Well, he definitely did surprise me, coming on the 26th. =) Maybe taking the 5w was part of it - I did have more good, hard contractions before labor than I have before. Anyway here is the birth story...
Tuesday (21st) I had my appointment and I was at 4cm and 50% effaced. Kathy stripped my membranes some and I had a few good contractions on the way home and then nothing. =) I had contractions off and on for the rest of the week, but never thought I was in labor or anything. Then Sunday morning, I woke up to a hard contraction. I went back to sleep and woke up to another. After three of them I thought I should probably time these just in case they are close, because I had no concept of time. By the time I had timed two of them (8 & 7 min), I was hungry. =) So I got up and went downstairs to find something to eat. It was about 6:50. I cleaned up all the garden mess we had made the night before. We put soil in one of those Jiffy trays and planted a bunch of stuff, but the kids were getting tired of it before we got to the second tray. Since we had a big dirt mess, we decided to just leave it and do the other tray the next day. So yeah I cleaned up all the dirt and seed packets and stuff. =P I cleaned the kitchen and started timing contractions again. They were about 3 min apart, but only lasting 30 seconds. They were hard contractions, though, so at 7:30 I texted Harper (who was in bed - I hadn't told him about any of this) and said "You wanna get up and have a baby today?" He said "Really???" I said "I think we should call Kathy soon." He said "Schweeet!" lol Before he came running downstairs with a big grin. =)
So he called Kathy at 7:30 and Kathy called Cynthia to come over and check me. Nothing at ALL happened from 7:30 to 7:50, so I called Cynthia at 7:50 to say I don't think you really need to come after all. She was like well would you like me to come check you anyway just to see where you are? I said I didn't know if there was a reason to, but she was willing, so I figured why not find out. lol So I said yeah I guess it would still be nice to know. So she said okay since it's not urgent, she would go ahead and make her bed and eat her breakfast and then be over around 9. She said to call her if I needed to.
So it was still 8. Harper was like well why don't you cut my hair? lol We had been meaning to for days, and I had told him I would... So I got out the stuff and cut his hair from 8-8:16. =P I started having contractions again while I was cutting his hair and they were hard enough that I didn't like standing up through them. I went to wash all his poky hairs off of me and didn't like having contractions standing in the shower, either. So I got out and I think I laid down through a couple of contractions at that point. I figured if I didn't just go ahead and call someone to take the girls, I would probably end up needing someone to leave in the middle of church. So I called Nancy around 8:30 and asked if she would pick them up.
Cynthia got here at 9 and Nancy got here shortly after that to get the girls. I was at 6-7cm by that point. With all the other kids, I have just laid down and relaxed through contractions because it feels better. =P But Cynthia was like well if you stand up and let them hurt more, they'll be doing more. lol At first I said well they (babies) come out eventually. =P But then I decided I would try standing. It wasn't really that bad, but it definitely wasn't as easy as lying around. =P Kathy and Ginger got here with bags and bags of equipment at 9:40 and 9:45 and brought the birth chair in. I didn't know if I would like it and I still don't know if I liked it better or not, but I did like it. You can sit back in it and then tip forward to squat when it's time to push. By that time I was at 9cm and bearing down a little. Oh, actually, before that Kathy turned Titus because after weeks of being in a good position, he was posterior. He stayed put for a little while, but eventually turned back. Oh, and my water broke right after that, too.
I was not pushing hard. With all of the girls I was ready to be on the other side and have a baby in my arms. This time, I was really just wanting it to be as comfortable as possible at any given moment. =P lol I finally told Kathy this, maybe around 10:30 or 10:40. She asked if I was just afraid of the pain when he actually came out. I said yeah. Maybe a little afraid he is NOT coming out, but I'm not actually thinking that. She was like Katie, realistically, it only lasts 30 seconds! That helped. =P So I asked Ginger what time it was at 10:45 and asked if she thought I could have a baby by 11. =P I was sort of just being silly, but she said hmmm yeah I bet you could. Anyway with the last two pushes I did, Kathy was telling me to picture him going under the bone and coming out. I told her I needed her to say that and it really helped me push like I was trying to have a baby. =P So she did it again and we had a head on the next push. =P I wonder how much time I wasted not pushing. Seriously, I even sat through a couple of contractions and didn't tell anybody because I didn't feel like getting up and pushing.
