Oh, the first snowfall of the winter...

Benjamin was SO thrilled to wake up this morning to snow!

Evey saw it first and she said, "oh, hey ben, take a look at this...it's snooooooooooow" and Ben said, "Oh yeah baby!"

It wasn't a lot of snow, and it melted fairly quickly, but they had fun for the 10-15 minutes they were outside.. It was fun to watch them running around and hearing Benjamin talk about the snow from last year and the snow at Nonni's house. It's fun that he remembers things and puts them together to relate with other experiences.

Addy wasn't a fan after her hands got cold, and Evey came in soon after because her "feeties were coldy." lol

One Month

How the heck did a month go by already? This is getting out of hand. They never tell you that time starts to speed up exponentially in relation to how old you are and how many children you have. No wonder people write songs entitled "Don't Blink." I can't handle it..before I know it they are all 4 going to be grown up and leaving me.

Anyway...Things Emmett can do: Poop a lot, make adorable baby noises, roll from tummy to back, and just today he smiled twice, I'm convinced it was at me, but you can never be too sure at this age. I took a video of him rolling over since I guess it's something he's not supposed to be doing yet. So maybe I will post that...

He is spending more time during the day awake and more time at night asleep. He sleeps 4-6 hour stretches at night and that's great for me. I am still co-sleeping and I probably will continue to do that for another month or so....Why? 1. I like having a nursing baby close at night, 2. I like to snuggle him, 3. I'm paranoid something will happen to him, 4. He's most likely my last baby =( and 5. Sometimes in the morning when the littles come in my room, I'm not awake and they quietly take things..I can't have them taking my baby...

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In other news...my house is a mess and I can't keep up. We're moving in 2-3 months and I'm terrified. I can honestly tell you it makes me sick to my stomach thinking about packing up our house and moving away from the only place we've ever lived that's felt like home. At the same time I'm okay with a new adventure, but all the while secretly hoping it's just temporary and then we can come back home. I hate the thought of taking Ben and Evelyn out of preschool and moving them away from their friends and the nursery staff at church. Ben is shy by nature and I feel like we've just cleared the hurdle of his anxiety only to have to uproot our lives again...I don't like it..

Just like everything else in my life, I know that I am going to blink and it's going to be time to move, and I'll go to sleep and wake up and it will be time to move again and Benjamin will be 5 years old. Won't somebody please stop this train?

Ah..I'm off to cry now. The life of a mom is a crazy roller coaster ride all the time....can't say I don't love it though. *sigh*

11.11.11

Happy Veteran's Day

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. -G.K. Chesterton

I have no time.

no time to clean
no time to write
no time to try on jeans
no time to read
no time to browse the internet
no time to chat online with hot babes
no time to vacuum
no time to wash windows
no time to take care of my scratchy feet

I do have time to drive for hours in my van to and from preschool
I do have time to get a haircut thanks to my great husband
I do have time to keep the dishwasher full and empty and full and empty....
I do have time to put toilet bowl cleaner in the bowls and forget about it for 2 hours...
I do have time to wash the laundry (but no time to fold it)

Right now we're adjusting to life with four and mostly I feel like I don't have any time to do anything, as soon as I start something, someone appears asking me to grant various requests. I'm a genie. :-P

On preschool days I drop the kids off and if I go home I just have an hour before I have to get back in the car again, so those mornings are usually reserved for errand running. Tomorrow morning I have a dentist appointment during that time and I'm hoping Emmett will sleep through it. It's after 1am right now and I should really make time fore sleeping before I have to wake up and feed my baby again...sometimes ya just need a couple of minutes to do what YOU wanna do. In my case right now, it was write this blog and eat a reese pumpkin.

Trick or Treat!

We have here a jack in the box, a race car driver, a baby caterpillar, and Princess Fiona.
They had a great time trick or treating and handing out candy, Emmett slept through it all, and Ben said the best part about trick or treating was trick or treating. Evey said the best part was candy, and Addy agreed. She ate 3 pieces of candy with the wrappers still on..We'll have to work on that...

Anyway, it turned out to be a beautiful day with no rain so that made for a nice night. It was a cool 52 degrees, but didn't feel cold until it got dark. We wrapped it all up by 8pm so they could be in bed on time for school in the AM. What a life! :-D