Fun in the Summer Sun

What we did this summer.  Or...those days I actually remembered to bring my camera with me! 

 

Summer Ball

 

 

If you look real close Malissa is on 2nd base and Megan is on 1st.

 

 

 

Laura had her 4th birthday on July 4th.  Somehow there were no pictures of others blowing things up.  Although there was plenty of that.

 

 

 

First Day of School.  Note the crispy brown vegetation in the background.  The grass only got mowed maybe 4 or 5 times all year.  It was not a problem when the lawn mower broke down for a month.

 

 

 

Random cute picture from this summer.

 

There were other things that happened.  The fair was a major part but somehow my picture taking must have been at a low ebb at that point.  Also our vacation to Anaheim will hopefully be shown off in a different post.

 

Until Next Time!!!





 



Pregnancy Update

What finally?!?  Or perhaps an "I didn't know you were pregnant!"  I know; I know; I haven't been very good at keeping everyone up to date.  Other than a couple of stray posts on facebook I haven't really had a chance to let everyone know how things are going.  Life just seems too busy!  That and having small children crawling all over while trying to type doesn't seem to help me actually accomplish anything.

So first the basics:
1)  Baby's due date is November 16 which means I am 36 weeks pregnant.  So yes I have rapidly been passing up the swallowed a basketball stage to full blown land whale.  I make no promises concerning pictures.

2)  In the beginning of July was sonogram time and according to the radiologist we will be welcoming our first boy.  The older 2 girls are very excited since they have decided we have enough girls.  Laura would much rather we continue with the girl only streak.  I'm pretty sure that Karla is oblivious and will be in for a rude awakening when we bring a new baby of either kind home from the hospital.

3)  In the beginning of September yours truly flunked her blood glucose test and has been diagnosed as a gestational diabetic despite having virtually no risk factors.  (Although from what I can tell they are not real solid on what actually causes it.  They like to blame it on hormones.)  So now I have the fun of monitoring my blood sugar, giving myself insulin injections (only once a day thank goodness), going to the hospital twice a week for non-stress tests and eating a very low carb diet using primal eating to guide it.  I will try to detail this more in a future post.

4)  The c-section is scheduled for November 8th however the last two still prefered to pick their own birthdays.

Despite all of this Baby Deters seems to be doing quite well and we look foreward to meeting him very soon!

A Picture Post?

After another lengthy drought in the blog post department I'm back once again.  Good intentions do not a blog post make.  So how about some cute pictures of the kids.

Karla my little helper.  By the way she is 9 mos old today!

Laura was building an armada of boats.  She may be planning a conquest.

Megan sneaks in by virtue of posing with Karla.  This is the number one way of getting a picture taking of you in our family.  Notice Megan's cool new do.  We're back to bangs and a short to the chin cut.

This picture of Malissa is actually of last week when we still had weather we could wear shorts in.  Since then the leaves have fallen and it is looking decidedly fallish outside.

Since I'm posting pictures I could not resist putting up one of this fellow.  This frightening dude just sat there and eyeballed me when I decided to take his mug.  Notice that he is LOOKING AT THE CAMERA.  Like I said, scary.

A little of this, a little of that...

The last week has been crazy busy and I don't think we are done yet.  The hard decision is: Should this post be in order of date or age of child?  We'll try it by date.  So...

 

Last Wednesday we took Karla for her 2 month check up.  She's up to 10 pounds and 23 inches long.  She is intereacting with us much more with coos and smiles.  Over the last month we've discovered milk products give her an upset stomach and eggs give her hives.  Definitely hope we outgrow those issues quickly because I'm nursing and this is Lent.  Not being able to eat eggs and cheese during Lent is a HUGE problem.

Friday was Megan's 10th birthday!  It's amazing how fast this time has flown by.  She's been waiting for this birthday because I told her she couldn't get her ears pierced until she was 10.  Now if her mom (yours truely) had her act together we would have gotten it done on Friday.  However the plan is to do the deed on this coming friday instead.  Will try to get a post up later showing the finished product.

