First of all, tonight’s posting is sponsored by Guardian Generators.  We’re headed into our third hour running on the generator. It just paid for itself.

Was your weather really bizarre today?  The kids spent about an hour on the trampoline after lunch today.  They started complaining that they wanted to take off their coats becasue they were too hot.  Three hours later, it started to hail; the temperature dropped 30 degrees, freezing rain, terribly windy, snow and it’s 7 degrees.  Yes, that’s seven.  brrrrrr 

Anyway, I’m nice and toasty with all the lights on, running water, working sump pump.  WooHoo!

Jake came walking down the hall like this a few weeks ago….he gets that from Ed’s side of the family…

is not like the others?

Abby is 2 months old already!

This week’s history lesson was about the westward expansion of the United States and the Oregon Trail. I remembered playing the computer game “Oregon Trail” way back on a Commodore 64 (Yikes, I’m old!) Before, that, we used big rocks and a chisel. Anyway, internet being the wonderful thing that it is, I hopped on and downloaded the game. (Which, in and of itself, is very cool, that I can do this while living out in the sticks.) Olivia and Madeline are in love with this game – it’s so very interesting to watch them. This is their first game of this kind, and to watch the game play and logic that is involved is amazing. But, what really gets me about their playing, is the food issue. We played together the first time, and Olivia & I realized that we needed to go hunting or starve and lose the game. She LOVED the hunting! She would shoot anything that came near. Then Madeline would get upset if Olivia shot a rabbit, and so Olivia would avoid those. But anything else was fair game. She got frustrated when she ran out of bullets; and was undecided when offered a trade of food for her gun. She did not want to give up her gun. It was so funny to watch this, since she’s never been interested or talked about guns or hunting. But, the funniest part was listening to my sweet animal-loving-vegetarians laughing and yelling that they “needed meat! Let’s go hunting! Shoot that! Hurry up, you need to reload! Cock your gun!” Ironically, every time Olivia has played, she’s died of accidental gunshot wounds.

We have this phenomenon in our house where no one can take off clothing and have it be either fully right-side-in or fully right-side-out. One side of the garment, whether shirt or pants, is always the wrong way. You would think that this would make it easier to turn it the right way since half of it is already right-side-out. That would be the case if I was someone who actually cared if the laundry gets put away inside-out. I am not one of these people. I leave that up to the particular garment wearer. I cannot, however, allow myself to put away laundry that is neither right-side-in or right-side-out. That I cannot bring myself to do.

Last night around 3 am Jake came wandering into our bedroom ranting. For some reason he has a habit of complaining about things to himself, out loud, in this intense tone of voice that can be both annoying and funny at the same time. At 3 am it’s just annoying.

He came over to my side of the bed and said “Mommy, Ace won’t look at me.”

Huh?
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Infantreflux.org

This seems to be a good resource and community for parents of infants with reflux.

Abigail will be 5 weeks old Thursday. The first week was pretty rough with all the adjustments, but by the second week I was convinced we had the coolest baby in the world. She was so calm, laid back and sleeping so much that I didn’t know what to do with all the free time. The only issue we really had was that she seemed to have reflux (like Jacob did) so the pediatrician had prescribed Zantac and it seemed to be working like a charm.

Then we entered her third week of life.

All hell broke loose.
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