The Reppard Crew: Update . . . fast and furious . . .

Due to the many prayers and antibiotics, I think we are the tail end of our colds! Anna is still congested and I am not fully better either, but we are pushing through. Life with three little ones is very full . . . and wild . . . and we are quite tired! Today was one of my first days without around the clock help (Hatch did get the boys up and into their chairs for breakfast and I did thrust Anna and a bottle on my friend who brought us dinner), but all in all, it went well. We are all alive so that is great! ha ha!

Here is the latest . . . and many of these are from the last two weeks . . . oops! There haven’t been many (or . . . ANY) pictures from our sick days, so savor these!

There’s lots of Helpin’ going on around here! These boys are GREAT Big Brothers, and they really adore their sis. Tonight, at dinner, William said “Ohh! Anna! Pretty! Pretty, Anna!” :)Big brother keeping a watchful eye . . .

So proud!

We tried to get a sweet little picture of Miss Anna during her first bath, but she didn’t love it . . .

She did calm down for a bit though . . .

But, she remembered where she was and decided she still didn’t love it . . . {Have I mentioned that when this child was born, they said in the delivery room “Wow. She is loud.” Honestly, she is in good company, but this girl has no low volume . . . you hear her loud and clear!}

Last week, Anna was back up to her birth weight plus a tad, so we got the green light to “let her sleep at night.” By let her sleep, we mean that we do not have to wake her or ourselves every 3 hours (which is GLORIOUS) . . . so, if she wants to go a whole 4 or 4.5 hours, she can. Last night, she slept from 11ish to 5ish, which was amazing, but I do not have my hopes up that it will happen again tonight. We shall see!

This love adores her Daddy—she stares and stares at him! Since we have been home a lot, the boys and I have been doing some projects. We made our sand and water table into a “rice table” the first week Anna and I were home. It has been really fun to make the colored rice and “dig rice,” of course!