One Month and Visitors!

Little Miss Anna turned one month old yesterday!  Oh my, it is happening . . . time is flying past us and our babies are growing!  I’ve decided to describe our lives as we know it as joyful chaos.  We are having so much fun and loving this time so much, but it is WILD.  WILD!  Two almost two year olds and a new born make our lives and our days very full, and we sleep hard (even if just in few hour stretches). 

Anna weighed in today at 10lbs, 1 ounce!  And, in honor of her bday, she gave us a good ole stretch of sleep last night.  Horrah!  Her cheeks are quite chubby and perfect for smooching, although her brothers still have to follow orders to kiss her tootsies instead!  We love our little lady so much!  She is a great little eater and learning to love to sleep (like her mama).  In honor of her birthday, Nonna came to town and we dressed little miss up for her big day!

Snuggle time with Nonna! Please excuse her in her slip!

It’s her party . . .  

Miss Anna had some snuggle time with Sugie last week, too!

Sugie is holding Anna in the chair that she rocked me in as a baby! I love these cheeks!Oh, Beauty!

We have had so many fun visitors come to play with Hudson and William and meet Little Miss!  (note:  getting two almost-two year olds to smile at one time is nearly impossible!)  Alison (aka:  Owlie) with the boys!

. . . and Baby Anna!

Sometimes, when we are mixing, things get a little wacky!

Daddy gets all cozy with mama’s moby wrap . . . doing dishes and baby holding all at once!  Yes, we had to have help to figure out how to wrap her up the first time!  

Two weekends ago, Unkie Christopher and Laura (who is now known as LaLa) came for a visit!  We took a family trip to our FAVORITE PLACE . . . to seen An-mals!

Hudson and the “bok boks” . . . chickens!

William peering on . . . 

Mr. Precious (who is ONE, by the way!) joined us, too!

 

BAAA!

 

We LOVE the peacock!

Charlie and his mama

Daddy and his boys

Uncle J and Hudson did some good runnin’

William enjoying the petting zoo . . . 

And, more runnin’ . . .

. . . and picking flowers 

flowers for sissy . . . 

hanging on and keeping watch . . . 

This is one of my new favorites . . . Hud and Unkie Criferfer!

The gang minus mama!  I love that everyone is holding someone else’s baby here (minus Hatch, who has velcro baby with him)

And, with mama . . . 

More fun to come soon!

peekin’ and sleepin’

We are working on teaching the boys to peek at their sister by lifting the bumper pad instead of climbing her crib like a jungle gym . . . for now, I’d say we are having moderate success with this.  :)  It is so cute to see them wanting to check on their baby sister!  And, this weekend, William has started to proclaim “I Love baby Anna!  I love HER!”  So sweet!

And, their view . . . 

I love this . . . she is wearing one of my favorites of the boy’s gowns . . . snoozing away!

This is what we do in our spare time . . .

And, yawns all around!

 

My sweet girl!

I took a few sleepy pictures before our naptime the other day!  Anna is always holding onto something with her hands—she is just so precious!

oh, my tiny love!

Hi, Peeper!  Let me also say that I took little miss into the doctor yesterday to have her cold checked out, and she weighed in at 9lbs, 9oz!  She is growing so fast!  We are still battling the congestion, but she is doing well so far!

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!

Currently, 85% of this rice is on the floor of our porch . . . better there than inside my house, right? 

Peeper does not dig rice yet, but I did strap her to me for some outside fun today!

The week before last, we had a great visit from Aunt Courtney!  We went to play at the park, and the boys LOVED it!

 

Look at my big boy!  (I was on the other side of the see saw!  ha ha!)

 

Daddy and his excited velcro baby.  William will not leave Hatch’s side when he is around!

The boys insisted on going up the ladder . . . 

to go down this . . . Hudson went down—twice—William declined.  :)

Then, they heard the choo choo and it was very fun to see it rolling along!Little Miss had a great morning at the park, too!

More to come . . . one day . . . :)

overheard . . .

first things first:  we are sick.  hudson and will have the funk (nasty noses, nasty eyes, coughs, etc.), hatch and i are getting something, and anna is congested.  please pray for Jesus to heal us and to PROTECT anna from getting what the boys have!

I MUST go to bed, but I have given myself 3 minutes to write this post so that I don’t forget . . .   (You’ll have to wait for pictures!)

The following things have been overheard in our house recently:

“Please move your saw.  It is too close to Anna’s head.”

“I sorry, Anna.  I kick you.  I sorry.  I sorry, Anna.  I kick you.  I kick you.  I sorry!”

“You just threw a block at Anna’s head.  Please go and tell her you are sorry.”

“More Anna, Mommy!  More peek Anna!  More see Anna!”

“MORE TICKLE BUTTON!”  {translation:  more belly button!}

“Murphy is not going to eat your chair.  I promise.  Please stop crying.”

“Anna sad.  I help her.  Anna paci {paci being shoved into the face of a sleeping baby} . . . she need dis.”

“What dat Mommy?  Poopy on sofa?  ohh, pooopy!  What dat?  What Mommy doin?  What Anna doin?”  {yes, anna pooped on the sofa about 3 minutes before we were supposed to be leaving for church!}

“Thank you Jesus, baby Anna.”

Okay, here’s one picture to hold you over . . .

And to all . . . a good night.  :)