sweet boy

this little guy has been such a good baby. he eats like a champ, and sleeps like an angel. he pretty much only cries when he wants something. i guess he's making up for all the miserable months of morning sickness.

he really likes sleeping in the sling. i love this because i can go out with him and he'll just sleep soundly- i get my hands free and still get to hold him! bohdan is 6 months today! i can't believe it's been 6 weeks. this is my first week by myself with all three kids. so far no trips to the er, calls to poison control, or temper tantrums (by me or the girls).

bumpin' up and down in my little red wagon

for corinne's birthday she got a red wagon from my parents. so, ted and i took them for a walk on sunday. they were all excited to be off, tucked in with blankets and their juice boxes (they had to have something to put in their cup holders). as we headed out, corinne was singing "bumpin' up and down in my little red wagon" over and over again.

our little man

it's been 3 weeks since bohdan was born and i'm finally getting around to blogging about it. i have to admit of all 3 kids, besides the pregnancy, bohdan has given us the least amount of drama. i was admitted into the hospital at 10 am on wednesday, august 25. we started off in the larger of the 2 "closets". they started me on pitocin and shortly after i was given a regular labor and delivery room. things went pretty smoothly and bohdan was born at 9:38 pm.

this was after i got the epidural. feeling much better at this point.

i was so glad rami could watch the girls for us so my mom could be present for the birth. the next day my mom brought ella and corinne in to meet their new brother.

he's a pretty sweet little boy. he puts up with all kinds of yelling, screaming, kisses, love "pats"...

we can't help but love him.

after bohdan was born and the nurse brought me some dinner, ted was holding bohdan for the first time. they were "discussing" all kinds of things. it was really cute to see ted with his little boy for the first time.

jillian, jillian, jillian jiggs...

...maker of wonderful, marvelous pigs. every christmas ted's great aunt sends the girls books. it's a tradition she has kept going for quite a while as i understand she used to send them to ted and his siblings as well. the girls absolutely love the books! this year, one of the books she sent was "the wonderful pigs of jillian jiggs".

it's about a little girl and her younger sister who make "millions and zillions" of pigs to sell. of course, she adores the pigs and finds that she can't part with them in the end. for the past few weeks this has been the bedtime story of choice. the girls became really excited at the prospect of nona making piggies for them! (there are directions for making a pig in the back of the book). so, today my mom, the girls and i headed out to the craft store to buy materials for pigs.

we decided to make the girls' pigs resemble them.

they were pretty excited about the pigs...

however, we won't be making millions and zillions of them!

still my baby

so lately, i've been going back and forth as to whether ella has officially outgrown her naps. often when i put the girls down together for their nap they keep each other up and play. this is unfortunate because corinne really needs the sleep. well, yesterday my mom and i let ella stay up and have some quiet time while corinne took a nap. i was sitting at the kitchen counter chopping strawberries while my mom did prep work for dinner. after a while i turned around to check on ella and this is what i found. apparently she still needs the sleep, too! even though we're about to have a newborn, she's still my precious baby!

oh fun!

promptly following ella's cold, we discovered that corinne had picked up head lice somewhere (still not sure where!). this is definitely NOT what i wanted to be dealing with at any point in time least of all being 9 months pregnant and expecting another tiny head!

thankfully we were able to eradicate the little pest quickly! we did a 2 pronged approach using the over-the-counter shampoo and the smothering technique with this deep conditioning treatment. i told the girls that we were doing princess hair and they were totally into it! one plus is that their hair is so shiny.

get well soon

several weeks ago ella came down with a cold. i had ted pick up a few things from the store on his way home from work one day that week and he came home with "get well flowers" for ella. she was so tickled that daddy bought HER flowers. she wanted to see them all the time! i love my sweet husband!!!