9 weeks...

i promise to post pics of memorial day in Michigan soon....promise!

Beckett is 9 weeks tommorrow, and she was super sweet to sleep a 7 hour stretch last night (although i did not sleep a lot of it, at least she did).  She is smiling a lot now, and cooing all the time, it is amazing how fast it goes.  We watched a little home video today with the kids from the day that Beckett came home....hard to believe that 2 mos has already gone by.  Are things getting easier?  no...., but that is okay, it will change...it will.  Brett leaves on a trip this weekend, his first bit of travel since her birth (he will be gone 3 nights) and Leslie is coming to stay with me....not sure I was ready to tackle it all alone, although i do it everyday when he goes to work....but not the nights, nope...not ready for that.  I never knew that I would be capable of this, taking care of these little people the way I do, but I do it day in and day out.  I told Brielle today....three of the happiest days of my life were the birth of Braydon, Brielle and Beckett.  Thanks God for giving me these three little people.

7 weeks....

amazing!

we have made it to 7 weeks....it has gone fast, and it has gone slow.

i have not slept more than 4 hours at a time in sooo long, but....i really do not feel that bad.

some days i am exhausted, other days i feel as though i am unstoppable....

beckett is changing daily.....and now we are getting those big smiles, and lots of eye contact and even some cooing..it is wonderful!

i look forward to routine again, and schedule...but for now, i am just enjoying my littlest peanut and the joys of having a newborn around..as she is most likely our last child.....they grow so fast, and when i really stop to look at braydon and brielle..i am reminded of how fast they grow!  braydon is such a boy.....it is hard to believe he was once as small as beckett, & brielle talks non-stop...could it really be that at one time she depended on me the way her little sister did.....truly amazing!   as i sit here, my baby is sleeping on my bed as she had a very hard evening and i am just watching her sleep (the bed is still made, otherwise....i may be laying there next to her sleeping myself)....it is truly amazing to me that she (and her siblings) are here with us.....awesome! 

Mother's Day 2009...a trip to the Baltimore Zoo

me and my kids :)

she has found her hands....let the drool begin..

so sweetly helping his sister across the lily pads

my little peanut. :)

happy mothers day

a girl and her heels, purse and sunglasses.....

good morning!

can you see the red in her hair?

smiles, smiles, and more smiles...

we love each other :)

he absolutely adores her....and is a very good helper.

watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on TV.....look at Beckett's blue eyes!