Kid Sayings

I have new pictures of Daisy-girl to post, but I'm having trouble doing so with our new video camera.  So I thought I'd post some funny sayings the other kids have said lately before forget about them.

 Cassie woke up with a runny nose, and the mess had spread a little beyond her upper lip.  I said, "You have a runny nose, don't you?"
"No. I have a runny face."

Cassie has recently decided she likes to swim in the pool with the big kids, now that she has a new swimming suit. She told me yesterday she was making "bottom steps." She would get wet in the pool, then climb out and sit on the porch, making, not footsteps, but bottom steps. Such fun for a three year old.

Micah was outside shooting the BBgun. Lissy ran in and announced that he tried to shoot a red bird, and she saw a red feather drop to the ground. I wasn't surprised, as he's a sharp-shooter, but I went out and told him not to shoot birds. "Well what can I shoot? You won't let me shoot squirrels or birds. All that's left to shoot are stinkbugs." At least he'd know when he hit one.

Cassie was eating icecream yesterday and requested I dip her "chocolate and bedelia"
She told me one day, "There is a holy ghost in the back bedroom." She had gotten this information from a big sister, so it must be true, although I imagine they had just told her it was a ghost. The holy part was her own interpretation.  Another day Cassie said, "Did you know there is a holy ghost in Heaven?" I think she imagines it is haunted.


And what can sleep deprivation do to a mom? Matt is on a school trip where they are doing biology related research stuff. He texted me today :"@ MS river today." Now growing up I was proud of the fact that I lived in the state that shared a name with such a major waterway in our country. But this morning when I read his text, my first thought was, "Which river in MS? The Chicasawhay? The Leaf?" And then this is what truly went through my mind, "Because there isn't a river called the Mississippi River." Several moments later I realized what I'd thought and was astounded at my stupidity.There went another brain cell. In my defense, maybe (maybe?) it's because I don't think of it as abbreviated. And Daisy has been robbing me of a full night's sleep for 5 weeks now.
Pictures coming soon of the little braincell killer, I hope.
Rose

Pictures

The quality didn't seem to be too great with these pictures, but if you click on them, you can see them larger and much clearer.

Daisy Madelyn
Born 4-11-12
7 lbs. 9 1/2 oz.
6:39 p.m.

Here are some pictures for the world to see. This has taken about a day and a half to get posted, so captions will be brief.

I decided on Tuesday the 10th I'd better get some baby-belly pictures. I had suspected my water was leaking earlier that morning, and while I was waddling around the yard setting up the tri-pod for these pictures, I was sure my water had broken. I thought we'd be seeing our baby withing a few hours since normally hard contractions follow pretty soon after my water breaks.  I didn't know then that it would be another 30 hours before we'd see her. But now she's here, we're home and everybody loves her. :)

And here are some of the first pictures  we took:

 Meeting the siblings:

 Going home (hooray!)

Lissy's new haircut

Painting one day while the older kids went with Aunt Jessica to an art shop and painted pictures for fun.

Easter morning:

 ("Smile Micah." "I can't smile." And so we have a serious picture of Micah.)

"And stay by my cradle..." Cassie loves to watch her baby sister.

Daisy Madelyn is here!

Daisy Madelyn made it here Wednesday at 6:39 pm, weighing 7 lbs. 9 1/2 oz. Most people who read this are friends with me on facebook and have seen the pictures Matt has tagged me in. We have a new camera and I haven't gotten it to where I can upload pictures yet, so for now we've had to settle with the ones he took on his phone. But...in a few days I hope to update here and show how beautiful our new little flower girl is. :)

It was the fastest labor I've had yet,  once contractions started, but the most intense as it took over an hour of pushing to get her here. We're thankful our sweetie is here. All the kids love her and if one gets a turn to hold her, the other three are asking when their turn is. Matt and I have almost stopped calling her Cassie.  Learning who are newest little one is always takes us a few days. :)

More Gospel According to Micah...

I overheard Micah and Cassie discussing some theology:
"God tells Jesus what to do. He made us with His power. He got dirt and just made us."

This and That

We have a favorite salve in the house called Bye-Bye Bruises (or "Boozes" as Cassie says it). I'm not sure how effective it is, physically anyway.  Psychologically it works wonders. Apply the green goo, slap on a band-aid and the injury begins feeling better right away.

The other day Cassie apparently hit Micah on the head with  a toy. He was telling me about it  and she was talking over him loudly trying to avoid punishment, saying, "I said I was sowwy." 

"Saying 'sorry' doesn't make it better. Nothing makes it better," was his offended reply.

"Salve will make it better. Bye-Bye Boozes will!"

He wasn't convinced. But I thought it was adorable. 

Countdown to the due date is 3 weeks. Not like I'm counting. Every day. Sometimes by the hour. Hoping every Braxton Hicks is actually a real contraction. Dreaming at night about my water breaking. Repeatedly dreaming about labor and delivery and finally seeing our baby girl.

Cassie came past where I have the playpen set up for baby girl to sleep in upstairs and spied one of her teddy bears. She got all teary and almost frantic, saying, "My bear! It's in the bed and the baby will chew on it!" Matt had to remind her that since there was no baby in the bed, or even one born yet, it really was okay. But the bear is no longer in the playpen.

The kids and I have been reading "The Night of the Moonjellies"  for their schoolwork. Moonjellies, we have all learned, are glow-in-the-dark jellyfish that light up the water at night. I read a suggestion to go along with learning about jellyfish: Put glowstick  bracelets in their baths. I wrapped the bracelets in plastic wrap and tied a knot so they sort of had a "tail" (and those weird glowing chemicals weren't getting in their bathwater.) Then we turned out the light and they bathed with moonjellies. It was really cool and they loved it. I think this might be a repeat performance, but next time with little zip-lock sandwich bags to make it easier.

The homeschool group had a talent show today: The flyer said:  "Can your kids sing? Play guitar? Recite poems, numbers, ABC's? Jump over piles of high stuff? Do drama? Build origami?" 

Since our kids don't really do any of the typical things you find at a talent show, I was glad to see the "jump over piles of high stuff" category. Micah ended up doing jump-rope, Camie recited Matthew 5:14, Felicity drew a picture, and Cassie hopped like a bunny, complete with bunny-ear headband. One girl juggled two handkerchiefs, a boy built something from a lego kit in 4 minutes, some teens played guitar and sang an original song, one young boy did push-ups. It was so much fun seeing these little kids get up in front of the crowd of about 40 kids and mom, introduce themselves and show off their talent. And everyone who participated got a prize: candy. 

New, Original Song by Cassie....

The Singer, before her "shortcut" (haircut)

"God does get in the water. Ewww know (You know). Ewww know. He wikes berries.
Ewww know. (reapeat x4).
Eww nebber know."

Like mother like kids

While in the bathroom tonight I noticed a sticker on the wall. Even though it was in the shape of a Bible, I still objected to having it on our log wall. I started to call the kids back there and ask who'd been decorating our wall   but decided to just overlook it and throw it away myself. As I peeled it off I ate a little bit of crow. Underneath was "Rosemary" written in ink by yours-truly when I was a little girl of about 7 or 8.  Ahem. Hard to get onto my own kids when they were covering up my own, more permanent, graffiti.