Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Reality Checks

   Overall, we are adjusting well to becoming a family of five. The boys are eating and sleeping well...with the occasional sleepless night. Cami loves to hold and touch her brothers and really hasn't shown jealousy towards these new little bundles of joy. However, you have to take the good with the bad, and right when I start to feel like we have things under control, a little reality check is sent my way.
  Sometimes a reality check will look like this:
 Or this:

  The first and my favorite of our reality checks happened shortly after we came home from the hospital. Both boys were just hanging out and Cami was playing with her blocks. I confidently said to Bryan, "Go take a nap. We'll be fine."
 A few minutes later, I decided to check the boys diapers. I set Grant in a crib, and put Jace on the changing table. Cami was still playing in the front room. I took off Jace's diaper, forgetting the rule of always keeping his man parts covered, and instantly he shot pee behind his head, which conveniently landed all over Grant. He also sprayed poop the other way, getting all over the wall, other crib, sheets and changing table. I sighed and kind of laughed and started to clean it up.
 I then realized that I hadn't heard from Cami in a few minutes. I went up to the front room and found her in the kitchen, like this:

 She thought it would be fun to dump out a whole box of cereal on the floor to eat. Bryan's nap was short-lived to say the least.
 It was then that I quickly realized things will be a little crazy here for a while, but luckily it will teach us to laugh and make some "fun" memories.