The first week with our Summer girl has been the absolute best! I'm just so happy she's here and I'm so happy to not be pregnant anymore. She has been a dream boat baby: so darling, eating so well, willing to take a bottle when needed, sleeps really well and for long stretches at night and during the day, is content with being passed around from brother to brother constantly. I'm so happy she's here and apart of our family!
My mother in law has been the biggest blessing since her birth, she's taken my 3 little boys to her house for 3 days nearly all day long to play and sleep over there so Summer and I can figure out the day together of eating and sleeping (and for me not having to break up fights and whining and arguments constantly ha, or find activities for the boys to do). It's been the best transition to welcoming her into our family. The boys are all home after school until dinner time and then Nan takes them back to her house to sleep, and Maxson then has a fit about not getting to to go to Grammie's with everyone, ha, poor kid. He's actually slept on the floor in our room the nights the brothers are gone because he doesn't like being in the room by himself- he's not used to it at all!
I've had the sweetest friends and neighbors and family members check in on me, asking if I need anything, bringing in meals, cooing over my baby. Summer and I have felt so loved!
Recovery has been pretty darn easy yet again with her. Having a very awful first delivery makes all the rest incredibly easy ha. I got a rash on my arm and back where the tape was holding in my IV and epidural, so that's weird but it's slowly going away. My insides feel super loose, and I have no inner core to help me in and out of bed. My ankles and legs have appeared once again and it's AMAZING! That right there is the biggest self esteem boost reminding you that you can be smaller than your current size again someday, there is hope!
2 days after Summer came we closed on our home in Arizona! So so exciting! I am so crazy excited for our new home and know it will be so wonderful for our family over the next few years, I'm hoping it can be our 10 year home that the kids can grow up in. It's in a cup-de-sac with a HUGE grass field right across the street with a volleyball court and basketball court. I truly could not have imagined anything better for our family. On day 3 during our housing search I was crying to Casey wondering if I need to have lower expectations for our budget, I wasn't finding something I fell in LOVE with and was kind of getting disappointed. I had seen well over 20 homes without LOVING anything. ON day 4 this was the first house I walked through and it was honestly LOVE at first sight. The downside was no pool, and no large upstairs loft area but there were so many other PROS to the house that you can't buy that the things it didn't have didn't matter. I am IN LOVE with our home and can't wait to raise our family in it!
So 2 major life changes down, 3 more to go in a matter of a couple more months! Still to check off the list: Sell our Wyoming house, move down to Arizona, buy into the dental practices. Whew, we're working our way there!
Also it kind of stinks WHEN we're moving down to AZ, we're going from the worst of Wyoming weather straight to the worst of Arizona weather without much reprieve, I hope we can stay happy through it all!
Let's do an update on the family:
Summer the most adorable baby as possible.
Easton equally adorable. He's also now GINORMOUS now that Summer is here. His head for instance- HUGE. Diapers- why is he not potty trained? Kidding, ha. But he is my one that is growing up so fast. He's stringing 3-4 words together expressing his wants and wishes. Has deep opinions on subjects such as food (eww), bikes (mine!), the baby (lap!...all done), daddy (no! My daddy!). I'm just so obsessed with him. He let's me know if and when he's ready to take a nap each day. If he takes a long nap he hangs out with me and Casey for awhile after everyone goes to bed and it's so sweet to have just him around. He is super athletic- always trying to kick a soccer ball, dribble the basketball, ride his bike around the house, bat the baseball like everyone else or throw some type of ball to you in the house. He also runs super fast , still trailing, to keep up with his brothers when they're running off. I love love love his whole little heart. Oh, and he's constantly giving you kisses and hugs throughout the day. He's so affectionate I just love it! And he loves baby Summer- always so gentle and asking to hold her, or somehow lovingly bothering her while she sleeps. I adore him
Quinn just got his cast off and woke up that morning yelling "THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE!" When it came time to actually taking the cast off he cried through the whole thing lol. He loved swim lessons but did not want to go off the diving board. He's always super excited to play soccer and ride his bike outside . He sleeping on the top bunk and loves to get out his new preschool work book to do "homework". He can sure make a loud annoying crying noise that can get on your nerves but will listen to my voice when I tell him to take big deep breaths and tell me what happened. He's always eager to help me in the kitchen and pack and do big kid things. He got a cool frisbee from Easter and loves it and calls it his boomerang. Quinn is our intense, in your face, matter of fact boy.
