It's like this: Our computer died. In a big way. Even my little computer whiz brother is somewhat baffled. He did manage to save all the contents of our hard drive, bless his little heart. But I am feeling very removed from the goings on. Hopefully we'll get it all going again soon.
But here's the summary of the last two months!
-Jonny got home. Heaven. Then weird, because he had 6 weeks off of work. No husband to all the time husband is a weird transition.
-We went to Texas and Colorado for two of his family's reunions. So fun.
-We bought a king size bed and not a day goes by that we don't say how much we love it. Sleeping apart for a year kind of messed us up! It felt so crowded when he got home.
-We found out I am pregnant, which makes me even more glad for the king size bed, since I will soon be reaching what I fondly refer to as 'orca whale status'. I am due March 31st. We are thrilled. Or I was, until I started feeling like crud all the time...
-Emma got her ears pierced. I may have cried a little afterwards because I think she is too little. So why did I let her do it? Well, I didn't think she was too little until after I had done it!
The summer has been filled with playing with cousins, swimming lessons, reading books, generally heavenly things. School starts in a week and a half and I am sad. I am going to miss my little Emma bug while she is at school all day. She and Matthew and Sophie play so well together and she is usally the one organizing the party.
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August 15, 2003
The Magic of Motherhood
- 5/22 I found Matthew in his closet looking for some shoes today. I said, "Which ones are you looking for?" thinking I could help him look. He replied, "Ummmm, the ones I'm looking for." He wasn't being snotty or anything. Just a perfectly logical answer in his little boy mind.
- Emma loves to decorate the house and make it all fancy. In the midst of one such decorating frenzy she told me, "If you want, you can call me designer girl!"
- Emma asked me the other day, "Why do the policemans have these, like, wand things that they can conk the bad men on the heads with? Maybe it is so they can under arrest them."
- I heard Emma say to the little kids, "You guys! Get out of here! I am making a bra for my boobies!" I looked in their room and sure enough, she was fashioning a bra out of tissue paper.
- Matthew gave me a big kiss good night and then announced, "That makes us happy. It makes me happy and it makes you happy. Yep, it makes us happy."
- 5/11 Matthew fell and had a big red rug burn on his forehead. Emma told him, "Well, at least it is red and matches your hair, perhaps."
- 5/11 Matthew was telling me a big story about how "I got this on twos-day and this on threes-day..."
- 4/23 I put Sophie in a time out this morning for hitting Emma. I could tell I really got through to her because when I went to let her out she was hopping all around. She beamed at me and said, "I dancing!"
- 3/20 Matthew told me today that he wanted to wear some of my jewelry and I told him that boys don't wear jewelry. I know they do, I just didn't want him to wear mine. Emma was listening and replied "Boys can wear earrings if they're in a band and they're rockin' out."
- After a game of hide and seek I told the kids they were good hiders. Matthew smiled a self satisfied little smile and said, "Yep! We sure are hidey!"
- Emma was eating breakfast and naming all the fingers on her hand, "This is the pointer finger, and this is the ring finger, and this is the pinky..." and Matthew stuck his thumb up and said, "Yeah! And this is the good job finger!"
- Matthew and Sophie were in one of their frequent squabbles the other day and Emma informed me that Matthew had hit Sophie and then Matthew informed me that Sophie hit him first. Does your head start to hurt when you read that? Because mine does when I hear it...So I started lecturing Matthew,"Just because she hits you it doesn't mean you hit her back..." and he interrupted me to say, "I didn't hit her back! I hit her tummy!!"
- Emma was trying on a bunch of clothes that her cousin had grown out of (thanks Jenny!) and there were three swimming suits in the box. She loved trying them all on but one was a little loose in the bosom area. Emma announced, "This one doesn't fit me. It's a booby poker outer."
