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Activities in May

Visit to Grandma Leavitt’s house – hey guys, you can watch TV at home!
Grandma Leavitt, LaReita and Anthony
Big brother James with new brother Sam
Visit to Jamie Guy’s home – LaReita’s cello teacher – boys played with her son and his toys
Boys, boys, boys

Samuel R Berky

After a scary start, Samuel R Berky was born into our family on January 13, 2006 – a Friday the 13th, no less. We were expecting to have a caesarean delivery (due to placenta previa) and had it scheduled for a few days later, when Sam decided to arrive early. We had a 3am, 100 mph rush to the hospital and went directly into the operating room. They prepped LaReita and Julles made it in time to watch along with David. Dave later said, it was just like M*A*S*H. Samuel was born at 4:36am and weighed in at 6lbs 7oz.

First picture, mom and Sam
Mom meets Sam
Looks like they both need some more sleep.
First bath in the NICU
Hanging out with mom in the NICU
Welcome home! Our growing family – Edible arrangement courtesy of Liz Covert (Rogers)
Ben getting some mom time with his new brother
Getting some rest
Taking a hit of oxygen, had to have him on it for a few hours a day for about a month
Anthony took this saying, “Mom, make a funny face.”
Mom get’s back to business as usual, with one minor change
After blessing – April 9th, 2006
The whole family – James, LaReita, Sam, Benjamin, David, Anthony – Sam’s blessing day April 9, 2006
Smilin’ Sam – sporting a new bib from Aunt Julles

Life

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September 2004 – Life



James’ Kindergarten class went on their first field trip today (Sept 17, 2004) to Spring Lake. Just about 20 minutes from Spanish Fork. Everyone went fishing and everyone caught a fish! He was so excited! And I was excited that they gutted the fish for me so I didn’t have to! We’re going to cook it up tomorrow night. I think it’s a Rainbow Trout. Should be pretty yummy. We’ll roast it over our fire.



I had just finished feeding Benjamin his cereal, when I heard James calling me from the other room. I went to see what he wanted, then when I came back in the kitchen to a very funny sight. Anthony had dumped rice cereal flakes into the bowl (it was overflowing) and was feeding it to Benjamin. Benjamin kept smacking his lips to get some moisture on the dry flakes. When Anthony saw me come in he got a nervous look in his eyes as I said, “Oh Anthony!” But I reassured him that I wasn’t mad at him, and thanked him for wanting to be a good helper. (It’s something we’ve been working on with Anthony…giving him more positive reinforcement…basically trying to catch and praise him for doing something good.)



Benjamin smacking his lips from the dry rice cereal.



The week after our cruise, Benjamin started pulling himself up. Here you see how happy he is with his accomplishment! Hard to believe that he’s almost 8 months.