December 15, 2007
How do I respond to this??
Just now, from Stephen:
"Daddy, are you cheap?"
Daddy: What?!
"Are you cheap? I think it means you work too much. You know, for our food and our house and stuff."
I don't know whether to laugh or cry!
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October 09, 2007
Introducing
7 lbs. 9 oz.
20 inches long
September 24, 2007
The big sibs
And then there were five:
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July 15, 2007
Happy Birthday, Superboy!
Wow, Stephen is 4. He has been asking me since Thursday (Lexie's bday) if he was 4 yet. This morning I could finally tell him he was 4. How has it been 4 years since this:
We love you Superboy!!!!
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July 12, 2007
Happy Birthday, Lexie Lou!
Our Lexie is 2 today. I can't believe it. I remember bringing her home from the hospital so clearly.
We love you, squishalicious!!!
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June 20, 2007
ultrasound pics
We went to the ultrasound for the new baby on Monday morning. Due to scheduling difficulties I am a good 5 weeks later than when we had ultrasounds with the other two munchkins so that made the picture only that much better because he is so much bigger. Yes, I said he. I know we have been telling everybody that we were going to let this one be a surprise, but we couldn't do it. Brad was the one who really wanted the surprise. But the morning of the ultrasound Brad saw some of the pictures of Stephen from the hospital hanging in the hallway and noticed the picture of Stephen in the special pre-selected to go home from the hospital outfit and that started him thinking. How would we do little things like that if we didn't know what this baby was? It was all downhill for him from there. I am not disappointed that it will be a surprise. I have really enjoyed picking our kids' names the day we found out their gender and making everything special just for them before they get here. It felt like we already knew who they were and had bonded with them before we ever even got to the hospital. That is just the way we like it.
Stephen and Lexie went with us to the ultrasound and that actually worked out really well. It made it a little harder on daddy not being able to devote all of his attention to what was on the screen, but hey aren't we just adding one more to juggle? Lexie didn't know what was really going on, though she kept saying 'baby.' Stephen, I think, followed stuff much better. This baby being bigger was easier to see and identify. I think Stephen was able to see the face and arms and things. When the technician told us that it was a boy (something we could clearly see for ourselves!) Stephen was excited. He told us right then and there that he was going to teach this baby to tee-tee standing up. Good for him. Isn't that the job of every big brother everywhere?
We are very excited. I had been feeling like it was a boy all along anyways. She would have had a hard time convincing me that it was a girl. His measurements all averaged out to move up my due date a little bit which makes me very happy. So now we know we are expecting Nathan Isaiah sometime around October the 1st!!!
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June 02, 2007
Childhood Trauma
It's funny what brings back memories. And it's funny what terrifies children in their immature perceptions of things. This morning, we were all in the kitchen after pancakes - I've had an extremely busy week at work and haven't seen the fam much. So this morning I was paying some affectionate attention to my wife - and Lexie was tugging at her while Stephen was calling her in the living room...Adrienne was groaning in the tugging every-which-way. I said, "We ALL NEED YOU, everyone's TUGGING ON YOU and needing EVERYTHING you HAVE, even on the INSIDE!" She flared her nostrils and just looked amusingly annoyed. And my mind summoned up, "Calgon, TAKE ME AWAAAYYY!!!"
And then I remembered how HORRIBLE that commercial was to watch as a child. My mom always had Calgon, and the logo had that lady in the swirling whirlpool that looked like it was sucking her into the vortex of oblivion. The commercials always showed the exhausted wife and mother just cry out that desperate slogan and be whisked away from her offspring and domestic burdens. I remember being 3 or 4 and crying when I'd see it, and then crying more when my mom would buy it at the store because I thought she didn't want us anymore and wanted to go where the commercial lady went when she'd use it. I don't think I ever put it together that she always came back from taking a bath. Just that Calgon needed to be erased from consumer consciousness (or at least Mama's).
Gosh, what revelations parenting brings...
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April 14, 2007
An oasis of goodness...
{sigh} Nothing caps off a looong and crazy April 14 chock full of tax prepping like lots of really well boiled, well spiced mudbugs! And then washing it down with your favorite beer. Essence of kick-back-and-enjoy-the-fruits-of-your-labor-ness....
Nothing...except a li'l inquisitive Bourgeois who was very eager to learn to peel, and even open enough (at 3 years old!!!) to suck da heads. He got the technique down pat!
