Mama Wood

I also had a birthday during our month of Craziness :) I turned 31! Saying that still makes me cringe a little bit. I think I will always in my head be about 23. I don't feel like I act much older than that, i'm sure that I don't LOOK like that anymore, but i can pretend. The fact that I have 3 kids now helps me with reality a LITTLE bit and makes me feel my age, but still.....31?!?!? tha's just rediculous :) I guess i'd better get used to it becuase it only gets worse from here......oh well....

SO.....for my birthday this year, I got a special treat: A home-made present from my sweet little boy.....

If you're wondering what he's holding....yes...that's a little blow torch :) And yes, he's wearing a head light.....

When scott asked lane what they should make for my birthday present, lane thoughtfully said...."We should make her some letters." Scott asked why? And lane explained that all the kids have their names in letter in their room...so they should make me some letters. Scott asked what they letters should say, and lane thought about it and said..."mama wood." Scott thought that sounded like a lot of letters to cut out, so they compromised on a "mama wood" sign :)


Wrapping up the sign (My sister was taking pictures....i didn't know what they were making out there)

whoa......watch out

Lane carried in my present and was excited for me to open it!

here is his, "What is it!?!?!" face.....:) he and lucy helped me un-wrap it

so cute....I decided to hang it upstairs and collect pictures of me and each of my kids over the years to put under it

i also got a sweet buckeye necklace!

party on....

good thing they didn't try and fill my cake with 31 candles

This was a good practice round for Lucy's birthday. She actually got into eating my cake more than her own.....i guess we spoiled the "messy cake fest" by giving her some cake on my birthday first

All in all a fun birthday party! One more year down.....excited to see what this next year brings!

Lucy is 1!

Lucy turned 1 during our month of craziness! Our little baby girl is DEFINATELY not a baby anymore :)
Lucy is a fun little girl, and if i had to sum her up with one word at this phase in her life it would be Sassypants. Ok that's kind of two words, but that's the only way to describe her. She is full of spunk, and stubbornness :) She is super smart, and is figuring out new things every day.... She loves stories, and wants to be read to every waking hour of the day, which would be great, except when I have to feed Macy and she tries to sit on her to have me read to her :) Lucy loves her big brother Lane and is getting more adventurous playing with him, (i.e. sword fighting and wrestling) She's a tough little girl, and will definately be able to hold her own in the world. She is turning into more of a home-body and loves to be held still. She LOVES shoes, and loves to go outside....

She's a fun little girl, with a great little laugh and an adorable smile. We love our little Lucy.

Happy birthday Lucy!

Waiting for her cake

after the candle was blown out (thanks for helping, big brother!)

taste testing

hair decorating

testing the waters

Lane testing out the giant gift bag gramma's present came in.

Gramma's present :) She has so much fun pushing it around and playing with the little groceries inside.

a new phone....."Hello??"

New shoes!!!! "YAAAY"

our 1 year birthday tradition.....

Lucy was not a big fan of the balloon crib....but she was a good sport for about a minute

Checking out her new "pretties"

waiting to open presents

Her "cake" Lane and our niece ET helped paint all the little cupcakes. Thanks guys!

Halloween

We had a low-key halloween this year, carved pumpkins and went to the ward halloween party. No trick or treating, but the kids didn't seem to care...

Lane was a Knight/dragon slayer

He's so funny with his dress up stuff lately. He'll get all dressed up, and then take his mask or hat off and say, "it's just me, lane!!"

Lucy was a ballerina? I don't know what she was, I just made her an enormous tutu and put a flower in her hair :)

Lucy was really excited about suckers this year

Carving pumpkins....

Scott and his pumpkin

Carol and her pumpkin

Lane and his pumpkin. I was really impressed with lane this year. We gave him a marker and had him draw his own face on his pumpkin and we just cut out what he drew. I thought he did a great job!

Lucy had fun playing with the "guts"

Cleaning out the pumpkins. Lane only stuck his hand in there once, and then wouldn't do it again so we had to clean out his pumpkin :)

The finished products. I thought it was funny that scott and my pumpkins were almost identical. We didn't even look at each other's while we were carving and we turned them around and they were like the same face!!

Great minds think alike :)

Alive

Yes, we are still alive :)

Barely!

Definately has been a crazy month. Here's a recap.....sans pictures becuase that would just take way too much effort....(sorry mom)

Recap:

Macy Born

Halloween

flooded bathroom/kitchen

sicknesses galore

my birthday

Lucy's birthday

My sister came to save me for 2 weeks

A hospitol stay for old times' sake

binky battles

lots of playing

lots of laundry

lots of general craziness!!!

Life with 3....2 being babies......is definately crazy. Someday i'll get the hang of it, and then all of them will change and i'll have to learn how to do it all over again :)

Someday i'll put some more pictures on here, but blogging is definately taking a backseat these days

Wish us luck :)

Ready or not.....

Introducing.....FINALLY.......

Macy Christine Wood.

Born Wed Oct 20, 2010 3:04 PM

7 lbs 13 oz 18 in long

Meeting big sister, Lucy. Lucy has actually been really good with her, and not wanting to attack her all the time like we expected. She has a word for baby, but it sounds alot like her word for "kitty" I think she's still a little confused at what Macy is really...but she loves to look at macy and watch her.
Lane holding Macy. He loves to hold her!

Coming home in her little car seat..

Still at the hospitol

Lane came with Scott to pick us up from the hospitol. Lane brought me some daisies...my favorite!! He thought my hospitol bed was VERY cool, and was more interested in making it move than his little sister :)

Some eyes! I think she looks different than the other two as a newborn. She definately has the "Wood nose" But she has different eyes and mouth than the others. Poor little girl had bruises ALL over her face from such a fast delivery. Her whole forehead and both cheeks were purple for about 2 days :) She's recovering quickly though and doesn't look like Rocky too much anymore

Right after she was born. The

Me and scott before we headed to the hospitol wed morning. The nursing staff all liked my shirt. :) I figured it was a good time to wear it since it would be the LAST time in a while.....

Little cutie.....

So far, Macy has been a really sweet baby. She rarely cries and when she does it's just one or two cries to let you know she's awake or hungry. She's very mellow, and is starting to be more alert when she decides to wake up. She sleeps a TON and loves to snuggle. Its a little crazy to think that we have 3 little kids now! Lane and Lucy are doing well, though I think they're a little stir crazy from being in the house for days on end now. Hopefully they'll forgive us for keeping them cooped up :)

It might be a while before I post again so enjoy the pics!! :)

randomness

My poor camera has a big fuzz patch on half the screen, and I can't take it apart becuase it's INSIDE the lense....so that's the big smudge in the bottom right corner.......oh well...

me and lucy. Lucy looks a little out of it in this one

Uncle Dave sent Lane a 'hunting knife" don't worry it's fully dulled :)

i'm not sure why he wanted to eat an apple with it...he said it was from a movie?
Lucy getting a ride on daddy's shoulders....Her pigtails are getting longer :)

Action shot....running away from daddy.....she's getting pretty fast!

Don't worry

Yikes....

haven't had the baby yet......Here's the 39 week obligatory pictures......i compared these to my lane and lucy preggo pics from around the same time and i'm pretty convinced that I am the biggest with this one....