Lily is...

Stubborn.
Strong-willed.
Independent.
Three.
Learning.
Incredibly smart for her own good.
Curious.
Stealthy like a ninja.
Mischievous.

This causes mommy to be:

Extremely frustrated.
Crazy.
Stumped.

Tonight, as it goes most nights, Jonny put Lily to bed. She came out of her room, as normal, and Jonny put her back. We didn't hear anything for a while so we assumed she was asleep. Until we heard Hannah crying...and it wasn't on the monitor. She was standing on the stairs. Lily had decided that it would be a good idea to go into hannah's and Kate's room, wake Hannah up, and get her out of bed. Why? No reason. Just because. The more I try to bring order and discipline to our lives, the more she retaliates. I give her positive attention - nothing. I limit the choices she gets to make - she fights back and does whatever she wants anyway. I give her time outs and nose to the wall - worse. I ignore the "bad" things she does - even worse!

It. Just. Doesn't. Work.

Some kids are just more prone to be the trouble-makers. In our family, this is Lily. I hope she's not worse in 10 years.

Family Pictures!

After 6 years and 3 kids, we FINALLY took family pictures!  My cousin (Hands Full Photos) did an amazing job with everything - especially wrangling the girls.  We got few pictures of Lily's genuine smile and Kate was quite the crabby baby instead of her smiley self...but Hannah smiled wonderfully on cue, as usual!  Here are my favorites:

I love my husband and our 3 beautiful girls!  Thanks Christina!!!

I should have seen it coming

Friday was an awesome day!  All 3 girls were amazing.  Kate was perfectly on schedule.  I was actually getting back into a routine with keeping the house clean.  We were finally getting on top of things.  Jonny's job was going absolutely wonderfully.  And then he came home from work.  His company was closing their office, which obviously meant that everyone was out of a job. Yep.  Wonderful.  Now he's unemployed - again.  

There are some possibilities in the works, but nothing definite, and nothing immediate.  Hopefully things pan out quickly.

2 months!

I took Kate in for her 2 month appointment today. Can you believe it's already been 2 whole months?! She's growing so well - she weighs 11 lbs and is 23" long! She weighs the most out of our three girls at this age and is in the middle for length.

She started smiling when she was 4 weeks old, and she is quite the happy baby! She sleeps pretty well during the day and does wonderfully at night - normally waking up around 5am or sleeps until 7-8am...it goes back and forth. Her sisters love her and are very helpful and understanding when I need to take care of her.

Kate had shots today (something I was debating not doing, but decided to go ahead with them) and she was fine this afternoon but when I fed her at 4 she was just crying nonstop. I touched her thighs where her shots were and she freaked out. So they're obviously hurting her. I gave her some Tylenol and she fell asleep in my arms. Every time I move a lot she cries in pain. :( so here's a picture of her sleeping. I'll get one later when she's awake!