All's quiet

I love these moments just as much as I love hearing the laughter and jabbering.

Keira is asleep in front of me. Sevi is asleep in her bed. Juls went with Daddy to the office to get some work done. So what did I do with myself? I took a nice long hot shower. So nice to not worry what the children are doing while I am showering or to wonder if Keira has woken up. I had her in the bathroom with me so I could see her. She slept right through it.

Now I get a minute to check up on the computer before I have to start packing. We are taking our first official family vacation as a family of 5 (6 if you count my nephew we are taking to help out). I am very excited. My husband is very hesitant. Juls is beside herself with anticipation of what a vacation really is. And Sevi is excited because Julia seems to be excited about something. What she has no idea, but if Julia is excited, it must be good.

Keira is sleeping through the night now. No pacifier and no nursing. It just happened. We did nothing. She has actually been a much better sleeper since her stint in the hospital. I guess having nurses and doctors coming in and poking and prodding you for 5 days straight gets you use to sleeping through anything. She did become addicted to the pacifier while we were there. It was one of the only things other then nursing (when we got to do that again) that would settle her. This is a first for us. Neither of the other girls were paci girls or thumb suckers. But Keira has given it up during the night, so maybe she will turn out to be like her sisters after all. And I want to mention (brag time) that she is rolling over from tummy to back. Woohoo!!! I think a lot of that has to do with her big noggin and just leaning it one way or the other, but it works for her and I am proud of her.


Ah speaking of her sisters. I will have to introduce you to them. Probably a little slowly. Too much of them at one time might overwhelm you. Julia is very gifted in the way of speech. And Sevi is gifted in her motor skills. It is amazing how two sisters can be so completely different. Most days I love it. Other days it keeps me on my toes. I can't wait to see how Keira is. How she will be even more different then them. When she finds her own little personality.


A new cyber friend of mine lost her daughter (I will post more on this later as I have a lot to say) recently and it has made me appreciate my girls so much more. To laugh at their quirks instead of getting frustrated (although Sevi had me almost to my breaking point this week, pictures to follow). To slow down and listen to them more instead of rushing them so we can get whatever it is we are doing done. It is sad that it has taken the death of such a spirited little girl for me to see this, but I am glad something good is coming of her death. I just hope as the time passes I don't forget again and get caught up in life and start rushing again. Hannah, thank you for reminding me how important experiencing life is and to slow down and enjoy every Lily, Frog, or Star that we see.


A few days have passed and I can laugh at this. I admit at the time I had finally hit a boiling point. This is just one of the hundreds of things Sevi has done. So I guess you could call it the straw that broke this camels back. I was in tears and so tired. Sevi is a good kid. She is not mean or malicious in anyway. She is very loving and one of the cutest little babes I know. She is just very energetic, persistent, and spirited. Did I mention curious? Very very curious...

She just want to know how things work. What is inside of the bottles, jars, containers. And then she wants to see what they smell like, taste like, what she can do with whatever it is she finds.

Told ya she was cute. How can you get mad at that face? Well, after seeing this for the hundredth time, you can get tired of it and frustrated. And then having to constantly clean up after her is also very tiring.

One of these days I will tell you about our home. I am seriously locked out of everything in our house. If anyone was to come to our house to visit that didn't know my child, they would think we were either overly protective or that they needed to cal CPS on us because of all the locks and childproofing we have around here. But sadly it is just the opposite. We have everything locked to keep our children (Sevi, LOL) safe.

You will be hearing many more of these stories about Sevina along with photos, I'm sure. And then I will have plenty of "You will not believe what Julia said" stories coming. And hopefully lots of brags on Keira as she grows and reach milestones.