Lauren&Hyrum

And there you have it, my babies birth stories have been told. I mean, I'm about to tell you the last one- I haven't typed it just yet- but the story has happened and I have nothing else to worry about from the births of my babies.  Yeah, I'm all but certain that that was my last go. But back to the man-child of the hour: my Wyatt. As far as pregnancies go, it was a quiet one.  He measured bigger than my other kids, but we were Cartagena - (Zika) never really sure of the due date, so that could have meant anything, or nothing.  I found out I was pregnant on my birthday, which was fun, and we knew he'd be due around Christmas.  We had waited to try for another baby because we had gone on a trip to an area where people and mosquitoes were carrying Zika, so when we knew baby 4 was on the way, we were excited. The most influencing factor in this pregnancy was Gemma.  Gemma hadn't breathed for several minutes after she was born and it had been a scary...

Dear Baby, You are a boy baby, and I am learning new things about what that means about you, I think, more each day as you elder brother grows more into a "person".  He's a lot easier at age 3 than your eldest sister was at the same age- but don't tell her I said so.  That said, I know only very little about you as a "person", but what I do know, I like very much. Baby, you are a peaceful man.  You are thoughtful, and I think its funny when you stick your feet into my ribs and I push them away, you oblige and don't put them back.  This is new for my children, and I applaud you for your obedience.  You sometimes- I don't know if you're stretching or just playing with having extremities but- you like- scratch along your squishy bubble home in a big, slow, yoga-like arch and it feels sooooo weird.  But I love that I can tell what you're doing. You are getting to where you seem to be uncomfortably compressed, and li'l bud, I empathi...

We went to Florida and did all of the parks.  Each of them. I was wrecked by the end of every day, so I left early with Russ and Gemma all but one day.  Also each day, my phone was dead at the end of the day, and I believed that my sense of direction had improved since the night before.  I drove around thinking I just could intuit where our condo was, after hiking through the parking lots pushing a huge stroller wearing platforms looking for our one-of-thousands black minivan.  I finally made sure a charging device was in the car and things were fine after that.  But, mercy... the strength of my pride.  (slow head shake) It was amazing.  We had so much fun.  We planned our fast passes by age group ahead of time so we spent almost all day of almost every day in cousin groups, and we had lunch or dinner together every day as a group of 31.  It was crazy.  And we loved it.  It was a trip of a lifetime. We're so thankful to Hyrum's...