Our Life

 

What new year’s resolution to post more on my blog…??

 

I’ve done it. I’ve entered into the teenybopper world of “selfies.” Welp, if it’s good enough for Bo Pelini and the Pope….

Got a few days of good weather intermingled with the –8 degree weather. We met some friends at the park.

 

And Leo rode on the spaceship thingee with Naomi. These two are so cute. At Leap ‘n’ Learn, I caught them running around the track together holding hands. So sweet. At 14, not so sweet, but at 3, so sweet!

Thanks to gift certificates from G and G Deaver, we were able to take each of the boys, individually, to Subway for adventure nights. I took Patrick and Leo and Luke took D and Jackson. As per our m.o.s, I took pictures and Luke didn’t. It is a real treat to spend some time with the kiddos one-on-one. Life gets so busy and some days the only real time I spend with them is putting them to bed.

This was one day at the playground when D decided to read while all the rest of us played… #firstborn

I took Lucy swimming for the first time a few weeks ago. I got her all dressed in her cute swimsuit, loaded her up and she was sleeping by the time we got there! I debated waking her up because I so wanted to take her in the water. Finally, the giddy-first-time-mom-of-a-girl part of me beat out the rational-never-wake-a-sleeping-baby part of me and I got her up to join us. She was pretty much indifferent to the water. She didn’t love it but it didn’t scare her. I toted her around on my hip while the four boys all yelled at me incessantly and simultaneously, “Mom, watch this!” “Mom! Look at me!” “My turn for you to watch me!” It is honestly exhausting just spending an hour complimenting them over and over and over again. But it is really fun to watch them develop their swimming skills. They are all such little fish and the three big boys are fairly confident swimmers!

We’ve had a few days off school lately. A few Fridays ago we went to the Children’s museum and Valentino’s for lunch. There were 20 kids and 5 adults. The kiddos were awesome, but you can imagine the chaos that 20 small children brought to lunch. We adults mostly just inhaled our food between filling plates, getting forks, getting drinks, cleaning spills and filling plates again. Mostly, I schedule play dates with friends for my own sanity, but there wasn’t much adult chat at this particular play date.

I took two of my students to an all day Choral Clinic. It was a great learning experience and Lucy tagged along for the day.And 4th grade girls LOVE babies, so she was well entertained.

My parents visited. Lucas had a basketball tournament and we enjoyed housing the three of them and getting to see Lucas play.

This little boy is sick again for the umpeeth time this winter. Poor kid. Today, he coughed so much he eventually threw up all while moaning, “Whyyyy??? Whyyy??” Now THAT will break a momma’s heart!

Leo is so hilarious lately. His little vocabulary is exploding. He loves to say, “Mom, that’s hilarious” or hug me and exclaim, “I’m SO proud of you, mom!” And he really loves to tell anyone who will listen that he got to have cheese crust pizza after going poopy in the potty. Very important information to disperse here, people.

We babysat a friend’s baby recently. Her name is Lizzie, and it was a real downer when Leo got up from his nap to find that she was here and not the Lizzy he was expecting. “Mom, when is big Lizzy getting here??”

Dominic finished up his YMCA drama club. He played the Big Bad Wolf. He’s a pretty good little actor and he really enjoyed it. Of course, my dream is for all my little people to sing and act Stage mom much?

Jackson was Star Student at school about a month ago, but between sickness and snow days, Luke was just able to read to his class this week. Pretty cute.

This little lady is rolling from back to front all the time (but not the other way, to her frustration). She weighed in at 13 lbs 8 oz, in the 24th percentile at a recent check. We moved her out of our room this week at night in hopes of getting more than 45 minutes of uninterrupted sleep at a time. It hasn’t been going great and we had a pretty tired week, but hopefully she’ll get it figured out soon!

 

Have a great week!