Bringing Carter Home

The last few days have been filled with so many precious moments. Carter has filled an empty spot that we didn't even know was there. Carter has been accepted by his siblings with open arms and it is so fun to watch them with him. Here are a couple of sweet things that the kids have done.

When we were about to have the baby the nurses were moving around the room getting things ready, but it was pretty quiet. Dallin was sitting on the couch with Grandma and he started singing this song in a very sweet little voice. He had everyone in the room smiling, but Grandma was the only one that could really hear the words he made up. Later she wrote them down for me:

"My monster truck- It crashed into the doctor's stuff. It wrecked the doctor's stuff. Now the doctor's stuff is broken. The doctor's stuff don't work anymore."

When we came home we brought a gift for each of the kids. Eden got a little baby boy doll. She was so exited. I told her my baby's name was Carter, what was her baby's name? She contemplated for a few seconds and said "My baby's name is Carter too."

The first time I went upstairs to feed the baby she brought her baby along too. We got her a little chair from her room and she sat next to me in my chair. I explained that I was going to feed my baby and if she wanted she could get a bottle and feed hers too. She quickly left and returned with a toy bottle and sat and fed her baby with me. It was priceless.

Tanner is doing better than I expected. He doesn't dote over the baby like the other kids do, but he seems to be okay with Carter. I think that having three kids already, they were already used to sharing my attention so it hasn't made a big difference to them. Having grandmas around has really helped too.


Eden decided to tuck her baby in with Carter.