It's been such a long time since I've been able to just sit down and write. I really miss it, but it seems in any given day a small plethora of things just wind up taking precedence over me being able to blog.
Without fishing through previous blog posts, I have no idea how much I've shared about the kids. I had started to write about Katie and her being assessed for speech (which insurance frustratingly denied us coverage). We were told back in October or November that she's likely just a late talker. This past month has been very promising with Katie beginning to talk more. She uses sentences pretty frequently and people who don't live with us are starting to understand the things she does say. I'm in an odd place of feeling thrilled and excited about the words she can say, and yet still feeling frustrated and impatient that she isn't further along with speaking. It's a challenge, but I'm so grateful anytime she utters words I can understand. About two weeks ago she kept asking me "Why?" on a ride home from Target. With my older children the whys got on my nerves after so many iterations of it, but with Katie, I'm rejoicing that she's asking me a question with an actual word. It's interesting how perspective can change.
Anthony is a year old! It's crazy how quickly that first year passed. He's been walking since around Easter, but had started taking his first steps back in February. He's presently on a mission to slip by us and scale the stairs anytime he's sees an open gate. He claps, he waves, he shakes his head no, and tries to tackle me by throwing himself at my legs. Today he almost succeeded in knocking me over. He says words, for which I am very thankful. He can say Mama, Dada, Daddy, no (I'm not exactly thrilled he learned that particular word.), uh-oh and something that sounds remarkably like bye-bye.
The girls are pretty much done with the school year. They both have a state history test to complete and we still need to take a field trip and then we can call History done. Ellie has everything else for the year completed. Math and Madeline just shouldn't even be mentioned in the same sentence. I made an executive call last week and decided that even though she had just finished the final lesson in her math book that we were going to have to start over at the beginning of the fourth quarter and do it again. She wasn't retaining the information and when she would get stumped on classwork, she would go back to whatever lesson the problem was from and look at the example to figure it out. The problem with that was she would get the work done and it would be right, but when it was time to take a test, there was no book for her to look at to see how to do the problems. I'm sure I wasn't her favorite person when I told her we had to start over. Right now I'm going over two lessons a day with her and hand selecting the problems she struggles the most with to make sure she really understands how to do them so she won't have a problem when it's time to take the test.
Soccer season is still going. We had a lot of bad weather in March so three weeks of games that should have happened got cancelled or rescheduled for later in the spring. So while soccer should have wrapped up this past Saturday, it won't be done until June 6th. So that means that twice a week soccer practices will also keep going for the rest of this month and into June.
I came to the realization a few weeks ago that I've been praying for a specific intention for over six years now without seeing the result I'd love to see. Perhaps Our Lord is helping me to learn to be patient. Here and there I've seen articles and what not that say things to the effect that when a prayer isn't answered in the timing that you expect, it's because your heart isn't yet prepared to fully appreciate it. So on those days when I feel a bit like this is a hopeless cause and I feel like I'm on the brink of despair, I think maybe, just maybe that's it. It's also in those moments where I think that I should have a better relationship with St. Monica. I know she knows how I feel.
Since it's been over two months since I last wrote anything I suppose I should also mention that Madeline was confirmed last month. She chose Maria for her confirmation name to honor the Blessed Mother. I have every intention of putting together a post with pictures soon, I hope.
The VBS program had reached the max number of children we can take two months before hitting the registration deadline. I think registration was open for only about seven or eight weeks. Either the program has gained a really good reputation over these past few years, or the parents are really eager to get fifteen hours of kid free time for just $40 per child. Right now I'm working on making sure I have all of the volunteers that we need and I'm trying to pick out the music for the program. I'm almost there. Instead of stressing about it as I have in years past, I've just been focusing more on praying about it and seeing where the Spirit leads me.
The little man has just woken up from his nap. If all goes well, I'll find time later to add some pictures.
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Monday, May 18, 2015
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Busy, busy, busy!
It seems like there's always something going on around here. It's like there's never time to sit down and just write a blog post, or I start to write one and suddenly there's a queue of kids asking me what feels like a thousand questions.
Last week I had the hardest time sleeping for a couple of days and after two nights of only four hours of sleep each night I was completely exhausted. Despite feeling incredibly tired I then found that I just couldn't sleep. It wasn't until Friday that I started to be able to catch up on sleep. I'm just now starting to feel like I've had enough sleep to function properly.
