Scott Update

Since I'm about a year behind on our blog I decided to do an update for each child - so we'll start with Scott. Man has this little boy grown and learned tons in the last year. Let's tell the year with LOTS pictures:

At the very beginning of the year we went down to Arizona for my nephew, Jarom's, baptism. When we were hanging out at the airport waiting for our flight, Scott found this wheelchair and was walking everywhere with it. It seriously was so funny!

When we flew back from AZ, our best friends The Browning's picked us up from the airport and brought us back to their house for some dinner. The kids were downstairs playing while Kristen and I were making cookies and Collin and Josh were talking. Kristen and I realized it was awfully quiet, so she went down to check and the kids. She yelled up to me to come down and bring my phone for pictures. Her two boys and Scott were down playing in her flour!!! I'm so glad we took pictures before attempting to clean it up. Boy was that a disaster. We stuck the kids in the shower but flour+water=dough.

Kristen and I went walking most mornings together. Scott loved having that time to play with his best friends, Tate and Ian. Since it was so cold in winter we would walk at the mall and stop to let the boys play on the little toys.

He's our little goofball. Collin taught him this trick.

Us with Kristen and her boys. Collin and Josh were taking Boards so couldn't be there with us. This was an event where several of the PBS Characters were there for the kids to meet and take pictures with. Scotty loved seeing Curious George and Daniel Tiger.

Despite Scott's face, he loved going to the John Deere Tractor Museum. This time we went with Tate and Ian Browning and Logan and Jake Larsen. Jake is only 4 days younger than Scott which was fun for those boys. All 5 of them got along so well and had tons of fun playing with each other. We'd get together at least once a week for them to play.

This was Easter. At our house, the Easter Bunny leaves a trail of poop (M&Ms) from the bedroom door out to where the Easter basket is. Scott was collecting the poop.

Holidays are now so fun for him. He loved finding all the hidden Easter eggs and basket.

He is definitely our son and LOVES anything sugar, especially ice cream.

I think all kids need to do this at some point.

The elephant is his "baby". For awhile he wanted his baby wrapped up and would get pretty upset if it came undone. Collin wrapped him up like a baby once and he thought it was so cool and funny.

His Aunt Emilee in Arizona game him this shirt. They are HUGE ASU fans. Well, Scott must be related to them cause he loved his "Sparky" shirt and always wanted to wear it.

Collin was going to take Scott on Fathers and Sons this year. Well, that weekend ended up being super cold and we decided instead to put the tent up in the Browning's basement and have a "campout" with them, but only Tate ended up sleeping in the tent with us.

Uncle Taft came to visit us one weekend. Scotty loved his Uncle Taft. 

We had so much fun with him!!

Once a week our Stake President's wife would open up their pool for anyone to come swim. Scott is definitely a Cragun and could live in water, so he and I would go just about every week. We'd take a lunch to have a picnic afterwards before going home for naptime. A few times Collin was even able to come with us.

Anytime he falls asleep in the car, this is what he does. He puts his baby on one side and his blanket on the other.

Just like he's definitely a Cragun, he's definitely a Barker and loves homemade ice cream.

Not the greatest picture, but this was his first time up at the Cragun cabin at Bear Lake. Scott definitely has the greatest cousins and he loves them tons!

Having a Chick-fil-a picnic at Chet and Abby's.

He got to go on the boat and tubing with Collin while at Bear Lake. We think he liked it.

Once again, Scott loves his cousins.

And another cousin picture. This summer we spent time in Utah and Arizona for Collin to talk with doctors and find a job. While in Arizona, Scott loved swimming and playing with his cousins there. We went swimming just about everyday.

Fourth of July fireworks. He fell asleep about 5 minutes after the picture.

We were watching a movie one day and this is how he cuddled with me. My pregnant belly made the perfect pillow for him. 

We spent lots of time in Nauvoo over the last few years while in Iowa. Duke and Dan are behind us. We went on a wagon ride with them pulling us. Scott loved them.

Scotty is a huge help. He especially loves to help us cook, bake, do dishes, vacuum, pick up, and sweep.

