Hello world!

Look at me, doing a blog post and joining Facebook in the same week! I guess it's time for an update since it's only been four months.

I'll start with Liv. I can't believe she's already 4+ months old! She is doing great! I feel so blessed that she is so healthy and developing perfectly so far. In the last week she has started rolling over (multiple times so she ends up far away from where I put her) and grabbing things. She has also decided she doesn't like nursing from mommy. :( We'll see how long I can stand pumping... Usually she is a happy little person, but in the last two weeks she has screamed for an hour+ straight while being babysat (sorry Ang and Anne-Marie!). What a stinker! I told Adam she could write a book called, "How to Lose Friends and Frustrate People." At least she's good for me. Here are some recent pictures. She gets lots of attention from her adoring older sisters.

Sometimes she's painfully aware that being the third child is a little rough sometimes.

As for Emmy, she is absolutely 100% princess. She always has on at least one princess dress with any given array of accessories--necklaces, princess shoes, rings, bracelets, chapstick, purse, etc. And she refuses to respond to Emmy, insisting she be called Ariel. In just the last week she has decided she's interested in being potty trained! After cleaning poop out of her underwear one time last week (something I never had to do with Mini), I decided we're not going cold turkey. But she's doing great and is learning really fast. She has the cutest little idiosycrasies in her speech. Any "c" sounds like a "t," everything ends with ah, and she drops the s at the start of words. Her favorite word is "stinky" which sounds more like "tinky-ah."

She and Mini are best friends, which I love.

Mini turned 5 in January and is a fabulous older sister and cute little buddy for me. She loves to do the things I do--type on the computer, take pictures, fold laundry, cook, etc. She loves her preschool and is doing great with learning to read. She is just like I was as a little kid--always upside down, hanging from things, climbing up walls and driving her parents nuts. She is a good little athlete and loves biking on her bike she got for her birthday. I finally got my act together and took her and Emmy to the dentist last month. Mini had three cavities and now has a fancy silver tooth. I guess it's not always easy being the first child either, because I learned my lesson the hard way that flossing kids' teeth really is important!

She has developed quite the sense of humor and loves to do funny faces.

Our biggest news of the last while is that Adam took the Nevada Bar exam last week. Woo-hoo! And no, not woo-hoo for him taking the Bar. Woo-hoo that it's over. Hopefully forever. We all are so excited for him to not have to study every spare minute. Thanks to everyone who remembered him in your prayers. Hopefully he'll pass--we find out May 9. Until then we'll enjoy our oblivion and play hard!

Despite being so busy, he managed to find time to be a fun dad and get some exercise in.

As for me, I'm just trying to keep my head above water with three kids. They are wonderful and I am so grateful for the opportunity to be home. It is definitely challenging though and stretches me every day to be patient and organized and to prioritize what's most important. I'm not great at taking pictures of myself, but this one pretty much sums up my life.

And one of the whole family when we visited Hoover Dam.

Oh, and because I don't get enough time taking care of kids during the week, this is the primary class that Adam and I teach. They are so cute but count them! Yep, 13! 13 wonderful energetic, cooped-up-on-Sunday 5 year olds!