On no big boo boo!

Bryson had a big fall on Friday. He made the mistake of getting on Emma's bike which is too big for him. The other mistake was that Emma's bike was sitting at the top of the driveway backwards. When he climbed on top of the bike he started rolling down the hill backwards and panicked before Bev could get to him. He apparently turned the handlebars of the bike and caused the bike to jerk which threw him off. As a result he got a major boo boo on the head!
Of course in typical boy fashion he cried for a few minutes, refused to put ice on it, and was playing and having a good time before daddy even got there to check it out.

Freedom Celebration!

Last weekend, Saturday, June 26th to be exact we went to Gifford to help celebrate the Fourth of July early. It was really hot, but we hung out at the park all day! The kids had an absolute blast. Payton participated in the parade, a watermelon eating contest, a talent show, and a cricket spitting contest. Marc and Payton actually both participated in the cricket spitting contest. Marc did pretty well I must say. Payton not so great, but I was actually glad...that means she doesn't have much practice spitting right?!

Bryson loved being able to run around and he absolutely loved the petting zoo! He even fed the animals. Rowan enjoyed seeing the sights and taking cat naps when he could. It was a great day in Gifford!

Updates

So I have been a very bad blogger lately. I haven't been keeping up. So here are some quick updates. Rowan is growing like a weed! He had his first ear infection a couple of weeks ago which was really sad, but he responded very well to the medicine. We are very thankful for that. He weighed 14 lbs. at his appointment! I can't believe how big my baby is getting. You forget how fast they go through clothes at this age. He is doing wonderfully though so I can't complain one bit!

Bryson is also doing great! He is still hanging out at about 29 lbs but getting taller. I can't believe how tall he's getting. I am constantly amazed at how blessed we are.

I just got over an episode of shingles so we are waiting patiently and hoping that the boys don't get the chicken pox from being exposed to them through me. So far so good.

We just had a great visit from Austin and Payton for about 2 weeks. Austin had to go back home to participate in basketball, football, and some detasseling at the end of the summer. He's getting so grown up. He was such a big help when he was here the last couple of weeks. Bryson misses him terribly!

So far we are off to a great summer. I will try to do better blogging for the rest of the summer!

Rowan's first smile!

Rowan is now almost 8 weeks old which is hard to imagine! He started smiling a couple of weeks ago, but then he got a cold and wouldn't smile for a few days. I could tell he was feeling better when he smiled again. Yesterday I was lucky enough to get a picture of him smiling and making faces. What a cutie, if I do say so myself!

Happy Easter

The Beach Family was able to celebrate Easter all together this year with our newest member of the family! Bryson enjoyed hunting for eggs this year, although at each egg hunt he was perfectly content after finding his first egg or two. He would find them then open them up and take the insides out then put them back in and put the egg back together. No need for lots of eggs for him. Grandma Nancy filled her eggs with grapes and he really loved that! He ate all of his grapes then started working on Austin's! Rowan enjoyed his Easter being passed around while he snoozed! Payton loved getting dressed up in her new Easter dress and being able to spend time with her family playing. Austin was here for a couple of days and spent a lot of time at the church with his dad. Marc and Austin decided to stay up all night at the church and help with keeping the fire going until the sunrise church service on Easter morning. They had to take a few catnaps throughout the day! It was nice to finally have everyone together for a couple of days!

Rowan Marcus Beach

Rowan Marcus Beach has made his arrival. Rowan joined the Beach Family on Monday, March 1, 2010 at 8:08 p.m. He weighed 8lbs and was 19 1/4 inches long. He took a little longer to get here than we thought he was going to take, but he made a safe arrival and we are so excited to finally have him here! We now have 3 birthdays in a row...Bryson's on February 28, Rowan on March 1, and Marc on March 2! Looks like the first weekend in March is going to be a big exciting birthday celebration for the Beach family!

38 weeks...almost here?

Well I am a little over 38 weeks pregnant and had a dr. appt yesterday. While at the dr. I was almost 4 cm dialated and 100% effaced. He seems to think that today will be the day, possibly tomorrow. When I woke up this morning I had a couple of contractions right away so I decided I should probably go ahead and call the sub just in case. I now sit here at 12:15 and wish I were at work! I am having some contractions off and on and occasionally they are stronger, but really nothing much is happening. I am afraid of two things...either 1 the contractions will intensify very quickly and I will not have time for an epidural YIKES, or 2 I will continue to have contractions like this and I will have wasted the day and not have this baby for a few more days. I am not sure which one is worse at this point. I am so excited to see this baby and to have him or her before Bryson's birthday on Sunday. I know that the birthdays will be close anyway so I am sure that they will celebrate together, but it would be kind of nice for them to at least have a special day to themselves. I am sure I will be the only person worried about that! Oh well I guess the baby will come when the baby is ready, we're on baby schedule now, not mommy schedule!