The Road Less Traveled
• Sep. 8, 2008 - Heading to the ER
We are heading to the ER with Noah. Honestly, I don't have any "mommy radar" going off with the sense that he is really, really sick or septic. Like I posted, he hasn't been himself since Sat. AM. He stayed unbelievably irritable through yesterday, was up almost all night, and woke back up irritable this morning. He is very pale (think alabaster) with bright red cheeks. He's tachy and his blood pressure is up a bit, and his stomach is upset. We already know he's anemic. Even though he has a deep distrust of his home health nurse, he fell asleep while she was looking at him. I'm willing to believe that this is a sore throat or something, but our local doc said that too many systems are acting up and we need to go to the ER. Home health called Infectious Disease hoping they would see him in office, but they also said to go to the ER. I would LOVE to think they will send him home, but I have a feeling they'll admit him so he can be seen by all of the "ologists." Ugh.
I can't fathom staying home while he is in the hospital, so we have a loose plan for childcare in case he is admitted. I would gladly sleep in a recliner with Mary Faith before I would leave him.
I don't mean to sound insensitive, but I'm supposed to leave for FL on Thursday and am supposed to be helping throw a wedding shower tomorrow . . . . this is bad timing. I wouldn't hesitate for a MINUTE if I sensed that he was septic or really crashing, but I don't think he is seriously ill. I don't want to see him admitted just because it seems like the most convenient thing to do. If he does need to be admitted, I would never stand in the way of it and would cancel anything at all to be with him. I guess I'm saying just pray that if he needs to be in, they'll admit him but that they won't admit him if he can be safely sent home.
We'll have Jeff's cell - 864 337 3725 - if anyone needs/wants to call.
We'll update when we can.
Blessings,
Kate |
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• Monday, September 8, 2008 - Might As Well Laugh!
Posted By diamondsintherough
We live in one of those disposable houses, you know, a manufactured double-wide. These things aren't meant to be lived in for hundreds of years, like those beautiful old eastern brownstones are. If fact, I will be surprised if this one is still standing in another five. It was already eighteen years old when we moved into it, but it was occupied by an older couple who didn't do things like punch holes in the bathtub. (Emily did that. Fell off the edge backwards and smacked her head on the bottom. End of tub. The kid was fine.) We have lived here less than five years, and in that short time our home has sustained a few injuries. We have water stains on the living room ceiling, the result of cleaning out the swamp cooler duct with the garden hose. (That was not our idea. A friend was "helping".) The towel racks in the girls' bathroom have been torn out of the walls three or four times. The shower floor is cracked. That cheap mobile home trim is coming off in several places. The floor vents are loose and bent.
And there is pudding on the kitchen ceiling.  I was handing Emily a bowl of vanilla pudding, and somehow I threw it on the floor. I don't remember exactly what happened, but my blood sugar was really low, and when that happens I tend to do things with jerky motions. Anyway, the bowl flipped over and landed right side up, but the pudding was projected in every direction in big thick blobs! I witnessed almost the entire contents rain down, each blob landing with a SPLAT, quite the unusual phenomenon. The refrigerator and cabinets were totally plastered. The floor had a new finish. And the ceiling. I forgot to check it, because really, I didn't expect pudding could fly that far. Well, when something like that happens, you can either laugh or cry, so after the inital shock (and my temporarily silent children watching to see how Mom is going to react to this disaster), I broke out in a good laugh. The good news is that 1) the kids didn't do it, and 2) it wasn't chocolate (now that would have been a terrible waste, lol!). The bad news is that the mulititude of yellow ceiling blobs was not discovered until we were on our way out the door for church. So, the pudding wasn't tended to until it was dried and stuck for good on that popcorn texture stuff. Sigh. Oh well, like I said, it is a disposable house...
