rain. levi's bashed tooth. we're sickly. and photos by abe.

sunday, november 21, 2010.

 the boys playing outside in the rain with anderson.

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 loving stormy weather.

 pics of levi through the window. i'm in the photo too:)

 my camera lens framing levi's eye.

 total cuteness.

 seriously!!! levi's front teeth met with abraham's head last night while they were playing with the neighbor kiddos. abe's forhead has a huge welt, as well. it made me so ill, i had to leave our own shindig and turn in for the night. and, as i write this, weeks later, i can say honestly it was a forethought in my mind for weeks after. i can't hack blood, trama, injury. all i kept thinking is he's gonna bonk it again and it will pop out. but you gotta love carmi's question to my concern. "so what's the worst that can happen? it might fall out early?" exactly, i don't want it to fall out early!!! i have wacky tooth/gum dreams sometimes, so when it does start to happen, hopefully naturally, in a couple years, i'm gonna have to hand it over to pops!

 yikes. it ended up turning more bruise and grey as the days went on!!! so not okay on mama's weak stomach.

 papa collecting limes in the rain. both he and i are feeling a bit under the weather:(

 pictures by abe.

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perfect day ruined.

friday, october 15, 2010.

so i had been looking forward to today all week. i had six stores i was going to hit (some errands, but mostly halloween related)...all kidless! i had the most efficient route all mapped out and lists in my purse. trouble was, i woke up with stiff neck and shoulders, a soar throat, and nose slightly stuffy.  i felt kind of wiped out yesterday, but hadn't done anything through the week to really warrant that feeling. i still went folk dancing, though i'm thinking now i shouldn't have. i briefly contemplated still going out, then cried when i realized i just couldn't. perfect day ruined! oh, and tonight joshua and i were going to go to third friday. their was a bbq at kenny's gallery and i wanted to see the show at perihelion arts. we opted to go tonight rather than first friday because we went to octoberfest instead. i hate my life sometimes! dramatic i now..., but true.

*one positive that resulted from my staying home was that i gained 25G of disk space back on my computer by backing up and deleting photos.

** and a silly picture of junior. this is where we found her. she made a nest in our junk! joshua was kind enough to put them away before he went out for the evening. then he had his parents drop the boys off with him at third friday so i could continue to rest. i popped tons of vitamin c and echinacea. and was thankful for my time off.

He sees each tear that falls and He hears me when i call.

sunday, october 3, 2010.

HE KNOWS MY NAME
by Tommy Walker
 
I have a Maker
He formed my heart
Before even time began
My life was in his hands

I have a Father
He calls me His own
He'll never leave me
No matter where I go

He knows my name
He knows my every thought
He sees each tear that falls
And He hears me when I call

lyrics via: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/t/tommy_walker/

woke up just as emotional today as i was yesterday. we sang this song at church this morning. it's always been one of my favorites, but really rang true this morning, considering all my crazy crying and heavy heart!!! it reassures me that God will pull me through this...he always does:)



after several years of being the only piano player at church, the music ministry decided to give joshua the first weekend of every month off from his piano playing duties. that means we get to go to church as a family. yay! the boys were excited to have papa drive us to church and help drop them off in their class rooms, and drive back home together. we've always had to drive separate because he has to be a church an hour and a half early on the days he plays. this is definitely a blessing! on the way home we took a detour to show levi what a water plant was and joshua had to explain to him how water flows by gravity to the homes below. on our diversion we passed this metal cactus, so joshua made me take a picture of it.

mama's feeling blue. abraham "reading" i know and old lady who swallowed a fly.

saturday, october 2, 2010.

