Archive For The “Parenting” Category
1. David scored a GOAL at soccer practice yesterday! There is a very skilled player on their soccer team, and he basically dominates the field all.the.time. It is frustrating as a parent to watch that because I want me kids to learn how to play the game, but if they never get the ball there [...]
Ambrose has reached that point where all of our other babies became much easier and contented. Unfortunately, this is not the case for Ambrose. If anything, he has become more needy, fussy and difficult. Now, don’t get me wrong, he is a sweetheart. He loves to cuddle and he is very social. He wants to [...]
Charitina was born with strange little mark on her neck. I mentioned it to the pediatrician at one of the first visits after she was born, and he said it was nothing: some kids were just born with that- no big deal. Now jump ahead a few years. The outside mark looks about the same, [...]
Since about 8:30 last night, I’ve been watching our friends’ two younger children. That makes the count in our home six children age six and under. Except for a bit of a difficult time getting the kids to sleep, everything has gone smoothly. They all played in the sprinkler today and enjoyed playing together. I [...]
After Ambrose was weighed this morning (he weighs 14 lbs 9 oz), I looked up what the average weight gain is for his age. (It is between 1-2 lbs per month for breastfed babies.) I came across some interesting information: Weight gain is determined by more than diet, which is why there is such a [...]
I have been absent from the blogging world for a while now. I don’t even remember when I last commented on a blog and I am barely reading them either. As you know, we went away for two weeks. When we came back home, Gregs got sick (virus) and he passed it on to me. [...]
Transitions are difficult. I had been told that the addition of a forth child to our family would be no more difficult than the addition of the third. I have not found this to be true. Possibly, the people who offered this information did not have their children as closely spaced as we do or [...]
To the baby who is sleeping against my chest, Your mama is tired. Very tired. It has been days since I got more than an hour in a row of sleep. Don’t you know a mama with four children needs some rest? The clean laundry is piling up in baskets. Don’t you know I need [...]
If you had asked me about a week ago how I was adjusting to having four children ages five and under, I would have taken a deep breath and answered something along the lines of, “we’re doing fine” or “we’re surviving.” And that is probably how it will be for a while, but I’ve been [...]
