Dare I think it?  Dare I say it?  Are we figuring this new life with JGirl added to it?  I should not have been surprised at how topsy-turvy our life has been for the last 2 weeks – but I was!  Utterly and completely surprised.

It didn’t help that JGirl doesn’t really nap during the day – I think 60 min is a HUGE nap (the kind where I start to worry about her) – and I need to work during the day.  Or that she stopped sleeping through the night.  But I think we are figuring it all out.

While I’m LOVING cloth diapers – I am using a disposable at night.  Otherwise, she was waking up wet at 1am and wanting to play after she was dry again.  This old mommy needs her sleep!  So, that – and me getting up once at night to make sure she is still covered up (I think she was getting cold) and we are back to 10 hours of sleep at night!  Yippee!!

We have found the best way to give her the nasty, nasty medicine she needs each morning and night.  And, she is tolerating the baths I give her in the sink – not loving them, but not screaming!

The boys are still over-the-moon in love.  They kiss her at every opportunity – love to hold her whenever I need help – and just generally are VERY excited about her.  She really lights up with their attention too!

Well, we need to start school while she is napping so I’d better get off of her.  I hope to be better about blogging now too!

It’s been a wild couple of weeks – almost 2 weeks since JGirl has been home and we are all still reeling from the changes in our family! I finally downloaded some pictures to share with you all! And, at the end I’ll post our Video Friday – who else? JGirl at 8mos18 days! Don’t worry – we’ll get over all this and I’ll post other things…someday!

**Ok-what a pain this post has been – all of a sudden, I can’t upload photos to my blog! So I had to upload them to Flickr and then link to them – hope this works!

First Park Trip…

J1 climbed a tree

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while J2 and his cousin were running so much I couldn’t get a pic – and girly cousin was attentive to JGirl until she crashed! A good day!

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The boys went to Lego club…

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JGirl met her future BFF – Miss E

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Her brothers are still over-the-moon in love:

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And, she got a new-to-us exersaucer which she loves

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Here she is playing in it this morning…

Saturday, Eric took all the boys for haircuts – SHORT haircuts.  J2 had his normal crewcut…J1 & J3 had their normal haircuts.  But the haircutter must have told them about gel.  Now, every morning I have to use hair glue (that is how it’s labeled! LOL) to spike J3’s hair – J1 takes care of his own.

Today I worked a bit harder on it.  I was pleased with the effect…not only a spike, but the hair sort of wooshed to the side.  Sadly, it was declared too “normal” and nothing but “messy spikes” were going to be good enough!

One of these mornings I’ll be awake enough to get a picture of suitable “messy spikes”!

She’s adorable.  She’s happy.  She’s meeting all sorts of new friends and family and loving it all!   Her brothers are loving her.  She has a tooth (or two?) peeking out and yesterday she sat up (unsupported) for a few seconds a couple of times.

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I’m soooo busy with a deadline at work that I can’t post the pictures and videos I’ve been taking.  So please be sure to come back … I’ll post them as soon as I can!