Hot days, Hot nights

My girls are exhausted. I ran them hard today.

This morning I could hardly wake Abby up she was sleeping so hard. I practically had to pry her from her crib. I wish I would have been able to let her sleep. Funny how they always sleep so nice when you have somewhere to go.

But she was excited once she learned we were going to play with her good friend from church at a park. And play we did for quite awhile. At 9:30am this morning it was 86 and HUMID. By the time we left it was 90. But Abby had a lot of fun and K&K did so good. Her church buddy is one of her best friends and she often asks me when we are going to go play with her. We went back to their house but it turned out they had swimming lessons to get to. They graciously offered their house to us while they were gone but Abby didn't feel good and that usually means getting into everything and I didn't want to wreck their house. So we left pretty quickly after they did.

It's a lot of work packing up three girls alone... several times.

So without much to do and the girls already tired of parks and strollers we drove to the children's clinic. Why? Abby was sobbing that her ears hurt so I told her we would go to the doctor to get medicine. That seemed to make her feel better. (I had already made an appointment for 1pm and it was noon so I was trying to make time go faster) She played in the fountains outside the clinic, I got her changed and we headed in. 

We sat... in that clinic... for an hour.

Me alone... with 2 babies and a toddler.

And the doctor spent 10 minuets with us.

It's my own fault. I keep forgetting to change doctors and keep thinking that it's going to change the next time we are in and it will be better. It wouldn't have been so bad except that I know we were the first ones there, for the first opening after lunch. They shouldn't have been running so late and if something came up they should have checked on me. Abby was tired, in pain and the babies were getting bored. I was so frustrated and still am a little. (If you couldn't tell) BUT enough of that. It's done with and the good thing is at least we got something that will HOPEFULLY help Abby feel better. I've been giving her a lot of Tylenol so that she is more comfortable. I had suspected something might be off with how much more difficult things had been lately. I was right! You would think I would learn faster...

By the time we got home we were hot, and exhausted. Kara and Abby went down without too much crying and Kiley eventually did too. So I took a nap too. It helped. 

Abby pointing at a car yesterday: "It's a white van, for people to drive" ... amazing what she says anymore. She has started creating her own sentences instead of mimicking ours as much. Her pretend play is awesome and I love to watch it. I can't wait until she can 'imagine' with me when we play. 

Kiley loves to talk talk talk talk. Kara is quieter but I doubt it will be long before she is jabbering away too. Hard to believe how quickly they are growing up!

My dad and brother fixed the AC in our van. THANK YOU! We were roasting in this heat....makes for good swimming weather though if we can avoid the bugs...

Humid!

Hot hot hot hot hot

My van has no air conditioning. It is incredibly miserable to be driving around with three kids in a minivan with no  AC and it's 86 and the humidity is in the 70's. I need to get that fixed soon!

We had a busy day... played outside on the swings for awhile again. Abby loved the game where I would dart out of her path just before her swing hit me. She was laughing and laughing....

Kiley and Kara woke up soon after and we all got into the van, put the checks in the bank (finally) and went looking for a park. We found one... near the zoo with big shade trees and an easy place to park (which is important to me!) turned out to be a good choice because I found one of my nurse friends there and I got to see her new baby :)

Abby loved all the kids but of course there were like 50 of them... and they were dressed in white t-shirts and blue jean shorts... and guess what Abby was dressed in... yep... white shirt and blue jeans. Come on... how often do I REALLY dress her in something like that? I love bright pinks, oranges and yellows. That was a nightmare trying to keep track of her. I almost panicked a few times and thankfully the kids didn't stick around too long. Keeping track of three little kids is hard alone.

(I ran over her duck with the van today... amazingly it didnt hurt it.. thankfully because Abby loves it)

We came home for Abby's nap and she was out fast... it was hot and humid out so she was tired. For some reason she thought that my mom would be here when she got back. She was really sad that Grandma wasn't here.

So we went swimming after her nap at the city pool (not our city pool... I wish we had one...) We swam for around an hour and a half with all of the kids. Abby sure loves the water! I have to admit it was a lot of fun to splash around even if it was pretty hot.

(Kiley Swimming)

(Kara slept for awhile before swimming... she was out)

Well Abby is crying and awake for the third time tonight already. I gave her some Tylenol but she is still crying. I think I need to go. Hopefully she isn't sick... maybe I need to take her in...

Summer Afternoons

Wow it's quiet... finally.

There are days I wonder how many times I put kids to sleep... and feed them. It seems my primary function in life right now is to make sure everyone is clean, fed and well rested. And that is harder than it may seem at first glance.


So how do I do it. I have no idea. I keep hearing that it gets easier as they get older but I'm not sure that is really true. Kiley and Kara almost need me more than ever now... and Abby too. Now they demand play time, snuggle time and they are getting into EVERYTHING. I feel like I heard children or try to contain a little of the madness. My house certainly doesn't look perfect. Believe me I've tried to get things under control but it is a simple miracle if I can get those loads of laundry done and dishes. Especially now that Kiley and Kara love to help me unload the dishwasher! I try to grab the steak knives out as soon as I open it... for safety purposes of course.

Tom and I went out on a date last night. Thank you to my incredible mom for allowing us to catch the late night movie and grab a bite to eat. Tom got called to help fix a tower just as we were going to go so that made it impossible to get to the earlier time.

It was great having a little alone time with my husband. Three years! Our years of marriage finally match the number of kids that we have :o) We went to Spezia and enjoyed a slightly European style of dining. (reminded me of Europe at least) then we hit up the Cheap Theater but played at the Rainbow Arcade until our movie started. Wow that was fun. Tom hit the jackpot and I won a "Let's make a Deal" game and we ended up with like 787 tickets. So Tom bought a coconut monkey... which might not have been that funny except that it had to come with us to the movie and everyone was asking us questions about it. Perhaps we should have told a more elaborate tale. The AC was out in our theater and it got quite hot but I really enjoyed watching Robin Hood. I'm into movies right now.

(Kara)

Kara is now crawling on all fours... when it suits her. She still likes to army crawl a lot. Kiley was soooo hard to get to take naps today. She really fought me and only took 2 very short cat naps. That was a little frustrating. We went on a walk to deliver the water bill, mail a few cds at the post office and then stopped to get some juice for Abby since she had been so good while we ran the errands. It was HOT by the time we got home and Abby was getting cranky but she loved her bug juice.

(Kiley looking down)

We played on the swings and the new baby swing (finally!) Abby loves to 'fly'. We made cookies too. yum.

Kiley is really giggly and loves to laugh. She also makes a beeline for the bathroom when she hears water. I think she is going to be my little fish. Today when I gave Abby a bath she was actually trying to lift her leg and get into the tub! I finally decided she could take a bath with Abby and she splashed and splashed.

I'm hoping that Abby isn't getting pink eye. Her eye was mattered shut when I got her up from her nap this afternoon. Wouldn't that just be nice. I'm sure we would all end up with it! We share things too much here. We went to Walmart the other day and wow did we get mobbed by people. They thought our girls were so beautiful... and that we were so busy. Yes... yes we are busy... very very busy. But I wouldn't have it any other way.