Chad's Blessing Day.

This past Sunday, John along with family and friends blessed our son. It was great to have all of our family traveling such long distance to support us on a very special day.

Chad is 2 months is just so darn cute!! He really is such a good baby. All he needs is lots of milk and a clean diaper, and all is well. He sleeps pretty much through the night. I think it's because he's got three sisters who fight to hold him during the day time so he doesn't really get to nap peacefully. So night time he takes advantage of sleeping without interruption.

He's beginning to smile and make super cute baby noises when we baby talk to him. He's just growing along accordingly, with cute baby chubs and all. I still cannot believe that I have a son. I am really enjoying him each and everyday. I love that Buffy, Chloe and Piper just adore him. I walked in on all three of them trying to change his poopy diaper. Poor little guy, he's going to have all these little mothers smoothering him.

Chloe

Chloe: "Mom, do you know why snails are so slow?"

Jackie: "No, why are they so slow baby girl?"

Chloe: "Because they don't have a brain."

Jackie: "How do you know they don't have a brain?"

Chloe: "Because I smashed them and I did not see a brain."

What a great summer!

I cannot believe how fast this year has gone by, school has started and our family have had a great and busy summer. Between swimming lessons, birthday parties, beach parties and family get together that it hardly felt like we had time off at all. My kids spend 3/4 of the summer in the pool and the other 1/4 of the time at the beach. The girls are very happy to be back at school. Since Buffy and Chloe are both in schools, I now have 2 kids at home. Buffy loves being at school and if it was up to Chloe, I would be with her in school all day.

We celebrated Chad turning a month by going to Disneyland. We all had a great time, Chad slept the entire time we were there.

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"We are DEVO!"

English Beat

Lead Singer of English Beat

John and I had a chance to go see 2 great bands this summer. Devo, one of John's favorite bands and English Beat, one of my favorites. The Devo concert was great, but as soon as John and Curtis starting moshing, I got claustrophobic and left the sea of people. The English Beat were fantastic! I am so glad to have had a chance to see them in concert, they are one of the best ska bands, next to the Specials. I am so stuck in the 80's when it comes to music. I love the music from the that era.

Baby Chad Ethan, First Three Weeks!

Well after what seemed like an eternity, I finally gave birth to our 4th baby on July 22nd, 2008! I couldn't wait for one more second to be done with the pregnancy and hold our new baby. The labor was quick and easy, thank goodness. Everything was perfect!!! Chad is so tiny and so precious. Like with all my other children, I did not sleep at all the first few nights because I just held him and stared at him all night. I love kissing his little hands, feet, just love kissing him period! New borns are just so amazing and absolutely a blessing! I'm just so in love! He's fitting in great with our family. The girls just adore him. They all just love him so much, and fight over who gets to hold him. I have been in the kitchen and looked up at the top of the stairs with Chloe holding him! My heart nearly stopped. She was so proud that she got to pick him up. Buffy is as usual, super helpful and very loving to her new brother. She is my little helper. Piper has been, surprisingly, so sweet to the baby as well. There has not been any signs of jealously at all. She runs to get diapers and is constantly kissing the baby.

Chad Ethan have been a really good baby. He just eats and sleeps most of the time. He has not been fussy at all. I do hope he stays that way.

As for me, I am adjusting to having a boy, having four children! I am still in amazement and just elated that we finally have a son. I sleep less now than ever before. It's all worth it though. I cannot complain, I have been greatly blessed.

4th of July

Piper


"I am ready for smores"

We had a great time on 4th of July this year, although we missed out on the fireworks at the beach due to the fog. We had a great big beach fire and roasted smores, the girls had a great time and didn't even notice that the fog was too thick to see the fireworks.

Buffy turned 6 years old today! I took her to lunch with 5 of her friends and they all had a spa day at the nail salon. They all had a great time. I cannot believe my oldest child is now 6 years old. As I am about to give birth to my 4th baby, it still seem so surreal that I will have 4 children. Buffy told me today that she wants to have 15 children when she is married. I have to admit lately I have been more irritable than usual, because I am 36 weeks pregnant and everyone movement is uncomfortable. I think my children have been picking up on this. It's apparent in my conversation with Buffy.

Buffy: "I am going to have 15 kids when I get married."

Jackie: "What do you need to do first before you get married?"

Buffy: "Finish college, then I am going to have 15 kids."

Jackie: "Wow Buffy that's a lot of kids, are you sure want to cook, clean, make beds and pick up toys and iron clothes for 15 kids?"

Buffy: "I will have 15 maids, 1 for each kid to do all that for me so I won't go crazy like you mommy."

Jackie: "What are you going to do while the maids does all this work?"

Buffy: "I am going to get recipes from the Food Network to make dinner for everyone."


It's official, I have become the crazy mom that I swore I would never be. Just one more thing to add to the self-improvement list.