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oth soothed my soul and enlivened it with instant love but seeing caleb in all of his chubby crying glory was another small moment of perfection and triumph despite my strange bodily sensations thankfully there was no cord wrapped around his neck he was just asynclitic and not happy about being pushed down my birth canal in such an uncomfortable position ben watched caleb while the doctor stitched me up both my stomach and my vaginal tear my epidural was wearing off and i was feeling more than i really wanted to but i was thankful that i didn t have to puke like i did after wesley s birth i also didn t have the shakes as bad caleb was born at 7 35 am on his due date march 12 2016 he weighed in at 9 lbs 12 oz and was 21 inches long he had a surprising amount of hair and it was pretty dark even redder than any of our other kids he was loud just like our other kids after i was settled in the recovery room i held and nursed him to my heart s content just like his brother he was a champion nurser from the get go i also had one of the quickest recoveries that the nurses there had ever seen i give absolute credit to the exercising i had done during my third trimester to help control my gestational diabetes it became clear to me pretty quickly that my physical recovery from this cesarean would go much more smoothly that my previous one ben brought my mom and the kids to visit their new brother that afternoon they did the birthday dance for him it was so sweet to see each of my babies love on their new brother we spent two days in the hospital and took caleb home on pi day complete with all of us wearing our pi day shirts the next few weeks were spent sleeping eating and taking pictures of sweet caleb at his two week appointment caleb was weighing in at over 11 lbs so clearly all of this relaxing was paying off for him ben s dad flew in the weekend of april 3 on which sunday we blessed caleb in church i was so grateful that both my mom and don were able to be with us on that special sunday they both flew back home early tuesday morning and just like that we were a family of six posted by unknown at 6 50 am no comments sunday december 14 2014 thoughts on home i ve been thinking a bit about our time here in japan we ve been here about four and half years now longer than most people associated with the naval base here where ben words we came here pretty naive about what we were getting into but it has turned out to be far more wonderful than we could have imagined we ve made many friends seen many move in and move out we ve experienced a massive earthquake and ensuing nuclear threats we ve added two kids to our family and a whole lot of chaos we ve become expert video chatters with grandparents cousins aunts and uncles and we are seasoned airport security navigators when we first moved here we thought it would be for just a few years to save up money and then we d head back to the states and settle down somewhere but it quickly became clear to us that we would stay in the dodea school system until ben retires there are many things that we love about it the hardest is being away from family but we have technology to thank for keeping us connected sakura 2012 we missed 2011 because ellie and i left after the tohoku earthquake on mar 11 2011 when we go back to the states to visit someone invariably asks us when we are moving back home the truth is we already live at home right now for us yokosuka japan is home we are together as a family and we know that we are where the lord wants us to be so that is home sakura 2013 something my wonderful mother taught me at a young age was that it was my choice to be happy where i was in life we love our choice to live here we love the people we know that are here as expats like us we love the japanese people we love driving on the left we love taking trainswe love sorting our trash in to 5 different bins we love being associated with the military we love working with the high school kids we love our church family we love the torii gates and shrines and the ocean and the green hills and the proliferation of hydrangeas and cherry trees we tolerate the humidity sakura 2014 there are times when we have ached to be with family mostly on the happiest and the saddest days but i ve found that when we actively cultivate our own christ centered home we find that our joy is amplified and our sorrows our soothed through the love we share for one another posted by unknown at 5 54 am no comments sunday march 23 2014 eleanor s biggest owie to date yesterday sunday morning was going along just fine minus clara waking everyone at 5 30 am but whatever ben had already left early for his meetings before church and i had gotten the kids and myself dressed and fed and now we were just brushing our teeth before putting on shoes and getting into the car ellie turned to talk into her room and slipped in her little tights clad feet and bonked her face with toothbrush in the mouth into her door frame she started crying and it didn t seem like a big deal until we realized her mouth was bleeding i figured she had bit her tongue and told her not to touch anything while i ran to get a wet rag i didn t want blood on her favorite sunday dress i cleaned her up and then asked her to open her mouth so i could see where she had been bleeding from she opened her mouth and i gasped there was a big hole in the back of her mouth on her right side right by where her jaw hinges together i think i scared her with my reaction and she started crying again holding the wet rag to her mouth i said she s going to be okay but we needed to go to the er she was devastated and kept asking if she would still get to go to church clearly she didn t want to miss primary i tried calling ben but he was in ward council and didn t pick up so i called the next person in my phone book that i knew would be there and she did pick up she passed the phone to ben and i briefly explained what happened and asked him to meet me at the er before stepping out the door i asked ellie if she would like for us to say a prayer she said yes so i prayed asking for her to get better and be comforted and strengthened afterwards i took her sweet face in my hands and asked do you believe that jesus and heavenly father can help you and she replied yes i told her that i did too and with that we got buckled into the car and drove down the er on base it must be said that the bleeding had stopped pretty quickly which was a huge blessing and ellie was so calm and brave the whole time so once at the er ben took her in and i took wesley and clara to church because heaven knows we didn t need the whole lewis circus in the busy er and i knew that ben was more than capable ben says everyone who looked at her mouth was surprised at how big the wound was especially that a toothbrush could do it it was pretty close to the jugular vein so they did a ct scan to make sure there was no injury to it obviously she need stitches but it was going to require knocking her out to do it so they had to wait until 5 pm since she had eaten at 10 30 after church i came over with wes and clara and when i walked in the room and asked her how she was i thought she was going to burst into to tears so i came over and put my arm around her and told her how brave she had been and how proud i was of her a brother from our ward who also happens to be an anesthesiologist came by and he and ben gave her a blessing we chatted a bit more