My Ebenezer

We are taking our first trip as a family of five. Drivining for about 2 1/2 hours to visit with friends and pay our respects to a wonderful man who touched my heart throughout my childhood. He was a father figure and I can remember him picking me up to be his “helper” at a church Day CAmp when I was too young to be a counselor and too old to be a camper. He was the kindest man I’ve ever known.

I can see him, with his rosy red cheeks and big smile, sitting at the feet of Jesus and hanging on every word.

I’m looking forward to seeing a lot of people I haven’t seen in a long time - though I wish it were under different circumstances.

And I have to tell you, traveling with a family of five is quite an adventure. First off, who REALLY wants FIVE extra people sleeping in their house? Especially when 3 of those 5 are under the age of 5. So finding a place to stay if you don’t want to get a hotel room is challenging. Luckily, I have a great friend who still has young children who is taking us in for the night. Speedy will get to spend the night with my sister and his favorite cousin - which he is VERY excited about. I think he is most excited to get them all to himself.

It’s going to be a long ride - it already is. We’ve been driving for an hour and although Speedy and Princess are watching the DVD player, Speedy feels it necessary to act as commentator for us since we can’t see the screen. It’s not annoying at all. Really.

Sigh.

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Last night I was in the den and daddyo was in the kitchen - the rooms are right next to each other. As I was picking up a bit I was suddenly overcome with a smell so horrid I thought surely we were under some kind of alien attack. As I was gasping for air, I noticed daddyo smiling from ear to ear - that smile that could only mean one thing. Although I was dying, he was feeling much better.

We have all experienced this - especially those of you who are married to rednecks. But let me tell you, I have never in my life known a fart to hang around as long as this one did. I was in the other room for 10 minutes (trying to catch my breath) and when I walked back through the den, it STILL stunk. WHAT? It was truly amazing and disguisting all at the same time.

Later, after he was in bed, he farted again and the smell traveled from the bedroom to the hallway and into the den. There was no safe place in our house; no escape. It just blew me away (literally) that a fart could have so much hang time.

Impressive.

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I always love it when Princess spontaneously tells me she loves me. When she says, “I uv you. Awwww, I us you so much so much.”

It makes me feel like a good mommy.

and if she occasionally tells bugs and birds she loves them, too, well, I don’t mind. Because she is very fond of these things. It doesn’t take away what it means when she tells me she loves me.

But there is a line.

We just flushed her poop down the potty, the whole time she is waving and saying, “I uv you, poopy. awwww. I uv you. Poopy so sweet. Bye Bye. I uv you, poopy.”

She loves mommy and she loves poopy.

Hmmm. Not sure what to make of that.

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Speedy has decided that Isaac really does not belong with our family. He has recently expressed his disdain with us leaving him here for one night while we went to pick Isaac up.

I guess the newness of it all has worn off, right? LOL

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A few of you have asked whether or not we have to drive to every visit (2 1/2 hours) even when bparents do not show up. There has only been the opportunity for two visits so far, we drove to the first one and they did not show up. The second was cancelled because they failed to comply with some requirements. So we’ve only been there once when it was truly unnecessary.

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it has been more than a month since bparents have seen Isaac. I think that is really, really sad.

He is smiling a lot more now and loves his little play mat with toys dangling above his head.

I thank God for him every day.

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We have created a little monster! Princess just loves to stick her finger out and tell you what’s what. She wears her dress up shoes constantly and simply must have her sunglasses on at the same too.

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Well, I guess we spend a little too much time watching tv and when we need Speedy to get dressed or whatever, we’ll pause the tv for him. Sometimes he’ll say things like, “pause! I need to go pee!”

Just a few minutes ago, as he and Daddyo were working on a model car, he said, “oooh! I have to go poo…. wait! wait! Pause please!”

LOL

In other news, Isaac smiled a real smile for the first time the day he turned 4 weeks old. Two nights ago, he slept for SIX hours straight at night. Woo Hoo. He is now just 5 weeks old.

I’m going to write a sleep post later because those of you who know me know that I am the sleep nazi. I believe it is soooo important for babies and kids and I believe most kids don’t get nearly the sleep they need. In fact, I attribute the fact that I’ve never had a problem with tantrums or too much whining to the fact that my kids get good, quality sleep.

Now, just because I said that out loud, I’m sure Princess will start throwing major tantrums.

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So not too much is going on with us lately. We have only been caring for an infant, redecorating two rooms, transitioning toddler to “big girl” room…..since we haven’t had much going on, we thought we’d throw in a little potty training, too.

Actually, Princedd has decided it is time. She peed on the potty four times yesterday and told me this morning she needed to go. It has totally been hee thing, I just put the potty in front of the tv and she decided to run around naked and pee.

FABULOUS!

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Why am I awake at 1am? I just fed Isaac and did the dishes - we have to run the washer every night now so we don’t run out of bottles! But I should be asleep. Or at least going to sleep. It’s hard to ignore the quiet, even when I know I will pay for it tomorrow. Things are still going well, though we are counting the days until we can start trying to “sleep train” little Isaac. It worked perfectly with Princess and she was sleeping through the night at 6 weeks but I’m afraid it may not go as smoothly this time. Guess we’ll see.

I have to say that while I still think he is the most adorable baby, I definitely do not think its cute when Isaac poops when I’m changing his diaper. It’s like I crank it out of him every time I pull his legs back to put a new diaper underneath him. Today: 3 diapers! FIVE minutes! What is that about?

We still haven’t decided on a middle name for Isaac and Speedy and Princess still call him “baby Isaac”. So maybe his first name will just be baby. That’s mean, isn’t it?

I have absolutely nothing worthwhile to say tonight.

:D :D

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