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Powered by LifeType12/26 - Daley Christmas. Baby cousin G gets a pretty dress. People exclaim over it. Big brother C says, "I'm not impressed."
12/28 - C, "Dad, [cousin] O says 'ellow' for 'yellow'".
Ben, "That's ok, bud."
C, "It's not ok with me."
12/30 - Joy counts to 30.
1/5 - Jeremiah gets pinworms. All family takes medicine, except Heather takes homeopathic remedy given by midwife.
1/10 - JDD, "It's Satur-awesome-day!"
1/10 - Jeremiah, picks up a tomato, exclaims, "Mah-now!".
1/10 - Jeremiah recognizes pictures of cousins, "Viv-a!", "Ow-ee!" Also, "No-ee!" and a very close rendition of "Joy".
January sometime - Jeremiah loves oatmeal, "eh-moo"
1/20 - Joy counts to 40
1/20 - Joy, "Zucchini climbed the sycamore tree."
I'm very much behind on the blog. But I have kept the pocket notes safely typed up in my email. So here goes.
In June, the kids and I made a trip to Florida to visit my parents, and my sister and her kids visited, too.
6/14 - Joy, "Mommy! I saw a dinosaur!" (It was a lizard in Grandma and Dad-o's yard.)
6/15 - Joy, "Jesus die, then froze again!"
6/17 - JPD lower right lateral incisor
June - JPD give kisses
During the Florida visit, I confirmed that I am pregnant! Due on Joy's birthday. (More)
Oh, yes. It has been half a year since my last pocket notes post...
9/6 - Joy says "yum" and "yummy", "all done/gone" (sounds like ah-doh), "where shoe?", and "mine" (sounds like my)
9/25 - Faith reading the Bible to Joy: "When you want Mommy to cuddle with you but she can't, you aren't alone because God is with you."
Faith also reminded herself of this as she went down to put tools away in the basement.
9/28 - Noah let me listen to his piano practice and I was impressed with his progress: both hands, dynamics, steady rythmn (More)
9/19 - Joy has been telling me when she needs a new diaper (patting her bottom) but this day, she got out the changing pad and wipes, set up the pad on the bathroom floor, put a new diaper on top of the wipes box, lay down on the pad, and called for me.
9/20 - Noah is definitely our hands-on guy. He asks for crafts related to what we do in school. When we read a book about archaeology, he immediately wanted to go dig in the back yard. He got a trowel and a sieve and a container to hold his treasures and happily dug and sifted for a long time.
~9/20 - Joy can say, "ow".
9/25 - Joy put on her own socks all by herself. Before this, she had successfully put on mine.
9/27 - Joy says "please" to go with her sign. It sounds like "wee".
9/27 - Sounding the same, but in a different context. When she plays with the abacus, she says, "wee, wee, wee" as she movs the beads. 9/28 - She also "counted" "wee, wee, wee" when playing with the corners cards.
9/28 - Faith really wanted to play Corners with me, so I made up a version she can do. (The "real" game involves finding numbers that add up to 5, 10, 15, or 20.) We played where we had to match the color and the numeral. Faith loved it! (More)
I thought this deserved its own post. I am pregnant! The baby is due right around Joy's second birthday, the end of February.
So far, I've been feeling pretty well. I get a bit queasy if I don't eat something every couple of hours, and I do get tired a lot (especially when Joy wakes me up a lot in the night, but that's a different story...) We are excited, but not sparing much time to think about it much so far.
I do prefer moving at this stage of pregnancy than later. I can still lift boxes and go up and down stairs reasonably and ride my bike.
Well, now I really have to get the baths started. Good night!
P.S. Faith thinks it's a boy.
I think Heather generally does a good job (though I think she might not be taking as many naps as she should be at the moment) of getting rest, and happy to have people come cook and clean for her, but it is always a good reminder to make sure we get enough rest.
1/20 - Jonathan, as usual, singing while he plays and works. This time it was, "Come, Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadil. Come, Tom Bombadil..."
1/22 - When boys have a tea party: Noah, Faith and I were playing with Faith's tea set. Noah said he couldn't eat his soup because the bad guys had poisoned it. It was such a deadly poison we couldn't even touch it and I had him call 911 to send a squad out to take it away. I never remember anything like this happening at other tea parties... (More)
12/23 - Noah: "Tomorrow's tomorrow is Christmas!"
Both Jonathan and Noah were sick in the car on the way to New Hampshire. Blessedly, they both managed to get everything in the bowls and nothing on anyplace else in the car. By the time we arrived, they were fine and the rest of the visit was sick-free.
