Growing up~

J boogie is growing up so fast! Sam took him today for the kindergarten physical & vaccines. We also registered him for school. He will be going to one of the christian schools in our area. We debated back & forth....public vs. christian..at least for this year he will be at a christian school.


After the shots we took the boys to Xtreme play. It has tons of inflatables & the boys can run wild and no one minds. Josh & Aubrey met us there and it was basically only us for the first two hours. After school let out other families started to trickle in so we decided to head home around 4:30.

Tonight we got to see a brand new baby who was born yesterday. Her name is so cool- Isabelle Adonai. What do you think? ANyways, she is super tiny. Less than 6lbs & Malachi looks like a giant compared to her! Her parents waited a little to long to head to the doctor so they had to pull over on the side of the road & her daddy got to deliver her! How crazy is that??? I would have been freaked out! They seemed totally cool with it....and maybe a little in awe as well. Mommy & baby are great!

My little guy is already one month old. He still sleeps 99% of the time. Any time that he is awake he is eating, pooping or letting me know he needs something (crying). My favorite time with him is from midnight-2am, actually this is his favorite time. Although I do believe that God prepared me because that was my bedtime the last trimester of my pregnancy thanks to heartburn.

Tommorrow I get to take the boys to the dreaded WIC office. Hopefully we will come home with some vouchers, every little bit helps! Justus doesn't have to go since he turned five so it will just be the little guys. And J will stay with his daddy at the children's home.

I'm seriously considering applying at Naz. they have something called support staff. If I understand it it's kind of like being a substitute teacher. I would just fill in whenever they need me. Extra money always comes in handy especially these days.... and it may open a door for Sam & I to work together.

Justus had decided that he is not going to school this year, all because he doesn't want to get his shots. Of course he will be getting shots & going to school but I choose not to let him in on that fact for now.

Zeke is "sneaky Zeke" & a cause for tons of laughs....and clean up sessions. And he is completely infatuated with Malachi. It's super sweet & annoying at times.

Last night was so much better!!! Mal slept two 4 hour stretches!!!! I feel replinished. But secretly hope that tonight goes just as well!!! I"m trying to wake him up now but he doesn't like it, not one bit!!

Eggplant parmesan for supper! Especially yummy since someone made it for me!

Just call me zombie, I mean mommy!

Day four of being around the clock mom and I'm pretty dang tired! Last night Malachi was unusually fussy. He was awake for most of the night. 12:30am-3am & then up again from 5-7am. And again at 9am which is when Justus & Ezekiel got up. Luckily miracles do still happen & I coerced my children to stay in their room for a few hours....their is directly connected to mine so I never went back to sleep but I was able to rest some. Baby has been awake for a little bit more today so MAYBE he will sleep better tonight. We'll see. Sam comes home on Tuesday morning-----counting down the hours.!!!! OH yeah, my awesome hubby came & got the boys yesterday & took them to the YMCA since the boys in his cottage had some other things going on. Those were preciously quite hours since Malachi slept most of that time. IT's hard to remember to take pictures but here are a few of the baby this week. Mostly on the same day. The two on the bottom are of my nephew Kaden. It's Sam's brothers son. He was born exactly one week before Malachi. He looks HUGE compared to my peanut but he was almost one pound bigger at birth.

Life with three children is both exhausting & exhilirating! The boys are keeping me on my toes. I still have four more days of daddy support to get myself together & my home organized for sucess. Keep me in your prayers!!! About an hour into anything and I"m pooped!!!! I've never taken so long to recover & this time seems to be taking forever! Guess that's just the way it goes.

On Thursday I called Sam & asked him to pack a bag. We decided to take a quick trip to Alabama. And it did turn out super quick. We left about 6pm and arrived by midnight to stay at a hotel. Slept & then headed to Sam's momma's to surprise her! She only had the day off because she works the night shift as a security guard. So we spent every minute together possible & then headed back to NC. We originally talked about staying longer but it didn't work out. And that turned out fine because like I said, an hour of anything and I"m pooped!

I will get a few pictures up as soon as possible.

One week already~

My little guy is one week old today. Man time flies!!!! So far he is an excellent baby. He sleeps 95% of the time. With just a few hours of awake time. He is a night owl. His awake time is when the other two are fast asleep. I've got one week to re-program him before Sam goes back to work. We have been rotating shifts to survive. Sam is AWESOME!!! He stayed up until 3am the other night. And today I slept from 5am-11am. Hubby handled everything. I even had breakfast waiting for me when I got up.

Malachi also really likes to sleep in our bed. Or at least he makes the attempt. I wait until he's in a dead sleep & sneak him back to his bed. The good thing is that our "big" boys are sleeping more in their own bed. I'm not sure how that will work when daddy isn't here. Normally I sleep better when someone is in the bed with me. However when there are four people in the bed I don't sleep at all. So somewhere in between will work I guess.

I'm at 80%. After about an hour of being on my feet I start to get weary & short tempered. But if I stay seated & 'direct' traffic I do much better. Sam is just itching for an excuse to get out of the house....poor guy.

Here are a few pictures from last night. The one with Ezekiel is so funny!