Eisley is four months old!

Sweet little Eisley is four months old!!

She is so precious. We are absolutely soaking up every single moment with our tiny, happy girl. Eisley is the best little sleeper, the best little smiler and the best little spitter-upper out there. 😉

Eisley discovered her hands this month and they are constantly in her mouth, unless she has a pacifier in there. 😉 She loves to be held and loves to be right in the middle of the chaos – and there has been a lot of chaos this month to be a part of!

She nurses every 3ish hours and is sleeping all night! She’s amazing! She is still pretty small for her age and we are working on a few fine motor skills that she was slightly delayed in – but she’s catching up perfectly and she’s actually right on track as far as her gestational age. 🙂

We love love love our Little Miss and I just can’t believe how quickly four months has gone by!! I’m so thankful for her!

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Soaked :)

This one got a haircut this week. Finally. I swear, this kid can grow hair like it’s his super power. We joke that he’s our little Chia pet. 😉

We have spent almost every single day outside this week. We poured our life and heart into this yard, so we are spending as much time as possible out there before the big move!!

The boys asked if they could play with the water table after rest time and I at first said no, because it’s still not super warm out but then I changed my mind. Better use the yard while we can. 😉

I think they were shivering before they had hardly even been out there for three minutes.
Parker’s lips are blue by this point. I kept offering for them to come in and they kept turning me down while shaking uncontrollably. They looked so cute (and dorky – ha!) that I let them stay out just a few minutes longer. Then we hit the showers amidst screaming and gnashing of teeth. 😉
This little love. Bless her heart. We packed all the baby toys when we were preparing the house to sell and put them in a storage unit. We are so thankful that our dear friend Leigh Ann sent this little bunny to Eisley! Eisley LOVES her bunny and gets so excited when we pull it out. 😉 My girl is the master spitter-upper (she makes Nathan and Parker look like the minor leagues), so note the rag that my other dear friend Eryn made for Parker between her and the newly cleaned carpet. Thankful for friends. 😉

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The one where we all breathed into paper sacks

After the whirlwind of getting the house listed and selling it so quickly, we were a tiny bit in panic mode. So, I did what most mature adults who are on a tight deadline with three small children who just found out they were moving in forty-five days does…

We left it all behind and went to the zoo for the day. 🙂

These two were so thankful for it. They needed a fun day after the chaos that was their last week. We cleaned the floor right out from under them, so it was much needed to just walk around and look at the animals and sit in all the “secret hideouts” our little zoo has to offer.

Gammy came with us too!

Me and my babies. I never get a picture of myself with the kids where I’m not the one taking it! 😉 These three are troopers. So blessed to be their mama.

We got home and this little stinker was just SO excited for her bath and wanted it to come during rest time so badly that she just busted right out of her diaper so she could get it and some snuggle time with mama. 😉 I love snuggling with this girl any time of the day, but when she’s all clean and fuzzy-haired and smells like lavender and vanilla, I just could eat her up.

This little girl. Every single one of her pants fits her like this. Her legs are so short that the only “pants” that fit like they are supposed to are capris. 😉 At least pants keep her socks on! #shortgirlproblems

Time to start packing up!

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So it begins

This little pumpkin head is such a good sleeper. Especially in this season of insanity, we just absolutely are SO thankful for that!!!

I mean, I just could not love her more.

She convinced me to stop packing long enough to take a short nap with her one afternoon. I blame the cheeks for putting me slightly behind schedule. 😉

It POURED down rain at one of Nathan’s baseball games and the umpires decided that our little t-ballers were probably training for the major leagues and kept the game going. You can probably guess how all the mothers felt about this decision. 😉 Parker, Eisley and I camped out in the car during this game and I just poked my head out and cheered for Nathan whenever he came up to bat.

She was pretty content to just sleep and not get all wet.

Later that day, we went to a birthday party for this sweet girl who keeps getting older even though we as the Lunch Bunch Moms voted against all these kids growing up. Happy birthday, Julia! We love you much!

Eisley helped me make some wreaths to replace the pictures I had hanging around our house before we officially listed it. The first of what I hope are many days of crafting with my girl.

And then… The Day was here. And I cried.

It was time. It was beyond time. But oh, how I love this little house.

