Mark's first bath...

Yay, Mark's umbilical cord fell off and that meant it was time for a bath!  The kids were grossed out by it and now they're excited to give him raspberries on his tummy.

Mark is a really good baby.  We don't need any reflux medicine, which is a relief after Juliet and Mikayla.  Yay baby.  I love you!

Mark's photo shoot...

My portrait studio, Sears, quit doing portraits.  :/  For $20, I could get out of there with a great package of pictures.  But they weren't making any money and had to close down.  The only option left in town is to hire and photographer, which costs way more and I'm just not going to pay $300 for an 8x10.  So I decided to take some myself, which takes more effort but had to be done.  But I waited too long.  Mark is about 10 days old and he stayed awake too much.  However, I still got some that I liked.

He really wasn't very happy for this pose.

This one is my favorite!

Oh well, we got a few and now it's done.  I might try to take more tomorrow.  *sigh*  Maybe not, I might just take a nap instead.

Happy Halloween 2013!

We got home from the hospital and starting settling into our new routine.  Mark sleeps a lot, 4 and 5 hours at a time and doesn't seem to be nursing as well as the other kids.  He seems really content though. 

Mikayla seems to be adjusting to Mark fine.  She doesn't really seem to have anything to do with him.  He could be a new piece of furniture to her.  She only notices him when she's hurt and I happen to be nursing Mark.  Then she comes up and tugs at his pjs like, "Hey, that's my spot and I'd like you to move."

And before I knew it, it was Halloween!

Maxine was Merida, from Brave.  And I curse that costume because it took longer than I wanted to make and was too expensive to buy.  But it turned out okay so that's a good point!

Mikayla was a giraffe that we stole out of the Halloween costume bag, easy.

Juliet was a skinny pig.  I laid her down on some fleece, drew her outline and sewing it up.  It probably took a half hour, easy.

Mark just had some Halloween jammies!

And Jack was a zombie army guy.  His was easy because I just walked in and bought it and painted up his face a little.

I still can't believe how much candy they all received.  Trunk or treat makes it too easy to get pounds of candy for such a small amount of work.  I think if I tried to refrain from going next year, they'd all turn on me.  Oh well, I have 364 days to come up with an idea.