Posts in ‘Events’
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Happy Anniversary!
Today is our third anniversary.
I could not have been happier with these past three years. Tim, you’re the absolute greatest and no matter how many times you try and refute this: I cannot possibly understand why God chose to give me you. You are leagues beyond what I could ever deserve or could have hoped for. I am constantly amazed by your love and heart for God and for our family. I want your passion. I cannot imagine life without you.
Love you hunnie!
Tonight we will leave at 9 PM and drive 6 hours to North Carolina to celebrate :-)
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Fiery the Resilient
Maybe one day Fiery will slam her head into our hard wood floors and cry but it’s not happening right now. Or possibly it’s just an age-thing and once Fiery understands that when she gets hurt it warrants immediate attention from mommy, she’ll start reacting to her falls.
Last night Fiery smashed her head into our head board, gave out one cry, then started growling like a monster and thought it funny.
She frequently (and I think purposely) falls backward when she’s sitting, making a huge thud with the floor, gives out a tiny “ehhhhh!” and then turns over and happily crawls away. The first time she fell off the bed she cried for not even 5 seconds and then started gleefully babbling. Tim and I almost started to worry there was something wrong with her nerves, but they’re fine.A couple nights ago Fiery got to taste her blood for the first time. One of the drawers that holds my art supplies was sticking out and Fiery managed to fall on the corner of it, splitting her lip (picture shown). She started to sob and I picked her up and noticed her mouth was all bloody (talk about a scare) and by the time I was done cleaning the blood off her cry turned into a soft whimper and was gone after I nursed her. It was interesting seeing her pause in the middle of her crying being like “what is this weird taste?”
So maybe this will all change in a couple of months but for now I think it’s adorable. I can just picture her taking her first steps running as a toddler, falling on her face, and getting right back up to do it again.
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It’s been 10 days?!
Since we posted! ::slaps wrist:: how awful!
This could be due to the Visher/Harper stay-cation. Surprisingly a lot of people have never heard of a stay-cation before and don’t know what it is. It’s a vacation only you stay at home (hence stay-cation). But it was more of an actual vacation for us because it wasn’t at our house.
We spent Friday in Philadelphia where I tried raw beef for the first time at Och’s Meat Market at the Reading Terminal Market at Suburban Station. It was wrapped in cheddar and I have to say I am now a fan of raw beef.
Saturday we went to the beach which wasn’t too crowded and Fiery got her first taste of sand (not the biggest fan) and her toes got a first dipping in the Atlantic. I was reminded of why I love the beach and utterly loathe it.
Sunday we went to the Elmwood Zoo which I was happily impressed with. It’s a great size and they have some really cool animals. And Monday we went to the Chinese Buffet followed by some golf.
Yay for vacations! Next year it’s Lord-willingly St. Thomas :-)
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This just became a whole lot easier!
Having a naked baby makes this ECing thing so much easier. She wakes up, I put on her on the potty to go pee, she goes pee, I strip her down (now that I know she won’t have to go for a bit). I then let her hang out on her rug naked with some of her toys and when I “feel” like she might have to go again I place her on her potty, sound her cue, and she goes! And she’s placed back on her rug (or in a high chair, depending on how hungry I am at that point). Soon she gets nursed down for a nap and pees when she wakes up!
Or, like yesterday, she’s lying on the ground and I hear her make a fart that normally is a fart before she has to poop so I quickly scoop her up and plop her on her potty and she immediately goes poop! I’m so proud of her!
Don’t get me wrong: we have plenty of misses and times where she has to be in a diaper (if we’re out) and plenty of laziness on my part but not having to undress her AND take off a diaper makes me so much more willing.
I use the word “feel” because I’ve realized a lot of this is based on intuition. A lot of times I’ll have the thought “she might go poop right now” and then common sense kicks in and says there’s no way I could know that, so I let her be and miss a poop :-( It’s amazing how the mother-baby bond works!
On a side note she’s gotten over her fear of peeing while Tim’s in the room and even peed for him when he put her on the potty Saturday morning (first time for Daddy!).
