Tuesday, December 29, 2009
four christmases: part 1...
just imagine that chloe is in this picture and that david isn't looking at me like he is trying to blow up the camera with his mind power. i realize at this point i need to do a much better job of taking pictures in future years...
we are so blessed to have so much family that is close enough to spend the holidays with and christmas is no exception. it is difficult for me to imagine anything more magical than watching my children (or any child) experience the joy of christmas.
of course we had a christmas melt down (or thirty) from the lack of sleep and over excitement...but the laughter, the smiles, and the desire to be comforted by the normalcy of family made all of the not so fun moments more than worthwhile.
our first christmas started with kyle's family on christmas eve. we headed over for lunch? dinner? at 2:00. it is always fun to watch harper, chloe, and emmi interact because they are all so close in age. i love that. my cousin is 6 months younger than me and there wasn't much better than hanging out with her...even though my aunt and uncle swear i was the trouble maker...maybe i just always had good ideas. it is nice that they are all starting to get old enough to play without constant grown up intervention because that gave me time to laugh and hang out with the rest of the family...and who doesn't like a good laugh on christmas? kyle and his dad in that hat...sigh.
part 2...our house christmas eve/morning...coming soon :)
Monday, December 28, 2009
oliver jack's first birthday...
it is hard to believe that oliver jack is officially a year old! sometimes when i would think back at certain points of the season and realize that a year ago he wasn't here i would find myself so shocked. it was also strange to think that i was induced with him so i kept wondering when he would have been born if we did not intervene. 6 days from christmas is close enough...but what if...
we had his party on the saturday of his actual birthday. i made the invitations in september and i actually managed to get most of them out, unless i had to mail them...then, i'm sorry. i had good intentions and i still have invitations with your name on them in my house. the post office is never on my list of places to visit. i still am not quite sure what i was thinking with scheduling the party at 1:00. all of my kids have been either taking a nap or nearing a nap at 1:00 since as long as i can remember. the fact that i decided to throw a party at this time is beyond me. but whatever. i had the invitations printed so there was no going back.
we didn't buy him much. he's a pretty simple kid. all i knew that i wanted was balloons, balls, and bubbles. oh, and cake. anything else would be superfluous for him.
the party was great. we had so much family and quite a few friends and it was just so much fun to hang out so close to christmas.
thanks to my sister in law, allison, i was able to help jack open presents and do some other things without having to worry about taking pictures. it was fun to look at the pictures after everything was over and done with as well...
christmas lights...
i am painfully behind on posting. between all the season's festivities, preparing for festivities, oliver jack's birthday, and 4 christmases i have been taking more pictures than writing...
Friday, December 18, 2009
tomorrow jack turns 1...
we celebrated with a trip to the doctor's office for a well visit...yay shots! oliver jack was a trooper. he sat, holding calvary's hand, on my lap and braved the three shots that were lovingly jabbed into is thick legs. he cried just a minute.
hopefully, we can truly make up for the injustice tomorrow as we celebrate his birthday for real. i love that all of my babies have been born on friday because every first birthday actually falls on a saturday! whenever we have another baby it better cooperate :)
oliver jack's stats:
height--29.5 inches--53%
weight--23 lbs--48%
head--19 inches--90%
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
long overdue...
harper and i finally cut off our long hair...i was skeptical if harper would actually carry out with the plan, but she did it and now we can hardly pull her away from the mirror. i am super pleased with my low maintenance cut as well.
Monday, December 14, 2009
i found the zipper...
i posted a couple of weeks ago about calvary sticking the zipper up his nose. unfortunately at that time, i had misplaced the zipper...i always tell kyle that it is either the stuff or the kids and for the most part he has been happy that i choose to lose the stuff instead of the children...
anyway, kyle told me where i had left the zipper and i thought i would take a picture. but the picture of just the zipper didn't quite do justice to the horrible reality of just how big this zipper truly is. i needed something to give reference. i thought of calvary but i was afraid that he would rekindle some sort of strange desire to stick the object up his nose. i decided the only safe route would be to actually tape the zipper to his nose, snap a quick shot, and then remove the zipper before he could be tempted to put those clever little hands on it. and that is just what i did.
anyway, kyle told me where i had left the zipper and i thought i would take a picture. but the picture of just the zipper didn't quite do justice to the horrible reality of just how big this zipper truly is. i needed something to give reference. i thought of calvary but i was afraid that he would rekindle some sort of strange desire to stick the object up his nose. i decided the only safe route would be to actually tape the zipper to his nose, snap a quick shot, and then remove the zipper before he could be tempted to put those clever little hands on it. and that is just what i did.
hard to believe that ALL i could see of this giant zipper was tee-tiny glimmer of pink...oh the wonders of the human body.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
the countdown begins
in 10 days oliver jack will be 1 year old...
hard to believe.
even harder to believe that i am the mother of three children. the youngest of which is soon to be 1.
hard to believe.
even harder to believe that i am the mother of three children. the youngest of which is soon to be 1.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
walking through fire...
lately calvary has demonstrated that simply hearing a warning might not be enough to satisfy his curiosity. he has become a child that has to walk through the fire to realize that it burns...
we've learned some valuable lessons from calvary and hopefully he has learned from them as well...
i cannot believe it has taken me this long to chronicle this moment in our history, but i am kind of glad that i can do this more as a lump picture of calvary's personality rather than a freak incident that occurred...because i am learning more every day that these things happen to calvary more often than others mostly because he has to learn the hard way...
