I just arrived home from book club. Rick relayed an earlier experience. Being a responsible daddy, he had given the kids their nightly bathes.
Rather than the normal 2-3 inches deep, the tub was 7 or 8 inches tonight. (Rick's always given me a hard time about how little water I use. Why are you stingy?? ( my wording) I have my reasons. If somebody tips over they aren't as likely to choke.)
Rick left the bathroom for just a minute. Suddenly Lucas screamed. As Rick rushed back in the bathroom, it was to discover Abrianna flat on her back, submerged in the water, fighting and struggling to sit up.He quickly pulled her out and smacked her on the back. She squalled.
Rick told me that Lucas had the presence of mind to pull the plug right away. What could have ended in tragedy was instead subverted. Thank GOD!
Thank you GOD!!
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Uncle Reggie's birthday
Who has had a birthday? We're so glad... Let's count and see how many he has had... As we count the pennies we are told... Uh Oh! Not enough Pennies! Uncle Reggie's 28 years old!
Abrianna loved sampling my butter finger milkshake. YUMMY!
Lucas is now big enough to have is very own ice cream cone. I said he wouldn't finish it. I was wrong. Rick was right. He ate all
So reminiscent of the 80's. Thanks for sharing them Andrea.
This post has been in process awhile. Reggie's birthday was clear back on the 8th of June.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
You should've seen the other guy...
I suppose that this is an awful picture to post. I'd think that having a boy first, that he'd have been the first one with a black eye. Lucas just sported many fat lips and dented heads.
I was nursing her and set her on the floor. I thought she had her feet under her. I was wrong. She crashed against the wood work on the glider rocker. Poor baby :(
Friday, June 5, 2009
Mother's day present
"Come here baby!" says Lucas
Lucas was trying to feed the chicks feed from his bobcat bucket.
It's a struggle to keep her out of the coop. She thinks that it must be her special little fort.
This chick is big enough to flutter to the top of the coop. Must be about 4 feet high.
This year for Mothers' day Rick started building me a chicken coop. I've wanted chickens for years and we finally broke down and got some. Technically the chicks belong to Lucas. We used some birthday monies from his great grandparents to purchase them and their apparatuses.
The coop belongs to me :-0
Considering the many hours that went in to it... It means much more than simply a meal out or flowers. Thanks Rick!
I'm also very happy to have those stinky little birds outside where they belong! No more scrubbing chicken droppings off my massage room floor. Whew! I'm sure my clients will appreciate the lack of farm air in there.
Actually the birds have been in there coop for at least a week. I'm just really behind in my blogging.
Hope you all have a great Sabbath!
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Frog noises
Abrianna made her own whistle or noise maker. Doesn't it sound like a frog?
Last night, I took my children for a walk to the golf course. Lucas took his dump truck with in preparation for playing there. But alas, there were golfers. We decided ( or Mommy decided) that it wasn't safe to play and we headed back.
All during the walk we were admiring the dark cloud formations. Lucas thought it was getting dark. At one point a large portion of them was shaped like half a star, very cool.
As we were approaching home, we began to see lightening and hear thunder. What was disturbing was a brownish wall quickly moving in from the west. I wasn't sure weather it was a wall of rain or a dust storm. We hurried into the house with just a couple of minutes to spare before the wind storm hit. Lucas was afraid as it was fairly dark. Then it seemed to lighten and I thought the storm had bypassed us. Into the tub went my munchkins.
A few minutes later, I was walking through the house and noticed how dark it had become again. I calmly went into the bathroom and informed my dear children that bath time was finished and it was time to get out due to the weather.
I tried to explain to Lucas that lightening can travel up pipes and electrocute people in bath tubs. His understanding was that the thunderstorm would sneak through the cracks and get him in the tub and kill him, sigh...
The storm raged onward through worship. Lucas' prayer consisted of, "Dear Jesus, please turn the thunder storm OFF! Amen."
All is well this morning. Cooler temperatures and several small branches need to be picked up. But all and all, not too bad.
An Update
Whew! Where has the time gone? I can't believe its been almost 2 weeks since I've written anything on the blog. I suppose is simply lack of time in which I can use my hands.
When I'm seated at the computer it is with one or the other and sometimes both of the beautiful little girls in my lap, either feeding them or putting them down for naps.
It does provide a lot of time for reading as you may have noticed by how quickly my list of books I've recently read has grown.
I'll try to remember and post of the high lights and funny stories of the past several weeks. Hope my memory can conjure up some :)
Let's see...
The current Bible story for Sabbath school is the story of Daniel and the Lions' Den. Melissa does a wonderful job of making it very interactive for the little ones. The "den" is a large card board box. She tells about an angel telling the lions to "shut your mouths!".
We were the recipients of a large file cabinet box for Lucas'. He has a large stuffed lion that Rick bought him when he was all of a week or two old - he was also terrified of it at about 6-8 months old and would try to climb me to get away from it!
Lucas had his box and lion in the back yard. He was the angel, yelling "LIONS SHUT YOUR MOUTHS!" Monkey see monkey do I suppose. I'd rather he copy that then some other things.
One of Lucas' favorite phrases of late has been, "don't be afraid mommy!" It can be used in really funny ways. A week ago, he peed his bed three times in one day! Can you imagine that? One was during his nap. The other two were intentional. I asked a more experienced mom, Nicole Scruggs, what she would do. She said that she would talk to him and explain about it making a lot more work etc. Also make him lay in it, yuck! It didn't quite come down to that.
