Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Amazing Support System

We are blessed with an amazing support system.  Even before Caroline was born we were being blessed by them - surprise baby showers - diapers, cute outfits, bows; gifts; hand me downs or good deals; our babysitters even offered to come watch the boys (for free) after she was born to give me a break when I needed one.  During delivery, we were able to have family watch the boys so we knew they were in good care and didn't need to worry about them while we focused on her arrival (and visits post her arrival.)  We have been blessed by many friends/family with dinner so we don't have to think about what we're going to eat (with leftovers for lunches!)  While we are blessed with an amazing support system - I am blessed with an amazing partner.  I want to brag on my incredible husband for a few minutes.  I'm so lucky that he is able to take a few days off from work to help us transition to a family of 6. Which is even more appreciated because Caroline is not a fan of sleeping in her bed at night and the boys are semi-early risers so I can sleep a little later with her while Tim gets up with the boys. Who am I kidding?  He has done just about everything with/for the boys! He even got up and mowed (with the boys awake) before I even woke up because it was the first break in the rain for awhile. Sure, things may not be done the way I would do them or like them done, but he is running the house so I can just relax with Caroline and take it easy. (I tend to not be very good at that sometimes, but he makes it easy for me to "sit around.")
The boys are already big fans of daddy, but Caroline also is a big fan.  In the hospital, she fussed for me post-delivery; but once the nurse wrapped her up and handed her to daddy she settled right down.
 Daddy settles her :)

Again this was a time when she was fussing for me (and I was going to try to eat dinner) so Tim took her and sat with her on the couch and she snuggled down into him and settled right down.



The boys love sitting on daddy's lap and holding Caroline:
I love this pic of David and Caroline because it looks like she is putting her finger on his mouth - LOL. 

David was been a wonderful little helper with her also. Actually, all the boys have - they want to see where Caroline is and check on her as soon as she starts to fuss.  Andrew and David attempt to "Shh shh shh" her if I'm not right there because they've seen me calm her by doing that. 

(These two pictures were first thing the other morning.  I came downstairs and the first thing out of Thomas and David's mouths were that they wanted to hold Caroline.)