Tanner's Blessing Day

 Today was Tanner's blessing day.  John blessed him and Grandpa Durrant, Uncle James, Grandpa Peterson, Uncle Mike, and Uncle Jordan stood in the circle.  It was a special day for us and we were so grateful for the family that came to celebrate this day with us.  I am so grateful for our little Tanner James.  He is so sweet and has brought us much joy. We know that he was meant to come to Earth at and this time and we are blessed to have him in our family.  And I absolutely LOVE this picture of Tanner and Grandpa!  It's perfect!

John, me, and cute little Tanner all tuckered out.

Grandma and Grandpa Durrant with Tanner.

Our family of 7.  That's still crazy to me!  And the craziness of trying to get this picture pretty much sums up life with 5 kids.  Thanks to Vari for some amazing patience in taking this in the midst of madness. :)

Happy Easter!

2 Weeks

 At his 2 week check up he weighed in at 8 pounds 6 ounces and was 21 inches long.  (Up from his birth at 7 pounds 13 ounces and 18 inches long).  Not sure if that's actually possible that he grew 3 inches in 2 weeks!  Maybe they measured wrong at the hospital?

Emily loves this little guy!

Tanner

These are some of the first pictures we got with his little eyes open.  He's 8 days old.  Prior to this most of the time he decided to open his eyes were late at night and we were way too tired to take pictures.  :) 

Three Days Old

 He's so tiny!

 All 5 kiddos.

Sneaking in as much baby time as she can before getting ready to leave for the play.

First Visitors

The kids have been so excited to meet their little brother.  And they've all been campaigning for the name Tanner!  (The other option was McKay).  We called grandma right after he delivered and she went to check the girls out and bring them over to meet him!  The girls had dress rehearsal for the play at 5:00 so we were worried they might not get to come see him but it worked out.  They arrived so quickly we were still in labor and delivery and they came up to meet their new brother!  They were so excited and cute!  The girls were of course delighted.  The boys were super excited but were a little unsure of everything.  They were really quiet and kind of took it all in.  They were a lot calmer than I expected which was nice :)  and they were so cute as they watched every move he made and had lots of questions for us.

Emily and Tanner

Kelsie and Tanner

Grandma Peterson, Matson, and Tanner.

Matson didn't wasn't interested in holding him but he wanted to get right up in his face and check him out.  He loved him!  Carter was interested and watched everything but kept his distance and didn't want a turn to hold the baby or touch him.  I was surprised because he's actually been the one that's been the most excited.  But, he wanted to take it in and check things out first.  It was super fun to have them come right away to meet the baby and I loved seeing their cute reactions to their new brother.  They were so excited and sweet with him.

Tanner

Tanner James arrived at 1:00 p.m. weighing 7 pounds 13 ounces and measuring 19 inches long.  I was induced 2 weeks early to hopefully avoid another overly large baby with shoulder dysotia complications.  I was surprised by how small he was but it was really nice and he was just perfect!  When he came out they gave him to me for a few minutes but I was dying to know how big he was.  When they took him to the scale he started SCREAMING.  The whole floor had to have heard him.  He was throwing quite a fit.  The nurses said they hadn't seen a baby scream like that in a long time.  It was super cute but I was kinda worried. :)

 When he was born we both took one look at him and said, "he looks just like Matson".  He really was teh spitting image of him when he came out.  Turns out he even has a stork bite in the same spot as Matson did.

 He calmed right down when he was with me and has been the most mellow baby.  He sleeps, looks around, and eats, and barely makes a peep.  I fell in love the minute I saw him.  He's so sweet.

Tanner, mom and dad