Happy Halloween! Nap or treat!

Well, last night left me a bit more tired. I think between 2am and 5am, I was only laying in bed for about 5-10minutes because Jacob & Leah were waking up. Anyway, I thought that this afternoon, maybe I'd get the big boys to take a little nap (so I could do the same!). Jacob is asleep, Leah is asleep; Leyton & Nathaniel are not. I told them that we'd need a lot of energy to go trick-or-treating tonight so that maybe we should take a nap to get more energy. They both replied in a VERY serious manner...Leyton: "Mom, I actually already have a lot of energies in my pocket." Nathaniel: "I already have a lot of energies; they're in my basket. I don't need anymore." So there you have it; looks like I won't get a nap, but I did get a chuckle. Maybe I'll rest later...20 years later. Ha, ha. Hopefully we'll be able to get a few pictures of everyone tonight. Leyton: Bob the Builder, Nathaniel: Thomas the Train, Jacob: a green M&M, Leah: cute (that's the neat part - she can wear anything!).

Convenient Dinners

With the birth of Leah, I will admit that I have not been cooking very frequently. My mom was here and during that time, she cooked fairly often. In addition, some of our family and friends have very kindly brought a meal by for us to help us out during this busy time. We have been very appreciative. Tonight I was warming the dinner that was delivered to us by a friend from church. Nathaniel said to me, "Mom, so we can't cook dinner anymore?" I didn't really think about it much but I replied, "Well, sure we can. What do you mean?" He said, "Well, since we got our new baby, we can't cook dinner anymore?" I thought that was funny. I will cook again, but I really do appreciate the help we have received.

Great Big Brothers

They continue to be great big brothers. Jacob has as well, he's just harder

to catch for a picture when he's being loving or giving her kisses!

Halloween Approaches

So only a few more days until Halloween. Leyton & Nathaniel are going to be Thomas the train, Jacob will be an M&M. Leah may possibly wear a Halloween type outfit (not really a costume), but that depends if I make it to the store to get one. She won't be going out anyway, so we'll just see what we do. I think that on Monday we'll carve our pumpkins & get them ready to be jack-o-lanterns. Nathaniel has especially been looking forward to this. It will be a good "project" (they love doing projects). Hopefully the weather will be nice.

Date at Home

So we had a nice weekend this weekend. On Saturday, we once again went to see Jim Cosgrove. It was actually kind of nice because they had some raffles there and after the show I won a new coffee pot for us! It's a nice one (nicer than I'd buy I'm sure, and we actually needed a new one); it saved me a trip to the store! The boys had fun & Jim got to meet Leah. Saturday night Patrick & I had kind of a date at home. We ordered a nice meal from a restaurant we enjoy and ate it after the kids were asleep. We had a nice time & got to visit quite a bit more than we have lately.

Flying Solo

Well, I'm officially flying solo on the daytime duty with the kids now. My mom left today to go back home after staying for almost two full weeks. We have really appreciated her help with the house & with the boys. Hopefully she had fun as well?! Now she will go home to work on projects & business stuff until her wonderful vacation in Nov. to Cancun and then they'll be back here for Thanksgiving, then the following week is my brother's wedding.

I think I'll be able to handle the new routine just fine. I'm feeling good with the exception of being tired, but that won't change for some time. We'll work now on establishing our daily schedule of events that will hopefully allow us to still fit in everything we need to do (including Jacob's nap, feeding Leah, and maybe some fun stuff, too). Leyton & Nathaniel have really been playing well together & keeping occupied and that has been helping a lot. They are all such wonderful kids.

This weekend we'll go see Jim Cosgrove on Saturday morning. The boys are very excited for it and it will be a fun family thing to do. That is about it for now. Hopefully Patrick will have a break as he has worked a ton this week. I think as of Wed. when he got home at 4am, he had worked about 45 hours for the week in those 3 days. He slept well last night, so that is helpful for starters!

That's about it for now. Will try to post a few more pictures soon.

Preschool Open House

On Tuesday night, we had open house at preschool for the big boys. It was very nice. Leyton & Nathaniel had little signs to wear that had a checklist on the back. The front of the sign said "Preschool Tour Guide." The checklist was a list of things they were to show us at the open house: different art projects, their library, birthday book, brown bear, calendar, etc. They seemed to really enjoy showing off their classroom and their projects. Then we got to bring the projects home. That was fun, too, because it actually helped me understand a little better when they would sometimes mention projects that I hadn't seen yet. They'd tell me what they did and they were exactly right, I just didn't have the visual of the project to know that what they told me was exactly what they did. School still seems to be going well, so that is good. They had school pictures last week so we will anxiously await their arrival to see how well they turn out!