All 3

Here are some pics of all 3, notice Turner's eyes shut again. I took so many, but they were closed in every single one! lol I had a good birthday, we went out for dinner, then Aaron brought home a cookie cake (Mmmmm, SO good), and then after we had the kids in bed, we sat on the couch together with a bottle of wine and just enjoyed the quiet. Funny how much more comfortable you can be in complete quiet as you get older. Guess it just has to do with being more in tune and at peace with yourself.

Side note: I just weighed myself and then with holding Austin, seems he is already up to 10.6 lbs!!!

My other babies

OK, I promised pictures of my other babies, so here they are! I love Turner's current "cheese", he squints up his eyes every time! Just wanted everyone to know I haven't forgotten about my other kiddos. Aren't they beautiful!

For anyone who may be reading this from work, CONGRATULATIONS!!

Oh my, I'm 29!

Well, for anyone that didn't know, today is my birthday - I'm 29. Just another day in the life though, no big thing. I don't have any hesitation about getting closer to 30 since I've been looking forward to my 30s since I can remember. I've always thought my 30s would be the best years of my life. I'll have all my kids, be advancing in my career, and just all around everything being settled and good. Now I know that things can change at any minute and you never know what is ahead, but from here it is looking really good. Now I may not be looking as forward to my 40s, those will be the years all my kids become teenagers!!!!

I'm pretty tired today. Austin was up about every 2 hours last night and never really seemed to fall in to a good deep sleep between gas pains and his cold. So I sent the kids to daycare thinking I'd get a nap, but it has been more of the same today, so I've caught 2 short cat naps, but even those were on the verge of consciousness. That's OK though, still worth it all!!!

3 Weeks Old

Where has the time gone? 3 weeks old already....I don't want to believe it.

He is still my sweetheart. I wish he could stay a newborn. I don't know what it is about him, but he is just so precious. I am able to just fully cherish him being a baby, more than I think I was able to with the other kids. Maybe it is just the thought that IF he is my last, I better hang on to every moment. And now I fully understand just how fast it all goes.

I stayed home with the kids today and we all had a really good day. I know I need to take some more pictures of them too. I'll try to get some posted soon. I wish that I could pull up my baby pictures of Turner, but I don't have the CDs right now (how is our CD coming mom!). But I have a picture of Turner on my fridge that looks exactly like Austin. I think we have all forgotten what Turner looked like as a baby. He has just changed so much from his baby look, whereas Mackenzie still looks so much like herself as a baby. Maybe i'll be able to get some of their baby pictures up sometime soon too.

Date night

So last night Aaron and I got to go out on a date (thanks to Grandma Denise for babysitting)!!! Can you believe it, 3 kids and I still like to date him! lol We went out on a triple date with some friends. It was such a good time - thanks for letting us tag along guys, we had so much fun! Afterwards we came home and got Austin and went over to Fran's. Check out this picture of Sean and Austin - the picture doesn't really do the difference between them justice. Austin looked like he was a good month or two older than Sean, just so much bigger. Guess we should just get used to it. Fran's kids hang out more around the 0-25th% ranges, mine are always 75-95th % - just genetics. Once we got home, we convinced my sister to get up with the kids in the morning, so not only did we get to be out for about 3 hours last night by ourselves, we also got to sleep in together this morning.

Today with the nice weather we got outside and played for a while. The kids loved it, and it was nice to be able to do something different by being outside. Then we had to take Grandma to the airport :( Thank you so much Denise for coming to visit and all that you did to help us out this week!! So now it is back to being just us.

Austin has a little cold. He is stopped up, but still eating good, and no fever yet, so hopefully this will pass quickly Poor little guy. Turner has been very fussy today. don't know if it was just getting up early and a nap cut short, but I was to the end of my line by the time I put him to bed. I was planning on keeping them home tomorrow, but now I'm not so sure, he was really making me CRAZY. I'm so awful. Maybe he just needs a little 1 on 1 time with mommy soon.....

Picture Day

The photographer came over and took pictures today. I'm hoping that they turned out good. Mackenzie was all smiles and looked SOOOO beautiful, Turner wanted to be right next to me, and Austin went back and forth between crying and happy. It is so much easier to have him come to our house than to have to get everyone out the door and to a studio. I hope to have a few examples to post on here soon and he said he plans to have my proofs to me by Wednesday. Of course, since I'm not at work I won't be able to scan them. Here is a picture that we took afterwards.

Bunk Beds

LOVIN the big boy beds. How cute are these! We'll have to take down the fan and just do a light in the room before anyone tries to be propelled across the room by them! I can't wait to see Turner's face when he gets here. I'm going to go out and try to get a piece of plexi board or something to attach to the ladder to keep Turner off the top bunk for now. And here are some recent pictures of my new boyfriend. He has really stolen his mommy's heart. And he loves his daddy. Cutest thing is that he doesn't cry all day if I hold him, but at night sometimes seems he won't stop till daddy holds him on his tummy. So of course he has Aaron's heart now too. So beware of coming to visit, he may just steal your heart while you are here too!!!