What a week!

We put all caution to the wind this week and attempted two life changing events and they both worked!

First we stopped putting a night diaper on Scott. I always said I would not night train him until I had my own washer and dryer. Once I got my washer and dryer and I had no choice, I had to do it and it has gone fairly smooth. HURRAY!

The second is we moved Simon from our room to the kids room. So far Simon doesn't seem bothered by Iris's talking and odd sounds she makes as she falls asleep. Scott is fairly quiet at night and always has been. Sometimes I think Iris is extra loud on purpose, just to see if she can wake Simon up! She is such a stinker!

I have pictures to post, but since we moved I don't know where the cord is that I use to download them from the camera to the computer. So until I find it, there will only be words with no pictures.

Cute Stories:

Since Simon now naps in the kid's room I let Iris take her nap on our bed. I ask her if she wants to sleep on Mommy's bed and she will say "no" then I will ask her if she wants to sleep on Daddy's bed and she says "yes" and jumps over to his side of the bed. This makes Daddy feel very important and loved.

One of Scott's favorite things to do when I play outside with him is to have running races. He tells me where to stand and then he says "ready set GO" and then I follow him around a random path he chooses as the racing path. The great thing about it is he takes off on the "ready" part of "ready set GO" and expects me to wait until "GO".

Simon has started to smile and he especially loves to smile at Scott. Simon usually gets a look of fear when Iris comes close. Iris has good intentions but she just doesn't know her own strength!

Simon Louis is two weeks and one day old today. I am not going to say time has flown by because it hasn't . The newborn stage is absolutely the hardest stage for me, though this one is going better than the first two. I would like to attribute it to my abilities as a mother but most likely I am just lucky and got an easy baby (finally). Mom tells me that Billi (her third) was the perfect baby and she thought she had this mothering thing all figured out and then I came along and proved her wrong! I guess that is the way life goes.

It seems surreal to me that I have three children. I am not sure how I am going to function with more children than I have hands to hold onto.

The back seat of our Camry is crammed with three car seats. At first Simon was in the middle but Iris loves to tear the canopy off his car seat and that is too much for Scott to handle so I switched the car seats. Now Scott and Iris get to sit next to each other and fight! I did though walk to the grocery store today with Scott and Iris in the double stroller and Simon in the babybjorn. Both Scott and Iris were exceptional good and Simon slept the whole way, I couldn't ask for better.

Life goes on and I keep reminding myself that the only thing constant about life is change so I might as well embrace it.