Harper got to catch Titus. He was trying to cry before he was all the way out, lol. His APGAR was 10/10/10. I asked Ginger if I had made it before 11 and she said yep it was 10:59. =) lol This was the first time I wasn't looking at a clock during the birth. We thought he looked pretty tiny, but he was 8lb 5oz and 20" long. He must be more dense than my girls. =P He doesn't really have fat cheeks like they did.
I texted Echo at 11:22 and told her he was born so she told everyone at church. Jeff had announced at the beginning of the service (9:30) that we were home hoping to have a baby and they had the girls and that maybe next week there would be an announcement about Titus being here. =P By the time potluck was starting, he was announcing that Titus was here. =) Hadessah heard after Echo told Nancy and went to tell Emily he was born, and Emily went and told Bekah "Baby Titus came out of Mommy's belly!!" Bekah said "The REAL Baby Titus?!" They were all so excited. Nancy said Lainey was VERY anxious to leave after potluck and meet her brother. =) They were all so cute and sweet meeting their brother and they have all been really good and helpful. =) They love him SO much!
He has been a sweet baby. A little mixed up on night and day. =P Actually, the first night I woke him up every 4 hours to nurse. The last two nights, he has kept us up a whole lot. He also didn't poop a real poop until 3am this morning. =P That's a long time, I think! He pooped and pooped when he finally could. =) He has been happy during the day. He is so snuggly - I'm going to go snuggle him some more. =)
2.29.2012
2.19.2012
Blogging?
Wow, I haven't posted anything since November. That is kind of crazy. And of course I will end up updating with Facebook posts, so I'm starting to wonder what the point is in the blog, especially now that Facebook has timeline. =) Oh, well.
I'm due with Titus in 5 days. It's kind of a joke to me to talk about a "due date" because I don't expect to have a baby anytime near that date. But that's okay. Maybe I will be surprised. =)
I have been making Titus diapers and inserts, a quilt, his crib bedding and curtains, wooden decorations for his walls that match his crib bedding, etc. It has been fun making little boy things. I crocheted him a bunch of hats. =) The girls are very excited to meet him. They love to snuggle him in my belly and talk to him. They are all going to be such good sisters to him. =) I am excited for my baby snuggles, but not super excited about having to share with so many people. =P lol I remember feeling like Emily and Lainey wanted too much of Bekah. Now I have one more person to compete with. =) I know it all settled out after the first week or so, but that made it not so much fun for a week, lol. =) But I am glad they love their little brother so much.
So, funny kid stuff....
November....
4: Last night Bekah was getting ready for bed and running around in a diaper. Emily tied a sash from a dress around Bekah's chest like a bikini top. She came running into my room and announced "I have a bakumi!!" LOL
5:Titus kicked Be ah while she was on my lap. She turned around to feel for more kicks and said "I love you, little Titus. Do you have shoes?" :-)
7: We made a cardboard Trojan Horse. Emily says "Mom, it's the Legend of the Trojan HORSE, not the Trojan DOG." lol Later, Bekah said "Can I watch a movie when we are done with your ugly horse?" Whatever. They will remember the lesson, and they had fun making it with me even if it doesn't look very horse-like. =P And yes there is a trap door in the belly. =P
9: Irresistible cuteness: When Harper got home, Bekah ran to him saying "Daddy, look at my paramecium!!!!" (which was a craft from Science today) =P
10: Bek: Peepee isn't smelly, is it? Me: (trying not to laugh) Uhhhhhhhhh, well, that sort of depends on what you ate and how much you've had to drink and how long it's been sitting there. Bek: Yeah, and it depends on who you've been kissin'. ROFL
11: LOL Bekah just ran up to Harper with her horse costume on and made the horse head say "Giddy up! Do you know how to make Stonehenge out of cheese?" LOL
12: Bekah has said too many hilarious things since last night... lol Just now, she was playing with Play Dough that my neighbor Na'Keya brought her. She said "The black lady...that had clothes on...brought me this Play Dough!" LOL As opposed to the black ladies she sees running around naked??? She cracks me up.
