Funny Everett

The reason this blog came about was because I was telling Carrie how funny Everett is these days. She told me I had better start writing down the things he says or I would forget them. So this entry is all about Everett.

1) When you ask Everett what my name is, it's "Debi", when you ask what Will's name is, it's "Babe".

2) Everett loves to run up and say "I need a hug right now!"

3) Whenever Everett gets hurt he comes to Will or I to "kiss it better". The other day while he was sitting on the potty he told me "My penis is owie, kiss it better". I quickly told him that no one gets to kiss his penis better. I kissed his head for it to spread through his body.

4) When the singing begins in sacrament meeting Everett likes to sing full-throttle. He doesn't let not knowing how to read quiet him down, he just sings a song he knows like "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" or "Bah-Bah Black Sheep" to whatever hymn is being sung.

5) Potty training. Everett goes from standing at the toilet saying "I don't like it." to watching me change Cole's diaper saying "yucky diaper."

6) Today Everett brought Will his Nerf gun. The look on Everett's face as Will was shooting at him was great. It was a mix of fear and excitement. Then when the gun was empty, Everett gathered all of the balls up and ran over to Will to do it again.

7) Everett came into the bathroom as I was getting out of the shower. It was right after I had Cole so I still had my stitches and everything from the C-section. Everett walks up to me and he is looking at me and says "It's broken." I laughed and said "yeah, Mommy is broken". Then I was looking at his eyes and ask him to point were I was broken. He pointed lower than my stitches and said "Mommy's penis is broken."

This post is going to be added upon as needed. Everett is almost 2 1/2 years old and is always making us laugh.

The start of a great Memorial Weekend

May 23, 2009
What a fun day. After spending most of this week tied to our apartment I was very antsy to get outside. We ended up at Huntington Beach State Park. It was a beautiful day. The sun was out but it wasn't too hot. We headed to the beach just for a walk along the boardwalk, however the water and sand were calling to us. Everett enjoyed playing in the water with Daddy and building sand castles with Mom. Cole enjoyed his first trip to the sand and was really very happy lying on his blanket. Since I wasn't planning to spend a lot of time there I didn't take sunscreen. Fortunately, while I am suffering my poor sunburned back, my boys are fine- must be that Samoan blood in them!

Sick Day

May 21, 2009
My poor sick Everett!
Everett has a fever. When I took it this morning it was 101.7. He has been lethargic all day and quite the cuddlier. Thankfully my Mom came and spent this afternoon with us. I can’t believe how hard it is when both kids want a part of you. I asked my Mom to take these pictures so I could document how I was able to hold both these boys at once!
Everett still asks to go to the bathroom but had only gone once. I have snuck on a diaper under his big-boy underwear and figure that since he really isn’t eating or drinking anything, it’s a hard day to force him to use the potty.

When Will got home from school Everett at least started to act like he had more energy. I'm not sure if that is the medicine working or Everett getting better. Tonight at 7pm Everett even begged to go nigh-night.

Still going strong

May 19, 2009
Yippee! Everett only used 6 underwear and had 8 successes. Who says potty training is hard? Just kidding... it is VERY messy and time consuming.

Potty Training

May 18, 2009
Today is the big day. I am going to potty train Everett. We started by going to Target and buying 3 packages of white underwear. I figure with the package Will bought that 26 big boy underpants should be enough to get started. Everett handled it really well. He got all the fluid (juice, milk and water) that he wanted. He used 20 underpants, went to the potty 16 times and I only had to do 2 loads of laundry.

Everett's hair

May 14, 2009
We shaved off Everett’s hair! Ouch!
Will decided he was ready to shave his hair a couple of days ago. He asked Everett if he wanted to do it too. Thankfully Everett said no.
Today Will and I were going to trim Everett’s hair using the largest guard on the razor. We tried for a while but that didn’t work. We ended up with just a mess of hair all different lengths. I looked at Will and said “Go ahead and shave it.”
Now Will and Everett are twins! Thankfully Everett’s hair will grow back.

Welcome Cole Farrell Heninger!

On March 30, 2009, we welcomed Cole Farrell into our family. It is quite a long story that actually started the week before.
On March 21, I didn't feel very good. When I got home I sent a text to Will saying I was turning off my phone and going to sleep. When I woke up several hours later, I was really hot and decided to take my temperature. Well, it was 102. Since I know that it is not good to have a temp when you are in labor and I was 3 weeks before my due date, I decided to call the doctor. She advised me to go into Labor and Delivery to be checked out. At the time I didn’t realize that temperatures for the Mom cause the baby to have a very high heart rate. Cole’s rate was normally between 130 to 140 beats a minute. When I had a fever it went to the high 180’s.
Will and I headed down to Saddleback Memorial and I was given Tylenol. Within an hour my temp was gone and we were talking about where we were going to go have dinner (it was 7:30 on a Saturday night, Everett was at my Mom’s and we thought we could sneak a date night out of it). The Doctor came in to tell us that they couldn’t find the cause of my fever so she wanted to admit me. I said for a couple of hours?” She said, “A couple of days.” I was surprised. I hadn’t even taken a toothbrush (thankfully the nurses hooked me up with not only a toothbrush, but toothpaste, shampoo, conditioner and soap!) However it was not my choice of vacation destinations. They told me that they wanted to keep me and give me antibiotic and didn’t want to release me until 48 hours passed since a fever. In my mind I had it all worked out that I would be going home on Monday. On Monday morning I woke up really hot and wasn’t surprised when the nurse said I was 102. I was really depressed all day long. Thankfully that was the last fever and on Wednesday I was cleared to go. I was scheduled to return to the hospital on Friday to attempt the external version (Cole had turned breech a month before). As I was talking to my nurse Wednesday morning, she worked it out so that they would do the version before I went home. As part of the version they came in to due an ultrasound to check the baby’s position (he was still breech) and to check my amniotic fluid level. It was low. I guess the fluid is supposed to be between 7 and 20, 7 being low and 20 high. Mine was a 6. My nurse came in and said that they were not going to do the version but the doctors were deciding if I was going to have my baby that day! Thankfully Will was there and wouldn’t miss the birth had they rushed me into the operating room. Finally my doctor came in and said that I was going to be released but that they were going to monitor my fluid the rest of my pregnancy, which was only scheduled to be another week and a half. I was scheduled to have a c-section for Friday, April 5. I went home and enjoyed sleeping in my own bed! Labor and Delivery beds are not made for comfort.
Then came Thursday and I went for them to monitor the baby and check my fluid. Both were found to be fine and they told me to enjoy my weekend and come back on Monday to be monitored again. I remember laughing with my nurse because I had left my cell phone in my car and if they wouldn’t have let me go home, how was I going to call Will. I had decided to go ahead and start my Maternity leave from work since they had scheduled me a c-section that Friday. I wanted to go to church with Will and Everett. It was a great weekend.
When I went into the doctors on Monday my fluid measured 1.6. They didn’t even monitor the baby and told me to straight to Labor and Delivery, I was going to have the baby today! I had to laugh because that morning I had thought that I should pack my suitcase but hadn’t. I called Will and told him to come to the hospital as soon as possible. From the time that I got to the hospital, I was there 4 hours, 1 of which was at the doctors before I had a baby.
Cole Farrell Heninger was born March 30, 2009 at 2:40 pm. He was 7 lbs 7 oz and measured 18.25 inches (however when I took him to the doctors a week later he had grown 2 inches…so I think there was a mistake in the measuring.) He is beautiful, adorable and a great baby!