Project 365

April 20, 2009

 

This is why I love getting the mail - you just never know what will appear that will make me happy. I got this card - along with a fun little care package - today in the mail from my sweet friend. It made my day! Actually, I was still happy the next day, too, and possibly the day after that as well.

I am very blessed to have the most amazingest, awesomely wonderful friends ever, both here and afar. Thank you, amazingest awesomest friend!

(I make up words when I'm really excited about something.)

April 19, 2009

 

Just one of those days. Sometimes I feel like doing this, too, but since I'm not two, I don't. Well, I at least wait until after the kids are in bed. Everything was making him cry today, nothing was making him happy....wanting to be held and carried.

Shouldn't that antibiotic be working by now?

April 18, 2009

 

Ansley is getting good at this hula hoopin'. This may have been the best, most-often used, and easiest $5 I've ever spent. Ansley works hard at getting good at the hula hoop. I guess it's always good to have skills to fall back on.

April 17, 2009

 

Around lunchtime today, Ansley went with John to play golf. She loves doing this - I am not really sure why. But it works out well - and I love it, too, because it means I get some sweet one on one time with this face.

He was fascinated with these paints, and wanted me to take a picture of him with each color. He thought they were candles (I never told him differently). We had a fun afternoon together! Well, there was naptime in between there, which was .....quiet. But nice for me.

So far, Day Two of antibiotics have not shown any improvement. Here's hoping it'll come on Day Three.

April 16, 2009

 

Look at that sweetly sleeping boy with his favorite book, Goodnight Gorilla. Which he says Goodnight Vanilla.

I've been worried about this boy all week, since his cold was lingering and he had a terrible sounding cough. And because his tubes are gone. So when he said "Mommy, I hurt" and pointed to his ear, I knew what was going on. Sure enough, he has a double ear infection, puss in his ears, and he had to have a breathing treatment for wheezing in his lungs.

And, again, he was such a brave little boy with his breathing treatment, saying "yes" when I asked him to put it in his mouth. But then when the doctor came back in to listen to his lungs, he wigged - no, no! Not a cold metal circle on my chest! Anything but that! Screamed, thrashed, threw a crazy stethoscope tantrum.

He's on antibiotics again, and we'll be going back to the ENT soon.

April 15, 2009

 

Before you start thinking Christian finally got his God-given rightfully genetic curly hair, this is Jake. Alex and Jake came over to play this morning (so their Mama could go to the doctor). Even though it was a bit of a chilly morning, they all enjoyed playing outside for quite awhile. The chalk was a big hit.

And I have to say that it wasn't THAT cold. My hot natured, wants-to-wear-shorts-every-day-of-the-year girl suddenly needed her WINTER JACKET - that she refused to wear most of the winter, by the way - because she was FREEZING.

Thankfully she hasn't needed the jacket since.

April 14, 2009

 

Ansley loves to peel things. I guess it's one of those five year old things. Any time she sees me peeling anything, she comes running, wanting to help. Today I was peeling a butternut squash (for butternut squash soup) and she insisted on doing it. So, I handed it off, except she claimed it was "sooo heavy." So this was her solution - to sit on the floor and peel that squash until she had completed it.

She did, too - with squash peels covering the floor, but she got it done.

Which was great, because I got a lot done while she was peeling it, and then all the work was done. I don't particularly care for peeling, so it's a nice little system we have.

I'm working on convincing her to love washing dishes.

April 13, 2009

 

I've always been bothered by the fact that my Mom has always been able to remember lots of cute things that Jonathan said as a child, but none from me. She insists this was because I spoke clearly, and didn't mess up any words. Could be true. But I can't help but feel that the poor second child is just a wee bit neglected. So since having Christian, I've been determined to remember the cute things he says and the funny way he has of saying things.

That is, if I could find any.

He repeats what he hears, and Ansley teaches him so much, so he doesn't mess any words up!

Ansley called motorcycles "dadoos" until she was about three years old. We have no idea where this came from, but we thought it was so cute, and we still refer to it, even though she's long since been able to call them motorcycles. Ironically, motorcycle is also the word that Jonathan had a funny name for, and one that we still talk about to this day!

But now I have one. We bought these hula hoops a week or so ago, and they love them. All on his own, Christian started calling it his "ringring" because he didn't know what it was called. I have latched on to that, and started calling it a ringring too, because I want him to have at least one word that we can remember when he's older that was cute and funny and all his own.

So there it is, buddy. Ringring. It's all yours!

April 12, 2009

 

These kids love Mimi! They had a great time, since Mimi always plays games, cars, sings songs, teaches them lots of fun new things, and caters to Christian's every whim.

The bottom line is everyone always has a great time!

April 11, 2009

 

Mimi's here! Ansley and Christian were SO excited to know that Mimi was arriving for Easter weekend. They waited all morning, looking out the window every five minutes or so. Mimi does a great job of dividing her time among the two of them - what would she do if we had more than two? They had a great time playing with clay on this afternoon.