Funny stories

I'm just going to keep adding to this post when funny things happen (that I actually remember to blog about), so that they can all stay together.

June 27th 2006
We are all sitting on the couches in the living room, the girls had just finished a bath and gotten dressed and we were getting ready to go clean their room. Sophia walks into the kitchen and is gone for about a minute, all the sudden she comes running out of the kitchen coughing and gagging. I turn around to look at her and she has brown coming out her mouth and all down her front. I say, "Sophia are you throwing up?" and she just continues to whimper and cough.
So I grabbed her and took her into the bathroom, and now I realize that she is not throwing up, but she has eaten something, it smells familiar, what is that? Faron head to the kitchen to see what he can find, I say to him, "Baking Cocoa?" and he says, "No, Cinnamon".
Ahh, yes, that is the smell. We have a huge economy size container of cinnamon, apparently she opened the top to the pour side and tried to drink it. No wonder she is coughing!
I throw her in the shower to wash the cinnamon off her face, Faron brings a cup of water and she starts rinsing and spitting. We get her all cleaned up, her mouth is all read around her lips from where the cinnamon has "burned" the skin. Now she is clean and dressed again and what does she want? Oatmeal with cinnamon.

May 25th 2006

Yesterday Isabella was coloring and she says to me, "Mama, I know that you and Papa throw away my pictures, because after a while they just dissapear".

Sophia is on the potty, I hear her talking so I go in there, she is singing "disobedient, disobedient" just over and over. I think she had just discovered a funny word!

Sophia came and got in my bed this morning around 6:30. We tried to ignore her so she would go to sleep, but she just sat looking through her picture bible and saying "there's Adam and Eve, and the Nake (snake), there's Sarah, there's him (Esau), he's bad, there's Rachel and Leah..." and all morning she has been singing "Meshach and Abednego..."


My kids are so funny. I'm sure everyone's probably are, but mine just crack me up! Yesterday I come out of my room, after having been there for about 1.5 minutes and start looking for Alexander. He is on the move so there is no telling what room he is in. Then I see it, someone left the bathroom door open and through it, I see the shower curtin wiggle! There he is, just chillin in the shower.


Then there is Isabella, I walk by the countertop and see the cake topper from my wedding cake, the groom just happens to now be wearing a baloon like a hat.



Later, I am fixing Sophia's hair and it is poking up all over the place while I am trying to brush it into a pony tail. Isabella laughs and says "Sophia, you look just like my great-grandfather when he was a baby!"
Where do they come up with thing like this?!

The Gang's (almost) all here

With the exception of our new cousin Levi in Florida all the cousins were together for father's day and my dad's 50th birthday last week. We tried to get a picture of the 5 of them together and these were the best we could come up with. 5 kids 4 and under don't sit still very long!

Vomit

So, I found out why I feel like death. I finally went to the doctor on Monday and I have an upper respiratory infection, which caused the ear infection that I have been batteling for about a week and a half now. So basically, my ear hurts, loud noises are not helpful and if I stand up or move about I will get dizzy and most likely vomit, lots. Oh, and I can't eat anything. It's been fun. The "good" part is that I have lost 10 pounds.

The kids have been great though, they can play really well on thier own. I have camed out on the couch and they just play on the floor or in the girls room. A TV would be a handy thing these days, but I am still glad we don't have one or they would be watching TV all day instead of playing all day.

The big Announcement

Today we had our first sonogram and got to see little baby #4. For those of you who haven't heard yet, yes, that's right, baby #4!

At just under 2 cm there isn't a whole lot to be seen in this picture, but in real life we could see the distinction between the head, body, arms and legs. We could even see that this baby was VERY active wiggling all around the whole time we were watching it.

Today's sonogram was to confirm a due date, which is January 23rd. With a scheduled C-section it will be about a week earlier than that, so mid January will bring us our little winter baby. We will now have Winter, Spring (Isabella - April), Summer (Alexander - August) and Fall (Sophia- October).

We are all excited about our new addition, I'll be a little more excited once I am not feeling like death. The girls are thrilled, Sophia will not hear of the posibility of it being a boy baby, she says it is a girl named Lilly. Isabella says girl too, but she does at least acknowldege the fact that it could be a boy!

