Thursday, May 22, 2008

Steven Cutris Chapman family tragedy

I'm bawling my eyes out here after hearing about the tragic death of Steven Curtis Chapman's youngest daughter Maria.

http://www.stevencurtischapman.com/

She was struck by a vehicle her teenage brother was driving in the driveway and died. It's so deeply tragic.

I'll be praying for peace for the family.

You can watch a sweet video of her washing dishes with her daddy just 2 months ago, and leave condolences here


And here's a video of his music video "Cinderella" which had me crying my eyes out when I listened to it before this accident ever happened. Now even more so.




Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Ultrasound at 24 weeks

I had another appointment and ultrasound today. It all went well, everything looks good.

I have a few photos but I haven't bothered to get them on the computer yet. The photos didn't come out very clear but the actual u/s was one of the clearest I've had yet. Turtle was very active and swimming around and waving his/her hands all around and kicking feet. It was sooo sweet. His/her hands were up at his/her face, and feet were scrunched up pretty close too. Turtle is lying sideways, or transverse right now. Plenty of time for him/her to change position - multiple times before birth, so it's not a worry.

Anyway it was pleasant and I'm happy all is going well.

Here's Zoe with something to say





Saturday, May 17, 2008

We're such good customers

of the medical industry.

So Lana's supposed to have her eye surgery on Monday, but we had to cancel because she has had an illness these past couple days with fever and vomiting. It's been passing around the family. So they won't do general anaesthesia until she's been clear of illness for a while.

Today she seems to have been feeling better, and Zoe and Kaya are better too so we ventured out to some yard sales. Surely harmless fun right? Lana and Kaya each had a quarter to spend and they always find something weird to spend it on. Kaya bought a roll of eye stickers and Lana bought a bag of beads. We sent Rene in to buy a couple of coffee tables (for 50 c each!) and meanwhile Lana sat in the back of the car and decided that her baby frogs in her soap dispenser (which we had just bought for 25 c) wanted to watch her put a bead up her nose. And she didn't want to let those baby frogs down.

I knew nothing of her little adventure taking place in the backseat until she started yelling "mummy there's something stuck up my nose!"

It was wedged up there super high. I didn't want to attempt to try to get it out myself, I didn't even have any tweezers with me, and it was so far back it was hardly visible. Rene came back tot he car and we drove straight to ER. The Dr there held her other nostril closed and had me blow in her mouth to get it to come out. It took a couple of tries, but it came out. Lana was super brave and says she'll never put anything up her nose again!

Now we get to await the bill. At times..I slightly miss the NHS, at least, the fact that it was free anyway. I swear we pay more on medical bills than groceries, and we have good insurance too. I hate to think what it would be like without it!

Rene found this whole ordeal hillarious. He couldn't stop laughing (he has a thing about noses and stuff being stuck in them...it just tickles his funny bone) so I guess for him this was money well spent on good entertainment.



Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Baby Birds

We have two nests at our house. One is sort of in the roof type area (I don't know what different pieces of the house are called, but it's up in the bit where our outdoor light hangs from) and you can't see it because it's covered over, but you hear the baby birds every time you step outside. And there is bird poop all over the ground!

The other is resting on the gutter round the back of the house. Mommy bird has been sitting faithfully on her nest for weeks and recently we have spotted two tiny heads peaking out! Very sweet indeed.






It's all getting me very much in the mood for my own baby to arrive. I'm so glad we have another one cooking in there, because Zoe is just so grown up these days, she doesn't satisfy that broody need for a tiny baby to nurture. She's just thriving, learning new words every day, playing well with her sisters, climbing on things, expressing herself.

She copies her sisters all the time. Kaya just came in here a minute ago with a church bulletin, asking me "mummy, can I draw on this?" and then presenting a piece of scrap paper, "can I draw on this?"
Zoe, watching this all, has a look of contemplation on her face, then picks up the tv remote control and holds it up to me and excitedly babbles, "mum, ga-ee-oy--ga-ee-oy-daw-dis?"
She's too funny. And I can't wait for another little tiny one to watch grow and develop too. This stuff is soo exciting! It still blows my mind that we can make people.