No, camping is not close. It’s not even remotely in the same category, except that both Vegas and camping are things that you do on earth. And I’m pretty sure camping is a verb and Vegas is a -place. But I think you could “do” Vegas as in, make Vegas a verb and “do it”. Whatever…. there’s a huge photography convention happening in Vegas right now. I couldn’t make it this year, so I begged Chris to take us camping. Yes, I took a 2 week old camping- in a motor home. It was great. And we’re going again this week and maybe the week after. I’m addicted.
Nice lady with a cool bird! The kids thought that was cool. Not Macen, but the girls loved it. Did you know that those kinds of parrots live to be 80 to over 100 years old? I did not, but I discovered that from this nice lady. And now I know, I never want to own a parrot. Talk about a commitment!!! Holy cow.
So far so good. There seems to be a common thought that having alot of children is something that is hard or only certain people can handle it… not true. It’s something that is just like everything else… you get used to it. I think after I adjusted to 3, the rest have been OK. I feel confident in my ability to take care of children, so I don’t freak out every time they cry or get a fever- anymore. I also have the secret weapon… an 11 year old girl… and a 7 year old girl.
Noe finally got the memo that she’s been dethroned. She tries to nurse on my elbow while the baby nurses and I caught her finishing off the last half ounce of formula I had topped him off with this afternoon. She liked it. The answer to everything in life is, “No”, usually followed with arms crossing and lips pooching out. Fun stuff. She hasn’t tried to flush Max down the toilet yet, so that’s a positive.
Princess Noe’s reign: 2008-2010 Long live the Princess!
Because there’s no such thing as too many pictures of babies yawning….
He is heaven. Even at 3 am when I wish I didn’t have to wake up, he’s still heaven. His smell is much more strong than I remember any of the other kids having…. and maybe that’s just because I forgot how powerful my own baby’s scent can be. I love kissing him smack in the mouth. I love doing that because I CAN. I adore rubbing his back and how soft he is. The blanket of hair that covers his body is like velvet.
The actual birth itself was crappy, but honestly I never hear anyone come out of a csection raving about how wonderful it was, so there you go. We are officially done having children- as in I can’t have anymore and I’m very excited about this new beginning. I loved this chapter in my life. I was sort of sad that it was ending, but now I’m looking forward. Our family is complete.
The kids all love him. Even Noelle is adjusting okay. She’s turned up the sass, but as far as Max goes, she loves him. That is a relief.
Thank you for all the congrats and the well wishes. I felt them and they have cheered me up a few times over the last week or so. I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. xoxoxo, AmyQ
Because I’m still unwinding, my BFF drove over and took some pictures of Max. Go here and see. I’ll get some of my own soon:) xoxo, Amy
We haven’t had snow in our town for 16 years. Maybe a flurry here and there, but nothing worth really considering snow. So the rumor started and the Weather Channel predicted and we got tired of waiting and jumped in the car and started driving towards my Nanny’s house. I’d called her and she’d said that lots of roads were closed and we wouldn’t be able to get close, but I thought we’d just drive to the wall of police cars and barricades and jump out and let the kids play for a second. We never encountered anything like that. We didn’t have a set destination. We had the most fun.
This was the first sighting. The tops of the hay had actual snow on them and the kids oooo’d and ahhhhh’d and we drove slow and took pictures- like the true Floridians we are.
Then we found this empty church parking lot with a field next to it and pulled in there.
Then we decided to keep driving north to see what we could find.
And it was snowing heavier and heavier and it was so thick on the ground that we couldn’t see grass in alot of places. Since we were so close to my Nanny’s by this time, we decided to try and make it to her house.
And we did! She was very surprised when we showed up. We ate some pizza, then went outside and played for a while, loaded the truck up and went home.
It was so cool and so fun. Have a great weekend! xoxox, AmyQ
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