Saturday was cooking and cleaning day because...

Sunday Malissa had her first communion.  Doesn't she look beautiful!  Since Baileyville has mass at 8:30 AND pictures needed to be taken before hand she had to be at the church at 7:30.  It's a good think she was excited because I'm not sure we would have ever gotten her out of bed otherwise.  (You should have seen trying to get her up in time for the bus on Monday morning.)

This is one of the last large classes left with 9 kids in it.  You notice that Malissa is standing off to the side and down a step.  She is taller than all but one of the other kids and this particular class doesn't have any short kids in it.  Maybe a future basketball player?  Her dad played.

Next day is Monday and you would think we would get a chance to recooperate and earlier in the day that actually seemed to be happening.  When Malissa came home from school she was happy and upset.  Apparently she lost her tooth at school but lost it the rest of the way on the way home.  She was happier after hearing that the tooth fairy would still know she lost her tooth and would know to bring her loot. 

After that Laura enters the picture but she is not having such a good day.  On Sunday night she scraped her knees up good while outside running around.  Then on Monday she slammed her finger in the lid to the cedar chest (just bruised).  The whopper came on Monday night though.  She was playing in the basement and fell off a chair onto her left arm.  It was pretty obvious right away that it was broken so John took her straight to the emergency room.  X-rays show that one bone is broken and the other is fractured (not broken all the way through.  This means that we spend Tuesday waiting to hear from the orthopedic surgeon in Topeka to find out if we need to take her down there and get her arm set and put in a cast.  They sent John and Laura home with some pain medicine which is working pretty good right now.  Right now TV restrictions have gone out the window and she is on a steady diet of Dora and Diego.  So hugs and prayers that Laura will feel better soon.

Update on Laura

We have a cast, no surgery, and she's up to no good again.  Hip Hip Hooray!

Baptism for Karla

Karla has achieved that next and arguably most important milestone in her life. She was baptised last night.

We had a Saturday night baptism because our priest looks after 2 parishes and after 8:30 mass at Sacred Heart he has to hurry over to St. Benedict for 10:00 mass. So either we schedule for after Saturday night mass or Sunday afternoon. We could also have opted for during church but that still creates logistical problems for Father.

Aren't the kids paying close attention :-)

By the way, 'tis the season for sacraments, Lent starts next week. What are you giving up this year? If you haven't been for a while time to brush up on those sins. There is a big push to get more people to confession this year!

If I have a blog...

It's time to start blogging more. I have come to this conclusion numerous times but each time have held back. Why? Because I'm convinced that no one actually wants to hear about my day when it revolves exclusively about babies and children. So I would talk about laundry and diapers and why I think that my children only hear 1 in 10 words that an adult speaks to them but they can hear something mean their sister whisper behind a closed door, clear across the house while said victim is listening to music turned up way too loud on their headphones.

So now I'm going to blog about this stuff. 'Cause this is the stuff that answers the question "What have you been up to today?"

Yep. This is what I'm doing.

Happy First Week Birthday Karla!

John is holding Karla the day she was born and Malissa is holding Karla today.

Today Karla celebrates her first week. It was quite a surprise to meet her so early. Her original due date was February 8th. Her c-section was scheduled for today, January 28th. And she was actually born on January 21st. This makes her 2 1/2 weeks early but our theory is that she was simply trying to avoid everybody else's birthdays. She managed to land on the one day that no one else has claimed. Cute bit of manuevering Karla.

Now for the other list of statistics... she was born at 10:48 in the morning, weighed 6 lbs. 15 oz. and was 19 inches long.

She also seems to have made this surprise amazingly convenient for everyone. I was able to send Megan and Malissa off to school none the wiser. Also John's sister was back from the bus route by the time we were ready to go so Laura had a place to go as well. Our luck held at the hospital as well. It turns out that my surgeon happened to already be at the hospital so we didn't have to wait for him to drive over. Luckily mom and dad were also back from their vacation in Arizona the day before so they drove up on Saturday.

Our little bundle of joy is calling so off I go. It's nice to get back to blogging.