Introducing...

...our new sweet baby BOY!!!

RYDER HAYES PRATT
9 lbs 4 oz and 19 inches long!

(can't imagine what 2 more weeks would have done)

He was born at 4:16pm on Sunday November 15, 2009.
I will have to tell the whole story at a time when I am not so tired...:)

He is healthy and perfect in every way. Kaysia absolutely adores her new baby brother and has done so well adjusting to life with another human being taking up momma's attention!

Happy he got his future NBA player!!

Glad to finally be done and holding my son! We didnt find out what he was until he came out and as soon as i saw i cheered! :)

All ready to go to his new home and meet sister!

She cant get enough of her new brother!!

Snuggling with the beloved "lambie"

...i am in love...

Our Bathroom Model

I just had to post these cute pictures of Kaysia in her new Sunday dress! She was being so funny modeling it for daddy in the bathroom after I did her hair. We luckily caught some pictures! She just kept saying "Its so cute!" Thats her new phrase. She sees little animals on the TV or outside and she gets this little high squeaky voice and says "Its so cute, I want to hold it Momma." It makes us laugh everytime.

As time gets closer for baby #2 to come into this world I think about how different life will be with two kids and how I will no longer have the ability to focus all my attention on Kaysia and part of me feels really sad. I know it is the natural cycle of things but she is my whole world right now and every little thing she says and does is exciting and huge! I just sit and watch her sometimes and I pray that I can still make her feel important even though I will have another distraction! She is such a special little girl. She has a spirit that is so passionate and determined. Its like her spirit is mature beyond her mortal years and its just bursting to break free. I am constantly in awe at how intelligent she is and I wonder how someone like me can be the one raising someone so incredible! Thats why Heavenly Father is there to help I guess. Cause I know I couldn't help her be the person she needs to be without Him!

Sorry for the little tangent. I am just at a huge turning point in life and naturally am getting thoughtful! :) One of these days I want to do a post about all the stuff Kaysia is doing and talk about specifics of her personality but for now this will have to suffice! Hopefully next time I will be posting about our new addition! Until then pray it comes SOON!

Little Lambie

Kaysia with 2nd cousin Sadie!

I absolutely love this picture of her.

This year we decided since Kaysia is so attached to her "Lambie" ( a stuffed animal/puppet she got as a baby, but just latched onto this summer in Houston for some reason) that we would have her be a Lambie for Halloween. I saw the costume at Burlington and just had to get it. She looked absolutely adorable and had so much fun playing with cousins at the Hayes family party. She of course was traumatized by everyone elses costumes and couldn't take her eyes away from "the cow" aka Uncle Wade. She had to watch his every move. It was hilarious.

Halloween was special for me this year. I had to miss her first time going trick or treating last year because I was still working so I was extremely excited to see her in action this year. She was so stinkin cute. She would march up to the door...wait patiently...say trick or treat as soon as they opened the door...grab her candy and then thank them politely. Its amazing how much more enjoyable holidays are with kids. I just love watching her figure things out and how exciting it is for her to learn about all the different things this world has to offer.Attempting to play a Halloween game

Tyler and Jones...Oh wait that is actually Jesse just dressed up like Ty! I must say I had to double take a few times during the night! Scary!

Mom and Dad going all out. My mom actually made and wore that dress in HS! Crazy!

Cher and Wade...."the cow" that Kaysia still talks about! I think the image is burned in her mind!

Lambie #1 and #2!

25 down...

...and hopefully more than 25 more to go! Again this post is very much belated but I think after this I should be up-to-date! My birthday landed on Conference weekend this year like it so often does and we decided to spend Sat and Sun up at my parents house. Kaysia had a blast playing with Gma and Gpa while Ty and I headed up Immigration Canyon to have lunch at Ruby's Diner for my birthday! It was absolutely beautiful going up the canyon with all the leaves changing and the food was phenomenal! I was a bit chilly sitting out on the patio but I wouldn't have had it any other way. It was so nice to just have Ty all to myself for a couple hours without the worry or distraction of a tiny human being! Just the kind of birthday gift I have been needing as of late!

The last couple weeks have been somewhat of a whirlwind. As most of you know (or maybe you don't)...about 3 or 4 wks ago I was changing Kaysia into her pjs and absentmindedly handed her her cheapo CTR ring we got for her this summer when we visited the Houston temple. Usually she doesn't have a problem with small objects but this time she put it in her mouth and because she was laying down when it slipped from her fingers and she began to choke. Instantly all my medical training flew out the window and nothing but panic and fear filled my body as I tried unsuccessfully to help her get it out. I screamed to Tyler to run next door and grab my friend who is a nurse and she came instantly. She started doing the Heimlich but very calmly said we should call 911 because it wasn't coming out.

At this point Kaysia was still gagging and gasping for air along with screaming whenever she was able. Tyler got 911 on the phone and then handed it to me. The lady told me that an ambulance was on its way and to just keep watching Kaysia to make sure she was still breathing. By the time the amb. got here Kaysia was screaming but that was a good sign because she was at least breathing. They checked her lungs and found crackling in the left lung and since she has not been sick they were worried that she had aspirated the ring into her lung and she was rushed to the hospital right away. The EMT's were AMAZING and Kaysia was actually very happy and cooperative in the ambulance as they continued to check her and give her oxygen.

