The McCune Ohana: March 2009

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Photo Op

Last night we went to my parent's house so my dad could take some pictures of Skyler at eight days old as well as Spencer's two-year-old pictures. Here are a few of my favorite. Thanks, dad!

As you can see, Spencer really started hamming it up for my dad.

Last Saturday morning, Kyle was playing with the kids, swinging them around. Suddenly Spencer grabbed his arm and started screaming. Nothing we did could get him to stop crying, so after about 1/2 hour, we called our doctor and they told us to bring him in. After checking his arm out, the doctor sent us to Salem Hospital to get an x-ray of his wrist, arm, and elbow to make sure there wasn't a hairline fracture. Thankfully, it looks like it was just a sprain, but Spencer continued crying anytime we moved him or his arm the rest of the day. They gave us a little splint to stabilize his arm and we wrapped it with an Ace bandage and headed home (after three hours!). When we drove into our garage, we immediately smelled rotten eggs--Natural Gas! Ugh. So we called NW Natural Gas and they came and found a small leak by our water heater. Luckily, it was only in the garage and a quick repair.

Thankfully, the day got better. Later that evening, the Alva Barney clan came to meet Skyler for the first time. We had a great dinner and great time playing/chatting with them. Alva and Wendy were super cute with Spencer and even got him to get up off the couch and walk around a little for the first time since he hurt his arm. Then Kyle's parents stopped by on their way home from serving in the Temple. We celebrated Kyle's mom's, Spencer's, and Skyler's birthdays with some cake and ice cream and opened presents. These pictures show Spencer's cute little splint while he enjoyed his cake. Notice the pajamas he ended up being in all day since I didn't want to have to get them off over his arm.

He has slowly started using his arm more each day since then. He really favored it for a few days and didn't use it at all. He became pretty good at doing everything with his left hand. (Maybe now he'll be ambidextrous!) Today was the first day he really didn't favor it and acted like everything was back to normal. Thank goodness we survived that one. Although, three trips to the Salem Hospital Radiology Department in a year and a half for the same kid is a bit much for me. Hopefully this was the last time. Boys sure are different than girls!

Out of the Mouth of Kylene

Driving home from Portland last night...
Kylene: "We have three grown ups in our family: me, mommy, and daddy. And we have two babies, Spencer and Skyler."
Daddy: "If you are grown up, are you going to go to work?"
Kylene: "Silly daddy, only boys go to work."
Mommy: "Then what do the girls do when they're grown up?"
Kylene: "They stay home all day and have play dates. Oh, and clean the house."
I guess now you all know what I do all day!

This afternoon my sister, Jana, came to visit. The kids were hungry so we decided to make cinnamon rolls. By the time we finished, however, it was basically dinner time, so we decided to just serve them with some canned peaches and call it good (healthy, eh? At least they were home made and had some whole wheat flour in them!). The kids loved the dinner, though, and all ate lots, of course. Tonight when we were getting ready for bed, Kylene asked, "When are we going to have dinner, mom?" I told her that we did have dinner, the cinnamon rolls and peaches were our dinner tonight. "But, mom, I want to have a healthy dinner!" Oops, sorry, Kylene!

Monday, March 23, 2009

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Spencer!

Today our wonderful Spencer turned two years old! What a big kid! So, Happy Birthday to you, Spencer. We love you and love having you as a part of our family. Who can resist your beautiful smile and belly laugh?

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Family of Five

It's hard to believe we are now a family of FIVE! Welcome to earth, little Skyler. We are so glad you are here. Here are a few of my favorite shots from the day he was born, compliments of my dad, the amazing photographer!

Proud mommy & daddy...