. We pulled over at a gas station and cleaned him up the best we could and continued on. A few minutes later Dal didn't realize how sick he was and threw up himself while he was driving. A lot of throw up! Inside the car. Then we switched places and drove the rest of the way with the windows rolled down. They both just had the 24 hour stomach bug, but I cried and panicked all night long worrying that Mae would get it. She and I stayed away from them both the next day and she (thankfully) never got sick. Dal was superdad and took care of sick Calvin while he was really ill himself so that I could stay away from Cal and take care of Mae.

Mae's great grandpa Gib

Napping through the pretty leaves

I love this photo

Sick boys

It has been fun and nonstressful getting used to having 2 kids while Dal is home too. We have been spoiled with people bringing us dinner and friends coming to visit. We have spent a lot of time at the park and had a fun evening at the pumpkin patch that Cal looooved.

Lunch with my best friends

Mae with baby Max

Bein a champ a his 2 year checkup

Oh, Mae. We can't get enough of you. Stay little, ok?