I didn't think I'd get to post this, but I was encouraged to get it done. So, Teresa, here they are. The first video is when she first started taking steps (2 weeks ago). The second video was taken this morning.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
How Could I Forget???
A huge thing in our little world, and yet I forgot to mention it! See, my brain is NOT working.
Little Bit is walking! She's so cute with it. Arms up or out, legs stiff, falls a lot, still crawls when wants to hurry up, but she's walking. She's 10-1/2 months and has been walking for about 2 weeks. I took video of it, but have a feeling I will never upload it. Maybe, but don't hold your breath! :-)
Little Bit is walking! She's so cute with it. Arms up or out, legs stiff, falls a lot, still crawls when wants to hurry up, but she's walking. She's 10-1/2 months and has been walking for about 2 weeks. I took video of it, but have a feeling I will never upload it. Maybe, but don't hold your breath! :-)
Even More Randomness Today!
Yep, life is pretty random right now. I keep thinking of great things to blog about, but just never sit down and write. Until times like right now, when nothing great comes to mind. :-)
Eric is in Hawaii this week. Lucky sap. His room overlooks the ocean. He's walked on the beach, gone to dinner with one of MY best friends (and her family - and he IS friends with her husband, but still), went shopping by himself, and taken a dip in the ocean. I'm here with the kids, got my period (personal info, but seriously, I had to add that) and just generally having a difficult week. I am so glad he is there and I do hope he's having a nice time. He is working - going to meetings all day today and tomorrow. I'm just having a difficult time understanding how our lives can be so different! I mean, he's in Hawaii??? Life is seriously NOT fair. :-)
We had Eric's brother and his family here last week. They also have kids. Loud. Very very loud. We did have fun taking them to the Garden of the Gods, Paint Mines, Helen Hunt Falls. My sister-in-law and I played a lot of Boggle late at night, which was great! On the way to the airport, we stopped at Castlewood Canyon - a wonderful place we had passed by many times. We hiked down into the canyon, where we had been told the kids could "wade". They went swimming. I took bunches of pictures, then set my camera down. The kids had gone downstream a little ways, so I got on the trail and found them. Without my camera. The best pictures could have been taken - 7 kids splashing and swimming around, having the time of their lives!
We are leasing a horse. Things didn't go well this morning, so I'm not in the mood to talk about it. But still figured I should tell. Her name is Oreo, she's a black and white paint. The girls have been taking lessons for a while. The boys always want a turn. We thought it would be an interesting experiment to see how it would be to "own" a horse for a while. This may be a very short while if things happen like they did this morning.
I know there were many many more things to say. Oh, I have to blog about school here eventually. And should post pictures.
Eric is in Hawaii this week. Lucky sap. His room overlooks the ocean. He's walked on the beach, gone to dinner with one of MY best friends (and her family - and he IS friends with her husband, but still), went shopping by himself, and taken a dip in the ocean. I'm here with the kids, got my period (personal info, but seriously, I had to add that) and just generally having a difficult week. I am so glad he is there and I do hope he's having a nice time. He is working - going to meetings all day today and tomorrow. I'm just having a difficult time understanding how our lives can be so different! I mean, he's in Hawaii??? Life is seriously NOT fair. :-)
We had Eric's brother and his family here last week. They also have kids. Loud. Very very loud. We did have fun taking them to the Garden of the Gods, Paint Mines, Helen Hunt Falls. My sister-in-law and I played a lot of Boggle late at night, which was great! On the way to the airport, we stopped at Castlewood Canyon - a wonderful place we had passed by many times. We hiked down into the canyon, where we had been told the kids could "wade". They went swimming. I took bunches of pictures, then set my camera down. The kids had gone downstream a little ways, so I got on the trail and found them. Without my camera. The best pictures could have been taken - 7 kids splashing and swimming around, having the time of their lives!
We are leasing a horse. Things didn't go well this morning, so I'm not in the mood to talk about it. But still figured I should tell. Her name is Oreo, she's a black and white paint. The girls have been taking lessons for a while. The boys always want a turn. We thought it would be an interesting experiment to see how it would be to "own" a horse for a while. This may be a very short while if things happen like they did this morning.
I know there were many many more things to say. Oh, I have to blog about school here eventually. And should post pictures.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Total Randomness
I have a bunch of unrelated things to say today. Probably unimportant too, but I just think they're interesting or humorous.
