More Conversations with a Three Year Old

Lauryn, who has gotten in trouble numerous times for playing in the water in the bathroom sinks, had been running the water a little too long the other morning. When I went in to tell her that she had washed her hands long enough, she told me,

"Mama, I was not playing in the water. I was killing the bubbles from the soap!"

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"Mama, Can I play a game?"

"What do you want to play?"

"I wanna play Hungry, Hungry Pickles!"

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The other day Lauryn wandered in while I was watching a men's diving competition from the Olympics. Lauryn sits down on the floor, proclaiming,

"Cool! I would want to do that!"

After watching for a minute or two, she turned to me with a worried expression, "But, Mama, I wouldn't want to get my panties wet!" (I couldn't help laughing when I explained that those weren't their panties, but their swim suits.)

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At the dinner table, the girls were discussing which bug they would want to be if they were to become a bug for a day.

Lauryn: "I don't know. Hmmmm. (Cocks her head and thinks for a minute.) I don't know, but I'd want to be a biting one!

Toes

Our youngest daughter seems to have an unusual habit.

Observe this picture taken when she was about an hour old.

Now compare it with this picture taken over the weekend.

What is up with those toes?!?

First Day of School

Well, I survived the first day of school! Without Dr. Pepper, even! (Not without chocolate, though.) It was a bit rough at times, as all the girls tried to remember the routine, and how we don't watch movies or play on the computer during school. But it went much better than I feared. YEA!

We've never taken this long a break before during the summer, however one thing that helped was a gradual start. By this I mean that we did not start all subjects this week. We did do math, grammar, spelling, vocabulary, and Kora did science. We'll start history and Latin next week, and science for the other kids the next week. It always takes the kids a little while to get into the routine, so easing into it helps as they adjust.

But I'm not holding my breath for tomorrow! ;-)

Four months old

Ashlynn decided that since she will be four months old on Tuesday, she would wear a big girl outfit.
This flowery onesie and denim shorts are perfect for that "tween" baby - you know, between a newborn and toddler.
To celebrate this milestone, she celebrated this week by finding that her thumb was attached by God for the express purpose of being sucked on, and by sleeping upstairs in her bedroom that she now shares with Lauryn.
As an ornament she has all of her older sisters (and Daddy!) wrapped around her little pinkie.
I, of course, am immune to such manipulation.

Super Savings Saturdays

I finally take a picture of my way cool CVS run, and Crystal over at Money Saving Mom isn't hosting her normal Super Savings Saturdays. Oh well, I'm gonna post it anyway.

Everything in this picture cost me a total of $2 out of pocket. This was two transactions, actually the second run.
I had been to CVS earlier that day, but had forgotten a couple of really good coupons. I had to go home to nurse the baby anyway, so then I went back. All told that day I spent $22 at CVS and got all of this:
The diapers alone should have cost more than that!

Update on the Ticket

I received a registered letter today informing me that the police department was changing the charge on my ticket. The new charge is failing to yield right of way when turning left. I had had a couple of people tell me I should fight the ticket since I really didn't run a red light, but someone figured out the mistake and changed it. So I guess I am stuck paying the - gulp! - $172 fine. That was one expensive migraine!

Just One of Those Days

Yesterday, I should have stayed in bed.

And I really wanted to. I had gone to bed the night before with a terrible headache that I had hoped to sleep off. However as my consciousness slowly awoke, searing pain met me every time. So I kept going back to sleep, hoping that next time I started the waking process it would be different.

It wasn't. I had a full fledged migraine on my hands. Or head.

I finally got up around 8:30 (all my plans to get up early and cut out Dr. Pepper have been severely defeated this week), and fed the baby. Kora and Aubrey had fed the other kids already and cleaned up the kitchen, thankfully. Kelly called to check on me and strongly suggested that I go to the chiropractor. Although I didn't really feel like getting out of the house as I was also strongly fighting nausea and couldn't stand the sunlight, I decided that it would be better than suffering all day.

So I got all the kids into the suburban and headed out. But the motion of the car and the bright sunshine made my nausea ten times worse. Kora asked me, "Should you be driving?" I asked her, "Who else is going to drive me there?" She conceded the point while talking about when she was going to learn to drive. I was concentrating on not loosing the breakfast I had finally eaten.

As I turned onto the service road near the doctor's office, I was seriously about to loose it. I was thinking about how once I got past this nightmare of an intersection, with tons of construction and closed lanes, I could get out and hopefully get relief. The car in front of me turned left and naturally I followed. I looked up just in time to notice that the light was green. What didn't register was that I no longer had the left turn arrow. The light was green, but so was the light for the oncoming traffic. In my nauseous, miserable state, it didn't occur to me that this was a problem until I had to swerve into the construction area to avoid getting side swiped by the other cars.

In my foggy headed state I barely even registered what had happened. The girls thought all those other cars had done something wrong. I mumbled, "No, it was me." Just as the siren started blaring behind me.

Oh great. Sure enough, I get pulled over and given a ticket. Ironically the ticket is for running a red light, which technically I didn't do. I did fail to yield the right of way, but I had a green light. Oh, well, I thought, I'll take online defensive driving again.

Wrong. I read on the ticket that you cannot dismiss a ticket via DD if the offense was in a construction zone. Great! I can't wait to tell Kelly this one.

The chiropractor did help, but it always take a few hours for complete pain relief. I have a couple of vertebra in my neck that get out and press on my spinal cord area. All the drugs in the world don't give the relief that our wonderful Christian chiropractor can give.

I spent the rest of the day in somewhat of a haze as the pain slowly died down. Just when I thought everything was OK that evening as the kids were going to bed we hear a terrific crash, and Lauryn screaming. We run in there and the dresser has fallen over on top of Lauryn! I think both of our hearts stopped.

Just then Lauryn crawls out from underneath - stark naked. She got knocked pretty good in the eye, but was unharmed otherwise. We still aren't sure what happened, but we think she opened all the drawers at the same time, and the weight was too far forward. The only thing that was broken was her coin bank. It could have been much, much worse.

Then the baby refused to go to sleep. I rocked her to sleep three or four times, laid her down in her crib and up! she would pop. I had really thought we would be past this by four months old and time for school to start. Evidently I was wrong. Needless to say, it was a little late when I got to sleep last night.

If I had just stayed in bed, none of this would have happened. Right?