I think were now a laundry generating machine. Anthony spits up so much that I think he creates a load of wash a day all on his own. He's on Zantac, but it's not helping with the spit up as much as I would like. This morning at Mass he had such a massive spit up during the Our Father right as we said "Thy will be done" that there was an audible splash and enough dripping off my arm that our friends about seven pews back commented on the dripping spit up after Mass. Lovely.
That Mass was just a fun-filled 45 minutes of mortification. Between Katie acting like a two year old, which she is, but she really ramped it up this morning, and Ellie grabbing Katie by the head during a novena to move her out of the way, along with Anthony's excessive spitting up, I was ready to go crawl into a hole and stay there for the rest of the day.
Later in the day the dog decided to get stuck under the shed. If it were left to me, I would have just let him try to figure out how to get unstuck on his own, but Bryan and the girls are much nicer to him than I am. It took Bryan a little while but he rescued the dog who then tried to go right back under the shed again. I imagine there must be something under there that has him very interested.
This Friday the girls will wrap up their third week of school. We're 1/12 of the way through the school year! So far it's going well. They're getting everything done for the most part. I decided to just have the girls work off the lesson plans that Seton sent us rather than copy them into an excel spreadsheet for the week. I like it better this way, but Madeline doesn't. This way makes it harder for her to ignore the details that don't fit on the spreadsheet.
Soccer has one again taken over. Two nights a week the girls and Bryan go off to soccer practice while I stay home with Katie and Anthony. Being alone with the two little ones at the end of a long day can be exhausting. I've seen more Sofia the First, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Cinderella than I care to remember. I've also read Katie's favorite Tomie DePaola books to the point that even the newer ones we're recently added are almost memorized by me. I have quite the collection of children's books memorized. Too bad I can't use that awesome mom skill to remember what we need to buy at Target or the grocery store!
I think it's possible that me eating dairy foods may be making Anthony's reflux worse. I've been noticing that when I eat a lot of dairy that he spits up a lot more than on the days when I haven't, particularly a day or two after not having much or any diary. So, of course, after noticing this yesterday I sat down and had Tostitos and sour cream--a lot of sour cream. Today I spent all day wiping up copious amounts of cheesy spit up. So I'm going to try going dairy free for a few days to see if there's a change. I really don't want to have to possibly eliminate dairy, but I'd like him to not be spitting up all the time. So if I must, I'll stop eating it. I'll just have to figure out what to eat instead if diary does turn out to be the culprit.
Is it bad that Anthony will be four months old in eleven days and I still haven't ordered birth announcements? I sent them out for the girls but just never got around to doing them for Anthony. I feel like it might be silly to send them out now, but at the same time I hate to not have a birth announcement for him when I had one for each of his sisters.
That's pretty much the nickel tour of what's been going on around here. Nothing spectacular, just regular everyday craziness.
Last week I had the hardest time sleeping for a couple of days and after two nights of only four hours of sleep each night I was completely exhausted. Despite feeling incredibly tired I then found that I just couldn't sleep. It wasn't until Friday that I started to be able to catch up on sleep. I'm just now starting to feel like I've had enough sleep to function properly.
I think were now a laundry generating machine. Anthony spits up so much that I think he creates a load of wash a day all on his own. He's on Zantac, but it's not helping with the spit up as much as I would like. This morning at Mass he had such a massive spit up during the Our Father right as we said "Thy will be done" that there was an audible splash and enough dripping off my arm that our friends about seven pews back commented on the dripping spit up after Mass. Lovely.
That Mass was just a fun-filled 45 minutes of mortification. Between Katie acting like a two year old, which she is, but she really ramped it up this morning, and Ellie grabbing Katie by the head during a novena to move her out of the way, along with Anthony's excessive spitting up, I was ready to go crawl into a hole and stay there for the rest of the day.
Later in the day the dog decided to get stuck under the shed. If it were left to me, I would have just let him try to figure out how to get unstuck on his own, but Bryan and the girls are much nicer to him than I am. It took Bryan a little while but he rescued the dog who then tried to go right back under the shed again. I imagine there must be something under there that has him very interested.
This Friday the girls will wrap up their third week of school. We're 1/12 of the way through the school year! So far it's going well. They're getting everything done for the most part. I decided to just have the girls work off the lesson plans that Seton sent us rather than copy them into an excel spreadsheet for the week. I like it better this way, but Madeline doesn't. This way makes it harder for her to ignore the details that don't fit on the spreadsheet.
