It's Our Wonderful Life!

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

We LOVE new babies!

Brisco(e) Wyatt McKinney is now 2 weeks old and I am just getting around to posting about him! He is such a cutie and a fun new addition to the family! I have been having fun getting to go visit with Sheila and cuddle that little guy! It makes me miss those days with mine and wonder where in the world the time goes???? He was on Tuesday December 29th 2009. He weighed in at 7lbs 2oz and I think 19inces long but I can't remember for sure.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Just a random update on some cute things the babies have been doing! I have got to be better at recording this stuff! Life is flying by SO fast and I forget so easily even what last week was like let alone anything else! :)

Cam continues to be my little comedian! He was born to laugh an dmake others laugh! He cracks me up all day!
He has started running up to me, grabbing my legs and saying in the sweetes little voice "HI! HI! HI!" SO cute!

He has learned to play peek-a-boo! He finds a wall and gets on one side and leans back and forth just laughing the whole time!
He is QUITE the chatter box! He talks ALL DAY! Words you can actually understand are Apple, Aunt Boo, Baby (his favorite!) Uh-Oh, Momma, Daddy, Dog.
He has mastered car and truck noises complete with a little spit! He also likes to bark like the VEEERRRY annoying dog that lives next door who barks ALL day long. That's where he learned it! :)
He is learning to spit, I mean blow, on his hot food! :)

Blake is my quiet little handful! For as shy and reserved as this little guy is he packs an atittude in him! :)
He has started walking around the house, in a very high pitched voice saying , "ohhhh, ohhhh, ohhhh, ohhhh over and over again! So sweet!

He will find the tiniest little spec of something on the floor and walk all over the house to find me and give it to me!

He also very obediently brings me anything he thinks he should or that I ask for. He will even take trash or something from the other kids and bring it to me.

Blake is VERY shy and does not like people he doesn't know AT ALL! He looses it if I leave him in the nursery or even at home with someone he is not very comfortable with.
He LOVES his blanket! Sometimes, his blanket fixes things I can't! Not sure how I feel about that...

This girl eats circles around the boys! She loves her food and she can put it away. I am not sure where it goes but she does it!
When she gets excited it is SO cute! She just laughs and laughs, and screeches and shakes her arms like crazy! She is so funny!
She is getting very good with directios. She is learning to go and do what we ask her too.

She loves her brothers, loves to give them loves!! (They are all pretty good at loving on each other!)
She HATES socks! She gets them off her feet the second she can get to them. She also hates her clothes. She follows me around tugging on her clothes begging me to take them off. And once those are off, she goes after her diaper. I don't know about this kid. I am a little worried! :)

She has such a fiesty personality - I don't know where she got but it's going to keep us laughing and crying for the rest of our lives!

They are all three very attached to me right now. I love and get very frustrated with it all at the same time. It can get pretty complicated when you have 3 little babies desiring mommys attention all at once. Especially now that they are getting too big to hold all at once. It can get pretty hectic when they all want me. It makes me feel pretty special though - to see how much they love me! :) When I sit on the floor though, wow it get's to be a rodeo! I get climbed on, jumped on, pulled this way and that way. But I wouldn't trade it for the world!

They are all teething again right now too. Madison has four coming in, 2 bottom and 2 top. Cam has three coming in 2 top and 1 bottom. Blake has one coming in on the bottom. 1 very crooked teeny tiny little tooth! It's pretty funny!

