St. Patty's

We had the leprechauns visit us at Grandma Salway's house because we were there visiting while Eric's brother's family was in town. Hayden made a trap (found HERE) a few days before so that he could catch a leprechaun. Every one knows that if you catch a leprechaun he has to take you to his treasure, but if he falls for your trap, but still gets away, he has to leave a part of his treasure behind. The kids set up the trap with bait (pennies) leading from the front door to the trap.

When they woke up, they found that they had leprechaun kisses all over! The milk was green, there were gummy worms in their cereal and shoes. What a silly leprechaun!



The leprechaun did fall in the trap and left a bunch of gold coins and lots of green and gold goodies. She also left a note saying,"Nice Try! Signed, Linda Leprechaun." We'll catch a leprechaun next year, for sure!!

Crew's first month

Crew has been such a good baby! I realized today that I am not taking nearly enough pictures of this cute little guy. Probably because the ones I do take don't turn out how I want them. (Heidi, help!?)

He is still tiny, but growing fast. Here is a picture of him at 10 days old in his winter outfit. It is HUGE on him! He looks like one of Maya's dolls.
He LOVES his swing. He would be content spending every moment of the day in there. The first time I put him in there, his eyes got huge and he made a scared face and it took him a good couple of minutes before he decided that he was ok with it. Maya will sometimes go and put the swing on FULL speed where it is swinging high and fast, and he gets that scared look again. He still doesn't cry, and that's the amazing thing!

Here's Crew's cousin, Cayden, born exactly 3 weeks after Crew. They look a lot alike, I think! I am excited for them to grow up together being the same age. It's so great to have cousins close to my kid's same ages.


Being a mom of three is, um, different. I was feeling brave and I ventured off to the grocery store. I put Crew in a sling and told Maya she could walk if she stayed close to the cart. I was feeling like a great mom-able to handle this like a champ, until Maya decided to put masses of snacks in to the cart faster than I could take them out. Then she ran to the other end of the store and gave me a look like, "Just try and get me. I dare you!" So I told Hayden to stay by the cart as I ran holding the baby sling in place and yelled at Maya to come here. Then she decided to dodge me going back and forth, around me, under me. "Fine!" I said, "We'll see you later."
Then the fun was over for her and she came and took my hand and walked with me to the cart. I had to put her in the cart after that because that is the punishment for running off, and she was NOT happy about that, so she screamed the whole rest of the trip. Yep. I looked like a great mom.

I waited for a few days before I decided to go out by myself again with all three by myself. When we did go, we went to the library, because honestly how bad would the kids (MAYA) be in the library for 20 minutes. Um, really bad, it turns out. Crew was in his stroller being his good ol' chill self and Hayden was being the sweet boy he always is and Maya was busy taking her shoes and socks off and hiding them in the book shelves and putting 5,000 random books in the stroller and climbing counters and SPRINTING to the front of the library exit (which leads to the street!) about 5 times. I wanted to climb under the tables. I could just see the librarians saying to themselves, "Doesn't this Mom know this is a library? She needs to keep her kids (MAYA) quiet!" I will think again before taking all three to the library. Probably won't happen any time soon.

But really, I am loving being a mom of 3. It's like Crew has been with us all along. I can't imagine life before he was here. How did I ever get along not knowing this little angel? Life is good.