Soccer has one again taken over. Two nights a week the girls and Bryan go off to soccer practice while I stay home with Katie and Anthony. Being alone with the two little ones at the end of a long day can be exhausting. I've seen more Sofia the First, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Cinderella than I care to remember. I've also read Katie's favorite Tomie DePaola books to the point that even the newer ones we're recently added are almost memorized by me. I have quite the collection of children's books memorized. Too bad I can't use that awesome mom skill to remember what we need to buy at Target or the grocery store!
I think it's possible that me eating dairy foods may be making Anthony's reflux worse. I've been noticing that when I eat a lot of dairy that he spits up a lot more than on the days when I haven't, particularly a day or two after not having much or any diary. So, of course, after noticing this yesterday I sat down and had Tostitos and sour cream--a lot of sour cream. Today I spent all day wiping up copious amounts of cheesy spit up. So I'm going to try going dairy free for a few days to see if there's a change. I really don't want to have to possibly eliminate dairy, but I'd like him to not be spitting up all the time. So if I must, I'll stop eating it. I'll just have to figure out what to eat instead if diary does turn out to be the culprit.
Is it bad that Anthony will be four months old in eleven days and I still haven't ordered birth announcements? I sent them out for the girls but just never got around to doing them for Anthony. I feel like it might be silly to send them out now, but at the same time I hate to not have a birth announcement for him when I had one for each of his sisters.
That's pretty much the nickel tour of what's been going on around here. Nothing spectacular, just regular everyday craziness.
Monday, July 14, 2014
Four Kids Will Keep You Busy!
I can't believe that I've only blogged two or three times since Anthony was born on May 1st. I feel like my blog has been set on the back burner for the longest time. All I can say is the past eleven months have felt like some of the busiest months of my life.
Things are going well here and I'm continually amazed at how sweet this new little love of mine is. I can't believe I spent so much time worried that I wouldn't adore this little man as much as I do my girls. I really didn't think I'd have any clue what to do with a little boy but I have to say having a boy baby isn't too different from having a girl other than the obvious differences and the overall absence of whining and crying. How come nobody told me boys were so easy going? Anthony is so laid back that I'd be prefectly content to have more just like him.
I have so much I want to blog about so I will hopefully be able to find some time in the next few weeks to fill you in on what we've been up to. Here are are few highlights.
Madeline completed her first year of homeschooling and she managed to finish up the year a full three weeks before the kids in public school finished.
Ellie will be joining us for school this year. When I re-enrolled Madeline for 8th grade we also enrolled Ellie for 4th grade. Can I tell you how excited I am that we're done with the public school? I know Ellie is excited about homeschooling, too. She seems to be telling everyone about it.
I think Katie has adjusted to having a little brother for the most part. She still has moments here and there where she seems jealous but overall she seems content to have a real baby in the house.
Anthony was baptized on the feast day of St. Anthony of Padua. I couldn't resist having him baptized on the feast day of his patron saint.
VBS took place last week. How I managed to pull off coordinating VBS this year while pregnant/having just had a baby will remain a mystery. All I can say is I have some amazing friends and family members who all helped me out tremendously. Last week was great and I enjoyed seeing all of the kids having a great time.
Anthony had his 2 month well visit last week. He's growing so fast. He's 12 lbs 11oz and 23 1/4 inches long. He's already outgrown some of his 0-3 month outfits and is on the verge of outgrowing the rest. It's crazy! Between 6 and 8 weeks old he went from looking like a newborn to looking more like a three month old.
As if having a new baby and running VBS wasn't enough, we also had a birthday party to plan for yesterday. Ellie turned nine yesterday and we celebrated with a Frozen pool party. I can't believe she's nine already. It's amazing how quickly time passes. It doesn't seem like that long ago that we had just moved into this house and celebrated her second birthday and already she's nine years old.
Things are going well here and I'm continually amazed at how sweet this new little love of mine is. I can't believe I spent so much time worried that I wouldn't adore this little man as much as I do my girls. I really didn't think I'd have any clue what to do with a little boy but I have to say having a boy baby isn't too different from having a girl other than the obvious differences and the overall absence of whining and crying. How come nobody told me boys were so easy going? Anthony is so laid back that I'd be prefectly content to have more just like him.
I have so much I want to blog about so I will hopefully be able to find some time in the next few weeks to fill you in on what we've been up to. Here are are few highlights.