a few weeks ago (or maybe a couple of months) we left a play date with harper's best friend from school. we had a great time and were heading home just in time to meet kyle as he came home from work. i was driving down the road and calvary starts screaming. i, being quite used to hearing calvary scream over every little thing, calmly asked him what was wrong. i never expected in a million years to hear what he would then say: "i lost my zipper in my nose!" i look in the rear view mirror and see calvary with blood on his face. i whipped my car in the nearest parking lot (i'm not really sure what i expected to do at that moment but this is what i did). once i got out of the car i looked in his nose, on his clothes, in the car, and could find no evidence of this zipper. i questioned whether he might have dropped the zipper and thought he stuck it up his nose. whatever had happened he had made himself bleed by digging around in his nose looking for the mysteriously missing finishing. i got home, called the doctor, and they said to bring him in immediately. i called kyle, and he was certain that we could get it out ourselves. i still had not seen the zipper so i was skeptical that it was even in there...so, i asked him to get a tissue and blow his nose...after that, if i would pull his cheek to the side and open his nose and shine a flashlight i could catch the smallest glimpse of the pink zipper he had stuck inside his nose. it totally freaked me out.
i knew i could not get it out on my own so i waited 10 minutes for kyle to get home. once he got home we got to work. i had to send harper to her room with oliver jack...harper was so worried that she was hysterical. and then i had to hold his nose open and his head still while kyle sat across his belly holding down both his arms and legs. after we secured him, kyle used tweezers to fish out the zipper. i called the doctor and she as so impressed that we managed to do this ourselves and said we should go and buy ourselves a nice dinner...after all, we just saved about 150.00 in doctor's expenses! the zipper was about 1.5 inches long....i waited to post because i wanted to take a picture...but i lost the zipper (thankfully, not up a nose). it was unbelievable how i could not see this monstrous zipper. he had shoved the thing so far up that it was barely visible. thankfully, my little fire walker has not stuck anything else up his nose after that fateful day.
other walk through fire moments:
1. climbed up his dresser at naptime after we have repeatedly asked him not to do so only to pull the entire dresser over. thankfully, no one was harmed.
2. as we tucked the kids in bed one night he said he had to go to the bathroom. we waited in his room for him to return. he was not gone long, but when he returned he had a bloody spot above his lip. he said he didn't know what happened. i kept looking and had an epiphany and asked, "calvary did you try to shave?" he still denied until kyle said he could give him a special medicine if he did...kyle later called him the worst criminal ever because calvary had left the handle of the razor sticking out of the drawer.
the older he gets the trickery he tries to be. he takes advantage of these brief little moments that he is alone and uses them for his experimentation. hopefully, he will outgrow all of this need to figure things out for himself and just trust that mommy and daddy are not trying to keep him from fun...we are trying to save him from the burn.
we've learned some valuable lessons from calvary and hopefully he has learned from them as well...
i cannot believe it has taken me this long to chronicle this moment in our history, but i am kind of glad that i can do this more as a lump picture of calvary's personality rather than a freak incident that occurred...because i am learning more every day that these things happen to calvary more often than others mostly because he has to learn the hard way...
a few weeks ago (or maybe a couple of months) we left a play date with harper's best friend from school. we had a great time and were heading home just in time to meet kyle as he came home from work. i was driving down the road and calvary starts screaming. i, being quite used to hearing calvary scream over every little thing, calmly asked him what was wrong. i never expected in a million years to hear what he would then say: "i lost my zipper in my nose!" i look in the rear view mirror and see calvary with blood on his face. i whipped my car in the nearest parking lot (i'm not really sure what i expected to do at that moment but this is what i did). once i got out of the car i looked in his nose, on his clothes, in the car, and could find no evidence of this zipper. i questioned whether he might have dropped the zipper and thought he stuck it up his nose. whatever had happened he had made himself bleed by digging around in his nose looking for the mysteriously missing finishing. i got home, called the doctor, and they said to bring him in immediately. i called kyle, and he was certain that we could get it out ourselves. i still had not seen the zipper so i was skeptical that it was even in there...so, i asked him to get a tissue and blow his nose...after that, if i would pull his cheek to the side and open his nose and shine a flashlight i could catch the smallest glimpse of the pink zipper he had stuck inside his nose. it totally freaked me out.
i knew i could not get it out on my own so i waited 10 minutes for kyle to get home. once he got home we got to work. i had to send harper to her room with oliver jack...harper was so worried that she was hysterical. and then i had to hold his nose open and his head still while kyle sat across his belly holding down both his arms and legs. after we secured him, kyle used tweezers to fish out the zipper. i called the doctor and she as so impressed that we managed to do this ourselves and said we should go and buy ourselves a nice dinner...after all, we just saved about 150.00 in doctor's expenses! the zipper was about 1.5 inches long....i waited to post because i wanted to take a picture...but i lost the zipper (thankfully, not up a nose). it was unbelievable how i could not see this monstrous zipper. he had shoved the thing so far up that it was barely visible. thankfully, my little fire walker has not stuck anything else up his nose after that fateful day.
other walk through fire moments:
1. climbed up his dresser at naptime after we have repeatedly asked him not to do so only to pull the entire dresser over. thankfully, no one was harmed.
2. as we tucked the kids in bed one night he said he had to go to the bathroom. we waited in his room for him to return. he was not gone long, but when he returned he had a bloody spot above his lip. he said he didn't know what happened. i kept looking and had an epiphany and asked, "calvary did you try to shave?" he still denied until kyle said he could give him a special medicine if he did...kyle later called him the worst criminal ever because calvary had left the handle of the razor sticking out of the drawer.
the older he gets the trickery he tries to be. he takes advantage of these brief little moments that he is alone and uses them for his experimentation. hopefully, he will outgrow all of this need to figure things out for himself and just trust that mommy and daddy are not trying to keep him from fun...we are trying to save him from the burn.
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