12: Bekah puked all over at 2am and I got up and gave her a bath and got another bed ready for her, etc. Harper told her "Maybe you have some germs in you! Like some bacteria or a virus!" (We had just learned about bacteria in Science.) She said "Yeah, or some FIRE." LOL When she was heading to bed after getting all cleaned up, I warned her to watch where she stepped in the hall, but it was too late. She stepped in some puke. I told her to stand still and stop tracking it around. She said in the most freaked out little voice "Eeew! What IS it??" lol
15: Emily lost her third tooth today! She was so funny about having me pull it out. She wanted me to, but she was still freaking out. lol =) Good thing it came out on the first try this time. She is sooo excited. She asked me to not tell Harper, so she could when he got home and she emailed her grandmas. =P
17: Bekah: "Pretend you are Holley and I'm Francesco. I love you, Holley! Call me Francesco!!" =P lol Now she has seen Cars 2 and when she grows up, she wants to be Lightning McQueen, and then Mater, and then Francesco. =)
18: Bek just got out of the tub and came down in panties. I said "Bek, go back upstairs. Someone is coming over to buy our old dishwasher and you are naked." She said "I'm only halfway naked." lol
22: Lainey and Harper are building a model car together. She is too cute - she has been waiting for this moment for days. =P It was hard to pick between a blue Audi, a monster truck, and a convertible Viper that would fit Polly Pockets in it. =)
24: (ultrasound) Titus!! When you see him in 4D, you can tell his nose looks just like the girls'. So cute!!! We got to see him yawning and moving his little hands and fingers all around. :)
27: The girls have been counting down the days until I turn 30 and am no longer a "kid." lol =) So, this is my last night as a kid. I have to be a grown-up tomorrow. =P
28: We went to my favorite restaurant, Sakura, for sushi and lemongrass chicken. Bekah's song tonight before bed was about how we went to "Soccer Ball." lol =)
December....
2: (after a nasty puke bug made it around the family) Harp says "You know what the good news is? Someday we're gonna die." LOL I laughed hysterically. Then I was about to say "Sounds like something I would say, but it would make you mad." But I only said "Sounds like something I would say" and he said "yeah and it would make me mad. I can't bear the thought of losing you." LOL I love this man. :-)
3: So, the other day when Harper and I were both really sick, he put a shirt on and commented that he didn't remember it and that it was small. I didn't have my glasses on and thought it was a shirt of his. I was like "Oh yeah you've had that forever. It's from the GAP, right?" He tried to look at the tag, couldn't see it, and walked off. Well that night I was close enough to actually see that he was wearing my maternity shirt!! LOL And he answered the door in it when Katy Kelton came over. Hahahahahahahahaha! =P
4: Me (in the basement, Bek upstairs): Bekah! ........... Beeeeeekaaaaaah! ......... Chocolate and cookies and peanut brittle!!
Bekah: What?!
Me: I said chocolate and cookies and peanut brittle!
Bekah: Where are they?
Me: I don't know, but I know you can hear me. Come clean up Cranium Cadoo.
Haha.
5: Em, scrolling through the iPod: What's the one that's, like, Tchaikovsky only messed up? LOL =) (The answer would be Mannheim Steamroller)
10: Off to Cherry Berry to cash in the girls' free frozen yogurts they won from the coloring contest! =)
12: Bek: Mommy, I love you so much I want to eat Walmart!!!
12: Em just made Daddy a snack for when he gets home: flat pretzels with pepper jack and salami slices on them. And then remembered that he can't eat cheese. MOMMY SNACK!! =P lol It's the thought that counts, right? That's what I will tell him, anyway. =)
13: Bek: Mom, can you play Portal with me? =P
18: Lainey: Momma, you know what I like about that rum pum pum pum song?
Me: No, what? =)
Laine: How it goes "rum pum pum pum."
Me: I thought that's what you would say! =)
Lainey: Yeah. I like how it has all these words that make sense, and then it just says something that makes NO SENSE like "rum pum pum pum!!"
That is so like Lainey to love something because it makes no sense. =P LOL
17: I made peanut butter balls with my girls tonight and then toffee after they were in bed. =) Yum!! Danger, but yum. =)
19: Bek: Does Baby Titus have a bum yet?
Me: Yep! A super tiny one! His diapers are going to look like Band-Aids!! He's going to be soooooo tiny and cute!
