Hannah and her brother.
Hayden at one month.
Our American Idol.
Grandma and Hayden.The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.
~Erma Bombeck
It is official. Hayden is a month old and we could not be happier. The girls are getting adjusted to having "Master Hayden" controlling our family schedule. This consists of feedings every two hours day and night. He does have one five-hour stretch in the late afternoon and wakes up during dinner. Joe and I have decided that sleep deprivation is bad for the temperment as you get older. It is amazing how obsessed you can become with sleep when you do not get enough of it. We take turns on the weekend, but even then we are only getting four hours of continuous sleep each. This is all good and it goes with the territory, but I feel that I have turned stupid. A cognitive thought can not be found in my brain if my life depended on it right now. Joe is working hard on getting a swing set put together for the kids. It is quite the project as we need to pull up grass and then assemble the swing set. The swing set is sitting in a wooden crate in the driveway. The girls are going crazy with anticipation. It has a climbing wall, slide, cargo net, club house and swings. It will be nice to have something for them to do outside to get the wiggles out.
I am going stir crazy in the house, but at the same time I am dreading going back to work on the 12th. This time with baby has gone by so fast. I can not believe that I will be leaving him for someone else to take care of. When they are older it is easier as they can do so much for themselves. When Elainea joined our family taking her to daycare was not as traumatic as she enjoyed playing with the other kids.
Hannah is graduating from Kindergarten on the 28th of May. She is so excited and her class is putting together a program for the parents. She is so excited as they are showing off their newly acquired Spanish skills. We will have to post pictures when we take them.
Elainea is continuing to do well. She had her first play date yesterday and went to the next-door neighbors house to play with her friend Jackie. She was so excited to do an activity that she has continually been told that she is "too young" to do. Hannah has at least two a week and Elainea has always felt left out. We have to watch her close now as she is consistently trying to go visit her friends next door. We have definitely created a monster. We recently had her tested for diabetes and are relieved to report that all the tests came back favorable. She and her liver and doing just fine.
The girls have started a new hobby of collecting and then pressing flowers. They love the idea of being able to create different crafts with the blooms they have collected. The trouble is that they are constantly trying to pick the neighbors flowers. They have realized that they need to ask before they pick, so now they are constantly knocking on the doors in the neighborhood. We are going to have to take them to a park and collect a whole bunch to help take the pressure of the neighborhood flower gardens.
Both girls needed to go to the dentist. Hannah needed to get two teeth pulled and Elainea needed to get some cavities filled. This was kind of an interesting afternoon for Mom. They were in adjacent rooms and Mom was running in between them to keep them calm. The girls were very brave and came out of the experience relatively unscathed. Hannah was excited for the two dollars she got from the tooth-fairy.
Mother's day is next week and we are going to try to get together with family at a park. I can not believe that I am the mother of three beautiful children. We are so blessed and each one is such a miracle. We certainly live a charmed life.
