Yesterday on June 20, 2011 at 9:53 am June Elizabeth Price was born in the Logan Regional hospital. Here's how it unfolded. Jen has been dilated to a 4+ for the past week or so. However, when I got in town from china I asked if she could hold it until the 20th because last week was extremely busy. Since my company is based in Utah there are often a lot of meetings when I do come in town. Last week had a bunch of them slammed into 4 days with people from France, new Zealand, Taiwan and Malaysia all coming in town for the meetings. Turns out I have a new boss. He is French and is based in our office in Paris. He's a great guy and things should go well. After the meetings I had Ragnar. I ran on the company team, Nordictrack. It was a lot of fun and I realized these events are much more pleasant when you lose 20 lbs.
But back to the important stuff. Jen is a saint and kept the baby in so we now have a full week together with family without interruptions of meetings. June is so cute and such a joy to have here. The delivery went very smooth. We arrived at the hospital at 7:15 am scheduled to induce. The broke the water around 8:30 and then started the pitossin around 9:00. She thought about going without an epidural until she dilated very quickly and started to be in a lot of pain. They quickly did one at 9:30 which brought instant releif. She started pushing at 9:49 and out she came at 9:53!! The cord was wrapped around the neck twice but the dr didn't seem concerned so I wasn't either. He asked if I wanted to cut the cord to which I responded "um, no. That's what I paid you for". June was 7lbs 5oz and 20in long. She has dark hair and long fingers. She is a very good baby so far. Jen stayed in the hospital for just over 24 hrs and then we brought her home. We rented a place a few blocks from then hospital which has been great. Both of our moms have already made trips to Logan to see baby June and a couple of my sisters have come as well. It has been a lot of fun so far. Jen and June are both doing great.
The Chinese character for "good" 好 is made up for two characters put together. The two parts are boy 子 and girl 女. Together they form 好 meaning good. So a man and a women together is a good thing and having a son and a daughter is also a good thing. It's a good pair. We've got a good pair now.
Pictures to follow. They are probably already some on my moms blog.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Monday, June 6, 2011
Will is nearly 21 months!
I guess it's time to post. I forgot my camera cord so I have been slow about downloading all the fun pictures we've been taking.
I went to the dr. last Friday. I am dilated to a 4 and 50% effaced. Taylor is supposed to return home next Sunday. I am a bit nervous he'll miss the birth if I suddenly start contractions more powerfully, so I asked him to change his flight to Thursday. He's been busy and I hate to ask him to come earlier, but I'd hate it even more if he missed the birth.
Will has learned many new things while here in UT. He learned from Sage that he can 'sleep' on the steps. It's really more of play, but he'll lie down and do a fake snore (intake of air). Really funny. How did he learn that snoring accompanies sleep???
I took him swimming the other day. He LOVES to swim but we haven't had a chance since we've been here, so it's been over a month since he swam last. I told him in Chinese what we were doing, and he excitedly repeated back, in proper Chinese, that we were going swimming. Instead of 'ye you', he said, 'you yong'. Good job little buddy, but at the same time, I realized he's growing up too fast!
The other morning when he woke up and entered my room I said, "Hi Buddy!", and he said back to me, "Hi Buddy!"
He has learned so many new words. It's so fun to have a small conversation with him now. If he's crying he can communicate to me what hurts, and if he gets hurt he'll tell me what happened which is a lot of animated babbling, followed by a few detection words like, 'fall', or 'tou' (head), which he often says when he hits his head.
One of his favorite 'just learned' phrases is "howdy do!". He learned this from cousin Ambree. He repeats so much now that it's hard to document the new words. He's speaking more and more each day. Some of his favorites are, 'mamma', 'Chi fan' (eat food), 'see ya', 'mamma', 'hello', 'play', 'waimian' (outside), and 'mamma'. He is a chatterbox! A lot of it baby talk. Often people will look at me and ask, "what did he say?" since they assume it's Chinese. Sometimes it is, but most often it's just a bunch of baby babble.
Will loves his C. cousins and LOVES to play with them. They are great play-mates for him. When I tell him we will see them that day he'll repeat their names to me over and over. Yesterday they were driving into SL for a soccer game later that evening. I took him to the pool for a fun distraction and he would often repeat their names to me out of the blue. He pronounces their names 'Torrine' (in a mix of tones), 'Bitton', and 'Jenna'.
When we pray at night he'll usually make his little bear fold his arms and bow his head also. He'll grab the bears head and shove it down to its feet. He has started losing interest in his bear, but now he'll fold his arms, then take one hand and grab his own head and bow.
This child is just so full of life, and teaches me more about love, life, patience, and more love each and every day. I can't get enough of his smiles and laugh.
I went to the dr. last Friday. I am dilated to a 4 and 50% effaced. Taylor is supposed to return home next Sunday. I am a bit nervous he'll miss the birth if I suddenly start contractions more powerfully, so I asked him to change his flight to Thursday. He's been busy and I hate to ask him to come earlier, but I'd hate it even more if he missed the birth.
Will has learned many new things while here in UT. He learned from Sage that he can 'sleep' on the steps. It's really more of play, but he'll lie down and do a fake snore (intake of air). Really funny. How did he learn that snoring accompanies sleep???
I took him swimming the other day. He LOVES to swim but we haven't had a chance since we've been here, so it's been over a month since he swam last. I told him in Chinese what we were doing, and he excitedly repeated back, in proper Chinese, that we were going swimming. Instead of 'ye you', he said, 'you yong'. Good job little buddy, but at the same time, I realized he's growing up too fast!
The other morning when he woke up and entered my room I said, "Hi Buddy!", and he said back to me, "Hi Buddy!"
He has learned so many new words. It's so fun to have a small conversation with him now. If he's crying he can communicate to me what hurts, and if he gets hurt he'll tell me what happened which is a lot of animated babbling, followed by a few detection words like, 'fall', or 'tou' (head), which he often says when he hits his head.
One of his favorite 'just learned' phrases is "howdy do!". He learned this from cousin Ambree. He repeats so much now that it's hard to document the new words. He's speaking more and more each day. Some of his favorites are, 'mamma', 'Chi fan' (eat food), 'see ya', 'mamma', 'hello', 'play', 'waimian' (outside), and 'mamma'. He is a chatterbox! A lot of it baby talk. Often people will look at me and ask, "what did he say?" since they assume it's Chinese. Sometimes it is, but most often it's just a bunch of baby babble.
Will loves his C. cousins and LOVES to play with them. They are great play-mates for him. When I tell him we will see them that day he'll repeat their names to me over and over. Yesterday they were driving into SL for a soccer game later that evening. I took him to the pool for a fun distraction and he would often repeat their names to me out of the blue. He pronounces their names 'Torrine' (in a mix of tones), 'Bitton', and 'Jenna'.
When we pray at night he'll usually make his little bear fold his arms and bow his head also. He'll grab the bears head and shove it down to its feet. He has started losing interest in his bear, but now he'll fold his arms, then take one hand and grab his own head and bow.
This child is just so full of life, and teaches me more about love, life, patience, and more love each and every day. I can't get enough of his smiles and laugh.
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