Baby is 3 Weeks Old!

Its really weird as I type that our daughter is 3 weeks old!  It feels as though she's lived with us for a lot longer!  I look at family pictures we have and wish that she had been in those shots!  She is just such a joy- even when she's screaming- and our family just adores her!  The brother continue to love on her...so much that its getting ridiculous!  HAHA! I can't even sit down to nurse her without 3 boys coming to sit next to me to "hug her" or "hold her" or "kiss her".  Its like "Geesh! Boys!  Calm down!  She's not going anywhere"  But I am thankful for no jealousy or anger over Mama spending so much time caring for their sister!

Our darling daughter also had her first bath during this past week!  Her cord fell off on Thursday after her doctor's visit.  Not sure she exactly enjoyed her first bath.  I think she was trying to figure out what was going on.  She'd scream a bit and then settle down.  Hubbie did the washing so that I could capture the moment.  The boys thought it was pretty cool that sister was getting a bath!  After getting all clean, her hair looked a bit lighter and was so soft!  It had gotten a bit greasy from all the kisses and loving she has been getting!!!

I was able to get a quick little outfit made for Baby Girl the past few nights!  I gotta say, between house work, nursing around the clock, diaper changes, occupying the boys and so much more, sewing doesn't always seem possible!  Especially when any free time I have, I try to sleep!  But I was able to finally get a little onesie dress with a matching hair-do-dad made.  I had seen this tutorial before our precious one was born, but I had lost the tutorial and then never had the energy to find it or work on the another project!  

Don't you just love those cheeks!!!  

Anyway, the onesie dress was super simple so I decided to add a little pinwheel accessory to the dress and then a hair do-dad!  I love her ensemble!!!  The colors are so summery and fun too!  

Baby Girl had her first "over night" trip to her grandparents house, with me and her brothers, of course.  Our A/C went out on Thursday evening so we quickly gathered our stuff and went to sleep at Nana and Pops' house.  Hubbie stayed at our house to await on the A/C man that was suppose to be at our home first thing in the morning.  Around 5pm, the A/C tech finally showed up, took about 20 mins to replace the part and then left.  We were so thankful for A/C and to be home AND for our home warranty.  Baby Girl definitely knew she was in a new place.  She was very alert and looked around the room with a wide-eyed wonder look.

And no update about Baby Girl would be complete without a picture or two of her adoring brothers!  :o)  What a crew they are!  They exhaust us.  They try every bit of patience that we can muster.  The younger boys have a love/hate relationship that I am thinking will eventually make them to be inseparable, but for the time being, it just adds more chaos to our daily lives.  These boys make us count our blessings and wish we were on vacation....far, far away from them!  All at the same time!!!   We did a video of Baby Girl's first bath and in the background, you can hear the three boys running laps in our house- screaming and laughing and making "race car noises" at the TOP of their lungs!  When they are playing like this, in the house, you can hear them outside of the house, by the road!  They are THAT loud!!!  When I say our days are filled with chaos and noise, those aren't even the right words for the noise level and confusion!!  :o)  But, like I said, they fill us with joy and gratitude and thankfulness!  To me, we have the most beautiful and perfect family- not that we're perfect- but its just perfect for us and I love it!  Just Heaven help us keep some bit of sanity and peace while we try to endure these days of such active little ones!