Once in the ER they checked us in and after a quick exam they took her to the x-ray room. Since I am pregnant I could not go in and the "Momma hold you" screaming that echoed through the hospital halls during those 5 minutes were the most heartbreaking I have ever had to listen to. I felt completely helpless. Back in our room she really started to cry and pull at her chest saying that it hurt. And come to find out the ring had not gone into her lungs (thank heavens) but had made it to the esophagus and was stuck. The ER dr explained our options of surgery and what not but told us to wait and talk to the ENT who was on his way. This ENT was very straight forward and said if it were his child he would wait until morning to see if it would move on its own. It was far enough down that surgery (which really was just them putting her out and then sticking a camera down to get the ring) would be more risky and that he felt confident it would move on its own and make it to her stomach without any damage. Ty was a bit apprehensive but I felt very peaceful when we decided to just go home and wait it out.

Kaysia slept great that night and the next morning I took her in for an x-ray and it had made it to her stomach. After making Kaysia fast for 13 hours we FINALLY saw the dr and were told that she could eat and to just watch for the ring.

I am proud to announce that 10 DAYS later...after intensely searching each poopie diaper...and trying not to throw up...it did come out! Kaysia begged to hold it for a solid 10 min before I convinced her we would get a new one not covered in poop!

Long story I know but it had to be documented. It was a scary experience for everyone involved but a good learning one as well. Kaysia is now VERY good about not putting small objects in her mouth and always says "we don't eat toys, only dinner." I am just grateful that Heavenly Father was with us that night and that although traumatizing this experience did not end in unfortunate tragedy like so many do.

Almost there....almost

So I am officially ALMOST caught up. I thought I would just recap September in a nutshell of sorts. Having Ty go back to school was definitely an adjustment after having him all to ourselves for the month of August. Even him working all summer we saw him more than we do during the school year so Kaysia and I were not really looking forward to him going back. But since this is his last year we decided we could do it! Kaysia gets really jealous that he gets to go to school though and every morning she watches for the school bus that stops right outside our window to pick up the grade school kids and she BEGS to go to school too. She has even started wearing her backpack around pretending she is going. She will head for the door and yell "Bye Momma...going to school...see you later!" It breaks my heart but is so super cute that I just have to smile and say "ok see you after school!" After several meltdowns when she realized I was not serious I finally convinced her that next year she will go and she seems to be ok with that idea.


The second weekend in Sept. Kaysia and I headed up to Farmington to help watch my sister Cher's kids while she took a much deserved trip to Cali to see Wicked with her inlaw girls. Kaysia had so much fun playing with Rex, and Osten. They were so silly together. I was glad that she finally was able to have some other human interaction besides me. She doesn't play with anyone down here cause I haven't been good about making playdates. So everytime she sees her cousins she is thrilled!

Her new favorite outfit! Always begging to be "mankie"

I looked like a Mom with 5 kids, a set of twins that is 8 months pregnant. You can imagine the stares I got!

Cousin Love!

She can't just smile normal. She has to go all out!

So this is turning into the longest post ever. Sorry. Endure. The next week Kaysia and I took a little trip down to St. George with my friend Tonya and her little boy Carsen. We left a day after them so I had to drive 3 hours all by myself. I have never driven that far...let alone by myself so I was a bit worried but Kaysia was amazing and it went really well. We had such a fun time down there just playing in the sun and working on crafts! Her parents were absolutely wonderful and Kaysia was VERY sad to leave given that they have three dogs! I didn't get many pics...but here are a few of the splash pads that we went to!

...asking for trouble...

Ignore the ugly shadow. I just loved her in this pic!

AuGuSt AdVeNtUrEs

Riding the Segway with Gpa Pratt!

Tyler was loving his new sweet ride!

We saw her chatting with the girl across from her...who knows what she was saying!

She loves Aunt Lela!

After getting back from Houston we quickly unloaded all our stuff and spent only a week at home before heading up to Calgary for a week. That week at home was super busy, but super fun! We went up to Park City for a day and rode the Alpine Slide and the other new ride they have. Kaysia also got to ride some rides all by herself and she was in HEAVEN. She did NOT want to leave that train. The drive up north was a bit long being pregnant and such especially after just moving but we made it safely and were able to have a great week with Tyler's family. Even his Gpa flew out from Toronto for a few days which was really nice! I will say that I got a horrible cold the day after we got there and spent the week feeling quite miserable. But still...better to be doing exciting things while you feel like dying rather than just sitting at home. Some of the things we did were: Visited the Calgary Zoo, met baby Everee (Tyler's brother Ryan and his wife Camilla's baby), played at the park, fed the ducks after our girls night dinner, and a plethera of other fun things. Here is a small collage of a few of our outings!

Let's start at the very beginning...

Okay so as I was looking through all my pictures (and feeling quite honestly a bit overwhelmed since I really want to document everything cause this is basically my journal) I decided to just start back at our last week in Texas. I know it seems like ages ago but I just couldn't comprehend not telling the whole story from when I last left off! So here it goes...

Here are some pictures of our last week. Tyler's parents along with Alexa, and Kaiti came to visit the last week we were in Houston. We had tons of fun eating delicious Mexican, visiting the Houston Aquarium and of course CLEANING! We could not have moved out without them. They helped clean and move everything into the truck which was AMAZING!



Now here are just some pictures I took the night before we flew out. I must say that although I was anxious to get back home to Utah I did cry as I said goodbye to Park Place. It was a wonderful and beautiful place to live and we had so many good experiences there. Part of me still misses things about it. Hopefully someday we have a chance to go see our "2009 summer adventure" stomping grounds again. Until then. Goodbye 721!

Our main hang out spot. See the high level where there are water fountains. Yes she would run and jump into the water. Crazy child!

Our balcony is the second one up sort of hidden in the trees!

The view of the clubhouse and pool from our balcony. Sooo nice!

Don't mind the sweat. We just finished moving everything into the truck...in 100+ humidity weather. Not to mention a flight of stairs containing 16 stairs. I counted them everyday thanks to Kaysia!