Three weeks today

Lydia is three weeks old today! It seems so unreal that three weeks have already went by. Actually doing an early post and so not too much going on. The girls are at school and so just Lydia and I. Hopefully will have something more intresting to say next time.

Mine all mine

Here they are, my three girls. I cannot express how much I love these little people. There are days I want to pull my hair out but, I could not go a day without these girls. This was the best out of several pics I took of them. It is impossible to get Chloe to smile for the camera, and I did not notice till chris pointed out that Emma has a grape mustache. So it would have been an excellant pic if not for that. Lydia is still waking at 3:00 am to eat and one of us usually stays up till midnight to feed her. I just do not remember the other two waking up in the very early morning hours. They were both sleeping through the night at like 2 weeks old. Maybe one day i will get a full nights sleep.

A nice visit

Today Laura and Makenzie came over to visit. The girls were in school for most part of the day but got home in time to play with Makenzie for a little while. The girls took to Laura right off and were very silly for her. Makenzie is such a sweet little girl and such a happy little thing. She played up in the play room and had a good time with the girls toys. It was so good seeing Laura and just hanging out. I miss being reconnected with friends and hope to spend more time with her in the future.

I love black and white pictures. Here are some more of my little Lydia. I need to get some more pics took of the other two beautiful girls. Now that i am getting out of my picture funk I am wanting to take more and hopefully start getting some good ones. So Friday night Jan and Troy were brave and decided they would keep all three girls while Chris and I went out on our usual date night. Chris was very unsure about it but it turns out they all did very well and as i thought Lydia just slept and ate. I told Jan right now is not the hard part it is when Lydia starts crawling then they may not want to keep all three. It will be interesting for sure. I also had my first Margrita last night and I have to say it was so good, but i paid for it in the end. I ended up with a horrible migraine and knew i would if I drank it but i wanted it so bad I did not care. Today was just a low key day. The girls went with Jan and Troy to have a picnic, feed the ducks, go to the park, and also ride the ponies. They had free pony rides today and Emma was totally excited about it. She had gotten to do it once before and loved it. While they were gone i did house work and packed up my maternity clothes. I also ran to a yard sale just down the street and came back home with three barbies and some doll clothes. I just do not see sense in buying new barbies when you can get them for .25 cents each. When the girls finally got home they were exhausted and smelled like livestock. So they got a nap, dinner, and then a bath. Well I hope everyone is having a good weekend.

One week old yesterday

I would have posted yesterday but I had one aweful migraine. I said they were going to come back and they have. My little baby girl turned one week old yesterday. We changed her formula to one with out lactose and she seems to be doing a lot better with the fussiness. Last night was a night without much sleep. For one like I said I had a horrible headache but it finally had eased up around midnight when Lydia had her midnight feeding. I slept till she woke up at 3:30 wanting to eat and stayed up because she did not go back to sleep and by 4:30 she was starving again so fed her again and I was up till 5am and finally got back to sleep untill Chloe and Emma get up at 5:30 and so I laid on the couch till Lydia wanted to eat once again at 6:30 and so I got Chris to feed her and i went to bed for a while. I was totally exhausted not only from being up and down all night but I was run down due to my headache anyway. I was brave and got on the scales today for the first time to see what my weight was so far from giving birth and I dropped 19 pounds. I could not believe it. i am really going to get back on track and watch what i am eating once again and hopefully can lose some more weight. i would love to be back in a size 8 and hopefully one day i will be. Today after getting some sleep, I actually felt i had some energy and did some house work. It has been wonderful with Chris being home and i dread when he has to go back to work. Well he is working but from home. He will probably be greatful to go back because the girls can be a handful.

I think I need 40 hours of sleep!

Man, I feel like I could sleep for a week. I had almost forgotten how taking care of a newborn could take so much out of you, especially one that is very fussy alot during the day. I do not think Lydia is as bad as Emma was but a lot worse than Chloe. Chloe was so laid back and never fussed. Lydia is eating good and eats about every two and a half to three hours during the day. A little longer at night. She will usually eat at midnight then around 2:30 to 3:00 and again around 5:00 to 6:00. I cannot wait till she is down to one feeding a night. This time around I have been trying to do most the nightly feedings myself but I think it is wearing on me. Chris said he was going to wait till i just gave out and said here take her. I am getting close but I do not sleep well anyway unless I am doing it. Chris is a great dad and I know Lydia is ok , so I do not know why I feel that way. I call her my little snuggle bunny because she will just let you hold and snuggle her up. Plus this being probably my last baby I just want to eat it all up. The girls are doing great. Emma always wants to look at Lydia and says how cute she is but she never says she wants to hold her. Chloe loves to come up and hug on her and pat her little head and go awww. Chloe also like to play with the buttons on the bouncy seat which drives me crazy and it is usually when Lydia is in it. Chloe is a little clingy right now and always wants to be held, it's like she knows she is no longer the baby of the house. I am feeling pretty good other than being exhausted. i am getting around great and no longer having pain other than some cramping. Let me tell ya i do not look forward to my headaches coming back which i know they will. They always do and it almost makes me want to stay pregnant. Pregnancy is the only time they completely go away. I can hear you now, that is why you had babies so close together. Well I will part by posting with a few pics.

Say hello

To miss Lydia Gail Hendrix. She decided she was going to come on the very early morning hour of 2:58 am Wednesday, Sept 5th, 2007. She weighed in at 7lbs 8.6 ounces and 18 inches long. She came very quickly, so quickly that my mother and husband did not get to witness the birth.. This made Chris very angry and hurt. They took forever to get my epidural going and in the end it did not take effect so I had my third and probably last child totally naturally. I kept telling them that she was coming and they either did not believe me or more focused on my epidural working. After pushing for a few times and telling them so Lydia decided to speedily slip into our world. She came out without help from the doctor, which I am not sure if was in the room or not but I remember seeing two nurses on either side of me and telling them she is coming and then they were in total surprise when she came rushing out to meet everyone. I am so glad she is ok and seems to be healthy. I would say it has to be the weirdest birth experience so far but once again Lydia is fine and so I am happy. The girls are totally crazy about her and just love to look at her and watch her sleep. Now like we expected we have three red headed girls and poor chris has to live with four of us(EEK). Ha we are not so bad.There will be more pics to come. I am still fighting exhaustion and trying to get ajusted to having a newborn again.