Update

It's been a while since my last post, so I thought I was due for a new one. Things have been pretty well. We spent last Tuesday at the Fair and had an awesome time. We were there for about 9 hours and it was great. The kids did fantastic and we all had so much fun and of course ate wonderful food!

Tiny butt (we have nicknamed our kids: Big butt, Little butt and Tiny butt) has been doing great. He's only been waking up once a night for about 2 weeks now and it's been so nice. Of course it's hard to get up, but it goes well, he eats and then he's awake for about 1-2 hours then goes back to bed. He also has been smiling so much and we've really been enjoying that! Yay!

Big butt (aka Evan) starts preschool on September 11th at our Church. He's really excited, and so are all of us! He needs something to stimulate his brain because I'm not doing a very good job at it right now! He had his last soccer game last Monday and they actually won! How ironic it was the last game, but it was fun...oh, they don't keep score but my hubby always does. He's a bit competetive.

Little butt (aka Mason) has been doing ok. He's had a bit of a rough patch these past few days. We've all been suffering these ridiculous summer colds and of course, poor Mason ends up with the brunt of it. He has a double ear infection and strep (at least we think he has strep, the Doc looked at him but didn't bother to do the strep test since he was giving him amoxicilin anyways for the ear infections). We were up with him all night 2 nights ago due to a high fever and him being absolutely miserable and crying in pain. It was heart wrenching. Tonight he was perking up, his fever is pretty much gone (thank goodness) and he seems a little better. It's so sad when they're sick, it just tears my heart out.

Hubby (aka, biggest butt...j/k...kind of ;) ) has been doing ok. His head is still really bad and I'm at a point where I feel like we're out of options. The poor guy has done everything. He's seen everyone he can see. He's done all the tests that can be done...apparently. I still feel like there could still be something, but where do we go now? Who can he see at this point that just might have an answer?

As for myself, things have been busy as usual. I had my 6 week post natal appointment and unfortunately I'm still healing and Doc thinks I've got a touch of baby blues. Ugh. Oh well. I attempted my weight loss journey a couple weeks ago and completely failed. I guess I am just not ready yet. I really need some strong motivation right now, because I desperately need to lose this baby weight. I feel like I just want to climb into a hole and come out when I look and feel better. Can people hibernate? That would be interesting. Hopefully things will start looking up soon and I can find that deeply needed motivation...and time to actually exercise! Time...that would be nice. Life just goes by way too fast.

That's pretty much it for now. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening and good night.

Life's Crazy...

with 3 kids that is!!! Holy smacks, I never thought it would be this insane. I knew adding another member to our family would be challenging, but whoa! Three kiddos is a lot of work! I've managed to make a couple 'outings' this week all by myself, and I have to say, I'm quite proud I was able to do it! I even ventured to Target yesterday with all 3 of them and it went pretty well...except for our cart that had a broken wheel. But the dressing room attendant called the front and got us a new one. That was very sweet. Carter cried for about 10 minutes, then finally fell asleep. Evan and Mason did really good...I did bribe them however. If they were very good through the entire store they could pick out a candy bar. Then we swung through Wendy's drive-thru (I know, I totally deserve the mother of the year award ;) ). I couldn't believe how well the boys ate their chicken nuggets. They ate them all! That's a record in this house. But then Mason accidentally spilled his entire milk on the floor, and chair...and table...right when Carter woke up screaming to eat. It was a pretty stressful 15 minutes of cleaning and listening to 2 kids crying. Mason was bawling because he was mad his milk spilled and carter was HUNGRY. Oh well, such is life.

Last night we had our neighborhood national night out and it was so much fun! My amazing neighbor Kellie put the whole thing together and did a great job! It was very organized and a ton of fun! We enjoyed root beer floats, water balloon toss contests and talking with the neighbors. The water balloon toss contest was hilarious! It was so much fun and the boys are still talking about it today - thank you Kellie for doing EVERYTHING!!!

Well I could write my typical novel right now, but I'll try to save more for another day :). Even though this is a long blog...again. I guess I write like I talk...I don't know how to shut up!