Cameron Pictures

We are proud to show our new little addition to our friends and family. I was so glad to finally have him delivered after going through a week of Braxton-Hicks contractions. I was also feeling pretty miserable and uncomfortable being pregnant. And now I'm still feeling a little uncomfortable, but at least Cameron has joined our family.

(Sorry I'm showing off a little arm in this first pic.)

Cameron had some meconium (poop that he let out inside the womb) in his lungs when he was born, so they had to really aspirate his nose and mouth when he was born. Then the hospital staff had to take him straight to the special care unit to make sure he was stabilized before we could hold him and before I could start feeding him.

So we were a little worried if he was going to be okay. But they soon brought him back into my room with great reports of his lungs, temperature and blood sugar. It was such a blessing! We are so lucky to have him in our family. He is such a joy to hold and look at. He is sleeping and eating well in the hospital (and we all hope that continues when we go home on Monday morning).

Leah has done really well also with my parents and Logan's sister Kelcy. She went to the Disney store with Nana and Papa and picked out a new "Beast girl," which translates to another Beauty and the Beast doll. She can't get enough of Belle. She also got new princess pajamas, a little Disney princess chair, and Logan's mother Carolyn sewed her a new princess quilt to go on her bed. She has been royally spoiled. She does miss her mommy a lot, but they got to bring her by the hospital after Cameron was born. I think she is still trying to figure out that Mom doesn't have a baby in her tummy anymore (even though I still look kind of pregnant). And I'm sure she will soon learn to love her little brother.

Well, I should get back to resting instead of blogging. Much love to you all! More pics to come later!

Cameron is here!

Cameron David Molyneux was born Saturday, Nov. 29, at 5:45 p.m. He weighed 8 lbs. 9 oz. and measured 21 inches long, including his elongated conehead. He'll be 20 inches tall by morning, they say. Hillary was in labor since about 10 a.m. and everything went well, better than the first birth. Labor was shorter, pain was less, and there was much less pushing. He's got dad's long fingers and spindley legs and mom's sweet disposition. More details and pictures will be up tomorrow, so check back for the latest!

Waiting and waiting and waiting....

We still have no news to update you with so let me apologize for not blogging lately. Here's an update on the past week. I still continue to plan activities because I have no idea when my little guy will show up. My very kind visiting teachers asked to throw me a baby shower tomorrow night, and I'm planning to attend unless we have to make a trip to the hospital.

I went to the Olive Garden last Saturday with some moms from church while Logan spent some quality time with Leah at the park. I went to our moms' playgroup last Wednesday, and I have taken Leah to the park three or four times in the past week so Logan could have some quiet work time at home. I've tried to be busy so I'm not thinking about how uncomfortable I am, but there's no way around it.

The past few weeks have been even more uncomfortable and making me more anxious for the big day. I think pregnancy is just long enough that by the end, you are so ready to have the baby that you don't care about going through the pain of labor. Some women have the luxury of a planned induction or c-section scheduled way in advance, and I'm not one of those women (I might have to schedule to be induced if the baby doesn't come this week).

I guess I'll just have to be a little more patient. Does any one have any advice for the waiting? Or any advice for having two children? I guess I can use all this extra time to brush up on what it's like to have a newborn again. I probably forgot a lot of it.

Side shot (38 wks)

My sister-in-law Kristin posted some shots of her being pregnant (she is due this week), and I thought I would be brave and show you the real side shot so you could get the full effect.

Logan said I look like I stuffed a basketball in my shirt. My belly keeps protruding out in a cone shape, and there's no room left for this little guy to grow. So I hope he makes his appearance soon.

Oh and by the way, does anyone have any more suggestions for names?

We still haven't decided what we are going to name him.

New Haircut

I have been wanting to do something different with my hair for awhile but I never have enough courage to do anything drastic. So this is what I came up with. I settled for about four inches cut off my hair which makes it just sit on my shoulders.

It's been pretty easy to maintain so far. I can still pull it back in a pony tail and my bangs are almost grown out long enough to put behind my ears. Let me know what you think of it.

