Baby Sister???!!

So even when I was pregnant with Paxton and we new he was a boy, Caiden would ask about his baby sister. I would remind him that this one was a boy and that maybe one day he will get a sister. A few weeks ago while we were eating lunch he asked me if I had his baby sister in my belly, to his dismay I had to tell him no.
At church today Caiden drew this picture and was pointing to the figures and saying this is you, and this is Paxton and, to the one his finger is pointing at, this is baby sister. Then he pointed to another one and said, "This is Jesus and our baby sister is in heaven with him waiting to come."
I hope the boy knows what he is talking about cause a little girl in the family would be nice, but she'll have to keep waiting at least for a little while longer!

Roller-Coaster February

So February was kind of a roller-coaster month for us. I think I still have some of those crazy post partum hormones too so it was even more dramatic for me. As I mentioned in the last post, I got a job working with a Hospice agency and it seemed to have some real potential so we were very excited at first. What I soon came to realize was that even though I only see a few patients a week, I was called and asked to do stuff throughout the week and it was just a big interruption to my day. I was also promised some things that just were not panning out. So with a heavy heart and after several talks with Jayson, I called my friend and told her it was not working out for me and that I needed to quit. She took the news very well and after I visit my patients tomorrow, I am free from the stress of that job.
Well, during all this, I had been interviewing for other jobs because the Hospice job would not have brought in as much money as we needed to pay our bills every month. I got a call from a nursing home saying they wanted to hire me and I accepted. (I was not excited about it, but at least it was a job) Later that same day, I got a phone call from a rehab facility telling me they wanted me to work there! Two job offers in one day wasn't bad, but now we were faced at choosing what one would be best for our family.
To make this long story shorter for those of you falling asleep, I accepted a job at Pine View transitional rehab and I started last Thursday. The job is a PRN job which means "as needed" for those of you who don't speak nurse. I can sign up for days that they need filled, but I don't have a set schedule and can pick and choose when I want to work.
I had an awesome first week ( I have worked three shifts so far) and I am starting to get the hang of things. The patient load is somewhat overwhelming at times because I'm used to having only 4-5 patients and here I have 13-15 patients at a time! It is all going very well and I feel so good and at peace about my decision, which is not how I felt doing Hospice.
The best thing about it is that when I sign anything I get to put a neat little "RN" after my name-pretty cool if you ask me! It still doesn't seem real!

My cute boys...

Paxton is now one month old! He has recently started smiling at his mommy and big brother (sometimes at daddy too). Caiden just adores Paxton and wants to love on him whenever he is awake! I have to say that I have the most handsome boys I know!

Busy January!

We have been so blessed this month- I passed my state nursing boards on Tuesday, January 26 and got hired on with a Hospice agency and started working three days later! I have a friend in my ward that works there and offered me a position and started me as soon as she could! I think it will work out well for our little family because I can pretty much make up my own schedule and I won't have to work that many hours like I would if I worked at a hospital. We are very excited to finally reap the rewards of all the hard work I've done over the past three years!
I can't believe that Paxton will be four weeks old on Monday! For the first two weeks after the baby came home, my mom and mother-in-law came to help out. Mostly they played with Caiden and kept him entertained so that I could attend to the baby, but it was a HUGE help to have them here! I also was studying for my state nursing boards during this time too so I really appreciated that they were close enough to help out.
My mom had a craft for Caiden to make every day that she came. This picture is one of Caiden wearing his fancy tool belt that he built! They were playing a game of dominoes to keep him busy too.
This picture is of his cute pasta hat. They glued pasta noodles to the plate on top but Caiden kept trying to take them off and eat them. We told him they wouldn't be good because they weren't cooked, but he tried anyways.

Caiden and grandma ViAnn made sugar cookies and heart shaped pancakes! What a fun way to spend time with grandma!A big thank you to both moms for spending time with Caiden and helping make dinners and clean my house and so on... I love you both and I am glad you were here to help me!

The following pics were taken just a few days after we came home from the hospital. I love the little wrinkly skin that newborns have. I wanted to take some good pictures of it before the wrinkles disappear. I think Paxton is so sweet and he reminds us so much of his brother! I can't believe they had the same birth weight and height too--6lbs 14 oz and 20 inches long!