Sunday, January 10, 2010

(How could I ever be upset with these cuties????)
Well time did tell last night! We were up with one baby or the other (Cam joined in shortly after I posted) until 3:30am. Finally they went to sleep only to wake up at 5:30am. I finally gave up a 7 and we alll got up for the day. It was the longest night of my life. I don't know what was wrong but it was something. Thank the Lord that my parents were around to help, I don't know what I would have done! It's hard when there are 3 babies to 1 parent ratio!! :) It seems like such a little thing - sleep - to allow doubt to creep in over. But I did, around 2:00 with all 3 babies crying and nothing I was doing helped. I wondered where God was and why He didn't care and why in the WORLD He wasn't helping. But there was a small voice in my head telling me HE knew what was wrong, and in this life I may never understand WHY things happen or don't happen but He see's it all. If only I could learn to trust more completely and not falter so easily. My Mom also reminded me this morning (she was thinking the same things last night) as we listened to the babies CD for bedtime and the song "Jesus Paid it All" came on. HE paid the ultimate price, and showed me just how MUCH He cared for me by dying on the cross for me! How easily I feel christians (and definately ME!) forget this!! How it turns into a good story we tell but forget how REAL and meaningful it is! What a wonderful reminder that was! So thankful for my Mom, for her love of our Savior and how faithful she is to speak into my life! I just pray now that IF another night happens again - I will have learned my lesson this time! That in the midst of the storm I would remember these promises not only in the calm! So thankful for a faithful God who won't give up on me! Even though I have to come crawling back for fogivness MULTIPLE times a day! I am also thankful for me dear Dad who loves and worries about me so much and loves these babies so much too! He was the strong point, the calm point for me last night! He helped just as much as us "moms"! He helps discipline (though it BREAKS his heart!) and loves and figures right along with us! AND I am thankful for my husband who although he is far away (which that breaks his heart!) is ok with me calling at 2:30 in the morning cause I just need him to walk through it with me, and he does happily! Even though he has to get up and go to a HARD job, in the awful weather, day in and day out! He is always putting us first and more than happy to do anything he can!

Well, I have been asleep since 7:15. Had a short break from sleeping and I think I better get back to it! Have a lot of sleep to catch up on! Especially since I have been lacking for a year and a half now! :)

Saturday, January 9, 2010

I just realized why I made goals NOT resolutions for this year. Cause goals are something to work towards, if I made a resolution to be more patient with my kids I would have blown it already! Tonight is not going so well. I am BEYOND exhausted! My whole body hurts I am so tired. It's hard work being a single mom to triplets when they DO sleep but when they don't....... I am sitting here typing listening to my second kid (Madison has already had her turn and is hopefully done for the night) cry and cry and wondering what I should do, as I join in the crying, and if I am going to get any sleep tonight and how in the world am I going to handle tomorrow. Thank goodness for my parents - they are right here with me helping me through when Jason can't be here! I just feel so helpless as the mom not knowing what they need or what I should do or if it requires discipline. This may sound like a comlpaining post - it's not, it's just how it is.

Well, only time will tell! It's finally quiet, for now......

It's a New Year

I can't believe another year has come and gone. I have been thinking about this year and what it will hold. I have been thinking and praying about what I want this year to hold for me and for my family. I am not really all about resloutions but I have been thinking of goals for this year.

Being a better mommy and wife. And I don't mean in a flippant I want to be a better person kind of way. I truly desire to learn more patience with the kids. To not be so emotional and caught up in everything going just so and getting so upset when the kids act up. To be consistant with them but to just love them, and enjoy this time and being their mommy!! I want to serve my husband more - to focus on loving him and just being what he needs. To not be too tired for him, or take out my bad days on him. I am so thankful for him and want to show it.
To continue to grow in my walk with the Lord - to be dedicated to not getting complacent.
To be more creative, to scrapbook, decorate and blog.
To serve others more and put others first.
Learn to be more creative with my kids, in their meals and play times ect.

I don't want to get to crazy with a huge long list of things. Just a few things, that are possible. I can't wait to see what the Lord has in store for our family!

Happy New Year

Me and My Girl

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Merry Christmas - Part 4

And last but not least....The Martindale Clan get together

This was the hard part of Christmas. The annual Martindale gathering - I looked forward to it every year. This year was hard- but filled with new traditions too! We had it at Pat and Cheryls house, had some yummy apetizers and a good dinner. We all talked and made all sorts of noise! :) We played a very fun game called Right, Left and Center. It was a loud crowded crazy game! But lots of fun!

Mindy and Madison - Mindy was dared to wear her pjs to dinner so she did!

Kristen, Bianca and Cam

Jas and Cam

Our crew hard at work and the yummy food

The pictures got to be less and less as we got further into our crazy Christmas week! I will have to work on the next year! :)

Merry Christmas - Part 3

And on to our 3rd Christmas! It was a busy year! We went over to Boise on Christmas afternoon to spend some time with my Mom and Dad and my Jones Grandparents. It was nice a low key. Some yummy snacks, visiting and present opening.