The little things

This morning I woke up at 6:00 to feed Grant. After he was done eating I was just holding him and rocking him back to sleep. The sun was almost coming up so it was starting to get light out. I was awestruck by how precious my baby was in the quiet early morning light.

When they are this young and younger it’s the small milestones that make you happy. He may not talk yet or walk, but those other milestones make me happy too. At first he wouldn’t even look at you and if by chance your eyes did meet he would only hold it for a second and move on to the many things to look at. It made me so happy when he would look at me when I was talking to him. Then he would start to move his mouth like mine. These little things just made me the happiest mother in the world.

The next milestone that made me even more happy was when he started smiling. He has the cutest little smile and has his mouth open wide when he smiles, it’s so cute. He’ll also do a half smile often which is super cute as well.

I did take a picture of him at one month but forgot to post anything, so here’s the picture. I plan on taking his monthly picture in that same spot with the same stuffed animal.

Below are just random pictures I took of him. I love pictures

Stockton Days

This year marks 150 anniversary of Stockton so they have gone all out this year on celebrations and had some event every month since April. The celebrations ended with Stockton Days on Saturday. The only events I made it to was the first one in April and then Stockton Days.

In April they had a guy come give history on Stockton which was interesting. They also setup a room showing the family histories of Stockton as well as the school pictures through out the year. We only stayed for about 1/2 hour and then went to my Mom’s for a barbeque. Around 9:00 Stockton had fireworks shoot off from Tab Hill. It was beautiful and awesome to watch from my mom’s front yard. The little kids were all on the tramp yelling “Happy Birthday Stockton!” Then Erin yelled “I love you Stockton!” It was so cute.

For Stockton day celebration they actually did a parade this year and invited any families to create a float or something to be in the parade. My parents were super excited and wanted to create a float and get what grandkids they could to be on the float. It’s not well known now, but Cranney used to be a slang used for outhouse and therefore my parents love to do the outhouse theme. They decorated the float with a outhouse, some bales of hay and trees. Then my dad thought of something funny to put on float since Stockton just barely put in a sewer system: “Stockton, the first town to get electric light . . . last to get a sewer. Rashelle and I were the only ones able to be on the float, but I had fun.

 

Here’s a cute picture of my mom, Grant and I just before the parade.

After the parade Jake and I went home to let Grant nap. Then at dinner we went back up to the park and ate there. While we were gone they had booths and bounce houses, but they were all gone by the time we got there. After dinner they had a magician which all the kids loved! Brook being a helper to the magician.

Grant Jacob Taylor

So I am finally blogging again. Hopefully I’ll be able to keep up with the blog.

On July 5th I had the greatest joy in my life, Grant Jacob Taylor. I am so excited to finally get to start my family. Early in June I was already starting to dilating and was certain I would go early and so each week I kept thinking I would have the baby any day now and he kept waiting. By my 39 week appointment, only 4 days away from my due date, I determined that I would probably would not have him until I was induced which my doctor told me would probably be another 1 1/2 weeks away. . On the 4th I kept joking to Jake maybe if we saw lots of fireworks we could smoke him out. I know cheesy joke. We did some aerial fireworks with my sister and her kids. Then we drove down close to Desseret Peak to watch the fireworks after the Rodeo. They started around 11:00 and I really enjoyed them. After the fireworks we went home and went to bed. However, I never got a chance to sleep. I started having contractions. They were about 20 min apart, but they were long and they hurt. After a few contractions I called the hospital they stated they wanted them to be closer and that I should try to take a bath. Then some were like 7 min apart and some were still 20 min. Finally around 3:00 am I told Jake that they hurt too bad and I didn’t want to wait any longer. So we grabbed our hospital bag and headed out. At that time my contractions decided to be only a few minutes apart. We got to the hospital quickly. They got me in the room and started hooking me up to the machines. The Nurse checked me and said I was ready to go and called all the on call people, the doc and anesthesiologist. Really enjoyed my epidural it was great and made me feel tons better. When the doctor checked me again she said I was almost ready to push. She had me do some practice pushes and said she would come back in 1/2 hour and we would start to actually push. When she came back my contractions started to be 4 to 6 min apart so I would push and then wait for the next contraction. It only took 4 contractions I think, I can’t remember exactly how many, to have him. They put him on my chest as they cleaned him up. I was so happy to see him and thought he was so beautiful that I started crying. Then they took him to give him some shots and check his vitals, stuff like that. Jake watched them and took pictures of him.

By this time it was around 7 in the morning. Here are pictures of the proud parents holding their bundle of joy.

The first two visitors were Grandma & Grandpa Cranney and Aunt Tiffany. I can’t remember who exactly came first. I had the intentions of taking pictures of all the visitors but forgot. Aunt Shelly came to visit during the Hospital’s quiet time and so they wouldn’t let her in and she had to wait for a bit. Then she came in with Brooke and Erin, Abby was sick so they didn’t have her come.. I had gotten some sleep by then so I remembered to get some pictures.

I saw a cute idea on pinterest where you take a picture of the baby with a cupcake and a 0 candle for his Birthday. Late that night before midnight I wanted to get the picture. I’m no photographer, but I still think it’s a cute picture.

The next day aunt Alicia, Uncle Chris, Eve and Layla visited us in the Hospital. Grandma Burns also came with them and saw her favorite Great Grandson.

The rest of our visitors came when we were home. Aunt Andrea was blessing Emma and so they were not able to come down. Also Aunt Mikey and Aunt Amanda were already on their way up to Idaho for the blessing and so they also had to wait to see him. I didn’t get any pictures of them either. Grandma and Grandpa Taylor and Aunt Nikki also visited us at home. As well as our friends Jeff and Cindy. I also had many visitors from our Ward. Some I got pictures and some I didn’t.