The days are long but the years are short

I can't believe how time has flown. I mean, I feel like this has been the biggest whirlwind!

Now Eli is 7 months and one week old and he's doing amazingly well. He's just begun sitting up by himself. (still unstable, but he can do it) and he's gained 3 whole pounds! Yesterday he was weighed and he was 14 pounds.
Emma's last day of school is tomorrow and we are so excited to have a break from activity. This month -in addition to caring for a new baby-the girls both have or have had ballet recitals (with two different studios, which means 2 different rehearsal schedules), my piano students' recital, my children's choir musical, audrey's had her birthday and party and all of the end of school festivities that go along with having a 1st grader at Perimeter School. We are really wiped out but like I said, we plan to do a lot of sleeping and relaxing this summer.

I have to tell a really funny story....this is about me, not my kids......I've been taking Zyrtec for my allergies but for a couple of days this week, I was really sneezing more than usual even though I had been taking my allergy medicine. And yesterday I woke up with serious stomach troubles....I'll leave it at that. I was beginning to feel sorry for myself for my stomach hurting so much and sneezing constantly.....so I walked up the stairs into our bathroom to take my Zyrtec and when I was about to pop the little pill out of the foil I looked down and read, "Immodium AD"!!!!!!!! Not Zyrtec, but the Immodium that LOOKS much like Zyrtec that had been sitting on our counter b/c we've STILL not unpacked our toiletries from Ethiopia. I guess I just grabbed all those pills and stuffed them in the Zyrtec box......so today I'm starting to feel better, thanks.

People have been asking what life is like with 4 kids....so far (remember he isn't walking yet) it's kind of like I thought it would be or maybe a little easier. When Caleb was born, audrey was 15 months and Emma had turned 3 two weeks before. I attached this picture to give you a visual picture. I specifically remember sitting at northpoint mall in the preschool playground area. I was breastfeeding Caleb on the bench-because it had to be done....what was I going to do, make all the kids sit in the bathroom with me? :) -- at the same time, Audrey toddles off out over toward Aunt Annie's Pretzels or the escalator while Emma pees on the floor. THAT was hard. I thought of that horrible time (which somehow now is funny) today when I was feeding Eli (a bottle, in case you wondered) at Target. The 3 other kids just sort of stood around and drank Horizon vanilla milk until I was done. It was amazing. The hardest thing right now is that he's not sleeping all the way through the night so we're tired...this too will pass. And the extra laundry. Forgot that.

"The days are long, but the years are short."