Days Alone with 4 children

Are really TOUGH!

Emmalee is really challeging. Of course she wants attention, she's 2 for goodness sake! I give it to her when I can, but for most of the morning, I'm feeding babies, then getting bottles ready (I do this also when she goes to bed and during nap, it's something that has to be done many times a day with 3 babies!!) She loves to watch movies, which makes it easy to turn one on, then do what I have to do with the Trio and even have some time to get a few other chores done! When her movie is done, she usually eats, then wants to nap! (The morning goes by way too fast!)

Most mornings she's the one that wakes me up. She screams "Mommy Mommy Mommy" until I come get her at around 7-7:30 am! The babies are on a good sleeping schedule. They eat around 10-11 (give/take an hour depending on the day) and then they stay asleep, in our room in their bassinets until about 3-4am! It has been a quick transition to get them to sleep thru the night (if you can call it that at this point.) so I'm happy about it! They go for about 5-6 hours, which is AWESOME for preemies and 2 month olds! Then they sleep til I get them up around 8-9 depending on the day! It's starting to get a lot better! I usually don't get in bed til about 11pm so I'm getting about 4 hours of sleep, ALMOST uninterrupted, sometimes Noah has little spit ups in the night, so that breaks up my sleep.

They're eating about every 3-4 hours, 4oz for Owen, 3.5oz for Noah and Lyla just barely takes 3oz! She's one that gives a fight everytime she eats! She just doesn't wanna take it all! She usually takes 2oz, then she's done, ready for more in 2-2.5 hours! It would be fine and dandy if she was the ONLY baby! But c'mon Lyla, didn't you get the memo? There are 3 of you!!!!

My weeks fly by, but the days seem long. I am alone Mondays and Thursdays, and most weeks I have help from my cousin Julie on Tuesdays and Fridays, she's awesome! On Wednesdays my sister-in-law Heather helps out after she gets done with her job in the late morning and stays til my niece, her daughter, gets out of school. Tuesday nights my parents bring dinner, and the past couple weeks we've had dinner with Heather and Bob and Nicole. Thursdays my In-laws were bringing dinner, but that quickly changed. We are going to be going to my parents every other Sunday for a family dinner with my siblings and then the alternating Sundays we are going to have Andy's parents over, and they'll bring dinner. It's such a HUGE thing not to have to think about dinner, and actually having the time to make it is almost impossible. Once I have longer stretches, I'll have time to prep meals, and even get crockpot dinners going the day before, but right now, it's too chaotic! We also have frozen meals from friends and family, which really come in handy as well! I'm so grateful for all the people in my life that are always there in these HUGE ways, just willing and able to help! THANK YOU ALL!

Pictures for today are the babies trying out the Bumbo chair for the first time! LOVE IT! Emmalee is digging into a box of Cornflakes, and of course spilled them everywhere!!! Then proceeded to crunch them under her feet saying, "Mommy!!! Feet!!!" Yikes!!!