We are out of butter. Which is a BIG thing in my house. Eric does the grocery shopping (and I am forever grateful). I tell him to get butter every time he shops. He just does NOT get this. "Why do we need butter again? I just bought it!" My reply, "We use tons of butter, buy it every time." Well, recently he came home with 4 packs of margarine. Margarine? Seriously? He actually didn't know that he bought margarine, not butter, he was just looking at the price. :-) We now are out of butter. I had no clue how much I relied on butter to cook, but it is affecting me every time I have to cook. Toast, fried eggs, pasta, rice, corn on the cob, baked potatoes ... Good night, we use a lot of butter!
David just locked himself IN his room. Hee hee hee. I recently had to turn the door knob around because they were running in the room and locking each other out. David just messed with the lock, went in the room and shut the door. I'm ignoring his pleas to get out of his room, thinking he's just being 3. Nope, he was locked in!
I went for a "run" yesterday. Well, a walk/jog, sort of. For about 2 minutes it felt awesome to be running again. My muscles thanked me. Then muscles started hurting in places they shouldn't hurt. I did expect that. I was glad to just try it again. I was pushing the double jogger, so maybe I could have made it 4 minutes if I'd been out on my own. :-)
I am officially winning the award for Bad Mother of the Year. Dawn has been complaining for 2 months that her tooth hurt. She has a low tolerance for pain, so I typically don't get overly excited about her complaints. Plus, she complained about one side of her mouth one day and the other side the next day. So I just figured it was her teeth growing in. Eric finally took her to the dentist last night. Ummm, TWO cracked teeth that are rotting. They did a root canal and put a cap on one last night. And one cavity. Tuesday she'll get the other cap and fill the cavity. Nice. I feel like the best mom ever. TWO months. Low tolerance for pain? How about a high tolerance for her mother's idiocy.
Did I mention that my calendar in the school room (the white board, I have to erase and rewrite the month) is on April? Apparently I gave up on getting stuff done back in April.
Why do I think I have to sit downstairs, in the school room, with my computer? It's a laptop folks. A laptop. That means it is portable, right? I always sit right there, in the school room, with my computer. So this morning I decided I could take it out of there. I was sitting at the table trying to type this. The interruptions! So now I'm sitting on my bed, door shut, with the strict command that no one interrupt me for 5 minutes.
Now, for the funniest conversation of the month. We bought a book called "Nature's Yucky". I knew the boys would LOVE this book. And they do. One of the Yucky things about nature is that some turtle can breathe through it's bum. (Something about winter time, in the water, get the book if you want more info.) I'm reading this to the boys, they are cracking up. The last sentence asks something about "can you breathe through your bum" or something like that. Joseph says, "I can't breathe through my bum, but sometimes air comes out of it!" He was cracking himself up, and me too. :-)
Have a great day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We are out of butter. Which is a BIG thing in my house. Eric does the grocery shopping (and I am forever grateful). I tell him to get butter every time he shops. He just does NOT get this. "Why do we need butter again? I just bought it!" My reply, "We use tons of butter, buy it every time." Well, recently he came home with 4 packs of margarine. Margarine? Seriously? He actually didn't know that he bought margarine, not butter, he was just looking at the price. :-) We now are out of butter. I had no clue how much I relied on butter to cook, but it is affecting me every time I have to cook. Toast, fried eggs, pasta, rice, corn on the cob, baked potatoes ... Good night, we use a lot of butter!
David just locked himself IN his room. Hee hee hee. I recently had to turn the door knob around because they were running in the room and locking each other out. David just messed with the lock, went in the room and shut the door. I'm ignoring his pleas to get out of his room, thinking he's just being 3. Nope, he was locked in!
I went for a "run" yesterday. Well, a walk/jog, sort of. For about 2 minutes it felt awesome to be running again. My muscles thanked me. Then muscles started hurting in places they shouldn't hurt. I did expect that. I was glad to just try it again. I was pushing the double jogger, so maybe I could have made it 4 minutes if I'd been out on my own. :-)
I am officially winning the award for Bad Mother of the Year. Dawn has been complaining for 2 months that her tooth hurt. She has a low tolerance for pain, so I typically don't get overly excited about her complaints. Plus, she complained about one side of her mouth one day and the other side the next day. So I just figured it was her teeth growing in. Eric finally took her to the dentist last night. Ummm, TWO cracked teeth that are rotting. They did a root canal and put a cap on one last night. And one cavity. Tuesday she'll get the other cap and fill the cavity. Nice. I feel like the best mom ever. TWO months. Low tolerance for pain? How about a high tolerance for her mother's idiocy.