to start, i've been feeling like ALLERGIES have been creeping up on me for the last couple days. woke up this morning with super itchy eyes and just fatigued. our MONEY WOES are gnawing at my heart and i'm feeling the blues coming on. then, joshua comes home from visiting gino this morning and said his CANCER has migrated into his bones! his doctor said he may not see 2011!!! !?!WHAT!?! top it off with a sad story about LEVI AND HIS LEFT ARM that audrey called to relay to me and i just plain lost it. joshua took the boys to a garage sale after he got back from an urban farm tour and i locked myself in my room and JUST BALLED. crying usually makes me feel better and i hadn't cried in ages. i pretty much just cried off and on all day. i know THIS TOO SHALL PASS, but when i'm right in the thick of it it's hard to see a positive future. i'm not embarrassed to blog about this, as i know i'm not alone. this kind of stuff happens to people all the time. you never know what other people are suffering through or when. my hope is to look back at this post in a few months and think, yep, that was just a low point on this roller coaster we call life. i also want to document these feelings/allergies for document sake. i'm thinking there is something about october/fall that has affected me this way a couple years in a row. not sure, i'd have to double check my calendars/meds, but it's weird and i'll see if it happens next year too.

joshua got the camera to take a picture of levi and a contraption he made outside and then for some reason took this pic of me just before he showed me levi's picture. it definitely captures my rough day perfectly.

 levi figured out a way to jack up his gator.

 abraham reading me a book.

 he's really telling me about what he sees on the pages. this is the bible. he's fascinated with facial expressions and asking, for example, "why is he mad?"

***here are some videos of abraham "telling" me all about "I KNOW AN OLD LADY WHO SWALLOWED A FLY." (5 video clips)***

one.

two.

three.

four.

five

*ON A HAPPIER NOTE, joshua went on an URBAN FARM TOUR this morning. he was pretty inspired and purchased tons of seed packets for a fall garden!

 aluminum can art.

 set of canister bells.

 ding dong ideas.

the boys played with play dough while papa was gone.

they were happy because it had been a while.

working hard.

levi's worms.

abraham gave these to me.

 and of course a day wouldn't be complete without a pic of abraham holding one of his beloved chickens:)

mama's still sick, droid x

friday, september 10, 2010.

i'm still feeling SUPER SICKLY and so thankful the boys are at the blocks. i totally PLAYED ON MY PHONE all day. it's  so addicting. i did play with it while lying in bed, so i guess technically i was "RESTING", just not "sleeping" like i had intended.

here are the first pics with my new phone. my fishy screen saver...

...and a not very flattering sickly me, before i headed to the bed to get more comfy.

apparently the camera was set on some wide angle setting. the pictures are super long. i am pretty happy with the quality of the pictures and am excited about all the settings and features!

*in the evening the blocks called and asked if the boys could stay ONE MORE NIGHT. g'pa block had set up a tarp type TENT and the boys wanted to sleep in it. i was more than ok with them staying an extra night considering i felt like crud. joshua and i ended up just watching THE READER.

mama's sickly, but i have my DROID X to cheer me up.

thursday, september 9, 2010.

i had a rough night sleep. nose kept switching from stuffy to runny, then back again. kept waking up with super dry mouth and sore throat...ugh, haven't been sick in so long. long for me being about 2 months. however, that's way better than the every other week with never feeling quite well in between in my life pre vitamins. dancing tonight is definitely out. i don't feel up to it. luckily, audrey still wants to watch the boys!!! even after i told her levi was a little clingy and kept wanting to lay on the sofa yesterday and that when abraham woke up today and would laugh, he sounded croupy, but both were acting totally fine this morning. she even let me bring them over early so i could get to resting sooner. i dropped them off at 4:00.

maaa...called this morning and said she had been tracking the phone i ordered last thursday. she said it showed up as being delivered to the store yesterday at 11:00 am. the store didn't call me, so i called them and sure enough it was in. i was just thinking yesterday that i couldn't believe i still had to wait a whole nother week. it wasn't due in until 9-17! so glad it came in early. so, instead of resting, i ended up playing with my new DROID X for hours!!! i uploaded a bunch of apps and feel i absolutely made the right choice this time. it has a huge screen and since i use my phone more to surf the net than talk, it's perfect!!!

