Little Eisley girl turned one month old on January 22nd! I cannot believe that a month went by so quickly!

She is just the best baby. She sleeps about 7-8 hours at night and often during the day. She loves be held, loves to eat and loves to be around the family. She has the cutest little expressions and is the best snuggler in the world.

She has completely changed our family for the better and we love her so much! I cannot imagine life without her now! She’s just my tiny little love and I am so thankful for her!

This week just made us laugh at Eisley. All of a sudden one day, she went from a newborn baby who didn’t really notice anything to interacting with the world around her and she had the biggest eyes the entire time she was awake. Ha!

We have always adored our dear friends Clint and Leigh Ann but we adore them even more now! They have been sending big boxes of the most precious baby girl clothes for Eisley and I just can’t even tell you how sweet it is to me to dress my baby girl in some of the same clothes that some of our favorite girls have worn. We are so thankful for them!!

I love sweet baby coos. Eisley is BY FAR my most calm, contentedly quiet baby but she will burst out into some sweet little sounds every so often. Usually when the boys are down and it’s just me and her hanging out. 😉

In VERY BIG NEWS, Nathan learned how to tie his shoes!! We have been working on it off and on for a few months and one day out of the blue, he just decided he was going to do it and he practiced for about three hours and finally did it! He was so so proud! And I was so proud of him for trying so hard!

He had to put his shoes on with his pajamas that night just so he could tie the shoe with it on his foot. 😉 He has just grown up so much in the last couple of months – I can’t believe how big my first baby is!

I’m not going to lie. This little man has had a ROUGH time adjusting to his little sister. Bless his heart. She came right when he was entering the terrible twos and cutting back molars. Add in all the Christmas craziness and company in and out of town and it just made for a pretty rough few weeks with our mama’s boy who isn’t super excited about change.

Praise the Lord, though, it has finally been getting warm enough to play outside! We finished our landscaping of the backyard last summer and we have been LOVING it this year. The boys go out there and often don’t come back inside until dinner. It’s worth every penny and every drop of sweat we poured into it. 😉

We went out to dinner at Pei Wei right after my birthday and it was the BEST time. The kids behaved, the food was delicious, Eisley slept the entire time and the boys were just cute as can be. I love when I can see the future of what eating out is going to be like! Ha! Right now, I always have mild anxiety attacks trying to weigh the balance of whether it’s worth it to eat out since it costs so much and Parker can be a handful. Which means that if we eat out, we usually just go to CFA, where they can run and play and not bother anyone.

Nathan had the great idea to get a to-go box and then go fill it up with fortune cookies. He was so proud of himself. Ha!

They both thought they were hilarious with the burp rags over their shoulders. They need them with this little love. She gives her brothers runs for their money when it comes to the quantity of spitting up. 😉

“Hey, what happened to the chair??! Wait… Oh yeah…”

Morning snuggles. Love this picture. She has her brothers’ hearts, that is for certain!!

Sweet little love about to get in the tub for the first time!

Eisley’s first bath was a family event. Ha! The boys were so excited. 😉 I think it made her seem even more “real” to the boys when she was doing something that they do.

Little Miss LOVED her bath. She still absolutely loves her baths and only cries when she gets out. She’s definitely a bath girl!! I wish you could bottle the smell of sweet baby skin cleaned with lavender and vanilla soap. I’m pretty sure heaven will smell like that.

In the beginning of nursing when it took Eisley longer to eat, I would try to stay awake during the night sessions by taking quizzes I found on Facebook. This one just made me laugh. OF COURSE. 😉

We love visiting my beautiful sister at work! This was her last day at Starbucks in town before she transferred to one in California. There have been lots of tears in my house over this. We love Aunt Cayce so much!

My babies. This three kid thing isn’t easy or a walk in the park by any stretch of the imagination, but I wouldn’t trade the exhaustion, joy and tears for anything in the entire world. I look at these little faces and I just get completely overwhelmed by how blessed we are. Thank you, Jesus!

My grandmother came in town just before Eisley’s one month birthday and met her first and only great-granddaughter. 🙂

Love this so much!!!

My boys adore their great-grandmother so they were completely overjoyed to see her!

I’m not even sure how this started but a long time ago, my parents showed Parker the ending of Secretariat
where he wins the Triple Crown. Ever since then, Parker has been
obsessed with the ending of the movie and with the song “Oh Happy Day”. Ha! He will
randomly just burst into the song in the weirdest of places.

