Isak and Lucy started t-ball this spring and are on two different teams.  Lucy is in the pee-wee ball and Isak is in actual t-ball.  Its been crazy with them on different teams with different schedules of practices and games.  They had opening day parade last Saturday and got to walk with their teams down main street.  So far they both seem to like it okay, Lucy is more enthusiastic than Isak but that comes as no surprise.  Isak is on the "Mudders" and Lucy is on the "Sprouts".  Isak can hit the ball pretty well but loves to run with his arms swinging in circles, as Kevin describes it, a "zombie like run". Its fairly entertaining. He also likes to chit chat in the outfield and I'm not quite sure how much attention he pays to the actual ball.  Lucy at her game yesterday tried to catch her own team's ball while she was on the base which was interesting. So, we may have some work to do. But they sure are cute.

 Oh Miss Edyn. She sure LOVES her baby brother. I thought she might ignore the baby when I was pregnant. I was horribly mistaken. She likes to take his blanket off him in the carseat while we are driving and pull out his binkies and put them in her mouth. She also will hit his carseat while yelling at him, "Wake up baby! Wake up!" That's one of her favorite things to do. She also loves to pull his sun shade back and forth on his car seat repeatedly. This is especially awesome because I'm driving while all this is going on. She seems to have really embraced the age of two. This week was really full of special things that she had going on....She snapped Isak's glasses frames off, threw my cleaning supplies in the toilet, ran away from me to the neighbors yard while I was feeding Quinn (couldn't find her for 5 minutes, scared me to death),  and she's half decided she might want to be potty trained. In that, every morning, she doesn't want her diaper on. She wants to use the potty. So I take her down there and sometimes she does go potty and other times she just wants to be naked and tell you repeatedly she wants to go potty so she doesn't get a diaper. Then she pees on my floor, my rug, my couch while I'm feeding Quinn and attempts to clean it up with clean laundry or baby blankets. If I get a diaper on her but no pants, it will be off within seconds and there will be a repeat of the above. Then she tells me, "I'm sorwee!!" over and over in her cute little voice which would feel more sincere if she didn't keep tearing off her diaper and peeing everywhere.  She loves to lay on Quinn when he is in the bouncer or swing and talk to him. Her voice instantly goes up a few octaves when she does this, it is very sweet. She likes to say "I yove you" and "its okay" over and over when he cries.  She keeps me on my toes for sure.

Isak really loves Quinn as well.  He always wants to know where he is when he gets home from school and what cute things he did that day.  He loves it when I let him feed him a bottle and burp him.  He's always asking me to take pictures of him and is a huge help to me with getting diapers and taking care of Edyn when I'm busy feeding Quinn.  He's just so darn excited to have a brother I think, may he always feel that way about Quinn!

Quinn's Baby Blessing

 This sweet little boy was blessed today and Kevin gave him a wonderful blessing. Lucky for Kevin and me, his phone actually had memory to record the blessing so there wasn't a repeat of the very unfortunate incidence with Edyn's when it was too full and we didn't know till after..It was a good blessing and I plan to transcribe it for Quinn and keep it for him. I love that most of kids have their blessings to look back and read as they get older, hopefully they will find them to be helpful and a comfort. Quinn looked quite dapper in his knit outfit and white socks and was good and didn't start crying till after the blessing.

 My parents came up for the day and helped us juggle kids. I took pictures with everyone that I could gather after church that were dressed up and documented the best I could.

 It was a tad rough being after church and the kids were hungry, tired and wiggly. However, being our fourth go around with this, I have really low expectations of quality pictures so I am pretty happy that everyone is just in the same frame.

 Kevin's brother Nathan and his wife Stephanie were also there. Kevin's parents, grandma, and sister Whitney were also there but I didn't get to snag them in time for a picture with Quinn.  We had a BBQ at our house afterwards and had a great time visiting with family and letting the kids play with cousins.

It was a great day and I feel so grateful that Kevin has been able bless all four of our children. FOUR children. They are crazy and hectic and most days I feel that I don't have a handle on anything but I wouldn't trade them or this time in our lives for anything. Someday they will be bigger and need me less and while that will probably make for a cleaner house, it will also be a little sad too. So I am trying to remember that this will get easier. Which is sometimes hard to do when I am defending Quinn against all of Edyn's "love" and pulling his binkies out of her mouth....

Easter Egg Hunt

 We had our annual easter egg hunt this year out at Kevin's parents' house.   Lucy was quite excited to have an excuse to wear her bunny ears and Edyn even had a matching pair.

