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When something tastes good, Noah says, "it tates!"

Sophia still calls crutches, "crunches". I don't correct her...it's too cute. :)

Noah: "I'm sick, I need some lettuce-in (medicine)".

Elijah: "tatoes", for potatoes

There's more funnies, but I can't remember them now that I'm sitting down to record them! :)

Levi is 6 weeks old...yee-haw!

Graeme is home tomorrow, double yee-haw!!!

Mom Pedicure

What you'll need:

1 set of rowdy hooligans
1 pair of callused Mama feet complete with chipping nail polish
1 childrens swimming pool
1 nursing infant with coordinating nursing pillow
1 chair to sit next to the pool
Snacks for said hooligans
Patio umbrella to shield infant from the sun's rays
1 foot file

Directions: Sit next to pool in chair with nursing infant. Insert callused feet into pool filled with water AND dirt, rocks, sand and grass clippings. Feed snacks to children, continue to nurse and nurse and nurse while refereeing kiddos. Put sleeping baby to bed. Feed more snacks to children. Hold crying child. Put child down and file away.

The result: Smooth feet with always attractive chipped polish.

Couple this treatment with a bi-weekly shower and you will give Katie Holmes a run for her money.

3 Week Weigh In

Levi turned 3 weeks old yesterday! He is such a sweet baby, and he is starting to sleep longer....hooray!!!

We grow big babies in these parts. I thought it would be fun to record the kids' weekly weights as they are quite astounding at this stage. Here's a run down of each of their weights at 3 weeks old:

Sophia: 11 pounds 2 ounces
Elijah: 11 pounds 8 ounces
Noah: 11 pounds 2 ounces
Levi: 10 pounds 6 ounces.

As you can see, Levi is our lightweight. However, all is not lost as he only weighed 9 pounds 1 ounce last week. I think he is trying to catch up. :)

Levi

The man has been here for almost three weeks. I got 7 hours of broken sleep last night...5 straight hours then 2 more...it felt like heaven on earth. :) Since the man was born, Sophia and I have had strep throat, Levi had to go back to the hospital for a jaundice test which involved the staff losing our paperwork which equalled an hour long wait, then an inexperienced nurse dug around on my poor baby's heel for 10 minutes before finally extracting enough blood for a blood test, Elijah has an infected finger, Noah got a bee sting, Sophia got an allergic reaction to her antibiotics, and Momma was/is t.i.r.e.d.. There was/is a lot of people to Dr. around here.

The littlest is soooo very wonderful. I love to smooch him as does his other mother (Sophia). The kids love him, Sophia especially. It's cute to see them interact. On Sunday afternoon I took a nap, and Sophia brought him into our room in a different onesie and told me that he had pooped and that she had changed his diaper and put a clean onesie on him. Then she had taken his poopy clothes to the laundry room for me...ah, bliss!Here are some pictures of the new little man...

Levi's Pregnancy pictures

The first two were taken on Mother's day and the last one was taken on Wednesday. Once again, I have donned "big blue" for the occasion...

Don't mind my Dorothy Hamil hairdo. My stylist got a little scissor-happy. :)

I thought I looked small-ish in the first two, but then when I saw this one, I changed my mind...

What do you think? How big do you think ole' Levi will be???

Noah's Pregnancy pictures

Here I am in the same outfit I was wearing in the Elijah pictures. I was about 6 weeks from delivering in this picture too.

Here I am in my resident "big blue" shirt which I reserve for the last weeks of pregnancy. I was late in these pictures. My eyes look so tired in these pictures. I think this was a Sunday and he was born the following Saturday.

Elijah's Pregnancy pictures

All I could find from Elijah's pregnancy was these pictures from about 6 1/2 weeks before he was born. So, I guess they don't really compare very well because they were taken so long before he was born...

These aren't pregnancy pics, but I couldn't resist sharing them. Wasn't my Man handsome in this picture?

Sophia was so cute and small and edible! I forget how small she once was. My baby is growing up...wah...