But you know what? I am really thankful for this disposable house. A museum my home is not, and I wouldn't want it to be. Someday my adult daughters and I will be having a spot of tea together, and we five will reminisce with laughter (and probably resulting tears) the time when Emily put a hole in the tub with her hard head, and the time mom threw pudding at the ceiling. Emily will say, "Really?! I don't remember that..." and Alison will say, "Look, Em, right here. See this yellow stain? and see these spots where Mom had to scrape the popcorn off the ceiling?" And I will be really glad I laughed at myself.  |
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• Monday, September 8, 2008 - Roll Over, Egg-toven?
What a blessing that my friends were interested in the eggs we are hatching. It's the second time we've used our incubator, and we learned a lot from our first try. Hopefully, this hatch will go as well or better than the first one. Our first try was a mix of two different species of quail. We hatched the larger, edible Cotournix, or Pharaoh Quail, and the smaller Chinesis, or Chinese Painted Button Quail. Here's a little information on our first hatch a little over two years ago.
The first thing anyone should do is. . .
 read the directions!
Here is what a large percentage of quail eggs will look like. These are the Pharaoh eggs, so they really are almost huge in comparison to the Button eggs. The eggs in this picture take up 5 or 6 squares of the hardware cloth. The Button eggs barely take up 4 squares on the hardware cloth. You wouldn't think it was a big difference, but it is. Pharaoh eggs are easier to hatch, as a general rule. We had more than 50% hatch on our first try. That's a pretty good for not knowing what you are doing . . . and having the eggs travel through the mail to begin with.
 Eggs in the incubator on Day 1 that year.
What you can't see in the above picture is every egg's little pencil markings on opposite sides. There was an X on one side and an O on the other. This helps to know which eggs have been turned and how many times you need to turn them in a day. We write little X's and O's on our magnetic calendar on the fridge this year so we know what we've done. We try to turn them every 3 or 4 hours. If we have a poor hatch this time around it could be due to our Day 1. We actually didn't get to turn them as frequently that day because of a last minute family "event" we needed to attend. We're hoping for the best, though.
So, that's the most you really see of the eggs for a long time. Right now we have the same sort of thing as this next picture going on most of the time.
We're doing a lot of "roll over" exercise right now. We're doing our best to turn the eggs at 8:00, 12:00, 4:00 and 8:00. Sometimes I sneak in an extra turn so they aren't on the same side all night every night.
Does that help? Welcome to our crazy egg world! Pretty timely for Apologia Zoology 1, eh? ;')
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• Sep. 7, 2008 - The tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth
Well, when I blogged yesterday about not staying too long at Jeff's parent's house, I kinda thought I would be able to stay more than 20 minutes. We got there and the dc immediately headed outside to set up a croquet course in the yard. I was sitting on the deck watching them. I glanced away to look at Mary Faith for a second when the yard erupted in screams. Somehow Sarah managed to hit herself very hard in the mouth with a croquet mallet. Her top teeth are still baby teeth. One front tooth was loose and bleeding, and the other one wasn't really loose but was bent back at a strange angle. Her upper gums were gray with a dent running above her teeth. I put ice right on it and gave her some Motrin, but she couldn't stop crying so I called our doctor. He was concerned that she could have broken an adult tooth or her jaw and sent us to get x-rays. Hannah offered to come and help with Mary Faith and we decided that everyone else might as well stay at Jeff's parents' house and enjoy dinner.
Our local express care was packed with people and we were there for hours. The poor little thing was hurting, hungry, and bored out of her mind. We made paper towel hats, kleenex flowers, looked at every picture in the one magazine we could find . . . . . looooong evening. We still don't know much. They did x-rays but couldn't see well enough. The hospital radiologist suggested sending her to the hospital for a different kind of x-ray, but express care was getting ready to close so we would have had to start all over in the emergency room. They agreed that there was nothing life-threatening that would make it dangerous for us to go home. They were able to reach our dentist (who was out of town) and he is going to meet us at his office this afternoon. The big concern is the way the one tooth is bent back - it has been pulled partly out but wasn't loose, and they aren't sure if part of it broke off inside. I have a feeling that Sarah will come home minus a couple of teeth this afternoon. She has a prescription for Tylenol-3 but is really miserable with a badly bruised mouth. (Her mouth was apparently open when she hit it because all of the bruising is inside. Go figure.)
