Well, its official. I no longer have a baby. Leila will
be 3 next week! I finally got her off the bottle just like 2 weeks ago,
and this week, Leila got her first haircut. It was long overdue. She is
a child prone to vacuuming up spaghetti and juice and yogurt and cereal
and whatever....with her hair... it was a stringy moppy mess.
But
I am sad. I swear when I mention this (ahem...baby) to my close friends and family,
they look at me with fear in their eyes, or a stern glare or a cackle in
their throat, because my house is nutty...the kids, obviously outnumber
the parents. They are loud, but hilarious. They are sassy, but the
sweetest snugglers on the planet. They are so much work, but so much
love. AND I am having a hard time saying "Enough is enough" to additional
insanity in the home ;-)
The way I see it, its already pure chaos
already. At night time, we play musical beds. One girl crawls in bed
with us, Jeff puts her back. The next girl crawls in bed with us, Jeff
puts HER back. The son comes in and lays on the sofa in our room and
soon afterwards, the first girl comes crawling BACK in our bed for the 2nd
time, and the next girl will crawl in.... so NOW there are 4 people in our bed. Eventually,
Jeff will leave the room and sleep on the living room sofa... or I will
leave the room drenched in sweat and go to Jada's bed, in which
case... one of the girls
will inevitably follow me back in there. There IS NO end to the ups
and downs, laughs and screams, back and forths in my home... so why
not... one more? right?!
There, I said it, I miss having a baby! Its noisy
anyways, right? MY baby, is getting big way too fast, and while she is
STILL and FOREVER my baby (they all are)...i miss the "baby-ness" of
having an actual baby!!! My mom says everytime she sees me, I am worked
up or stressed out.. Well, it IS alot of work, having a bunch of kiddos
all so close in age, so of course I am stressed out, but seriously,
have you seen the facebook status's I write? These kids are a hoot!
What
on earth would I have to talk about on facebook if it wasnt for A) the
love of God or B) the crazy things my kids say and do =) And also, I
probably would have NEVER been able to use the word "hoot."
(for the
record, wesley just now walked in the room, started jumping up and down
on the sofa and said "Mom, youre the best BEST best mom ever!")~ whats not to love? Pretty sure this is a NO GO for Jeff... I non-nonchalantly mention
babies on occasion, and i get zero reaction out of him. His thought was
"in 5 years, when he has no more babies or "little snuggly kids" to
cuddle, then I can have another baby... ARE YOU KIDDING ME? In 5 years, I
will be 41 years old.! Oh, man....i AM old!!
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4 comments:
Julie!!! I've benn trying to comment on your blog for the past 5 days and it would't let me! I couldn't find anywhere to comment!
Buuut I just wanted to tell you how cute your blog is and I'm so glad you started one because you have THE funnest stories about your kids!
And I can't believe your baby is gonna be 3!!! That's insane.
thanks steph... yeah, this blog thing is fun... i love yours and a few others i stalk...lol.. and ppl kept telling me to write more about the kids and stuff...
and yeah, i dont know what was up with the comment thing before. it wasnt working for some reason. i hadnt changed anything since then so i was surprised to come on here and see a comment... haha
wow your daughter's eyes are so beautiful!
thanks so much! i love them too =) obviously!
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