My sweet babies

Natalie and Katelyn are true sisters through and through. The play really way together one min and the next someone is crying and they refuse to play together for a whole 2 mins. Then they forget what they were fighting about and are playing again. They make me laugh! Katelyn is enjoying her own time with Brooke when Natalie is at school. The new car smell so to speak is starting to wear off Brooke and the girls don't feel then need to be in her face all the time. This is a great weight off my shoulders because there for a little while Nat and Kate were doing all kinds of things to Brooke just to see what would happen or her reaction. It was hard for me to even take a shower and leave the girls in the same room with Brooke and not worry they were going to hurt her on accident. Now Nat and Kate have turned into quite the little helpers. We still have a few moments of bad judgment calls on the girl's part but they are definitely getting better.

My sweet baby is growing like a weed. She loves to lay on her back. She will lay on the floor for hours if someone is just sitting next to her. Her favorite toy right now is her floor mat. She loves the mirror and the music on it. She also enjoys being naked and taking baths. After her bath when I am getting her dressed she screams like no one's business. It even takes us a few mins to actually calm her down. She smiles a lot and really is a content baby most of the time.

Brooke's hair is out of control! A lot of people said that I should be ready for that hair to fall out but so far it isn't going anywhere. After a bath it has a little curl to it and then it turns pin straight when it dries. She is such a cute little nugget...well not so little. I got to hold a 5 pound baby the other night and she was about a month old. She felt like air compared to Brooke. Brooke is almost 13 pounds now at two months so no surprise that we are off the charts again. I think they need to make new charts. (haha)

Isn't she beautiful......

Who do I look like?

My cousin Emily posted on her blog pictures of her babies about the same age and it is almost hard to tell them apart. Even though they are a girl and a boy they really do look a lot a like. So I was curious about my kids and what they look like. Well I have posted the following pictures and they aren't the same age because unfortunately we lost a lot of pictures from a computer crash so Natalie and Kate are six to eight months old. I think you can tell they are sisters but they have their own look about them. I can't wait to see what they look like when they get older.

Minds of their own

We were walking through Target looking for some summer shoes and Natalie and I had the following conversation: Me: Oh Nat look at these shoes they are really cute. Natalie: No mom I don't want those. Me: but they will be really cute with your clothes Natalie: MOM...I won't wear them. At least I have one that I can still dress the way that I want and I mean Brooke. Katelyn didn't want the shoes I picked out for her either. Nat ended up with sparkly blue flip flops and Kate got rainbow sparkly flip flops. Not my first choice but they got to pick out what they wanted. This year I get to go school shopping with Natalie and Katelyn.....I wonder how that is going to go. Natalie already informed me that she currently doesn't have any cute clothes and Kate told me yesterday that she doesn't want to wear any of Natalie's old clothes. Kate saw that Nat has holes in some of her jeans from playing in them and I had to reassure her that I wouldn't make her wear clothes with holes in them and we will buy her new jeans. My kids are growing up way to fast.

Girl time

The girls love their sister so much that it drives me crazy on a daily basis. I have been trying to get across to Natalie and Kate that they need to leave Brooke alone sometimes and don't touch her face so much. This has turned out to be an everyday conversation that I have to have with them. Granted they are great helpers and they think Brooke is so cute but sometimes it is overwhelming for me. One of the benefits of having Natalie and Kate close together in age was that Natalie could have cared less about Kate being around.

This is Brooke at 5 weeks. She is going up so fast and she doesn't even look like she did in the hospital in my opinion. She will have blue eyes or maybe a hazel. Natalie has ice blue and Katelyn has brown so I think it is great that all of my kids will have different color eyes. I thought for sure with Paul and I both having brown eyes that all of our kids would have brown but I guess you never know. So far the feedback that I have gotten is that Brooke looks like Paul's sisters. So Natalie looks like me, Kate looks like Paul and Brooke looks like the Martin women. I say we will see.....looks can change from when they are so little.

Katelyn was all in our business when I was trying to get Brooke to sleep so I gave her the camera and this one didn't turn out that bad. I love how pale I look I think this was a week after my last blood transfusion so I was still trying to replenish my blood supply.

With the girls needing some attention I have let them take a few extra bubble baths in my bath and played princess music for them to listen and sing to. Now it is all the ask for when I say it is time to take a shower.

Brooke loves to smile and has done so since the she was about a week old. The only thing she has to be sleeping or just waking up. She just started smiling last week when I talk to her. What a cutie pie. I am so lucky to have three beautiful girls and be able to watch them grow up.

This is the girls helping again. About two seconds later they were in the grass then the girls ran off and left Brooke there. I can tell that it is going to be a hard couple of years for Brooke.

Overall Brooke is an easy baby. She is a good sleeper and will do 7 to 8 hour straight most nights. The only drawback from that is that she won't take a long nap during the day so my house has pretty much taken a backseat. Unless I can get it done in 15 mins it doesn't get done until the weekend when Paul can watch the girls. Brooke is starting to coo and try and talk with me which I love. I know that this is a stupid thing to forget but after not having a baby for awhile I forgot how much of your time is spent holding them when they are this little. I am really enjoying staying home and watching all three of my kids grow.

This is just one of the many funny conversations I have on a daily basis: (I was changing Brooke's clothes)

Kate: Whoa Brooke is fat!

Me: Hey your fat (just kidding and laughing as I say it so I didn't say it to be mean)

Kate: Not as fat as Brooke!