2014 - Week 24

Monday started off nice and slow. Olivia and Eliza decided to catch up on some sleep and slept in, while Amelia and I cuddled up on the couch and watched some lame cartoons. It was far from the usual morning routine around here, and pretty nice to spend a little time with my diva. Eventually the whole house was up…eating, playing, crying, fighting. Life as usual. We ended up going on a nice long walk around the neighborhood with Olivia’s BFF, Bella, and her mom. It was nice to get out and moving, and of course to catch up with friends. Eliza really seems to love being outside too, it seems to calm her quite a bit. After naps and a snack, we were off to meet Christian at baseball. After baseball, while the girls and I made our way home for baths and bed, Christian made a quick run to the mall…it may or may not be coincidental that my birthday is tomorrow. I do have to mention that Eliza is really starting to smile and coo more and more every day. I just love it, I can’t wait to be able to interact with her more, it’s so awesome!

Out on Our Walk

She's Working on Her Focus...

Tuesday was my birthday…31 years old! Gosh, these 30’s really crept up on me fast. It is much less emotional than last year though, that’s for sure. The big girls came barging into our room before heading off to school to wish me a happy birthday, and then I spent a majority of the day with the youngest babe. Perfect birthday company. My dad and stepmom stopped over to visit and take me out to lunch, which was great. We had to make it quick with the little one, but it was great. I took a birthday walk with the babe, then my mom stopped over with some flowers after work. Christian and the girls brought some dinner home (and cheesecake, DELISH!) and we spent the evening relaxing together. Not as exciting as birthday’s past, but it was just perfect!

My Birthday Goodies!

My Birthday Buddy

On Wednesday I work up particularly refreshed…Eliza gave me the awesome gift of a 6 hour stretch of sleep! WHAT! Oh man was that just what the doctor ordered! Most of the day was pretty calm and relaxed around the house. We were painfully low on food in the house, so I did force myself to do some grocery shopping. I decided to take the moby for a spin and seriously, how did I ever life without it?!? It mad shopping so much easier…I had the whole cart open for groceries, she slept pretty much the entire time, it was amazing! My new lifesaver, that’s for sure. Other than a baseball game this evening, it was a pretty low key night. Nothing wrong with that!

While Shopping, I Finished up Eliza's 0-3 Month Wardrobe - SO DANG CUTE!!

Being behind on posting, I don’t have much recollection of what happened Thursday or Friday…being that I don’t have any very descriptive pictures of either day leads me to believe we didn’t do too much. I did finally get a picture of Eliza smiling…kind of anyway. My phone is kind of slow, so it was the end of a smile. And the big girls were home with us on Friday. I didn’t post anything about losing my mind that day, so it must have went pretty well, LOL! I do know that Wednesday/Thursday Eliza continued her wonderfulness with a SEVEN hour stretch of sleep, but followed that up by completely falling apart with an evening of little to no sleep Thursday/Friday. Oh the joys of completely unpredictable infanthood.

Smirk!

My Girls!!

On Saturday the girls were back into swim class, so they were pretty excited. Unfortunately, I waited too long to sign them up this time, and I couldn’t get them classes at the same time (Olivia is in Level 3, Amelia Level 1). So, our time at swim class has doubled, and I have to deal with a super antsy kid during each class. Horrible planning on my part! After class, I dropped Christian off at home and the girls and I were off for a playdate at my friend Kelly’s house. The kids had a BLAST playing, so I’m hoping we can finally start getting together more often. Eliza held up pretty well too. We had some lunch, chatted, she caught me up on some of the stuff that’s been going on at work, and then some wicked storms rolled into town. Once I could tell Eliza was reaching her “out of the house” limit, we made our way home. Meanwhile, Christian helped his friend Mariano replace his brakes, and later went out for a couple drinks with friends after the big girls were in bed.

I took a snooze with the babe this afternoon...lovely!

Sunday was Father’s Day, but it was not too exciting. My dad is always out of town over Father’s Day, so we don’t really celebrate. Christian had loosely brought up the idea of having a BBQ, but I’m just not in a place to host yet another BBQ at our house right now. Too much going on, and I’ve already been sucked into three of them since having Eliza. So, we just took it easy. We had a  lazy morning around the house, finally getting ready and heading to Perkins for breakfast. It was our first meal out with all of the kids…thankfully, Eliza fell asleep just as we were getting there and slept through the meal. Christian did his own celebrating and ran to Home Depot to do a little shopping before taking the big girls over to his parents’ house. He visited with his stepdad for a while, then left the girls there to spend the night. With that, another week came to a quiet end.

Daddy with his Girls

Until Next Week XOXO