This girl!

This girl has grown up so much lately!  She gets into EVERYTHING!  I can not look away for a second.  She is way more mischievous than either of her brothers were.  She has taken out all the DVDs more times than I can count.  She is also fast!  If she gets a hold of something she shouldn't have, I have to act fast!  She also bites...hard!  She left a bruise on Eli's arm and she will bite whenever she doesn't get her way.  We are working on that.

She is also pure joy and such a mama's girl.  I love her snuggles so much and her laugh makes my heart want to burst.  She also loves to have her shoes on and loves getting dressed in the morning.  It is still hard for her to leave me, but she is getting used to daycare as well.  I am so grateful for my built in bestie.

I get super frustrated with all that she gets into, but I am learning to let the little stuff go, so if you come over and there is clean laundry all over the floor, you know who is responsible.  Because she is my last baby, I am trying to soak up every milestone and see it as a celebration instead!  

Daycare

I have learned so much about my kids after putting them in daycare.  Eli is NOT a morning person.  Kerrigan and McCoy are.  Eli cried and kicked and screamed for the first week and now he happily goes into Miss Debbie's house.  The best part is that now it takes 10 minutes to leave daycare because he has to say bye and give hugs to all his girlfriends there.  (There is only one other boy there).  Today he told his friend, "bye cutie!"  Kerrigan will cry in the morning for a minute and then she is over it.  She is definitely warming up to the idea of daycare.

McCoy started daycare a week after the other kids so he is still in the hating daycare stage.  He mostly hates it because they feed him breakfast and he doesn't like eating.  He loves first grade though!  He loves his teachers and school in general.  He even has a locker to put his backpack in and he thinks that is pretty cool.

I don't want to jinx us, but I think we are getting the morning routine down too.  I have been 5 minutes early to work 3 times this week!  I put their clothes out the night before and have my bags packed and ready to go for work.  I am so grateful for the amazing Miss Debbie for watching Eli and Kerrigan and for finding the daycare that takes McCoy to school every day.

If I were not a mom to young kids...

I am blogging again to help me remember these times.  Lately I have been telling myself A LOT, "if I were not a mom to young kids, I could..."

Some of my answers include:

• work more hours
• go places without car seats
• read more
• sleep more
• not pay for daycare

Tonight though, I was thinking about my sweet babies and my thoughts changed to "if I were not a mom to young kids I would not

• get endless hugs and kisses
• hear "I love you" in the sweetest little voices
• get to laugh at McCoy figuring out what puns are and trying to use them
• snuggle on my bed that fits me and my 3 kids
• play baseball with my boys
• find dinosaurs in my bed and power rangers in my shower
• spend lots of time folding tiny clothes

Life is definitely hard, but I am so grateful for these little people and the love that they have for me.  They are patient and they are forgiving and I sure am trying to be the best mom that I can be for them.