The Weekend

Friday the boys got to go to enchilada night for the first time!

There were many hands to hold the boys.  Here is Christiana with Thomas.

My mom’s older sister is in town for a few weeks, so Aunt Dee got to hold Michael.

Enchilada eaters:

I love love this one – Grandma with the very youngest Sturman.

I got a chance yesterday to take a picture of each of the sleeping boys.  Thomas:

Michael:

They spend a lot of time swaddled this days.  They both flail in their sleep, and they sleep so so so much better all wrapped up.  We even bought a few more of the fancy velcro swaddle blankets since regular ol’ blankets are apparently beyond our ability to origami burrito fold.

Joanna loves to snuggle her brothers, and she likes to hold them like this.  (She’s got Michael.)

Our Beasley friends who moved to Louisiana a while back were in town for the weekend and got to stop by and see the boys.  Josie, who is the same age as James, loves babies.  :)

They’re holding Thomas.

It was a pretty quick visit but so nice to see our friends!  I was glad to have some newborn twins to lure them over.  :)

The boys had a pretty rotten night last night.  They just couldn’t settle and neither Matt or I got much sleep.  They’re having good naps right now, so I’m hoping they got whatever it was out of their system.  :)

We still managed to get to church this morning.  It feels very good to slowly get back to doing normalish things, even if it’s hard!  We dropped the big kids off at Sunday School, and Matt and I took the babies to church with us.  With Matt’s help, I actually managed to nurse both boys at the same time during the sermon.  Wahoo!!  It’s so much easier on me when they eat at the same time, and I’m glad it worked out!

They were pretty crashed after that and even took a pretty good carseat nap.  Yay!

For anyone who thinks I may have it all together, let me tell you that I absolutely lost Natalie and almost James while walking out of church today.  So very thankful we were at church and surrounded by people who love us and watch out for us!

I’m definitely not ready to try and take all five of them anywhere else I think.  :)

I am pretty tired today and feeling kinda bluesy.  I’m very much hoping for some good nights for the boys.  It just makes all the difference.  I’m definitely ready to lose the bluesy feeling as well and not feel so anxious.  It takes time I know.  It hasn’t even been three weeks!  I don’t wish for the newborn period to pass by quickly; I will surely miss it when it’s gone.  But I do long for our new normal to set in.  I guess I wish for more control; I am she who likes to be in control.  I’m sure God is working on me in that area though.  He has been pretty much this whole year.