Bek: Yep! And soooooo....BROTHERY!!!!!
lol I love my kids. =)
20: So excited that Em can play Stratego with me. And she is good at it, too! =) Lainey wants to learn now, too, and she is setting up her first board right now. =P
21: I love listening to the things my girls play. =P "Can I please adopt your daughter? I'll give you 5 thousand dollars!" lol... "I'm sorry but you can just borrow my daughter." ..... "And you say, 'What?! A flying snail?!' Okay?" ... "She can be your sister for a little bit." .... "Yay! We're all sisters!!" .... "Hey, I'm stuck! I'm stuck! Everybody, I'm stuck. Can you help me, guys?!"
21: Me: They had snow drifts up to 5 feet high.
Laine: Whoa, that would be like a blizzard.
Bekah: And a lizard.
21: (I hurt my ankle) Harper is at men's group. The girls are taking care of dinner. Spaghetti and meatballs. :) They are taking good care of me and Bek is making sure I have my "scooters." (crutches)
22: Ankle isn't broken. Supposed to stay off it for a few days. Emmy made us lunch and even made me coffee and Lainey helped me start laundry. It is so nice to have their help!
23: At Starbucks today the big girls wanted caramel steamers. Bekah said she wanted a steamer, too. So we ordered 3 steamers. As we're sitting waiting for our drinks Bekah says she wants a marshmallow steamer. I told her they don't have marshmallow flavor and that she was getting a caramel drink. She was like I don't want a drink! I want a marshmallow steamer! lol After a very confusing conversation, discovered that by "steamer" she actually meant "cake pop." Then the marshmallow made sense. =P Fortunately, the line was long and we were able to change our order before it was made, lol. =)
23: Bekah: Mom, I'm chocolated out!
Me: Okay, don't eat any more chocolate, then! =)
Bekah: I mean-!!...I'm not chocolated out!!
23: Emily (6): We set a timer so we would clean up more hurriedly.
26: I am amazed by how much Titus moves. I remember really only feeling the girls if I sat down and paid attention. This kid, on the other hand, jabs all over the place and I feel it no matter what I'm doing. He needs to gain some fat 'cause he feels like one bony little monster. =P
30: Bekah and Daddy are going to Walmart. She said "Daddy, can we go in your convertible?!?!" lol He said yes, and she ran around saying "See ya, Mommy! See ya, Emmy! See ya, Lainey!" lol We are supposed to have a high of 60 today and 65 tomorrow. =)
January....
1: Emily's birthday party - she taught her friends how to make an origami star box. =) She is a very good and patient teacher when she gets the chance to teach. =)
2: Bekah came and asked me to make her some "ascaragus." :) She and Lainey begged me to buy it the other night. LOL
4: Bekah read her first word. =) So cute!! She read "Mom." And arranged the letters herself to show me (they were fridge magnets). Then at dinner I pulled out a bag of different fridge magnets and put some words together for her. We did cat, bat, rat, sat, fat, and a bunch of other words. When I started to put them away, she asked to do more words. =) So cute!! She needed some help to stop making up words that started with the letters a few times. Like I put out SAT and she said "ssssnake, aaaapple..." and I had to say wait just make the sound! =P She is REALLY quick to figure out the word once she says the sounds, though! =)
8: Bekah: "Owww, my thumb toe!!....My thumb toe is the big toe right here." =)
8: Em, hugging my belly: "Baby Titus is HUGE.....makes your head look small." LOL!!!
9: Me, to Em: Whining is very uncool. It is not thankful and it's complaining.
Bekah: Yeah, it is meanie. And British.
9: Me: Bekah, here are five plates. I want you to put a plate at each person's spot, and count them as you put them out.
Bekah: 1 - that's Francesco's number, 2, 3, 4, 5! lol :-)
10: Bekah: Mommy, people have meat in them....only but you have a baby in YOU! (She says "only but" all the time!!)
11: We listened to The Mesopotamians and Bekah was super giddy when I told her that was John and John. :-)
13: Em found zhu zhu pets at Walgreens for $5 and spent her birthday money on three of them to give to the Taverner girls. She has been wanting one, but she didn't even get one for herself. So sweet.
