It's a picture of the picture, but you get the idea....little girl is getting all grown up (at least according to her!)
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Big girl now
Carrie couldn't be happier that last night was her pre-k "graduation." I, on the other hand, couldn't hide anything from this little girl. On the way to dinner with some of her classmates to celebrate, she yells at me from the back seat "hey mommy! were you crying during the performance? Cause I saw you rubbing your eyes!?'
It's a picture of the picture, but you get the idea....little girl is getting all grown up (at least according to her!)
It's a picture of the picture, but you get the idea....little girl is getting all grown up (at least according to her!)
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Feeling blessed
I know that's a phrase that people like to throw around a lot these days, but it's truly how I am feeling lately. I don't know if it's because Carrie just turned five or what, but I've been spending a lot of time lately thinking about the family that Jerry and I have created, and just how perfect it really is. Goodness knows I wasn't planning on having a third baby, but I cannot fathom life without my little boy. God knew I needed to have Jacob in my life, and I am so very thankful for that. That's not to say it hasn't be hard, because it has. VERY hard! There were a lot of days immediately following when he was born and while I was on maternity leave that I felt so utterly overwhelmed I didn't know which end was up. There are still days of course that I feel like that (seems to be when Jerry travels!), but for whatever reason (and I do think it has a lot to do with Carrie turning five - I don't know why but that just seems like such a big milestone) I've been trying to be better about slowing down and not being so worried about having all the laundry done or the house just so and just enjoying my kids at this age. This is HUGE for me. I'm sure when Jerry reads this he'll be thinking "Really? You feel that way? Cause I'm pretty sure you stayed up too late the other night folding clothes/washing bottles/picking up tiny pieces of toys scattered about/fill in the blank."
I am finally realizing that they aren't going to be little forever. One day they will pack up and move away to go to college, and the days of them depending completely on me and Jerry will be over. Jerry and I always joke about what we'd be doing if we didn't have three little ones to take care of. The running joke right now is that instead of getting a trip to Italy for our 10 year anniversary this year, we got Jacob :) And while I'd obviously love to go spend a couple of weeks drowning myself in Italian wine, I'm good with what will hopefully be a nice dinner out and coming home to the munchkins. Besides, Carrie keeps begging us to take her to Paris, so who knows? ;) That would be quite appropriate for our 10 year celebration since that's where we had our first date....but somehow I don't think taking a 5 year old, a 3 year old, and an almost 1 year old to France sounds relaxing.
I don't think it was luck that brought Jerry and I together and resulted in this amazing group of people that is our family. Someone had a hand in getting us together so we could go through life together and bring into the world one very precocious girl, one very high spirited girl and one very happy little boy. I thank God every day that this is my life. Now, if someone could remind me of this when I next start to flip out a little when Jerry's traveling or the pile of laundry rivals Mt. Everest, that would be great :)
I am finally realizing that they aren't going to be little forever. One day they will pack up and move away to go to college, and the days of them depending completely on me and Jerry will be over. Jerry and I always joke about what we'd be doing if we didn't have three little ones to take care of. The running joke right now is that instead of getting a trip to Italy for our 10 year anniversary this year, we got Jacob :) And while I'd obviously love to go spend a couple of weeks drowning myself in Italian wine, I'm good with what will hopefully be a nice dinner out and coming home to the munchkins. Besides, Carrie keeps begging us to take her to Paris, so who knows? ;) That would be quite appropriate for our 10 year celebration since that's where we had our first date....but somehow I don't think taking a 5 year old, a 3 year old, and an almost 1 year old to France sounds relaxing.
I don't think it was luck that brought Jerry and I together and resulted in this amazing group of people that is our family. Someone had a hand in getting us together so we could go through life together and bring into the world one very precocious girl, one very high spirited girl and one very happy little boy. I thank God every day that this is my life. Now, if someone could remind me of this when I next start to flip out a little when Jerry's traveling or the pile of laundry rivals Mt. Everest, that would be great :)
The entire family and godparents at Jacob & Isla's Baptism, 4/29/12
Carrie, Ashton, & Anna
Monday, February 6, 2012
One month in....
Yes, it's been awhile, but it has been a bit hectic here in the lowcountry. I absolutely cannot believe we are already one month in to being a family of FIVE. Here's the newest member of the Reeves family just a few hours after he was born exactly one month ago:
Jacob Thomas Reeves joined our family at 9:44am on 1/6/12 weighing 7 lbs 14 oz and measuring in at 19.75 inches long. This kid has been through a lot so far in his short 4 weeks with us....we spent only two days in the hospital as we were eager to get home and get at least some rest. He met his sisters in the hospital and they were absolutely in love with him from the very first time they met. Of course, he's not mobile yet so they are still in love with him...just wait till he starts screwing around with their toys.