He starts grinning the second Secretariat comes onto the screen. 😉

Nathan adores his little sister. He is constantly right in her face or right beside her and he’s always telling her how beautiful she is. 🙂 Love that. I hope he is always so encouraging of her!

Love this. 🙂

There’s a park close to my parents’ house and Pops took the boys there one day while Nama was in town while the girls had some girl time. My little Parker Bear is so happy underneath all the toys. 😉

This little face. She is growing so fast that I feel like I can barely keep up!!

On the last day Nama was in town, we were getting ready to go out to lunch and Parker started throwing up. He spent the next twenty-four hours getting sick and then like a switch, was back to normal right at lunch time the next day. Poor kid. He had a rough few weeks of sickness there.

I snuck out that night after Parker went to bed and spent the last night with Nama. Four generations! I am so blessed to have these women in my life. 🙂

I took this on January 11th, Eisley’s due date and the day before she turned three weeks old. 🙂 Little love has totally changed our lives in those three weeks!

This little man has had a rough couple of weeks. On the day before Nonnie and Papa O left, he started running a fever and ran one for the next two days. I took him into the doctor on Wednesday and found out he had Hand Foot Mouth disease. How he got this when we’ve been so careful to avoid places with lots of children is beyond me, but he was very miserable for a few days there. 🙁

Keva Juice was about the only thing that made him smile. Poor little man. I prayed and prayed that Eisley and Nathan would stay well!! Jesus was so kind to keep them well!!

I went to change Eisley’s diaper and saw something was missing… 😉 Nathan had been waiting so anxiously and checking multiple times a day to see if she still had her cord, so as soon as she lost it, I had to call him in right away. He was so excited. Ha!

Little cordless girl! She’s getting so big so quickly!!

I was holding her one night and looked down and just had this huge deja vu moment, so I took a picture and then went back through my pictures of Parker as a baby. On the left is Parker, on the right is Eisley – they look SO similar!! Eisley is a lot smaller than Parker, which is hard to see in pictures, but otherwise, they looked like the same kid. She changes a little each day, so I’m so curious to see what she’s going to end up looking like!

Parker was thankfully well enough to go to a very special acrobat show a few days later! We went with Gammy and Pops and had such a great time!

Before the show started. 🙂 Nathan LOVED it. Parker again had his hands over his ears the whole time. 😉 We went out to Olive Garden afterward and the kids pretty much ate the table. Ha! We had the best time!

I walked in late that afternoon and found them sitting like this watching Veggie Tales. So cute. They bicker and fight like cats sometimes but they absolutely adore each other and I just love seeing that!

Little Eisley girl is usually asleep most of the morning and early afternoon and then about 4PM, she wakes up and is super alert and awake for most of the evening. So funny how she’s kept her same routine from in the womb! I would never feel her until the afternoon and then she would kick like crazy until I went to bed. 🙂 I kiss those cheeks so much I’m amazed they are still there. 😉

Nonnie and Papa O came to meet sweet Eisley girl and we kept it quiet from the boys that they were coming. 😉 The boys were super surprised and excited to see them!

Love this of Nonnie meeting Eisley for the first time!!

Some Parker Bear love. 🙂

We had our sweet friend Sarah come take newborn pictures of Eisley. She definitely peed all over my wedding dress, but we got some beautiful pictures out of it! #worthit 😉

Since we were all dressed up for the pictures, Nonnie and Papa O decided to treat us all to a super nice dinner and we went to a hibachi grill for the first time with the kids.

Ha!! Nathan was in total awe!

Parker spent 90% of the dinner cooking time like this. 😉

 Me and my Jon. 🙂

Jon got this picture and it just made me start laughing. Look at the boys! Ha!!

Dying. I am dying. Ha!!

Such a wonderful trip with Nonnie and Papa O! And such a fun first experience with the boys! As we left, Nathan declared that he knew where he was coming for his birthday dinner. 😉

Since Eisley was born early, Jon got to be home for three weeks before he had to go back to work! We were SO so so thankful (especially since this recovery was a little more difficult). On one of the days, though, he got to close on his first house as a realtor, so our dear friends, the Beechem girls, came over to play and help out – such a blessing!! Love these friends all in their jammies!

