Navy is my little note writer.
They are usually little love notes to different members of the family, and are the cutest things in the world.
But every once in a while, she uses them for narcing.
Today, Dash got sold out.
But I have to be honest — I don’t have eyes everywhere, and if one of my kids is being lazy…I welcome the narc!
And since our phrase about laziness is, “Lazy kids are working kids”, that poor little Dash got a few more jobs to put his elbow grease into!
Navy….mission accomplished.
My kids got a case of plain white paper for Christmas from Nonnie.
Partially because she is sick of them swiping her paper, and partially because between paper airplanes and cutting out snowflakes, they go through a ridiculous amount of paper!
I think they clocked about two full hours today.
Not bad for an afternoon of cheap fun!
This is our attempt at “2 - 0 - 1 - 6″.
At least Scout got his number correct and where we can see it!
I have blogged now, for almost 9 years straight. To be honest, it is a big huge pain a lot of the time. Mostly because, I either have to get up really early in the morning to write — or stay up into the night when I am so exhausted, I can barely see straight. Because if I happen to sneak away from my kids during the day, like hunting dogs to their kill, my kids find me…crawl into my lap, and insist on watching family videos. Hence, the blogging goes down the drain.
There have been times when I think it is a good time to call it a day on the blog, but my nature of keeping things fair for my kids, will not allow me to do that. I figure that having every single story of Scout and Navy’s lives written down is such a cool thing. And what a rip it would be to Dash and Pippi to not have their stories. So I am guessing that I will continue to write….for a very long time!
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Today’s real date (although I am backdating this post) is April 23, 2016.
As of now, I don’t have one thing written down on this blog.
But I have kept up with pictures, and will try my hardest to recreate our last four months, with our life’s happenings, as if I was writing the night it happened.
My point being, the posts may be short, and lacking details — but I’ll give it my best shot.
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I am behind on the blog, because life is busy. But there is another reason….that theoretically started the day the Calendar changed to 2016. I didn’t find out about it until later this month, but I will tell the story from now.
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The beginning of January was fun — Micah and I went ice fishing, we had just rung in the new year, and everything was rolling along perfectly. Skylar had the marathon flu, and about the end of January, I started to get the same thing. When I say marathon, I mean marathon! I felt sick for what seemed like weeks — just the way Skylar was. My mom was visiting Tristen, but kept getting reports about how I was so unlike myself, and started threatening me to get to a doctor. Yeah right I needed a doctor! About 3 weeks into me feeling terrible, Micah told me he was coming down with the same thing. Well, in honor of DraMicah getting well fast, I went to find out what the heck we all had.
Thank goodness for my beloved Dr. Theiny who took a blood panel and called me the next morning.
After we spoke, I FaceTimed Micah, and said, “Well Babe, you definitely don’t have what I have.”
He disagreed with me for a few seconds, and then paused and said, “WHAT?! You’re pregnant?!”
I confirmed, and then the conversation went like this, “How are we that couple?” and “How could we be so irresponsible?”
Needless to say, we weren’t planning on a #5.
It took many days of consistent shock to absorb the information we had received. We had to try so hard to get our first four babies — with five times the amount of a normal dose of Clomid for 4-6 months each time! Even Dr. Thein agreed with my statement, “I thought it was impossible for me to get pregnant on my own!” He said, “Lindsey, I have never known you to ovulate.”
But here we are.
Without a baby crib, infant carrier, baby jumper, etc.
Here we are….preparing for our baby who must really want to be here with us.
I’ll admit that I am still somewhat in shock — but I am having more and more moments of peace and excitement.
My kids are ridiculously happy about the news — although the boys want a boy, and the girls want a girl.
And I am sure that as life unfolds, it will become clearer and clearer that this is our unexpected but perfect surprise.
Did I mention I write this now, because our little surprise was a byproduct of ringing in 2016?!!!
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Now on to blogging….
Bella and Jon were here to ring in the New Year with us this year!
It was a night at Macaroni Grill for dinner, then a New York countdown followed by celebrating in the street….and then…
we hit up the Marriott for an evening of swimming!
2015 is out.
2016 is in!
I spent the afternoon on Tristen’s baby shower invites.
With how cute they turned out, I will shamelessly pat myself on the back!
But can you blame me?
Here are two older cousins, teaching one younger cousin what they know best….
puckered lips and Snapchat!
EMBARRASSING!
For church today, we put Pippi in my old dress.
She was so stinking cute in it, that I had to snap a picture.
That picture was almost impossible to get.
Because this girl is a mile a minute!
But pure entertainment to watch!
Thank goodness she has siblings that adore her every move!
Nathan is in town, so Scout was able to get some piano tips from the piano master!
It was cute to see Scout digesting the things Nathan said, and even cuter to see Scout showing off for him.
Nathan was genuinely surprised at how accomplished Scout is, for having taken piano for such a short amount of time.
I’ll admit that we all think Scout has the knack for piano — which is kind of exciting.
The best day of the year has come and gone.
And this year, my pictures are limited because only one in every ten weren’t too blurry.
I guess I should have been asking for a new lens for Christmas!
The morning started out with stuffed stocking from the kindest elf that ever did live!
And then chaos and pure happiness followed for the rest of the day!
Pippi got a swirly, that she absolutely loves and has already mastered!
Dash was so fun this year, and really loved this carrot nose out of his stocking!
Navy got a framed picture of one of her original pieces of art!
And Scout got all things having to do with outside — his favorite place to be!
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I say it every year, but Nonnie….you outdid yourself, and really make our Christmases so fun!
Until next year…
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