Today our daughter turns one month old. It also marks a month since my last post. Yikes! But my work gave me two weeks of family leave and it's taken the month to settle into the pace of three kids. Her name is Daisy. Sugarpop wanted a flower name and we came to the name Daisy and it just made us smile. And Sugarpop's favorite flower is the Gerber Daisy. Grace is her middle name and it's a spiritual concept very meaningful to Sugarpop.
But let me tell you, from this side of the fence, three is pretty fun. The boys, the Oh and Happy Elf, are loving there sister, smothering her with kisses and always wanting to hold her. We've become more of a family because of our little girl. And not just because as parents we are managing a trio instead of a duo. We feel fuller, knowing that the brothers have a sister, the sister has brothers, and we are blessed with sons and a daughter. It's just enough of happy controlled chaos that we can manage and continue to laugh. Even when Daisy releases her ballistic cry, the corn dogs in the oven are burning, and the Oh has just dropped a duce in his Batman skivvies, what can you do but laugh.
Sugarpop has been a champ. Radically sleep-deprived and left with the kids from 6 a.m.until I come home from work around 3:30. Her hormones pendulating on their destination to normalcy, while breastfeeding, pumping her milk for a surplus supply, and writing chapter 2 of her dissertation--she manages her upbeat disposition.
To paraphrase a song by Bowling for Soup: life with three kids "is not so bad at all!"
7 comments:
She is beautiful. Don't you just love when a new one arrives in your life and you feel like you have known them forever...and you have only been waiting for just that exact one.
Ann
We've always appreciated the fact that you "get" the child you are suppose to raise. That you are the exact parents that your child needs. Daisy was home for a day and it felt like she'd been with us forever!
Yep, I love that!!!
I know managing a family with three kids is a full time occupation and both the mom and the dad also have to work at a job. Hope you have time to keep posting because your posts always leave me smiling. Oh by the way, she is so cute, and is lucky to have such wonderful big brothers.
That hair! She's changed so much since I saw her last.
Tell Sugarpop that we want to come over and visit.
I've always shook my head in amazement that she's able to do all she does *and* with a smile on her face.
She is beautiful! Three is wonderful (we have 2 boys and 1 girl).
Wow, what a great post. Congratulations! Daisy Grace is beautiful name. And thanks for sharing your thoughts on becoming a family of five. I worry how having a third will change everything...but I like the idea of "feeling fuller" with three. :) Thanks.
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