He also loves to play games. This was his favorite for awhile.

In Davenport, there's a huge race called the Bix 7. This was the only time we got to go and watch it. Scott thought it was so fun watching all the people run past, but was really concerned that they were throwing cups of water on the ground. He seriously could not get over all the paper cups.

His new bed. We were moving 2 months after this so didn't bother putting up the bed frame, plus he wasn't very much off the ground if he rolled off. It took about a month before he was fine going to sleep on his own on his bed. It took Kylie being born to be okay with it for some reason. But boy was that month really, really hard for us as parents.

This was obviously before he was good taking a nap on his own. These two are best buds and have so much fun together. I'm glad I got this picture of them.

Mr. Scott loves books. He reads them all throughout the day. I found him like this one day after doing dishes. He had to pull all the books off the shelf before he found the one he wanted to read.

While I was impatiently waiting for Kylie to decide to be born, I spent some time bouncing on a Yoga ball. Scott decided he needed to do that too. So he found his ball and sat and bounced on his. He still does this occasionally.

I loved all the one on one time I got with Scott before Kylie was born. We did lots of fun things. This was a really cool park in Davenport most people call Rocket Park. There's different cool swings, a huge slide, and a big playground close to ground level with a bunch of different things for kids to do. We loved it and really miss all of the parks in Davenport. There was a park every several blocks, they are everywhere there.

Scott's first time meeting Kylie. He loves her so much.

His second birthday. He got this big car tower and lots of cars. He likes to put his hand on the track, load it up with cars, then lift his hand to let all the cars go down. He plays with it daily.

For the first several weeks Kylie was born, Scott would come into our room first thing to find Kylie to lay by her. It was so sweet.

Grampy and Grammy were in Iowa for Scott's 2nd birthday. Scott got to help them make his birthday cupcakes. Grampy taught him one of the finer things in life - how to dip your finger in the container and eat frosting.

This was our most favorite park in Iowa. It was just a few blocks from our house and it was big. It had a duck pond, a big field, water fountain, rose garden, playground, and lots and lots of runners running along the outside of it. We'd go for walks there all the time. Scott loved watching this fountain and seeing all the ducks.

My mom came out to Iowa after Kylie was born as well. The zoo was having free days so of course we had to go. My family loves zoos. Scott thought riding on the train was awesome and told us that 

that was his favorite part of the zoo.

This is how he was watching a movie one day.

Collin's school has trick-or-treating every year. They have a bunch of different departments for the kids to walk around to. This year they had pumpkins to decorate and games to play as well.

We were the Daniel Tiger family.

We also went for walks along the Mississippi River all the time. Scott loved seeing the boats, train, and birds all along it. One time we were even there right as a train was going passed which made the walk extra cool for him.

Most of the Cragun family came out to Iowa to help us load up our truck when we moved. The ramp going into the truck was a hot commodity for the kids.

Outside Carthage Jail. I'm so glad Scott was able to come with us to Nauvoo so many times. I hope he remembers it a tiny bit when he's older.

Our last night in Iowa outside our house. We loved it there and had so many great memories there. We miss it tons!

Watching a movie on our car ride back out to Utah.

At Halloween time we got to go to a pumpkin farm with the Cragun family. Buchanan was so good to let Scott ride in that with him. He did a great job keeping Scotty safe.

Aunt Abby helped Scott and Maggie learn to go down the huge slides at that pumpkin patch. It had tons of games and things for the kids to do, along with picking out pumpkins to take home.

Scott thought he was so cool sitting in Kylie's swing. I have to remind him several times a week to not climb in there since he's too big.

We were reading scriptures at Grandpa and Grandma's house one night and Scott was copying Aunt Heidi.

I love this little boy so much!!!

Scott wanted Kylie to sit by him on Grammy's couch.

Grampy with 2 of his sons and a few grandkids. We loved going to the Aerospace Museum with him and Chet's family. Grampy helped restore a lot of the airplanes there. Collin and Chet helped with the P-47 behind them. Scott loves airplanes just like the rest of the Cragun boys.

