The last few days...

I have no idea what day this was

I've been so busy all the days are blurring together. At some point in the last week, we carried on the traditional breakfast of chocolate Kix.






Mouse amazed me with her ability to get the baby to stay asleep after transferring him to the playpen.



And the kids hammed it up for the camera at every opportunity.

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Early this afternoon Dan, our neighbor, knocked on my door and asked to see Gabriel. Gabriel went outside and saw Dan had caught a garden snake. Of course all of the kids had to go out and see it.

Surprisingly, nobody was afraid and they all took turns petting it.












Later aunt Mouse came over to watch the kids while I worked.

When I came home my kids were asleep. The house was tidy, the kids were in pajamas and asleep in their beds. It was such a relief to see them being well taken care of.

I had to take a belly shot of Mouse. She's so cute!




She made me dinner and watched a show on the dvr with me. It was nice to have some company.

It was a good day.

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

I've been awake since 4:30am because Suriya fell asleep at 7pm last night and I guess she has no concept of mommy's exhaustion. Sigh.

So the babysitter got mixed up on my work schedule and showed up at 7:30 and decided to stick around to help me before work. Good thing too because I can barely lift the baby my back and arms are so sore.

So we sat outside for a bit, and then D. came by with a Rockstar for me.

And two for herself that Lucius really wanted.





So today is Lucius's 6 month birthday. We decided a little applesauce with dinner might be nice.




Of course I had a lot of help feeding him, but he totally loved it.

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

I was gone pretty much from 8am to 7pm, with a short break from 1-3. I didn't take any photos today but D. watched them and she said they were really good. They were very happy to see me when I was home for good. Winter and Suriya fell asleep early so once the baby was asleep I sent the two older ones to their room with their GameBoys and told them they could stay up until they were tired. I was on my way to bed when Henry jumped in through the glass door and woke the baby up. I guess I'll go watch some more Deadliest Catch and try to get him back to sleep. Tomorrow he turns 6 months old.