11/02/05

 

It is a hard job but i wouldnt change it for the world. I love my kids DESPERATLY. No words could ever explain the love I have for my children. I thank the Lord all the time for how blessed I am. Sometimes I feel like just leaving going out even to the grocery store to just get away, and when i do i find myself at the stop sign calling and seeing if the kids are ok, are the happy, what have they done in the 45 seconds that i have been gone! I love my kids. I just cant say it enough. I wish that I could make up a word that was more strong then love, but I cant. I wish I could explain to them that when i see them smile i cry because it is so innocent, so sweet, so well once again I am at a loss of words, and now crying because I truely live and breath for them

 

11/02/05

Well the trio is 10 months now and Thalia will be 4 years old in Feb. I can NOT beleive how time flies. TMost of the time The days are LONG and the weeks are FAST. I miss my children being infants but it is so much fun to see how they all interact.

There is not much to update since last time. Thalia is still in school and doing great. They do so much there. On haloween they all went to the skating rink for a party. Thalia had never been on rollerskates before and spent most of her time on the floor, lol, she fell SOOO much, but never cried she loved it!I was SO exhausted after because it was a workout, the forst hour was spent hold Thalias hand and the other hand was holding my neice emilys hand. Neither had even benn roller skating so I pretty much held them up that 1st hour. it took 45 min. to go around the rink 1 TIME! Worth every ache and pain I had the next few days.

The babies are CRAZY!! Elijah is a walker now, he knows how to do it but sometimes chumps ot and crawls, but he prefers to be standing and walking. He is one sweet but mean "Little Man" I love him soooo much. He loves to cuddle and dig his head ointo my chest, he loves to give big sweet smiles but he is HORRIBLE to change diapers, rolling over screaming, just plain mean ometimes! He will walk or crawl over to the girls and deliberatly take whatever toy the are playing with, ON PURPOSE! Olivia and Elijah got into a good little fight yesterday over a plastic star! Olivia was playing with it ACROSS the room from elijah, he comes as fast as possible to her takes it, she screams tries to hit him (doesnt know how to do it yet :) ) and takes it back, then they go back and forth screaming and doing a tug-o-war with it. Of course I just watched, entertained. But Elijah is my BEST sleeper. He never cries going to sleep, he just lays down and is out and sleeps through EVERYTHING! But he is the one who cries the most when awake. He wants a woman to do EVERYTHING for him, what a GUY! He knows how to hold his own bottle but 95% of the time makes you do it for him. He wants only women to hold him, he wants to be fed instead of feeding himself. he is definitly all BOY!

Nadia, well we call her princess Nadia, she is the girly girl still. She dresses in pink and gives you this cute little flirty look all the time. She looks at you out of the top of her eyes and puts her head facing the ground, she is SUCH a flirt. She is usually the one elijah and olivia steal from. They take everything away from her, she now starts to scream if they even come close. She cant stand on her own yet but stands holding onto things. She is the thinker of the group. But she does get bullied on.The others have been known to use her as a climbing device she HATES it. poor little thing! She is a good sleeper, although the last 2 weeks has wanted me to not leave the room until she is asleep, i saw a habit forming so i am breaking it now.

Olivia, she is the WORSE sleeper! She CRIES (a fake cry!) EVERY time she goes to sleep, i know it is fake because i peek through and i see her playing and smiling WHILE fussing! I one time let her do it for 45 minutes i go in there feeling horribile only to find her playing smiling and not 1 tear, her eyes were not even watery! the girl is an EXPERT. I have no idea what i am going to do with her when she is older if the girl already knows how to manipulate and lie with less then 1 year old life under her belt! She is the one who cries the LEAST when awake. She only cries when going to sleep. She loves to play, she LOVES to steal pacifiers from the ohter (they usually only get paci's when in cribs though). Last night i was desperate, while my neice was changing nadia diaper in the living room nadia was SCREAMIng so i ran by and gave her a paci (very stressful day for mommy) and olivia crawled (side note:she can stand on her own but not walking yet) over to nadia and smiles and rips it right out of her mouth, naida of course gets angry, cries, desiray kept on taking the paci away from olivia and putting it back in nadias mouth, olivia the whole time thinking OH WHAT A FUN GAME! so I gie nadia another paci, only for olivia to take it away, so i give 1 more paci to nadia, thinking well olivia doesnt have 3 hands, but what do you know, WITH a paci in BOTH hands olivia STILL tries to take it away. Olivia does even suck on one! the girl is sneaky.

So that is it on the kids. No real updates, they are just growing up and becoming toddlers. Just stories.

 

 

 

11/3/05

figured i would let you know my schedule, like a stay at home mom sits around and does nothing! i work HARD

7am wake and 8 ounce bottles (heat up bottles, take puppy outside to pee, get all feeding essentials prop babies change diapers etc..)

7:30am play on the floor while mommy runs around like a chicken with her head cut off, making coffee, getting thalia up, making wally; breakfast, thalia and emily breakfast (weekdays) making babies breakfast (wish everyone ate the same thing!) also making wallys lunch and thalias lunch etc....

8am, get babies down to diapers and in highchairs. feed babies, emily, thalia and try to eat something myself (very seldom happens).

8:15am, give babies crackers or fruit to keep them busy while i get thalia dressed

8:30 get babies wiped down, wipe down highchairs and make thalia get shoes on and teeth brushed homework in hand and lunch box in hand, find clothes for the babies

8:45 thalia and emily out the door with my mom babies are all screaming to leave with them (EVERY MORNING!) get babies diapers changed and dressed, elijah is HORRIBLE and fights the whole time. meanwhile i have olivia and nadia fighting with each other!

9am put babies in cribs hugs kisses and all that good stuff, shut the doors

9:15 try to eat, clean from the last 2 hours of pure chaos! dishes, scrubbing 3 highchairs, cleaning living room, taking out diapers etc..

10am a little ME time to do BILLS! sometimes i even get a chance to BRUSH MY TEETH!

10:15-11am babies wake up, sometimes 1 at a time sometimes all at 1 time. preoccupy babies change diapres etc.

11am get babies naked again and highchairs for solids

11:45 out of chairs and cleaned up play time for babies lunch for mom!

12:15 thalia is arriving, get her a snack

12:30 babies eat 8 ounce bottle

1pm diapers changed nap, nap for thalia and i lay down for 15 minutes, thenget up and clean from lunch!

2:15-3pm babies wake up usually 1 by 1 and get fed a bottle one on one time with me.

3:30-4:30 outside time for thalia dn the babies, a walk or going in the backyard ot play, i start dinner as soon as we get in.

5pm-5:45 naked and highchairs again everyone eats dinner