flower girl!
Our long time babysitter turned friend is getting married! We’re so excited! She and her fiance asked Zoe to be in the wedding as a flower girl. What a special treat for her!
We’ve been blessed with a lot of good news this week.
Congratulations T&K!
Well, Zoe has started having night terrors at night. She’s done it twice this week. Mark and I were a little scared by it and did a little research last night. Apparently, it can be due to being overtired and there’s also a way to help it go away. We’re going to work on getting her to nap or getting her to bed earlier than the boys. A night terror is when a child wakes up within two hours of sleeping crying and screaming. Sometimes they walk around the room. Their eyes are open and they can see things in their room but they aren’t awake. Zoe’s night terrors come with her looking and batting at things on her bed and crying when she looks at them. From what we found, you’re not supposed to wake them but just comfort them and try to get them to calm down. And they don’t remember it happening. It’s also hereditary, but when I told mom she said that I never did that. Last night she kept hitting at a small pillow on her bed. I prayed over her eyes and she calmed down almost immediately. I’m thankful that God helped her to calm down. Both times she’s done it I was close to calling our pediatrician…but thankfully she calmed down quickly probably within in 10 to 15 minutes.
Josiah is now doing much better during the day. He can put himself to sleep in the morning and in the afternoon. Now the goal is to extend nap time from 45 minutes to however long he needs to be rested. He’s also doing good at night. He still wakes a couple of times but Mark is able to get him back to sleep without much work and then he nurses at 5 or so in the morning.
Ace still has a fever that is fluctuating. It got up to 100.7 last night but he still acted fine with it. Weird!
today to be pj day! Since we can’t really go anywhere until we know that Ace’s temp is going to stay down, we’re going to hang out in our pjs today. We’ll watch a movie, play games, and just have fun, hopefully.
If you get the privilege of staying at home with your children, a pj day is a must every once in a while. Lots of fun!
Go ahead…try it.
Well, we found out that Mark’s sister-in-law was expecting. This was going to be #7 in our nieces and nephews line up.
We just found out tonight that it’s going to be #7 AND #8!
We’re soooo excited!!! This is the first set of twins on either side of the family. This will be #5 and #6 for them. The babies are due right around Mark’s birthday.
These next four weeks are pretty critical for the babies so please pray for them and for his sister-in-law.
Congratulations B&B and cousins! We are excited for these new little blessings from God.
I haven’t posted in a couple of days because there wasn’t much to post on. Our normal busyness and no one has been sick…at least I thought.
Mark got home and asked me if Ace felt warm to me. I checked him and he was running a temp. He also had a little bit of yummy potty stuff (okay diarrhea…not sure how etiquette goes in posting bodily functions but let’s just lay it all out there) this afternoon.
No MOPS, no church tonight. It’s going to be quiet around here as we all go through this bug (I really would like to believe it’s not a stomach bug but I have my doubts).
Besides that, Zoe and Ace had their ballet Christmas party yesterday and that was a lot of fun. Mark stayed home in the morning to watch them. That’ll be our last parents day in ballet until their last class…in January we start getting ready for The Roar of Love.
I finally broke down and got these baby cubes for Josiah’s baby food. I make all of his baby food and we travel a lot so I thought they would come in handy. They came in today (and I ordered them on Saturday…pretty good shipping I think). My initial review is that they are great. They tip over easy with very little or no food in them but they are nice and compact to carry out somewhere. I’ll cook some green beans tonight and see how they hold up in the freezer. Josiah doesn’t like them because they only hold 2 ounces and he just wants more and more and more. He eats until it’s pouring out of him…really. He does the same with nursing at times! Gotta love mushed up bananas. So far he’s had sweet potatoes, applesauce, bananas, and oatmeal. No objections from our little one on all fronts. I’m sure the beans will be a taste change but throw in a little sweet potato or fruit and he’ll be good to go.
That’s all for now I guess.
How cute are they?! It’s safe to say that Josiah adores his big sister and big brothers! Zoe’s getting to be his favorite though.
This week during school we talked about the moon and astronauts. The kids made a space shuttle and went to the moon. Here’s their shuttle!
Yesterday, we took Zoe and Liam to build their “bear” at BABW for their birthday. Zoe picked out this nice pink leopard (surprised?!). Liam picked out a monkey. Well, we picked it out for him and he picked out the Spiderman shirt. After the trip to BABW, we headed to see Santa. We got there just in time because school buses were unloading. Zoe and Ace went straight to see Santa and told him what they wanted. Liam handed him his new monkey.
For those that don’t know or are just tuning in, Santa only brings one thing to our house. The kids get three gifts from us and one of them is usually a gift for all of them. Well, Zoe and Ace told Santa what they wanted and then he asked them what else. They froze. They had no clue what he was talking about. So, Ace said he wanted a candy cane. Mark and I were proud of them and their lack of greediness. Next year, we’ll have to coach Santa ahead of time to just bring one thing for each kid.
I’ll post these to my work blog too, but this is an example of the burp cloths I make. These are for a friend.
And this is the nursing cover I made to go with it.
This time it’ s Ace and Josiah. Wednesdays seem to be the days for Josiah to learn something new. He’s now learned how to blow raspberries or motor boat mouth. He was showing off his new talent last night after church and I was blowing raspberries on his belly. Ace asked to try and then did it and Josiah had the biggest time laughing at him. Ace was a little worried that he hurt him but soon started grinning and doing it again. Did I have the video camera? Of course not!! Uggghhh.