As a new mom I never imagined saying to myself “I *only* have 3 kids today! What shall we do??” But that’s how today started. My sweet mama came for a couple nights to visit us this week and ended up taking the big sister duo back with her for a few nights! They haven’t been away from home in years!!
We had a huge storm from hurricane Ida this week and the other we ended up having a tornado warning in the middle of the night. Boy was waking 5 kids up at midnight fun! (Insert sarcasm) The weather change following the storm though. That’s what I live for. Seriously. The weather has been PERFECTION!!! Today was amazing. Upper 60’s, sunny, breezy, cool, crisp. Perfect Indian summer day.
We started our morning with some fun from the Dollar Tree. I go there periodically and stock up on random stuff to keep the kids busy. Today’s activity was matching purses (because we can’t have different without fights yet) with a pair of safety goggles, a tape measure and a magnetic jar for each of them. $8 well spent. They said “we’re working mamas!!” Ha!! That made me laugh!!They went around and measured everything on the deck!
When baby Lavender woke from her morning nap I packed up the tiny ladybug crew for an outing. We started the day visiting the chickens, peacocks and goats. Juniper surprised me. She was all about the animals today. I blinked and she shoved her tiny hand in the chicken coop and was petting the chickens! She also shoved her hand in at the goats! I had to slow her roll a bit! We like keeping fingers attached in our family. 😆
After visiting the animals I put Lavender in my Tula and threw the twins in the stroller and we went for a walk to the playground. It’s been a while since the girls have been to a playground. They had a ball!! Like seriously. You’d think we went to Disney world. When the twins were tiny I used to put them in the baby swing together. Back to back. I did that today with Lavender and Pearl since swings were limited. Lavender thought it was the best thing ever!!
When we left the playground we visited the animals one more time. Juniper wanted to bring them home with us!
After running some errands we came home for some lunch. And mama bug had to do some hair color on her friend. So the tiny bugs had to keep busy for a bit. Ha ha. That’s always an fun time. They did surprisingly well….Until Pearl found my stash of feminine hygiene products and opened them and scattered them about the house!! And of course my uncle dropped by to visit during this and of course walked into the living room like that. Oh my god. I swear to God they could make a movie about the shenanigans Pearl gets into! She certainly makes life colorful around here!!!
After dinner we had apple sauce with cinnamon for dessert on the front steps. And a peppa pig story marathon. Until one by one we all fell asleep on the couch together! Thankfully daddy was home by then and was able to carry them off to bed for me.
It’s rare I get to have more concentrated time with my bugs. It’s usually diluted time. So I try to make individual time as quality as I can. Ron and I are trying to come up with a schedule where we rotate girls for one on one time with each of us each week. But until then I’m trying to make more time for them where I can be completely present and enjoy them.
Three is such a hard age. It’s been especially challenging with one of the twins in particular. But it’s also such an insanely cute age. It has its pockets of magic of course. They grow so darn fast. I’ll miss these days of play-doh and nature walks and stories and silly dance parties one day. I already miss them and they are right in front of me…..
Ladybug Mama, a peek at life with 5 girls… 