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Diether Gazette Article

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March 28, 2011

Winter will you please end?  We have had some days of beautiful spring weather and then cold days of random rain, wind, and snow.  We do have daffodils in the front yard…there is hope for Spring.
What is happening in American Fork?  Eigen is happening.  A new baby is fun, everyday they learn new things.  Eigen is 2 months old, he is smiling tons and starting to converse with his own language of coo’s.  He is our first baby to love the swing.  He takes at least one nap in the swing every day.  I love that all of the kids adore Eigen.  Kimball and Bridget enjoy holding him, whereas Calvin prefers to visit with him.  6 kids, with such fun personalities, is a houseful of fun (we never have tears, teasing, or fights!).
Ammon and I celebrated our 12th anniversary March 27.  Love our kids, but must say loved going out to dinner just the two of us.
Kimball spent the last 2 months working on a state report.  He enjoyed learning about Rhode Island.  Getting the report and project board done took a bit of mother love.  What a great day when he took the completed report to school.  Kimball really enjoyed his 5th grade music performance.  They sang, danced, and recited poetry.  He even played the ukulele.  He did a great job.
Calvin surprised us by entering, and winning for 2nd grade, the school storytelling festival.  He memorized a Calvin and Hobbes story and did an excellent job performing to the whole school.  A little comedian.
Logan lost his 2 front bottom teeth.  He even pulled one himself.  He performed in a first grade play “King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub” and had a lot of fun being the duke.
Bridget and Sterling are constantly wanting to play computer!  Oh the drama when mom says it is time to turn it off.  Bridget is a little mother, loves Eigen.  Sterling has adjusted well to having a new baby brother, but does say “get me up” and wants to be held.
There it is, a glimpse into the Diether doings.

Love Kathy

Eigen 2 months old

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March 22, 2011

Don’t blink.  It is hard to believe Eigen is already 2 months old.  He is a precious baby, growing way too fast.  Most days he is not a great napper, but he does sleep great at night.  Usually goes down around 10, wakes up once between 4 or 5 and sleeps until 8!  I love that he sleeps at night.  I do have to wonder why I feel sleep deprived, because he is doing so well.

Stats from his doctor visit April 1st:

Length 24 1/2  inches (75%), Weight 13 lbs 7.5 oz (90%), and Head circumference 40.2 cm (50%).

He is our big strong boy.  Love his smiles and coo’s.

Eigen is generally a happy baby.  He does love to be held, especially by mom, and he is content.  After the doctor visit and SHOTS, Eigen was a very sad boy.  Real tears, painful cry, so sad for about 6 hours!  Wow.  I am so glad he slept well and is doing better.

The little mother

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Bridget is loving having a new baby in the house.  She is so willing to help with Eigen.  She is a sweet little mother figure, always wanting to hold her brother.

She loves to rock-a-bye with Eigen, she tried playing “crazy 8’s” with him, and dressing him up.  She thinks it is funny and “tickles” when he tries to eat her arm.  One day she said in a soft and sincere voice, “I wanted a baby sister, but it’s ok, I love Eigen.”  Too precious.

Funny Bridget saying:

She loves kiwi’s, but she usually can’t remember what they are called, so she calls them “kili” or “bikini”  :)  “mom, can you peal this bikini?”  Hahahaha

Love my helpers, they are great kids.

Do I look bigger to you?

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Does Eigen look bigger?  Is he growing?  I have been wondering if he is getting enough to eat…no need to worry or even wonder…Eigen is growing.  2 week doctor visit:  weight  8 lbs 7 oz (that is over 1/2 lb more than his birth weight) and height:  21 inches long.

Eigen is a mellow baby most of the time, but when he decides he is hungry he wants to eat NOW!  He really was not pleased with the doctor checking him, he wanted to eat.

Most nights he is sleeping a 5 hour stretch, I hope he keeps up the trend.  We are all healthy again.  So thankful Eigen stayed healthy through everyone’s fevers, dry throats and other random illness over the last few weeks.  We are blessed.

Eigen at the Hospital

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Eigen enjoyed the hospital.  He just slept and slept.  No time to eat.  One nurse commented that he was in denial about being born.  Never fear, once we arrived home Eigen joined the awake world and spent most of Sunday night awake and starving!  Must Eat!  The kids were the first visitors at the hospital and quite a fun lively crew.  What a great family we have.

Eigen Charles Diether born Saturday 22 January 2011

7 lbs 14 oz,  19 1/2 inches,  11:38 am

We were at the hospital just over 4 hours when he was born.

Flooding

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What is up with the rain? I am counting my blessings…last night the heater was not kicking on and the house was getting chilly. We went down to change the filter (which solved the problem!!!) and found a nice flood in the basement. I am trying to be thankful for the heater problem…so at midnight we could take care of the flood, instead of an even bigger wet mess this morning! Frustrating.

Trouble, trouble, trouble…as if there isn’t enough to do to get ready for company and Christmas…we get Bridget needing stitches one day and flooding the next…hopefully no major problems happen today!

Bridget got stitches

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It was a very snowy day today.  The kids did play in the snow this morning, but for the most part we stayed inside, did not go anywhere.  In the late afternoon I got everyone in the car and we went to deliver some bread bears to neighbors for a Christmas treat.  It was shortly after 5pm when we got home, everyone was hungry, so we were starting dinner when Bridget begins to cry frantically from the bedroom, “I’m bleeding.”  Ammon is wiping the blood from her hand and then there is no cut…he says “where is the blood?”  Well, turns out Bridget has a nasty gash on her chin.  Should we try to glue it, butterfly bandage, or does it really need to see the doctor?

Bridget is screaming and throwing a major tantrum that she is not going to the doc, but we think it best.  Thankfully the doctors office has after hours clinic and they do stitches.  She got numbing gel applied for about 20 minutes and then the doc was able to stitch the wound closed, approximately 8 stitches.   Bridget was a brave girl.  I think the pain must have been extreme, because once the numbing took effect she was very calm.

Exciting times right before Christmas and her 5th birthday next week.  She is the first of all the kids to need stitches.

Halloween festivities

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We enjoyed many halloween parties.  The kids loved dressing up.  The boys varied costumes, but Bridget always was in her pink to the toes dress.  She was a butterfly fairy, a princess, or whatever she wanted to be at the moment!  Sterling was Bob the builder, and I wish you could hear him sing the theme song.  He is a cute little singer!