Hello Summer!

We are now a family of 6!! We welcomed our newest Griffin Ranger on May 28th. His birth was incredible (you can read it on his page) and he is just a dream baby. The kids are completely enamored with him. I worried most about how Hudson was going to handle this new addition since he was only 19 months but he, like the rest of us, wants to hold and cuddle and kiss Griffin.

We are now full swing into the summer. You can imagine that life with 4 kids under 6 years is chaotic and crazy! We've been having a really great time staying home and hanging out with each other. We plan on laying low this summer and letting it stretch on and on. The weather has been humid and mucky, but we've been staying cool by playing in the sprinkler and sitting under a canopy on a blanket having backyard picnics.

This week we got the news that Madelyn is now enrolled into the Montessori school we were hoping for! The school moved to a larger location and so expanded their enrollment. We are all very excited that she will be starting kindergarten this fall! It is a nice feeling to not have it be so up in the air. We were unsure if we would be homeschooling or utilizing the YMCA classes this fall and this was our first choice given our current situation. Madelyn is so excited, anytime we go anywhere she asks if she is going to school that day! I think she starts after Labor Day.

I cannot believe that June is almost over!

Spring is finally here!!!

I am doing well as is baby #4. We are at 33 weeks, so we have about 4 weeks until I'm considered "full-term", 5 weeks until we are at the point when Madelyn was born and about 7-8 weeks until both the other boys were born. We'll see if this guy comes late like his brothers or somewhere in the middle! The pregnancy has really flown by and been really easy compared to my last one. My biggest complaint has got to be the fact that we've had the stomach flu hit our house twice this season and are currently getting over the cold from hell. I just hope this is the last round of sickies we get this spring. My appt today said he was measuring about 35 weeks and that I'm a bit dehydrated. With being sick, that was expected, but I'm really trying to hydrate and rest up and finally kick this cold. Our next appt is the "home visit" when our midwives will come over, bring the birth tub, make sure we have our birth kit supplies and know where we live. I'm excited to have dinner with them and get to hang out. Most of my prenatals lately have been over an hour because we end up chatting and catching up! I cannot believe I'm already at the point in pregnancy where it is time for the home visit. This little guy is going to be here before we know it!


I have a list about a mile long of things I'd like to accomplish before the baby gets here. Many of it is the usual spring cleaning list and garden planting. I'm hoping to get at least some of it done, but mostly I just want to enjoy the rest of the pregnancy. I'm knitting some hats and socks and going to be sewing some pillows out of fleece for each of the siblings as their gifts. When Hudson was born, they each got fleece blankets.

Check out the kids individual pages for an interview I did with them (I got the idea from my friend Pam and her lovely kids! Thanks!)

Baby Hat


Cuties

3rd trimester