life with baby + 3 kids

I have posts from in between to catch up with, but more on those later. Thought I'd post this *fun* one.

See all that dust?? And yes, that's still a Christmas tree up in the house. It's been serving as a great night light when getting up with Sadie.

Oy, and this is my wood floor under the table in the entryway. Ooo, look! A lucky penny.

laundry room overload

But on a happy note, I got these in the mail. Pretty much every possibility in this stack!! Excited to use the 8 1/2 x 11 actually in the kids' albums for stuff, from school.

And I got the laundry folded.

And there's carpet in the bonus room.

Now if only my side was functional, organized, & clean...definitely toward the top of the to do list!! Along with moving all the toys from the playroom into the bonus room. Kaycey is really looking forward to having her own room (she is getting the room that is currently the playroom).

p.s. as soon as I was done taking the photos, I got to work and dusted, vacuumed, and cleaned the floor : )

I had a bad day...

Not sure if you've been able to keep up with my blog-happy self...I think I posted 6 posts in a few days time. Totally not like me!

What a crummy day. First of all, it began at 3am, when Sadie woke up. (which is fine, she doesn't sleep through the night yet anyways). She went back to sleep around 4 (and usually sleeps for 3-4 hours). SHe was up again at 5, before I even fell asleep!! I'm thinking she woke up being cold, since she had kicked her blankies off. All of a sudden, Cal is standing next to me. He tells me it's late. Amazingly, I had fallen back asleep after Sadie got up at 5. Amazingly, she had fallen back asleep, too. I try to look at the clock, without my glasses all I see is a 6 somewhere. Well, it's 7:16. Usually we are up around 6:30 or so. Kaycey and Maddie are still in bed. The bus comes at 7:30. Not a big deal if they miss the bus, but still rush, rush. I race to wake up the 2 girls, make breakfast, get bags packed so they aren't late for school (gotta be there by 8!). We make it, just in time. Sadie and I come home to begin the task of endless laundry. Go to pick up Maddie and she had a terrible bloody nose at school (she's only had one once before). We go to Home Depot, determined to buy something to cover the darn windows in the family room which has been bare since moving in. I find nothing. ARGH. I'm tired of a house that looks like we just moved in, or are about to move out. Then home for lunch, of course I don't even get a chance to eat anything, though. Too busy trying to keep up with the laundry, and filling the dishwasher. I realize that for Kaycey's dr. appointment this afternoon, I have no stroller to push Sadie in (we have 2 strollers sitting in the garage but they won't close, which means I can't get them in my car), cause there is no way I am carrying that seat with her in it through Childrens' Hospital. So while Maddie ate lunch and fed Sadie, I put together our new sit 'n stand stroller (but putting things together and having to read directions gives me a headache.) I cross my fingers that I put it together right, or at least so the wheels don't fall off while we are walking. Off to school to pick the kids up early, Kaycey has an appointment at CHildren's in Urology. I make the mistake of bravely taking all 4 kids with me. Didn't have available sitters, anyhow. Sadie cried most of the time, and Maddie was just plain sassy. After nearly 2 hours, we go home. Maddie attempts to stick her stickers from the hospital on my car window. I stop her just in time. I come in the house and immediately take a 600mg ibuprofen and put my pajamas on (it's 5pm). I walk into the kitchen to find Maddie's stickers on my cabinets. I should've let her put them on my car windows. Dinner tonight will be waffles or cereal. Can't wait for this day to be over.

catch up, part 3

Jamuary 17--Sadie's baptism. Uncle Scott & Aunt Lorie served as witnesses. We've had a baptism in church every week this month!! Lots of little babies Sadie's age!!

The six of us

We had a housefull of relatives over following the baptism at church. I took a photo of all the grandparents with Sadie. And actually there's a Great-Grandma and Step-Great Grandma missing in the photo. That's a lot of grandparents!!!!!!!!!!(Mike's parents and one set of his Grandparents, my Mom, my Dad, my Stepmom, my Grandparents, & my Great-Grandma.)

Five generations

comparison time!

finally plugged in my external hard drive to look at old pictures. I don't have Cal's on the computer, and not very many of Kaycey's first six months either. But here's the 3 girls at approximately 2 months old. Can you tell who's who??

how about sleeping babies???

I'll get some of Cal's baby pictures on here soon, too. His 3 month old picture looks alot like Sadie, I think!! (answers will be in the comments section : )

...catch up,part 2

I am realizing it would've been easier to do a ton of mini posts and change the date of the post. Oh well...I'll start doing it that way in February, no sense in changing things right this moment when I'm on a roll!

January 11-Sadie has her 2 month check up, but I decide to wait to start immunizations since she had been sick (and still had a bit of the cough left). She was a whopping 11 lbs even (54%) and 23 inches tall (74%). Oh so smiley.

Time to pack away the itty bitty baby clothes : ( I could squeeze her into some of them yet, but she is so long she can't stretch her legs completely in the 0-3 month clothes. On to 3-6 month clothes...goodbye teeny tiny clothes...

January 13-Cal scores his first basket in a game. Too bad the team lost, though. And I was so mad, I had my camera on a different setting so it wasn't taking the continuous shots. Oh well. Would've had the video camera there, but its broken : ( yep the brand new one. I just hope we are able to get the Christmas Eve service off of it. Maddie's singing was classic.

January 14-packed the maternity clothes away.

January 15-Cal's team wins their first game. He didn't score any baskets, but he got to be the captain for the night.

January 16--a busy day that began with a birthday party for a gal in Maddie's class, then a basketball game in the morning, then volunteering for the next basketball game, then a few hours to myself attending the 365 class at the Scrap. Store.

Later that night we all watched the football game. Sadie seriously sat and watched the game, too. Mike commented, "If Sadie stays up and watches this for much longer, she's going to think Peyton is her Dad." I found this comment hilarious.

Then I stayed up oh so late (12:30am) to clean and get things ready for Sadie's baptism on the 17th.