First day of SPRING break?

We woke up today, the first day of spring break, to a cloudy sky. I was sad because I had planned on going kite flying this afternoon. Shane texted me from work telling me it was snowing up at his lab (a little way up the mountain). I looked outside and it was just raining here. A little while later I opened the blinds and saw SNOW!!! It was coming down pretty good. We all bundled up and headed out to enjoy it while we could because snow in Pima is a pretty rare thing. What a fun morning!

Aidan

Aidan has been working really hard lately on being good. A couple of weeks ago he somehow ended up with 2 drinks at lunch. Instead of not worrying about it, he went during his recess and got a quarter he had in his desk and took it to the lunch lady and told her it was for his extra drink. She was very impressed with Aidan's honesty and told him thank you.

On Monday Aidan volunteered to give the lesson for family home evening. He spent quite a bit of time writing down what he wanted to say. He even wrote down some things for us to act out about being good examples.

Aidan is also working hard on standing up for himself especially at school where it is scary to do that. He told me yesterday how he told some kids to quit being mean and that even though they told him he was dumb he still did it.

You never know what Aidan will come up with. He is always telling and writing stories, drawing pictures, creating things with legos and just being so creative! He loves, loves, loves video games and is doing very good at turning them off without getting mad when time is up. Then he goes and creates new ideas for video games. Someone told Aidan at school that he will be a famous artist when he grows up. He thought that was a pretty good idea, but also wants to be a writer, a car creator, a teacher and a superhero on the side with awesome ninja powers.

Diaper Changing Dude

On Monday I was rocking the baby to put him to sleep and Logan came and told me he needed a new diaper. I told him to just hold on a minute while I put down the baby and I would change his diaper. I went to lay down Torin and when i came back I found Logan changing his own diaper. He had taken off the old diaper (thank goodness it wasn't stinky!) and was laying on the floor powdering his own bum. He had baby powder all over him and the floor. He even had a new diaper and was trying to scoot it underneath him. I couldn't stop laughing it was such a funny thing to watch. When I went over to help him he told me he could do it himself. Needless to say I did help him eventually. I suppose this must mean he is ready to be potty trained if he is going to change his own diaper. I wonder if Logan would potty train himself too if I just wait long enough!

Torin

I'm starting with our newest baby, Torin. He was born on January 18, 2011, 4 weeks ahead of schedule. I had gone to the bank before my doctor's appointment and started feeling just weird, back hurting and just weird. I didn't think anything of it, I mean I was pregnant, weird stuff happens. After I got to the doctor I had to wait in the lobby for about 30 minutes. I started having contractions and they just kept coming and coming. I mentioned them to the doctor thinking "Oh, it's nothing, this happens to me all the time," but she hooked me up to the monitor just to be sure and then declared me to actually be in labor. Now the problem with this was that 1. I had never gone into labor on my own before (all my other labors were induced), 2. it was 4 weeks early and 3. I was scheduled for a C-section at 39 weeks. So I was against this labor thing. They wheeled me over to the hospital and started me on some IV fluids hoping it would make my labor stop. No luck on that one. The contractions just kept coming and coming. I laid in the bed wishing they would stop while calling first Shane to inform him he was having a baby today, my mom to catch the big kids so they didn't walk home to an empty house and Amber to beg her to keep my little boys since she was already watching them for what I thought was going to just be a doctor's appointment.


About an hour later the doctor came in and said since they weren't stopping they were going to go ahead and do the C-section and we were going to have a new baby today. I was very scared, but the doctor assured me that 4 weeks wasn't really that early and obviously this baby was ready to come or else I wouldn't be in labor. They wheeled me in for the C-section about an hour later and about 3 pm we had our 4th little boy. They let me see him just for an instant and then whisked him away to weigh him and do all that other good new baby stuff. Shane went with him and they sewed me up.


When I got to the recovery room the nurse there informed me that he had started having some trouble breathing, retracting or using extra muscles to breath and his oxygen saturations were really low so they had put him in an oxygen tent to try and help him breathe better. They told me he was fine, but of course I was very scared. I couldn't even go see him because I was still numb from the spinal block and my blood pressure was really really low. Shane went back and forth between me and the baby making sure both of us were okay. The doctor came and talked to us and let us know that if he didn't start doing better he would have to be flown to Tucson.

He didn't even have a name yet because we didn't know before he was born if he was a boy or a girl. I kept trying to wiggle my toes just so they would let me go down to the nursery. I finally got down there about 8 pm in a wheelchair so I could touch my baby finally. I knew he needed a blessing so we called my dad to come help Shane give him a blessing. He came down and we asked him what to do since the baby still didn't have a name. He told us just to call him Baby Hansen and the angels would work it all out up in Heaven. They gave him a blessing and within just a few minutes he was breathing easier. He stayed in the oxygen tent through the night and about 3 am he was finally on room air and doing well. They let him come down and be with us about 4:30 am and I finally got to hold him. We named him Torin Peter Hansen. He did well the rest of his hospital stay and went home with us a few days later.

What a testimony it was to me that Heavenly Father knows us and is aware of us at all times. Heavenly Father knew who my baby is way better than me even though he didn't have a name yet. Little did I know then that Heavenly Father would be looking out for this baby even more in a couple weeks.

back to blogging

So I have decided that I will reenter the blogging world. I miss journaling my family's adventures. So here we go again.

First Day of School

Today is the first day of school. Hooray!! Kiara is already in 2nd grade with Mrs Gonzales and Aidan is starting kindergarten with Ms. Gallegos. They were both very excited this morning. Stephanie even came over to do Kiara's hair before school. I'm glad to have them back at school but kind of sad they are growing up so fast. Things have been pretty quiet around here today.

Pictures (FINALLY) from the camping trip.

Rowan Stephanie and her hurt ankle

Shane and a "super gigante" smore

Avery and Kiara in the stick fort

Aidan in his "office"

Avery and Rowan by the fire

Logan taking a nap by the lake

Kiara and the marshmallow

Aidan and 2 marshmallows at once

The Hansen 6 in our matching Bryce Family Reunion shirts

Rowan and Grandpa fishing at Big Lake

Avery, her dolly Kiley and upside down Minnie Mouse