Yes she is getting a lot of FaceTime around here! Having cell phones with apps to post quickly sure makes it easy to snap lots of pictures! It's not like When Damon and Keenan were little when we used an actual camera, upload them on the computer and pick the one we like. I still do that every once in a while. Niko has loved snuggling in bed with her most mornings why they wake up together.
She made her debut at church and everyone was smitten by her! She was just too cute not to be! I had to take her out to feed her during sacrament meeting. Juan asked where I was going and I told him to get used to it. What a nice break to go rock and feed a baby with other moms while Juan wrestles with the other 3! I came back in rigjt before it was over and he was just layghing. Here he is 3 crazy boys, and the family behind us with 3 very quiet kids reading the friend and listening. Yep that's my family! Always loud and disrupting.
Juan has nicknamed her "Mad-Alyn" because she's mad a lot! But he loves this little girl like crazy! She spots him and recognizes his voice quickly! It's amazing to watch. She smiles for him everytime! She has finally started smiling for me now too!
I was so over going to and from the hospital and Keenan was on spring break, Damon at the child center still so I wanted to venture out with the boys to a park. I had intended to go to Washington Park by the zoo but my friend Kimberly said let's go to a park in Mcminnville. Terrible idea since I was already planning to go to the library to a minecraft activity and they were in completly differnt directions. But I had already let her down the other day. So I said yes and as soon as I did I regretted it! Why do I want to drive 45 minutes to a park opposite direction of where I want to go? But like I said I had already let her down. So off we went. I was about 15 minutes later then I told her. I get a text from her "I take it your bailing on me again" and that was it. I wanted so bad to turn around and drive home! I had a new baby that came home the day before and I was actually getting out and going places. Not only that but it had been a week and a half since birthing a baby! So I wasn't in a completly normal state. Why am I so bugged by this? But I am! And it still bugs me. I don't have time for a needy friendship. That's hard. I hardly have enough time for my own family! But we dis it and then we went to minecraft activity at the library. That was a disaster too. So many kids, not enough craft peices, and Adalyn needed to eat! I kept my cool and we just took it home and did it there.
My main thing I was worried about after having a baby was being inpatient with the other kids. I felt like I was starting to get a grasp on that part of my life and it would all start over again. I feel so blessed to have not had those feelings. I have tried to be patient and go on my clues of needing sleep and knowing when I'm going to lose it. Life with 4 is not any harder then it was with 3. Three was a hard adjustment.
I have gotten used to the fact we don't have much family around and used to the fact that we have to create our own fun. And that means if I want to keep traditions going that means I need to make it happen. It would be so much easier to just not do anything but with kids that just doesn't happen! I am so grateful they made me get easter egg decor and for Vicky wanting to do an egg hunt also. We have David and Melissa cone over as well and we had a dang goof time! We had great food as always and as always too much! It was nice to have conference this year on Easter and not stress about getting ready and taking pictures! But at some point you just stop string to get pictures of the boys!
