I don’t often see people I know when I’m out and about during the day. Yesterday I saw people I knew every place I went. I took Kayli to the doctor for a check-up and while there saw someone I knew from the twins club and someone I knew from church. I took the boys to swim class and saw a very old friend that I hadn’t seen in years. Then I went to Costco and saw a friend from the kids school. With the number of people that live in this county (approx. 3 million), I don’t expect to see people I know. Seeing someone I know at random places like that during the day is very rare.
Falyn’s Four Month Check-Up
Falyn had her four month check up yesterday. The appointment got off to a rough start. On the way up to the doctor’s office, Falyn pooped. It was a huge poop and it got all over her clothes and on mine too. I had extra clothes for her, but none for me. I was able to wash it off my clothes in the bathroom, but then had a very wet shirt on. Since I was mostly holding Falyn anyway, you really couldn’t tell. Luckily, it did dry pretty quickly.
Falyn was 14 pounds and 24 1/2 inches long. Those numbers put her at the 50th percentile for both weight and length. She would have been 6-8 ounces heavier if they had weighed her before that huge poop! I get that she is 25-26 inches long when I measure her. For comparasion, here’s the weight and length of all her siblings at this age:
| Talia | 17 lbs 5 oz | 26 ” |
| Kayli (5 mo.) | 15 lbs 10 oz | 25 3/4 ” |
| Aidan | 12 lbs 11 oz | 24 ” |
| Jared | 11 lbs 15 oz | 24 3/4 ” |
| Riley | 11 lbs 14 oz | 24 1/2 ” |
The doctor said she is doing great and I could start her on cereal if I want. I don’t think she is ready, so I plan to wait until I see signs that she is ready to start solids. The doctor said that was fine to wait till she was older.
Falyn got four shots which made her very cranky last night. The nurse did give me some infant tylenol to give her that seemed to help a bit.
Talia also had a check-up today. Her 11 year check-up. She is doing just fine and is in the 50th percentile for height and 60th percentile for weight. Her hearing and vision are all both great. They also checked her blood pressure, which was in the normal range.
Just Missed Seeing the Governor
Yesterday when we were driving to church, we say a bunch of news vans and people standing outside on one of the streets in our neighborhood. We were all wondering what was going on. We were tempted to stop and ask, but didn’t want to be late for church. By the time we returned, the news vans were all gone. We opened the paper this morning and right there on the front page was a story about it. Gov. Schwarzenegger had paid a Father’s Day visit to a family in our neighborhood! The mother of the family is in the military and serving in Iraq. How wonderful that our governor took time out of his Father’s Day to visit this father of three whose wife is serving our country. I only wish that the Governor had gotten there fifteen minutes sooner so we could have gotten a glimpse of him when we drove by.
Challenge Mother /Daughter Day
Today was the annual mother/daughter day for Challenge. This was the first time we have attended. Girls can join the group when they turn 10, so Kayli is still too young for it. I did take Falyn with me since it went from 11:00 – 3:00. Since she is still exclusively nursing, I couldn’t leave her that long. They told me it would be fine to bring her along, even though she wasn’t yet 10. 🙂 I had her in the sling most of the time and she stayed pretty happy. Everyone thought she was so cute.
The day started with the attendies being broken up into three different groups: the angels, the apostles and the martyrs. Each group had to make up a cheer. We were in the apostles group. We made up a cheer to the tune of the We Will Rock You song. Ours was by far the best cheer. Miss Talia, the poet, helped make up the lyrics. We then played some games and had lunch. After lunch, the girls had a speaker and the moms had a speaker. Then the moms had some time alone with their daughters. We finished up by praying the Rosary. Talia led the second decade. I’m so proud of her for not being afraid to do that. Some of the other girls wouldn’t be a leader.
All in all, we had a good time at the event. I was reluctant to go at first since I had to bring Falyn along. But, I’m glad I went and we will certainly go again next year.
Gone Most of the Day
Today was Aidan’s last day of preschool. They had a picnic and puppet show and invited the families to attend with their child. So, I went with all the kids. Aidan and the twins sat up front for the puppet show. I think they all enjoyed it. After the puppet show, they had hot dogs and chips and cookies.
Then this afternoon we went to a girl scout pool party. Since the boys do not swim very well, I bought them floaties for the party. They weren’t too thrilled with the idea, but once they got them on and got in the pool they liked them. I got a new spray sunscreen that I just love. You just spray it on them and that’s it. You don’t have to rub it in, except for the face – you can’t spray it there so you have to spray it in your hands and rub it on their faces. Everyone had a blast at the party and were very tired afterwards. I was exhausted afterwards! I was holding Falyn the entire time and then kept having to take one boy after the other to the bathroom. I barely sat down the entire four hours we were there.
Welcome to my new home!
I’ve spent most of the day setting up my blog on my new domain. I like this wordpress interface much better than the blogger one. I’m not totally done configuring it yet. I still need to go back and categorize all my other posts. And I want to fill out the about page too. Oh well, there’s always tomorrow! The baby just woke up so, I’ll have to stop here.
I created a Slide Show! Check it out!
Bad shower day
My morning shower is a very important part of my day. It is the only time I get to be alone all day. It is my one point of solitude each day that I very much need to keep my sanity. As an introverted leaning person, I need this alone time to decompress and mental get ready for the day. This morning, my shower was anything but peaceful. First Kayli barges into the bathroom to inform me that Talia has opened up a luncheable to take out the candy for her snack at school today. (Talia knows she isn’t suppose to have candy for snack!) I told Kayli to tell Talia to put it back. A few minutes later I hear Aidan in the bathroom telling me that I told him to remind me that he is bringing snack to school on Monday. Yes I did tell him to remind me, but didn’t mean to remind me while I was taking a shower. I tell him to remind Daddy tomorrow when he goes to Costco to pick up the stuff for him to being for snack. A few minutes later, Kayli is back to inform me that she can’t find Talia to tell her not to take the candy, At this point I’m getting rather exasperated and tell her that I am in the shower and can’t go find Talia for her right now and why can’t see go talk to daddy about this? Yes, Dan was awake and dressed and somewhere in the house, but still the kids had to come all the way upstairs through my bedroom and into my shower to talk to me about this “urgent” problems. I could lock the bathroom door. But then I would end up with kids pounding on the door and yelling for me to unlock it. Which would be an even bigger disruption to my attempt at having a peaceful shower.
Neighborhood Ducks
This picture was taken from my next door neighbor’s front yard. The sad thing is that everytime you see the mommy duck, she will have less ducklings. The neighborhood cats get them. They also fall victim to hawks.
Busy Morning!
It’s been a very busy morning around here. I had to take the twins to speech and while they were there I ran over to the community center to register Talia and Kayli for a hip-hop class this summer. After we got back and I nursed Falyn, I decided to try and put her hair in a ponytail. It looked so cute that I had to take some pictures. They are uploading right now. I have about 1/2 a dozen special requests for items in my store that I need to get to and I want to get out a father’s day newsletter too today.