There is just something about a sleeping baby that makes it almost impossible for me to put them down… no matter how tired I am and even at 4 am I love to watch the cute faces they make and enjoy the sweet newborn-ness that they grow out of so quickly! So the truth is…

Zach has outgrown our backyard for baseball – he consistently has been hitting balls off his tee over the fence. And of course, out of 3 yards he can hit into, it’s consistently the fenced one with the dogs that no one is ever home at. So today with no dogs in sight Nate hopped…

We were lucky enough to have Nate’s parents come the day after my mom left… giving us less than 24 hours to try parenting 3 children on our own. It has been fun for Zach and Emma to get so much extra attention in the wake of Carter’s arrival! The grandparents managed to bring great…

We’ve been waiting and watching and checking daily on our “green things” – the daffodil bulbs we planted last fall. And finally… it’s spring!!

So amid the chaos of baby #3, I decided to sign Emma up for a dance class. They were only offering it during April-May and not again until fall, and since Zach gets to do soccer and t-ball this summer it only seemed fair to sign her up and make it work. So we went…

…who arrived the day we came home from the hospital with Carter and stayed for a week… doing all of my work and making sure the kids had plenty of attention and that I got plenty of rest. I think we sent her home exhausted! She played baseball and don’t break the ice from dawn…

Here’s the newest addition to the Adams family! Carter Craig Adams was born early Thursday April 10th, keeping up a family tradition of arriving several weeks early and right before a big exam. He was 7 lbs 3 oz and 20 inches long, and we are sure glad he’s here! Zach and Emma love him…

The kids were thrilled this week to have rain instead of snow… they put on their rain boots, stomped in the puddles, and got out Zach’s “mousetrap” that Nate made with him last fall… they had no bait and they are a little close to the trap but by this point they were already pretty…

The before (Zach having a mini-baseball game since you can finally see grass in the backyard and wearing his twins jersey even though it was FREEZING) and the after (after Emma had an untimely run-in with the metal bat.) Thank goodness for the live-in facial surgeon to reassure me nothing was broken!) I guess you’ve…

The last month or two Emma has been seeming so much older… so the birthday didn’t seem as much of a shock as it usually does for me! Really, though, she has been so much more independent… potty trained… playing so nicely with Zach… just seeming like a preschooler rather than a toddler. Anyways, she…