14: Lol! Our tablet's voice recognition does not like little girl voices. Emily said "snowy forest" and it came up with "smelly farts" and then on her second attempt, "Miley Cyrus."
14: TMBG has a song about infinity and they call it a number. Em says "Infinity is NOT a number. It is a concept." LOL You go, girl. :)
15: Bekah asked me if she could "pult some balls." LOL It took me way too long to realize that she was talking about the catapult. =)
16: Emily already has a baby outfit picked out for her to snuggle Titus in. =P So sweet. We can't wait to meet him!! =) =) =)
19: "Matthew Henry looks like he enjoyed him some bacon." - Harper Abbot
21: Overheard Bekah: "I hate you!"
Harper: "Bekah, come here."
Bekah: "I didn't mean that kind of hate!!!"
29: Bekah's recurring nightmare is that I am taking her food. =( How sad is that?! I wake up to "No, Momma!! Don't take my food!! Please don't take my food, Momma!!!" I go get her up and tell her she is in bed and not eating. =P She is okay to go back to sleep after that, as long as she has her car blanket that Emmy made her. =P Night before last, I was taking her dates. Poor kid!
30: Fantastic dinner tonight. Horseradish-crusted salmon, couscous, and brussels sprouts. Bekah ate 14 brussels sprouts and the rest of her dinner, too. LOL Bekah LOVES brussels sprouts.
31: Bekah just came to the traumatic realization that once Titus is born, she will no longer have a "seat" when I hold her.
February...
10: Making my sweet Emmy a dress. =) We were at Kohl's the other day and saw this really pretty dress that was $70 - $42 on sale. Emily was like pfffffff we can *make* that, even cuter, and WAY cheaper. lol I like how she thinks. =) So she has told me all the modifications she wants, picked out fabric and a flower, and here we go. =)
13: So, sledding at 38w3d is a pretty funny sight...and a backward somersault at the bottom of the hill won't put you into labor. :) lol I am happy to be back inside. :)
15: I put lotion on Bekah where she was really dry and had scratched herself...
Bekah: Ow, that hurts me!
Me: Yes, I know, but it is going to help it get all better.
Bekah: Yeah. And my platelets will help it, too.
LOL
17: The other day, Bekah wanted a sharp Cutco knife at dinner. Harper told her she was not big enough yet. She was sad and said "Well, I very am easily!" LOL We cracked up and she said "I'm serious!!" She didn't like being laughed at... lol
18: Bekah: I'm hungry.
Me: You just ate two hot dogs at Eloise's birthday party!
Bekah: I sure did! And one of them was hot, hot, hot and I ate all the warmness.
18: Me: You don't have Monday off of work, do you? Derby Schools have it off, and Hannah has it off.
Harper: Uh, not that I know of. Does Central Plains Academy have it off?
Me: No, Central Plains Academy is laaaaaaame.
Harper: (laughs)
Me: But Central Plains Academy DID go sledding last week. For a field trip.
Emily: Seriously???
Harper: Emily, WE are Central Plains Academy. That's the name we registered for our school.
Hahaha!!!
I'm due with Titus in 5 days. It's kind of a joke to me to talk about a "due date" because I don't expect to have a baby anytime near that date. But that's okay. Maybe I will be surprised. =)
I have been making Titus diapers and inserts, a quilt, his crib bedding and curtains, wooden decorations for his walls that match his crib bedding, etc. It has been fun making little boy things. I crocheted him a bunch of hats. =) The girls are very excited to meet him. They love to snuggle him in my belly and talk to him. They are all going to be such good sisters to him. =) I am excited for my baby snuggles, but not super excited about having to share with so many people. =P lol I remember feeling like Emily and Lainey wanted too much of Bekah. Now I have one more person to compete with. =) I know it all settled out after the first week or so, but that made it not so much fun for a week, lol. =) But I am glad they love their little brother so much.
So, funny kid stuff....
November....
