life raising 6 kids is sweet, and chaotic!
I had my therapy appointment today and wanted to take the kids on another hike since the weather was beautiful again. I wanted to get the kids compasses and a hiking book for all of our upcoming summer adventures so we stopped at Cabela’s, too!
And here is the vlog!
I got Lyla to sleep later in the day. Look at my BOOBS!!! Lyla is so vicious when she breastfeeds and tears my skin apart!! She also pinches and slaps and bites holes in my nipples all the time! I don’t blog daily so I never mention these things (I do on facebook) but it’s a nonstop injury fest over here 🙁
And a package came so I passed her off to Sierra while I brought the stuff in. They looked so cute together!
Exciting mail! Inside were our family picture clothes!
The sunset was beautiful that night.
We went shopping.
This was the next day, I had the kids try on their clothes. Good thing I bought these all early because some of the items were HUGE!
So my camera lens broke and I was naturally devastated and it took me months to decide to send it off for repair. It was painful to pay $400 for that repair. Ugh.
This was the day I dropped it off at FedEx and it went on its way to California! (The shipping alone was $47!! OWWW)
And this was a few weeks later when it finally came back!
I didn’t have a chance to try it out because I have kids. haha
We went to Office Max.
We checked the mail once we got home and I snapped some pictures of Brooklyn and Sierra for fun.
And then we went grocery shopping!
Hanging with my baby girls in the morning.
The only way on earth I can meet any of the needs I have to meet every day. ERGO LOVE.
I guess not sleeping for days and days and holding a baby 24/7 does a number on your body. My shoulder/neck area got so hurt I could barely move. I made a rice heat pack out of a sock and kept it on my shoulder.
Lyla was so cranky and I was so sore I finally gave up on making lunch and took the kids to McDonald’s instead. I was hoping the drive would put Lyla to sleep but it didn’t.
The kids were excited about their happy meals because the toys were from the ninjago movie and pretty fun!
Lyla wanted my lens cap and wanted to put it on my camera.
Why is McDonald’s so yummy?
One of Ember’s chicken nuggets was a two-for-one stuck together mutant nugget!
Lyla got a hold of Payson’s apple juice and was happily trying to drink from it (it was empty though) and that was a nice tiny break for me!
But then it was back to wanting mama and mama’s boobs!
I was trying ice for the pain since the heat didn’t work earlier.
The kids were playing on the ipad.
I realized it had been three days of that high fever and that it had broke and remembered that when Ember had baby measles as a baby she’d had that pattern and this was the day spots would appear if Lyla had baby measles so I checked and sure enough:
And here is Everett just being a cool dude.
Laundry in the morning. I washed the new clothes we got from Costco!
Made breakfast while she fell asleep in the ergo.
Got Everett dressed while Lyla still napped.
She woke up and played at the window.
I had a snack.
Then we went outside.
Here are some of Allan’s pumpkins.
And unfortunately the corn died during an early freeze we had.
Everett loved looking at the veggies Allan and the other kids pulled.
Here he is happily showing off his playdoh. This kid LOVES playdoh!
There were some spiders and ladybugs on some of the vegetables!
The people who worked hard that day!
Poor Everett begs me to hold him all the time and I’m almost always holding Lyla instead. Since I was wearing her I could pick him up and he was really happy about that!
I’d noticed that Lyla was warm all day and took her temperature with a new thermometer since the kids broke my old one.
I tried it on myself first and she was happy when I did it on her next 🙂
With her slightly sick I didn’t want to go to the store but we were ouuuuut of food and needed to. Everett was extremely excited to go to WalMart for some reason! 🙂
That night I was up late with Lyla who was really cranky. I snapped these pictures before finally heading to bed.
It wasn’t long before I woke up… Lyla tossed and turned and cried and cried. I finally got up to just walk with her and rock her. She was burning up so I took her temperature again. It was 103. I don’t usually give my babies tylenol or motrin for fevers because I am a believer in letting fevers run their course but she was not sleeping at all and I knew that she’d get better faster if she could sleep more so I attempted to give her baby tylenol. Problem is Lyla throws up everything (even many foods!), when she gags on new tastes and sure enough- one drop of tylenol hit her tongue and she immediately projectile vomited!! Oh but it didn’t stop there! I had set off her barf alarm and she threw up twice more! She throws up so so so much when she doesn’t like a taste! I’d JUST nursed her for like five hours straight too so she was full of milk and there was a whooooole lot of vomit. Luckily it was mostly milk so it wasn’t really gross but unluckily it got all over her and me and the bed which meant baths for her and me and an entire load of bedding laundry!!
