Friday, October 2, 2009

Adjusting...

The past couple of weeks have been a sleepy, happy, snugly time for our family. Buzz' program has been wonderful about getting him time off to be with his girls and we've loved all the time that we've been able to spend getting to know our sweet little babe.

I won't lie. I've been a little sleep deprived. I even told another mom at Sparkle's soccer game that we had named our baby Julia. I was more than a little embarrassed when I had to tell her that I had gotten it wrong! You see, we didn't have a name picked out before Clara was born. We took a full two hours to spend with her and decide on a name before we even called anyone to tell them that she had been born. Rest assured though, almost two weeks in, her given name has stuck and now the only name that we call her besides her own is Sunny's. Still not sure when that issue will resolve... probably we shouldn't have given all three girls such similar names!

Sparkle has taken the addition to our family in stride. She's in school much of the day anyway and has been through this before, so she seems to be doing very well. She runs home every day and washes her hands so that she can touch and hold her sister. Look at her smile... she just adores her little Clara!
Sunny has had a harder time adjusting to her sister's homecoming. She was a bit mopey the first week or so, but she's coming around nicely and marches around the house saying, "I am [Sunny]! I a big sista now!" She loves to sit next to her baby sister and do puzzles and read books. Clara has been busily wrapping us around her tiny little finger... she has a the sweetest little smiling expression on her face much of the time. Not to mention to most fuzzy little head of hair ever! She is perfect in every way... or at least she will be when she is sleeping through the night! :)

5 comments:

Kathy said...

She is precious. Absolutely beautiful! All your ladies are beautiful...So wonderful to here the transitions is going well.

On a side note you are my hero for having a white couch (AND a clean one at that!..then again I do have boys;)

Love from all of us.

Kathy said...

and I still forget my kid's names.

No worries :)

Messy and Wonderful said...

The Julia story is hilarious.

She is a beauty.

We miss you guys around here.

Hunca Munca said...

oh, I love love love her fuzzy little head! The pictures are really darling. I think Julia would have been a fine name, too...maybe you can keep it in your back pocket. :-) Good luck with the sleep deprivation...

Erin said...

She is gorgeous!