Thank goodness!

I never thought I'd be so happy to see school start up again. I wasn't looking forward to the early mornings again, but boy was I happy to kiss them goodbye this morning. Don't get me wrong - I love my kids and love spending time with them. But between the excitement of the holidays and welcoming their new brother and then the boring week that followed, they've had a bit of cabin fever. In years past, we'd solve that problem by letting them run around the park until they had burned all that extra energy, but this year it's been too cold to take the little one out for that long, so I'm sure the girls were beginning to feel like caged animals. Which meant they started acting like them too. I never knew there was so much to fight about, but my girls figured out there was. (and I'm sure my parents are laughing at this right now - because Chris and I were never like that, right? ;) )

So they happily went back to school to see their friends and play to their hearts' content. And we missed eachother, so we were all refreshed and happy to see eachother at pick up. And best of all, they're so exhausted from it, all three of my kids are napping right now!

Knock knock

Why oh why did I ever teach my kids about knock-knock jokes? I did it once to make Samantha laugh and they have turned it into a whole new game. The only problem - they don't really get the art of the knock-knock joke. Do you remember the old one from grade school that goes like this:
"knock-knock"
"who's there?"
"banana"
"banana who?"
"knock-knock"
"who's there?"
"banana"
"banana who?"
etc
"knock-knock"
"who's there?"
"orange"
"orange who?"
"orange you glad I didn't say banana?"

So this is the one I told Samantha..and has been retold to Alexandra. But they don't get that the funny part of this is "orange you glad I didn't say banana". So their jokes go something like this:
"knock-knock"
"who's there?"
"candy cane"
"candy cane who?"
"aren't you glad I didn't say plate?"
followed by endless giggles from them. Who knew all you had to do to make a knock-knock joke funny was pick random items you see around the house? And they go on like this FOREVER!

.....but there is nothing sweeter than listening to them laugh, so I'll continue to listen to their jokes and pretend to find it as funny as they do.

Having a bad day??

Then this should make it better! I don't care if it's gas or not, I still think it's the most precious thing in the world.

He rolled over!

I've been meaning to post this for awhile, but Jonathan rolled from tummy to back at 8 days old! At first I thought it was a fluke, but he's done it quite a few times since then. Can somebody please send him the memo that he's not allowed to grow up? It's so funny, with your first all you want is for them to hit these milestones, but by your third (and probably last) you want them to wait.

Christmas Pictures

Life with a newborn has kept us busy, but blissfully happy. Luckily for us Jonathan is proving to be a very easy baby! *knock on wood* My mom wanted family Christmas pictures done, so we all headed to Sears yesterday to do that. She was nice enough to allow us to have some taken of our immidiate family and I'm so happy with the way they turned out. We are truly blessed this Christmas.

Introducing

Baby Jonathan!

Born December 4, 2008, 8:00am
9lbs 5oz, 21 inches long

We are home and doing great and loving life with our new son! The girls are totally in love with him! Hopefully I'll be able to blog more soon, but since we just got home, I'm going to go enjoy some time with my new family.

The Magic of Christmas

I'm normally one of those people who complains that Christmas comes too early. Who am I kidding, I'm still that way this year. Add to it the fact that I am hugely pregnant and have a miserable cold -- I'm sure I was beginning to look a lot like the grinch.

Nacho decided that we should put our tree up this past weekend just to make sure we actually got it up since the arrival of this new one will undoubtedly throw any plans out the window. We would like to keep things as normal for the girls as possible since their world is about to be turned upside down and decorating the tree is something they love...and it's important to me that we all do it together. I personally thought it was a bit early to be putting it up, even if Thanksgiving is later this year, until we went to the mall on Saturday and Santa was already there. If Santa has arrived, then the tree is fair game!

When we got home from school yesterday, Lexi ran into our house, looked at the tree and started yelling "Christmas is here! Christmas is here!" She begged me to turn the lights on, which I was happy to oblige. Both girls sat there and stared at the tree, talked about who's ornaments were who's, played with these musical present boxes they have...for an entire 30 minutes! They didn't care there are no presents under the tree yet or that we're not doing any other decorations this year. They are totally taken with our tree. When I look at it through their eyes, it's not so bad that Christmas comes earlier each year.

On a funny note, we may have confused Lexi a little bit. Way back when we found I was pregnant we told them that the baby would come after we put our tree up, trying to give them a general frame of reference. I didn't realize she was taking things so literal already because yesterday morning when she got up she asked me if it was time to have the baby now since we put our tree up. All I could tell her was I sure hope so!