Madeline completed her first year of homeschooling and she managed to finish up the year a full three weeks before the kids in public school finished.
Ellie will be joining us for school this year. When I re-enrolled Madeline for 8th grade we also enrolled Ellie for 4th grade. Can I tell you how excited I am that we're done with the public school? I know Ellie is excited about homeschooling, too. She seems to be telling everyone about it.
I think Katie has adjusted to having a little brother for the most part. She still has moments here and there where she seems jealous but overall she seems content to have a real baby in the house.
Anthony was baptized on the feast day of St. Anthony of Padua. I couldn't resist having him baptized on the feast day of his patron saint.
VBS took place last week. How I managed to pull off coordinating VBS this year while pregnant/having just had a baby will remain a mystery. All I can say is I have some amazing friends and family members who all helped me out tremendously. Last week was great and I enjoyed seeing all of the kids having a great time.
Anthony had his 2 month well visit last week. He's growing so fast. He's 12 lbs 11oz and 23 1/4 inches long. He's already outgrown some of his 0-3 month outfits and is on the verge of outgrowing the rest. It's crazy! Between 6 and 8 weeks old he went from looking like a newborn to looking more like a three month old.
As if having a new baby and running VBS wasn't enough, we also had a birthday party to plan for yesterday. Ellie turned nine yesterday and we celebrated with a Frozen pool party. I can't believe she's nine already. It's amazing how quickly time passes. It doesn't seem like that long ago that we had just moved into this house and celebrated her second birthday and already she's nine years old.
So I think this wraps up my little highlight tour of what we've been up to this past month and a half. I hope to be able to put together a post about Anthony's baptism and Ellie's Frozen party later this week. I have a lot of pictures to share and I was so pleased with how well Ellie's party came together that I need to tell you how easily everything came together and why I'm convinced that I must get a die cut machine. (Hint: Look at the snowflake decorations in the background of each of the birthday pictures.)
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Hanging in there
I have no idea how long it's been since I've blogged but I know it's been a little while. Everything is going well but I'm exhausted. I suspect the third trimester is just taking a lot out of me. I don't think I've ever felt this tired during this stage of a pregnancy before.
Last Friday I had an ultrasound and the baby, who is still a boy, is doing well. Based on the measurements they did they estimate that the baby is already 4lbs 5oz. They tell me this is around the 50% percentile for a baby at 32 weeks but it just seems huge to me. As of right now I have about 7 1/2 weeks until my due date. I'm really hoping that this little one decides to come early, or at least by his due date.
Saturday I had that awful tearing muscle pain that I experienced with Katie for several months. This time it was on the other side of my belly. Not fun at all, but I'm so glad that it only persisted for one day. I'm hoping that it doesn't happen again.
We had a few days of nice weather so I got to go out and walk around the neighborhood. I'd love to have nice comfortable weather for a few weeks straight so I could walk every day. It seems so crazy that it was in the 50s and 60s on Friday and Saturday and by Sunday night it was snowing yet again. I cannot express how tired I am of snow.
Since the ultrasound tech on Friday told me that the baby is definately a boy and this is the fourth time the baby's gender has been confirmed, I decided to just go ahead and wash the clothes I bought for the baby. So between Friday and Saturday I got all of the baby clothes washed and organized in the closet and drawers. It's funny. I did my best to make sure I only purchased what we would need and I still feel like we have too much. I did have a few people give me some hand me downs so that's probably why I have a bit of a surplus. I am doing really well with not buying more clothing for the baby. It's so hard to resist cute little baby outfits, but I'm doing it!
I realized the other day that I've been doing a dismal job of taking pictures of the kids lately. I guess it's another thing I can chalk up to being so exhausted. I am trying to grab the camera here and there and take pictures. It's just not happening very often.
On the VBS planning front I've made some headway. I finally got things together and registration is open. I have a friend who graciously offered to do all of the data entry associated with registration. Another friend is helping me to find resources that work with this year's theme, and two others are giving me input for the crafts portion of the program. I really just need to come up with a design for the camp tee shirts and get those ordered and I'll feel like I can relax a bit. Oh and so I don't have to run around like a crazy person the week of VBS I have not one, but two assistants! That makes me feel a lot better about running VBS with a two month old.
