9 weeks!

Little Miss is 9 weeks today! It hardly seems possible some days. She makes us happy...very happy! Look at that sweet smiley face! Since my last post she has been smiling and cooing so much. She's even sharing with Daddy now too! Whew! At first it was only at Mommy! Speaking of Daddy don't you think she looks like him? I swear they are twins when he holds her. Really! She even shares his double chin...love it! She's a big girl now and is sleeping in her crib upstairs! It was hard on me the first night, but she does great! She goes down between 8-9 and sleeps til about 3-4 most nights. She is a wonderful sleeper and loves her crib much more than the pack n play. She loves baths and getting lotion...makes Mama happy...I see spa time together in the future ;). She also doesn't mind tummy time at all. She just lays there smiling and blowing bubbles and kicks her little legs. If she crawls as fast as she is moving those legs now we are in for trouble in a few months.

My girl...

is getting so big! Today she smiled and coo'd at me A LOT! I loved every minute of it and of course wanted to capture the smile. She is really quick with the really big smiles so this is
about as good as I could get today. And the funny one below...love it! I'm can totally picture her
doing this in about 2 years to her brothers. Can you? :)
Well I have to admit I feel defeated. My goal with her was to nurse her for a year just like I did the boys. I mean I had no problems except mastitis 3 times with Cole, but we managed somehow to keep on. I was good until I started my medicine almost 2 weeks ago. Everyday my milk supply is less and less. I've tried nursing on demand...which was getting to be every hour and a half. I tried pumping every 2 hours while giving her formula to try and boost my supply. Nothing I tell you has worked so on Sunday I bought *gasp* formula. As much as I feel like a failure for not being able to feed my child I know it's the right thing for her. She takes a bottle like a champ and has since we had to supplement in the hospital. She hasn't had a problem with formula at all either. So we decided that rather than me go off the medicine and be crazy mom/wife again. That a happy mom is better for all of us. Really it is! I cannot tell you how much better I feel. How much more I enjoy sitting and watching my children and hugging them rather than yelling at them for the littlest things. I've not been putting as much on my "to do" list as I was. Thank goodness...that was stressing me out. I'm now enjoying just holding Chloe and taking every ounce of her in...her long eyelashes, the heart on her forehead, her short fuzzy hair, her long toes. I know that it goes by so fast. I don't want to look back and have any regrets that I didn't enjoy my blessings when they were little. So now that I'm crying...

Fall is in the air...well in pictures at least!

Saturday we went to Christian Way Farm in KY! We went with a couple of our church families. It was a GREAT farm and fun was had by all...or most! ha The farm was equipped with farm animals that we fed, a corn maze, a corn truck, play grounds, and a pick your own pumpkin patch. That was by far the most awesome for me. I've never searched for just the right pumpkin and picked it right from the vine. I have to say this will probably be a yearly visit from now on. It was so much fun.
The humidity was HIGH...not so good for the hair! lol
How cute?! Let me tell you these piggies STINK! It was awful! It was the worst smell ever...one that almost made us lose our marbles. It was bad!

Cole feeding the "baby cow." Right after this picture he dropped all the corn he had. I'm thinking the cow's tongue on his hand freaked him out a bit. lol
Grinding up the corn to feed the animals.

Chicos and chica

This little girl is a dream baby. She is an awesome sleeper and has been sleeping through the night...at 6 weeks! Yes, my friends that is a dream baby for me! Parker never slept through the night and Cole it was 6-7 months. I'm thrilled to get 6.5 hours of uninterrupted sleep. Keep it up baby girl!
Starting to smile and coo.
The boys in there new fire gear. Found these costumes super cheap at a local store. They run 50+ in catalogs and I got both for $16....I was pleased! They have the red suspenders and even a thumb hole in the cuffs just like Daddy's. Parker has daddy time him how long it takes him to get his gear on. It's so cute.

Just to keep it real...I've been suffering from PPD. Last week I got some meds. It's been a tough few weeks, but I'm taking it day by day. The days are getting better. So I've been really disconnected lately and not talkative. It's nothing anyone did and I'm not mad at anyone...been asked that quite a bit lately. It's just me and this funk. So hopefully the meds will continue to work and I won't be such a nutcase anymore. My family would appreciate that mucho! If you could keep me in your prayers I would be most grateful! ;)

6 weeks of pure joy!

I can hardly believe our little girl is 6 weeks today! She's been nothing but pure joy...really! I cannot help but just staring at her and just running my fingers along her feet or down her little legs. I then think back to last year at this time when we had longed for another baby to hold and love on. We had a few disappointments, but in His time we were pregnant. His gift to us of this little girl is just a miracle. To think of how a life starts and then 9 months later a beautiful baby is born. I'm in awe of the whole process. Life is such a precious gift from our heavenly father and I cannot thank Him enough for the three little blessings he's bestowed upon us. So I sit and hold my little girl longer and tighter for I know these moments go by much too fast.

A little of this and that!

Our little princess is 5 weeks old this past week! Seems impossible really! She's such a joy and is still a really good sleeper. Now if only I could follow suit.
Since Cole and I get to hang out a lot more since P is in school he taken to doing what Mommy does. He loves to help with Chloe and wants to hold her all the time.
Drinking coffee like Mommy does every morning!
Playing with his "baby Chloe!" I found this high chair at the flea market and gave it a little tlc and it's good as new. Cole loves it. However, I intended it for Chloe eventually! He feeds, burps, and takes his baby to both the bus stop and to the hospital. He is great pretender. He's going to be a GREAT daddy someday!
Monday was Daddy's 33rd birthday. I wanted to make it a little more special so I decided to buy a small helium tank, balloons, and a Baskin Robbins ice cream cake for a little surprise birthday party when he got home from work. With 10 minutes to spare it came together. Thankfully,
my creative juices were flowing that day otherwise it would have been "just another day" and I totally didn't want that.
Luckily I put up the artwork line the day before. It doubled as a birthday banner with
a little cardstock and black paint. And it's reuseable....SAAWEEET!

The not so sweet part of our week was Wednesday! Parker had to switch teachers because they had too many students and made another kinder. class. It didn't start well when later that evening he mentioned he wet his pants at school because the teacher didn't call on him. Well he didn't change clothes either. Thursday we brought him to school and talked to his teacher. It was a misunderstanding on P's part that he can go whenever he wants he doesn't have to be called on. Just has to cross his fingers when he raises his hand. Good, right? Nope, Thursday he came home in his change of clothes. This time in music class, raised his hand and the teacher told him it wasn't bathroom break time. So he wet. NICE! I was not happy! Wrote a note to the teacher in his "study buddy" aka notebook that goes everyday from home/school. Well the teacher didn't acknowledge my note at all. That my friends is even NICER! So I already didn't have that warm fuzzy feeling about her after I met her on Thursday morning and now she's gonna do this. Hmm, there is just something that I'm not comfortable with as a mother. Not sure exactly what it is but that is my gut feeling. We are going to give it another week and re-evaluate the situation and see if we need to see the principal. Hopefully, this is just the adjustment phase and we'll get through this and everything will go smoothly.