Cason wanted to pose like a supermodel too.
Haha. He's hilarious. He makes me laugh a couple hundred times a day.I never needed time to adjust to my first baby, or my second, but this time is the first time we had to kind of figure things out. Not Neely, just having 3 to take care of. It's awesome and so much fun, but it seems like it takes work to manage our time properly now. Some days it feels like I spent the entire day just accomplishing things like meals, baths, laundry, bla bla bla, and never really spent quality time with any of the kids.
Jess says I just want to have my cake and eat it too, because I want 100 kids, but to somehow still be able to spend hours with each of them individually, as well as play with them all together. It's true though. If the days were just a LITTLE longer. :)
So I got a little sad and felt guilty, and told him it seems like I really didn't get to focus on anyone yesterday. But he told me I'm going to have to accept that if I want lots of kids, I'll have to take the little moments I get with each kid, as they come. He also always tells me we have a lot more of those moments than I realize. I watched the sweet angel sleep while he gave me this pep talk, which helped.
So I decided that today I'd take a picture an hour, so I could look back and see how we spent our day today. So get ready for LOTS of pictures here.8:00 am-Paige and Cason wake up, but Neely sleeps on.

9:00 am-Neely is awake,
cinnamon waffle time.
We went ahead and ate with supermodel hair. One of us anyway.
10:00 am-people finally dress themselves,
and then Paige hangs upside down on the couch and begs me to tell them stories while Cason reads his own.
Soon they lose interest and play with Buzz, Woody, and Jessie,
but the game slowly evolves into pretty much playing house. They have twins.
11:00 am-coffee(me only, ha) and coloring
Neely watches from her playmat and eventually my lap.
Cason thinks we're boring and plays alone in the playroom.
12:00 pm-Paige, Cason, and I clean up the playroom Cason just destroyed for no real reason other than he enjoys making messes. But he happily helped clean, so it worked out.
1:00 pm-lunch on the couch while watching that ridiculous old Mario Brothers tv show on Netflix. Cason has now half way undressed himself again.
2:00 pmish-Jess is home for lunch. He and Paige play the "Is she (insert random number here)" game. Pretty much Jess or Paige asks the other: "Is she 164?" and the other says "No, she's the ONE!" about Neely, and she usually smiles.
Paige also wins a trophy on Bomberman, and receives a hearty congratulations from Cason.
3:00 pm-Jess is gone back to work, Neely naps, the other two play with toys in the playroom, and I actually do some housework.
4:00 pm-Paige and Cason request a bubble bath.
Neely helps me supervise.
5:00 pm-Alex and Faith arrive to spend the night, we play out front finding snail shells.
(While out front I noticed how big our driveway is. Michael, you could plan some serious Roller World action here)
6:00 pm-Jess arrives home with Sonic for dinner.
7:00 pm-lots of crazy play in the playroom. Cason was pretend washing and Alex was pretend drying the dishes from their pretend dinner. :)
8:00 pm-older kids have a tea party complete with actual tea, ha. Meanwhile, Neely has a bath.

Look at her chubbo body.
9:00 pm-Jess is gone for basketball game, kids cuddle up for some Rainbow Brite. :)
Now that I was paying attention to what we were doing, I realized Jess is right, and I do have lots of little moments with each of my three. And really, the older two probably prefer it this way, Neely keeps me out of their business so they can have some REAL fun together. :)
3 comments:
Ah, your kids get to spend so much time with you and it is great! Oh yes and I love Neely's chubbo picture ;)
Next time we come to AZ, I think we need to make a rollerworld with the littles. You better be prepared with buckets and buckets of chalk.
I wonder if Grandma or anyone ever took pictures of our creations. . . probably not.
I KNOW Michael, I WILL have chalk. Although our kids can't even skate yet. Ha. But they can ride their little bikes around it. I hope there's a picture of one SOMEWHERE out there. Rollerworlds are probably my favorite childhood memories.
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