First smiles!

I've been sitting here playing with Callie and she has been smiling tons! It is the cutest smile ever! She has a dimple on her left cheek. I have always loved dimples. It makes the sleepless nights a little easier to take when your child smiles at you.

Today has been interesting. We started out the morning giving the boys a bath. Tate was splashing so hard that I got him out and got him dressed but let Hunter play some more. I was trying to keep my eye on Tate so he wouldn't go in the bathroom, but I was also folding laundry. I had my back to Tate for a few seconds and the next thing I hear is Brent saying, "oh no." Tate, fully dressed, went and got back in the bathtub. So we had to get him out and start all over. We also had to laugh, he looked pretty funny.

Next I thought it would be fun to take the kids outside(minus Callie, who dozed in the bouncy seat in front of the big window) It isn't very warm, so I put on their snow pants. I made sure Hunter went potty before we went out. They played trucks for awhile and Tate laid face down in the snow eating it. Then Hunter says to me that I need to change his clothes b/c he pooped in his pants. That ended our outside time.

Inside I asked the boys to pick up their books while I made lunch. I hear crying from Tate in the living room and go in and ask what had happened. Hunter tells me he bit Tate on the back, so I check and sure enough Tate has teeth marks on the middle of his back and Hunter had broken the skin. I think I need to clone myself just to be able to get a task accomplished without anything happening. I disciplined Hunter for biting Tate and then held Hunter for 5 mins while he had a major temper tantrum. Needless to say he is currently napping.

It hasn't been overly bad today, though. The boys ate their lunch, which thrills me. Plus, Callie is smiling, so big yay!!!!! I was looking at a lady's blog who has three kids that look close in age, and they are older. The youngest is probably 3. She had some pictures of them up and they looked like they were having fun and getting along and I thought to myself, having three kids close in age is going to be a blast later on! I'm mostly stuck on the right now of, "good grief this is hard!" but I know that its just going to get easier. And I'm kind of excited for all the fun we'll have. There is never going to be a dull moment! Also, speaking of getting easier, Callie slept from 9:30-2 last night. She was up from 2-3 and then woke up again at 5:30. That has been the best she's slept so far, woohoo!!

To make things easier for myself I've decided to transfer all the kids to a doctor in the local clinic. Now, by the time I would have just been getting to the clinic I usually take them to, I'll be hopefully just getting done with the whole visit. Brent stopped by and signed a form requesting their records today, so I am so relieved. We were going to go local when Callie came, but then we had all the problems with her birth and I changed my mind, but she seems to be fine now.

Well, I better go, but I should say that I've typed this mostly one-handed while nursing. Go multi-taskers!