Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Actual Conversation - Last Night at Bedtime

Me: (for the 900th time)


"ok guys (addressing my husband and 3 children) - we need to settle down and read stories - put the soccer balls away."

****minutes tick by*****

Me: (Quietly from the top of the stairs - almost under my breath)

"my eye is starting to twitch".

Husband:

"uh oh guys - we gotta stop"

Oldest Child:

"why?"

Husband:

"Because Mommy is about to go postal".

Oldest Child:

"What is that?"

Husband:

"She is at the end of her rope."

Oldest Child:

"How do you know?"

Husband:

"Never good when her eye twitches - you better hurry."





Thursday, July 22, 2010

What we have been up to....

"Let me 'splain - no is too much - let me sum up....."
(Bonus blog points good for bragging rights for recognizing that quote.)
Anyhoo---


Putting little brother in bed on Thursday nights and letting the girls stay up to watch So You Think You Can Dance


Spending time at the Pediatric Opthomologist's office - much more blogging on this to come

Practicing the shot put - yes I am the proud mother of an eight year old female shot putter. We put the shot - yep - can't stop saying that one - it bears repeating - we are a shotputing family. Once again - one of those things I never imagined would roll off oh my lips when we started this whole parenting journey.



Going to 6 year old check ups!


Hanging out with our soccer team BFF's.


Sending Mommy on an awesome scrapbooking weekend that was
THE GREATEST!


Hanging out at various waterparks around town.



Celebrating birthdays - over and over again :)


chillin' man - just chillin'


Swimming - a lot


and generally having a Jubilant July!

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

A birth story

So I am a big believer in stories - I think that the only way that stories can really live on is if they are retold so each year on my children's birthdays - I like to tell their birth stories. It just so happens that today is such a day.

My Noodle was an easy pregnancy and I was very very excited that she was a girl and I was very very defensive about any "oh you didn't get your boy" cracks. She was meant to be and I knew it and I would not listen to a word edgewise.

We were getting closer and closer to her due date which was July 14th. I did teach until the end of the school year and then my oldest (then age 2) and I spent most of the day in our backyard pool. She was due on July 14th and she was looking like a good size baby so my good buddy Dr. (Insert OB's name here) said that we could induce on July 14th.

Mimi and Papa came over early to stay with my two year old and Husband and I got to the hospital nice and early. All seemed well, I had my epidural in and Husband and I were playing cards. Suddenly, I said, "hey I felt that" and then I said, "hey I REALLY felt that - ouch" and so on and so forth. We called the nurses, and called the doctor back in and the anesthesiologist.

The anesthesiologist normally worked in cardio and he sort of shrugged his shoulders (incidentally - never a good thing for a medical professional to do) and administered more medicine in my epidural. By now, I am in full labor and I am feeling EVERYTHING.

Finally, Husband finally has the presence of mind to lean me forward and look at my back and says, "ummm excuse me - her epidural fell out!" The last dose of medicine that he had given had just soaked my sheets and I had no epidural, was dilated to like a 7 I think and let me tell you - that hurt hurt hurt.

Now I know that some people are natural labor people - great - bully for you - I know myself and had planned on an epidural. Also what is interesting is that even after having a shaky epidural experience with my second - you betcha I had one with my third.:)

As a matter of fact, I have friends that can attest to the fact that in my childbirth class with first born - I nearly asphyxiated myself trying to do my breathing which lead me into my hysterical giggles that I get which then led to a little crying jag - all right in the middle of the class. Anyway - I digress - that is a story for her birth story.

The doctor comes back in and says that he wants to do another epidural - I am in a lot of pain at this point and say, "well sure". Man - sitting up in that bed holding on to Husband and the nurse (who buy the way was one of my Kindergarten students' Moms which was interesting) for dear life while he tried to put that thing back in was - well - tough.

So he gets it going, I lay back, Husband looks sort of haggard and two nurses are standing there chatting. I say to Husband, "Umm honey - I feel funny, I feel REALLY funny." He says, "don't tell me - I think we need to tell them"

Here is what happened next from my perspective, "heeeeeyyyy, looooook aaaattt thhhaaaattt evvverrryyoonnnneeee isssss mooovvvvinnnngg reeeeaaalllly faaaast buuuut I feeel reeealllly slooooowwww."

My blood pressure (which tends to run pretty low normally) dropped dramatically and suddenly this swat team of nurses comes in, pushes Husband out of the way and there are literally like 6 of them all standing around my bed. I remember the blond one at the end looking at me and even though I was feeling so weird I remember my eyes getting bigger and her asking me what was wrong. I think I said that all of them were freaking me out by being in there and asked what was the matter. They basically told me that I had trouble with my epidural and they were going to have to turn it off and get my blood pressure back up.

When that crisis was over and the swat team went on to their next mission, Husband and I were left looking at each other, like "what's next?"

Next thing I know - KK's mom ( the nurse whose name I can't remember now but I remember the little boy) comes in and says it is time to push. Well I push not for very long ( and remember - no epidural anymore so I can feel most of this) and she says, "ok - we have to stop and wait for Dr. Insert OB's name here.

I said, "oh no - I think you are doing great - let's just go ahead!!!" Well Dr. Insert OB's name here came in, said hello to Husband, says hello to the nurses, doing his doctor thing.

He grins at me, is putting some gloves on and goes to start putting his gowns and stuff on and looks down and says, "HEY!" He dropped what he was doing - looked at me and said something along the lines of the fact that they weren't kidding around - I really was ready - I think I pushed one or two more times and then - there she was.


8 pounds, 3 ounces 5:48 - little baby girl. I watched while they took her over to the little baby whatever and she stopped crying almost immediately. My first thought was uh oh and then I looked over and saw her little skinny arm reaching up for the lights. She was so quiet and they gave her to me and I don't think I let her go for a long time after that. She just looked at me like,

"Hi Mommy - I am here - ready to go."




Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Sometimes Summer is just plain







Exhausting!!!!!

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Summer Laze

Well - I am hanging out with my two youngest, watching High 5 and trying to think of something to blog about........

I can't - you want to know why?????

I am filled with Summer Laze

Surely you know about Summer Laze???

The grocery store seems like a lot of effort.......

I really will get to the laundry one of these days......

My favorite game to play is house and my favorite role to play is the baby. That way - the children are constantly "putting the baby down" and I get to lay on the floor and doze. :)

Maybe it is the heat

Maybe I need some more vitamin B

Maybe I am just relaxed and don't recognize the feeling

But I sure do love Summer Laze

Uh oh - gotta run - they just busted out the Hungry Hungry Hippos game - I gotta go defend my HHH title......