May 8, 2013
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Life
Last night I felt the baby move for sure for the first time. I actually felt it by putting my hand on my stomach. I have my ultrasound in 12 days (and counting).
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Lately the boys have each worked to earn a reward by accomplishing a new task that I wanted them to master. Israel’s was taking care of bathroom cleanup, Zion’s was getting himself fully dressed on his own every day, and Gabe earned his just yesterday by showing bravery in during a vaccination. Every vaccine he has received in the past few years has been accompanied by lots of fear and frantic behavior that results in him being held down whilst shrieking. No fun for anyone. Yesterday he got two of three remaining vaccines that I still had to catch him up with, and there was lots of talking through the situation beforehand, a practice run with a needle-less syringe on the couch, and instruction from his daddy regarding such things as bravery. He got a little freaked when it was time, but the nurse and I talked him through it, and there was no yelling and restraining.
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Lately Israel has had concerns of varied natures. Black widow spiders have been very concerning lately, for example, and we have had several bedtime conversations where he expressed fear that there were black widows in the shadows around his bed that he couldn’t see.
The other night he came to me very distressed about heart attacks, and what if he had a heart attack because of “the way I (Israel) ate when I was young!?” Despite my attempts to mollify him, he was only encouraged when I told him that his Uncle Quentin had eaten at LEAST a half a stick of butter in one sitting when he was little, and he never had a heart attack and probably never will because he eats very healthy and exercises.
I have no idea where he picks these things up.
Today on the way home from school he was teary because the mother of one of his classmates had jokingly told him that a certain type of grass would cause people to turn green and their blood to turn green if they touched it, and he was very anxious about this, and was only comforted when I reminded him that I was a nurse, so I should know these things, and there was no such thing. ”Oh, right,” he said in relief. Cha-ching for playing the nurse card.
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Today I had a happy glow in my heart about our evening, for no particular reason. For some reason, Tim and I were both hungry for fried chicken for supper, and he went to KFC and picked some up, and then me and the chilluns took a quick run to Dairy Queen for ice cream cones. And the day was finally warm and rain-less, and it made me happy to have all the kids playing outside all afternoon, with the two oldest boys running races on the sidewalk in front of the house and Zion and Layla playing in the backyard.
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Israel has mastered the “doorway climb” much to his glee.
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On Tuesdays and Thursdays when Israel is home from school, he, Zion, and Layla all play very happily together. The other day they were playing on the back porch, and wanted a tablecloth for the table, and then busily went to task preparing a snack, which consisted of a large bowl of water in which were placed various apples and individual grapes. Then they had a happy little chow-down.
I’m soooooo ready for it to get warm and STAY warm.
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Here is Miss Lucy Pants with some of her favorite things: a “p’etty (pretty) dress”, a “p’etty bow” in her hair, (the two are in no way obligated to match) and paints.
She paints a lot, and colors. The floor is oft scattered with various artistic endeavors.
Her other talent of late is stripping off all of her clothes and escaping out to the yard. That also gets one of these faces:
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