"Daddy, I drinked it all gone! I like ta drink the crawfish juice out of the crawfish! But I don't like the poo-poo in the meat."
Essence of proud Louisiana fatherhood :-)
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March 07, 2007
It's really not funny
I have again disappeared for over a week. I didn't feel my best, but that is not why. My kids have been sick again. We have had rotavirus. Both of them. We have done rotavirus once before w/ Stephen when he was about Lexie's age now (19 mths). We ended up in the hospital then for severe dehydration. We came pretty close this time too. Stephen seems to have had it worse though it started with Lexie last Monday. First the throwing up, then a few days of lethargy, then the "liquid" or diarrhea. Lexie kinda spread out her symptoms and never seemed quite as sick as Stephen has. He concentrated his symptoms. Last Wednesday he did nothing but throw up. Non-stop just about. Poor kid couldn't keep anything down. Then it kinda calmed down and we had a few days that weren't nearly as bad and then Sunday "liquid" as he called it all day constant. We would ask him if he pooped again and he would say "no, Mommy, it's liquid." He never could make it to the bathroom in time and he would cry "I did it again, Mommy." He seemed to have more abdominal pain than Lexie did too. His tummy also swelled up a good bit and that was pretty scary. The virus can last 6-9 days according to the website I linked above. And of course ours went about 8. Finally we seem to be just about out of it. We are still transitioning from "liquid" to normal poop. Hopefully this will not cause too much of a regression in Stephen. He has been living in pull-ups b/c he could not control his bowels. It is enough for mommy to deal with the pull-ups I don't need underwear full of anything to deal with! So this is where I have been. Shoving pedialyte down my kids’ throats, cleaning up vomit/diarrhea, or washing all the clothes, towels, bedding, etc. that were covered in v/d. It has been a long week. I really think I was operating on autopilot. As the week progressed and I got less and less sleep I began to kinda lose it. But I praise god for His grace that allowed me to make it through the week with minimal throwing up on my part. This pregnancy really has been so much better than the first two. Which is a good thing or I might seriously need some tranquilizers right about now! Anyways, sorry for the gross post. The things you talk about once you are a parent....
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February 19, 2007
An updation
Hey everybody, knock on wood and please God, I think we are finally all well here. Stephen has been fever free since friday. And nobody else has any symtoms. Hallelujah!
In pregger news I do indeed finally feel pregnant. I began throwing up early friday morning. Like 4:00 in the morning. Got up to pee and ended up throwing up. Even woke Brad up. Not fun. Friday was a bad day. A very bad day. I couldn't keep anything down at all on friday.
My in-laws came in town this weekend for a family reunion in Lake Providence. We went with them. I actually traveled ok. (a small miracle considering I get carsick even when not pregnant!) Didn't feel my best, but didn't do much upchucking either. Mrs. Kimi brought me some preggie pop drops and they seem to help some. I was really glad for them because the Ginger Beer that I relied on with Lexie was not appetizing.
I know they say every pregnancy is different. Bad nausea with Stephen, worse nausea with Lexie, ? with this pregnancy. It is hard to not be discouraged and depressed thinking about what the next few weeks could hold. I need to keep up my mental fortitude. Today has actually so far not been a bad day. (good thing considering I have 2 extra kids today) I have only thrown up once. I tried nibbling something in bed before I got up and sucking on one of those preggie drops to get me through the shower (the worst part of my day). And every 20-30 minutes or so as I start to feel queasy I just nibble a little bit of something and I seem to be doing ok. I am terrifed and slightly hopeful that the next few weeks could be like today. That would be better. certainly better than Friday was.
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February 15, 2007
I'm not quite dead yet
This is what has been keeping me busy. Actually, last week it started with Lexie. She and I stayed home from church b/c she was running high fever. That lasted for a few days. Brad even took her to the pediatrician but he said it was just a cold. She was better by that weekend.
During the course of that week I started feeling pretty bad. Really achey, hot/cold chills, and a pretty swollen throat. I went to the doctor last thursday and was diagnosed with acute pharyngitis. (sp?) I have finished my antibiotic and now feel much better, from the sickness that can be healed anyways. The pregger symptoms are beginning to kick in. Pretty tired when I get the chance to sit down. Can sleep as soon as I close my eyes. And the nausea is only just beginning. Whoo-hoo.
