To Sleep or Not To Sleep

While in Denver we had opted to watch our nieces (Carly 4 & Lydia 3) while their parents played in a Volleyball tournament in Aspen. We thought it would be fun to test our parenting skills since 3 kids is what we have stated we wanted in the long run. While it was tons of fun as you can see from this blog and photos, we lacked more sleep this past weekend then when Natalie was a newborn. The first night we stayed with them (Friday) we had Carly sleeping on the floor by our bed in a sleeping bag because she was having scary dreams, and Lydia was in bed between Zack and I. Natalie thankfully was asleep in another room but during the course of the night, she had woken up crying once too! At 6 AM I woke up to Lydia furiously scratching a bug bite next to my head (the sound of nails grating skin was not pleasant that close to my ear) and told her to go play puzzles in her room till we got up. All in all....three kids is not in our imminent future. We like some sleep just a little to much.






The girls were so cute with Natalie. We had them take a bath together and play outside together. Natalie was in heaven. There was so much for her to see and do there. Zack and I think she was meant to be a second or third child because she can just stare at the two girls playing and be totally entertained. She definitely didn't think three was a crowd and was okay sharing her parents for a weekend.