 We had a great turn out despite the slightly chilly temperatures and the kids all had fun finding their eggs.

 We let the little kids 4 and under start first then let the older kids out a few minutes later. Each kid could find 12 eggs and once those were all found we let everyone out for a free for all to find the rest of the eggs.

 Edyn found her twelve no problem and wanted to start eating them right away.

 Isak found his twelve and was pretty excited to have Grady and his other friends there to search for eggs.

 Edyn even found an egg by "Bob" the bunny that is located right by the front door. She loves his ears.

We had a great time and my kids loved filling and then finding their eggs.  I even hid some eggs for them again tonight in our backyard and then they hid them again for me.  Great tradition I'm glad we have with our kids and friends!

Quinn is one week old as of yesterday. He is a great baby with so far a very mellow personality. He still hardly cries, just squeals or whines a little if he needs something. He is so sweet and cuddly and I can't get enough of his newborn squishiness.

I turned the big 3-0 yesterday. I can't believe I'm old enough to be 30, I swear I just graduated from high school..wasn't it yesterday I was visiting Kevin in Hawaii this time of year on my spring break? And now I have four kids? Its amazing how fast time flies!

 We went to my parent's house Saturday and watched conference and had a delicious lunch. My mom made me homemade chocolate cake and put 30 candles on it...it was quite smoky for a while. Probably can't do that in any more future birthdays!

On Sunday my sister-in-law Stephanie made this beautiful cake with my kids and it was also super yummy.  We spent the day with Kevin's family and watched conference and had a big dinner. It was a great laid-back birthday, to be expected with a one week old, and I was so glad that I wasn't still pregnant on my birthday which also was my due date! 

 Isak has been asking and asking to feed Quinn so I pumped a bottle for him to give him. He was pretty into it for about 5 minutes then he was done. Isak is so proud of this little brother of his, he took some pictures of him to school today for show and tell.

 Lucy's reaction to the baby has not been what I expected. She is very cautious around him. I pretty much made her hold him by putting him on a pillow in front of her. You can tell by the look on her face she was done! She likes to pet his head and talk about him but she doesn't want too much else to do with him. She refers to him as "Isak's brother" and I have to remind her that he's her brother too!

Edyn really loves the bouncer that I brought out for the baby. Granted it is pink from the two previous girls that occupied it so I can't blame her. She loves to lay in it and rock herself and asks for a "Banket!" and a "drink!" then she settles herself in. Its pretty awesome. 

 Lucy brought home her school picture from preschool today. I love her toothless semi awkward smile, she is so pretty. Her registration for kindergarten is next week..ahh! It is going so fast!

Our FOUR kids! They are so cute. And so so completely crazy. Edyn started calling me "EENA!" tonight instead of mom, that's fun.  Isak only had like three emotional breakdowns today. My great friend took my kids for like four hours and I napped and had some wonderful quiet time, it was amazing. I even vacuumed and cleaned my kitchen. Kevin's aunt brought us a delicious dinner and I've decided I can't possibly think about losing the baby weight until we done receiving such yummy food. Quinn is more and more awake each day and eating more at each feeding. And best of all, this is the weekend so Kevin will be home the next two days to help with all the crazy. We just might survive!

 Quinn is four days old and we are adjusting to being a family of six! The first night we brought him home he slept for 6 hours! This baby so far has proved to have a pretty mellow personality and takes a pacifier and a bottle so we will keep him! I love that I can pump and have Kevin do one of the nighttime feedings so I can get a block of sleep, its such a blessing. Edyn never took a bottle and it was hard, especially when I had to go back to work. In fact, Edyn was such a hard baby that I'm hoping Quinn's sweet personality has been sent as compensation...

 He has since slept in about 3 hour blocks at night and hardly cries, just squeals when he is hungry. I want to freeze time and his tiny newborn self, they grow all too quickly.  I'm making a conscious effort with this baby to not stress about anything and just enjoy him and drink him up as much as I can.  I've spent a lot of time in yoga pants, not cleaning my house and instructing Kevin to remind me to not do too much. My parents and Kevin's parents have helped us endlessly and we have had many thoughtful friends bring meals and offer babysitting. I feel so blessed and loved to have this little spirit in our home and I can't wait to see the cute baby he will grow into.

 A few more pictures from the hospital before we went home.

Quinn all ready to go home in his car seat and his too big clothes :).