Timothy is also a pitiful case. He was holding Mary Faith at the park yesterday afternoon and she swiped her hand at him, scratching his eye. I was so caught up with Sarah that I didn't realize until last night that he was hurt beyond just a quick owie. He refuses to open his eye and his siblings are leading him around like blind Bartimaeus. We are just hoping against hope that a day of resting his eye will be sufficient and that we won't have to take him to the eye doctor.
Noah hasn't really perked up. He is alternately lethargic and cranky. I caught him on my bed all alone earlier, fussing at no one at all. He was just sitting on the bed kicking his feet and shrieking things like "Stop," "Go, boys!," (as in "go away"), and "Hey, don't!!" It would have been funny if it hadn't been so worrisome.
Needless to say we didn't go to church today! We have a loving and welcoming church family, but it's a safe bet that blind Timothy, drugged Sarah, and psychotic Noah would have been, shall we say, an unpleasant distraction to worship. On the upside, Jeff generously volunteered to go get me a breve. He never volunteers to run to Starbucks so I'm thinking he was feeling a bit stir-crazy. :-)
I was thinking this morning about how I took a cake decorating class right before Matthew (#3) was born. I figured that with 3 children and the hope of more to come, I could save a lot of money by learning to decorate birthday and holiday cakes myself. Now I'm thinking maybe I should have gone to medical school instead! :-)
I'll try to update when we get back from the dentist.
Blessings,
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• Sep. 6, 2008 - A Young Lady
Posted By Jes
This is a poem I wrote about a month ago ENJOY! 
A Young Lady
A poem by: Catherine Leger
A young lady is like a rose she starts green and small.
Then grows into a beautiful creation of God’s.
A young lady is like a butterfly; she is brown and full of spots on the outside.
But on the inside she is as a rainbow.
She will grow from a small child to a young lady in the shortest amount of time.
When she smiles the whole room lights up.
The sound of her laugh is so gorgeous everyone enjoys it as if it were song.
When she speaks God smiles upon her.
She walks with such grace it is as a dance.
Her kiss is hidden.
When her prince comes he will present her with his kiss.
And in return she will present him with her kiss.
And as the story books say,
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• Sep. 6, 2008 - A Journal From the Heart
Posted By Jes
This is A Journal from the Heart a book I started about 6 months ago, hope you like it!
January 1st 2008
Dear Diary,
Just so you know, my name is Peytan Grace Day, I was born on May 16th 1997, I am 11 and I am in 6th grade and one thing I like about my self is my smile. J Anyway, from the date you can see it is New Years Day and I am very exited about the New Year, I have resolved to, read my Bible and pray every day, to write in the diary I got for Christmas every day, (I am writing it now) and also to try harder to be nicer to Ana and Leah (my 6-year-old twin sisters) and to respect Paige’s space. (My 16-year-old sister with whom I share a room with L) I will also write to my cousin (who is in Australia now) every week. As I have already mentioned my older sister and my younger sisters, I will introduce you to the rest of my family; my dad is Mr. William Day my mom is Mrs. Marie Day and my littlest sibling (hopefully a brother) isn’t here yet. I will explain, we did not adopt we wanted to, but we couldn’t afford it so my mom tried to get pregnant, it worked and he/she is on his/her way! He/she is expected May 31st (that would be the best birthday present EVER! Even if it is a little late.J) If it is a boy we could dress him as a football player for the football games, he would go great with Ana and Grace in their cheer costumes! My dad loves football! G2G, CUL8R!