- I am always reminding Matty "make sure your hoo hoo is down" when he is going potty so we don't have a big mess (and then he doesn't slip and fall in it - true story). So one day at a restaurant I had Matthew and Sophie with me in the stall and as I sat down Matthew reminded me, "Mommy, make sure your hoo hoo is down."
- Matthew was in the bathroom going potty and I heard him tooting up a storm. Then I heard him say to no one in particular, "Maybe the toots are talking. And they are saying 'Po-op! Poopy!'"
- Dec 21 When I woke up this morning I found Matthew rubbing his hands all over a bra that I had left out by my bed. He told me, "I just love this. It is so beautiful." Do they just come hardwired with a boob attratction?!
- Dec 15 Emma picked up a piece of ribbon today and said, "This looks like Santa's wacker for his reindeer." It took me a minute to figure out she meant a whip.
- Dec 9 Emma came out of the bathroom this morning just as Matthew was heading in. He told her, "Emma you are stinky!" She was all offended and yelled back at him, "Matthew! It's not my body! It's my POOP!"
- Dec 5 Today Emma was eating her lunch and she knocked her napkin on the ground. She announced to me, "Mom. My napkin falled on the ground." I asked her if that was my cue to jump up and get it. She told me, "Welllll, I wouldn't want you to get bored."
- Dec 1 Emma had a friend over to play the other day and they were talking about watching the movie "The Princess Diaries." Matthew heard them and complained loudly, "NO! I don't want diarrhea!"
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11 comments:
Congrats on your #4! And having your husband back! And having a king size bed! Someday (okay, maybe never because I'm in denial) I'm going to blog about how C joined the Natl Guard and will be gone for 5 months. Whenever the thought completely overwhelms me I think of you and that you've survived much longer!
Remember how I said I wanted to see you?!?! Well I fell off the face of the earth instead. Congrats on the babe and I really do want to see you soon!
Oh congrats!!!! I'm so excited for you! And I'm very jealous of your king sized bed!
Yay!! So happy for you!
Yayyyyy!! I was so excited to see your blog at the top of my blog roll this morning!! :) I am so excited for you and the new baby!! How exciting!! And I totally get you on the school starting. I am going to miss my Emma so much too! But congrats on everything!
Yay! for the baby! And boo! for feeling like crud. Seriously, why must we feel so totally lousy when we're pregnant? And THEN give birth on top of that. It was very hard having Steve home all of the time when he was unemployed, and I was even gone from the house working part-time. I couldn't get anything done when he was home, not because I wanted to be with him but because somehow his presences messed up my "groove." Class nights were great because he was gone for a few hours at a time. I think we like each other more when we're not together 24/7 - for 6 months. I love, love, LOVE our king-size bed. I frequently tell Steve that if there's a fire in the house, he is to grab McKay and I will grab the bed.
not that this needs to be all about me, but my birthday is march 30th, so i recommend delivering one day early. then name her after me.
i'm so happy for you to have johnny home, that i'm not even jealous. which is saying a lot. i actually saved that video you sent me, and just watched it this week. thank you again. i'll probably watch it more than once.
Congrats on #4!! I'm so happy that you your hubby is home and safe. And I'm super happy that you updated. I've missed you. But apparently, you've been busy, ahem. Welcome back. I supposed this means we can look forward to more updates of all the funny, cute things your kiddos say and do.
Yeah for a new post! I feel slightly smug that I am on the inside track and know most of your news. However, Emma getting her ears pierced was news to me! What was your motivation? Did she ask for it, or did you just want to be able to buy her cute earrings?
Congratulations on the new baby! I'm so happy for you. I hope your body starts feeling better soon.
Amanda, It was good to hear from you! We are loving Monterey! We did not get a house at La Mesa(the schools were not very good) but decided to rent on Pebble Beach. We live near the beach at Bird Rock and the kids love going to the tide pools and swimming in the ocean(with wetsuits). We are also expecting a baby in March. We will have our fourth daughter on March 2nd! Where did you end up moving? Provo?
Congrats on the new addition! Hope all is well!
Marianne
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