New baby and a new city...

New baby and a new city

My newest little baby girl was born Aug.1st, 2012.  My other daughters are 6,4 and 19 months old now.  On July 31, we moved out of our place in Portland, Or and stayed at my grandparents house.  Aug.1st, 5 hours of labor, NOT including the dr. having to manually turn my breech baby to be head down.  OUCH!  Then proceeding to have her with no epi and a pinch sciatic nerve. WORST PAIN EVER! Ahhh, she arrives :)    Aug. 9 we picked up and drove our minivan, our 4 kids and dog to Arizona, to a house we had not seen in person.  12 days AFTER arriving in our new house, our things FINALLY arrived.  Let me tell you, sleeping on the floor in an empty house with 4 children, after just delivering one of them...is no party!!  Set up and filled an above ground pool a couple weeks postpartum, what was i thinking?? Boy did i pay for it later... Enrolled my oldest in 1st grade and girl scouts.  Signed my 4 year old up for ballet and tap class.  Made their Halloween costumes by hand ( leopard & turtle ) and taught my oldest to ride her bike with no training wheels. WHEW!  I think this fall break has been successful!  And you're all caught up to now :)

So, today started at the lovely time of 4 am.  Which normally would suck, but i was actually happy because my 2 month old had slept from 6:30 until 4 a!  She, like my other 3 daughters, is fighting a slight cold.  It started with my oldest who is 6 and because her and my 4 year old cant play with out being in each others face, she got the cold too.  Now, my 4 year old is the one obsessed with the baby and is always trying to be in her face as well....and that is how the cold has spread through our house.  I am lucky that is has been this mild though, but that might be partly due to my slight germ phobia.  More on that to come at some point though lol :)

My 19 month old who is a freaking monkey, can climb out of her crib already!  I did need it for the baby but not YET.  So now she is in a toddler bed.  Oh boy, is bedtime fun.  Dont get to comfortable in the evening because she will definitely push the limits of staying in bed.  Sometimes she in, sometimes shes out, and sometimes she will lay on the edge of her bed while the bottom half is hanging out of the bed, which technically makes her still IN bed...shes smart! lol  I really dont know how or why she doesnt sleep more though.  She is the last to sleep and the first to wake up, out of all of the kids.  Soooo frustrating!  Now she is whining and i know she doesnt feel good.  So off i go.....

the life of a mom. 

 Good night!