Bryson has so much of the same stuff from above! They are so much alike each other yet subtle differences that only a mama heart can see. He loved swim lessons and loved to go off the diving board. He's always super excited to play soccer and ride his bike outside and always puts rain boots on . He sleeping on the bottom bunk and loves to get out his new preschool work book to do "homework". He likes to remind me of my "fish" something we did from Come Follow Me to help Mama not yell. He loves helping in the kitchen and is so willing to unload the dishwasher and help me pack. He got a cool huge ball from Easter and loves and kicks it around the house all the time when I tell him not to. Bryson is our singer, dancer, and giggler
They both love and dislike preschool. THey're always happy when it's over but sometimes don't want to go because that's usually their movie time or they're playing together so well and don't want to stop. They are both really great adventurous eaters and try most food I give them. When they have a hard time eating we play rock paper scissors.
Maxson is rocking Kindergarten. I'm so glad I've been able to help in his class this year to see how he's doing with the teacher, other kids, academically, what he's like around his peers and me simultaneously, it's all really fun. Academically he's soaring, gets his work done super fast and it's super easy for him, great reader, great listener, the teacher trusts him, he's kind to others, quick to obey, just one of those top notch students. When I come around he's overly huge and clingy and lovey to me, ha. I'm glad he likes when I'm around. He is so competitive, I feel like I've been saying he's so competitive for years but that's his thing. Racing, winning, sports, getting dressed, everything is a competition, so when he loses, his whole world falls apart and he turns into a tantrumy 2 year old, sigh, we're working on it. He can be the world's greatest kindest big brother and immediately turn into the teasing, and mean bully. He's fueled by rewards systems and they work so well for him. He's so independent and I can count on him a lot. He can get ready for school completely by himself- make lunch, get breakfast, backpack, etc. It's crazy to see him growing up so much and so fast. Also he's a great big brother to Summer already, always asking to hold her and holds her for a long time.
Casey is the freaking dad champ. So fun for the kids, always willing to play sports outside, wrestle inside, let the kids play video games at Grammie's way more than mom would, plays some little battle game on his phone that the kids get excited for him when he gets a new guy, feeds the kids love for rock band and fun songs on his phone. He works so hard for our family and is so on top of life. When a phone call needs to be made he does it RIGHT THEN AND THERE, no wait time. (Literally, we're in the hospital before I'm anywhere close to having the baby and he call my Dr's office to pay for it, as well as calling 3 different other places for the bill to be paid off that day). It has helped immensely with buying our new home- he's our rock and my life would be 25% functional without him here. He values family time so much, our own little family and then extended family as well. He sees the need for friends like I do and works to improve relationships, build new friends, and keep old ones going. In the past year we have become really awesome friends with Carey and Amanda Larson who live down the street with their almost 18 month old baby girl. They play spike ball with us, constantly come over at night after all the kids are in bed and the 4 of us just sit on the couch and talk and laugh and sometimes play games. It's been so fun to have another couple friend we both love. He carries the burden for our family financially, so aware of our needs, goals, dreams and just where we are at, all the time. He's such a great provider for our family
I am adjusting to life with 5 kids SUPER slowly. The first 2+ weeks of Summer's life I'll pretty much always have help from someone with all the other kids- from Casey, Nan, or my mom. It's been such a peaceful transition to a new baby and I'm ever so grateful for everyone's help. I Can't help but want to hold Summer all day long, I just am obsessed with new babies. I am on Marco Polo a lot of the day with a few different girlfriend groups which is so fun.
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