Surviving!

My mom was here for an entire week and I took ZERO pictures.   We had a great visit, and it was so nice having her here.   I'm on my own today ... and we are surviving!   Have two loads of laundry to do in this "quiet time" when maggie and charlie are actually sleeping at the same time.   The older boys are coloring at the table.   Anyway, instead of laundry, I thought it was about time to have a new post.   I'm sick of the bees ....

On Sunday, our neighborhood had a picnic lunch/petting zoo/balloon animals for everyone.   So, we walked down and the kids had a blast.   Here are a few pictures from the adventure....

 

 

 

The boys had a blast.  We came home and they took naps, well, some of them did, anyway...

Jackson helped me cook dinner.  

Sweet Maggie.  

She's doing well.   Unpredictable, but I guess that is the story with newborns.

  Who knows how long they might sleep for each "nap" so I try to do as much as I can with the boys while I am not holding her.

Charlie - waiting for someone to read to him.

He has been so interested in Maggie - wanting to label all of her body parts.   He keep poking her in the eyes though.  And he climbs on top of me while I am nursing Maggie.   He's trying to be sweet, which he is, but poor Maggie is going to get squished.

Life is going well.   Jackson is doing really well- like he never had surgery.  We have his checkup in a few weeks.  Maggie may have a rough morning, but then she does great in the afternoon.  She seems to be battling lots of burps and some spit up - but hopefully it will supside as she starts to grow a little.  She still wasn't quite up to her birthweight at 3 weeks old, but her pediatrician said it was okay ... we will just keep an eye on her.   She nurses all the time, and poops and pees every 5 seconds.

Speaking of, she just woke up...

I'm going to try and take some more pictures of all them this week.