Life with three

Life with three is busy and fun. There is never a dull moment. I think three kids is my max mentally though. I feel like I am always so tired. The kids are starting to be more fun as they are getting older and less needy. As Annie gets older, she gets more and more fun too. 

Annie and her apple eating. 

Ever since Lilah was born, Mike and I have always worked opposites. I used to work nights while he worked weekdays and now I work weekends while he works weekdays. It feels like I'm just barely keeping my nose above water. But everyone always says to enjoy these days so I try. I try to squeeze in the fun between picking up dirty underwear off the floor and cleaning pee off the toilet. I hope one of these days my kids can be more helpful so I can have more time to play. 

Mike usually takes the kids somewhere fun on the weekends. He doesn't help me clean so I feel like I start the week off already behind, but atleast I am glad the kids have fun with him. 

I'm always sending him fun things to do. This day I told him to take the kiddos to the home depot. I don't know how he does it. Sometimes I get overwhelmed with their bickering in public. But, he makes it look easy. 

The other day Mike got called into work on a Sunday. It's usually my only day to semi relax but he's been getting called in alot lately. I was proud of myself for getting the kids to church on time. 

Not only were we on time, but we've been going to the deaf church so often that I forgot church starting at 1030 and not 10am like I thought. 

The other ward was going primary so I just had the kids go into one of the classes haha! They had an extra Sunday school lesson. 

Annie is still adjusting to taking naps in her crib. She will cry and then just plop down in sitting position. It doesn't look comfortable but when I try to roll her on to her back, she always wakes up. 

Lilah has been enojying dressing herself more lately. I try to let her be independent and will just close my eyes to her crazy outfits. Once in a while it's just a little too crazy and she'll begrudgingly change. 

Annie and her odd sleeping positions. 

Lilah practicing her speech sounds. Her speech therapist told her to look down when she is saying her K and G so here she is practicing. She is 6 years old and has most letters down except for the K and G. Those two seem to give her trouble. 

The kids love to play outside. I love watching them play together in the backyard. That's until Lilah starts screaming at the top of her lungs for no reason and yelling at David to do what she wants. And then the fun is over. 

I love my baby Annie. I'm definitely enjoying her being my last baby. 

Her cuddles are the best. 

We are working on having Annie wear her hearing aids. She is doing ok. She usually rips them off, takes them apart and chews on the ear molds. She gives me a good scare every day when I can't find her $3000 tiny hearing aids. 

Annie is not walking yet. But, she loves scooting around in her bum. 

David having fun at the library. We love the library so much. I'm going to be so sad when he goes to TK next year. I am definitely going to miss him! 

I put Annie on my bed since she was refusing a nap in her crib but then found her like this. I think we'll go back to crying in the crib. 

My sweet neighbor brought me mole! She is so sweet and I am so lucky to live next to such a nice person. 

I detailed the inside of my car and washed the carpets and everything. I put my car inside the garage with the doors open to let it dry, only to find my hairy, shedding dogs inside taking a nap. 

I swear, if it's not my kids, it's my dogs. I just can't catch a break. 

Lilah helping me make cinammon rolls.

Annie being naughty. She sure is cute! 

Trying to relax on the couch.

Annie loves going up and down the stairs. 

Good morning Annie. 

I had the kids do a sensory activity. Oh man, there was flour EVERYWHERE. That definitely backfired. But they looked cute for 5 whole minutes. 

I always draw a little picture and put it in Lilah's lunch. Here she was making a picture for me in return. 

I love my kiddos. I wished they would never fight. Maybe if I had one wish in my entire lifetime, it would be for them to be best friends and not fight. 

Good morning! 

My favorite breakfast. 

Annie enjoying library time. 

My friend put on this cute Leprochaun activity for our little friend's group. 

The kids enjoyed looking for treats. 

David enjoying his treasures. 

David wanted to make green jello. 

One of my kids destroyed my new table. One day I will be able to have nice things.

Annie snoozing in church. 

We have been going to the deaf church but it's SO stressful. Most people are deaf but about half are hard of hearing and my kids are SO loud. They are the only little kids there and everyone is older and will kindly ask them to be quiet or they will wave their finger at them when they are fighting. It is so embarrassing when David will hit Lilah in the middle of Sacrament and then Lilah was make a face at him and David will throw a full tantrum in the middle of Sacrament. Church is so stressful with kids. 

Since primary is so small, I volunteered to teach the younger class. The kids were so hyper and it was so hard but I think they had fun. My kids were my worst behaved as always. 

This month we also got to attend a baptism. Sarah is deaf. She is from Brazil and visiting her sister and has been helping me so much with my kids. 

I have learned so much ASL from her and she has taught me so much. I sure am going to miss her. And my kids really fell in love with her too. 

Solo Costco trip with Lilah. 

I also got to go to Jury Duty for the first time ever this year. I was there for 3 days until the judge let me go because I told him I didn't have a sitter. I got a whopping $15 dollars for my service. 

Annie loves dinner time. 

Annie keeps growing and growing like a weed. 

We love playdates with our little friend Freddy. I'm so grateful my kids have such great friends. 

We've also been attending a friend group for church and my kids love hanging out with their church friends. 

I love when Mike sends me pictures of the kids while I'm at work. 

My cute students always get me something on the last day of clinical. I'm going to enjoy my presents. 

The kids doing activities reverently at church before they started fighting. 

We were the only kids in primary this day. It was so nice. It's really hard to keep kids' attention when my ASL is not that great. It's hard enough as it is when I use my voice to keep their attention. 

My kids enjoyed my Sunday school lesson of playing seeds like planting Faith. 

Lilah's beautiful hair. Sometimes I worry girls will be mean to her when she is bigger because of how pretty she is. I know they'll probably be jealous of her beautiful hair and eyes. 

Mornings with my littles. 

Library time 

I asked Lilah to take a picture next to the beautiful flowers after Speech Therapy. Some days she can be so stubborn and rude to the speech therapists. I pay a baby sitter so I can go with her and have 1:1 time but when she acts like that, I just want to hide under a rock. 

At least she's cute. 

I love her poses. She is so sassy. 

The missionaries came to our house and the kids were paying 0 attention to them. I felt so bad. I can't imagine being brave enough to be a missionary some day. 

Lilah ready for school pictures.

David had a reptile show at school. Turns out David is NOT a fan of reptiles, ha! 

He has been having so much fun at preschool this year. 

The kids always fall asleep right when I need to be somewhere. 

David has been in an "I'm going to throw a tantrum if you don't buy me this toy" phase. Going to the store with him used to be my favorite but it has definitely gotten harder. Taking a picture with his toy has definitely helped sometimes. 

Park day with friends. 

Annie getting her pants checked in the middle of dinner. So rude, daddy!