Life

You know what the best part about being an 'adult' is? I no longer have to do things someone else's way. When you're growing up you always have someone standing over your shoulder telling you what you can/can't do or how you have to do things. Now...the only person over my shoulder is the God that I answer to. And His word means more than anyone's. I say this because recently Pete and I have been facing some challenging situations.

When the girls 1st came home from the hospital we were tired to say the least. Let's go back to that time (quickly...very quickly...lol). Hannah & Hailey needed to eat every 2hrs, Emily every 3hrs. I had 3 alarms set on my cell phone and then one on the alarm clock. I never slept through a feeding. Never. Not one time. No matter how tired I was...I got up.
Alarm #1 goes off. I wake up Hailey, feed her and hand her to Pete so she can be held. I wake up Hannah, feed her and hand her to Pete so she can be held. They needed to be upright for 45min - we found they would only spit up 1/2 of what they would if we layed them right back down. I wake up Emily, feed her and by the time she is done all of them can go back to sleep. I now have to pump. For 20-25 minutes I got to watch my family sleep. I'm done pumping, and after taking care of the milk - I can sleep for 45minutes before alarm #2 goes off. Hannah and Hailey need to eat again. After feeding and holding them - I can sleep for another 45min before alarm #3 goes off to wake up Emily for her next feeding. Reset the cell phone alarms, pump and sleep for 45minutes before the alarm clock goes off to feed Hannah and Hailey again. This is the smooth rundown. This doesn't include the diaper changes, change of clothes after they spit up, crying, wanting to be held more...and so on.

Ok...let's get out of there...that's not the happiest of times for us...lol. What's the point in going back to that though? It's this: At 2:00 in the morning when you have 3 babies that are 100% dependent on you and you have to pull every ounce of your energy together to make it happen...who's there? I can tell you who was there for me. God and Pete. That's NOT to say that we didn't have help. We did. And God knows we needed it. Who doesn't? We have 3 kids...we'll ALWAYS need help. And we know that. But with that said we have learned that help comes at a cost. It has cost us friends. It has cost us relationships. It has cost us alone time. It has cost us time away from our kids. The number of people that cycle through our house during the day is welcoming to us. It warms our hearts to know that people care enough to help. To know that we need help and to offer it without asking is overwhelming.

But there are times when we make decisions and those decisions are not open to debate. They're not open to 'tweaking' and they're not open to discussion at all. Bringing it back...WE...Pete and I...are the parents of this little trio that we've brought into this world. We're going to make mistakes. We're going to mess up in big ways. And when we do - God will catch us, put us back on our feet and help us move forward. We have to let the little things go. If we don't - we will do nothing but fight and argue. We have soooo much more to concentrate on. So many more important things to worry about. So yes - I've adopted the 'I don't give a f__k' attidue and it's not because I really don't care. It's simply because I can't care about the small things. I don't have the time, energy or patience to. And since I have adopted this new attitude...life has been much easier on Pete and myself. We've said it a million times - we only get ONE shot at doing this whole kid thing. And we're going to do our best to do it 'right'.

Stellan

Was working on a weekend post but we can talk about that later.
Yup...another prayer 'shout out' folks. Stellan is a miracle baby and has been pulling the world along with him ever since. He's gotta 'pull' through yet again so show some prayer love over at the MckMama blog.

fun pics

We Forgot...

...to mention that Kelly came over to play with us on Saturday too! And she's pregnant with a baby boy and his name is Ronan! Well - not really but that's what we call him. He's due to arrive in just a couple short months and we can't wait - PLAY DATE!!!!!!!!! We have sooo much stuff we can teach him!!! Thanks for hanging out Kelly - we love when you come to play with us...it's soooo much fun!

Weekend fun

This weekend Daddy went to VA and he left us here to take care of Mommy. We sure did do a good job too! On Saturday morning we pushed Daddy out the door and then we dragged mommy off to the grocery store. We had to make sure we had milk. Then we came home and we left mommy a list of things to take care of while we took a nap. When we woke up - Uncle Joey, Kristin, Auntie Lucy, Alex, Bri Bri and one of Bri's friends were all here!!! Then we went out in our swimming pool and splashed around in the water (well Hailey didn't - she preferred to be held by Auntie Lucy). Then later Uncle Joey cooked out on the grill and he stayed to help us brush out teeth, read books and get to bed.
Then Sunday Daddy still wasn't back (we missed him so much - we like when daddy comes to get us out of our cribs in the morning). We cooked mommy some oatmeal for breakfast and decided that was not gonna do it. We needed more food...it was gonna be a hungry day for all of us. So we texted Uncle Joey and said "Come on! We're going to Denny's!" So he said 'Ok - I'm on my way!!!!" But before he could get here do you know what mommy did??? She put us down for stinkin nap! It's ok though - Uncle Joey waited for us and when we got up he made sure we got to Denny's for our breakfast. Mommy called Auntie Lucy and so the whole crew of us ended up going out to eat. Then we went to the orchard and we picked FRESH PEACHES AND RASPBERRIES! Do you know what they tasted like? OMG THEY WERE SO GOOD! That was the best time ever! We got to walk right over to the tree and pull the peaches right off the branch and eat them! Just like that! Oh - and we LOVE LOVE LOVE raspberries. Oh yeah. Those are yummy. Then when we got home we were really tired so Uncle Joey and Kristin helped give us a bath and put us to bed again.
Daddy was here when we got up on Monday morning and we're not sure who was happier...us or Mommy. Cuz Mommy was pretty darn happy to see Daddy after he had been gone all weekend!
Pictures? Yeah - well - Daddy took the camera to VA with him so we didn't have it. Hopefully Auntie Lucy sends us some pictures and then we'll share them with you. We looked pretty cute picking Peaches...that's for sure.

Uncle Joey

Toddlers?

So many times I read blogs and everyone is questioning when our babies actually become toddlers. I think I have the answer. It's all in the bath water! I've noticed that past couple times the girls have taken a bath - their bath water is dirty!!! *GASP* I think we officially have toddlers. Because babies...they don't get dirty!!!!
And on a side note - Emily was walking around the house the other morning with an outlet plug in her hand. Yeah - childproof my @ss. She pulled that thing right out of the wall...and I'll bet she had fun doing it too. LOL...definitely toddlers.