* Peytan Grace Day*
January 2nd 2008
Dear Diary,
Today I wrote a letter to Hannah (remember? The cousin in Australia?) Anyway if you’re wondering Hannah’s parents are missionaries, when she was born I was one month old (we are exactly one month apart, she was born on June 16th! How funny is that?) And whenever we were together we were mistaken for twins, then when we were 5 we told our moms not to say anything about us not being twins (we were pretty bummed out when they didn’t listen) so we are pretty close, and when here parents became missionaries when we were 6 we promised to write each other every day, that didn’t work out too well, so we changed it to a week and I felt REALLY bad when she was consistent and I wasn’t, so I made the resolution to write her every week. Oh! Here comes Paige I’d better hide this, or she will read it, ok it’s blocked by my pillow. Paige is telling me how “un-fair” it is for the baby to have it’s own room, and not her, she says she will talk with mom about the baby sleeping with me and she get her own room I think that we shouldn’t have an office any way, I should have it the “Drama Queen” should have this room the “Twin Twirlers” should share the schoolroom and the baby have the last room. But it’s not up to me. *I love Joe * Grrrrr… she saw me and wrote that, in my Tigger pen, I LOVE Tigger. (Not Joe) CUL8R!
* Peytan Grace Day*
January 3rd 2008
Dear Diary,
It’s 6:30 A.M. and I am about to get dressed. And I can’t decide between my blue dress with the cute little pants from GAP or the little shorts and the adorable Mickey Mouse shirt from Disney World. I think I’ll wear the Mickey Mouse shirt and the shorts. Wait a sec while I get dressed… Done. Tonight Paige is baby-sitting while mom and dad go to a HEA (Home Educators Association) meeting. Did I mention we home school? It’s where your mom (or dad) teaches you at home. And HEA is our home school group, where lots of home schoolers get together and take field trips and do co-ops (a co-op is kinda like school, you go in a class and you are taught extra curricular stuff, and some classes are like science or writing.) My BFF is Catie Leger, she is one of 6 and she is part of HEA too. Her mom is like super mom or something, she home schools 6 kids! Her siblings are, Preston (16 like Paige) Jaden (10) Jake (8) Tony (6 like Ana and Leah) and Lake (3) I am so exited about co-op, it starts in 2 weeks! CUL8R!
* Peytan Grace Day*
January 4th 2008
Dear Diary,
I am preparing to go to church. At church I am going to dance on stage in front of all the 1st-6th graders. No, I’m not nervous I like it, a lot. Then after that I will perform a skit for them, that’s the scary part, I’m not saying I don’t want to do it, I just think it’s really scary, like good scary. Anyway I think I’m ready to go, but that doesn’t mean “Drama Queen” is, she is STILL in the bathroom “getting ready” we have to wake up 2 hours early to be on time, and since I dance and act I have to be there half an hour before service. That means we have to wake up at 5:30, while other families with dancing daughters wakeup at 7:00 and are still early! And Paige still thinks she needs more time! Oh, she’s FINALLY done! I wake up half an hour before her so I can be ready, and not have to wait in line like Mom, Dad, Ana and Leah. Another hour and we should be in the car. CUL8R
* Peytan Grace Day*
January 5th 2008
Dear Diary,
I am so ready for the baby! Mom went in to see how he (that is what I am calling it cuz’ I REALLY want a little brother) is doing, mom said they might see if it’s a boy or not. (Hopefully it is J) I talked to mom about the room situation and the baby will sleep in the schoolroom, the girls (Ana and Grace) will stay where they are, Paige will go to the office and I will stay in my current room, but it will be all mine! We are switching next week, and we are painting/redecorating this week. I will get one full size bed, the twins will get two twin size beds, the baby will get one crib (duh) and the “Drama Queen” will get a queen size bed. (Totally un-fair!) Anyway I am so exited, mom told me what she was going to name it, either Jude Truth, Aaden Truth, Jade Trinity or Alyssa Trinity. I like them all. But I like Jude Truth and Jade Trinity best. And if you were wondering our middle names are, Paige Faith, Peytan Grace, Ana Joy and Leah Hope.
