Life with Three...

Random happenings in our life:

I am so fortunate to have the best kids ever! :)

 Vale is a crazy little kid... he's pantless but sportin' his bow tie! :)  Priorities...

We got to go see Amelia's recital at that college and it was fabulous!! :)  Wish I had a better picture... 

Sleeping... 

Awake! :)

We went to a little archade place next to our house with the boys and grandma and grandpa... it was so much fun!  Poor Vale though has such a good sense of hearing and pitch that all the noise in the archade, all the music and game sounds happening at one time almost gave him a complex... the poor kid was having some sort of a traumatic brain freeze for the first 5 minutes...

They had fun playing games though!

Riding the carousel...

And riding little kiddie rides.

 I told them they had to eat their popsicles over the kitchen floor... :) I love having boys!!

Oh what have we been up to...

 Connor loves his new little brother and is so good with him!!!

He loves his other little brother too... and he's good with him too... :)

Poor little Vale Pale had shots and didn't do well with them at all... 

In fact, almost a month later he still has a nasty looking boil and red mark the size of my thumb... :( poor kid.

 Connor was being dramatic and trying to explain to my why the stool was in the kitchen poised next to all the candy...

Schafer loves his cousin Emery... even if he doesn't know it yet... they are buds. 

He is so alert and looks so shocked when he's looking around... it's funny! :)

 Schafer loved meeting his Grandpa and is doing GREAT holding up his head!

Hahaha Vale's not so much a... ummm... how do I put this... cheerful waker-upper.... :)

... but he's an awfully cute sleeper!! :)

Schafer is a fantastic sleeper!!!  He often sleeps 8 hours at night!  WHEWW WHOO!!! 

More updates to come soon... 

Update on the boys!

 Schafer

 

Our littlest Mahon is doing well!  He's growing and developing like a champ!

He has slept for almost 8 hours at night 4 times already!

 His belly button cord fell off after 11 days.

He's great at holding up his head.

Poor little guy has dry skin but HATES getting lotion put on him... :-(

He doesn't like it when he has a dirty diaper, pee or poop.

Very content in general unless he's gassy.

He's already pooped on one of our friends (sorry Marie...)

He absolutely adores watching his brothers!  He turns his head to follow their voices and gets upset if he's left alone in a room with no entertainment.

Vale

 Vale just had his 2 year old check up and he's doing great!

He was 27lbs, 35" long and 19.5 head circumference.

He's such a sweet boy with a tender heart, he loves to help other!

He had to have shots and it was traumatic for him :(  He had a nightmare that night about it screaming, "No shots!!" and he's been showing me his boo boos for days...

This kid has the hugest sweet tooth and would eat candy, cake and cookies all day if you let him. sigh.

This kid is a jumping machine, be it off the couch or hopping around the floor he's endless energy and tons of 'hops'.  He's also fearless... the kids gonna kill himself jumping off of something before I'm able to stop him... sigh... pray for him... and me...

He loves to sing all kinds of songs and he learns them quickly and sings the tune very well!  His favorites right now are Only a boy named David, Amazing Grace and the Awana Cubbie's Song.

He has a very keen ear for any kind of sound and is constantly saying, 'What's the sound??'

He loves baby Schafer and likes to call him Baby Shay Shay. :)

He LOVES to go to church and gets really excited and jumps around saying 'I go to church to see my friends!!!!!' :)

He refers to himself as: Vale Pale which I think it's awesome! :)

Connor

Connor is 37" tall and 30lbs! Which puts him in the 2% for height and 9% for weight!  Whewww whoo!

He can write his name on his papers now at church which makes him very excited!

He's only 3 and I'm already getting the hard theological questions thrown at me!  He asked me the other day, "Why doesn't Jesus just kill Satan now and make sin go away?  Does Jesus like sin?!" 'ummm... welp son... no Jesus hates sin but he has a plan and we have to trust that he knows what's best.  He wants us to be able to choose to glorify him instead of sinning.' He seemed ok with that answer for now... Lord give me wisdom! 

He's very bright and gets concepts that just astound me, I told him that we were going to see GG later that day and then when we were about to leave I told him we were going to Aunt Michelle's house.  He said, 'I thought we were gonna see GG??' I told him we were and he said, 'oh GG must be at Aunt Michelle's house'.  And he's 3!!! sigh... 

He's so good with baby Schafer!  He feeds him and gets his clothes & diapers.  He talks so sweetly to him and can get him to stop crying when mommy is busy or we are in the car.  I am very fortunate to have such a good helper!!

Connor is into doing 'shows' for me.  He likes to show me cool tricks or do an impromptu play which, lets be honest, are sometimes painfully long and drawn out but for the most part are very creative and I am excited to see how that develops as he grows!

When I told Connor that hopefully we'll be able to go to Grandma's house soon he said, 'That's the one by the pool and the beach right?'... we haven't been there since June... this kid has a crazy memory!

GG came to visit!!

 We had the privilege of a visit from Grandma (or GG as the boys call her)!

Schafer got to meet his Great Grandma who used to have the same name as him, before she got married.

It also happened to be Grandma's birthday on Sunday so we all went to Stonefire for lunch!

We tried to get a nice picture of Grandma with all the great grand-babies but Sunday afternoons are always a difficult time with kids... This is the best one we had and welp... it's not real great of anyone... 

We all got/made Grandma cards and she had a cake.

Grandma's a very loved lady!

The next morning we went to Egg Plantation for breakfast so we could spend a little bit more time with Grandma.

The boys did great cause we had to wait to get a table.

We went back to Rich and Michelle's to say goodbye to Grandma (since she was headed up to Sacramento).

Rich was doing some work in the garage and the boys were very interested... but not so much in the noise. :)

The boys were GG's little soldiers. :)

Waving goodbye to GG!!!

Just thought this picture was cute. :)  Poor kid got circumcised when he was 14 days old.  With all the happened in the hospital with me, poor kid kinda got overlooked.  I will NEVER do that again... we will be sure to get it done right away in the hospital... much more traumatic even just a couple weeks later.  This was the day after his circumcision... I had to bathe him cause he blew out his diaper... poor kid still looks traumatized...  

Healing and getting back to normal...

Everything is pretty slow around here except for the speed of the toddlers... that's a constant 200mph...

During the superbowl they wanted to wear their football shirts and wanted Schafer to wear one too.

They were so excited to hold him!

Connor's like, 'am I doing this right?'

Schafer's like, 'Your letting the TWO year old hold me?!?!?!'

Total terror... 

They are so sweet!  They are gonna all be such good friends!!  I love it!! 

Right before this picture was taken Schafer said, "This is my impression of Winston Churchill as a linebacker" :)

I let those boys eat so much junk during the Superbowl... I think they were died orange from cheese puffs for 3 days... 

This is the three of them watching football together... isn't that cute! :)  We'll have to recreate this photo when they are teenagers :)

Daddy had to get back to studying but the demands don't stop at home... :)  Holdin the baby and studying at the same time :)

He has such a sweet face!

The boys are thrilled to have a third boy in the house... that part of the adjustment has been easy!

He's so sweet and concerned for Schafer... he always wants to make sure that all of his needs are met bringing him blankets and paci's... :)

Dad's gonna have to make some more room on that lap soon... :)

This kid sleeps like a champ... I think he sleeps better with people running around crazed and screaming... :) ha

Let the torture begin... sigh...  

Schafer LOVES Connor... I think he actual might have for real smiled at him... not just gas.

People have been so gracious to us, sending us diapers and bring meals... we have felt very loved!

So blessed to have three healthy and wonderful boys!!