Multiply and Replenish the Earth

So I think I'm the last of my sisters to post the baby cousin photo session. Please forgive my tardiness and redundancy! I marvel at how each one of these kids fits right into the mold of their respective families!

Lily (Ryan and Heather's 5th) Goldie (John and Shelly's 1st) Kate (Sam and Kara's 2nd) Lucy (Jacob and Tiffany's 4th) Declan (Nate and Vanessa's 7th) and Tee (me and Tyler's 5th)

In 18 years, these two boys will be the lady killers at BYU--and will have their hands full protecting all those girl cousins!

Yeah, Tee was NOT happy!

Tee's blesing day

So I'm finally posting our family picture from Tee's blessing day. It gets tricky trying to take a picture with everyone looking. But looking isn't always enough...then their is dealing with the arms upo, the eyes closed and the ever popular fake/weird smiles!!! ( I'm still looking a little like a linebacker!)

MARCH 25, 2008 HAPPY BIRTHDAY JETT AND AVERY

Yesterday we celebrated Jett's 5th and Avery's 4th birthday. For those of you who don't know, they have the SAME birthday. Jett was born in 2003 and Avery was born in 2004. We counted our trip to Disney a few weeks ago as their "party" so we just had family over for some cake and ice cream last night. I found a baby picture of Avery, but Jett's baby pic's were before we went digital, so they are all on negatives. This is the best I could do!

Jett when he was about 1 year old and Jett opening his presents last night on his 5th birthday!

This is a picture of Avery on her blessing day and then picture of her last night opening her presents on her 4th birthday!

Each year, they both sit on a chair next to one another and open their gifts. Here, they are opening kites given to them by Aunt Kara, Uncle Sam, and Rusty.

So here is my attempt at fancy cakes. Jett's pirate hat looks a little rough...especially the skull. But Ave's butterfly turned out pretty good...and super easy!

We love Uncle Dan

So this is a little shout out to my older brother, Daniel! Jett's birthday is in a week so I asked him what he wanted. He started to list off a number of things such as a shotgun, a knife, a tree stand, a truck, a motorcycle...the list continued like that. Finally he said, "Just ask Uncle Dan. I want stuff like him!" So here is to my brother, who when the time comes, will be the world's greatest dad, because he has had so much practice being the world's greatest uncle!

This was taken just before Daniel took Duce and Jett to go sit in the tree stand, a total thrill for them!

Amanda "Badger"myer

Everytime this girl gets on stage, all I can think of is of the grumpy badger on Fox and the Hound. That hair--what---why---oh the humanity! WHY IS SHE STILL ON THE SHOW! Her voice bugs me....she can't sing anything without sounding like a stoned out 70's janis joplin-esque singer! UGH!

my heros!

so why is this my favorite show EVER?! watch this...then watch it again, this time watch Big....Tyler and I just DIE laughing at this! I love these two!

DISNEY!

My brother, Jacob and his cute family are in town. I let Duce skip school and we went to Disney with them. Wonderful grandma Munns offered to watch Josie and baby Tee (I pumped a few bottles for him and he did GREAT) We had a wonderful time...the weather was perfect..high was 72, I think. And because all got in free (THANK YOU to our disney hook-up) we didn't feel bad when we decided to head home shortly before 4 PM. The kids all hit their walls, so why force it.


Growing up, I LOVED the haunted mansion, so we thought it would be fun to take the kids on it. I remember it being more funny than scary...well, before the ride even started we had three in tears. Avery rode the whole time with her face buried in my neck. Duce had his shirt up around his face. But my brave Jett was perched up nice and high so he wouldn't miss a thing!

Tiffany took all the kdis on the Alice and Wonderland tea cup ride. Just looking at it made me want to throw up...I am not into the spinning rides. That was one ride Avery loved.

This was the highlight for Avery. We went to listen to storytime with Belle while the other kids did the race cars and SHE WAS CALLED UP TO ACT IN HER PLAY! She was chip in the story...the thrill of her little life was being on stage with belle!

This was another hit with all the kids. And other than the tea pots, the only other ride Avery enjoyed. She is more into the shows and parades and meeting the characters. The boys would move into splash mountain, if allowed. That was their favorite.

Gotta love kids honesty

So a few days after I had Tee, Avery said to me, "How come you're still a little bit fat?" What do you say to that????? "Well dear...mom isn't like some women who slip right back into their pre-pregnancy jeans the day after birth" or "Well, dear...mom enjoyed her ice cream almost every single night she was pregnant a litttle too much" Needless to say, I've got a ways to go!

Announcing.......

This was taken by Avery and the other was taken Monday night before leaving for the hospital

Here he is...Tee Daniel Anderson. He was born just after 12:00 PM Tuesday. He weighed 8 poundf 6 ounces abd was 21/4 inches long...our featherweight! His birth was like the rest, and i know I'm lucky!! He came after two short pushes....star to finish, about 5-10 minutes.

And just like that, we are a family of seven!

