The weather over here is foggy

I should clarify, the weather in this house has been foggy. HA! With so much going on, time is just flying so some days just feel like ya know, a fog.  We are all doing good though (in case anyone out there is wondering if we are alive...).

Our boy Tom had a weekly checkup for weight today and has put on a whole pound in a week!  Not sure whats in my breast milk but the doc was very happy.  He's doing good; he's plumped up and healthy.

Bob & Brooklyn seem to be doing well too. Brooklyn had a dentist appointment yesterday, and sadly she has 4 cavities. FOUR! Ugh.

I had my stitches removed this week - my least favorite appointment out of everything that happens when you have a baby.  Just grosses me out so much.  And, I've been suffering from spinal headaches. Didnt really understand what was going on until I saw my OBGYN and explained my pain.  They are excruciating and disabling if you dont get pain med in your system as soon as you feel them coming on.  I had no idea I was suffering from them, and its something they can treat in the hospital...today is the first day I dont feel one coming on, thank goodness.

Just wanted to write some things down for memories...have a good rest of the week!

Life as 5

A week has gone by since adding our 3rd little monkey to the circus, and it has been the easiest change - so far.  For me going from no kids to 1 was the hard, but having Brooklyn so close in age to Bobby was the hardest.  Tommy sleeps like a champ (he is on 4 hours of sleep right now as I type this), and eats like an athlete.  This has been the easiest change so far - now ask me this in another 6 months when Tommy is crawling everywhere and knocking everything over to see if I have the same answer!

Kids went back to LPLC yesterday - 4 golden hours to do whatever I want! It was filled with all the things I neglected all week, so the time went too fast but it was so helpful.  All the teachers there embraced us all like we had never left - and the kids took off to go see their friends and play the second we walked out to the playground.

Life this week was chaos - (come see my house for proof! lol) but its been fun.

TLR

Our little man, Thomas Lee Roed, born Friday 8/30/13 at 8:05am. 8lbs 8oz 20 inches long. He's the biggest baby we've welcomed into our family, Bobby was 7lbs something, Brooklyn was 6lbs 14oz.  The fog of a newborn has set in, if I get 3 or 4 hours straight sleep I feel good (sounds crazy to say that). I think my body has adjusted to operate on broken sleep, and I consume about 1/2 cup to 1 cup of coffee to help with the fatigue which seems to work good enough.

Our boy Tom eats like a champ, seems pretty easy going so far.  Kids are in love with him, especially Brooklyn. Brooklyn has to have a morning cuddle with Tommy as soon as she wakes up.  We are adjusting to our new normal, this transition seems to be the easiest so far - and it helps that both kids are pretty independent and understand (and follow!) direction most of the time. Both are pretty willing to help me with most things I ask them to do, I cant complain all that much.

Derek and I both agreed that I should get some help during the week.  Derek's work schedule is crazy at the moment (lots of jobs starting all at once) so we decided to send the kids back to preschool so I have some time during the week to either clean, do hw or just nap.  The kids are really excited (ME TOO!) and I am thankful we can do this - it will be good for the whole family to get them out of the house.

96!

96 Hours to go until we are a family of 5! 

One last post until we enter the fog of handling a newborn.

August is the busiest month out of the year for our family. I love this time of year.

One friday in August spent with all my in-laws for a girls day...

Playing with Sadie...

Swimming with Sadie

Sadie giving her approval of our bathroom (and probably peeing on something in there)

 Our little dancing queen/singer/pop star

Playing out back 

Belly shot at 37 weeks

Cooling off at La Jolla Shores on Friday 8/23 which sent me into false labor friday night

Our final wedding of the year, yesterday at Scripps Seaside Forum - stunning location but it was still SO HOT AT THE BEACH! 

The new couple, Alex & Eric Cormier

Catching up with old friends, Collin Berdzar & Derek

Chris, Danny & Derek

MOOOOOOO 39 weeks at the wedding 

 Hanging with Papa & Grandma while we were at Eric's Wedding

Sadie

 

Alright we are just stupid. I know we are, but when you meet Sadie you will see why you cant resist. A friend of Derek's bred his pure bred black lab with a pure bred yellow lab and had just a few puppies remaining to find homes, 2 black labs and 1 yellow lab. Literally at 6a.m. yesterday Derek asked if I'd like one, and I being stupid, said yes. First I wanted the yellow girl that remained, then switched to the black girl that remained. And not kidding, 3 hours later Derek came home with our new Sadie. She is really cute and for the most part is just a typical puppy, some pee accidents but she is only 2&1/2 months old.  We bought a kennel this time though - to train and make my life easier since in about a month another addition is going to arrive in this house.

We took her swimming yesterday and she totally liked it! She didnt freak out trying to find a way out of the pool and swam a bit with me and the kids, it was so cool! Even though its adding to our chaos, she seems to give Rocky a bit of companionship which has helped to keep them both happy. I like that we have a kennel this time around so I can just put her in there and not worry about losing my favorite shoes when I leave the house. :)

Old, New and Stuff In Between

 Pictures of the "boys" room with the big boy beds all set up. Just have to fill the drawers with the other piles of clothes laying around the house. 

This is an old picture of my Nana that was just emailed to me today.  She was basically my mom, and is the lady I'm named after (my real name is Giovanna).  She was quite the gardener. I miss her so much. 

Decided that since one remodel is done, time for another.  Derek demoed our guest bathroom about 2 weeks ago (aka as the "boys" bathroom according to our kids).  

Pictures below of the remodel almost complete.  Just waiting on someone to come over and tile the shower.

In baby news, today's appointment revealed he is measuring almost a week ahead, which was kind of exciting.  I'm feeling over all good, just feel like I have 80 year old hips so I'm kind of over that feeling. Trying to enjoy these last few weeks as a family of 4....

Our Boy Can SWIM!!!

Bobby can swim with no floaties!

Yesterday we spent the whole day with Derek's family at their house swimming.  It was my father's (in-law) birthday and hot!  Most of the family was with us and we had a great time hanging out, swimming, playing and eating.

Around 4pm yesterday Bobby was taught how to swim by his Papa Bob! I was inside the house playing cards, and I could hear my father (in law) and Bobby yelling at us to look outside and watch - I watched as my little 4 year old son leaped fearlessly into the pool, come shooting up to the top of the water and doggy paddle back to the side of the pool, push himself up and crawl out of the pool to repeat the process again!

I'm so happy he can do it, but now REALLY nervous! I know that Bobby can swim good enough with no floaties, but he cant touch anywhere on the bottom of the pool except the steps to get in so he may overestimate his ability to swim all over the place and get tired...we will still be on high alert but at least my heart can rest a little bit knowing he understands much more now.

Wish I could have captured it on video, I'm sure this week he will be at it again, so I'll have to try and record his latest accomplishment

We are so proud of him! He's the youngest on that side of the family to learn how to swim....what an awesome day yesterday!