So what's new this year? Well the biggest thing that has happened around here is we have been blessed with a sweet little girl on Feb 23. We named her Lydia Heather (Named after her Nana (my Mom)). We all love her soo much. We are all adjusting well to the 5th member of our little family <3
Lydia is a very sweet little girl! She is very good and hardly cries, she sleeps 8hrs almost every night!!!! (I can count on one hand the nights that have been less than that!)Ahh! miracle baby! Seriously! I love my sleep, but who doesn't? Nursing is going well - the only thing was a bit of a foremilk, hindmilk imbalance, so she hasn't gained as much as she should have according to her 'curve' but, I think she is gaining properly again (I find out on Monday). Other than that I/we have had it fairly easy, very nice to have it easy on the third seeing as the other two keep me running :-) Postpartum for me has been the best so far, and I haven't had it bad. Labor and delivery went well... I HATE that part! But I can't really complain if I compare my labor stories with other women. I was only in labor for a few hrs and I pushed twice so ya... :-P
We are all really enjoying the spring weather we are getting :-) Yay! The kids love playing outside and I love the peace and quiet :-) I can't wait to spend more time outside, I really enjoy having a yard where we can have bbq's, birthday parties, play in the pool or sprinkler, garden, have little fires in the fire pit, and all the other fun stuff we do.
We are planning to dig up a bit of the lawn in the backyard this spring so I can have a small veggi garden - oh I wish we had more room to have a big garden like I did when I was growing up, but if I dug up our entire backyard there would be no place for the kids to play :-P I can't wait to get my hands in the dirt and start planting! <3
I'll end with a few pictures of the last little bit - I haven't had the camera out very often which is mostly why I haven't blogged, but I'm hoping to change that.
Baptism
This was also Baptism Sunday <3
Just Chillin'
The shirt says it all <3
Snow :-)
Building a snowman with Dad!
Our little Lydia is growing and changing so much everyday!
Warming up after being outside for an evening backyard 'camp' fire :-)
All those newborn features are disappearing and being replaced by chubby baby ones. Bittersweet! The newborn stage goes so fast!