All our Iowa friends one last time. The Brownings left Iowa in May but came back for graduation in October, right before we left Iowa. It was so fun being with them and the Larsen's again. 

Kylie, Jake, Scott, Logan, Tate, Ian, Emily

Scott did a great job with Santa. He was unsure at first, but after a high five and fist bump he decided Santa was nice and okay to talk with.

Temple Square Lights. Scotty loved the Christus. He loved all things Christmas this year. He made it extra great.

How I found him watching a movie. It's like he's a man trapped in a two year old body.

Festival of Lights in Spanish Fork. There were tons of lights for us to drive through and look at.

Christmas Eve with the Craguns

Grampy made him a marble tower. It gets played with several times a day.

Christmas morning. He loved the things Santa brought him and had so much fun opening presents.

This year Christmas was on a Sunday. Here are the kids after church.

Kylie woke up but I was finishing something up so I told Scott to go in and talk with Kylie for a little bit while I finished up. When I went in I found Scott in her bed talking to her. 

We went to Vegas for New Years Eve to see Collin's oldest brother, Boone's, family. Scott had a blast swimming and playing with his cousins there.

We definitely love this little boy. He has grown so much this year and we've had a blast watching him. We feel so blessed to be his parents. 

A few other things about Scott:

He is all boy. He loves trains, planes, cars, balls, and is full of energy. Just about every night Scott wants to wrestle with Collin. 

His talking is getting better and he's starting to string more words together. He does say a few things in his own special way though, some of which are: 

-Dom (Dad, although sometimes it sounds like he's swearing. I always get worried when we're around people that don't know he's saying Dad.)

-Pop Pop and Mom Mom (Grandpa and Grandma)

- Do it, Self

He is the only one allowed to touch the microwave and he wants to say all the prayers.

We're working on potty training. He's doing a great job!

He's counted to 10 once. He can get to 8 by himself most of the time. But usually he will say "1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 8, 1, 8, 0, 7"

He has finally started to sing. He does great with ABCs, I Love to See the Temple, Old McDonald, and Hum Your Favorite Hymn.

He loves Kylie and likes to share his toys with her.

He loves to be scared and to scare others. Most nights when I tell Scott Collin drove up he wants to hide to scare him.

Some of his favorite movies are: Big Hero 6, Inside Out, Cars, Zootopia, Wreck-It Ralph. He loves to watch Daniel Tiger and Curious George.

He is a very good boy most of the time. He listens and helps. 

He sits nicely during church. He loves nursery. He was very sad on Christmas Day at church when he didn't get to go to nursery.

Kylie Rene Cragun

She's finally here!! And we love her to pieces. We thought she was going to come early, we didn't know how early but just early. So as the due date got closer and closer we (and really mostly me) got more and more anxious for her to come. At my 36 week appointment Kylie had turned sideways, she was head down before. The doctor said if she didn't turn by my next appointment the following week we could try a version, which is the doctor manually turning her from the outside. I was totally all for that, otherwise I'd have a C-Section. Later that day I had a chiropractic appointment and they did lots of muscle work trying to get everything loose and make as much room as possible for her to turn. That evening I thought I felt her little bum up top by my ribs like it should be. I was so relieved she had turned. When I went to my appointment the next week I found out she had turned the wrong way and was head up bottom down - what I thought was her bottom was actually her head.
The next day Collin and I went to the hospital for the doctor to attempt a version. There's risks with turning the baby and that's why it needs to be done in the hospital. It could start labor, break your water, or put the baby in distress which would require an emergency C-Section. My mom and sister both had successful versions so I was feeling pretty good that morning and Collin had given me a blessing the night before which definitely helped. (And a quick side note - Collin and I were 99.99% sure on Kylie's name. We both felt very strongly that that was her name even before we knew she was a girl. In the blessing, Collin called her Kylie. I asked him afterwards if he realized he had said it. He said Kylie's name had come to his mind to say, but hesitated a little just because it wasn't set in stone. But then realized that that's her name and continued on with the blessing calling her by Kylie. We for sure knew after that that her name was Kylie.) When they did the ultrasound before the version to confirm she was head up, her head was slightly to the opposite side it was the week before. She apparently had tons of room in there. When then got taken to triage to answer all the silly questions. Dr. Naylor came in to turn her around 10:00. A midwife was supposed to come in as well just for the extra hands to keep Kylie in place when Dr. Naylor needed to move and reposition his. It was pretty uncomfortable and pretty crazy to feel her turning. His hands had to be in so deep in order to grip her. The nurses kept saying I was doing awesome, but really it was just uncomfortable. When Kylie's head was by my hip it was a little painful - enough to make me grimace - but that was all. And then just like that her head was down before the midwife ever even made it in the room. It took maybe 5 minutes. I was so grateful Kylie cooperated. We had to hang around for about an hour after that though for the doctors to monitor her heartrate to make sure she was fine, which she was. Collin and I were both slightly hoping my water would break so she would come... They had me wear a stomach brace to help hold her in place which was SUPER hot, but Kylie never flipped back up so it was worth it.

