Pediatrician and the mall ; )

Friends and Family! Thank you for all the sweet calls/texts/emails! I'm so sorry I've been so bad at responding. Three kids is more than two... haha ... and adjusting has been crazier than I thought! Most times I have no idea where my phone is, yesterday I thought it was Friday for most of the day, we're sleeping like 4 hours/night... eek! I guess switching your days/nights completely twice in 2 weeks is a bit harder than we'd anticipated! Hehe. We'll get there! My mom is here so that's been a big help and fun! And of course all of you have helped in so many ways. Thank you! We plan to rejoin civilization very soon! Hehe.

Since I can't seem to get it together enough to call you back and give you the in-person updates that are the best... the blog seems to be the best way to just let you know what is going on! Sorry for how impersonal this is! But better than nothing and completely having no access to the outside world I guess, right??? ; ))

Yesterday I took Kate to see our great pediatrician, Dr. Laue. He checked her out and she FREAKED out, which he thought was a great sign of her emotional and physical health! She got a flu shot too. He will wait to give her regular vaccines until we get back the labs saying which vaccines she has immunity to already... so we go back in a month. Then we came back and picked up my mom and the two big girls and headed to the mall to the play area and to chick fil a. These poor girls needed an outing! We saw Santa, and mom wanted them to get a pic with him. It was hilarious! Kate would have NONE of Santa. When we got home and evaluated the picture, Molly announced "Here's our picture with Jesus!" which was hilarious... we need to do some teaching on Christmas/Jesus/Santa apparently. It is all very confusing to them!!! Sweet girls ; ) One we believe in from childhood and we ask him for things and someday find out isn't real... and the other we don't believe in right away ... but He can actually give us all things- peace and joy and life! Interesting contrast when you think about it!

Here are some pictures from the day. Katie Taylor had brought some gingerbread cookie decorating supplies and my mom helped Anne with hers! Mom is an artist ; ) Hehe. What a fun project! And there are the girls with Santa, another of them before lunch in the food court, and the last of Kate in a cute turkey shirt that Kristi Wells (happy birthday, Kristi!) made for Molly a couple years ago. So fun to use it for our next little turkey! And a fun video of everyone feeding Kate ; )

Even though we are a tad dazed and confused, we are having a blast. Three little girls is just heaven and we are loving it. Sweet little blessings!