August is almost over.  It flew by.  We spent most of the month couped up in the house.  It is too hard to go anywhere in the summer in Las Vegas with a newborn.  The kids have spent a lot of time in the backyard playing on the slip n slide and playing in the sprinklers.

Last week it rained a lot so we were able to get out a little more.  Curtis, Gianluca and I went out for a walk one night.  It felt so good to feel cool, fresh air.  The baby barely knows what fresh air feels like.  Also, one day last week I took the kids to the park.  The kids ran around while the baby and I stayed in the shade.  We were there for two hours and when we got home I noticed that the baby had gotten his first sunburn.  It wasn’t bad but I still felt bad.

Yesterday at church our whole ward seemed to get released from their callings and given new ones.  The only auxiliary presidency to not change was Primaries.  Which is good since I am President and is bad because I am President!  Although our Presidency stayed the same we still had a bit of changes.  I was a little overwhelmed by all of it.  In the end it will all work out well but I realized I don’t like change much. Also in Primary yesterday we had all the children.  In the summer our numbers are so low but yesterday we had a full room of 47 kids!  I should say we had a full room of 47 very excited kids who were about to start school the next day.  It was crazy. I realized that while I feel pretty good since having a baby I still am not functioning at full capacity.  My mind is all scrambled.  It might be lack of sleep but it is hard for me to stay concentrated on things.  I get overstimulated really easily too.  It is crazy.

Other than feeling like I can’t really concentrate on everything I could before I have felt good.  I went to the dr for my 6 week postpartum visit and I have been given the go ahead to resume all my normal activities. I am actually excited to start working out again.  I need to get rid of all this extra fat.  When we got in the car the other night Curtis said, “Mom, you are so heavy, when you got in the car it went down.  That means you are heavier than the car”.  Luckily, he wasn’t saying it to mean, he was just stating the facts.  I was even able to laugh about it. Got to love that Curtis and the things he says and does!

The kids started back at school today so the last few days were spent getting them ready.  I had big plans to do a fun back to school dinner night like I have done in the past but this year it just didn’t happen.  I did make a fun dessert though.

And now we are adjusting to routine again.  I think I am going to love it.  Two babies at home and two at School.  I am starting to feel like an older mom now.  Ahhh!

Learning to love the swing

Micah was “holding the baby” and when I looked at him a few moments later I found Alessia reading a book to her brothers

Curtis asked to make dinner one night

He made fruit of sticks.  They were delicious.

Alessia helped him skew the fruit.  Curtis also made me those flowers as a mothers day gift

He put them on the table with his plate of fruit.

The boys then took their breadsticks and stuck sticks in them

Alessia with the cookie cake with Ice Cream in the middle dessert