300 is a lot of weeks. When I started doing this, mostly as a joke, I was pregnant with Caroline. Now I’m only a couple weeks away from having a FOURTH child, which means I have documented every day of our lives through almost 6 years. Sometimes I wish I focused more on taking beautiful iPhone photos that made our lives look happier, cleaner, more photogenic than they really are. But then I look back at previous weeks and all I can think about is how nice it is to have these dumb, blurry, boring phone photos that would otherwise be deleted saved somewhere for me (and the kids) to look at. I mean, Week 3 was nothing special but looking at tiny Baby Evan is not a thing I will get tired of. I would regret it forever if I let this weekly post die now, even though doing it in a timely manner seems to be beyond me. We’ll give Baby 4 a chance to be overly photographed and documented for at least a few weeks before I think about giving it up again.

Sunday:

It’s too hot for pajamas OR covers, but Big Kids sleep in Big Kids beds

Brotherly tv watching

Or maybe he’s not a big kid, just a sweet lap nap baby

Monday:

We meet some really interesting people while hunting Pokemon

Important research

Too hot for real life so we hang out in the only room with a/c

Tuesday:

3 kids, 3 check ups, 0 cavities!

More hiding in the a/c

This only lasted 5 minutes

Wednesday:

Chair stealer

Lake life

AMAZING light for my photo session

Thursday:

Which Pokemon is that?

More air conditioned fun

There’s a rat on my daughter!

Friday:

Safety first when eating bread

Card night

Helping organize the cards

Saturday:

Good old-fashioned slip and slide fun

Watermelon stealer

SO DELICIOUS

It’s raining today, which means it’s cool enough in the house to actually BE in the house. I have big plans to Get Stuff Done – so far, some laundry, some dishes and this post are all checked off, let’s see if toy organization, finishing three photo sessions and napping happen. I feel like napping has a pretty good shot.

This summer is going by really fast. I’m mostly ok with that (because at the end I get a baby!) but I’m starting to feel the pressure of doing-all-the-fun-things-quick-before-we-run-out-of-time.

Sunday:

Man, I hate when the beach is crowded

WHAT CHA EATIN MOM??

Spying on my children who are playing nicely

Monday:

Patriotic New England Children

Counting frogs

Shut down the lake at 8 pm

Tuesday:

Really excited about Seaport Camp

You baby judges you

Evening swim

Wednesday:

More playing nicely. Have they been body snatched?!

Private Seaport

The lake is the only thing keeping us all from dying of heatstroke

Thursday:

Trying to sit in my lap

Naps

Reading time

Friday:

Less hot, still at the lake

Caroline telling us about her favorite boat, which is a party boat because she likes parties

One month until her recital!

Saturday:

Went for a walk to look for Pokemon

Linc likes to give hugs

Game night!

All my photos this week are going to be of Pokemon, because the kids are always carrying my phone around and it’s hard to take iPhone photos when I don’t have control of my iPhone. But I’m not really mad, Evan is super good at catching them. Priorities.

Schooooooools out for summer! Schoooools out for…slightly more than two months!

Sunday:

I asked E to make about 24 of these. I think he made 100.

There are SO MANY THINGS I love in this photo

These are going to be a big hit this summer

Monday:

Three of a kind

Unimpressed with my OB appointment

My kids, their kids, all the kids

Tuesday:

New shades

More #lakelife

He chewed right through that packaging in the store

Wednesday:

One tired bebeh

STOP JUDGING ME IT’S YOUR FAULT

Really surprised I didn’t get struck by lightening at the bus stop

Thursday:

We’re all winning at shoes

Linc saw them feeding this sea lion and is now obsessed with sea lions

It’s called a pinch pot, he’s very proud

Friday:

GOOD BYE SCHOOL

So sweet I can’t stand it

Why does he suddenly look SO BIG??

Saturday:

Seriously, who is this big kid????

This house comes with a disembodied floating head!

Twins

I had a really busy weekend, especially today, and I’ve been able to mostly avoid the news and the internet. Not enough to miss what’s been going on, but enough that I haven’t let myself think about how sad I am for our country and the world my children are growing up in. Mostly I’m just going to keep the kids away from as much reality as possible so they can continue to live in a world  where we only use kind words and problems can be solved with hugs.

Oh, today isn’t Sunday? I have no idea. I’m at the beach and all I can keep track of is “can I eat another piece of cake right now?” When I started looking through my photos for the week I got confused that the first part of the week was in some strange, boring, non-professionally decorated place that didn’t have constant cake. I don’t want to go back there.

Sunday:

Watermelon on the porch = summer

Shirtless naps = summer

Happy, peaceful children = almost never

Monday:

IT’S THE FINAL COUNTDOOOOOOOWN

Skeptical baby is skeptical

Taking pictures like mommy

Tuesday:

Important vacation prep

I suppose cleaning is also important

This is Linc’s favorite game: Face-Smash Selfie

Wednesday:

Sunrise in the car – we’d already been driving for 3 hours

In and out and in and out

Bedtime stories with Mormor

Thursday:

Absolutely worth the 2 days of driving

Basically a private beach

There are NINE decorative pillows on this bed

Friday:

There’s pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew…

There was also shrimp in the low country boil I made for dinner

Oh ok, that’s perfect

Saturday:

A very french baby breakfast

Would you like some bait with your frozen pie?

That’s a virgin Pina Colada in a shot glass

Now I’m going to go work on the second thousand pictures I’ve taken so far (not an exaggeration). The first thousand have been edited so I’ll have a ridiculous photo post up probably tonight. If I can get out of the pool long enough.

It was another very dark, very rainy week but according to my weather app the next few days should be GREAT. I am clinging to the promise of sunshine.

Sunday:

Very important food

Caroline might not have a career as an artist, but she sure LOVES painting

The cat is obsessed with my bump

Monday:

Jurassic World was on TV so we watched it for the 200th time

New RocksBox, my favorite kind of mail (if you want a free month, use: bebehblogxoxo)

His new selfie face

Tuesday:

He loved my dentist because of this fish

Shopping helper

Brother love

Wednesday:

Jack doesn’t judge me when I take naps

Go awaaaaaaaaaay

Suffocating your sister is hilarious

Thursday:

My orchard looks terrible in this photo, luckily it looked GREAT for my shoot

Normal

He’s ready to dance as soon as Nashville plays music

Friday:

Babies helping babies

No-nap baby loves coming to the bus stop

Piano lessons

Saturday:

Fishing tournaments are more fun if the fish show up

Linc doesn’t understand why we are standing in the rain

An excellent way to end the week

I had a very nice Mother’s Day today, with lots of sitting down and someone else doing all the baby work and children who regularly asked if I was having a good day. I didn’t get to plant any Mother’s Day flowers yet, but since this week should be warm and sunny I’ll fix that as soon as possible. I’ll also be able to FINALLY do the blue-or-pink reveal for this baby with the kids (we know what we’re having, they do not, so I want to tell them before I blog it). I’ve never bothered with a big gender reveal before, so I wanted to do it this last chance I had.

Fingers crossed for sunshine.