4: Last night Bekah was getting ready for bed and running around in a diaper. Emily tied a sash from a dress around Bekah's chest like a bikini top. She came running into my room and announced "I have a bakumi!!" LOL
5:Titus kicked Be ah while she was on my lap. She turned around to feel for more kicks and said "I love you, little Titus. Do you have shoes?" :-)
7: We made a cardboard Trojan Horse. Emily says "Mom, it's the Legend of the Trojan HORSE, not the Trojan DOG." lol Later, Bekah said "Can I watch a movie when we are done with your ugly horse?" Whatever. They will remember the lesson, and they had fun making it with me even if it doesn't look very horse-like. =P And yes there is a trap door in the belly. =P
9: Irresistible cuteness: When Harper got home, Bekah ran to him saying "Daddy, look at my paramecium!!!!" (which was a craft from Science today) =P
10: Bek: Peepee isn't smelly, is it? Me: (trying not to laugh) Uhhhhhhhhh, well, that sort of depends on what you ate and how much you've had to drink and how long it's been sitting there. Bek: Yeah, and it depends on who you've been kissin'. ROFL
11: LOL Bekah just ran up to Harper with her horse costume on and made the horse head say "Giddy up! Do you know how to make Stonehenge out of cheese?" LOL
12: Bekah has said too many hilarious things since last night... lol Just now, she was playing with Play Dough that my neighbor Na'Keya brought her. She said "The black lady...that had clothes on...brought me this Play Dough!" LOL As opposed to the black ladies she sees running around naked??? She cracks me up.
12: Bekah puked all over at 2am and I got up and gave her a bath and got another bed ready for her, etc. Harper told her "Maybe you have some germs in you! Like some bacteria or a virus!" (We had just learned about bacteria in Science.) She said "Yeah, or some FIRE." LOL When she was heading to bed after getting all cleaned up, I warned her to watch where she stepped in the hall, but it was too late. She stepped in some puke. I told her to stand still and stop tracking it around. She said in the most freaked out little voice "Eeew! What IS it??" lol
15: Emily lost her third tooth today! She was so funny about having me pull it out. She wanted me to, but she was still freaking out. lol =) Good thing it came out on the first try this time. She is sooo excited. She asked me to not tell Harper, so she could when he got home and she emailed her grandmas. =P
17: Bekah: "Pretend you are Holley and I'm Francesco. I love you, Holley! Call me Francesco!!" =P lol Now she has seen Cars 2 and when she grows up, she wants to be Lightning McQueen, and then Mater, and then Francesco. =)
18: Bek just got out of the tub and came down in panties. I said "Bek, go back upstairs. Someone is coming over to buy our old dishwasher and you are naked." She said "I'm only halfway naked." lol
22: Lainey and Harper are building a model car together. She is too cute - she has been waiting for this moment for days. =P It was hard to pick between a blue Audi, a monster truck, and a convertible Viper that would fit Polly Pockets in it. =)
24: (ultrasound) Titus!! When you see him in 4D, you can tell his nose looks just like the girls'. So cute!!! We got to see him yawning and moving his little hands and fingers all around. :)
27: The girls have been counting down the days until I turn 30 and am no longer a "kid." lol =) So, this is my last night as a kid. I have to be a grown-up tomorrow. =P
28: We went to my favorite restaurant, Sakura, for sushi and lemongrass chicken. Bekah's song tonight before bed was about how we went to "Soccer Ball." lol =)
December....
2: (after a nasty puke bug made it around the family) Harp says "You know what the good news is? Someday we're gonna die." LOL I laughed hysterically. Then I was about to say "Sounds like something I would say, but it would make you mad." But I only said "Sounds like something I would say" and he said "yeah and it would make me mad. I can't bear the thought of losing you." LOL I love this man. :-)
3: So, the other day when Harper and I were both really sick, he put a shirt on and commented that he didn't remember it and that it was small. I didn't have my glasses on and thought it was a shirt of his. I was like "Oh yeah you've had that forever. It's from the GAP, right?" He tried to look at the tag, couldn't see it, and walked off. Well that night I was close enough to actually see that he was wearing my maternity shirt!! LOL And he answered the door in it when Katy Kelton came over. Hahahahahahahahaha! =P
4: Me (in the basement, Bek upstairs): Bekah! ........... Beeeeeekaaaaaah! ......... Chocolate and cookies and peanut brittle!!
Bekah: What?!
Me: I said chocolate and cookies and peanut brittle!
Bekah: Where are they?
Me: I don't know, but I know you can hear me. Come clean up Cranium Cadoo.
Haha.
