I have so many little matters to tell you of, that I cannot wait any longer before I begin to put them down.
Aug 22nd, 2013 by ECM
If you’re on facebook, you’ve seen a few pictures from our family photo session a few weeks ago. Here’s the one we picked out for our living room!
If you want to see even more pictures than on the facebook album, Krissy blogged about our family photo session here. What she said about becoming friends was so true–I really enjoyed hanging out with her and am so bummed she had to go back to Georgia! (And all I want for Christmas is KM gift cards to buy more of Krissy’s pictures!)
Aug 21st, 2013 by ECM
Last night, Derek and Tommy had their first soccer practice. Tommy worked hard and came home tuckered out but excited to do it again next week!
Aug 20th, 2013 by ECM
I just looked at the date and realized that Janie turns 5 months today. What a big girl! Derek had her tripod sitting for quite a while the other night.
This month was a good one for us. She is fully sleeping through the night (7ish to 7ish), she naps predictably three times a day when we’re home all morning (which is hard to do when you have emergency trips to the dentist, ENT, x-rays, etc…), and she’s in a solid eat-play-sleep routine. I am human again.
She rolls all over the place, and I had to put the bumpers on the crib because she was getting her arms and legs between the slats and couldn’t roll herself free. (I should clarify that we have nice, tight bumpers and an up-to-code crib.) She rolls across the room up against something and fusses until someone turns her the other direction so she can keep rolling. She spits up all the time, but it doesn’t seem to bug her. She’s discovered her tongue and loves sticking it out at you. And she has started playing with toys!
Aug 19th, 2013 by ECM
…so we just Had to go to Malibu and bring it to him and drop by our friends who live on campus. As you can tell, it was an arduous task.
In other news, I made it through the canyon twice without hyperventilating. I still hate the drive and wish I never had to do it again, but I did not send us plummeting to our deaths.
Aug 17th, 2013 by ECM
A homeschooling friend just told us about Art Trek open studio nights, a monthly night out to an art studio full of fun art activities for all ages. We decided we’d go this week and check it out. For $5 apiece, we could do as much art as we wanted–chalk drawings, painting on books and wood, making wire and nail sculptures, imitating Van Gogh’s art with paint or markers (the theme was Starry Night). The kids had a lot of fun doing all sorts of messy stuff that I don’t let them do enough at home.
I totally need to let them put beads on pipecleaners at home.
Susie loved painting…we usually do that during her nap.
Tommy made some Starry Night-esque swirls…
…and Elizabeth traced some that were already made.
We’re definitely going to make this a part of our homeschool art this year!
Aug 16th, 2013 by ECM
Derek has had to order a bunch of stuff for coaching Tommy’s soccer team, so we’re enjoying an influx of large-ish cardboard boxes. Yesterday afternoon, the kids and their buddy James created “robot boats” with our newest boxes!
Aug 14th, 2013 by ECM
Is it mean to share pictures of Q melting down? All this attention on Elizabeth has been a bit hard on Susie. Now that our unexpected doctor’s appointments are (hopefully) done for the week, we plan to spend the rest of the week chilling out (probably in tu-tus).
Aug 13th, 2013 by ECM
She has a non-displaced nasal fracture, which means that she does have a little crack, but there’s nothing we can do about it.
You know you’re in Southern California when the ENT doc says, “Well, at least now we’ll have this on her file so if she wants a nose job when she’s older, you can get insurance to cover it because her nose was injured.” Yep, gotta think ahead to your four year old’s future nose job! I’m living in the Thousand Oaks Twilight Zone.
Aug 12th, 2013 by ECM
We finally got in to the dentist this afternoon, and the x-ray showed that there are no pieces of tooth left in her mouth, the other teeth seem undamaged, and there’s really nothing to worry about. The dentist said she’s going to look worse before she looks better–the clotting in the tooth socket and the bruising and swelling on the lip look gross, but there’s nothing we can do.
On the plus side, she can’t suck her thumb comfortably, so maybe she’s going to kick that nasty habit the super hard way.
After we got back from the dentist, I had to pull my act together to get ready for our soccer team meeting tonight, hosted here. Thank the Lord for Sarah, who watched the other three kids AND made us dinner.
I’m concerned that Lizzie’s nose might be broken, but the dentist couldn’t do anything about that. It’s hard to tell with the swelling, too, so we’ll probably need an x-ray for that. Our pediatrician referred us to an ENT specialist, so we’re heading there tomorrow morning to have that checked out. It will have been two and a half days, so I’m not sure that we can do anything at this point. I’m pretty bummed about that.
Sorry for everyone I didn’t call to update on the situation today! I was so busy all day…and more drama again tomorrow! I’ll post what we find out from the ENT doctor.
Aug 12th, 2013 by ECM
