munchkin

for the past month we have had an extra child with us 5 days a week for about 8 1/2 hours each day. she's just become a part of the family. the older kids love her and even hours after she leaves they'll ask where she is and when is coming back. Sweets is impartial....she's fine with her as long as i'm not holding her. Sweets loves her momma and doesn't like to share but she'll get use to it, it's already gotten better.

when i first agreed to this arrangement it seemed fairly easy, just adding another baby to the mix....not too hard right? WRONG!!!! well the first few weeks were HARD but now things are going much better. i think we've all just had to get use to the new situation. we've finally got a system down and those who have multiple babies out there...i applaud you and often wonder how you do it 24/7.

our new baby (who we will now refer to as Munchkin) is 6 months younger than Sweets. not only is younger than Sweets but she is WAY smaller than her too. see for yourself

it cracks me up to see the two of them together because Sweets is just GY-NORMOUS and Munchkin is just so....well a little munchkin (tiny). she's almost 5 months old and still wears size 1 diapers. and size 0-3 month clothing.

the other day i ventured out with Sassafrass, Sweets, & Munchkin to Cost-co (going out with the three of them isn't as bad as thought it would be). i was stopped by not 1, not 2, not even 3, but 4 yes you heard me 4 old ladies who thought they needed to tell me "WOW!!! you've sure got your hands full" or "You've been busy haven't you". i quickly let them know that they weren't all my mine and physically I couldn't not have had the two babies. they looked astounded when i told them that the babies are only 6 months apart. one of the ladies told me that they thought Sassafrass was 2 1/2, Sweets was 18 months and Munchkin was 2 or 3 months old. i just thought to myself if these girls were really those ages shoot me now cause i would be CR-AAA_ZY to have 3 kids that close in age. some people can do it but not me.

i've gotten use to having two babies but Munchkin has been a blessing in disguise in the fact that she has made Jared and I realize that 3 kids is good. we feel complete with our little family of 5. having 4 kids in this family will only happen 5 days a week when Munchkin comes to hang out with us.