5: Em, scrolling through the iPod: What's the one that's, like, Tchaikovsky only messed up? LOL =) (The answer would be Mannheim Steamroller)
10: Off to Cherry Berry to cash in the girls' free frozen yogurts they won from the coloring contest! =)
12: Bek: Mommy, I love you so much I want to eat Walmart!!!
12: Em just made Daddy a snack for when he gets home: flat pretzels with pepper jack and salami slices on them. And then remembered that he can't eat cheese. MOMMY SNACK!! =P lol It's the thought that counts, right? That's what I will tell him, anyway. =)
13: Bek: Mom, can you play Portal with me? =P
18: Lainey: Momma, you know what I like about that rum pum pum pum song?
Me: No, what? =)
Laine: How it goes "rum pum pum pum."
Me: I thought that's what you would say! =)
Lainey: Yeah. I like how it has all these words that make sense, and then it just says something that makes NO SENSE like "rum pum pum pum!!"
That is so like Lainey to love something because it makes no sense. =P LOL
17: I made peanut butter balls with my girls tonight and then toffee after they were in bed. =) Yum!! Danger, but yum. =)
19: Bek: Does Baby Titus have a bum yet?
Me: Yep! A super tiny one! His diapers are going to look like Band-Aids!! He's going to be soooooo tiny and cute!
Bek: Yep! And soooooo....BROTHERY!!!!!
lol I love my kids. =)
20: So excited that Em can play Stratego with me. And she is good at it, too! =) Lainey wants to learn now, too, and she is setting up her first board right now. =P
21: I love listening to the things my girls play. =P "Can I please adopt your daughter? I'll give you 5 thousand dollars!" lol... "I'm sorry but you can just borrow my daughter." ..... "And you say, 'What?! A flying snail?!' Okay?" ... "She can be your sister for a little bit." .... "Yay! We're all sisters!!" .... "Hey, I'm stuck! I'm stuck! Everybody, I'm stuck. Can you help me, guys?!"
21: Me: They had snow drifts up to 5 feet high.
Laine: Whoa, that would be like a blizzard.
Bekah: And a lizard.
21: (I hurt my ankle) Harper is at men's group. The girls are taking care of dinner. Spaghetti and meatballs. :) They are taking good care of me and Bek is making sure I have my "scooters." (crutches)
22: Ankle isn't broken. Supposed to stay off it for a few days. Emmy made us lunch and even made me coffee and Lainey helped me start laundry. It is so nice to have their help!
23: At Starbucks today the big girls wanted caramel steamers. Bekah said she wanted a steamer, too. So we ordered 3 steamers. As we're sitting waiting for our drinks Bekah says she wants a marshmallow steamer. I told her they don't have marshmallow flavor and that she was getting a caramel drink. She was like I don't want a drink! I want a marshmallow steamer! lol After a very confusing conversation, discovered that by "steamer" she actually meant "cake pop." Then the marshmallow made sense. =P Fortunately, the line was long and we were able to change our order before it was made, lol. =)
23: Bekah: Mom, I'm chocolated out!
Me: Okay, don't eat any more chocolate, then! =)
Bekah: I mean-!!...I'm not chocolated out!!
23: Emily (6): We set a timer so we would clean up more hurriedly.
26: I am amazed by how much Titus moves. I remember really only feeling the girls if I sat down and paid attention. This kid, on the other hand, jabs all over the place and I feel it no matter what I'm doing. He needs to gain some fat 'cause he feels like one bony little monster. =P
30: Bekah and Daddy are going to Walmart. She said "Daddy, can we go in your convertible?!?!" lol He said yes, and she ran around saying "See ya, Mommy! See ya, Emmy! See ya, Lainey!" lol We are supposed to have a high of 60 today and 65 tomorrow. =)
January....
1: Emily's birthday party - she taught her friends how to make an origami star box. =) She is a very good and patient teacher when she gets the chance to teach. =)
2: Bekah came and asked me to make her some "ascaragus." :) She and Lainey begged me to buy it the other night. LOL
4: Bekah read her first word. =) So cute!! She read "Mom." And arranged the letters herself to show me (they were fridge magnets). Then at dinner I pulled out a bag of different fridge magnets and put some words together for her. We did cat, bat, rat, sat, fat, and a bunch of other words. When I started to put them away, she asked to do more words. =) So cute!! She needed some help to stop making up words that started with the letters a few times. Like I put out SAT and she said "ssssnake, aaaapple..." and I had to say wait just make the sound! =P She is REALLY quick to figure out the word once she says the sounds, though! =)
8: Bekah: "Owww, my thumb toe!!....My thumb toe is the big toe right here." =)
8: Em, hugging my belly: "Baby Titus is HUGE.....makes your head look small." LOL!!!
