Morning Photo Shoot

I wanted to add more pictures of the boys for my grandparents in Texas. However I'm missing Jacob. He was at school when I took these pictures. He's almost always at school when I have my camera out and I need to do better at taking pictures of all 4 boys. I also realized that I have hardly any pictures of my parents with the boys because I'm so use to being with them. I need to fix that too.

Adam looks so much older to me in that shirt. He looks like he's old enough to go to Kindergarten next year. I've been teaching him how to read and he's going great. Adam can be quite stubborn and doesn't like to be corrected so you have to give him lots and lots of praise and then he's better about being corrected when sounding words out. I've known for awhile that he was ready to start sounding words out and now that Lucas goes a bit longer between feedings I have the time to help him. It's been lots of fun to watch his progress.

And look, I finally caught one of Lucas's smiles on camera. He just won't smile when it's a camera stuck in his face. But he really is a smiling, cooing little boy. He's doing so great at night. He only gets up once and after eating you can just put in back in his crib still awake and he puts himself to sleep. So nice to have an easy baby when you have 3 older kids demanding your attention also.

Matthew is especially demanding and mischievous these days. He makes me question my sanity almost hourly. He is talking more and more and even sang Happy Birthday in the bathtub the other day. I can't wait for the warm weather to stay. After a beautiful day which included our first soccer practices yesterday today it has rained and snowed and I need good weather so the kids can play outside. Yesterday I spent the day at my mom's for the first time since having Lucas and it was a nice break. My sister was there too and I saw both my brothers and my dad came home for lunch and my other sister even called when we were there. It was a grand old time and I'm grateful I still live close to them all.

Oh and I have hives. If you've never had hives then there's no way to describe my suffering. After I had Jacob I broke out in hives on both my legs. Since I was nursing I couldn't take anything and they lasted a month and almost did me in. Jacob was the easiest baby in the world but the hives made life miserable. So now I have hormonal hives again this time on my arms and across my back. But my legs were obviously feeling left out because I have some sort of hormonal dermatitis that I've been fighting ever since delivery. So the joys of pregnancy live on... I've worked really hard on not scratching and today the hives seem a little less so hopefully they're on the way out. Really why can't babies just be delivered by storks? I'm not sure my body is ever going to recovery from my pregnancies.

I can't finish a post today without a shout out to the Cougars. I'm so nervous for the game tonight! Just have another game like the one against Gonzaga and we'll be fine. Go Jimmer!