Saturday, April 12, 2008

Forgot

I meant to put this here. It was kinda funny and yet, not really at all. Jack, the very wonderful husband, got some chocolate to I guess keep me sane during all this sickness? Okay, no he got dark chocolate, I think he got it for him. We also had some dried mangos. These were both on the counter when we left for a little bit yesterday. There was also a pan of what was supposed to be banana nut bread. This did not turn out. Yeah, my stuff still doesn't turn out all the time. Very frustrating. So we left, we came home. HE ATE THE CHOCOLATE!!! Grrr!!! Doesn't he know that it is so bad for him? And the amount he ate. So we are keeping an eye on him. He has eaten chocolate before, but you know, Huck is getting old. I am not sure why it has never bothered him, but still when you see how much he eats...Anyway, he ate the chocolate. He got the mangos down, but thank goodness, he didn't eat them. I may have had to hurt him. And the pan of what was supposed to be banana bread, really I can't even say it was banana bread, it really is just what was supposed to be banana bread, was down on the floor, empty. So, I thought well at least the dog liked it. We went about our day and then that night Jack was getting the girls in bed. And he yells out to me, we need to wash the girls sheets. Why? So Natalie and him come out of the room with handfuls of what looks like cat throw up. I was like gross!! Get something to clean that up!
But no, it wasn't cat throw up. It was what was supposed to be banana bread. Even my dog wouldn't eat it. But then he didn't eat the mangos either, and everyone knows that mangos are good. But yeah, the what was supposed to be banana bread, umm, not so good.

all three of them

So in the last post I said that Gwen was sick, right? Well a few days after that, Laylaspent almost all day in bed. And then Natalie. It is so much easier when the older ones get it. Gwen is still sick but the older ones are doing much better. I can say though that this past week has been very not fun. I was doing two loads of laundry a day just to keep up with diapers, the steam cleaner never got put away and the dishes, oh the dishes...And they weren't even that hungry. Jack was home for a
little bit yesterday, we have the house looking a bit better now. So here are some pictures, some older, but I just hadn't gotten around to putting them up yet.

This is Layla with puff sleeves. They love Anne of Green Gables. If you have seen the movie Anne wants puff sleeves. So the girls go around stuffing play silks into their dresses so they can have puff sleeves. It kinda makes them look like football players, but if they ever show you just tell them that their puff sleeves are beautiful, okay? They love them and the looks on their faces when they do this...well it is too cute.



Natalie using my pouch to hold her baby. She has her in a nice cradle hold. I was pretty impressed as I didn't help her at all. She also never really saw me use a cradle hold, I usually do a hip carry with Gwen. She was holding her baby so sweetly.




And who needs a highchair? Really? Gwen just sits on the table to eat. Right in the middle of the rest of us eating so she can pick what she wants from the rest of our plates. Yeah, her table manners may not be great, but she is really cute. You know Huck loves her.


Thursday, April 10, 2008

typing

how fast I type one handed nursing Gwen
33 words

Speedtest



how fast I type two handed with Gwen near me

48 words






umm, there really isn't any other way, if I am on the computer there are kids around. So...

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Kick on in now second wind

except I am sure I have more than 2 more hours to go.
Gwen started throwing up on Sunday. I think it was Sunday. It was sometime. I am tired. She seems to have mostly stopped throwing up, though every time she burps I kinda get scared. But she is still really fussy and I don't think we are done yet. Jack commented before he left for work today that he didn't sleep much because of her crying, so he is sure that I feel like crap. He would be correct. Right now I am just thankful that no one else is throwing up. Gwen hasn't gotten dehydrated, so that is good. But I know she is pretty miserable. It is hard when they are this sick this young, ya know? She is usually such an upbeat little baby, I have really been missing her smiles, laughs and yes her jokes. Those of you with little one year olds know the jokes I am talking about. They think they are so funny, but they are. And now my baby gets so tired that she crawls into my lap and just falls asleep without nursing even.
So here is where I need a second , third, fourth, fifth wind I am sure. Not so much for this sickness, we will catch up on sleep soon i am sure. But for the two week quarantine that went into effect yesterday. We don't know for sure this is rotavirus, but we are treating it like it is. So that means making sure that my slobbery baby doesn't slobber on something and give this to someone else. That makes things hard on me, and mostly the girls. No pool for two weeks.
Please pray that I do not go insane.