Did I mention that my calendar in the school room (the white board, I have to erase and rewrite the month) is on April? Apparently I gave up on getting stuff done back in April.
Why do I think I have to sit downstairs, in the school room, with my computer? It's a laptop folks. A laptop. That means it is portable, right? I always sit right there, in the school room, with my computer. So this morning I decided I could take it out of there. I was sitting at the table trying to type this. The interruptions! So now I'm sitting on my bed, door shut, with the strict command that no one interrupt me for 5 minutes.
Now, for the funniest conversation of the month. We bought a book called "Nature's Yucky". I knew the boys would LOVE this book. And they do. One of the Yucky things about nature is that some turtle can breathe through it's bum. (Something about winter time, in the water, get the book if you want more info.) I'm reading this to the boys, they are cracking up. The last sentence asks something about "can you breathe through your bum" or something like that. Joseph says, "I can't breathe through my bum, but sometimes air comes out of it!" He was cracking himself up, and me too. :-)
Have a great day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Monday, July 13, 2009
Blogging Friends II
All right, I shouldn't say anything about people who don't blog. I really can't think of anything exciting to say lately either. We did go to the mountains for a couple days last week. Very nice. Very very nice. Eric's brother and his family are in town for a couple weeks. They're up in the mountains for the first part and then they'll be here.
Other than that little jaunt, life is actually settling into something sort of like normalcy! Doing a bit of cleaning, some cooking, hanging out with the kids, taking walks ... You know, how life can be when craziness isn't going on!
Did I mention Eric HAS to go to Hawaii this month? That's not normal! (Better not become normal either.) :-) I feel so sorry for him, having to fly such a long time and sit in meetings and not getting to enjoy Hawaii much at all. Pity. Must be rough. He will bring home nice gifts - I told him he had to. :-)
So, anybody else having some normalcy this summer??? Or something exciting? For us, normalcy is wonderful.
Other than that little jaunt, life is actually settling into something sort of like normalcy! Doing a bit of cleaning, some cooking, hanging out with the kids, taking walks ... You know, how life can be when craziness isn't going on!
Did I mention Eric HAS to go to Hawaii this month? That's not normal! (Better not become normal either.) :-) I feel so sorry for him, having to fly such a long time and sit in meetings and not getting to enjoy Hawaii much at all. Pity. Must be rough. He will bring home nice gifts - I told him he had to. :-)
So, anybody else having some normalcy this summer??? Or something exciting? For us, normalcy is wonderful.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Blogging Friends
I think I need to find some new blogging friends. I'm sitting here checking all the blogs I read regularly and a bunch of you have completely dropped the ball! I mean, seriously, some of you haven't blogged since APRIL. What am I supposed to read if you aren't blogging? For those of you who do blog regularly, I still like you very very much. For the rest of you ... Time for me to find some new blogging friends. So there.
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Sunday, July 5, 2009
A Few Days of REST!!
We've actually had a few days of REST here at our house. A couple days into it I realized it was the first time, since the move, that we had Eric off work, no one was sick and we didn't have company. It was very very nice. Eric, Dawn and Anne went for a 5-1/2 mile hike on Wednesday. We went for a bike ride one day and swimming another day. Yesterday, the 4th, I spent cooking - blueberry pie, strawberry pie, homemade ice cream - you know, the GOOD stuff! :-) Of course, after all that rest, relaxation and fun, Anne is sick today. Fever and stomach ache. Sigh.
As for my last post. Wow, quite the response from some of you. Rob. Thanks for the idea of peeing myself. And thinking it's a good idea. Remember, I live in a DRY area - we don't pour buckets of sweat, so the pee won't show. Plus, I'm a girl. Peeing myself is NOT a badge of honor. Ladies, with me on this one? Besides, truth be told, I don't pee myself. It FEELS like I might and feels like my insides could fall out. Kegels aren't the total answer here ladies. My ligaments are stretched. WAY MORE INFO than I planned to give out here. There are a few things I can do to fix this and I'm working on it. Enough on this topic!
As for my last post. Wow, quite the response from some of you. Rob. Thanks for the idea of peeing myself. And thinking it's a good idea. Remember, I live in a DRY area - we don't pour buckets of sweat, so the pee won't show. Plus, I'm a girl. Peeing myself is NOT a badge of honor. Ladies, with me on this one? Besides, truth be told, I don't pee myself. It FEELS like I might and feels like my insides could fall out. Kegels aren't the total answer here ladies. My ligaments are stretched. WAY MORE INFO than I planned to give out here. There are a few things I can do to fix this and I'm working on it. Enough on this topic!
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