The GOOD news is her nighttime bath cooled her down significantly and she was able to sleep much better. So from 3am until 7am or so she slept decently well. She tossed and turned and I didn’t sleep much but she didn’t cry much and she got some good sleep.
Here’s a problem I ran into. I bought two new thermometers and they each give me totally different temperatures each time! The one below seems to be closest since it matches our regular body temperatures when we’re not sick so I use that to go by.
Everett has decided that climbing up on the TV stand all day every day is his favorite thing to do. I tell him to climb down every single time and he does. And then immediately climbs back up. There is no controlling a 3 year old!
Me and the kids played Uno.
Lyla did what she does always… ruins everything we do. haha!
She had fun though.
Notice her tears? Payson had taken cards from her that she was wrinkling up and that made her sad.
Sierra won the first game!
I’ve been looking into things to use to cosleep with Lyla in because sleeping on the bed is unsafe (she rolls off) and I tried this toddler tent. It worked okay except that it was uncomfortable for me because I didn’t fit!
I let the kids play in the tent since I don’t use it for sleeping.
Ember won the second game!
Brooklyn won the third game!
Payson won the fourth game!
And Brooklyn won the fifth game!
I asked Ember for a high five and when she held her hand up I jokingly said, “Hey, why are you showing five? You didn’t win the fifth game, Brooklyn did!”
So then the kids all goofed off holding up fingers about games they’d won.
The kids ask me so often to take dozens and dozens of pictures of them being silly and doing funny faces. We have hundreds and hundreds. I usually don’t post them but here are a few.
I spent a full hour putting Lyla to sleep for a nap. But then she slept for 45 minutes!
I didn’t take any more pictures today until bedtime. In the next picture Ember is picking out our nightly bedtime books on the kindle app. She picked mostly Berenstain Bears books tonight 🙂
Brooklyn wanted to go to Toys R Us to spend her birthday money. She was hopeful she’d find some fun Trolls toys!
I almost never wear lipstick so Lyla was really intrigued by my bright lips that day!
Brooklyn found so many toys she liked!! She had a hard time narrowing it down. Good problem to have, huh?
Payson LOVES the Smurfs and especially Grouchy Smurf. He pretends to be Grouchy Smurf all the time!
My kids have always loved giant plush toys. They would love if I bought one but I can’t make myself do it. A GIANT, uncleanable toy?? Just no. haha
They love to play with them in stores, though, and it always makes me stop and consider buying one.
Laughing at mom 🙂
Brooklyn with what she chose to spend her money on!
We stopped at a nature trail on the way home.
She turns 14 TOMORROW!!!
Almost 2 years later, magna tiles are still my kids’ favorite toy.
Lyla had her first taste of pizza and she loved it!
Lyla LOVES being outside!
Classic breakfast around here.
The way Lyla curls her toes around my thumb while she breastfeeds ♥
Everett was wearing a Paw Patrol shirt and a Paw Patrol bandaid and liked that.
I had just cut his nails.
Nap on mommy 🙂
Everett had a doctor appointment and oh my goodness was he excited about it! He loved all the attention and meeting the nurses and doctor and being weighed and measured and checked out! He was in heaven!
I made a vlog of this day that I’ll put on my youtube channel soon. My youtube channel link is on the top right of this blog.
Lyla had milk in the parking lot after the appointment.
When we got home I quickly did her 11 month photos! She had a blast out in the grass with me 🙂
The boys and Lyla were hanging out in the backyard that evening with me and Allan.
Payson got to pull the first vegetable of the year! Of course those awesome, easy radishes!
Lyla napped on my back.
And Everett asked me to blow bubbles with him. I love that he not only loves to blow bubbles but wants me to do it with him 🙂
