WOW!!

It doesn't seem possible that it has been 3 months since Breanna was born. I return to work tomorrow and as much as I am excited to return to work and have more adult conversations throughout the day. I am also sad. It has been fun watching Breanna grow each day and develop her personality. She is such a happy baby. Sleeping through the night since middle of October and she is alot like Austin in that she likes to stand rather than sit, she gets really excited and smiles at everything.

The past 3 month have been good the kids are adjusting well and I think it was good to be home to try to get a routine in place, it may all change now that i won't be home after school but we will see. The twins are excited each day after school to come home and do their homework all on Mondays so they can play. Right now they are working on a map learning project and the class is trying to find the Gingerbread boy that escaped from the Oven on Tuesday, today he was in Arizona (Megan says it as Arizonwa, it is cute). The first semester is over and all the kids did really well. Austin got A's and B's so we are excited for the great start to the year and on the 6th of this month he will be turning 11. Wow! The twins are good Nik is doing really well, he can count to 100, recognizes all 52 letters (upper and lower-case) and is doing well with sight words and letter sounds. Megan is also doing well, she is struggling a little more than Nik but is still achieving the goals that were set. She just need to learn to keep her hands to herself and not bother Nik in class.

Now as we are getting ready for the holidays and the end of the year. I want to take some time to thank all of my family and friends that have supported this year for their love. We love them all and miss those that are not close enough to visit. We wish you all a great holiday season and hope that all your dreams and wish come true with the coming year.

Finally FINISHED!!!

It took me 2 years to get this finished but I finally did it. Now to begin Megan's and try to get it finished by next year and maybe getting Breanna's finshed also.

Fall is Here!

November already! WOW!!

Austin is doing well in school. He is currently getting A's and B's. He just finish his first project in 5th grade. He had to do a report and then participate in a wax museum. He was Babe Ruth!

Then we had Halloween. 3 kids in school and a baby at home. The kids parade at school was on Thursday and then they had no school on Friday. Since Halloween was on Saturday it was nice so that we could carve pumpkins on Friday since Robert was actually home the final weekend of the month. Gotta love the Hunting Season. And then trick or treating on Saturday.

And here are the Costumes! Austin was a mummy, Megan a Witch, Nikolai Superman and Breanna was a little Ghost.

Breanna is now 2 months old. She weighed in at 9lbs and 22 inches today. She is smiling, Trying to grab onto things and Growing. When we go out everyone still thinks she is so small, but she is growing.

I have recovered well from the C-section and have another 4 weeks off before I have to return to work on December 3rd. I am going to try to get christmas shopping done and re-arranging the bedrooms for the kids so that Megan and Breanna can have a room together.

It's already been a month!

I can't believe how fast the past month has gone by. Breanna is a really good baby and is on a 3 to 4 hour eating schedule which mean I really only get up once in the middle of the night once I go to bed. She thinks she is hot stuff trying to hold her head up on her own and look around.
Becky, Arianna and Myah came and stayed with us for a week to help with the kids and the house work. It was nice to have the extra help as we were getting adjusted to life with 4 kids. We spent the first week of Breanna being home going back and forth to the hospital for Jaundice blood draws. We had a light suitcase that she had to be in for a while but we got over that. Then she wasn't gaining weight. We left the hospital on 9/6 and she weighed 6 lb 2 ounces and at a week old she only weight 6 lbs 3 ounces, so I had to start supplementing her nursing and she soon decided that she wasn't going to nurse any longer so she is now on bottle and doing much better.

Breanna modeling a bow that I made. Breanna with her Cousin Emma who is nine months old.

Breanna first Bath in her tub.
Just chillin'
Becky, Myah and Breanna

Meet the New Kid on the block!!

BREANNA ELIZABETH made her debute on Thursday, September 3 at 8:31pm. Weighing in at 6 lbs 14 ounces, 20 1/2 inches. She was born 2 weeks early since my blood pressure once again did not cooperate. I had gone in for my normal checkup and my pressure was up to 140/90 which the doctor didn't really like. So she sent me for a non stress test and the pressure came down a little and I went to work for the afternoon. At 4pm I got the call from the doctor's nurse saying that they wanted to do the c-section that night and when was the last time I ate? I was like at 12. Tthey said "ok, we will call you back and let you know what the doctors (anesthiaoligist say)". They call back at 5 and said "be here at 6 and we will take the baby at 8." I rushed home finished packing and said hello to the kids and then off we went to the hospital. True to their word they had me in the OR by 8PM and back in teh recoervy by 9:00pm(it was fast). The kids then came up and saw their new little sister and spent some time with her before they headed home to go to bed for school the next day.

Here is Breanna First Bath.....Done right in my room


She is a spitting image of her big sister. The kids are happy and excited. It did take Megan a little while to come around since she was so sure we were having a boy and his name was going to be "ROCK STAR". She did say the Breanna's name was "Pretty".