Life with four

The past two months I have managed to post a lot of pictures and not a lot of how we are really doing. It is easy to post pics of the happy times of life lately, but that has not been reality. These past two months have been an adjustment that I am not sure will get any easier anytime soon. I have tried to stay positive, but post partum depression has made it hard to keep from breaking into tears at any moment. My house always looks like a tornado, and after the kiddos are in bed I am way too exhausted to do much cleaning. I hate living in chaos and always feeling overwhelmed with all that is going on. There have been tempers flaring all around, never thought I had this short of a fuse. Over the years I have lost the ever patient Jill and have been replaced by someone I care to not be at times. The other three kids have gotten more needy and aggressive. Poor Wesley has gotten his face pinched and scratched a number of times. Chandler seems to be the only one that does not have to be in Welsey's face all the time, poor kid can hardly eat without someone in his face poking him. Luckily for the most part he is a mellow baby. For some reason it takes him forty minutes to get through a feeding. We have gone from milk to soy, them back to milk. The last few days he has started to spit up a ton, when he has never done that before. You would think by the time you get to the fourth you would have everything down, I guess not in our case. I have never been one to want time to go quickly and now I am. Just thinking about winter and all the sicknesses we are bound to get almost gives me an anxiety attack. This is one depressing post, but I guess it is better to get these things out in the open. I am hopeful that things will turn up, they have just go to, right?

2 Month stats

Wesley had his two month visit last week and is growing right on schedule. He weighs 12 IBS 6 OZ and is 23 3/4 inches. He has started to smile whenever anyone he knows talks to him. Lexie has started to play poo-a-boo with him and he really likes playing that. He still takes forever when he eats, I am hoping that soon he will start to eat a little faster. He seems to not really be in any hurry to eat. Some of his hair has fallen out in the back and front and then has gotten some new in places. I am thinking that he is going to have the same hair color as Spence, we will see. Life has been really crazy with four, our house is always in chaos mode.

Green Meadows Farm

Last week Spence had his first field trip, he said he didn't have fun. Nate thought that he seemed to have a fun time. It looks like a fun place to visit, although it was on the pricey side.

Kitchen Kettle

Three Saturdays ago we went up to Amish Country, PA. We visited The Kitchen Kettle area. They have buggy rides that actually go through working Amish farms. It was fun to have the kids see and hear about the lives of the Amish. We stopped at a farm and bought homemade root beer and Lemonade, it was delicious :). My lovely allergies caught up to me, so it looked like I was crying through it. They have a playground the kids can play on and a bunch of fun shops. Each time we have gone we have gotten some yummy ice cream and kettle corn. This was our first whole family excursion, it turned out pretty good.

Stitches

Poor, poor Spencer he has not had the best of luck lately. On Saturday night Chandler and Spencer were taking a shower, wouldn't think it would be dangerous. The shower door was somehow pushed open and Chan went to close it and Spence's fingers were caught in the hinged part of the door. I was changing the laundry and Nate was getting changed for the priesthood session. We both go running in there and see blood all over the shower. At first I was thinking they had somehow gotten a hold of one of our razors and cut themselves. Nate kept saying we have to take him to the hospital. I guess the door had taken the padding part of one finger almost completely off, and another finger sliced pretty good. On the one he got five stitches and the other they put dermabond (which is a glue). Luckily Nate was the one that took him to the E.R., I am not sure if I would be able to stand them stitching him up. I am really glad that it hadn't happened ten minutes later, Nate would have been gone. I decided not to post pics, changing the band-aid this morning made me want to cry. I won't gross everyone out, we will keep that part to ourselves. Nate bought him Scooby-Doo band-aids, so that helps with the changing process. I feel bad for the little guy, hopefully he heals quickly and no permanent damage will occur. We hope that this is our only experience with stitches, wishful thinking probably.

Baltimore Zoo

Nate took the kids this past Saturday to the Baltimore Zoo. It is a good size zoo that not only has animals, but a fun place for the kids to play and feed animals. Chandler did not enjoy the hour or so drive, he was thinking that they were never coming back home. He seems to have a hard time since we moved to MD with longer drives than about 15 minutes. The kiddos seemed to have had a great time. In a few weeks we will start actually going places as a whole family.

Wesley 5 weeks old

Here are some updated pics of Wesley. It is amazing how fast they grow. When I took him for his one month he weighed 9 IBS. 10 OZ and was 23 inches, so he had gained two pounds and a little over an inch since birth. He is a pretty good baby, he cries really loud when he is hungry. For the most part he eats pretty good, just really slow. And he is the hardest baby to burp, you could be doing it for a good twenty minutes before he burps. Like most newborns he loves to be held and talked to, which Nate would say I do too much. It is really hard not to want to cuddle with this cutie all day....but I guess there are other things that need to be done. The kids have really been good with him. They want to hold and love on him all the time, he doesn't enjoy when he is trying to eat.