Blue Mango in the Ensign

If you check out page 48 of the October Ensign you will see one of our VRs from Virtual Historian. The Church has used a bunch of VRs on the Joseph Smith site. If you want to see more of them check here.

Last Sunday Jacob spent the evening singing for us. I played all the Primary Songs that I thought he knew and he belted out each one. His pitch is really amazing. He is always right on.

What was even more amazing was that he would keep going with the song even when I was messing up. He kept right in time (except for a few times when I really messed up - my piano skills are pretty rusty).
It was great to see him get so excited after he sung each song.

He also played “I Love to Look for Rainbows” for us. He can pick the notes out by ear. Hopefully we will be able to get a piano soon so he can really start working on this.

Some Recent Brigham Quotes

We asked Brigham, “Are you cute?”
He responded, “No, I’m gorgeous.”

Last night we were talking about baby names and Brigham said, “The one I chose was Superman, Superman DeVore.”

Brigham at the Dodgers Game

Brigham got to go to the Dodgers game last Friday. He got to sit in Papa’s seats (which are right behind 1st base). But the highlight of the night was sitting in the Dodgers car. We went up the escalator multiple times to see it again.
He also got some “Shrek” ears which was pretty exciting.

Caleb Comes Home

Caleb John DeVore came home today. I had some early Church meetings then I headed over to the hospital to get Holly.
This was all supposed to happen tomorrow (on an even day) but Caleb had different plans. Wednesday afternoon at about 4:30 Holly called me at work to tell me that her water had broken. I rushed home and we threw things together (we really weren’t that ready since we were scheduled for a C-section on Monday the 18th). We dropped the kids off at my parents and headed into the hospital.

Holly really wanted an even birthday so she was hoping that they would delay the C-section until after midnight (Wednesday was the 13th). But that wasn’t to be. Shortly after we arrived the nurse came in and said, “Dr. Ostercamp” wants to do this in 45 minutes.

About an hour later he had arrived. The C-section went smoothly. He weighed in at 7 lbs. 10 oz. - just one ounce off of what my father had predicted with his ultrasound measurements.
The only hitch in the whole thing was that we didn’t have a name for him. So far that night and almost all of the next day he was “Cousin IT”.

We narrowed it down to Adam and Ryan but neither one felt right. By Thursday night we were to the point that we were flipping coins (the name I liked won 5 out of 6 times). But still neither one “felt” right. So we threw them both out and started over. Caleb John just seemed right. My Dad says that he is going to call him Kolob but we think he will eventually get the pronunciation correct.

The boys have approached the change cautiously. Brigham was fascinated when I showed him the pictures of Caleb but didn’t want to go near him in the hospital. He likes to look at him just doesn’t want to hold him because “he is too small.” Brigham has a tendency to break things so maybe he doesn’t want to risk damaging baby brother.



Brigham always wanted to come to the hospital though. He had an especially good time creating his “comfy chair” with the pillows.

He eventually warmed up to Caleb but will often say “I want Daddy to hold Caleb” when Holly is feeding him.





The picture above pretty much sums up Jacob’s feelings about the whole thing. We put Caleb on his lap and he about jumped out of the chair. He is pretty much like Brigham. He likes to admire Caleb from a distance.
Caleb arrived home today at around noon. His brothers are still at their grandparents’ house. We will see how it goes once everyone arrives here.