This little one continues to be about as sweet as they come. She is alert and happy, she's a great eater, and at day 5 she was sleeping from about 10pm til 5am and then going back down for a few more hours. I was told to wake up my other kids if they slept that long as newborns because they were slow weight gainers but she's such a good eater that I haven't worried about it and just can't believe how easy she's been. She takes most of her naps in a rock n play surrounded by lots and lots of chaos and seems completely unbothered by it. In fact she seems to sleep more soundly with all the noise. It's like she's use to it or something :) She loves her siblings and they love her and so do we!
One of the things that I was most worried about as we anticipated Evie's arrival was how we were going to manage our schedule. I couldn't quite comprehend how we'd get it all done. The kids start school at 8:00, Wyatt gets out of school at 11:00, and then Sadie gets out at 3:00. So even though school is only about 10 minutes away that means 3 trips and over an hour in the car every day. Add to that the time it takes to load 5 kids in and out of the car that many times, feeding a new baby every 2 hours, plus naps, and I just couldn't figure out on paper how it would work, though I trusted it would, and sure enough with lots of help we are finding our way and everyone is doing okay.
Grammy has taken the kids to school almost this entire first month which has been such a blessing to me. Getting Sadie and Wyatt fed and ready to go by 7:45 felt like a big enough task initially and I've truly been so grateful for all the extra help allowing us to get our day off to a much slower start. After a week or so of Grammy doing all the drop offs and pick ups we slowly added back in the afternoon pick up, and then the kindergarten pick up, and finally we started braving drop offs a few mornings, and finally after about a month we were back in the swing. We also started using a grocery pick up service which has been a game changer with all these littles and the our crazy schedule this year.
It really does take a village and we're sure thankful for ours!!!
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