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I want it to be rich
On Sunday we went to see our friend’s babies get dedicated (three babies all with the same set of grandparents!). The preacher at their church is an older man (80s?) and has been saved for a long time. What hit me so much was not really the message that he gave but how rich his relationship with God was (or is rather).
It pains me how much of that I lack. I know I’m making progress. In fact, I could not be happier with my progress (by God’s grace). I feel constantly stretched and tried and it feels good, even if I don’t respond well to the trying.
I don’t know what a rich relationship with Jesus looks like. I think a key to experiencing that is getting into the Bible more. I have a daily reading plan but I don’t feel like I’m “eating the scroll.” I feel like I need to be meditating on Scripture (a.k.a memorizing, but not mindlessly). If Jesus IS the actual Word than I feel like an idiot for not doing it sooner because how obvious is that?!
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Crazy Poop Story #1
I found an unscathed leaf over an inch long in her poop today. It actually looked more like a weed. Then I remembered the conversation I had with Tim yesterday. He was sitting with Fiery on a blanket on our front lawn while I gardened:
Upon hearing gagging sound I asked, “is she o.k?”
“Yeah, she’s fine. Just ate some grass.”
“Why did you let her eat grass?”
“Because she wanted to.”
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Bad EC Day
Yesterday was fantastic. I caught almost all of her pees and I didn’t have to change her diaper until 4 or 5 PM… after that Tim gets home and well, I get kinda lazy :-) We still only went through 3 diapers- yay!
She didn’t poop all day so I really want to make sure I catch a possible poop because I know it’s going to be big. I just wish she would poop already! I keep hovering around her listening for her cues, waiting, waiting, waiting.
She woke up at 10:30 AM- which is later for her so that’s probably what contributed to a 5 minute nap after a 45 minute struggle, followed by a 25 minute nap hours later- after a 30 minute struggle- and now that it’s 5 o’clock she is finally asleep- no struggle.
So I think this has thrown off her eliminating schedule as I have spent a lot of time watching her amuse herself with her feet on her potty. That or she thinks it’s fun to roll herself off (which is kind of cute).
And since I hate being frustrated with my daughter, because it’s not her fault she doesn’t understand here’s a list of really cute things that she does that makes me smile:
- She MUST sleep with her top arm (if she’s on her side) on top of the covers.
- When she’s super tired in bed she’ll make her legs straight and do a wheel barrow and ram her head into the pillow. It looks funny.
- Has started to scream “ba, ba,” “da, da,” and “ma, ma” when she’s tired.
- She thinks it’s the funniest thing when I sing (and it probably is).
- Just being her.
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Ancestor has a show this Friday! Go if you can.
From March 19, 2009 @ 12:10 pm
So my buddies Joe, Alan, and Trevor (as well as two other guys that I’m less familiar with but otherwise seem sweet, Marigold and Mike) used to be in this band called Prevail. They played sweet meaty technical hardcore. Joe had an ultra-gravely growl of voice, their lyrics were dark, they played rockin’ shows, they brought a light fixture down at the Ark. They were awesome.
Then Joe left the band and Scott joined in for vocals. Scott’s got a much smoother scream and an unreal lung capacity. Marigold and Alan left and I think they have another new guitar player. Anyway, their style has matured a lot and I’m more a fan than ever. Plus they seem to clearly have a heart to see the local scene continue.
Anyway, that’s my introduction for the following:
Here’s Scott’s original post.
Enjoy!
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Fiery Yawns
From October 08, 2008 @ 7:26 pm
Fiery’s first photo set is up on my Flickr page.
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Small Update!
From September 12, 2008 @ 10:15 am
This is a picture of me at 36 weeks (well, almost 37 by this point):
I normally don’t look this big… For some reason I look bigger at night. :-)
We had a bit of a surprise at my last midwife appointment. We found out I’m 80% effaced and 1-2 centimeters dilated!! So I could go right now, or I could stay like this for a few more weeks, hehe.
So we will spend most of this weekend scampering around trying to do all those things that we were going to take our time doing. :-)