* Peytan Grace Day*
January 6th 2008
Dear Diary,
I had the strangest dream, I dreamed that HEA was going on an airplane (that is weird enough) and I had to watch Lake (Catie’s little sister) and after the flight of listening to music and Lake, Victoria and Gabrielle (two girls in HEA) talk about what they see out the window. I got my stuff and Lake got hers and we went to the airport and Lake’s mom took her and I had to go on another plane to somewhere else. So I went to the elevators and I saw Makalah (a girl in HEA that ignored me when I wanted to be friends) trying to get her stuff, so I went to help her. When I got there she said “Hi Peytan, please help me.” So I helped her and we got all her stuff and went to the elevators. When we got there she saw her friend and called her, but she couldn’t get there in time so she said to open the doors again and her friend had already left. Then she suddenly said, “Corres!” And she flew to where they were unloading all the stuff that was left on the last plane. And she told me that Corres was a white stuffed cat that she got when she was born and she can’t sleep without it. So we looked and we finally found him. And we went to the elevators again. And then I woke up, isn’t that strange? CUL8R!
* Peytan Grace Day*
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• Sep. 6, 2008 - Belated Spring Cleaning
Posted By Jes
Ok, I am not really one to do spring cleaning. I try to keep up through out the year, but there are times things just gotta go and a big overhaul is in order! I LOVE flylady's system during the summer, but during the school year it is too overwhelming. The kids all have chores that rotate monthly, but right now, there are lots of areas that need MY attention!
So today I began to take over my home and give some things a new home. First, I tackled the master closet - got rid of a big ole bag of clothes (mostly his - mine were purged just a few months ago!) Sheesh, the man still has more clothes than I do - how did this happen? There is something terribly wrong in the universe - me thinks I need some shopping money to bring our closet into proper balance  . Not really, I don't even wear all the clothes I kept, though I am sure my friends would appreciate it if I did, they are surely getting tired of my "uniform" of comfy shorts or jeans and a tshirt!!
The quest continued into the bathroom, boy oh boy! We have four cats, one inside only (and he is not too partial to the litter box- even though it is clean  ) and three in and out cats. We have open shelving in the bathroom and the litterbox is on the floor below the shelves. Until today the linens were on the last 2 shelves and occasionally the cats would knock a pillow case or blanket off the shelf and it would land in front of or *shudder* IN their box. NO MORE! I have divided up the sheets and given each bedroom the sheets needed for the beds in that room - which has freed up 2 shelves! Now all of our bathroom items are easy to access and organized neatly. Even the drawers! It feels sooo good!
My next mission is to reorganize our school books, everything is so cluttered and we are only in week 5! We have too many books - is that possible? Let me rephrase, we have too many books to keep all of them available in our 1300sqft house! I am going to let the kids pick 5-6 of their favorites to keep on the open shelves and redo where we keep our school books. Would you like before and after pics? Of course you would, I am off to take my before pics and get to work.... |
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• Sep. 7, 2008 - Washington DC: History and Art
It was another terrific day with stunningly blue skies. We took the George Washington Memorial Parkwayin to Washington DC and found the free parking near the Jefferson Memorial. Yea! We walked all over this beautiful city. I had hoped to have lunch at Lafayette Park, but that was behind the White House and with all the fencing up, and we were starving by the time we got there, we just found a nearby spot to eat. Another place we did not have time to go to was Rock Creek Park and the Chesepeake and Ohio Canal in Georgetown. After the American Revolution, George Washington gained support for a life long dream to improve access on the Potomac to open trade from the Ohio River Valley. This eventually led to the Chesepeake and Ohio Canal. We also ran out of time to see the National Portrait Gallery, and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. We were never able to get tickets for the Capitol and the White House. I had hoped we'd have time to do a few extra things the day we arrived in Arlington, but we had had a few unforeseen adventures that day.