While waiting forever to finally go back home. And the Picture on the wall kills us.

As my due date kept getting closer I got more and more impatient. Scott and I were going for walks everyday. I was eating spicy food like crazy. Nothing was working. I was really hoping she would be born Labor Day weekend so Collin wouldn't have to miss school, but as Labor Day came and went I got even more anxious and sad she wasn't here. Ever since I had the version I had Braxton Hicks contractions all the time. With Scott I got tons of them the day before he was born. Since I was having them all the time with Kylie, I would go to bed every night thinking "maybe I'll go into labor tonight" just to wake up in the morning with nothing.T he day before my due date was the worst. All along we thought she'd come early and now it was the day before and she still wasn't here. I was crying and texting my mom about how miserable, hot, and uncomfortable I was. I asked Collin to give me another blessing for comfort. In it I was told to trust in the Lord's timing. Just hearing that was enough to calm and comfort me.
On my due date, September 9, I was just fine and calm. I kept remembering what I was told in the blessing. That night I continued to have Braxton Hicks like I had all along but they were even stronger than before. I woke up at 2 in the morning with contractions. I was timing them and they were a minute in length and happening every 5ish minutes like they tell you. I even got up and moved around (they tell you to change what you're doing to make sure they keep up) and I was still having them. I called the doctor to let them know, called our friends who were going to watch Scott for us, and got ready to go to the hospital. They were semi-painful but I was afraid if I stayed at home they would stop like they had done a few days before. I was hoping if I was at the hospital and they stopped they would induce me to help them start again since it was past my due date. We dropped Scott off at our friend's house and got to the hospital around 6. My contractions weren't as strong and they had spread out. I was dilated to a 4 (I was a 3 at my appointment earlier that week). They had me walk the halls to see if that would kick start them again, which it did and they were painful, but as soon as I would lay back down and they'd start monitoring them again they'd slow down. It was super irritating. When Dr. Naylor got to the hospital at about 8:30 he suggested breaking my water to see if that would help. They said they would let the anesthesiologist know I wanted an epidural, but in my mind I wanted to wait longer cause the contractions were still bearable. My water was broken at about 9:30 and immediately my contractions were super strong and very painful. I was so grateful they let the anesthesiologist know I was ready cause about half an hour after that my epidural was in place. I was dilated to a 5. After they had me turn to my side the second time (around 11:45) I started feeling pressure and felt like Kylie was pretty low. I told Collin to tell the doctor I was feeling pressure but not quite ready to push. The nurse came in and checked how Kylie was looking and said we needed to call Dr. Naylor in. I was a 10 and Kylie was ready. Dr. Naylor came in and had me do a little push to see how Kylie was moving and as soon as I started he immediately told me to stop or else she was going to be out.
They got everything all ready and my nurse and the nursery nurse in my room. Collin was going to "catch" her. With Scott, Collin wanted to help catch him as well but the doctor pretty much did everything. Collin basically just grabbed Scott once he was almost fully out and handed him to me. This time, Dr. Naylor had Collin do pretty much everything. Dr. Naylor was off to the side giving him directions on what to do and where to place his hands, but that was about it. I started pushing and gave one push before her head was out. The cord was loose around her neck so I had to stop for them to get that off and then I pushed again and she was out. It only took about 5 minutes this time. Kylie Rene (my mom's middle name) was born at 12:33 and weighed 8lb 1oz at 19 in. and was beautiful! She had lots of dark hair, especially in back. It's slightly down her neck in the back even!  My recovery this time around was so much better. When they had me stand a few hours later to shower and move me to postpartum I was fine. With Scott I almost fainted and had no energy. Having babies in the middle of the day is so much easier than the middle of the night.
Collin and I enjoyed our baby girl for several hours before Collin went and got Scott. He loved her and was super intrigued with her toes and eyes. He thought it was cool she had them too. Anytime she'd make a noise he would look at her and make it too. Collin and Scott slept at home that night and came back first thing the next morning. Having Scott at the hospital with us was a little stressful trying to keep him quiet and entertained. We were hoping to be discharged that day but were just waiting for the 24 hours (there are tests they do on the baby at 24 hours) to be done and the nurse to say I could go. Collin and Scott ended up going home around 1 that afternoon so Scott could take a nap. Right after they left the nurse came in and said I was good to go home. So Collin and Scott came back to bring us home. We were home within 25 hours of Kylie being born and it was so wonderful!
Collin's parents, Scott and Mitzi, came into town later that day and were here for a week and a half. My mom came a few days after they left and was here for a few days as well. We were so grateful they could come out here and help and meet and cuddle Kylie.
Scott still loves his baby sister, sometimes a little too much. He likes to give her hugs, share his cars and books, and wants to pick her up if she's crying. We all love her tons and think she's absolutely beautiful! We love having a little baby in our home and they sweet spirit they bring with them.

