All right All right

I tried something different with her hair, but you can't really see it.  It was cute!  She's such a cheeser!

My Alex.  He's such a chunk!  He's my smiley guy!

My little Aidan.  He will give me a smile every once in a while, but is still more serious.

I know it's been a while.  Again.  I just feel like I have no time to just sit down and blog.  But this is for mine and Ben's families.  Our family is doing good.  We're FINALLY adjusting to real life and it's actually been and okay transition.  Lilli is doing awesome with going potty in the potty.  I'm doing good with taking care of 3 kids by myself during the day (and at night).  Ben is continuing to do awesome at work, so I guess all in all, we're doing awesome.  I have to say that Lilli has been a good girl and let's me feed the babies without getting into too many things.  She listens better and I know that's due to an actual punishment when she does something wrong instead of just threatening.  We've definitely had to learn things as time passes, what works and what doesn't.  

Ben is leaving during the summer.  We're not sure where, or when, but he's leaving.  It's either for a month, or 2 months.  We find out next month.  He's also getting promoted to Staff Sergeant come the first of March.  We're pretty excited about that.  We're also changing career fields, if we can.  Kind of, but not really.  He'll still be doing what he does now, only in an airplane.  And he'll be gone a lot more.  I'm okay with it BECAUSE if we're staying in the Air Force, he'll have to be deployed at some point, and quite often anyway.  It's still going to be hard, but we've prayed about it and we both feel this is what we need to do.  It will take us to Offut AFB in Omaha, NE,  most likely.  Ben has some family there so that will be nice and we both feel like that's where we need to be.  Then, hopefully, going air borne will allow us to go overseas.  We're hoping to change to "air" here within the year.

Lilli is so funny.  She amazes me all the time.  She's so smart.  Last week, she got into something she wasn't supposed so I yelled at her.  She looks at me with big ole tears in her eyes and says, "Sometimes you make me sad. "  What do I say to that?  It was hilarious.  AND THEN, she was whining about something and I looked at her to get her to stop and she says, "Mom, just let me cry!"  Oh my goodness!  I had to turn around so she wouldn't see me, it was so funny!  I love that girl!  

Alex weighed in at a little over 9.5 lbs at his appointment last week.  What a chunk!  I put a onesie on him that 0-3 months and could barely get it over his big noggin.  Then when I finally got it on, it was skin tight.  It was so cute!  He's a cuddler.  He nuzzles his little nose in my neck.  I love it!  He smiles all the time.  And he works his magic.  He'll be crying in his swing, so I'll go to pick him up.  As soon as I pick him up, he gives a little smirk like he knows he just worked me.  I'm a sucker for his chunkiness!  

Aidan weighed in at a little over 8.5 lbs at the doctors.  He's not as big as Alex, but still just as cute.  He's just started smiling now and I love it.  He's still more serious, but Ben was like that when he was a baby.  He has this whining thing down.  It's so funny, sometimes.  He still feels so little to me and I love it!  He makes a lot of noises when he sleeps.  He's always groaning or something.  Both babies are so fascinated with Ben.  They'll stare at him for hours.  They're probably sick of looking at me.  Every 2 hours, at least.

I'm doing good.  Yesterday and the day before that were a little rough, but I'm doing good over all.  I have a good husband who gives me breaks and helps me out when he can.  We've all been sick.  First Lilli, then Ben, then the boys, and then me.  I was so sick 2 days ago with a migraine, chills, and little fever.  It really sucked, plus I had the babies and Lilli to take care of.  Ben had to sleep at some point.  I was definitely in survival mode that day.  Because of that, my milk supply has been really low.  It sucks because I'm drinking so much, I swear I constantly have a water jug in my face.  Hopefully it will come back soon.  I was proud of myself yesterday.  I cleaned the house (it was a disaster after 4 weeks of being sick) finally, PLUS I gave 3 kids baths all by myself.  I really felt a sense of accomplishment.  I know it's probably silly, but not to me.  I really felt good, especially coming from being deathly ill the day before.  Okay, not deathly, but pretty sick.  I'm hanging in there.  I love my little family.  They bring such joy into my life.  and they love me no matter what!