This was the first time EVER all of my sisters were together for a birth...I'm so happy that it was mine. Not only were the sisters, but all the newest cousins...it was quite a peanut gallery. Even my doctor had to take a picture od all the carseats lined up in a row to watch their newest cousin being born. From left to right...oldest to youngest....Elleanor(leah's), Goldie(shelly's), Kate (kara's), Declan (vanessa's), and baby Tee (mine!)

Announcing.....

We are so happy to announce the birth of our 5th child....a little boy! Tee Daniel Anderson was born just after 12 noon today, weighing in at 8 pound 6 ounces and 21 1/4 inches! We will post pictures very soon!

NO MORE WAITING

Today is the day....finally, I get to trade in one kind of pain for another....and I'm acutally looking forward to it. I will be admitted into Celebration hospital at 10 PM to begin my induction! Judging by how all my other inductions went, i should have the baby sometime tomorrow morning. Recently I've had complete strangers tell me how brave we are...."brave or crazy", I say...most of the time I think crazy! Anyway....we will let you know how things go and post pictures of the final Anderson baby as soon as we can!

no more "craisin"

For those of you who don't live near by, you haven't seen Jett's "little buddy". Over the Christmas break, it started off as a red freckle and then it went bizerk! We were told it was a pyrogenic granuloma....basically a rogue blood vessel. This thing would bleed EVERYWHERE! The dermatologist could have removed it in office, but because it was so close to his eye, he had to go into Arnold Palmer Pediatric hospital for out-patient surgery to get this thing off.

So Friday we went in and everything went PERFECT! They gave hime some liquid versed which basically put him to sleep so he never even knew he had an IV put in. When he woke up, he asked when they were going to take it off....not knowing it was already off. So if you ask him how it happened, he says, " drank some medicine and it just fell off" Thank heavens for modern medicine!

a little groggy and a lot happy!

the duck bonanza!

Duce and Jett tagged along with Go-dad, Uncle Sam and little Austin to go pick out some new, cool ducks to put in Go-dad's pond. From what I hear, Duce did ok with the whole thing, but Jett was terrified of the other poultry at the farm. I think it all stems back to the killer black mexican rooster my parents had a few years ago...that thing attcked anyone who came near...including little kids.

13 Days and counting

So it is about this time that we start making a compliation of everyone's guesses as to what the baby will be.....we didn't find out whether it was a boy or a girl, so we want your guesses. Each of our kids (except Duce...we knew he was a boy) has a page in their baby book with everyone's name and their guess- boy or girl and the guess on weight and height so lets hear it!

Avery obviously wants a girl and she wants to name her cinderella....poor thing is going to be disappointed either way. The boys are rooting for a boy.....to out number us girls....its all about competition for them. Josie doesn't care either, just as long as she doesn't have to give up her port-a-crib...yup thats right. She sleeps in a port-a crib.....screams bloody murder when put in ther crib, so what do I care.... she sleeps like a dream in the other, so there you go.

I don't care one way or the other, just as long as I'm not pregnant anymore. Tyler says he doesn't mind, but what man REALLY doesn't hope for a boy each time. Like I mentioned earlier....13 days, 1 hour and 6 minutes until I check into the hospital....what I wouldn't give right now for some stadol or demerol!

18 days and counting

So I had a doctors appointment today. I am 36 weeks in three days and already I am dialated a "fingertip" Good news, since that means I will be "ready to go" says the doctor, when I go into the hospital in exactly 18 days and 1 hour and forty-five minutes. Other good news is I only gained 1 pound since my last appointment....much better than the nearly 10 pounds the previous appointment. The doctor said it had to be water....yup...keep saying that....just water. I feel like a reverse version of "the biggest loser" (for those of you who watch it...I LOVE it) I get on the scale and prayer for little numbers....today was little.

TWENTY DAYS AND COUNTING!

So for those of you who don't know, my body HATES me! My doctor said 5 pregnancies in less than 7 years...of course it hates me!! My official due date is Feb. 17th, but I have BIG babies, so I've been induced early everytime. And thank heavens, this time is like all the rest. There is light at the end of the tunnel. There is an end in sight. I am scheduled to go into the hospital on Monday FEB 4th at 10 PM!!! So instead of five weeks of back breaking, mind-numbing pain, its only three weeks of hobbling like a 117 year old woman. Anf only three more weeks of weight gain as oppesed to five. Thats good, right? The one thing that is better with this pregnancy than all the rest is heartburn.....its sort of been a non issue this time. All the rest, I had to sleep almost sitting up to avoid it....so yeah for one thing!

FISHING

With school being out, we have had plenty of time to spend together as a family. School teachers don't get paid much, but they have great holidays. The boys have especially loved having their dad home to go fishing with them.

Josie sure had fun at the lake.

We love Florida Winter Weather!

It has been in the 80's for the last couple of days and the kids have LOVED it! We've gone for bike rides and swimming and fishing in the lake and swimming and plaing outside and swimming! so much swimming that poor jett now has "swimmer's ear" and has to go to the doctor tomorrow for antibiotics. Gotta love florida life!

The kids had a wonderful Christmas. They each got new bikes and skooter. Avery got Hannah Montana stuff galore....like her wig. Josie got dress up clothes and babies. And the boys love their skateboards. Tlyer got me an armoir for our computer and I got him a flight home to see his family!