End of June

June ended with our basement getting flooded.  We had had a low key Sunday, put the kids to bed, then sat down to watch a movie and relax before Johnny headed to Boston the next morning for a week.  

Johnny wanted some crackers and went downstairs to get some out of the storage room.  When he got to the bottom of the stairs his shoes made a funny squishing noise and he heard water running.  When he went into the downstairs bathroom, he saw that the boys had left the sink on and plugged (with no sink overflow holes).  We figured that the water had been running over 12 hours.

After a few phone calls, and three hours later, our basement looked like this... Oy.  Thank heavens home insurance covered it.

On a brighter note, we had a summer BBQ with my extended family and had a blast playing volleyball!

iPhone photos from June

It's fun for me to look at the pictures taken with mine and Johnny's phones.  I like the randomness of it. 

(I just learned randomness is a real word)

Con still loving Banks

Johnny in his white pants (required to wear at a conference in Boston) 

Have you seen Will Farrell in his white pants?

Exhausted Bubbs

Good big brother Drakie

Baby Banks, who knows who he looks like? We don't.

ConCon

Hispanic Johnny, this makes me laugh every time I watch it. 

Met Jef-one-F after a great girls night with my mom and sisters.

Begging Johnny for a new diaper bag/purse.

Middle of June

Last month we went to Orem's Summer Days carnival and parade.  The boys loved the ferris wheel and all the little rides.  By the time the parade started it was about 60 degrees and windy, but the boys had a great time and I loved watching their fun.

                    

Johnny had a backyard campout with my boys and their cousins, Brady and Eli.  He told them stories around the campfire while they ate popcorn and treats.  The stories included things like The Mountain Sith Lord and Lightening McQueen's brother, Charly McQueen. 

They didn't fall asleep until midnight, but slept in until 7:30! 

We spent a lot of time at Bridal Veil Falls, about a 10 min drive from our house.  The boys love climbing around here and doing what boys do best, throw rocks and get dirty. 

Beginning of June

June was a blur.  Luckily I took a lot of pictures to remind me of what we did! 

Lets start with Con.  He went from being a little sad and distant when baby Banks came home, and¸ now he can't get enough of him.  Any time I sit down to feed the baby Con comes running over saying "Hoed-jue! (hold you)"

 Drake started T-Ball!  I have to admit, I looked forward to him playing for four years and was so excited when the time finally came!  He looks so little out there with his hat and mitt! 

Coach Johnny helping him hit the ball.

First hit!  Now is when Johnny and I were yelling "run to first!"

He picked up his ball, then walked over to first.

 Then spent the rest of the game doing things like this....

 ...and this.

And it was so nice of his brothers to come and show their support : ) 

Baby Banks

Baby Banks has joined the Hanna boys, and we couldn't be more excited! 

This delivery was an interesting one with a few hiccups here and there.  My due date was June 15th but I'd hoped to deliver before then, each of my boys being 7 - 10 days early.  I'd started preparing for the baby to come with the usual - sorting through all the hand-me-downs he'd be wearing, buying the things I'd lost with the last baby, new bottles, diapers, etc..  

One way I've been able to tell when I'm about due is an unbearable itching from head to toe that comes near the end of my pregnancies.  I've had this with each other baby and when I've complained about it was told to use good lotion, take oatmeal baths, blah blah blah.  

My doctor, straight out of med school, was the first to check me for something called Cholestasis, a condition where the liver produces too much bile, getting it into the bloodstream.  One big side effect, itching!  

I was tested on Tuesday the 22nd for it, the results came in on Thursday, and I got a call Thursday afternoon saying I did have Cholestasis and needed to be induced...IN THE MORNING!  The risks to the baby were scary enough (possible still birth around 37 weeks) that my doctor thought it best to induce me at 37 weeks, barely full term, than to continue on with the pregnancy. 

We got to the hospital at 6:15 am, Friday, May 25th.  I had an epidural at 9:30am, they broke my water at 2:00 pm, my epidural wore off by 4:00 pm (I couldn't feel my legs, just the horrible contractions), and my doctor said it was finally time to push!  After just one push, baby Banks was born at 4:07pm. 

I was shown his perfect little body before the nurse took him away to wipe him off.  For some reason, the little guy decided he didn't want to breath and gave us quite a scare.  Johnny and I  watched as 10 different people in the room, some from respiratory, some from the NICU, tried to get him breathing on his own.  Because he didn't want to, they had to run him up to the Newborn Intensive Care Unit.  Johnny went with him and called me to tell me how he was doing.  

I didn't get to see him until almost 8:00 that night, but I am so grateful for the amazing doctors and nursing staff at that hospital!  I don't think there was a better place in the world for us to be with our baby.

In the morning Johnny and I were finally able to hold him!  

They let us help with his first bath, it only took six hands to do it : )

He is perfect and I still get overwhelmed looking at him thinking about what a miracle it is to have a baby!  He has been home for a week on oxygen and an apnea monitor and everything has gone so well!

Thank you to everyone who kept us in your prayers! We felt so much peace in knowing everything would work out. Little Banks quick stay in the NICU was a great lesson to us of how blessed we are to have healthy babies and live in a time and place that can provide the medical care needed so we can all live  : )