Lent feels like it's slipping by pretty fast. The girls are filling up the bean jar and covering up our merciful cross with flowers for each work of mercy performed. Our Jesus tree on the other hand is still bare. We just haven't found the time yet to read the stories for a single ornament. I keep telling them that we're going to have to do a few days where we cover several stories so we can catch up but it just hasn't happened yet. The third trimester is really kicking my rear!
Once again I'm doing the 40 bags in 40 days challenge for Lent. I'd say we're already off to a good start. We have already given away, donated or tossed at least 15-20 bags and boxes of stuff. I suspect we will have a lot more than 40 bags before Lent is over. I'm purging a lot of household items that we don't need duplicates or even triplicates of as well as a lot of clothing. I'm coming to realize that we can't save all of the girl's outgrown clothing. It's piling up way too fast and I'd rather see it go to people who can use it now rather than box it up with the hopes that some of it will get used by one of the younger girls. I have a lot of clothing to go through, but my goal is to keep only the items that I know will get used and give away the rest. I'm also trying to pare down the amount of games and toys we have since I've come to realize that the less we have the more the kids play with the toys and the easier it is for them to manage putting their toys away when they're done playing. It's a work in progress and an exercise in detachment.
I don't think I even got around to blogging about my nephew's baptism on the first Sunday of Lent. Bryan and I are his godparents. It was a really beautiful baptism and I was just struck when I followed my nephew's gaze as he was being baptized and realised that he was looking at the painting of St. Therese who was right above the baptismal font. It was a moment that just left me saying "Wow!" As I held him for the baptism I just knew by the the look of wonder on his face that he was looking at something and I had to look over my shoulder and find out what it was. I'm really glad I did.
Soon I hope to be blogging more and also sharing some pictures. Right now I just don't have the energy to edit my pictures and go through all the steps to get them uploaded and added to the blog. Provided I don't continue to feel completely run down I should be able to get back into blogging.
Last Friday I had an ultrasound and the baby, who is still a boy, is doing well. Based on the measurements they did they estimate that the baby is already 4lbs 5oz. They tell me this is around the 50% percentile for a baby at 32 weeks but it just seems huge to me. As of right now I have about 7 1/2 weeks until my due date. I'm really hoping that this little one decides to come early, or at least by his due date.
Saturday I had that awful tearing muscle pain that I experienced with Katie for several months. This time it was on the other side of my belly. Not fun at all, but I'm so glad that it only persisted for one day. I'm hoping that it doesn't happen again.
We had a few days of nice weather so I got to go out and walk around the neighborhood. I'd love to have nice comfortable weather for a few weeks straight so I could walk every day. It seems so crazy that it was in the 50s and 60s on Friday and Saturday and by Sunday night it was snowing yet again. I cannot express how tired I am of snow.
Since the ultrasound tech on Friday told me that the baby is definately a boy and this is the fourth time the baby's gender has been confirmed, I decided to just go ahead and wash the clothes I bought for the baby. So between Friday and Saturday I got all of the baby clothes washed and organized in the closet and drawers. It's funny. I did my best to make sure I only purchased what we would need and I still feel like we have too much. I did have a few people give me some hand me downs so that's probably why I have a bit of a surplus. I am doing really well with not buying more clothing for the baby. It's so hard to resist cute little baby outfits, but I'm doing it!
I realized the other day that I've been doing a dismal job of taking pictures of the kids lately. I guess it's another thing I can chalk up to being so exhausted. I am trying to grab the camera here and there and take pictures. It's just not happening very often.
On the VBS planning front I've made some headway. I finally got things together and registration is open. I have a friend who graciously offered to do all of the data entry associated with registration. Another friend is helping me to find resources that work with this year's theme, and two others are giving me input for the crafts portion of the program. I really just need to come up with a design for the camp tee shirts and get those ordered and I'll feel like I can relax a bit. Oh and so I don't have to run around like a crazy person the week of VBS I have not one, but two assistants! That makes me feel a lot better about running VBS with a two month old.
Lent feels like it's slipping by pretty fast. The girls are filling up the bean jar and covering up our merciful cross with flowers for each work of mercy performed. Our Jesus tree on the other hand is still bare. We just haven't found the time yet to read the stories for a single ornament. I keep telling them that we're going to have to do a few days where we cover several stories so we can catch up but it just hasn't happened yet. The third trimester is really kicking my rear!
