Just Another Day

This afternoon we were all sitting quietly in the living room.  Sam had just got up from nap and I had taken his diaper off to let him air a bit.  I was sitting on the couch taking a break and Sam was sitting on the rug with his back to me looking at a book.  All of a sudden he went very still.  I said, "Michael, is Sam peeing on the rug?"  Michael looked over and said he didn't see anything.  Sam continued to sit very still.  I said, "Sam, whatcha doing?"  He turned around with his mouth wide open with a look of great concern.  I pointed this out to Michael.  Sam then looked back at me again with the same open mouth and look of concern.  The expression was frozen on his face.  I said, "Michael, would you check on Sam.  You don't think he...?"

By that point Michael had walked around Sam and found out, yes he had, shut a sensitive bit of his body in the book.  The worst part was he couldn't figure out how to get it out.  Michael opened the book back up and Sam started to cry.  I guess the blood rushing back was more painful than the smashing.  Poor unfortunate boy.

This is something he will be thankful to forget.  That's why we have to memorialize the story on our blog.  We will remind him many times throughout his life, being sure to include the story in his wedding toast.  That's the kind of parents we are.

C is for Cookie

The kids made cookies for a church activity.  I put them in the oven because they didn't want to.  Other than that they don't seem to need me anymore.  Next thing I know they are going to be cooking for their own families.

Poor Sick Baby Boy

Lately we've been sick more than we've been well.  Just as one kid is getting over the crud another one comes down with it.  Sam decided he slept better in our bed than his.

New Year's Resolutions

Yes, I know it is November.  I just had to write because...wait for it...I accomplished my 2011 goals!  Pretty exciting, huh?  It probably helps that my goals weren't very lofty.  They included sleeping through the night, putting pictures on my wall, and printing my blog in a book.  It's taken me 11 months but I did all of them.

Sam was weaned back in August and started sleeping through the night shortly thereafter.  I now get to sleep through the night as well.  It is a blessed event because I hadn't had a full nights sleep in three years before that.  I was going a little (or a lot) crazy.  Now though I get to sleep through most nights, I'm still usually up once a week with someone.  I can manage that.

Ta-Da!  Goal number two: a bad picture of pictures.  Doesn't that make your visit here seem worthwhile?  But the point is that there are finally pictures on my wall as well.  I gave up the notion of getting the perfect family picture and just framed up a few snapshots that we loved.  It's not perfect but I don't think perfect is going to happen anytime in the near future.  Right now I'm going for good enough.

My third goal was to print my blog.  I wanted to print the whole thing but once again I settled.  Printing the whole thing would have been expensive and tedious so I decided to do it in chunks.  I've printed 2006-2007 for 32 dollars which was much more manageable.  I'll print the rest off a year at a time.  So, maybe I didn't fully accomplish my goals but I'm settling for good enough.  Sometimes that's all I get.

Sugar Highs

Halloween started for us on Saturday (it would have started on Thursday but we were sick and missed our homeschool party).  Saturday was soon enough.  We loaded everyone and their costumes  and some rolls and some cookies and the diaper bag and the candy and the treat baskets and...well you get the idea, in the car and headed to the church for dinner and trunk or treat.  We did not load the camera as Michael dropped it on the way out the door.  That's another story though.  So back on topic, we tried to put Grace in her costume before we left.  She has been excited for weeks to be a "pink 'neigh'" for Halloween.  She found the costume in the box and fell in love.  So Saturday came and we tried to put it on her.  Her expression tells you just how likely that was to happen.  Even the enticement of candy wouldn't sway her.  She was not putting that blessed thing on for any reason.  Despite the rough start, the kids had a ball and got a ton of candy.  I also only have the one picture because of the aforementioned camera incident.

Monday night went much smoother.  We went out for gyros because I don't think I should have to cook on my birthday.  We came home and got everyone in costumes, even Grace who by now realized costume meant candy.  We even got pictures.  Thank you craigslist.

 

This is my kids trying hard to be cute and listen because there is candy involved.

This is a much more accurate picture of how things generally go. 

Sam was entranced with the candle in the pumpkin.  He would have been content to skip the candy and play with the flame.  I'm not sure this bodes well for our future.

Sam didn't feel the need to unwrap his candy.  It still tastes good with the paper on.  Grace is once again glowering at us.  I don't know what we did to her but we will pay for it.  For the rest of our lives.

This is the haul - all 12.6 pounds of it.  We started all this with about 11 pounds of candy we bought from the store.  How did we wind up with more than we started?  Tis' the season to be well-sugared.

P.S.  Is anyone else having problems with the new blogger?  I'm trying to decide if I hate it because I am inept or if they made it a pain.