Little dimples on a precious little girl!

We have been so so blessed by so many wonderful people who have brought dinner, stocked our freezer, helped out with the boys and done so much sweet things for us! I’m just overwhelmed by the amount of love that has been poured on us. We are so blessed!

Guys. I sincerely hope this girl isn’t claustrophobic because there is really a minute that goes by that she doesn’t have at least one, if not two, kids right in her face. 😉

Cleaning out the tubs in the garage is really just a good excuse to pretend to be race car drivers. 😉 These two just make me laugh.

Nighttime baby snuggles. Love my sweet girl.

We got an infant insert for her car seat and I think she likes it a little better! She still hates her car seat but it’s a little more comfy than it was. 😉

Nathan was so proud that he got to hold Eisley how Jon holds her. 😉 He laid like that for a long time, just snuggling and talking to her. So, so sweet.

I can barely stand the way he’s looking at her – so, so sweet!!

SO much to catch up on here!! I’m going to be back-dating a few posts just to keep everything in order. 😉

Just before New Years, we had a HUGE snowstorm that dumped the best packing snow ever in our yard. Nathan was so excited!! Parker was a little more okay with the snow, but it’s still not his favorite. 😉 They built a snowman, named him Frosty and checked on him every single day of his two-plus week existence in our backyard until the day Parker came in and told me “Fwosty died.” Ha!

This is what I did while they played in the snow. I think I got the better deal. 😉

Baby sister is one week old! Fastest, busiest, craziest week of my whole life.

Snuggles with Daddy on his time off. Love this.

Milk coma faces are always the very best!!

 This kid adores his little sister with every fiber of his being.

Just for the fun of it, I did a little app that lists the “Best Nine of 2015”, or the most liked instagram posts I did for the entire year of 2015. I think it’s safe to say that pink kind of took over a little bit. 😉

We spent New Years Eve at home in our jammies – first one we haven’t been with family in as long as I can remember! But it was so nice to just be home after the insanity that was our Christmas week! We watched a Netflix countdown for the boys and then sent them off to bed.

Happy New Years, baby girl.

The boys were completely, 100 percent into the parade the next morning. I think Parker watched every second of it! And every time it went to a commercial, he started panicking and trying to find the “mote” so we could change it back to the parade. Ha! They had to reenact the parade right away and thought every single band looked like a bunch of Nutcrackers. 😉 At one point, there was a Disneyland float and you would have thought they were looking at a picture of heaven by how they both stared at the screen. 😉

Wide awake baby girl!! Eisley is such a good sleeper and spends most of her days asleep, but she has stretches of awake time that are just so precious!

Drunk little smiles. Love how she squishes up into her pre-birth positions still!

With all the busyness right after she was born, I know I overdid it several times. The week after she was born, I was in so much pain again, I couldn’t get out of bed by myself. I came out of the room and found this note from Nathan on the counter. It says, “Mom, I am sorry”. I just burst into tears. Such a sweet heart, my biggest boy has.

This little love is worth every second of pain, though!! Precious girl!

Our Christmas was a little different than we expected. 😉

We woke up on Christmas morning after spending our first night at home with little miss Eisley. 🙂 She did great! The boys came running in to see her (Nathan was up SUPER early to come check her out) and I was completely flashing back to this moment only 21 months ago…

Time goes by too fast!!

We stayed in our jammies and drove over to Gammy and Pops’ house. Santa brought the boys new bikes and they were ecstatic.

Parker didn’t get off his most of the morning. 😉

Waiting not so patiently to open presents after our breakfast feast! 🙂

Uncle Bryant and baby Eisley. Love this. 🙂

It’s present time!! We were all spoiled with so many wonderful things!

Baby Gabriel. 🙂

Parker had totally warmed up to Eisley by this point and asked to hold her approximately 1,865 times that day. 🙂

Girl time. 🙂

By this point, both Jon and Eisley were exhausted. 😉

Love this!! There were seriously babies EVERYWHERE. Caleb and Nicole’s little Hudson is four weeks older than Eisley and Gabriel is only 5 months old. It was so fun!!

Merry Christmas – I love my little family. 🙂

The whole lot of us!! I adore this picture!! We kind of exploded with kids this year – such a huge blessing!!

The obligatory cousin picture – poor sweet Gabriel could barely breathe in the middle and Parker kept yelling “CHEESE STICK!!” while we were trying to take the picture. Ha!