Once again I'm doing the 40 bags in 40 days challenge for Lent. I'd say we're already off to a good start. We have already given away, donated or tossed at least 15-20 bags and boxes of stuff. I suspect we will have a lot more than 40 bags before Lent is over. I'm purging a lot of household items that we don't need duplicates or even triplicates of as well as a lot of clothing. I'm coming to realize that we can't save all of the girl's outgrown clothing. It's piling up way too fast and I'd rather see it go to people who can use it now rather than box it up with the hopes that some of it will get used by one of the younger girls. I have a lot of clothing to go through, but my goal is to keep only the items that I know will get used and give away the rest. I'm also trying to pare down the amount of games and toys we have since I've come to realize that the less we have the more the kids play with the toys and the easier it is for them to manage putting their toys away when they're done playing. It's a work in progress and an exercise in detachment.
I don't think I even got around to blogging about my nephew's baptism on the first Sunday of Lent. Bryan and I are his godparents. It was a really beautiful baptism and I was just struck when I followed my nephew's gaze as he was being baptized and realised that he was looking at the painting of St. Therese who was right above the baptismal font. It was a moment that just left me saying "Wow!" As I held him for the baptism I just knew by the the look of wonder on his face that he was looking at something and I had to look over my shoulder and find out what it was. I'm really glad I did.
Soon I hope to be blogging more and also sharing some pictures. Right now I just don't have the energy to edit my pictures and go through all the steps to get them uploaded and added to the blog. Provided I don't continue to feel completely run down I should be able to get back into blogging.
Monday, January 6, 2014
I'm still here
I noticed the other day that it's been quite a while since I last blogged. The finger incident, which I still haven't been able to bring myself to type out the whole story of my hospital misadventure, Christmas, moving two kids into one bedroom, the birth of my first nephew and a snow storm have just left me in a seemingly endless state of neglecting the blog. Honestly, after my hospital stay, I've just had a hard time wanting to do anything. I'm certainly in a bit of a funk but I'm trying my best to get out of it.
I've healed up nicely from my injury and infection. My finger is still a bit sore but I'm thankfully able to to normal household tasks again. I had about a ten day break from changing diapers. I suppose that was probably the silver lining in this whole miserable situation. That, and me not being able to wash sippy cups. I really dislike cleaning sippy cups.
Our Christmas was quite nice. We sat in the front row of chairs for Christmas Eve Mass in the parish school cafegymitorium. That meant I finally got to take pictures and even some videos of Ellie singing in the children's choir, and I even snapped a few pictures of Madeline altar serving. Katie was surprisingly well behaved considering she spent an hour before Mass trying to sit with Ellie and the rest of the choir. We sat with friends at Mass which also made it a more enjoyable experience.
Despite the smaller piles of Christmas gifts, I still feel like the kids got way too much for Christmas. We give the kids four gifts each (three from us and one from St. Nick) and a stocking. Once you add in gifts from other family members, though, the piles seem to take on a life of their own. Fortunately we didn't have anyone crying that she had too many gifts to open this year. So that was a welcome change.
On December 28th my nephew, Miles, was born. He weighed 9lbs, 7oz! That's practically a two month old if you ask me! Funny thing is, when we got to meet him a few days after he was born he didn't seem like he was a big baby, he seemed very newborn like to me, but that might just be because I'm used to carrying a 24lb toddler all the time. Katie is quite taken with her new little cousin and kept calling him "my baby" and making this cute little sound as she admired him. It was the cutest thing. She was certainly eager to hold him and she has Bryan and I more than a little concerned about how we're going to manage having a 2 1/2 year old who wants to play mommy and a newborn. I think we're really going to have our work cut out for us.
The past week and a half has been one of transition with regards to the kids' bedrooms. Madeline and Ellie are now the proud owners of a beautiful bunk bed and are sharing a room. We're still working on making Madeline's old room a shared space. I still have to merge their closets and we have more than a few items that need to find new places somewhere else in the house. We're getting there.
Ellie's old room is about to become Katie's big girl room. I'm planning to pain the blue room a nice cheery pink. I'm also trying to decide whether or not I really want to refinish Madeline's old armoire. Right now it's a honey pine color. I'd like to paint it white so it matches Ellie's old headboard which I like better than Madeline's old bed which used to be my bed. So I have a bit of work to do. I just need to find the energy so I can do it.
I've decided to keep the pretty light aqua blue walls that are in the nursery for the new baby. The bedding I selected has some aqua in it and I think the wall help to make the aqua accents on the bedding pop. I have most of the decorative items I will need to have the little guy's nursery just the way I want it. I'm looking forward to decorating the nursery. I'm hopeful that I will have the nursery set up by the end of February.
