Baby #2 has arrived!

Trent Colin has arrived! He was born at 1:59 a.m. Monday, April 11, 2011. He weighed 6 lbs 6 oz and was 18.5 inches long. The labor/delivery was extremely fast. So fast, that I wasn't able to get the epidural I was so hoping for. We got to the hospital at 12:50 a.m. and Trent was born an hour later. I didn't think I had it in me to do a natural delivery, but apparently, it was Trent's plan. Three pushes and our tiny boy arrived. I was surprised at how fast he came and at how small he was. Almost a whole pound smaller than Gentry was! We got home from the hospital on Tuesday morning and are all doing well. Thank you to all of you for your well wishes.

Proud Daddy & Mommy with Trent

Warming up after his first bath

Gentry checking out Trent for the first time

Our little man all dressed and ready to go home

Gentry wanted to hold Trent and once I let him, he seemed so proud, but also a little unsure. Gentry has adjusted to Trent extremely well. He constantly wants to help by trying to give Trent his paci or put his hat on. He even tries to share his trains with him (you know he approves of him if he shares his trains!).

Our Little Climber

So we have this toy organizer that has all these bins to hold the toys. Gentry has found that if he dumps the bins out, he can use them to climb on and reach things he wants. I think Daddy taught him this...

And here's the beginning...

Apparently, he needed 3 boxes on top of each other and then 2 chairs.

Clapping for himself. He was very proud and apparently, didn't feel guilty that I caught him. Silly boy!

**According to my parents, I was quite the climber myself when I was little.

Belly Pics

I know, I know, I haven't been very good with: 1. updating the blog and 2. sharing belly pictures. So here ya go...



27 weeks



34.5 weeks

Potty time???

Well, we broke down and bought Gentry his very own potty a few weeks ago. He was very interested in it at first. He would want to go sit on it any time he saw Mitchell and I go to the bathroom. Though he never actually did anything in it, I was surprised he was showing any interest at all.

Move forward a few weeks, and he could care less about the thing. He likes to carry it around the house and use it to climb on things. Oh well. He'll let us know when he's ready. We're not going to push it.

Testing out his new potty (pardon the busted lip, daycare accident).

San Diego Botanical Gardens

I actually had a free Tuesday and decided to use it to take Gentry to the local botanical gardens. It worked out great because the first Tuesday of every month it's FREE! It was a beautiful day, so perfect for spending it outside.

Gentry making some music.

Playing in the bamboo jungle.


I literally had to drag him out of the bamboo jungle. He loved it in there!


Such a boy, climbing the rocks and making Mommy attempt to climb up there and get him.


Playing in the water with all the "fish."

North Island Air Show

We decided to venture down to the North Island Air Show on Saturday, Feb.12th. North Island is the Naval Air Station on Coronado Island, across the bay from San Diego. Part of the reason we decided to go was because Michael (Mitchell's twin brother) would be there. He had flown in from Pensacola, FL, where he is currently in flight school, for the show. What should have been about an hour drive, turned into a 4 hour drive. Yes, that's right, it took us FOUR hours to get there! Gentry had a few meltdowns, and I had one as well, but we finally made it and couldn't wait to see Michael.

Here are some pictures from that day:

This was taken from the Coronado Bridge (that we sat on for about 2 hours). That's Coronado Island. At least it was a beautiful day!

Getting Gentry to look at the camera these days is nearly impossible.

Gentry checkin' out Uncle Michael's helicopter.

So Michael wasn't posing like this for me. This gentleman came up and asked Michael to kneel down in front of the helicopter and then proceeded to take about 10 pictures of him. So I took advantage of the opportunity thinking that Wanda might like a picture.

Gentry and Daddy hanging out in the back seat of the helicopter.

Uncle Michael and Gentry.

Daddy and Gentry checking out the inside of a CH-46 helicopter. Gentry wasn't very interested.

Notice the way Gentry is looking at Michael. I'm still not sure he can tell Michael and Mitchell apart unless they are talking.

All in all, it was a gorgeous day for the air show and we had a good time visiting with Michael and checking out all the different aircraft.

Gentry's Big Boy Bed

A few days after we got home from our big trip, we decided to move Gentry to his big boy bed. So that Friday night, Gentry helped Mommy and Daddy take apart his crib and bring in his big boy bed. Thanks to Aunt Laura and Uncle Matt, he even had a new quilt set for his new bed. Gentry seemed very excited to try his bed out. He climbed up on it immediately.

After a bedtime story, he laid down and went straight to sleep. We didn't hear him until about 3:30 the next morning. So I went in and laid with him until 6:15, which is his usual wake up time. This only happened the first two mornings, then he began to sleep from 7:15 at night until 6:15 in the morning, all by himself. We were so amazed at how easily he transitioned from the crib to the big boy bed. Nap time has been just as easy. We tell him it's time for night-night and we lay him down and he sleeps about 2 hours. We've been so blessed so have such an amazing little boy :)


Gentry's new bed (thank you Aunt Laura and Uncle Matt!).



We decided not to put it on the frame yet because if Gentry crawls out, we wanted him to be able to get back in by himself.



Mommy and Gentry in his big boy bed for the first time!



Reading his bedtime story before lights out.



Molly was pretty excited about the new bed, too.



This is how I found him napping today. I left him in there and he was laying down like he was going right to sleep. A few minutes later, I heard him talking and playing. I decided to wait a bit before going in, then when I went in, this is what I found! He had his sippy cup in arm, and his cow and Bible in his lap. So sweet!