On a side note...

Uploading pictures through this crappy Blogger uploader is screwing up my images. It's messing with the color, making some of them a weird orange color. I usually upload through Flickr, who has gone and changed THEIR interface and I couldn't get them over here.

I am irrationally irritated at the entire situation. Small stuff, Lynds. Stop sweatin' it.

Summer is just about over...

And while ordinarily this isn't a huge deal around these parts, this year is a bit different. This is M's very last Saturday before starting Kindergarten. Her last Saturday where she is totally and 100% responsibility free. From here on out, her weekends will not just be those two days where Daddy is home...she'll really have a week to END and a new week to begin. It is incredibly sobering.


Sweet babies...

These are the days...

Things are crazy around here these days. Three kids...not too bad. Three sick kids? Oy vey. Grayson came down with a little cold a week and a half ago. Long story short, he sounded like that stupid 'Sounds of Pertussis' commercial and scared the crud out of us. I took him in and we're still waiting on the test results. In the meantime, Allie has an ear infection and trying to get that child to take her meds was like trying to bathe a rabid cat. Maddi has decided that being left out was no longer fun for her and she has come down with some sort of cold or something. Yippee!! This is all on the heels of all three of them having some degree of pink eye. We've hit our quota on illness and I fully expect to keep healthy kids all winter long.

You hear that, God? WE'VE HIT OUR QUOTA. Please. And Amen.

G is 12 weeks old and changing every day. Before he went and got all sick on us, he was sleeping 9 hour stretches at night. Granted, he sucks at napping, but I'll take it! He is trying SO hard to roll over (back to tummy) but hasn't quite got it yet. Which is fine. I'm not ready for his first milestone. I've realized he isn't a newborn anymore and that was nearly enough to send my post partum hormones into orbit. That, and I really no longer have an excuse for not starting the weight loss adventure.

Maddi starts Kindergarten in 13 days. Thirteen. Days. I'm so very excited for her. Really. I am. I'm not at ALL secretly an emotional freak about it. Honest. It doesn't make me sad at all that I am sending her off to public school where she will spend all day not needing me. On an up note...she is looking mighty stylish in her skinny jeans. And I'm not just saying that...she actually told me that she was "looking mighty stylish". Love her.

Ohhhh Allie. Where Maddi is my old soul...my 30 year old in a 5 year old body...Allie is my spunky, sassy and downright HILARIOUS little ball of goober. She knows she's funny and she works it hard. I have no idea what I would do with my days if I didn't have her keeping me on my toes. She's having a slightly hard time adjusting to the baby, but she loves him SO much. She loves him fiercely. Literally...I have to make sure she doesn't go all Lenny on us and love him to death.

God has mightily blessed us.

8 weeks old!

The thrid time around is going SO DARN FAST. And definitely easier. Baby Boy is starting to talk to us and smile in reaction to things around him. It doesn't seem right that he is this big already. He loves his bath and worship during church. And...I don't want to jinx things...but only getting up once a night to nurse is fantastic!

I did a mini shoot with him the other day. Only got a few shots, but they were some definite keepers. I wish I could freeze time right now with all three of them...

Oh boy, oh boy...

Grayson Leon...aka Boy Child...arrived Sunday May 16th. 7lbs 14oz of pure perfection. Big sisters LOVE him. Third and definitely the shortest and easiest labor and delivery... almost didn't have time for the epidural. He. Is.. Scrumptious.

Updates, Snow and Babies

Hello!! I am alive! The kids are alive and well!

It hit me the other day that in roughly 6 months my sweet baby girl will be in kindergarten. Her very first baby step into the "real world". How did that happen? I can't talk about it any more. Subject closed.

Good gracious...I've almost forgotten HOW to blog. We'll just go with pictures.

TWELVE INCHES OF SNOW LAST WEEK. I guess Mother Nature didn't get the memo that we're in Texas.






In other news...Baby Boy S will be here in roughly 13 weeks. M is very excited, but A is pretty ticked that there is very little room left on my lap for her. She doesn't quite get it. Things are about to get pretty darn interesting in this house, seeing as how A doesn't like to share me with the dog, let alone another human being that will be attached to me for around a year.

I'm here, I'm here!

We have been so busy lately! It seems we take full advantage of the lazy days of summer and I have nothing to really blog about. Then the school year starts and all of a sudden we are balancing dance (Maddi loves it still!), soccer (Maddi love it, too!), school and everything in between. We also got some news a week or so ago that we are still trying to process. More on that later...