I had a heart to heart with Lucas at bedtime. And he responded, "Don't be afraid mommy. I won't do it again. Don't be afraid."
We had some excitement today as well. Lucas is 3 years old now. He can be responsible. I think I expect more out of him than what he's capable of sometimes.
I left Josephine and Abrianna in the back yard with him with instructions to leave the gate shut while I hurried into the house to make a bottle for Josephine. It would only take a couple of minutes. Then I heard Lucas yell, "No Baby!" accompanied by the slamming of the gate. Uh oh! I quickly looked out the window to see my 13 month old daughter toddling towards the road. I ran for the door. I didn't see her when I first made it outside. But did find her safe and sounds in a couple of seconds. Talk about heart pounding.
I walked to the gate, where Lucas' was bent over, and explained to him how scared I was and how he was NEVER EVER EVER to do that again.
I also discovered that he had gotten though the gate and was now stuck. His concern in getting out quickly dissolved into tears when I couldn't get him out. His head would NOT fit back though those slats! (Somewhere during all that time, Josephine had begun to wail so I was carrying both babies.)
I rushed into the house calling for Rick to come NOW! He did too. (Usually he doesn't but there must have been something about my tone of voice that cued him in.) Rick tried to force Lucas head back through, but it was a no go :( Just as he was getting ready to physically tear the fence apart with his hands, I had a bright idea. It had to be divine prompting here. We had Lucas continue to crawl though as far as he could and then we each got on either side of the fence and eased him out. Success!! Thank GOD!! What and adventuresome 10 minutes. Enough to take a couple of years off my life span.
Thankfully those types of days are few and far between.
Oh and by the way... I'm catching you all up and must return to trying to clean up. Tomorrow promises to be a busy day.
I have a massage in the morning and then we're supposed to go to the community colleges bar b que and get the grills going. Need to come up with something to fix for Sabbath too. Any bright EASY QUICK ideas?
When I'm seated at the computer it is with one or the other and sometimes both of the beautiful little girls in my lap, either feeding them or putting them down for naps.
It does provide a lot of time for reading as you may have noticed by how quickly my list of books I've recently read has grown.
I'll try to remember and post of the high lights and funny stories of the past several weeks. Hope my memory can conjure up some :)
Let's see...
The current Bible story for Sabbath school is the story of Daniel and the Lions' Den. Melissa does a wonderful job of making it very interactive for the little ones. The "den" is a large card board box. She tells about an angel telling the lions to "shut your mouths!".
We were the recipients of a large file cabinet box for Lucas'. He has a large stuffed lion that Rick bought him when he was all of a week or two old - he was also terrified of it at about 6-8 months old and would try to climb me to get away from it!
Lucas had his box and lion in the back yard. He was the angel, yelling "LIONS SHUT YOUR MOUTHS!" Monkey see monkey do I suppose. I'd rather he copy that then some other things.
One of Lucas' favorite phrases of late has been, "don't be afraid mommy!" It can be used in really funny ways. A week ago, he peed his bed three times in one day! Can you imagine that? One was during his nap. The other two were intentional. I asked a more experienced mom, Nicole Scruggs, what she would do. She said that she would talk to him and explain about it making a lot more work etc. Also make him lay in it, yuck! It didn't quite come down to that.
I had a heart to heart with Lucas at bedtime. And he responded, "Don't be afraid mommy. I won't do it again. Don't be afraid."
We had some excitement today as well. Lucas is 3 years old now. He can be responsible. I think I expect more out of him than what he's capable of sometimes.
I left Josephine and Abrianna in the back yard with him with instructions to leave the gate shut while I hurried into the house to make a bottle for Josephine. It would only take a couple of minutes. Then I heard Lucas yell, "No Baby!" accompanied by the slamming of the gate. Uh oh! I quickly looked out the window to see my 13 month old daughter toddling towards the road. I ran for the door. I didn't see her when I first made it outside. But did find her safe and sounds in a couple of seconds. Talk about heart pounding.
I walked to the gate, where Lucas' was bent over, and explained to him how scared I was and how he was NEVER EVER EVER to do that again.
I also discovered that he had gotten though the gate and was now stuck. His concern in getting out quickly dissolved into tears when I couldn't get him out. His head would NOT fit back though those slats! (Somewhere during all that time, Josephine had begun to wail so I was carrying both babies.)
I rushed into the house calling for Rick to come NOW! He did too. (Usually he doesn't but there must have been something about my tone of voice that cued him in.) Rick tried to force Lucas head back through, but it was a no go :( Just as he was getting ready to physically tear the fence apart with his hands, I had a bright idea. It had to be divine prompting here. We had Lucas continue to crawl though as far as he could and then we each got on either side of the fence and eased him out. Success!! Thank GOD!! What and adventuresome 10 minutes. Enough to take a couple of years off my life span.
Thankfully those types of days are few and far between.
Oh and by the way... I'm catching you all up and must return to trying to clean up. Tomorrow promises to be a busy day.
I have a massage in the morning and then we're supposed to go to the community colleges bar b que and get the grills going. Need to come up with something to fix for Sabbath too. Any bright EASY QUICK ideas?
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
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