40 Weeks exactly, the night before we went to the hospital

After the epidural just waiting, this was about an hour before she was born

Scott meeting his sister and being close to her for the first time

He was definitely needing some attention from me.

Right before going home

For about the first 2 weeks the first thing Scott would do in the morning was come to our room and lay and look at his sister. I absolutely loved it!!

It looks like a bald spot above her ear, but it's actually a patch of blonde hair. I'm curious to see what her hair does when she gets older.

Baby #2!!!

I am 20 weeks with our second baby. I'm due September 9, five days before Scott's 2nd birthday. We couldn't be more excited. This go round I was much more sick and for longer than I was with Scott. I was sick everyday up until 15 weeks, with dry heaving all throughout the day (any poopy diaper or walking into the kitchen made me want to throw up, so I'd gag), with throwing up several times a week. It was miserable. I felt so bad for Collin and Scott. I never wanted to make dinner, much less eat. I started showing much earlier this time too, I'm sure because this is the second go round and my body knows what to do. My belly button has been poking out for weeks!
We had our ultrasound on Friday. Collin "knew" it was a girl and I was hoping and wanting to think it was a girl. My sister and mom were both extra sick with their girls. I was so excited for our ultrasound I could hardly sleep the night before. Thankfully our appointment was at 9 in the morning. The baby was extremely cooperative and made it pretty easy for the technician to get all the pictures needed, unlike with our squirmy little Scott. When it came time to see the gender my heart was beating so fast. The baby is definitely a Cragun already with crossed legs for most of the appointment, making it hard to see the gender. Finally we were told we were having a little baby GIRL!!! I had tears coming down my cheeks and was so excited!!! We are so excited to be welcoming a baby girl into our home. I have already bought a few little outfits for her. I can't wait for the things I can make for her.


Our sweet baby girl! her mouth and chin are like Scott, but her forehead and nose are very different.

 
Her leg was above her head like that as soon
as the ultrasound started. Super flexible already!


                                                                                          The best we could get of her crossed feet.


                                                                              I think the spine looks so cool in ultrasound pictures!

We are super excited for a sweet baby girl to come to our family. It still seems surreal that we're having another baby and that it's a girl!! We love her tons already and I love finally getting to call our baby "she"!