Growing Up

Emily: Emily started her first day of school this week. She officially started Tuesday, Monday was just an orientation day. She is doing really well so far, not too tired when she gets home and is doing well during school. I think she was really ready for preschool. We have her at the local elementary school and she is going five days a week from 8-11:30. It's gone smooth in the a.m. thanks to Mike dropping her off, it's a little hard to get her in with three kids. She is doing great as a big sister, she is super helpful, always getting me the things I need when I can't get up.

Allyson: Ally loves baby Rylee, what she doesn't love is mommy paying attention to Rylee! She's doing a lot better than expected but has started throwing screaming kicking tantrums. And bewitching hour is not 4-5 anymore, it's basically sunup to sundown. But in her defense we were very active pre-Rylee and now we've parked ourselves at home and sissy isn't around as a distraction as much. But overall she's doing great!

Rylee: Rylee is two weeks old today. She is a dream baby! She sleeps all day and pretty much all night, last night she slept uninterupted for 8.5 hours. She is so sweet and we are asked a lot about if all our girls had that much hair, I thought so but I guess not because no one really commented with them but they sure do with Rylee. I know it's probably the darkest so far, our girls seem to get darker hair each time. She had her 2 wk checkup today and is the smallest of our girls at that age. She weighed 8lbs even. Em was 8.4, Ally a huge 9! I think Rylee would have weighed less after her appt. though because she had a major diaper explosion when we got home, soaking her third blanket for the day! Rylee was also the only one to lose any weight at the beginning and it wasn't much! But since she is our last for SURE, sorry grandparents, I want her to stay small for a while. That's about it for Rylee, I'm sure with a newborn you can fill in the blanks with the rest of her life.

That's it on our girls for now, it's amazing how fast they grow up and how fast the years go by once you have more than one. If anyone figures out how to stop time let me know. These years are going by way too fast! Also, scroll down a little to hear about Rylee and Jackson, her first little friend!