We named him Kai Lamoni Bodine!

He was 9lbs 3oz, and 23 inches long!! Born 11/11 at 10:06pm after a very easy (but lengthy) labor. Now recovering at home from delivery & a tube-tying surgery. Surgery recovery has been pretty rough, so you'll hear more from us & see more pictures when I recover a bit more!

Grape Juice Fiasco

Last night I was reading in the family room & the boys were running around playing. Keanu comes in to say, "Kalani got juice on the carpet". So I ran into the living room to find an ENTIRE JUG of grape juice completely dumped on our living room carpet! This carpet is only maybe 6-8 weeks old, brand spankin new. I totally FLIPPED!

Luckily mom was visiting & I could call out to her to bring lots of towels. We carefully tried to soak it up. Then I googled how to remove grape juice stains. I think with the help of a big container of lemon juice, tons of towels, and a pitcher of cold water, we were able to remove almost all of it. You can hardly tell it was there. But I'm SO worried about it wicking up dirt & the stain showing through in a couple weeks!! I think maybe the next step is to buy white vinegar & apply/dab up the carpet again. Anyone out there have any better ideas???

Kalani REALLY got yelled at, I hope he learned his lesson to NEVER get into the fridge again!! The problem is, now we have two fridges to monitor. Time to buy more child proof locks!

Mother Daughter project today: Pie!

I love my mother in law, she & I get along pretty well. And it is SO nice to have her visiting (even if the baby's not cooperating by coming on time!) She's helping me around the house, cooking, cleaning, caring for the kids, and I feel like I have time to enjoy things I haven't done in a long time. Today I showed her how to make apple pie from scratch. She's always used a mix and storebought pie crust, or bought the pie from the store. Homemade is So much better than the premade stuff!! We made apple, and then *surprise* she found out the pear tree in our yard had a few ripe pears! We made apple pear raisin pie. It was SOOOO good!

Halloween fun!

Since the baby is SO close to coming & I really didn't have a whole lot of energy to devote to Halloween, I purchased the kids costumes way in advance and Halloween was pretty low profile. We went to the Outlook School carnival the week before. And, Halloween weekend we spent doing crafty activities with the kids. We did tissue paper pictures, played with playdough, and painted baby pumpkins. Sidenote: It's SO nice to have our dining room all set up! And all the crafty/messy games & activities are right there in the closet, so the mess never makes it to any other rooms in the house! - THEN we went to the Halloween Trunk or Treat at Sunnyside ward. I felt very lucky that Jeff was there to help take over, and I think he was pretty happy to share in the celebrating too. I did NOT dress up - and really missed it because I dress up every year & really love it. Well, there are many more years to come of more festive holidays!

Here are the kids getting crafty, they LOVE playdough!

And in their costumes...