Some mom friends and I took the kids down to Bluff Point for a hike since we didn’t have school on Tuesday. 5 moms and 11 kids. When we got to the beach all the big kids went off on an adventure while the babies hung out on the sand and ate rocks. It was so nice to be out of the house in the fresh (warm) air ALL DAY…plus the gingers all slept amazingly well last night.

What Caroline Wore: Vintage handknit sweater, dress from Land’s End, Target leggings, Boots from Zulily

What Evan Wore: Mini Boden sweater and jeans

And then when we got home I found a TICK on my BABY. Stupid warm weather.

I’m going to go against popular opinion here and say I LOVE the extra hour we get with fall back. I was exhausted at 10 pm last night so I went to sleep, and then woke up on my own 15 minutes before the alarm. It felt positively leisurely. I have no idea if my children got an extra hour of sleep, because they know better than to come wake me up unless the house is on fire.

Sunday:

Being awesome at the aquarium

His favorite part of the aquarium is the Titanic, which is creepier when he’s dressed like a shark

She shouted “I’m the queen mermaid of the world!!”

Monday:

Our favorite rainbow at our favorite store

Do I have something on my face?

My assistants for an evening shoot

Tuesday:

Beautiful spot for a morning photo shoot

“Nursing” her puppy is very zen

Beautiful spot for an evening photo shoot

Wednesday:

What are we going to do today Mom? Oh right, more photoshoots.

Slightly less scenic in this photo, but the pictures are AWESOME.

They cannot stop themselves from kicking leaves

Thursday:

My attempt at fancy hair was a flop

We are not fans of having to sit through swim clss

I’m not sure he actually even LIKES Panera, but he loves the buzzer

Friday:

Halloween legs

Halloween shirt

Halloween night! I’m a fisherman, he’s a goldfish.

Saturday:

I took Saturday off. Caroline watched Linc for me.

I’m only sort of kidding.

Although I still care of his favorite thing. Look at that baby smile.

The weekend was not at ALL relaxing due to a broken computer and a broken forehead, so I’m playing as much catch up as I can today. (Both are much better today, fingers crossed they stay that way.) I have zero photo shoots scheduled this week as of right now, but FIVE blog posts to write. Considering I can’t even get this one posted in a timely manner, it’s amazing anyone still reads. Maybe no one does. Maybe you’re all spambots. Or my mother. Hi Mom!

I am tiiiiiiired. I don’t even have a good excuse beyond doing lots of stuff this week – my darling darling baby slept 10 hours last night. But this weekend was busy and this next week is going to be super busy. I feel like a broken record, because all I post anymore is complaints about how BUSY I am and I know it’s boring. But really, once you have three kids you’re pretty much always busy. Even the baby thinks I should try to sit on the couch more – he’s really tired of being nursed in uncomfortable chairs.

Sunday:

Sleepy stars and stripes

Obviously when you see a pile of leaves you throw them

What does the Caroline say?

Monday:

A very patriotic wrap for a patriotic day

Grocery shopping with 3 kids is not my favorite

A beautiful night to go visit a submarine

Tuesday:

Snuggly errands

Why do my eyebrows only look this good for the 10 minutes after I have them waxed?

I’m in love with this picture

Wednesday:

Baby Dr. Evil

I’ve re-purposed the stuff I knit for Evan, since no one knits for baby #3

Ignore my face and loooook at that pretty orange!

Thursday:

SMILEY

See, I swear, I buy the wraps FOR HIM. HE LIKES THEM.

I wouldn’t let a kid that close to my computer with a marker, but Daddy is nicer than me.

Friday:

We bought this car when I was pregnant with Caroline. It had 16000 miles on it.

THE MOST unflattering photo of myself I’ve ever voluntarily posted, but his face is too good to pass up. WTF IS ON YOUR HEAD, MOM?

New hairs are nice.

Saturday:

Stealth photo of my husband in uniform during the comissioning ceremony.

WHY AM I STILL AWAKE AT A PARTY AT 9 PM?

Yeah, I ate that.

I am once again shocked at how many photos of my own face are in this post. I’m not a selfie person. Or at least, I didn’t think I was a selfie person. But that might have had something to do with being hugely pregnant for what felt like the last decade. It was also SO NICE to get my hair cut (even if I had to bring the baby) that I’m going back in 5 weeks to refresh my color. I have nice hair when I take care of it, and since right now I feel old and fat, I need to work on what makes me feel good. Maybe in a couple weeks I’ll do something REALLY crazy, like schedule a facial or a massage.

Oh who am I kidding, if I had money for a massage I’d just spend it on another wrap. I cannot stop drinking the babywearing Koolaid.

Three kids is a lot of kids. I mean, it’s not A LOT of kids. 15 is a lot of kids. But three kids is more kids than I have hands or eyes, so the logistics of taking them out in public can be difficult.  It’s actually not so bad, since I can keep one kid literally tied to my body at all times, especially when we’re out doing things and it’s not really safe to just leave him on the floor. If it were up to me, that’s where he would hang out most of the time, since he’s pretty entertained by ceiling fans and smiling and I can smile at him from the couch.

But the two bigger ones still expect me to be Fun Mom who Does All The Things, so last weekend we went and Did All The Things. Since they have the attention span of gnats I managed to fit all the fun into just one warm, beautiful Saturday so we could stay home and do nothing on the colder, less beautiful Sunday. I like to pretend I am Supermom but I can only keep it up for like, 4 hours. Then I turn into regular old fed-up, impatient, tired mom.

Luckily it really was a gorgeous day and I did not collapse after climbing the giant hill to the apple trees and I even managed to bring my camera, which is the thing that I have been letting go in the name of sanity. But it was really fun to do fall things AND take pictures.

Please enjoy some pictures.

That’s Mohegan Sun, the casino. We take people there when they visit.

This thing fires water bottles at big targets. Evan would have spent every dollar I own doing it all day.

I hate corn mazes, but Evan took charge and actually lead the way through. There was another mom with a 4 year old who walked with us and even she was impressed.

There is still corn all over my house from this corn pit

I wore a lot of babies this week. I have to justify owning all these wraps somehow. Although I never thought I’d take/post so many selfies. What can I say, the wraps make me feel pretty.

Sunday:

The kids wanted Linc to play with them

Obviously I wore the nautical wrap to the seaport

Caroline pretending to be daddy in the submarine exibit

Monday:

Day off school = pjs and iPad

Wraps also make excellent blankets

Baby neck torture device is still a favorite

Tuesday:

When you buy a used wrap and your baby immediately falls asleep they say it came with “sleepy dust”.

Really excited about bananas

Basking in the glow of the TV while I catch up on Scandal

Wednesday:

Warm enough to wait for the bus outside!

When you live in an old house, sometimes walk tours stop to point at it.

Gorgeous night at Bluff Point for a session

Thursday:

He was happy it was raining so he could wear his cool fireman raincoat

She was happy it was raining so she could play with the umbrella

Swim on Thursday nights is EXHAUSTING

Friday:

THESE ARE NOT ALL MINE. Not even half mine. We had a meet up.

My mirror is filthy but there’s baby on my back!

This keeps happening. I think she might need day off.

Saturday:

Apple picking

Goodest good baby slept the whole time

This is almost not even like real life, right? Look at that huge empty field.

We had a busy week, and another busy week coming up, followed by nothing but busy weeks until Christmas. I don’t understand how it’s almost the end of October already, or how my baby will be three months this week or how it is almost 11 pm and I am still finishing this post and not sleeping. Time is such a jerk.