Madeline is back to playing soccer again. I think she had about six weeks off. She's playing indoor soccer for the next two or three months and doing training with her travel team one night a week. Most of her indoor games are at the same time I teach on Sunday morning so I think I may only make it to one or two of her games. Bryan's not coaching for indoor soccer so he's getting to see what it's like to manage a toddler on the sidelines.
So as you can probably tell from my hodge podge update, we've been a bit busy around here. There's certainly a lot going on and I don't foresee things slowing down anytime soon. I'm going to do my best to update the blog a bit more frequently. I've got loads of pictures to upload so perhaps that will be a catalyst for me to do a bit more blogging.
I also want to wish you all a belated Merry Christmas (nothing like waiting until the 12th day of Christmas to wish you a Merry Christmas, right?) and a happy and healthy 2014!
I've healed up nicely from my injury and infection. My finger is still a bit sore but I'm thankfully able to to normal household tasks again. I had about a ten day break from changing diapers. I suppose that was probably the silver lining in this whole miserable situation. That, and me not being able to wash sippy cups. I really dislike cleaning sippy cups.
Our Christmas was quite nice. We sat in the front row of chairs for Christmas Eve Mass in the parish school cafegymitorium. That meant I finally got to take pictures and even some videos of Ellie singing in the children's choir, and I even snapped a few pictures of Madeline altar serving. Katie was surprisingly well behaved considering she spent an hour before Mass trying to sit with Ellie and the rest of the choir. We sat with friends at Mass which also made it a more enjoyable experience.
Despite the smaller piles of Christmas gifts, I still feel like the kids got way too much for Christmas. We give the kids four gifts each (three from us and one from St. Nick) and a stocking. Once you add in gifts from other family members, though, the piles seem to take on a life of their own. Fortunately we didn't have anyone crying that she had too many gifts to open this year. So that was a welcome change.
On December 28th my nephew, Miles, was born. He weighed 9lbs, 7oz! That's practically a two month old if you ask me! Funny thing is, when we got to meet him a few days after he was born he didn't seem like he was a big baby, he seemed very newborn like to me, but that might just be because I'm used to carrying a 24lb toddler all the time. Katie is quite taken with her new little cousin and kept calling him "my baby" and making this cute little sound as she admired him. It was the cutest thing. She was certainly eager to hold him and she has Bryan and I more than a little concerned about how we're going to manage having a 2 1/2 year old who wants to play mommy and a newborn. I think we're really going to have our work cut out for us.
The past week and a half has been one of transition with regards to the kids' bedrooms. Madeline and Ellie are now the proud owners of a beautiful bunk bed and are sharing a room. We're still working on making Madeline's old room a shared space. I still have to merge their closets and we have more than a few items that need to find new places somewhere else in the house. We're getting there.
Ellie's old room is about to become Katie's big girl room. I'm planning to pain the blue room a nice cheery pink. I'm also trying to decide whether or not I really want to refinish Madeline's old armoire. Right now it's a honey pine color. I'd like to paint it white so it matches Ellie's old headboard which I like better than Madeline's old bed which used to be my bed. So I have a bit of work to do. I just need to find the energy so I can do it.
I've decided to keep the pretty light aqua blue walls that are in the nursery for the new baby. The bedding I selected has some aqua in it and I think the wall help to make the aqua accents on the bedding pop. I have most of the decorative items I will need to have the little guy's nursery just the way I want it. I'm looking forward to decorating the nursery. I'm hopeful that I will have the nursery set up by the end of February.
Madeline is back to playing soccer again. I think she had about six weeks off. She's playing indoor soccer for the next two or three months and doing training with her travel team one night a week. Most of her indoor games are at the same time I teach on Sunday morning so I think I may only make it to one or two of her games. Bryan's not coaching for indoor soccer so he's getting to see what it's like to manage a toddler on the sidelines.
So as you can probably tell from my hodge podge update, we've been a bit busy around here. There's certainly a lot going on and I don't foresee things slowing down anytime soon. I'm going to do my best to update the blog a bit more frequently. I've got loads of pictures to upload so perhaps that will be a catalyst for me to do a bit more blogging.
I also want to wish you all a belated Merry Christmas (nothing like waiting until the 12th day of Christmas to wish you a Merry Christmas, right?) and a happy and healthy 2014!
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