there was this one time…
cleaning out caleb's school work from last week to get ready for this week and came across this:
he is SOOO cute. we talk about him being little but strong 🙂
when we took him in for his 7 year check up the doc was surprised that he weighed so little.. that he was the average size of a 4-5 year old. our little guy.
happy monday, people!
or even ordered to be printed. i am sorry. i just got behind. and then chris thought it didn't look very christmas-y. so that really threw me off. anyways, as this glorious holiday approaches, i hope you all take the time to appreciate the little things. last night the kids and chris and i made fluffy beds downstairs and slept next to our christmas tree. we had all our little village houses lit up, and the tree too. it was beautiful. i woke up with chris telling me that he loves us all so much. i could not ask for a better memory. i loved it.
merry, merry christmas. see you in 2006.
i had my monthly visit today and as i was leaving the doc said, 'see you in 2 weeks'. i was totally taken aback because i guess i didn't realize i was almost 30 weeks along. THIRTY WEEKS. that means baby will be here in TEN weeks. why does that seem SO close??! i sorta freaked out. came home and told chris i am not ready. not ready for all the things that come along with a newborn. i know ten weeks really is awhile away, but when you are pregnant for 9 months, ten weeks seems like nothing. i'm also having a C section, so i get to pick my date. that really seems crazy to me. not crazy like- psychotic, but crazy like- i can't believe it. i get to pick the date i get to meet my girl. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!
From Jack Johnson's 'Banana Pancakes'--
"We got everything we need right here
And everything we need is enough
It's just so easy
When the whole world fits inside of your arms
Do we really need to pay attention to the alarm"
this was us today. i stayed in bed for SO long. it was heaven. as
soon as i got out of the shower this morning, the sunlight was
hitting my bed just so- it was calling me- come back, come back...
and so i did. caleb came home sick from preschool yesterday,
so he was a little groggy too. but we read books and played board
games and fell back asleep. chris did too for a bit until his phone
rang. he had just gotten back from a business trip, so he totally has
a reason. me? not so much. you'd think i just had a newborn and
was craving the sleep or something. nope, i just wanted to cuddle
my boys in bed. that's it. i dragged myself out at 130 this afternoon.
and now i feel really unproductive. lol. now it's almost time to pick
my kids up from school where i am sure they have been working
their hineys off. 🙂
good for them.
he’s gonna be on the 700 club. it comes on in LA at 6 am. my inlaws are coming over bright and early to tune in. i hope my alarm doesn’t let me down, lol. 🙂 watch it if you can!
notice on the schedule that he is to be on the same day as the gal who was a stripper… lol- why couldn’t he be on the day with the lady with the growth on her neck?! sheeeeeeeeeesh. 🙂
we are also jealous to know that he is staying in our old hometown. Virginia Beach. ok, we only lived there for 3 1/2 years– but it was early in our marriage, i had 3 liiiiiiiiiiittle kids in the house… it was such a crazy time for us… to be that far away from our real home and family. i just get all nostalgic. it was a tough couple of years, but something i know we needed as a family. to be on our own. i am super thankful for the memories.
ok, dug through the pics too– outside our little apartment in VA— look how liiiiiiiiitttle cam and kira were. and i was about to pop with caleb in my tummy in a few weeks from there. man! sigh.
they are too cute. they are so perfect together. they came up to get a christmas picture and i got SO many good ones i loved. hope they love them too. 🙂
and many more here. they have been together since high school. they are each other’s first love and they have the perfect daughter. i couldn’t be happier that my brother married one of my best friend’s and that our kids get to grow up together.
some of the pics don’t look as sharp and vivid on my web screen as they do in my photoshop program. sorry about that. they are freaking sweeeeet though. 🙂 rad. :)– that’s for chris who makes fun of me for saying rad. i love rad. 🙂
this was our first year participating in the school’s state float parade. each child was to make a ‘float’ out of natural materials that represented the state they were assigned. not an easy task for a 10 year old. especially when you don’t have skills in architecture or design. but i let kira go with the flow, do what she wanted, because in the end- it’s her project, right?! i was very proud of her. she pulled it off. and then i saw all the other floats. and i was seriously taken aback. ok, built in caves? swaying whales hanging from the ceiling? life size beavers made out of pine cones? an entire town made out of beans?! i am not saying they were not beautiful. they were beautiful. they looked like miniature versions of the Rose Parade! (and yes, the rose parade judges were there at our school judging! as well as the rose court! this was big guys!) but they did not look like they made them completely on their own. and that’s the thing- how much do you help your child? i helped kira as far as breaking the sticks to spell out tennessee. she made everything else. davy crockett, the log cabin, the guitar, etc. and you can tell. 🙂 you know i wanted to take over and construct the Grand Ole Opry and Elvis, but i did not. 🙂 anyways, i know either way you look at it, if you particiapated and showed some effort, you will get a good grade. but in the end, who’s grade is it- the parent or the child? part of me couldn’t help but wished i took over a little. that’s just natural. you want people to oooh and aaaah over your child’s things. there has got to be a balance. i get so stressed out over these kind of projects. i told chris that he is now in charge… and that he had better get thinking now that we will have 3 more kids to go through the system. 🙂
it has begun. the busy-ness of activities. it seems that kira has very little spare fun time on the weekdays. she started the flute and practices 20 minutes everyday. it is so cool to see the progress. it is so true- practice makes perfect! she is getting the hang of it! and she has joined the 5th grade drama team to perform Annie. love that movie. that is a 3 day a week, 2 hours at a time commitment. i am glad she is getting her feet wet with these activities now, before she goes to middle school.. so she can figure out which one she is going to continue with. and don't forget sports. she does softball in the spring. she enjoys all these things, but what she really wants to do in middle school is be a tigerette (junior cheerleader). i can't help but smile when i see her fill up her plate with all these things. she is so opposite of me. i did the piano, that's it. haha. can you believe that when she goes to bed at night, she is still NOT tired? she is such the little go-getter extrovert. 🙂
he is nonstop, i tell ya.
all from just yesterday:
after trying some spicy chicken at dinner, "spicy is when your eyes are drippy."
after chris had called me a woman, "she's not a woman, she's just my mom."
after he had gotten in trouble and i was talking nicely to cameron, "fine, you two just go do your love thing!"
after receiving lots of snuggles from me, he says to kira and cam, "she likes me best you know."
after he snuggled buzz lightyear in bed, "buzz is my best guy ever."
i have always taken my kids to a pumpkin patch to get their pumpkins. we make a day of it, trek out there and play with the wheelbarrows, the assorted halloween-y structures and stuff they have to entertain the kids and take a gazillion pictures. so this year, when cam kept asking me when we would go i kept putting him off. i'm in LA people, there's not exactly pumpkin patches on every corner. so to go means to plan and spend a good couple of hours. there and IN traffic. which sounds completely unappealing to me right now. so when we went to target today, we just happened to walk through the garden section and saw how cheap (4.00– you cannot beat that), big and nice the pumpkins looked. they totally wanted them. i wanted them. i was SO happy that meant we weren't gonna have to make the trek out to the patch. heehee. i felt like i cheated them of the memory, the tradition. but they really didn't care. and i am glad. 🙂
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