April School Holidays: Adjusting to life with Sofie

After Easter, we still had a whole week of school holidays left to have fun and relax and just enjoy our new family dynamic.  And it was dreamy!  I am loving four kids!  It has seriously been magical!  The girls have been so helpful and kind.  Will has been so accepting and mature. It has been a joy to watch my family grow this time around.  Of course, we all still have our off moments and bad days, but for the most part, going from three kids to four has been dreamy!

Now the true test came on Tuesday, April 22, when Ava had an immunization appointment.  It was scheduled a month earlier thinking I wouldn't have had Sofie yet.  I decided to keep the appointment and see how we went actually going somewhere with four kids.  And it was the best afternoon ever!  We'd been home bound for a week so the kids were all so excited to get out of the house.  So first we hit the immunization clinic, which for my deprived kids is like an amusement park.  They have a fantastically fun waiting room area.  Then all the immunization nurses are so nice and they all get a helium balloon to take home.  So then from there we went to the movie shop because it was $1 New Release Tuesday.  We rented (seriously, isn't it weird that they still have movie rental places open?  When I first got here and went to Video Ezy, the movie rental shop, I felt like I had gone back in time!) Planes and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2.  Then we headed over to a park to play while we waited for our pizza that we had ordered to be ready, because Tuesdays are $4.95 pizza days.  Tuesday is the cheap day for everything if you haven't noticed.  They call it Tight A** Tuesday around here.  Anyways, it was a beautiful autumn afternoon and everything in the world was right!  We picked up our pizza on the way home and ate it while watching our movies.  I felt like super mom and the kids all had a great time!  They were so well behaved also.  It was a blissful first outing with four.  Tender mercies from our Father in Heaven.  :)  

Here's Will playing at the park that afternoon.

 Here's week old Sofie snuggling with me on the couch while we watched Planes.

 The kids all adore holding Sofie, playing with her and taking good care of her.  They are such proud older siblings.

 Will is quite smitten with this little gal.

 Such a great big brother!

 We went on a bike ride to the nearest park.  We should really get Will a proper bike!  He's ready for one!

 Oh, Ava and her shoe selection.  We almost always have dramas over her shoes!

 We made it to the park.  It was great to get fresh air!

 Taking Sofie down the slide.

It was so nice to have that time to adjust to life with Sofie and spend quality time with all four of my kids before we had to go back to school and life and everything.  The timing couldn't have been better.