At 9AM, we had our first call from a realtor. I cleaned, vacuumed and dusted. Our house was pristine. We got two more calls that morning and by the evening, we had five different people come to look at it.

We did a lot of this that day. Driving around with Kody and all our laundry and personal items and kids and Sonic drinks.

And we did this. Because baseball season doesn’t care if you just listed your house. 😉

At 9PM that night, exactly twelve hours after we listed it, we got our fifth offer. And accepted one. Which meant…

Time to move. Insert the sad, happy, panicked tears!!

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The one where we all made huge life decisions

It was Saturday, it was kind of cloudy outside, all three of these people were crowded with Jon and I in the rocking chair corner of our room and we both looked at each other and knew.

The time had come.

We had talked about moving off and on for a couple of years. We actually almost put the house on the market when we found out we were pregnant with Parker, but decided to wait until the market had bounced back a little more. Then we redid the backyard and hoped to stay for a while longer. When Eisley came, though, we realized very quickly that our little house that felt huge when we first bought it as just the two of us had become pretty tight pretty quick.

Thankfully, we knew a good realtor. 😉 So, we decided to start the process.

My oldest and Type-A child immediately got to work drawing diagrams of how we could move bookshelves and where we could store them. 😉

In the meantime, there was still much to do! And look who flew all the way from California to watch her oldest nephew play baseball? 😉 At least, this is how Nathan told the story. 😉

Nathan LOVES playing catcher. He could play catcher all day. He loves catching, he loves being right in the action and he LOVES throwing his helmet off to catch a fly ball or a toss from a teammate. Jon may have shown him one too many MLB clips but he definitely keeps the crowd entertained. 😉

Parker loves to be doing exactly what Nathan is doing. Sitting on the bleachers is akin to SLOW, PAINFULLY LOUD DEATH when Nathan is on the field and Parker is not, but when Nathan is sitting on the bleachers? It’s AMAZING and he could sit there ALL DAY.

Bald, blue-eyed beauty. She’s losing the small amount of hair she actually had. I think Parker got all our hair-growing genes. By this point, he had a small mohawk going on.

We paused packing to visit with Cayce and we invited her over to come sit in the mess. Parker decided to join her. 😉

Y’all. This kid has epic bedhead. #shouldhavetitledthispostAllAboutParkersHair

Guess who decided to move too? Gammy and Pops listed their house this week after getting an offer accepted the day before on a new house! They called the best realtor they knew! 😉

A little breakfast with the family at one of our most favorite local restaurants before Cayce had to go back to California. I had to take the opportunity for a picture with this one. Love my sister. 🙂

Eisley adores Gabriel. She gets so excited whenever he is around. Gabriel kind of tolerates Eisley. I see this happening for pretty much forever, or at least until Gabriel realizes that Eisley has cute friends. 😉

You know you have a good realtor when your house sells in less than 36 hours… Goodness! We were so excited for them! My parents know how to stage a house. 😉

So it begins!!!

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Easter 2016

Oh this Easter was SO fun!!

Three littles at church. This was the best we could do, but you know, that’s okay. 😉 It was early and we all wanted breakfast. Ha!

Every year, we give Easter baskets and every year, they get more and more simple. And there is no bunny taking credit for my work on these. Ha! We gave books and candy this year and the kids were ecstatic. 😉

Our favorite part of the day and what I hope is a new tradition!! We hosted an Easter brunch with my family and our dear friends. We LOVED it and it was just so much fun. We laughed, we ate, we visited and the weather was perfect.

The “big kid” table. Parker was super stoked to be there this year. 😉

Little Miss in her Easter finery. 😉 She was never put down the entire day.

Gabriel knows he’s a stud. 😉

The dads all hid the eggs and hid some on three different difficulty levels. 😉 Ha! The kids LOVED it. Loved it loved it. And I think the dads enjoyed hiding them almost more than the kids liked searching for them.

Even Gabriel got in on the Easter egg action. 😉

Love this. 🙂 So thankful for Jesus and His work on the cross and how He has richly blessed us! We love dressing up and eating well and having friends and family over but there would be no joy without Him.

Eisley Girl chilling afterward. Her toes. I just kiss her all day.

I tucked this one in bed at night and we went through our whole bedtime routine of tucking in every single buddy with him. Just makes me laugh.

Happy Easter!! 🙂

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