A Day in Pictures

So I have seen people do this before & I always think it is so fun! Don’t you ever wonder what someone really does all day??? I know I do :0)

Anyways I picked what I thought would be a pretty typical Monday for us. I have always fought the urge to do this on a day where we go to the Zoo or something so it looks like we do fun stuff, but this is just a normal Monday, or what I thought would be. As you will see “normal” for a parent really is never normal, a day never really turns out how you thought, so this is actually a pretty good example!

12:30 AM — This would be the first time Dom woke up…Screamed until 1:30 sigh…

Now if I was awake enough I would have taken a picture at 2:30 am when he woke up again..But I was too tired! So missing picture 2:30 AM

6:00 AM — Here he woke up and had a bottle

7:00 AM — Kids are up and watching cartoons

8:00 AM — Kids are getting ready for the day, Oliver leaves for school at 8:30

9:00 AM — On our way to the Gym!

10:30 AM — At the bank, cash for our food budget & suckers :0)

11:15 AM — Checking out at Aldi, the food in the picture isn’t mine… :0) In between the bank & Aldi we had to make a pit stop at Verizon, my phone randomly stopped being able to make texts or call..It was fixed

Noon — Lunch time!

1:00 PM — Kids are napping & I sit down to eat some lunch and check out facebook & some blogs I follow

2:00 PM — Consisted of me taking a nap & laundry

3:00 PM — These are the clothes Gia soaked with pee..notice the previous picture, I had JUST done laundry…

4:00 PM — Oliver coloring he does this ALL the time

5:00 PM — Impromptu trip to the doctors office, Dominic had some sores on his hand that I just didn’t think seemed normal. (The apt. was at 4:30, we got seen at 5:20, sigh..)

6:00 PM — Still at the doctors, they had to culture the sores, he has a Staph infection possibly MRSA, still waiting to hear!

7:00 PM — Finally eating dinner, McDonalds it was tonight! Before I left the Docs office I sent them to get the prescription & then they got some dinner. (we normally eat at 5:30)

8:00 PM — Bedtime!!!!

9:00 PM — watching the Olympics and having some wine :0)

10:30 — Bed time!! (and Dom slept thru the night woke up at 6 for his bottle!!)

Hope you enjoyed!!!

Dominic is 5 months

Quick update: Life is good. Life is busy.

Oliver (4) is in PreSchool and goes Monday & Wednesday 8:30-11:30 (He loves it!) he is also in Speech (Tuesdays 9-9:45) He loves that as well. He loves to color, craft, build w/ blocks & legos & do puzzles.

Gia (2.5) looks forward to CBS (Community Bible Study) each week & can’t wait to start pre-school someday! She is busy learning to count & helping mommy do all sorts of mommy things. She currently is into playing with her babies…She has named her Dora baby “Alfred” I have no idea where that came from!

Dominic (5 mos) is the happiest baby around! He literally hardly ever cries unless he is hungry or tired. We started feeding him baby food last week and it has been a real challenge…Today was the first real successful day & it might be because I let him have banana’s instead of sweet potatoes :0)

Dusty is busy with work & still trying to finish that basement (3 kids 4 and under has proven to make this difficult!)

I am busy with the kids, taking them places, caring for them & etc. I look forward to 8:30 when the kids have been in bed for 30 min. and I can just sit and breathe! I am also learning to lean more and more on Jesus as I can’t do it on my own. Being a Mom is hard work & trust in Jesus to give me grace upon grace & more & more wisdom to raise each of my children in the way that best suits them & qualities (and challenges)

Hopefully I can try to keep up more, but we shall see!

Here are some pictures of Dominic I took today…The others joined in also! I tried my best…I was sitting in the living room as the light was coming in and I thought oh perfect! unfortunately I didn’t have him dressed in what I would have otherwise & same with Oliver & Gia…They were in their comfy-cozy clothes & had not been cleaned up after lunch..Oh well :0)

Here we go…

ALmost…

he had just gotten done with lunch (pb&j)

Mommies little helper