Fishing

This weekend the kids had thier first fishing trip. We went to Maryville and camped out at Mazingo lake, then bright and early the next morning we broke down the tent and went fishing. Grandma and Grandpa met us at the lake (and supplied the fishing poles). The girls actually fished longer than I thought they would, probably about 45 minutes, which I thought was pretty good for a 2 and 4 year old. They didn't catch anything, but the did see someone else catch a fish. And fish kept stealing Isabella's worm...


So after the fishing was done it was into the water for all the kids. That was thier favorite part for sure!

Alexander

Alexander's 10 month pictures, and some cute pictures of him playing the piano.

Life witout Faron

Every time Faron is away I once again come to the realization that I would not be a good single mom! Without him here I am so much less motivated to do the day to day stuff that needs to be done. I have nothing to look forward to at the end of the day (except the kids going to bed). There is no relief at the end of the day, no one to share the load.

But even beyond day end relief, I think that just knowing that I have him supporting me, that we are in this together, is a great motivator. If I didn’t have him around would I be strong enough to make the hard decisions? Would I keep the movies turned off? (The girls had been 2 full weeks without a movie, until the day he left. In my defense however, everybody was sick that day, so I decided to let them lounge and watch one movie. It has also been my decision to keep them movie free for the last two weeks, and me that it is hard on during the day. But knowing that he is with me gives me the extra boost of strength to get it done) Would I keep the sugar out of the house? Would I put in the time and effort to train the kids to do their own chores?

Now I know that if I actually was a single mom my life would be different because I would have to be working, therefore it wouldn’t be the same issues. However, this is the life I know, so I don’t know what it would be like in that aspect. Truthfully, I would probably be moving into my parents basement!

Anyway, when he is not here I have no solid reason to need to get the dishes done before he gets home, or have supper cooked and on the table when Taco Bell sounds better anyway. It makes me wonder if it is like that for women who’s husbands just aren’t that involved, who don’t back them and support them. Do they lose their motivation to do the hard things, to keep up with the daily grind, because they have no one waiting for them at the finish line? How sad that would be.

I am anxiously awaiting my husbands return. And I will be spending the morning cleaning!

4am awakenings

Faron had to leave this morning, to fly to Chicago, around 4:45. So about 4:15 he is getting ready to get into the shower and I awaken to Sophia screaming bloody murder. I run down stairs and she is covered in vomit, Isabella is awake so I send her up to get into my bed, Alexander has also been awakened by the screaming and is now doing some screaming of his own. However, my priority is to get the dirty girl clean. Faron is in the shower up stairs, so I take Sophia into the downstairs shower, then go get Alexander out of his crib.

Convincing a 2 year old to stick her face under the water, at 4 am when she has just awakened out of a deep sleep to find herself covered in goo, is not an easy task. Eventually I get her clean and wrapped in a towel. We all go up to my room now and talk to Papa. I decided to let them stay up with him until he had to leave, then we would all go back to bed.

So, while they are chatting with Papa over his breakfast I run down to throw the sheets and blankets into the washer. When I come back up the stairs Alexander is in the bath because he threw up all over the kitchen floor. While Faron is cleaning him up, Sophia throws up once again (at what age do kids gain the ability to say “I am going to vomit” so that you can at least get them over a trash can or something?).

The time comes for Papa to leave, so we see him off. Once he is gone I tell the girls to go get in my bed while I put Alexander to bed. Walking him to his bed, he throws up once again, right outside his bedroom door ( am I ever glad for hard wood floors). Finally get him clean and ready and put him to bed, then crawl into bed myself. At least they slept until 8:30!

Art

Isabella and Sophia have been studying primary colors and the color wheel, so Wednesday was the day we put our money where our mouth was. We got out the paints and they made thier own color wheels. They love to paint, honestly, what kid wouldn't. It is the perfect oppertunity to make not only a lovely piece of art, but also a huge mess.

So they did both.














Isabella understands which color s are her primary colors and that mixing them makes the secondary colors, she doesn't always know which colors to mix to make what, but she understands that a little better after today.


Sophia knows that she is painting, and that it is a great deal of fun, why would you complicate such a fun process with trying to learn special names for colors!?




Sophia's Color Wheel ******************************************************** Isabella's Color Wheel