Days at Home

Since Lincoln has started school the girls and I have settled somewhat into a routine.  We do lots of stuff everyday and it seems like we are busy all day until I try to think at night about what I have done and then it doesn't seem like all that much.  I am sure I am not the only mother who feels this way.  It has been very nice to be able to stay home this year though.  I enjoy managing my household and hope that I can get even better in the coming months.  Here are a few things we do everyday; Mommy exercises and showers, we do Mommy preschool, Lexi takes 3 or 4 naps, Mercedes takes 1 nap, Mercedes plays with play dough, Mommy cleans, Mommy cleans again, Mommy makes meals, Mommy and Cedes do laundry, Mommy works on the budget, and so forth.  I have been enjoying some one on one time with my sweet Ceds.  Love her so much. 

 She dressed up like a cowgirl one day.  It was cute, but when I called her a cowgirl she said "no, mommy, I a cowboy!"

And I finally got one of these on camera.  Lexus has been smiling for awhile, but it took me awhile to actually get it documented.  And now I think I am all caught up on our summer happenings.  Except I haven't taken any pictures in the pool, but we have spent many an hour in Mimi and Papa's pool!

Kindergarten!

 Lincoln started Kindergarten this year on August 14th. It was really early this year, but he was excited so it was okay.  Here are the pictures of his first day.

 Mercedes had to be involved as well.

 Out front of the school.

 This is out front of his classroom and below is the picture with his teacher Mrs. Brandt.

 Showing me his name tag and his cubby.

And this was one of his first projects done in Kindergarten.  All in all he had a great day and was so happy that he got to play on the big playground.  He still loves it almost three weeks later.  I am so proud of this big boy and can't wait for him to continue with his love for learning.  As his teacher said though, it kinda stinks to have a teacher for a mom.  We have been doing our little homework after he gets home and I am teaching him to read.  When he brings home a paper that I don't think looks good we redo some of it.  Am I mean? It is in those times that I consider the thought of homeschooling.  Does that make me crazy? Anyway we are enjoying our school year.

Adventures of Baby

 Lexus swings in her swing a few times a day and sometimes she likes it more than others.  She has started to really focus on the toys and sometimes will smile at them and talk to them.  It is so funny.

 This little girl loves the bath.  If she is upset and I put her in the bath it instantly calms her down.

 The kids can not stay away from her and love to watch and crowd me when I am giving her a bath.

 I love baby crying faces.  It is so cute.  Well until they get really mad/sad.  Lexi doesn't really ever get to that unless she wakes up when I am in the shower or something and I can't hear her.

 Lincoln really wanted to help feed her.  You can tell he was watching TV at the time and wasn't paying too much attention.  I had to intervene shortly after this as the bottle wasn't really in Lexus' mouth.

 Two sweet kids.

 Making faces with Mommy.

Always wanting to be near her.

Who does she look like?

Here are pictures of all of my kids in the same towel.  Lexi is the 1st and 3rd if you couldn't tell. Mercedes is 2nd and Lincoln is 4th.  Each day I see looks of Mercedes and Lincoln in her.  The question is who does she look more like? What do you think?

Three kids and an Aflac truck

I assume I am not the only one to notice the phenomenon that the more kids you have the less pictures you take of them.  I remember taking hundreds of pictures of Lincoln that first year.  Well, I am trying to be better about it but I have nowhere near that amount of pictures for Lexus.  Alas, she will have the third child complex.  Anyway, one Sunday I decided to take some pictures of my three (still weird to say) beautiful kids.  My son did not give me one real smile.  Oh well.

 In early July, Todd had an event with the Shenandoah Hospital where he arranged for the AFLAC PGA truck to come.  We went over and hung out for a little while.  That was like the first super hot day so it was a little bit miserable, but it was fun to golf in the simulator.

For some reason I do not have any pictures of Lincoln, but he spent a ton of time in there golfing or whatever you want to call his efforts.

Baby and Baseball

During the month of June we had a few appointments at the Dr.  Lexi started gaining weight by June 11 and was doing well, but on her 2 week appointment she had lost 2 oz from her weight on the 11th.  This was concerning to the doctor of course and we had to do a little reshuffling of her eating habits.  Luckily this worked and after 3 days she had gained 4 oz and a week later had gained 8 more oz.  I was grateful that it wasn't anything lasting.  She is a pretty great baby and we are lucky to have her.  I am finally getting around to doing updates because I am finally starting to get out of the zombie mode.  I remember in June she was waking up about every 2 hours and it was a very tiring time.  On another note, Mercedes and Lincoln love their little Lexus.  They think she is so cute and always want to hold her.

 Big sister had to be in the pictures.

 Lincoln did T-ball again this year and loved it.  He played 4 games in June and had a great time.  Although he was pretty dissappointed that his jersey didn't have a number on the back of it like it did last year.

 The T-ball that they play here, the kids are pitched 3 balls and then if they cannot hit those they get to hit off of the Tee.  Lincoln hit some pitched and some off the tee.  He was a lot better this year and actually ran to home plate each time.

T-ball is a little distracting because there aren't very many hits, so most of the time the kids played in the dirt in the outfield or were playing with each other.  So funny.