Two Weeks Old...
Addison Marie is now two weeks old- at times it feels like she's been here forever in our family and other times it feels like yesterday when she was born. Thank goodness it wasn't. These two weeks have been great, hard, fun, exhausting and everything in between.
So, how are we adjusting to having three kids?
The girls are doing pretty good. As I'm typing this, Cerys is sitting next to Addison helping her when she loses her paci. She just said to her, "Now keep it in this time Addison." Ha. They love to hold her, sing to her and talk to her. There does not seem to be any jealousy issues, yet. Bailey is doing pretty good, although she knows when I'm feeding Addison that I'm pretty helpless so she finds all kinds of things to get in to. She is so ready to be potty trained, I just don't have the energy to even start right now. Totally not related, but a funny story- Cerys came home from school one day last week and said that her friend Mikey made up a new song. When we asked her what it was she started singing, "I love rock and roll" over and over again. I love how she thinks Mikey actually made that song up!
I'm adjusting. Having three has been harder than I thought. Addison is fairly easy at the moment- eats and sleeps (except between 2-4 am for some reason). The part I'm finding hard is having the energy and patience to care for Cerys and Bailey. They get a full night's sleep and are up and ready to go in the mornings- and I am just drifting off to sleep after feeding Addison. Marc is a great help, I'm so blessed to have a husband who does everything. Since I'm the only one who can feed Addison, I would prefer he sleep most of the night so one of us has the energy for the big girls come morning. It works for us, even though we are both tired. We decided to get out of the house yesterday and take the girls to one of our favorite parks. It felt like a major operation to just get us all dressed and out of the house. I was feeling so discouraged on the way there and may have said something like "We will never be able to go anywhere again, it's just too hard!" Leave it to me to make broad statements like that. "Never" is pretty dramatic. Then Marc reminded me that I felt that way after Bailey was born and may have said, "We will never be able to go anywhere again, it's just too hard!" Once we go to the park then I was just feeling guilty because after 5 minutes I was ready to go home! Ha.
I guess Marc would have to tell us how he is adjusting, but from what I see he is doing good, but tired of course. It's so sweet to see him and all three of his girls huddled up on our bed together. It just makes me smile. I still can't believe we have not only three children, but three girls. They sure love their Daddy.
I'll leave you with a few pictures- sadly I have not taken many. I guess that is what happens with the last child? It's not that I don't want to, it's just that most of the time I'm not sure where the camera is or I'm too tired to go upstairs and get it!
Here is Addison, all bundled up for our first walking in the stroller. Those are the mittens and hat I knitted for her a few months ago. I thought the hat might be too big for her but I also had no clue I was carrying a 9 pound baby! Her head fits just fine! :)
Daddy and Addison hanging out one night-