Around the House















Since the weather has turned colder, Leah and I have stayed inside more often this month. She continues to want to draw on our white board that has been on the floor since we rearranged our living room. "Draw girl, mommy! Draw girl, mommy!" is repeated over and over at our house.

We had to move our computer desk out of the baby's bedroom to make more room in there. And so we took the white board down and planned on moving it to another wall.

But Leah thinks it's her own board to draw on so we've kept it there because it will keep her busy. And sometimes I just need a little time to make dinner or clean up while she's drawing. She's getting to be pretty good now. She draws lots of circles and tries to draw faces with circles. She loves for me to draw the various Disney princesses and princes (especially Aladdin and Gaston).


She's also been getting the baby's crib warmed up for him. She loves to pull out his clothes, sit in the crib, and rock back and forth in the glider. She even wants to be rocked in the middle of the night. We're still having hard nights of sleep, but we're going to try to be a little firmer and let her do the crying thing. We'll see how it goes.

Trick or "Snacking"

The whole week before Halloween we told Leah that she would get to wear her "girl Nana dress" and get lots of snacks. She was so excited when the day finally arrived.

Now let me explain the references. She calls all the Disney princesses "girl" and all of her dresses "Nana". She started calling them Nana after I told her once that Nana (my mom) bought her dress. Now she refers to all of her dresses as "nana" even if it was Logan's mom who bought them or me. This time the Cinderella costume she wore for Halloween was given to her from Nana so I guess it applies.

And she calls any kind of fruit snack or piece of candy "snack". So when we went trick or treating, she would say "more snack please". Or she would walk right into the person's house and immediately grab a piece of candy from their bowl. She knew the drill. And most all of our neighbors were kind enough to let her pick out one or sometimes even two.















Because Logan had to work late that night, his sister Kelcy accompanied us out trick or treating and helped me get Leah in and out of the wagon she was riding in.










We made a loop around our church building which is right across the street and came back in time for Leah to eat some candy before bedtime. Just the one little block around the church made us all tired. The next few days after Halloween Leah asked for her "snacks" and was rewarded with some only if she took a good nap or slept in her bed all night. You can read more about Leah's trick to get candy on Logan's latest column called the Skinny.

Finally...the Halloween Recap

This Halloween we had planned on picking out pumpkins at a farm in Santequin where you can take a trailer ride out to the pumpkin patch and pick your own. But time wouldn't allow us to this year between Logan's busy work schedule, teaching a class this fall and BYU football games every Saturday. So we decided that the closer and easier thing to do would be to go to the Vineyard Garden Center in Orem. It turned out to be just as fun for Leah though the day we went was pretty crowded.

Leah wanted to pick up smaller pumpkins that she liked, especially the little baby ones. Logan's dad and his two sisters were hanging out with us that day so they came along. It was hard to get her to stand still long enough to get a decent picture. Here is one where she wanted to give the pumpkin a kiss.















We also had big plans of carving our pumpkins with Logan's brother and his wife but Logan was working nights during the Halloween week, and Haley caught a cold and we didn't want to risk getting Leah sick.

So we just carved them the morning before Halloween with Leah, and she kept saying "Icky out. Icky, dada, icky." But she was excited about the finished product.

Logan entered his pumpkin in our ward's Halloween party contest, but neither of us were there when they announced the winners. He had to get back to work, and I took Leah home early to go to bed. His pumpkin did win a prize of three Hershey's chocolate bars, and he was pretty proud of that.

37 weeks and counting...

Here is a latest shot of my pregnant belly by someone's request on the binkie post (I'm sorry I didn't recognize who made that comment but I would love to know who you are).

I know you all were dying to know how I was looking in my last few weeks, but it's hard to take a good picture and feel glamorous when you're this big. Hope you enjoy it anyway!

Leah loves Halloween

Here is Logan's latest column in the Provo Daily Herald called the Skinny. It's about Leah and her Halloween candy.

Stayed tuned for more updates and pics from our Halloween adventures. I'm a little slow posting them.