Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Siblings

Aftyn
Maiya

Quincey


Friday, January 27, 2012

Happy 5th Birthday Quincey!

My little boy is growing up!  He turned 5 today.  I let him pick what kind of birthday cake I would make, and he picked a Lego Cake!  So we went with the theme and had a fun Lego Birthday Party! He kept giving me hugs and saying this is the best birthday party ever.  I love my sweet boy. 

The Birthday Boy!

The Lego Cake (so fun to make... got the idea here)

The Lego Guy plates

Lego juice boxes

We played 'Lego, lego, who's got the Lego?'

I made this Lego Pinata out of a diaper box and tin cans... It was a lot of work, but worth it.



All in all the day was a success!  Happy Birthday Quincey!

Friday, January 20, 2012

The Past month


Well, It will be a month tomorrow that Aftyn has joined our family. Time sure goes fast! So far things have gone really smoothly. The transition has been very natural. Maiya is the little mommy. She loves her little sister and loves to help out. She gets really jealous and feisty if Quincey wants to hold her or pay attention to her, so most of the time he decides it's not worth the fight, and lets Maiya have all of the Aftyn time. But, he really loves her.
Aftyn is a really good sleeper, once she gets really asleep.  She loves to trick me.  I will feed her and burp her, and change her poopy diaper and she will be completely relaxed and then i will lay her down and try to go back to sleep and then 5-10 min later she will be grunting and uncomfortable, so I will pick her up and she will maybe burp again, or poop again, and then the cycle repeats maybe up to two more times.  With my other kids once they burped after each side, they would be good, but not miss Aftyn.  So, I have developed a fear of being woken up or what I like to call 'Awakaphobia'.  It is so hard for me to go back to sleep, because I am afraid I will be woken up in 10 min.
Other than that, I am doing well, my body is adjusting to little sleep. And she is so worth it.  Such a sweet little girl.  She has smiled at me a handful of times, I am excited for when she smiles more often. 
I have been getting so annoyed at my camera.  I see in front of me a beautiful girl with such good color, and then I take pictures and I get a red-faced, and spotty girlie. It makes me not want to take pictures.  I am getting better at changing the settings to get a better picture, and I have no idea how to Photoshop. I think that will be my next wish list item is a nice new camera.  Okay rant over. Here are some of my camera's handiwork......

Our little Reindeer, coming home from the hospital

Big Brother Q

Little Mommy Maiya




Love baby yawns