My babies. My heart.

Things were such a zoo at my parents’ house and I was so tired from the c-section, that I didn’t get nearly the pictures I was hoping to get!! 🙁

The next morning, we woke up and did our little Christmas just the five (!!!) of us at home. 🙂 Two little boys in their new Christmas jammies were ready to go! (When I bought these at the beginning of December, I almost bought a pair of newborn matching girl ones but decided that she was definitely not going to be here for Christmas…should have gone with the first instinct!)

Sweet boy. 🙂 He loved the Star Wars wrapping paper too.

My Parker Bear. 🙂

We headed back over to Gammy and Pops’ house often while Caleb and Nicole were here and this little girl was such a trooper!! Her first week of life was just straight insanity, but she did fantastic through it all. 🙂 It’s been wonderful having this week to settle in and start figuring out how we are going to do this three kid thing. 😉

So thankful again for your prayers!! We cherish them! And we continue to pray for you!!

We spent two nights in the hospital with our sweet Eisley – so thankful for our healthy girl and the ability to go home a little earlier!

She got her first bath in the middle of the night and loved it – my girl loves having her hair washed! Since she was all nice and clean, we had to put her in her new jammies. And a bow. 😉

Love this… Daddy and his little girl. She had just had her bath and was about the sweetest thing in the whole world.

Sweet little smiles on her first morning out of the womb. Oh, how I love this girl!

 Eisley’s first visitor was Auntie Cayce! Love this of the two of them.

About mid-morning, my parents brought the boys to meet their new sister. Oh my heart! I just loved this. Nathan ran in SO excited. Parker did not know what to do with me in the bed and all the cords everywhere, bless his heart. He was very nervous about everything.

Proud big brother. He was so excited for this little girl! He barely let anyone else hold her the entire time he was at the hospital. 😉

Parker was still very nervous of this little baby. Sweet boy.

 Gammy and Pops finally got a turn. No thanks to Nathan, who was begging to have her back the whole time. 😉

Parker finally started warming up to Eisley and even sat with me for a few minutes, at least until he noticed the IV coming out of my hand and immediately got off the bed. So hard! I hated seeing him so overwhelmed!

Our family!! I love this!! 🙂

The boys left and Dad finally got his turn again. 😉 I was a little bit of a baby hog at the hospital (who am I kidding – I’m still hogging her. I know how quickly time flies now!!), so Jon took advantage of any minute I couldn’t hold her.

Finally got my IV capped off and my catheter out! Time to hit the hallways with this little love to get Mama well enough to go home!

Uncle Bryant and Auntie Nicole brought dinner and snuggled sweet Eisley for awhile that night!

The next morning was Christmas Eve and several news stations around town have a tradition of coming and videoing all the newborns in the hospital inside stockings. Sweet little girl looked so tiny inside hers! And this was so fun for Jon – his birthday is November 30th and when he was born, the hospital he was at put all the newborns in stockings as well. Such a special thing for them to share!

We were very nervous that we wouldn’t get to go home until Christmas morning since the hospital usually has a policy that you have to be there for 48 hours after a c-section. We begged and pleaded and sweet talked every nurse and doctor we saw to let us go home early so we could spend Christmas morning with the boys and Eisley. Ha! I think everyone was so tired of us asking constantly that they finally just agreed to let us leave on Christmas Eve afternoon. 😉 Seriously though, we had the sweetest nurses ever! And I definitely started crying when they told me we got to go home and celebrate Christmas with our whole family together!

Precious baby doll was ready to go home! I about died putting this outfit on her – so much girly sweetness!!

Having a little chat with Daddy while we waited for our discharge paperwork.

One beautiful baby girl and one mama ready to get home!

Little peanut in her car seat!! She’s by far the tiniest little love we’ve ever had in here! 🙂

Baby girl was so happy to be home in her own bed! Funny story – since we thought we had two more weeks before she was coming, we had just ordered her pack ‘n play a few days earlier. Thankfully it arrived and was sitting on our porch when we drove up from the hospital! Ha!

We showered quickly and then drove over to my parents’ house. The boys were still over there, Bryant and Nicole, Caleb and Nicole and Cayce were all there as well for our Christmas Eve dinner. And someone was finally super excited to see his mama and baby sister…

Oh how I love my sweet babies!!