It Ain't Easy Being Greene: Lost camera cord = no blogging

Monday, April 2, 2012

Lost camera cord = no blogging

Our cord that connects our camera to our computer has been missing for a few months now. It's a real bummer. I am sure I know where I put it ... so once again, I blame others who live in this household :) We have 4 different ports on our computer for memory cards, but of course our camera's card does not fit any of them.

So I have no blogging motivation, because I have lots of fun pictures that I can't post. Oh, that and I've been sick with something or other since about the end of January. Oh, and I'm also growing a turnip.

At least that's what this week's Baby Center newsletter told me I was growing - a little person who is currently about the size of a turnip. Sounds delicious.

If I hadn't been so sick with colds/flu/food poisoning, it would have been the greatest first trimester ever. Only a few moments of nausea (caused by pregnancy, at least), no real signs of the varicose veins brought on by Koen, no sciatic nerve issues yet, and more energy than expected. In fact, things were going so well that I started to freak out that I was having another miscarriage, so at 8 weeks I went and got an ultrasound, which confirmed a heartbeat. Then at 12 weeks the midwife couldn't find a heartbeat again. Then I got my 9-day flu bout, and started to freak out that we hadn't heard a heartbeat, and I had to take several doses of nighttime flu medicine to sleep, and I was sure I had killed the baby. I called my midwife crying, and she was so sweet and made a house call at 15 weeks just to make me feel better. We heard a heartbeat. The relief was so great.

Oh, yeah. I'm also really excited to anticipate a planned home birth this time. I'm a little apprehensive that it won't be as easy as Koen and I'll be wondering why I am not allowing myself the epidural option, but I'm also really excited to know I won't have to make the mid-labor drive to the hospital. Because that is THE. WORST. And I remain optimistic that it will be as easy or easier than my last :)

The kids are so excited. Koen has come to an understanding that babies grow in mommies' tummies, but he is quite sure that ours is always "sleeping" because he cannot see it. Tessa is sending out hourly prayers that this is a girl. We did the baking soda gender test and the red cabbage test on Saturday, and the results were both definitely girl (we even did a control test using Tessa's pee and the boys' pee - and the boys' turned ruby red while Tessa's and mine stayed blue-purple). Apparently you're supposed to do it before 10 weeks, and now I'm 17, so it's possible that the test simply confirmed that I am a girl. But we shall see, I guess!

Not for a while, though. My midwife wants me to wait until 27 weeks to get my next ultrasound - something about ear canal development being affected by it. I've searched though and can't find any studies talking about that - anyone else know of any? I may have to defy her ... I'm getting very curious myself. Especially after seeing my cute, brand-new niece this week; we definitely need one of those around here! And I admit it: I bought a cute outfit on clearance at Old Navy with big red poppies all over it, and I'd really like to keep it :)

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BetsyApril 9, 2012 at 3:45 PM
I can't believe I missed this post! I love it. I'm so excited for your planned home birth, too! Maybe even more excited than you b/c I won't be the one birthing?? :) I'm sorry you had so many scares, and glad that everything is going well....besides all of the sicknesses. I really hope it's a girl, too!
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K: There's another one fly!
M: Can you smash it?
K: No. I don't wann smash it. Da fly is NICE! 11/6/12

Mom: Koen, are you stinky?
K: No. I mean, (meekly) Yes, sir. 10/12

Koen, as we left the parking lot ahead of the boys one night: "See ya lata ... (quietly) suckas." 8/29/12

Sitting in church, whispering:
Caden: Wow, are they allowed to be this boring?
Dave: Yes (laughing).
C: And speak this long?
D: Yes.
C: It should be a crime against kids! 8/26/12

Davin, after a comment by Daddy: "So, are only grown-ups allowed to say 'stupid'?" Whoops, caught ya. 7/12

Koen said, "I wanna lay on baby" today. Then he pulled up my shirt and laid his head down on my bulging belly ... and now he's sleeping. First co-nap with the new sib! :) 4/13/12

Caden: "Mom, the Star Wars Darth Maul Lightsaber is the greatest thing since holographic sliced bread." 4/13/12

Tessa: I try not to let Davin play with my glass dolls.
Gummy: Why? Are you afraid he'll drop them on you?
Tessa: No, I'm afraid he'll drop them on the FLOOR!
4/10/12

Dave recently patched several dings, holes and other imperfections in our walls. The next morning Koen went on a treasure hunt, finding the white spackled patches and shouting excitedly, "SNOW!!!"

