Three Months from Today is Christmas

Emily is a month old today. In some ways it doesn't at all seem that long, and yet I find myself cheering that we've made it through a month already. Typically I'm more sentimental about time passing and reaching milestones, but right now I'm grateful that time is going by and we are still standing.

Someone asked me recently what it's like having five... and my answer is that it's fine, though I don't feel like we have five. It's more like we have three and two. We chase the big ones to and from their activities, help with homework and life. And we chase the little ones ~ well, Nathan we actually chase, Emily we just hope sleeps long stretches in the night.

But their difference in ages feel very prominent right now, even as the three older girls are great help with the two younger and there isn't a chasm in people taking an interest in each other because of that age difference. Having the younger two this close together is its own challenge. I continue to admire women who have more than two so close. Warriors, one and all!!

So Happy One Month to Emily. She starting cooing yesterday. She was lying on my bed and just started talking. Did it again today ~ very sweet! She sounds like a little bird sometimes which is fun. Both Kurt and I were saying how Emily seems more infant-like than our other babies. I don't know if it's her size or what exactly, but she's staying with that "new baby" look longer than it seems the others did.

And yes, there's only three months left until Christmas.