Does My Usual "This Is What We Did Today" Post Bore You? Turn Back Now, Cuz This Is EVERYTHING We Did Today

Paige hates having her hair put up. I love it down OR up, but sometimes I try and convince her to let me try things just for fun. Last night she let me put it half up, and I think she looked beeeautiful.
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. :)

13 week stats

The queen of the babies is 13 weeks old today. I tried on the panda hat, and obviously should have sooner, because it barely fits.
Neely at 13 weeks:

She is still cuddly, and loves to be held, but also likes some personal space. She looks annoyed when we get in her face and kiss on her too much.

She tries SO hard to sit up if we hold her lying down in our laps. She has really strong abs and if she's sort of tilted up she can raise herself the rest of the way to sitting.

Has laughed, but most of our efforts only get smiles. I think she has too mature a sense of humor for us. :)

She's pretty good at grabbing things lately. She pretty much always holds onto my hands when she's sitting in my lap now. She also kicks at her toys, and is clearly trying to aim her kicks, instead of just random excited kicks.

She smiles instantly any time Paige or Cason come into her view. So cute.
She has another singer she loves, as much as she loves Otis Redding I think. Paolo Nutini. Neely's a soulful little lady. She loves these two songs: Coming Up Easy and No Other Way. I love her taste in music. Obviously she only hears stuff I like, but there's plenty she hears and doesn't pay attention to. But those two singers always make her happy.

She continues to be a special little angel girl.


It was so dang cold today. We had potato zucchini soup, which is awesome. It pretty much tastes like baked potato soup. I even baked some bread to go with it.
Paige pretended to hate it before even trying it of course, so then Cason pretended to be scared to eat it too.
I could tell he liked it, but he pretended not to because Paige didn't want it. Awesome.

Neely slept sweetly while I cooked.

Saucy Girl

First conversation we had this morning:

Cason: "Meewee's so cute. She's my baby."

Paige: "No, she's all our baby Cason."

Cason: "No, no, she's mama's baby. Mama have to feed her and walk wif her."

I put Neely down in her crib for her first nap today, and she stayed asleep.
It's like the 2nd time I've forced myself to put her down to nap. It's just so nice to cuddle on the couch instead. I got some laundry done while she slept, although I had to keep dragging Cason from her room, because he wanted SO badly to go in and look at her.

He finally got what he wanted when she woke up. She was all happy after the nap, just kicking and eating her blankie, and looking around.
So Caso ran in and talked to her through the bars, and got some smiles.
I've seen those Rockabye cds for babies and then forgot about them, but today I downloaded a bunch. They have everything from Elvis to Tool to Pearl Jam to the Cure. It's so cute, they're just instrumental lullaby versions, and once I downloaded a ton I found out we don't even have any blank cds at the moment to burn for the little lady.

Cassie, mom and Tyra have said Neely looks like you at times, and this picture really makes me think of your baby pictures:
Since we were lazy this weekend we didn't get everything we'd need to eat all week. So Jess ran by Subway and got us sandwiches on his way home from work. I got a meatball sub, because I thought the kids would like it and eat half. Neely was JUST falling asleep in my arms when Jess got home, so I ate with one hand while holding her. They put way too much sauce on my sandwich.