since my last post. I am so sorry for all of you that follow that I have been so inconsistent with my posts. I think about you guys all of the time. Things have just been so crazy around here lately!
So Ken and I are back on track, like nothing ever happened. Of course we were still in counseling, but then decided that all it was doing in the end was putting soooo much pressure on us to do the "right thing", that it was stressing us both out, and it outweighed the benefits of counseling. The option is always there of course. But for now, things are going great!
I have been very sick for the last week. A chest cold really, but it hit me hard. Getting sick with 4 kiddos isn't allowed to hit you as hard as it hit me! My mom came down to help and Ken stayed home a couple of days. I went to stay with my good friend Jessica who offered her spare room to me to recuperate until the antibiotics did their job to keep me from being "contagious". The doctor says that even though I am still hacking up a lung on a regular basis, I should be alright to be around the kids. All of us got the H1N1 vaccine. Violet got very sick a few days after. Of course we were very panicked about the whole thing, but after waiting 10 days to get the test results back (she felt better by then) we found out that she was just fine...no swine flu in this house! I am starting to feel better, but still a little under the weather.
I am so excited to be doing a portrait session tomorrow with a couple that I met through our Mommy and Me group. Their twins are the same age as Noah and Violet and they are getting their pictures taken for their Christmas cards. You would be surprised at just how much business comes about just for the mailing of Christmas greetings. Crazy! Anyhow, their two boys are like little Gerber babies. They really look like they could be in commercials. I will try and get a release form signed so that I can post them.
Gia has officially become the know-it-all of the house! She is spouting off more and more words...mostly very close imitations of what we say to her. It gets to be quite commical hearing her say "use your words" to her brothers and sister when they cry or when Katie puts on her shoes she says "one foot, two foot" as she puts them on her. (Yes, I am *that* mom that narrates every move to her children)
Jackson and I went for a run in the park this morning at 6 am because I couldn't get him back to sleep. We have a pretty regular schedule at our house and when something rocks that boat, it makes for a long day! So, I let Katie know where I was headed and started off to the park. Little did I know that there would be 500+ geese at the lake in the park, so of course there was no falling asleep then. To begin with they were pretty loud, but even if they hadn't been Jackson was so enthralled, sleeping was not going to happen. It was a nice little Jackson-Mommy outing. It is rare that I get time with one at a time until Ken gets home from work. Especially with the three youngest, because they always seem to get lumped into 1 group.
Gia is up and wants juice. Apparently the male species doesn't have thumbs that are capable of opening a juice box, so Mommy is on the way to save the day!
soli deo gloria
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
The Walrus said to talk of many things...
Alice in Wonderland is the new favorite in our household. I could recite it by heart when I was a kid and now I do it as a mom. Oh how time flies!
We have been extremely busy the past few days. Oh I wish I could post the pictures from trick or treating on here. My camera got lost while we were out and about, so I am in the process of filing an insurance claim. Ugh, what a mess. We had a blast! There is a neighborhood in Old Louisville that goes ALL OUT for Halloween. Decorations galore and is always packed with trick or treaters. Why we chose to go there this year, I am not really very sure. We are hectic as a group to begin with...add hundreds of thousands of people all around us, and it is chaos. We managed to come home with all 4 kids (whew!) and candy to last us the rest of the year. Ken (yes, I have adjusted the settings on privacy that I feel comfortable with names now again) and I went as Zach and Kelly from Saved By the Bell. Our friends Matt and Michael have been together for 15 years and celebrated their anniversary with us by going trick or treating with the kiddos. They went as Mac and PC and got soooo many laughs! Too cute!
Gia went as Alice from Alice in Wonderland (of course), complete with the dress and black bow. Everything. Was so cute! Jackson went as a baseball player. His new favorite is watching TV with daddy and his eyes get really big when he watches baseball and the bat cracks with a hit. So funny! PS. We hate the Yankees in this household, so for some Phillies fans out there...GO PHILLIES!
Noah and Violet went as 2 pea pods. 2 peas in a pod kind of idea. They were darling, and the 4 of them flirted with every single person that came up to oooo and ahhh at them. It was a lot of fun. Maybe I will try and keep all the kiddos awake for a session in their costumes. It just seems wrong to dress them up after Halloween in them. Is that weird?
On Saturday, we hired a sitter and had Katie on call and Ken and I went to a real grown up function with alcohol and everything. Been a long time. I certainly felt a little out of my league. This time, I put on the tightest corset I could find and a pencil skirt with some fish nets and some big time costume jewelery and went as a 40's pin up girl, and Ken went as a mobster. It's funny, because last year, when we went, people were there until 4 in the morning. This year, everyone started leaving about midnight. Oh how things change in a year and it was certainly comforting to see that we aren't the only parents who don't have any stamina left after 9 pm.
Gia had a Halloween parade at preschool and all the mom's walked around the playground holding their hands to model their costumes. Cute idea. I felt kind of ridiculous, but Gia was hamming it up, so it was totally worth it.
I hear some fussing from the twins room. Should prolly hit the sack here soon myself. Hope everyone had a safe Halloween weekend!
We have been extremely busy the past few days. Oh I wish I could post the pictures from trick or treating on here. My camera got lost while we were out and about, so I am in the process of filing an insurance claim. Ugh, what a mess. We had a blast! There is a neighborhood in Old Louisville that goes ALL OUT for Halloween. Decorations galore and is always packed with trick or treaters. Why we chose to go there this year, I am not really very sure. We are hectic as a group to begin with...add hundreds of thousands of people all around us, and it is chaos. We managed to come home with all 4 kids (whew!) and candy to last us the rest of the year. Ken (yes, I have adjusted the settings on privacy that I feel comfortable with names now again) and I went as Zach and Kelly from Saved By the Bell. Our friends Matt and Michael have been together for 15 years and celebrated their anniversary with us by going trick or treating with the kiddos. They went as Mac and PC and got soooo many laughs! Too cute!
Gia went as Alice from Alice in Wonderland (of course), complete with the dress and black bow. Everything. Was so cute! Jackson went as a baseball player. His new favorite is watching TV with daddy and his eyes get really big when he watches baseball and the bat cracks with a hit. So funny! PS. We hate the Yankees in this household, so for some Phillies fans out there...GO PHILLIES!
Noah and Violet went as 2 pea pods. 2 peas in a pod kind of idea. They were darling, and the 4 of them flirted with every single person that came up to oooo and ahhh at them. It was a lot of fun. Maybe I will try and keep all the kiddos awake for a session in their costumes. It just seems wrong to dress them up after Halloween in them. Is that weird?
On Saturday, we hired a sitter and had Katie on call and Ken and I went to a real grown up function with alcohol and everything. Been a long time. I certainly felt a little out of my league. This time, I put on the tightest corset I could find and a pencil skirt with some fish nets and some big time costume jewelery and went as a 40's pin up girl, and Ken went as a mobster. It's funny, because last year, when we went, people were there until 4 in the morning. This year, everyone started leaving about midnight. Oh how things change in a year and it was certainly comforting to see that we aren't the only parents who don't have any stamina left after 9 pm.
Gia had a Halloween parade at preschool and all the mom's walked around the playground holding their hands to model their costumes. Cute idea. I felt kind of ridiculous, but Gia was hamming it up, so it was totally worth it.
I hear some fussing from the twins room. Should prolly hit the sack here soon myself. Hope everyone had a safe Halloween weekend!
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