9: Me, to Em: Whining is very uncool. It is not thankful and it's complaining.
Bekah: Yeah, it is meanie. And British.
9: Me: Bekah, here are five plates. I want you to put a plate at each person's spot, and count them as you put them out.
Bekah: 1 - that's Francesco's number, 2, 3, 4, 5! lol :-)
10: Bekah: Mommy, people have meat in them....only but you have a baby in YOU! (She says "only but" all the time!!)
11: We listened to The Mesopotamians and Bekah was super giddy when I told her that was John and John. :-)
13: Em found zhu zhu pets at Walgreens for $5 and spent her birthday money on three of them to give to the Taverner girls. She has been wanting one, but she didn't even get one for herself. So sweet.
14: Lol! Our tablet's voice recognition does not like little girl voices. Emily said "snowy forest" and it came up with "smelly farts" and then on her second attempt, "Miley Cyrus."
14: TMBG has a song about infinity and they call it a number. Em says "Infinity is NOT a number. It is a concept." LOL You go, girl. :)
15: Bekah asked me if she could "pult some balls." LOL It took me way too long to realize that she was talking about the catapult. =)
16: Emily already has a baby outfit picked out for her to snuggle Titus in. =P So sweet. We can't wait to meet him!! =) =) =)
19: "Matthew Henry looks like he enjoyed him some bacon." - Harper Abbot
21: Overheard Bekah: "I hate you!"
Harper: "Bekah, come here."
Bekah: "I didn't mean that kind of hate!!!"
29: Bekah's recurring nightmare is that I am taking her food. =( How sad is that?! I wake up to "No, Momma!! Don't take my food!! Please don't take my food, Momma!!!" I go get her up and tell her she is in bed and not eating. =P She is okay to go back to sleep after that, as long as she has her car blanket that Emmy made her. =P Night before last, I was taking her dates. Poor kid!
30: Fantastic dinner tonight. Horseradish-crusted salmon, couscous, and brussels sprouts. Bekah ate 14 brussels sprouts and the rest of her dinner, too. LOL Bekah LOVES brussels sprouts.
31: Bekah just came to the traumatic realization that once Titus is born, she will no longer have a "seat" when I hold her.
February...
10: Making my sweet Emmy a dress. =) We were at Kohl's the other day and saw this really pretty dress that was $70 - $42 on sale. Emily was like pfffffff we can *make* that, even cuter, and WAY cheaper. lol I like how she thinks. =) So she has told me all the modifications she wants, picked out fabric and a flower, and here we go. =)
13: So, sledding at 38w3d is a pretty funny sight...and a backward somersault at the bottom of the hill won't put you into labor. :) lol I am happy to be back inside. :)
15: I put lotion on Bekah where she was really dry and had scratched herself...
Bekah: Ow, that hurts me!
Me: Yes, I know, but it is going to help it get all better.
Bekah: Yeah. And my platelets will help it, too.
LOL
17: The other day, Bekah wanted a sharp Cutco knife at dinner. Harper told her she was not big enough yet. She was sad and said "Well, I very am easily!" LOL We cracked up and she said "I'm serious!!" She didn't like being laughed at... lol
18: Bekah: I'm hungry.
Me: You just ate two hot dogs at Eloise's birthday party!
Bekah: I sure did! And one of them was hot, hot, hot and I ate all the warmness.
18: Me: You don't have Monday off of work, do you? Derby Schools have it off, and Hannah has it off.
Harper: Uh, not that I know of. Does Central Plains Academy have it off?
Me: No, Central Plains Academy is laaaaaaame.
Harper: (laughs)
Me: But Central Plains Academy DID go sledding last week. For a field trip.
Emily: Seriously???
Harper: Emily, WE are Central Plains Academy. That's the name we registered for our school.
Hahaha!!!
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