Baby Stuff

Your weekly dose of Snuggle-Bug. :)

The sweet sweater from Regi.What would you do if you saw this?
Laugh, of course! Snuggle-bug's first LOL that I can recall!
She is getting so curious, sitting up in the walker, grabbing toys, looking around, wanting to be included.
She's still sleeping through the night. She sleeps better than the other three do now.
Clean cutie! Speedy asked why she had 'those lumps' on her arms. I was explaining they were fat rolls, and that he had them when he was a baby, too. He said, "but then I got 3 and I didn't have lumps anymore, right?"

Always Running Behind

It's ridiculous. I cannot catch up! With anything!! I've got sewing projects, Easter projects, birthday projects, people projects, organizing projects, shopping projects, scrapbooking projects, housecleaning projects, reading projects, bloggy projects...

Part of the reason is because of this curly-girly. She wants to be potty-trained. But she's not. She has started taking off her pants and diaper all the time. And will then sit on the potty and go through the motions of wiping. But never does anything IN the potty. I tried some training pants this weekend, but she'd wet them before I had a chance to have her try going. {sigh}
I'm trying to take heart in the fact that I do have two successfully potty-trained children, and that this will end. Sometime.

Honey wants to do everything her "solf" right now. More and more independence. This morning she pulled a container of water off the counter all over herself and the kitchen floor. Then acted mad at me, like it was my fault for leaving it there, I should know better. :)

Honey and Speedy scrubbed clean and shiny.
This is how Honey finally gave in to sleep one night.
Honey is talking SO much, it's so cute and fun. For example: 'ite, Mommy?' (right, Mommy?) I wish I had video of it for you, typing just doesn't do it justice.

I can't believe I've made it past 200 posts!

What's Happenin'

A few days ago, this was Speedy, laid up on the jumping couch. He barely moved, except running to the bathroom, for 2 days. Hubby grants lots of movie time on his laptop for invalids. Shows usually attract a couple non-invalids, too.
Princess does an awesome job making her bottom bunk most of the time. One day I walked in and notice she had a quilt and blanket neatly folded at the foot of her bed, and several friends all in a row. Aww.
Honey and Princess. We have musical beds here most of the time. You never know which munchkin(s) may be in your bed when you wake up.
Feeling better: 3 sillies said 'come take our picture!' They were acting like they were asleep and fake snoring. :)

A Day in the Life

Disclaimer: If you have a weak stomach, you may want to skip this post. :)

It's been a typical day, I guess. Princess stuck some sticky-tak-wall-hangy-stuff into the fur of her webkinz. I had to cut it out.

Honey is still having nasty diapers. Two before ten today.

Speedy still has the bug, and has trouble making it to the toilet sometimes.
Shortly after cleaning this up, Princess hollered that she got poop on her dress. (She was wearing a hand-me-down flower girl dress for dress-up.) It fell in the toilet when she was wiping.

While I was cleaning the dress off, Honey came to me with something wet on her hands, sleeve, and pants. My only conclusion was that she was playing in the poopy toilet. Yee-haw.

We really DO have tons of toys and games and other things that should keep her attention so she doesn't have to resort to playing in the toilet.

Oh, and I dyed some red patches onto some towels from a red blanket while doing laundry.

And this was all before 1 pm.

And the ants have attacked our house again. On multiple fronts.

Not much

Seems like I haven't blogged because there's really nothing going on. But actually, everything is going on. You know, life, the kids growing up too fast. I'm just trying to enjoy it all, because, really they are growing TOO fast! I don't want to forget how their little hands feel in mine, the smell of a baby's head, the way they cuddle up and want to read stories with me. Yes, I'm busy. Busy trying to enjoy all this and still keep up with that other stuff, like laundry, cooking, cleaning. :)

Princess piled a bunch of blankets on the baby. Made me think she was the pea in the story.
Snuggle-Bug's smile:
I gave Speedy a haircut. Here's the before. It was really, really long.
See: here's the pile that resulted. Gross, I know, but I couldn't believe how much there was! I forgot to take an after picture of Speedy.
Princess enjoying her new Christmas boots.

Reality...

...Is setting back in after coming home with the new baby and post-holiday hoopla. I was actually home by myself one morning with all 4 kiddos while Hubby was at the doctor and running errands! It wasn't SO bad. :) Though Snuggle-Bug spit up ALL over herself, and all down her back somehow. She was overdue for a bath anyway, so it was okay. Here she is at 10 days old.
Feels like she's always been around! :) Other people have told me that once you have the 4th kid, it's just one more, not that big of an adjustment. So far, I'd agree with that. Snuggle-Bug has been a very content little girl so far, for which I am VERY thankful!

Back to the reality--everybody, even the baby has had a cold, Honey has had the stomach flu (AGAIN!), Hubby felt poorly and spent a day or so sleeping, never-ending meals, because once we're done eating and the kids wiped off, the real clean-up begins: clearing the table, wiping it down, sweeping the floor, doing the dishes...then starting over for the next meal! The laundry, the everybody needing something at once, reading stories to 3 climbing all over me while 1 nurses...anyway, if you're a mom, you know what I mean! The 'break' has been great, but time to get used to reality again--Hubby goes back to school on Monday!!