Thanksgiving

Chloe is so in love with her Grandpa Bob it just melts my heart. She is seriously like a little leach that is stuck to him. She follows him around, tickles him and just wants to cuddle on his lap. I love this picture of them. Pure happiness!

 We all didn't get together on actual Thanksgiving day. We did that on Friday so on Thursday Tj's parents came over and watched the baby while we went and save Brave at the movie theatre. It was a GREAT movie. We then we all had steak for dinner.

 Friday we all went to Mona's house for the big meal. Feels like forever since we had all been together.

 Chelsea had her baby the week before Thanksgiving and I wish I could say that I wasn't envious of her  easy breezy delivery and recovery. Baby Estelle (Stella) Fredrickson and Kasen Lee.

Sophie came home with us for a sleepover. I had been feeling bad that we never got around to getting the girls together over the summer like we told them we would. TJ put up the Christmas lights on the house and I decorated the inside and now it is beginning to feel like Christmas. But seriously thank goodness we did our Christmas shopping the weekend before I had Kasen.

Life at home

Things have been pretty good at home so far. Granted I still am not back into my regular routine of things. I still have yet to take all the kids to school in the mornings, however we did take a walk today to pick Tallie up from school. It was really nice to be outside with Kasen in the stroller and talking and seeing actual people. Someone asked me if I was ready to get back into doing hair. I laughed in my head. Right now I can't even imagine adding hair into the mix of things. For one I'm just now getting back on my feet, I did almost die, and I know that my baby is a month old but seriously I JUST brought him home last week. That is pretty much the same as someone asking me to do their hair a week after I came home with a new baby. If you can't tell I am still kinda bugged by the inconsiderate question.

The first outting I had with all my kids was prob a stupid one but I needed to get out with all my kids for my own sanity (kinda an oxymoron I know). But I just wanted to live my life again and not watch everyone else living my life for me. The day before Thanksgiving I packed up the kids and went to Walmart. It went good and it felt good to do something normal. Kasen has his good days and his bad days when it comes to sleeping at night. Newborns are so hard. But last night was good and so I'm not such a beast today. Which is nice for all.

My sister Jodi came into town for a few days which was nice. She is a really big help. Lexi and I have been doing a million puzzles and she is amazing. She is starting to do harder and harder ones and most of the time does not need my help. Tallie has moved up a couple letters in her reading and is doing great and Chloe actually ventured out today and went to play at a friends house, solo, without Tallie. I am feeling pretty good and have been keeping up with the laundry and am back to making dinner at nights. It feels good to have things back to semi normal around here.

Lexi funny...

Lexi: "I like girl babies"

Me: "Don't you like your baby brother?"

Lexi: "I'm waiting for him to turn into a girl baby"

I heart my little Lexi

Halloween

All of a sudden it's Christmas time and it's totally blowing my mind because I missed Halloween and so it's just really throwing me off. It just snuck up on me. Well since I was in the hospital on Halloween TJ took the girls around trick or treating and carved pumpkins with them. I hadn't even gotten around to finishing little Lexi's Dora costume...I wasn't expecting a baby THAT early.

 And while I was away, Chelsea and Thomas took the girls to Cornbellys to keep their minds off things. It was so nice of them and made me happy that they didn't have to miss Halloween.

More Kasen

I love having babies with this man! He might feel differently about me since I always give him such a scare, but on my end he makes everything alright and is always by my side taking care of me. He is such a wonderful husband and a great dad!

Kasen Comes HOME!

It was just killing me that Kasen was 2 weeks old and his sisters had never seen him. They waited and waited for the day that their baby brother was born and were so excited to be able to come visit me at the hospital and hold the baby. And then to have to tell them day after day when they would ask when Kasen was coming home that we didn't know when he would. It was confusing to them and it broke my heart. So imagine the day when the doctors cleared Kasen to come home when finally our whole family would get to be together! What a joyous reunion it was. It felt so good to have my four kiddos in one room all around me.