Live, Laugh, Love

The past few weeks have been BUSY!  Aunt Jennifer came to visit for the week, and then we went to Lake Charles for the week.  While Aunt Jenny was in San Antonio we went to the zoo, and of course the fish were Jack’s favorite thing….AGAIN :)  While in Lake Charles we had my brother’s graduation, my nephew’s graduation & commissioning & a little party for everyone to meet Miss Madeline!  We even managed to squeeze in playing in the dirt & a few rain puddles…imagine that! We had such a great time visiting our family, but I have to say we missed Brad while we were gone!  Here are some pics from our adventures…

Uncle David & Aunt Mary!

 

Congrats Braden on your graduation and commissioning!  We are SOOOO proud of you!

Congrats little brother on your graduation…I can’t believe you are all grown up!

Madeline at her little party….such a sweet girl!  I can’t believe 6 weeks have gone by!

Oh Jack!

For the majority of the time Jack is wonderful with Madeline, but I’m not gonna lie and say he hasn’t had his moments.  These moments always occur when I’m nursing Madeline & he decides he’s gonna test his boundaries…its been loads of fun :)

Through all of this….I’m trying to stay focused on the good moments! The other day I found Jack hanging out with her on her play mat…then he so graciously decided to share his balls with her, which I thought was very sweet.  When I noticed he started saying “nice!” And of course I praised him tons trying to encourage this good behavior.  He was so proud of himself!

Life is busy, but GOOD!

Things have been going great! I will say I’m a very busy lady though!  I’m about to be even more busy too, since my help will be leaving Thursday, and I’ll be on my own.  I had originally planned to have help the first two weeks, but I ended up needing more help, so Brad’s parents(they are SAINTS!) came back for another week and a half…such a blessing!  This c-section is taking a little longer to heal unfortunately, but all things considered I think I’m doing pretty well. 

The kids are doing awesome!  Jack seems to be adjusting to Madeline pretty well, although sometimes when he wants me to come play with him and I am nursing her…he proceeds to show me where I can put her so I can come play with him :) Otherwise…he’s been great!  He gives her kisses and high fives..yes high fives…all the time!  He picks her little hand up and says “high five!”   Madeline is getting too big already…I can’t believe next Monday she will be one month old! 

 

For some reason I always find my husband asleep with  my babies laying on him…I wonder why! Could it be the 80+ plus hour work weeks…hmmmm!

Jack has been taking care of Elmo like I take care of Madeline!

My three loves and greatest hate(the ps3) all in one picture…how nice!