Wage of Staying at Home

It is well known that being a stay at home mom does not have a good salary but the benefits rock. Well yesterday Julia walked towards me gleaming and handed me some change and said, "Mom since you don't work here is some of your own money to buy something of your own and not for all of us kids." I reassured her that Steven shared his earnings very well however she insisted so all day I carried around the change.

A Lot New?

Well since it has been almost two months, I figured I should update everyone.

Simon is just about crawling he has made it a few inches on all fours today and Emma will be a few weeks behind him.

Jacob is growing out of his naughty behavior, well I am seeing more angelic little boy. Although he did spit at Julia tonight.

Julia will be going to pre-school and holy cow can she dish out some sas. Some of the lines echo of me though, so we both need to work on that.

Lois is hanging out in the middle becoming more obsessed with princesses and dresses. Oh bother I was hoping for a tom boy.

Steven is working even more, he keeps upping the ante. Hey you thought I worked too much before watch this... Just kidding it bothers him as much as it does.

And for me I am accepting that God just does not want me to work, I was considering working and boom I am pregnant. Yep number six is on the way. Overnight I went from clicking along in my routine to puking feeling tired and questioning how much TV is OK for the kids to watch.

Well that is all for now. I guess I am going to have to update 5 ruggers to 6 is enough or maybe just 6 ruggers.

More pics.

This dress was two bucks at a rummage sale and has bloomers, Emma kept the hat on too!
Emma has Julia's hair that she had chopped off last winter, looks like a little China Doll huh.
Our friend made this cake and two doll cakes for Julia and Lois' birthday, 12 hours work gone in five minutes. Very memorable though.
Simon is getting bullied out of his bottle by cousin Joseph who is 4 days younger. Well actually Simon is the boy who takes everyones toys although this weekend Emma fought back.
The babies adore brother Jacob and this is just one time he requested to have a snuggle session. The love is mutual 90% of the time.

Well today was the first day in a long time we spent the whole day together as a family. NO work by my husband, except for now but everyone is in bed so it has to get done sometime why not now. I went all out with decorations for the bike parade at MSUM and the older kids sucked it up, Julia was waving to all the on-lookers. Although by the end of the day if I heard, "Oh you must have your hands full" or "Are they twins?" I was going to loose my mind. It is just one of the many frustrations of making a "public appearance." The kids enjoyed barrel train rides, games and music. Julia watched fireworks on TV with her dad since our family is a little to young.

Now that I have pictures on I have no idea how to format them and it is 11:00 Steven is working and I am tired from lack of sleep because Emma is struggling with teeth and Simon is following suit making sure he gets attention too. Good night and maybe sometime I will work on this more.

Sorry I haven't updated lately I have been holding off until I can gets some pics on here. Oh well it will have to wait...
I went back to work for a couple of days and it was refreshing I wasn't as shabby as I thought I would be. Daycare was tag teamed by my mom and a high school girl and the kids were happy and the house was clean when I got home.

A few quick things:
Emma is the proud owner of two teeth. Working very hard at learning how to sit up. We have had her in twice for possible ear infection and she is supposedly clear however I am not convinced.

Simon is following suit with sitting up and has bulging gums. Temper, temper, temper.

Lois went potty for the first time tonight in the toilet, she said excuse me after she did it. Julia asked her if she wanted to wear panties and she pushed her away. I asked if she wanted to call grandma and she declined. I asked her if she wanted to do again tomorrow and she angerly said no.

Jacob is maturing nicely, he still has some behavior problems but controllable. Yesterday we were driving and Julia sneezed on him and he scoffed "you got bless all over me." It must be called bless because when they sneeze we say bless you.

Julia is a little helper, sometimes a little to much. She has her heart set on a trampoline, daddy chickened out and said he wanted to wait until the kids got bigger but, we already told her we were getting one so we need to have those thoughts prior to speaking. He needs to understand I am as excited as the kids, I will be wearing a size 3 diaper so I don't wet my pants.

Steven is working a ton and feeling pressure from Julia to be home more. I am more ok with him working on days I work, we ride together so we have our chatting time and I see other adults.

Well life has been fairly good we have our moments when I think I am going to loose my mind but all and all ok. The kids are easily accepting of our new routine consisting of going outside daily. It is amazing how they adhere to our routine so easily. I am going back to work for a day while a co-worker enjoys a day off, this will be my first day back since October, ugh I think I will have to work on my verbal skills before I do that. When a patient is being icky it will be hard not to count to three, ha, ha.

Everything is status quo. Jacob and another boy mooned Julia at the playground today. Jake spit on Lois' butt in the bath tonight. Lois is starving for attention, well Julia too. Can she have enough dance performances. Babies are rolling over and working on sitting up. Head bangs on hardwood floors will stunt that progress.

Today was the day...

We were able to walk to the park and play for an hour and a half, the babies were great. Everything worked like a charm. Even better everyone was asleep by nine o'clock tonight. I have looked forward to this day since bed rest last fall, when things were tough I would just tell myself, "hang in there this summer you can go to the park daily with all the kids."

I was reminiscing about the tough times and I just had to laugh at one of the worst moments. I was in the hospital and sleep deprived I was on day 3 of only a couple hours of sleep, cumulative and fell asleep nursing babies in a rocking chair away from the call light. I awoke with a huge cramp in my neck, who knew my ear could actually touch my shoulder. I struggled to make it over to the bed, recovering from c-section, carrying two floppy babies and tripping over a nursing pillow. I made it only to plop Emma down on the bed less than gracefully. I hit the call light and a nurse quickly responded. As I pick Emma up, my gown fall the floor and my huge body is naked as the nurse enters. I am at tears and freaking out. The nurse says to me, "hey didn't you go to University of Mary?" I waited a moment to answer her with clothes on, come to find out she was a classmate. She was always laid back and would say compulsively, "it's all good" well ironic IT WASN'T ALL GOOD! She encouraged me and said I was doing great and in report the nurses said, "she isn't sleeping at all but, still smiling." I guess sometimes you have to smile or you cry. Wahoo! I made it, all down hill from here.

Take care I am going to fold laundry.