When we went camping, we were out playing and Tessa called out, "Caden, where are you, my brother-from-the-same-mother?"

Davin stubbed his toe and said, "Dad, I hurt my thumb toe."

Davin: "Mommy, this is the hugest orange anyone could ever eat!"
Mom: "That's a grapefruit."
Davin: "Oranges are the great fruit? I don't think so."

Koen asked me for an "apple peach" one morning, meaning he wanted it whole instead of cut up :) Way to communicate, 22-month-old!

Tessa was outside with Dad on a chilly morning. She was getting cold and said, "Dad, I think I'm turning into a big Tessacle!" lol

Mom: "Koko, do you need a diaper change?"
Caden: "What about me?" (Granted, he had just asked me for something, but the timing was great.)

Caden: (looking at the map)"Dad, is there such place as Zealand?" Because where does the "New" come from if there is no original?

Mom pours shampoo on Tessa's head. "OK Tessa, rub it in." (High, whiny voice) "'Ha ha, I have shampoo and you don't.' You mean that kind of rubbing in?"

Davin: "I'm leaving da rest of my celery on da floor so da ants can eat it."
Tessa: "Or the mice."
Thanks a million, kids. So helpful.

Dave told Tessa he'd give her a penny if she'd wipe Davin's behind. She said, "Every penny counts!" and did it! They each got 3 pennies for it :) Later Davin wanted more money and Dave said maybe tomorrow Tessa could wipe him again. He said, "Heh. Nah, dat was kinda weird for me."

I was giving Davin a bath and told him to lay down to get his hair wet. Then he said, "Now should I lay up?"

Davin passed some noisy gas and I said, "Heeeeey, tootie!" He looks at me, shrugs, and says, "Dat's just what it do!"

Tessa tells the baby, "Awww, you're so cute! I just can't exist you!" (means 'resist')

I was lecturing Davin about how he doesn't listen to me until I yell, when he mutters under his breath, "Mama, Jesus don't love you." Hiding a smirk, I asked why he would say that, and he said, "'Cuz, you so cwazy! I don't even know what you sayin!"

Davin was marching around in a circle and said, "Look ma! I following the prophet! Like Jesus say!"

Tessa calls her bare feet her "plain old feet."

I was frustrated one night getting the rowdy kids to focus and put on their pajamas. During his bedtime prayer, Caden included: "Oh, and God, here's a little secret: (whisper) Mom's beautiful when she's angry." He later told me I look beautiful and Dad looks cool when we're angry. What a smart kid - dispell the anger with kindess!

Me: "Tessa, do you want a banana?"
T: "Tessa do you want a banana who? ... bwaaa haa haa"

Caden was watching the end of "NeverEnding Story" where the luck dragon chases down the bullies. He got really excited and said, "Yeah! He's giving them a taste of their own medicine! And not the fruity kind ... the hurtin' kind!"

Caden asks lots of questions that I don't have great answers for: "Why is my Slappy Hand sticky? Why is clay hard?" Tessa has figured out the best response: "Because Jesus made your Slappy Hand sticky. Right Mom?" What do you say to that?

During family prayer one night Caden decided to do a rap version of "Let Us Gather In A Circle." At the end he crosses his arms gangsta style and says, "Respect!" We were laughing, and he was annoyed. He said, "What, I'm just trying to make a catch phrase!"

For some reason, Caden and Aunt Betsy were talking about bats. And Caden mentioned fruit bats (heaven knows why). So Betsy said, "Oh, is that from Anastasia?" Caden said, "No ... no, that's not from any country."

Caden had been calling Mom and Tessa his "step-sisters" all day. Later Tessa said, "I am Caden's ... tip-toe sister!"

Tessa: "Mom, you are Dad's life." (She meant wife ... but I like it her way.)

Tessa was trying to come in while I was in the bathroom, and I said, "Tessa, please go out. Mommy needs her privacy." She said "oh" and closed the door. A few seconds later I hear her say, "I can't find it! Dad, do you know where Mom's privacy is?"

Grandma was telling the grandchildren on her birthday that they were her best present. As we were later driving to her house to give her a gift, Caden insisted that he was her present. Over and over. Then he said, "But I'M HER PRESENT! Wrap me up, baby!"

Tessa was horrified to learn where dogs go to the bathroom and occasionally mutters to herself, "Remember when Jake (friend's dog) go'd poopy on the ground?"

A few years ago we were at the grandparents' house and Grandpa was blessing the food. During his prayer Caden said in a loud whisper, "Grandpa! It's too long! That's too long Grandpa!"

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