So, what did we see? Plenty! We deliberated for months on what to prioritize, but we got to see the Jefferson Memorial, Washington Monument, World War II Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Korean War Memorial, Vietnam War Memorial, White House, Charters of Freedom, Library of Congress, and the Air and Space Museum. Whew!
The kids got to understand the lay of the city exceptionally well with all of the walking and the picture taking they did. It is extremely easy to get around because of the lay of the city. The Washington Monument is in the center. To the north is the White House, to the South is the Jefferson Memorial, to the West is the Lincoln Memorial and to the East is the US Capitol. There is an e-mail running around saying that George Washington planned the city in the shape of a cross with the major monuments at the points, but that is not true. For one thing, Abraham Lincoln wasn't even born yet! George Washington worked with Pierre L'Enfant on the design, for the location of the Capitol and the White House and that was it. Everything else came much later. So if that e-mail comes around to your inbox, delete it and follow the links above, which are connected to the National Park Service. The information will be far more accurate! ;)
Our first stop was the Jefferson Memorial. It was fun to watch the kids ooh and ahh over everything, Then I told them to take a look at what Jefferson was looking at. They looked and boy were they pleasantly surprised...the White House! When we were at the Lincoln Memorial, they saw that Abraham Lincoln was looking at a reminder of his favorite president, the Washington Monument!
We were thrilled to find the statue of John Paul Jones. He was one of many favorites we had studied him in school last year!
One of our favorite stops was to see the Charters of Freedom in the National Archives building. We had done quite a bit of study of the Magna Charta, Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights last year. Now we got to see these original documents up close! We were allowed to take pictures without flash, but it was so dark they did not come out. (The link above will show pictures of what we saw!) There were beautiful paintings and gorgeous architecture. But the lights had to be kept low in order to protect the documents. The documents are kept in special cases filled with gases that preserve the documents. Then at night the cases sink deep into the ground to protect the documents. When I was at Montpelier the next day, I found a great book on the Bill of Rights. It not only explained the Bill of Rights for kids, but also explained how the Charters of Freedom site was remodeled to house them. In 1952, the documents were pulled out of storage. Deep crease marks were embedded into the parchment. The book explains not only how the documents were written and printed, but also how they were restored. This book also tells about George Mason and the Virginia Declaration of Rights, which was one of the models for the Bill of Rights. This is mentioned a lot in Colonial Williamsburg, but not often elsewhere. I bought a copy of the Virginia Declaration of Rights at the Colonial Williamsburg print shop store to use as a hands on in school.
Another favorite stop was the Library of Congress. There are busts of famous authors on the front of the building and we had fun trying to figure out who they were. The inside was gorgeous! It had been built in 1886 in Italian Renaissance style! We had studied the Renaissance last year and it ws exciting to see the art form in person! (And going to Italy was out of our budget!) I was excited to see this quote which matches my teaching philosophy!
The Library of Congress was established in 1800 as a source of research for Congress. But the British burned it down during the War of 1812. Thomas Jefferson donated his personal collection of books. For the previous 50 years he had been "putting by everything which related to America, and indeed whatever was rare and valuable in every science." This collection can now be seen in the library. We also got to see the Gutenberg Bible, which we had studied about last year!
We finished the day with the Air and Space Museum. The Wright Flyer exhibit was incredible. We got to see the actual plane and there were lots of interactives.
The museum also had a lot of space stuff but we had been to the Johnson Space Center a few years ago, so that seemed like old hat compared to all the new stuff we wanted to see. lol We got see the Spirit of St. Louis, which Charles Lindberg flew over the Atlantic Ocean to Paris. It was unbelievable how that little plane made the flight.
Then my daughter pointed us in the direction of the very first hot air balloon! We had studied about that last spring! Benjamin Franklin saw this balloon make the first ever flight of a balloon in France. Seeing this was probably the biggest thrill in the museum!