And now Stephen has the flu. We marveled that he seemed ok all last week, other than some sniffles and a cough. He threw up twice some time in the night Saturday night. So we kept him home from church to watch him but wondered if it was just a fluke. Monday morning he started acting like he didn't feel good and by the time he woke up from his nap that afternoon was running 103 temps. He has rotated from chair to couch but how he looks in the picture has been him for the last few days. Pretty much just laying there and moaning. Watching lots of movies. Trying to stay hydrated. I took him to the doctor yesterday morning and it's the flu. Still 103 temps yesterday afternoon and evening. No fever this morning. But he still doesn't feel good. So that makes him fussy and cranky. The fever sedates him. Without the fever he just feels crappy and there is not a lot I can do for him. And the fever could easily be back this afternoon.
We are on day #4 of this and this thing could last 7-10. It could also quite easily be caught by Brad, Lexie and myself. (they really don't like pregger peoples to get the flu) Oh, yeah, and tuesday morning I woke to the sound of crying, choking and vomiting. It wasn't Stephen. It was Lexie. She was supposed to be all better. What's with the throwing up. It was so sad. She isn't old enough to understand. She was fighting it and trying to swallow and cry. It was so pitiful. It was also all her already nauseated mommy could do to just whisk her straight to the bathtub. Washing her hair twice still didn't quite eradicate the smell for her super smelling pregnant mommy. I am not sure how I got her bed stripped but I did. Even the bumper pads. Anyways, her bed is all clean again. And she has no other symptoms. She seems fine. But the pediatrician said her throwing up could mean she is/will come down with what Stephen has.
To sum up- this is why I have disappeared from the world of the living for the last almost 2 weeks. Lots of blankets, lots of soup, lots of crackers, lots of Sprite, lots of Tylenol/Ibuprofin/Dimetapp, lots of library movies and lots of Lysol. (If I weren't so tired I would be beginning to go crazy!)
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January 31, 2007
news
Ok, well I didn't take that many, but 2 say Bourgeois baby #3 is on the way and will be arriving in early October.
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August 18, 2006
What to do?
My beautiful wife of 4 years and 1 day is leaving me overnight tonight to have a "Girls' Night." She and Mizriz Ducktoe, a.k.a. "Ashwee" will be taking the blooming young ladies of JKPC out to eat, shopping, sleepover-ing, advice-in-growing-pains-giving, and whatever other mysteries of femininity gals do when together.
So I have my itty-bitties tonight. And, in the words of Stephen-the-Peanut, "I'm gonna do it all by myself." Mister Ducktoe a.k.a. "Misser Ed" will be taking his Dolls to see their Paw-Paw Cotee - so no grillin'/commiserating being wifeless.
What to do? The Offspring keep us constantly moving, but I want a fun Daddy-IttyBitty night...Stephen's rapidly shedding his itty-bittiness - they grow so fast! I'm sure there will be some theatrics - I make a good snake/dragon/dinosaur...fill-in-the-evil-reptile-to-be-slain blank. I'm also a pretty good jungle-gym...and now that Lexie's walking exclusively, she can join in the fun!
I wish we had the Wizard of Oz...maybe we'll rent it. I remember that one a lot from being three.
And after they go night-night, I have some work I can do, some new good books I can read, or some sociopolitical flicks to choose from that Rick lent me which stand to be good - or at least thought provoking...so that while Adrienne's mentoring young hearts through toenail painting and shopping, I can have more to stew over about my plot to save the world through more awareness of its brokenness...oh me of little faith, right?
And do blueberry pancakes and sausage sound good for breakfast? Maybe French Toast? Crêpes, maybe? I don't know if, being as itty as they are bitty, that they'll go for the crêpes.
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July 12, 2006
Happy Birthday!
Happy 1st Birthday, Lexie Lou!
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April 27, 2006
Deceptive trickery or clever parenting?
Since beginning my healthy lifestyle and natural foods kick, I've researched ways to get a healthy sweet-tooth fix. I'm a chocoholic and have overindulged in refined sugar, but now I've pretty successfully modified my tastes to prefer unprocessed sweet stuff - i.e. if I need any "sugar," I'd prefer to use as raw a form as possible of evaporated cane juice or honey...anyway, I'm chasing rabbits...
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April 21, 2006
It was a great weekend
Updates coming soon. Right now the laundry, oh the laundry, and the cleaning, and the ...
(for anyone wondering where Lexie was during this Kodak family moment.)
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March 06, 2006
King of the King Cakes
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