Before we had our 3rd child I remember watching my friends who have 3 kids and thought it seemed simple. Little did I know that my amazing friends just made it LOOK simple. THREE children is no joke!
When we started planning when we wanted to try and get pregnant and how old we wanted Ella to be when we had a newborn I thought that having her be 2 years 9 months was perfect…she’d be old enough but not TOO old and TOO big of an age gap (like Owen and Ella are…4 years apart). When we brought Ella home, Owen was amazing. He was old. Became independent. Was NOT an issue. Well…Ella has proven that 2 years 9 months is still an age when they want and “need” their mommy. She has had the biggest transition and giving mama grief. She is quite the mama’s girl and that makes things hard when I’m nursing one and the other is crying “needing” me.
So sometimes my day looks like this…holding one baby and the other one is laying in my lap…how the hell do mothers do it with multiples??!?!?
But, overall Owen and Ella are both very helpful…well they try to be.
I feel like they are never close enough to her. Owen ALWAYS wants to be holding her…and I’m constantly reminding him to get his face out of her face. He wants to smother her with kisses ALL THE TIME. Which sounds so cute BUT in actuality its kinda annoying because germs are our worst nightmare right now. Ella has come around…she went from NOT liking Baby Maggie to now she is always wanting to see her eyes and hold her as well. Her interest only lasts all of 5 minutes though.
The early days of being home with Maggie were hard but could have been SO much harder. I’m VERY blessed and thankful to have my mom here in the states and able to help me 24/7. People have asked about how long Yosh took off work…he took the 3 days we were in the hospital and then we sent him back to makin’ that money! haha I don’t want him wasting the sick days that I’m hoping to steal from him when I get back to work in January (with no sick days). So we have Nana here. Everyday! She’s absolutely amazing. I would be an emotional drowning mess if she wasn’t here to help me.
She comes over at 7am (with bells on), gets Owen ready for school. Gets Ella up and dressed. Brings Ella with her to drop Owen off at school…all while I’m getting myself and Maggie up. I can NOT imagine trying to get up and everyone ready for school drop off. The days I have brought Owen to school are the days that Yosh has brought Ella to Marthas for some time to play with her friends (daycare is a good thing for ALL…she needs it!! haha) Then mom comes back to the house after school drop off and does whatever I ask like hold Maggie so I can shower and shave my legs! (or don’t ask…she does laundry, tidies the house, plays with Ella, etc. I do NOT ask my mom to do my house work…but she insists and does it because she can’t sit still, ever) And she has been my partner in my daily errands that I’m too scared to try on my own just yet (grocery shopping, target, kaiser appts, etc.) she told me the other day “you’ll be sick of me soon!!” and I replied “thats not possible!”
All I can say is THANK THE GOOD LORD for my Mom. I feel sad for all the ladies out there that have to do the first few weeks alone.
Slowly but surely I’m starting to get more and more confident with the kids and no help. My body is healing more and more everyday as well…weird that this time around I was VERY VERY sore and still feeling the side effects of my last csection. I can count 2 times when I have been alone with all 3 kids…yes I said 2…don’t judge me! haha And this was the first…
We were confided to a car so I don’t know if it really counts as being “alone”…BUT yes…thats me…Mom of 3! haha
And for now…I spend most of my days at home…watching this little face, savoring every minute she is a “newborn” because I’m going to blink and never have a newborn again.
I’m so pathetic that I went and bought more newborn sized diapers, even though shes big enough for size 1’s…but I just want her to be a newborn forever. haha
And I’m going to try and remember to take as many pictures as I can of us as a #FiveFamily
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