Beautiful Baby

So it's taken me too long to do this but here are the wonderful pictures my friend Bethany took of our little angel.  She did an awesome job and also took some prego pics for me, I'll put a few of those in too.  Enjoy, we certainly are!

Wyatt Gabriel Kotter

He's here!  Our adorable, sweet, wonderful... well there aren't enough adjectives but you get the idea... he's perfect!! Our little Wyatt Gabriel Kotter was born on Monday at 5:22.  People told me the second time was faster and easier but WOW that was no joke. So much easier!  I was so ready to be done being pregnant, not because it was bad... I really have pretty easy pregnancies, but I was exhausted and ready to be done with work and SO ready for people to stop saying stupid things like "you haven't had that baby yet!"  Seriously people, obviously not since my belly was huge and I'm not holding him!  Anyways, sorry... back to the important part.  My due date was the 13th but my midwife and I agreed we didn't want him getting too big so I had an appointment for the day after the due date.  I went in and was at a 4 but still nothing was happening so they gave me a dose of this stuff to help me thin out, a couple hours later it worked great, they broke my water about 1:30 and by five I started pushing and then twenty minutes later there he was!  Aliya was excited to meet him and we were very lucky to have my mom and my sister both here to help with her and take care of all of us. It has been a wonderful few days!  Thanks to everyone for all the love and support.  

Valentines and other randomness

I haven't been a huge fan of Valentines day since I was a kid, but now that Aliya is old enough to enjoy it, we had a lot of fun this year.  She went to a party with her preschool friends, made a box and got to give and get valentines.  Then at home, we made heart shaped pancakes for lunch, heart shaped pizza for dinner, and valentine cupcakes!  It was a fun day despite the mess :)

Frosting is her FAVORITE!

Ta-da! (okay so I was pretty proud of myself that they turned out)

So, since I didn't manage to post anything in January, here is a wee bit of catchup.  We joined a co-op preschool with 4 other families in the neighborhood/ward.  It has been so much fun. We were really hoping it would help her potty train which it did for the first day, sadly that was it.  But she still loves school, especially when "the friends come to our house".  The next pic is her on the first day of preschool.

So, in other news, we are still anxiously awaiting the arrival of baby brother in 3 weeks.  I need to take more pictures but here are some from December.  I am even bigger now and feeling good just super tired all the time. I mostly blame that on work but I'm sure it's a combination effect.