then i took the younger two home i think having unlimited access to the ipad helped she ended up needing 6 stitches and stayed at the hospital overnight mostly because she wouldn t take pain meds orally so she was on an iv i videochatted with ben and ellie after her surgery she did have to be knocked out and intubated and her throat hurt really bad so it was hard for her to swallow and breathe bless ben he spent the night in the hospital brought her home just before 7 am he showered dressed ate and turned around and left for school he s a champion so ellie has never liked taking medicine even the stuff now tastes way better than it did when i was a kid it seems like and she still doesn t want to take any painkillers which is fine but i am making her take the antiobiotics because i refuse to deal with an infection bless her heart she s asleep on my bed right now she s been such a brave little trooper i m so proud of her and her sweet faith and i m sure she ll tell this story to her kids when they ask to hear big owie stories just like she asks me posted by unknown at 8 30 pm no comments sunday january 26 2014 remember when i blogged right that was before this happened and that was seven months ago what wesley has been determined to outpace his sisters in all his endeavors he started by being bigger much much bigger so big he cut his two bottom teeth at 4 months and then the top two front teeth broke through at 6 months he first rolled over at his first modeling job for combi mini at 2 months but thankfully was not consistent at that until 4 months but then he started scooching and army crawling at 5 months and now is a full fledged crawler and a champion smiler he loves to get into his sisters legos and chew on them to find paper and chew on it to find clothes and chew on them not to be outdone the girls are also getting bigger and cleverer and funnier and lovelier everyday here s proof it has been so fun to watch clara blossom as she has learned to play more imaginatively the other day while both ellie and wesley were napping i was working on her quilt and she was making me lunch she narrarated the whole process for me and prompted me with my lines which were generally saying wonderful wonderful everytime she did something then we sat down together and had a lovely plastic and felt lunch she loves her brother but sometimes terrifies and terrorizes him with the intensity of her love most recently she loves to pretend that she is ana and ellie is elsa and wesley is olaf from frozen and she ll knock on the door and sing do you want to build a snowman it would melt my heart everytime except when she does it during wesley s naps and sings so loud in the genkan entry that sometime she wakes him up ellie s getting so big literally the little skinny minny s legs are too long for the pants that fit her waist thankfully my wonderful mother taught me to sew so i can cinch in her leggings so they aren t saggy because nothing says fashion backward like saggy leggings she continues to love to draw and dance and sing she s nearly memorized let it go from frozen and within the next few days she wants to record a video of herself singing it to share with her family and friends so be on the look out for that it s a sweet hysterical thing to watch she loves to make pictures to give to her friends and always wants to take cookies to our neighbors whom we can t even communicate with she s taught herself to write all the letters and numbers and loves to have me spell out words for her to write down to make stories the other day while i showered she had me spell out an entire story about herself as the fairy princess of candyland who defeated the dragon that smashed her castle and the people s houses by cutting off his head and afterwards she put the roofs back on the houses since she could fly she also illustrated the book i should scan it in but long story short she s a clever cookie and then there s ben wonderful hardworking ben thankfully he s only doing one master s class this semester but we are doing drama club he continues to be the executive secretary in our ward and is an invaluable resource for the new bishopric and me i m still the relief society president and i feel like it s all i can do to keep my head above water right now but we did get a babysitter for our anniversary and went to dinner delicious tonkatsu and saw saving mr banks which was awesome sadly i cannot find a recent picture of us together so here s one from our family photo shoot by our wonderful friend rebekah peterson 6 years and three kids and 0 fights i d say we re doing pretty good posted by unknown at 6 39 am no comments tuesday june 25 2013 welcome wesley we ve added a prince to our princesses over here in japan wesley brown lewis joined our family at 11 14 pm on june 18 2013 he weighed a whooping 11 lbs 5 oz and was 21 7 inches long like our other children wesley had to put a big show to come into the world so if you want to know more about that then read on so this is me the day before my induction at 40 weeks 6 days pregnant i definitely felt bigger and was bigger than i ever was with my girls even though clara was no small baby at 9 lbs even they say that moms are the best judge of how big their babies are i am clearly the exception i thought clara would be about the same as ellie maybe a little bigger at 8 lbs but she was much bigger so then i thought that this baby was definitely bigger than clara somewhere between 10 and 10 5 lbs obviously i was way off again i think my doctors would have induced me earlier because i was measuring so large but i didn t ask for it because i wasn t keen on being induced and i was so convinced that because he was so big i d go into labor early on my own i had my membranes stripped three times without lasting effect and i was getting increasingly frustrated because i would have regular contractions but never strong enough that would die out after several hours or i would have strong contractions that were irregular wesley was apparently facing posterior so the midwife had me doing things to try and get him to face the right way and my cervix was very posterior so his head wasn t putting pressure down on top of it it was all so frustrating for me i tried all kinds of things to make him turn and to increase the effectiveness strength and frequency of my contractions but most importantly i had ben give me a priesthood blessing about a week before my due date i felt a lot of peace in the lord s counsel to be patient and know that i would have the strength to do what was necessary it was also nice to hear that he was pleased with the way i had born my afflictions with cheerfulness because sometimes i didn t feel very cheerful about how incredibly uncomfortable i had become by this point so my due date came and went and i had an appointment that friday in which my wonderful midwife was shocked to still see me pregnant as was everyone else in the ob gyn clinic she scheduled an induction for tuesday we went to the beach on monday and it was wonderful to spend some time just having fun and being together as a family and not stressing about if i was going to go into labor or not tuesday morning we arrived at the labor and delivery ward at 8 am and waited for our consultation with the doctor on duty quick note about how the hospital here works you can have your maternity appointments with any of the doctors or midwives in the system there are 5 or so i think but when it comes time to deliver yo...