Back to Work

I started back to work last week, so it has been hard to find time to post. The transition wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be though. Lake has a great babysitter, so that makes it so much easier. We have finally found a routine that seems to be working. Lake turned two months old on Sunday. I can't believe how fast the time has gone. He is starting to hold his head up for longer periods of time and always has a smile for his mom. He is still waking up during the night, but so did the girls at this age. At least it isn't every two hours anymore. The girls are still in love with him. I can't believe how much easier it has been having Hannah to help. She is the best big sister to him. When I pick him up from the babysitter he always has a big smile for her. So many people told us how hard three kids would be, but actually it hasn't been much different. The only real noticeable difference is the lack of time to be able to do personal things like blog, scrapbook, etc. Meredith is now 31/2. She is the cutest thing, but is quite the handful. Our kids never hit the terrible twos, but holy threes. Something about talking back just drives me crazy. She is also Miss Independent and wants to do things that are not possible for her to do by herself. She is really enjoying preschool. Her teacher informed Josh that she is the only child who nurses her babydolls at school. Just pulls up her shirt and pretends. I call it being resourceful. You never have to look for a bottle that way. Hannah is doing great in 2nd grade. She has a wonderful teacher and I think that makes all of the difference. She is at that age where she doesn't like any of her clothes that I pick out, yet will pick out an outfit that doesn't match at all. She doesn't like for any attention to be drawn to her in any way. Here are some pictures from the last two weeks. We'll have lots of Halloween pictures soon.

Check out this great smile!
Meredith loves her little brother!
Kitten for a day. Kind of like rent a kitten. It just

showed up in our garage, so we let Meredith play with it for a couple of hours.