Starting around 6 days old, he started sleeping at night. And not just short little bursts. Like 7-8 hours at a time. It was HEAVEN. As my mom said, it was making my transition to having another infant in the house much easier. I was honestly afraid to tell anyone how he was sleeping for fear that it would stop. He kept it up until last Friday, at which point he started getting snotty. I expected this would happen, but it just kept getting worse and worse. I took him in to the doctor on Monday afternoon, at which point the pediatrician told me he had RSV. I vaguely knew what this was, then did what you shouldn't do and googled it and within minutes was convinced my child was going to get pneumonia and die. I kept having horrible flashbacks of watching Anna get a spinal tap at his age when she got sick as a baby. I spent the next 48 hours a complete basketcase, which wasn't made any better when I had to take him back on Tuesday and was sent home with a nebulizer and two different medicines we had to give him every 2-3 hours. Jerry and I took him back to the pediatrician Wednesday morning, where it was determined Jacob had improved, but not as much as they would have liked, so we were told we needed to take him to the children's hospital in Savannah and we'd be spending 2-3 days there. I packed a bag for the both of us and we headed in. When we arrived one of the first things they did was the actually RSV test...which came back negative. Really?!? And we didn't do this at the pediatrician's office WHY? Moral of the story - if the pediatrician wants to have your child admitted to a hospital because of some virus or something, ask if there's a test that they need to run first to determine whether or not your child actually has that virus. It will save you a lot of stress.
So here's the little man on his one month birthday:
He had his first real smile on Saturday while playing with Anna. She kept holding up a Winnie the Pooh to him and talking to him about it and he smiled. At first I thought it was him having gas :) But then she did it again and he smiled again, and I thought I was going to melt.
Like I said, I still have a hard time believing we are a family of five. It's no secret that Jacob wasn't exactly a planned baby. Now I think of him as the baby I never realized I wanted until I had him. I cannot imagine life without him. I am convinced that there is a larger reason as to why I had this little man brought into my life. We thought we were done after Anna, but we ended up with a surprise. He fought through adversity while he was in the womb to make it out healthy, and he keeps fighting. Before I thought our family was complete; now I know we are complete. It's freaking hard with three kids, there's no doubt about that. And I get totally frustrated sometimes when I think about how close we were to being out of diapers and the girls being a tad more self-sufficient. But having Jacob in our lives makes all of us better I think, and I can't wait to see what life has in store for him.
Starting around 6 days old, he started sleeping at night. And not just short little bursts. Like 7-8 hours at a time. It was HEAVEN. As my mom said, it was making my transition to having another infant in the house much easier. I was honestly afraid to tell anyone how he was sleeping for fear that it would stop. He kept it up until last Friday, at which point he started getting snotty. I expected this would happen, but it just kept getting worse and worse. I took him in to the doctor on Monday afternoon, at which point the pediatrician told me he had RSV. I vaguely knew what this was, then did what you shouldn't do and googled it and within minutes was convinced my child was going to get pneumonia and die. I kept having horrible flashbacks of watching Anna get a spinal tap at his age when she got sick as a baby. I spent the next 48 hours a complete basketcase, which wasn't made any better when I had to take him back on Tuesday and was sent home with a nebulizer and two different medicines we had to give him every 2-3 hours. Jerry and I took him back to the pediatrician Wednesday morning, where it was determined Jacob had improved, but not as much as they would have liked, so we were told we needed to take him to the children's hospital in Savannah and we'd be spending 2-3 days there. I packed a bag for the both of us and we headed in. When we arrived one of the first things they did was the actually RSV test...which came back negative. Really?!? And we didn't do this at the pediatrician's office WHY? Moral of the story - if the pediatrician wants to have your child admitted to a hospital because of some virus or something, ask if there's a test that they need to run first to determine whether or not your child actually has that virus. It will save you a lot of stress.
So here's the little man on his one month birthday:
Like I said, I still have a hard time believing we are a family of five. It's no secret that Jacob wasn't exactly a planned baby. Now I think of him as the baby I never realized I wanted until I had him. I cannot imagine life without him. I am convinced that there is a larger reason as to why I had this little man brought into my life. We thought we were done after Anna, but we ended up with a surprise. He fought through adversity while he was in the womb to make it out healthy, and he keeps fighting. Before I thought our family was complete; now I know we are complete. It's freaking hard with three kids, there's no doubt about that. And I get totally frustrated sometimes when I think about how close we were to being out of diapers and the girls being a tad more self-sufficient. But having Jacob in our lives makes all of us better I think, and I can't wait to see what life has in store for him.
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