when my htc touch diamond died a few months ago, i really wanted to replace it with the htc incredible. it had just come out and was out of stock everywhere. i really needed a phone pronto. maaa and seester loved their motorola droids and suggested i at least check it out. i did, but took it back right before the one month trial period expired. i didn't find it intuitive the way i did my htc with sense. i loved the apps and navigation, etc, but disliked how it felt in my hand and had no speed dial, etc. anyway, i ended up using my seesters old phone while i waited for the incredible to become available. my seesters phone wasn't holding a charge well, so i started my search into the incredible again. then all i kept reading about was the droid x and droid 2. i fell in love with the droid x when i went in to the verizon store to compare all three phones side by side. so, despite feeling sickly, my new phone cheered me up quite a bit.

mama's not feeling so hot.

wednesday, september 8, 2010.
mama's starting to not feel so hot. by the evening i started to fell a sore throat and stuffy nose coming on, oh no!!! allergies? just run down really. the morning wasn't too bad though.

abraham asks to draw and "cut" every morning.

he'll just draw for 15 minutes straight!

here he is blowing out "candles" on the cake. candles=pens in upside down pen container=cake.

unfortunately, the pens got stuck and the ink tips all got caught and and some broke off when they came out. i also decided after this art session, not to give abraham more than 3 pens at a time. he used to use every pen and not put the caps on. this way it will be more manageable.

pepper, teak, levi and abraham.

at 7:30 i hit the wall. i just layed on the couch and crashed out. joshua was kind enough to take care of the boys. luckily, the porter family came cruising by and kept the rest of my family company for a while.

chasing.

the boys running around. super cute!

my scary foot!!!

tuesday/wednesday, july 13/14, 2010. last night g'ma erm and i were sitting on the porch chit chatting while uncle randy took joshua and the boys for a ride in his golf cart. i felt a MOSQUITO BITE me. g'ma erm asked if i wanted to go inside, but i said no. i wanted to wait it out until the boys came back. bad idea. i felt myself get bit again, so we headed in. my big toe started to itch that night and became a WELT about the size of a quarter. the next morning it looked like this:

  9:22 am.

an hour later i was online researching mosquito and spider bites. my foot was SWELLING, turning RED, and HOT to the touch! those symptoms lead to cellulitis and in true hypochondriac form, i called the DOCTOR.

12:27 pm

my appointment wasn't until 3:30. i marked an outline in pen to see if it would get worse. in the 3 hour wait it only got about a centimeter bigger.

by 10:13 pm it looked like this. it was HUGE!!! this, however, is what both my feet looked like when i was prego. so painful to walk on because my skin was being stretched white.

at 8:45 am the next morning it was still so not my foot.

a side view.

the doctor was concerned about the way the redness looked around the big toe and the dip in my skin where an old bite was healing. she was also worried about how hot it felt! to be safe she put me on an oral antibiotic to fight any possible INFECTION. i was more than happy to take the meds after all the reseach i had done and pics of infection out of control!

* a few days have passed now and my foot is one it way to looking normal again. YAY!

just hanging out.

tuesday, july 6, 2010. today was just a MELLOW day. i, however am FEELING CRUDDY again. super soar throat, stuffy nose, etc. didn't i just get over this? i've got to be one of the most unhealthy people in the world. it's always something. i so need to research how to boost my immune system! joshua went to a pharmacy to get mic a z-pack, so i had him pick me up TONS OF MEDS:) hope they work well enough that i can enjoy our camping/boating trip. we leave tomorrow and i'm just not feeling it.

cuteness.

levi working on a CRAFTY project for aunt mic. she gave him a bunch of old family photos and asked him to cut them up and put them in a tiny photo album for her purse. he accidentally cut off my arm in one pic and taped it back on.

abraham beading.

papa wanted me to take a picture of abraham SCISSOR HANDS.

we taught abraham to cough into his arm. he does so about 50% of the time.

levi reading.

wrestling.

playing with aunt micky.

levi went to a "pet store" and bought this adorable puppy.

abe giving the puppy kisses.

we popped in a movie for some peace and quite.

thanks franklin!