Clifford WAS a runt too....

I have to say that the first couple of days being a mommy to 4 was.... well..... a bit scary. 

I believe that I was mostly worried about Caleb and how he was going to react. He did prove me right, however. I knew that the 17 months between  them was just not enough. I knew that Caleb would still want to be my "baby" and in many respects he still is. 

It was a little difficult introducing Caleb to Alex and as I had thought, he doesn't seem to be too fond of him. I am sure that with time it will become easier. But for now I will  embrace having 2 babies that really do need me. 

I am sure that with time they will grow to be best friends, right now, not so much.

Zoe had been at Nana's for a week and boy! was I glad to have that little booger home. I really did miss her. She came back a tad chunkier ;) and a tad sassier but none the less still so sweet and spunky. I missed my little side kick. We are greatly out numbered in this house of stinky boys so we must stick together. 

Alex went for his 1 week check up today... can't believe that he is a week old already. 

He is doing beautifully! He is back up to his birth weight in only a week and the jaundice (the mild case that he had) seems to have cleared up. While he is little I can see the potential of him growing quickly and becoming a big boy. I can't help but think (in my mommy wisdom) that Clifford was born a runt and grew into a BIG RED DOG, that is rather famous among the preschool nation :) 

We also did his newborn photo shoot, my dear sweet friend Anna, took his pics and we had so much fun. I can't wait to see the finished product. {please, remember her, she lost her dad a couple of weeks ago suddenly and could use the added prayers}

So Happy One week to my Alexander the Great. Mommy is looking forward to watching you grow in the coming weeks. 

I am loving these summer days. I vowed that my kids would be outside as much as possible this summer. At the beginning it was a little hard seeing that I was so miserable, but now, MAMA'S BACK!

The past couple of days they have played and played and played until they were dirty and sticky and disgusting. All the signs of a good time. Braxton and his little friends have played in the water and had water gun fights and played in the dirt and just had a good ole time these past few days and at night with in no time they are out cold... I'm loving every moment.

Cabby loved those Popsicle's probably ate 4 of them. He was a mess by the time we came in.

Braxton and his good pal, Westin, obviously mine is the mean one with the gun pointed at the photographer. 

You know they have had a good fun filled day when the bath water is extremely murky and they skip lunch 

Happy Summer Y'all.

My Sweet Cabby is 7 months old

I don't get to do this much, I really wish that I had kept up with this as he's been growing but keeping up with my 3 is a full time job.

Caleb (aka Cabby, thanks to Zoe calling him baby Cabbage), is going to be 7 months old on the 18th. It's really hard to believe, to think that he is almost a year old. It saddens me a bit, he's my baby, my last baby. 

So here are his stats:

He was almost 20lbs at his 6 month visit so I am sure that he is there by now. 

He is still nursing about every 4-6 hours. But sleeping through the night. 

He is cooing away. I think da-da or mama are in the near future.

He is LOVING solid foods. Table food is his favorite thing. What baby doesn't love mashed taters. 

He is wearing size 3 diapers and 9mth clothes.

He has just cut his first bottom tooth. Teething up a storm. 

(frozen berries in his munchkin food holder is his favorite thing to teeth on)

I was afraid to give him those puffs that dissolve but that little booger was CHEWING a Nilla Wafer. This boy can for sure eat. 

The doctors are predicting that if he continues to grow the way he does that he will be about 6 feet!!! That's a big boy. 

He smiles at everything and he's just the sweetest baby ever. He just started sleeping in his actual crib last night. I can't believe how fast he's growing. 

He loves his big brother and Zoe, bless her heart, drives him crazy. She's a mother hen. 

So that's my Cabby.

All smiles all the time.

Sleeping in his Crib

So in love with this little man

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In other news, Braxton started pre-school!!!! This was a very big step for him as well as for me. I have always sheltered and hovered over him, and to be honest, I probably always will anywhere that he is concerned. He did so good. One day a week he gets a swimming lesson for 30 minutes. I think this is so good for him because the chemo that he has to take has caused a bit of neuropathy in his legs. The swimming in the warm water is supposed to be good for this. 

I was worried that he would be behind the other kids because we didn't let him go to preschool last year, but he seems to be doing just fine. His class is small (about 13 kids) so I'm not as nervous as far as germs go. 

He had chemo on Monday so this was not the best week to start something new. With steroids on board he's always moody and forever changing. But my baby isn't a baby anymore. 

On his first day last week, I got to the school early and he just happened to be on the playground. So I parked far enough back so that he couldn't see me. (I am sure that I must have looked like a creeper) I just sat there, thanking God for bringing him this far and for the opportunity to go to school, like a normal kid. He wasn't Brac the little boy with Leukemia... he was Brac, the 5 year old preschooler. So I sat there for 30 minutes and sobbed like a crazy lady, watching him play on the playground with all his new little friends, realizing just how blessed we are and how Mighty our God really is. 

First Day

Swim Class

Getting deaccessed. .. I am so proud of him.

And I can't leave out my Zoe. She is having a time adjusting to Bub being in School for only 2 1/2 hours. But I think she gets it now. She will go next year and I am really regretting not putting her in now. I think that she would have really enjoyed it. Her new cute thing is putting her finger to her mouth and going "hmmmm, I know" and her favorite person... Diego. I predict she'll be speaking Spanish before she turns 3 :)

Enjoying sparklers and fireworks since the county finally lifted the burn /fireworks ban.

Being Zoe

I said "look at the camera" she replied "I can't, I'm busy"