12/27 - Jonathan and Mommy were discussing dollar amounts of Christmas presents and what was even thinkable to ask about. I had said that a $200 set was out of the question. He then said, "[A particular lego set] is in the question."
12/30 - We went to the Boston Children's Museum with Grammy and I was with Faith at the bubbles section. She played a long time there and I got to observe other kids as well. This note is a quote from a young girl next to us, with obvious glee in her voice, "Science is messy!" (More)
12/16 - Headed up in the snow for another midwife appointment. I gained more weight this time, but Thanksgiving was in between visits... My iron was low again, despite diligently eating that horrible molasses, but she was suspicious that her hemoglobin tester is off calibration. All other stats are on track. The one concern was that the baby was head up, which I had suspected for about a week before. Since this one and Isaac were the only ones to be head up at this stage, I was tempted to worry and imagine scenarios. But I kept repeating to myself, "Do not be anxious about anything but in everything by prayer and petition make your requests known unto God and the peace of God that passes all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus."
C gave us some ideas for turning that I had not heard before. The one we tried a few days later was placing an ice pack up on top of where his head is and a nice warm compress down low where it should be. Our baby definitely moved a lot in response to the ice but did not seem to turn all the way, we think he liked his feet warm. Then yesterday we prepared to try it again and as I was feeling around, it seemed that he had turned! This morning, I definitely felt little feet kicking on top. Praise God! Those who pray for us, we would appreciate if you continue to pray that this little guy stays head down.
Actually, the only thing written in my pocket notes from all this time is that on 11/16, Jon solved the mirror cube with his eyes closed.
Jonathan's 7th birthday was a very fun time. He got a lot of cool presents and had a lot of cool people over to play. Grandma and Dad-o were there for the occasion and the next few days were also busy with fun. (More)
11/6 - Noah and I were making rice krispie treats and Noah was stirring. He asked for a marshmallow, but I said no, they had to go in the recipe and he could have one of the finished products. Well, he decided to snitch and got a natural lesson. I, only a few feet away in the kitchen, heard him screaming. He had dipped his finger in the melted marshmallow to taste it! I rushed him over to the sink and after a while of running it under the cold water, I made an ice bath in a bowl for him. His finger turned out fine after a few minutes and he had learned a good lesson. (More)
10/3 - Jon felt the baby kick! Since then, Jonathan and Faith have thought maybe they felt it. If the kids were ever up when I was still in bed but awake in the morning, they would definitely be able to feel it.
10/3 - Noah counted to 20 on his own. He is most comfortable sticking with 12, though.
10/5 - Faith, seeing a picture of Grandma on the computer said, "'Ma"
10/18 - Jonathan, talking to Noah about where to put a recipe, "I call it her biscuit cookbook because all I ever make out of it is biscuits." (More)
This morning, we drove up to the birth clinic where Jonathan and Noah were born. Their midwife has retired (she wanted to before Noah was born, but actually did right before Faith was born) and her daughter has taken over the job. We had met C before, when she was helping out her mom, I think during Jonathan's pregnancy. (More)
I'm definitely feeling the baby now! Movements are most noticeable when I am lying down.
9/14 - Jon had mentioned that the next time Jonathan got sneakers, they should have laces. Jonathan had never learned to tie his shoes because he never had tie shoes. At almost seven years old, we figured it was time. It took him an afternoon to get the hang of it and now he's an old pro.
9/17 - At a friend's house, Noah found a small pedal, no-training-wheels bike and successfully made a large circle without falling down!
9/18 - Despite our not being too into sports, Jonathan knows at least something about Pittsburgh. We were visiting our friends who live on Mt.Washington and the mom turned on the baseball game on TV to see when it ended so they could go up and watch the fireworks. Jonathan's comment, "The Pirates are winning?!? That's weird!"
Sometime in the middle of September, Faith added the /k/ sound to the end of "milk". Now we can distinguish between "more" and "milk"!
9/23 - Faith said "poke" sounding like "boke"
Faith hurt the pinky toe/right side of her right foot on the evening of 9/22 while running around. She continued to limp and cry about it until 3pm the next day. I considered calling the doctor, but she was walking on it without complaining that evening. She still needs to be careful of it because several times since then she has mildly re-injured it. It was rather strange to me to watch her crawl around after she has been walking so long.
9/24 - As I was falling asleep for my nap, I could hear Jonathan humming to himself - an eclectic mix of hymns, praise songs, Christmas carols, and the Imperial Death March.
Today, Noah asked me to check his shoes to make sure he put them on the right feet. When I told him they were not, he let out an exasperated sigh. He had tried really hard and still gotten it wrong. Poor guy. But I encouraged him that he'd get it soon.