The New Fam!

It has been a busy busy busy few weeks here at the casa:) I think I am going to make it through the next couple of years...I'm not certain- but hopeful. My four boys are definitely going to make it interesting! Pierce and Cash are crazy. they are starting to play together more and more- (probably because they realize that they are eachothers' best bet for a good time- I'm no longer fun and interesting I guess) and they are loud and rough and everything else you would expect two boys to be. I used to freak out when they would start to wrestle or when one of them would get a little bit rough- but now that I have to let things run their course a little bit i am surprised to see that they actually really enjoy themselves when they are in danger of getting hurt. I don't understand boys- probably why I got stuck with them...

We are starting to get out a little bit more- and its a good thing because I think they were starting to get a little bit stir crazy...see below:

I looked out the front window yesterday and saw this...

Pierce loving on Lex- he started to cry in my arms the other day and Pierce said "here, let me hold him.." love it..

I tried to do a little work out video at home- then the boys confiscated my weights and took over my spot...

My three little boys..

This is my favorite. Cash has a little bit of a shoe fetish- he always wants to wear shoes- mine, Pierce's, dad's, Lex's- whoever- but his absolute favorites are these snow boots- fur lined snow boots that we try to keep hidden. We hide them because he will NOT take them off for any reason but he will cry and cry when he gets super hot and sweaty. obviously he found them this day and right in time to go to the pool!

This is Pierce break dancing in the bathtub. and yes, that is a bobby pin in his hair. Mauri was giving the boys a bath and when I walked in he (Mauricio) had pinned his hair back with my bobby pins and then decided that the boys needed it, too. I wish I had gotten a pic of mauri...
I guess this is what happens when a new baby comes home from the hospital with a pacifier. Neither of them EVER took a pacifier when they were babies- but now they 'need' one.

You can't tell here, but they are pushing eachother around in a carseat I just brought in- at full speed...



Here they locked me out of the study- so they could scream at the top of their lungs without getting in trouble-

And here they are saying "Thank you, Aba for our shirts! We love you:) Come see us!!!!!!Here's cash with the shoe thing again... hands and feet:)

Happy Birthday Little Lex!!!!!

He's here! It took me too long to post...but Baby Lex made his debut May 7, 2009 at 5:53 PM after a painless labor thanks to that heavenly epidural:) He is so sweet!! I don't even want to say anything and jinx it- but the past five nights he has slept for a good seven hours straight- and then I feed him and he's out for another four...he is truly an angel. Pierce and Cash are doing so great with him, too. I could not have imagined that they would be so sweet to their baby brother. They like to take turns kissing him and patting his head... and 'helping' to change his tiny diaper. The only problem I am currently having is being a little bit out of commission while I nurse him. I swear my boys get a gleam in their eye when i sit down to feed him and in no time they are jumping off the ottoman on to the couch and onto each other- which is fine for a while- and they laugh hysterically when they fall or when they get a good body slam occasionally- but inevitably one of them ends up in tears (usually poor Cash) and then I feel like octomom as I try to comfort one while nursing the other.

I am so lucky to have such an amazing husband, too. He has been so great with me and the boys. Every day when he comes home he takes the two older ones out and has really let me have time to just heal and spend time with the wee one. I don't know what has gotten into him- but I am LOVING him this past week:) Thank you, my angel. They sure do have his number, though.. He took them out the other day and came back with like five huge bags from toys r us- he can never say anything to me again about my super target habit.

I truly love all my boys. I could also never have imagined that I would love THREE boys so much. Lex was definitely part of our family before, and I am so glad he is finally here!