Birthday Week

We've survived another week at the Cannon household of 6. On Monday Jeff and Janet drove up to return our kids to us. They spent the evening visiting with us and met baby Ryan. I made my pumpkin birthday cake a few days early so we would have someone to share it with. It was fun to have a visit from them. My kids sure love their Nana and Papa.

 I took the girls to story time on Tuesday. By the time we were getting out of there I felt like that might have been a bit ambitious. That night I went to enrichment for just a bit as Scott had an elders quorum meeting that night. We've had some rough nights and rough days but things are already getting smoother around here. For several nights in a row Ryan only wakes up twice to eat and goes back to bed so that is great. I think he will be really easy to sleep train as he is a very laid back baby. He should be sleeping through the night in no time. I can't wait for that, I don't do well without sleep.I just love this baby and think he is so cute and sweet. We end up sleeping together for several hours every night as we both sleep better that way. I figure he will be sleeping through the night soon enough so I am going to enjoy our little cuddling time for now.

Wednesday was my birthday. We all went to Tucanos with our family for lunch. With my birthday coupon and with kids 6 and under eating for free we fed our whole family including tip for $18. Amazing. They lost money on us for sure! I don't know if they've seen a 5 year old consume so much meat. Corbin loves that place, that little carnivore. That night Gabe and Christy brought us dinner and a Marie Calendars coconut cream pie, oh my! They stayed and visited for a bit and it was great. They made my birthday for sure!

Ryan got circumcised on Thursday. That was horrible! I hate that. Corbin got circumcised in the hospital and I think that is way better. It's already done and over and healing right away. To have to anticipate it and deal with it later is much worse in my opinion. I ended up just dropping him off while they did the procedure. I did not want to be in the doctors office and listen to that! It would break my heart. It is looking much better now but ouch, just ouch is all I have to say about that.

On Saturday I went out with some of my friends for a birthday breakfast. We went to Kneaders. I love their breakfasts so much. That was fun. Afterwards we went to Hobby Lobby and I got supplies to finish my enrichment craft from Tuesday night.

Things are good. The kids have responded great to Ryan. They mostly just ignore him which is fine by me. I went in the office to get Ryan today when he started crying and Corbin was in there and said, "he's been driving me nuts." Ha.  Gabby gets frustrated when I am feeding Ryan because it takes forever and she almost always wants me to be doing something for her or with her. "I've been waiting for so long" is a common phrase coming from her mouth. Piper doesn't act phased by the new addition at all. If he cries she will say, "baby crying." She also says, "baby, brother." That is about all. Scott leaves for Texas for a few days so I am on my own, wish me luck.

He is starting to fill out a bit.

Tummy time.

Papa time.

Sleeping time.

This girl cracks me up.

I started working on my craft and my kids had to join in. They helped me paint the blocks.

Finished project.