My support team:
Tired Hubby
Mom Nina
My mom CharlenePlus an AMAZING midwife Claudia and a wonderful nurse.
Hanging out (in my sexy attire!)
More hanging out with balls and my "purse" (monitors)
Baby Maren looking around, just minutes in the world!
Sunggles from Daddy
The girls and I.
A very excited brother
A very happy sister (also a curious about what was going on!)
Kisses for baby
Maren Rachelle Andersen
Cute sleeper
Ready to go home! They are so little in their carseats!
Also, any advice about how to handle 3 kids is awesome! :) I'm feeling a tad bit overwhelmed. Any hints, suggestions or tricks would be awesome. Or just that saying that you do survive 3 kids. I'm taking a day at a time but I have had wonderful help from parents, sister-in-law, and neighbors. It is hard work being a mom! It truly takes a village to raise kids.
Also, any advice about how to handle 3 kids is awesome! :) I'm feeling a tad bit overwhelmed. Any hints, suggestions or tricks would be awesome. Or just that saying that you do survive 3 kids. I'm taking a day at a time but I have had wonderful help from parents, sister-in-law, and neighbors. It is hard work being a mom! It truly takes a village to raise kids.
Baby looks wonderful, and you look great too! Thanks for posting the pics, I was feeling a bit left out. Call me when you have a chance because I'm a bit nervous calling you because I don't want to interrupt any chance of rest you or the baby might be getting! I think of you every day! Miss you guys.
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congratulations! She is adorable. I wish I had advice on how to handle 3 kids, but I am trying to figure out how to handle 2 kids. I am glad you are doing good.
ReplyDeleteSHE IS SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!! I'm so excited to hear the birth story. :)
ReplyDeletecongrats on another beautiful baby! hope you are feeling/sleeping well!
ReplyDeleteShe's beautiful Alicia! I hope things are going ok! I will have to get your adress so we can come and disturb your happy, quiet home. :) don't worry about the 3 kids thing... YOU can DO it! :) I used to cherish naps for my own sleep time, now i love them for my own time. I'm sorry that you'll have to load everyone up to go to school everyday, that has to be one of th hardest things with 3 is getting them all ready and going some where before someone is poopy, sad or undressed! LOL yesterday i had a 3 kid experiance, Eric had been asked to bless the sacrament, Jacob is potty training, and was in "BIG boy underpants". soon after the first prayer was said mackenzie smelled pretty stinky, right after we received the bread Jacob annonced that he had to go potty (I have litterally seconds to get to the bathroom) knowing that with three kids in tow, and trying to be reverent, we will never make it down the hall, i just sit and hope the sacrment passers hurry along, before the water arrived our bench area was smelling pretty bad! Just then Olivia leans over, "mom, I have to got potty" with one diaper to change, one entire wardrobe to change and another one seeming to be immenent, i gathered our things and as Eric came to sit down with us, i handed him the baby, grabed the diaper bag and Jacob and headed home to get my kids bathed and dressed AGAIN. ") So life goes on... haveing three kids makes every moment an adventure. Try and find the humor and and laugh alot, or else you'll cry alot. :) I don't remember if it was you that told me this but somwhere i heard or read, sister Hinkley being quoted as saying "I usually have a choice to laugh or cry, crying gives me a head ache so i laugh" somthing like that anyway. Good luck, if you need help give me a call. i know you'll be thinking "she can't really help she has three kids" but sometimes just haveing some change, in routine or someone to talk to can help. ok so we'll have a zoo. LOL good luck, welcome to life as a mother of three!
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