After a full day, we drove to the new Air Force Memorial. With 24 years in the USAF, my husband felt this was the perfect ending to our exciting day!
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• Sep. 6, 2008 - Neither fire nor flood
I'm glad so many of you were amused by the story of my little pyromaniacs. There were actually two perpetrators, and all I'm going to say about their identities is that no one who knows my children would have guessed that combo! They didn't succeed in causing any damage - one was taking matches out of a box and handing them to the other child, who kept dropping them out of terror that they would self-combust. The matches (I didn't even know we HAD matches) were soaked and discarded, and the perpetrators were dealt with firmly. I don't believe we'll be dealing with this issue ever again!
We are safe and sound from Hanna's wrath. We live in the western Piedmont area of SC, far away from the coast. It is hot and sunny today at our house! We had a wonderful picnic with some friends today. We couldn't stay very long because Noah started to get really hot in spite of his cooling vest.
Noah has been distinctly "off" today and we don't know why. He is lethargic and withdrawn. I don't know if the anemia is kicked in enough to make him feel bad, or if something else is brewing . . . I just know I really, really don't like how he's looking. He's also got some odd, unexplained bruises all along one fore arm. That troubles me. His nurse is coming on Monday and I'll show her the bruises then. We are supposed to go to Jeff's parent's house to celebrate his dad's birthday this evening. They live just around the corner so if Noah gets hot or doesn't perk up, I'll just bring him home early.
Now that Hands and Hearts is incorporated, we have to have regular board of directors meetings. Since Jeff and I are the only ones on the board :-), the meetings double as dates paid for by the business. We had a "meeting" at my favorite Indian restaurant the other night (yum, yum, yum). Mary Faith woke up just as my meal arrived. She didn't want toys and she didn't want to nurse - she wanted to grab my plate. She's been 100% nursed her whole life, but Thursday she decided she wanted Indian food! I finally tore off a chunk of naan bread (like a really thick tortilla, but 1,000 times yummier) and gave it to her. The little cutie sat on my lap cheerfully gumming her bread the rest of the evening. It was unbelievably cute. Last night she pulled the same "I must have your plate" stunt at dinner so we put her in her bumbo on the table and gave her some crackers which she very passionately devoured. Mary Faith is extremely tiny with a very petite build, and it looks so funny to see her eating like that. She had more crackers at the picnic. Sigh. It's the dawn of a whole new age. All of my babies have enjoyed organic biter biscuits that are very hard and not as messy as crackers. I ordered some online for her and hope they come before the wedding so I can take them to Florida. They are sweetened with a touch of pure maple syrup, and I LOVE the smell of my babies' breath after they gnaw a biscuit - they smell like buttermilk pancakes. :-) Of course, I love the way babies smell anyway!
Keep dear Noah in your prayers. I promise to update ASAP if things go south.
Blessings,
Kate
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• Friday, September 5, 2008 - The Egg Celebration
Hi, I'm Habanero.
I just got these eggs in the mail! They are quail eggs, Button Quail.
When we opened the box, there were twelve eggs, but one of them was cracked. The cracked egg was blueish-green in color. I opened up the egg and it had a yolk. It was kind of interesting. The other eggs are brown, white, peanut butter color, and a whitish-green one with poop on it. (Big sigh from Mom!) They all have dots on them, and that's kind of interesting. I've never seen that many eggs all dottish.
Tomorrow we will put them in the incubator. I will be turning the eggs 3 times each day. Mom drew Xs and Os on the eggs. It was very scary for me. I thought she might crack one. The Xs and Os are for keeping track of the eggs when we turn them. I'll be turning them for 14 days. They will hatch around day 16. The eggs should hatch on or after September 21st.
Mom says we'll keep you posted!
Bye! I'm going to hang out with my mom now.
Friends, I'll try to get you all some pictures of this little temporarily insane "moment" I'll be having. I guess I'll be hanging out with my son now? ;')
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