Jimmy * Esther * Zeke * Lilly

Our recent happenings include-

More Jungle Jim’s! Jimmy took Zeke and Lilly to Junlge Jim’s again because they loved it so much!

Xander and I stay home from some outings like on Saturday night, my brother’s band made it to the statewide battle of the bands, and Jimmy took Zeke and Lilly. Lilly absolutely loved it! Jimmy said she screamed, and cheered, and cried almost the whole drive home because she didn’t want to leave after an hour and a half, but Zeke was done :)

Lilly went swimming in her room! She got in her swim diaper, and swim suit, and Jimmy found her in her room like this. She took her doll bathtub and turned it into her very own pool :)

My kids love to feed their baby brother, and now that I’m no longer breastfeeding at all, they get more opportunities to help. Long story short, I got the prescription to increase my milk, but didn’t feel right about taking it, so I didn’t and my milk dwindled so much that Xander was frustrated every feeding because he wasn’t getting much, so for a week now he’s been totally on formula.

I have to always stay close by my little helpers. The other day I heard Xander crying, and I went into my bedroom and found Lilly trying to pull him out over the edge of his bassinet by his head, poor guy. Zeke and Lilly love to kiss, pet, hold, and snuggle Xander all throughout the day. Sometimes he gets loved a little too hard, but I’m happy they love their brother :) He is patient with them, just like baby Lilly was so patient with Zeke, (that is until she turned about 2).

I love to hold our sweet little boy as much as I can. The newborn stage is one of my favorite stages!

We got this cool wrap as a gift, and it’s so comfortable. I can make lunch, do the laundry, play barbies, and trains, all while Xander is snuggled up close. It’s the closest thing to feeling pregnant again, I love it!

I took Jimmy shopping before Xander was born and wanted him to pick out some clothes, he chose some cute ones. This one says “Mommy’s champ” :)

And last of all we’ve been working on starting to finish our yard, I’m very excited about that! Hopefully I’ll have some pictures of the progress soon.

Lilly accidentally found her Easter basket before I was awake last Saturday, Jimmy came running into our bedroom and said, “Lilly just found her basket!” :) So, we had her stage a few pictures pretending like she just found it-

It took Zeke a little longer, so I got to see him find his basket :)

The Easter Bunny brought Xander his favorite treats too!

My oldest sister, Adela. Later on Saturday we had an Easter picnic with my side of the family, and all of my parents 8 kids were here, not at the same time because Adela (who also has 8 kids, 5 boys and 3 girls just like my parents, but in a different order), had to leave before one of my brothers arrived, but still pretty cool my parents got to see all of their kids during the picnic.

My second sister, Shirley holding Xander during the picnic :) I love my sisters! Even though they are 12, and 10 years older than me, we are really close friends!

We had a wonderful Easter Sunday! My friend Brittany came to visit, (she lives in North Carolina, so I hadn’t seen her in 4 years). It was so fun! I wish I would have remembered to get a picture together before dropping her off at the airport at 10 at night. The picture Jimmy took at the airport on his phone didn’t turn out :/

We had a nice time at Jimmy’s parents’ on Easter evening. There was lots of cousins, good food, an egg hunt, finding more baskets, an egg roll that turned into an egg fight, and great family fun!

Tuesday was Jimmy’s birthday, we went on a date to the Cheesecake Factory in City Creek. Jimmy said it was the best cheesecake he’s had, and he ate the whole thing! The weather was so perfect, and it was so nice walking around the beautiful new City Creek center.

Our kids had their favorite babysitter, I think they are almost disappointed when we get home from dates when Jaclyn babysits :) This time we brought my leftover cheesecake home so that helped! We put more candles on it and they blew them out after singing happy birthday to daddy :)

Xander had his first home bath last week, he really liked it!

I love that sweet little face :)