Fun Day!

We started the day out with no real plans and that quickly changed. We met a the K family at a local learning store and that was an adventure! I am watching the 17 kids and Counting show. I LOVE this show. I would love to have a ton of kids - maybe not 17 but a couple more would be fun! Daddy Piper is happy with our family of 5. I am complete if I can't have anymore but think I can talk him into just 1 more?? The baby was born via a c-section. It brought back a flood of memories of my c-section with Baby J - which was such a scary time in our lives. I am so thankful he is here safe and sound! So back to our day. We looked at some fun things for homeschooling. I bought a book and some tanagrams to work on things with L. It was very chaotic at the store though. Next time all walking kids will stay home with their dads :-) After that fun (NOT!) experience, we were off to Wal-Mart, which I have grown to hate and even more so at Christmas time. It was pure HELL. So many people and rude and not even registers open, just crazy. Daddy Piper needed oil and Wal-Mart is the cheapest place to get it so that's why we went there. Right when we got there, we hit the restroom to avoid the ol' "gotta go potty" routine a mile away from the restrooms. After that stop, we got a snack and proceeded to get our stuff. L & S scored some fun Christmas socks and Baby J got a cute "First Christmas" onesie. We headed over to the oil, where a gallon of oil fell on my leg and covered my jeans and shoes in oil - YUCK! Finished our shopping and headed home. It was a nice morning. After the kids napped (which I spent working on a calendar I won via the stlmommy.com blog - WOOHOO!!), L and I worked on a Christmas craft, a glitter Christmas tree! It was fun to work on something like that together - it always is fun to do projects with L!!

Baby J has been way more awake lately. My pump came back from one of my best friends in MN today so I got to pump some milk tonight (got an ounce and a half in about 5 minutes) and Baby J got his first bottle ever. S never took a bottle so it was nice to see Baby J take one willingly. He wasn't too happy though when that ounce and half ran out and quickly latched onto Mama wanting more. I remember being so upset when L took a bottle, it truly broke my heart to see her get milk from something other than me. I didn't have that feeling tonight - all I thought was "FREEDOM!".Baby J had a cute smile but my camera caught his eyes closed DARN!

Getting that first bottle!

I participated in a stocking swap via this blog and my stuff came in the mail today. It'll be fun to have surprise stuff in my stocking come Christmas Morning!!

Okay I need to get the dishes done and get ready for bed while all 3 are sleeping. We don't have plans tomorrow so I hope to get some stuff prepared for Christmas. Can you believe it is only 2 more nights until Santa comes????