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.

A Fun October

First I must complain. I got the stomach bug five days ago and I am still not better. I couldn't keep down anything but water for two days and now if I eat anything but oatmeal my stomach feels uncomfortable and I get terrible indigestion. I feel totally exhausted and I have gone to bed every night thinking "tomorrow I am going to be all better", but I have yet to feel "all better".

Half of October was spent in Nevada with my family. Everyone in St. Louis tells me I missed two weeks of straight rain and boy am I grateful. The weather in Nevada was beautiful. We played outside every day. Grandpa bought the grandkids two large Tonka trucks and an all-terrain tricycle. Scott and Iris had fun racing the trucks up and down the driveway and filling them with gravel. If we weren't playing outside then we were watching SpongeBob inside! We had lots and lots of fun and wish Nevada wasn't so far away!

According to Scott, this gravel pile is about 20ft high! It is really more like 4ft high, but things seem a lot bigger when you are three.

This year for Halloween Iris was a ladybug (again) and Scott was a black Spiderman, thanks to a last minute loan from our friend April. I was going to have them both wear the same costumes as last year (Iris a ladybug and Scott a skeleton), and save some time and money. So on Halloween morning after telling Scott "Happy Halloween" he said "I want to be Spiderman!", I tried to convince him otherwise, but he insisted that he must be Spiderman. I quickly called April, who has three boys and asked her if she had any Spiderman costumes she wasn't going to use. Thank goodness she did and it saved our Halloween!

This is Spiderman Scott and his good friend butterfly Afton.

Halloween was strictly business for Scott. He would run up to a house, get candy and then take off to the next house, while we trailed along with Iris.

This is ladybug Iris (She didn't really like the idea of halloween until at the first house she got candy. She cried until we let her eat a piece!)

Another Baby

It's a boy!!

I had a feeling this was going to be a boy from the beginning. Though I was also sure Scott was going to be a girl and Iris was going to be a boy. One would think that as a pregnant mother your instincts would tell you if you were having a boy or girl, but this very often is not the case.

Jeff is in charge of naming this baby, as long as I also like the name.

I won't bother posting the ultrasound pictures, because all ultrasound pictures look the same to me. So if you've seen one, then you've seen them all. Now I start the countdown for the next 142 days!

Fun Stories

So much has happened since I last wrote that I wouldn’t even try to cover all of it. My favorite is to blog cute stories so here are a couple since I last wrote.




First the poop story! We were eating dinner, Jeff was gone so it was just the kids and me. Iris was in her high chair and she started to wiggle around and say “poop poop” so I got her down and told her to go run and play and I guess get her poop out. Scott then piped in and said, “she should use the potty!”. This didn’t seem like a bad idea at the time and so I took her diaper off and sat her on the little potty. I could tell she was trying to do something, but she kept standing up and then sitting down. Scott came in shortly after and I stopped paying attention to Iris for a moment. In the short moment she stood up and pooped next to the potty not in the potty and then stepped in it. I cleaned her feet and asked Scott to get me the wipes. Scott, like the good obedient boy he is, went and got the wipes and brought them in the bathroom where on the way out he also stepped in the poop. I put him in the tub and asked him to stay there until I could get all the other messes cleaned up and then I would clean him. While he waited he spread the poop that was on his foot all over the tub. Luckily none of the poop ever left the bathroom and for that I am grateful.

We have been trying to make up stories to tell Scott and Iris at night. We are horrible at it, but they don’t know the difference. Today in the car he was talking to Iris and he said “I am going to tell you a story about a train and a dog” and then he proceeded to tell a story to Iris. It was so adorable.

At our house if you are grouchy then two things are wrong, either you are hungry, tired or a combination of both. So when I tell Scott I am going to take a little nap while he watches cartoons he always asks me “Are you grouchy Mom?”



Lately Iris has been trying really hard to mimic what her big brother is doing. She will try to sit the same way he does and play the same way he does. She just learned how to stack duplo blocks and she loves just to sit there and stack blocks just like her big brother. She is also picking up his bad habits. Scott has started to wipe his mouth on the inside of this shirt. He did this today and Iris saw, she then grabbed her dress and started wiping her mouth with her dress!

This is another bad habit Iris has "picked" up from Scott!