Sweet Abigail {Bellingham Newborn Photographer}

You know you have a large family when...

...your children feel sorry for families with only six or seven children.
...people ask if you're competing with the Duggars.
...even your friends aren't sure how many children you have.
...your family no longer fits in a 15 passenger van.
..complete strangers feel welcome to comment on your fertility and contraceptive methods.
...two of your daughters go for a walk...and get asked by a neighbor if they're foster kids.
...you have to carry three health insurance cards in your wallet- because that's how many it takes to fit everyone's name.
...you take the wrong child to the dentist...simply because your handwriting on the calendar was messy and both started with a "j".
...grocery shopping for 30 children and 12 adults for a two day camp constitutes a "small" shopping trip for you.
You find yourself relating some small incident to your husband and starting with the words, "Well, I only boiled twenty-six eggs for breakfast..."
...you buy a 40 pound box of bananas intending to make banana bread and freeze a bunch for smoothies...but your children eat them all first.
...you find an afternoon root canal relaxing.
...it takes you twenty-three minutes on the phone to schedule your children's dental appointments.
...you've given up on using your toaster entirely and make all of your toast under the broiler in you oven.
...you are seriously tempted by the stacking cribs you see at Goodwill for $19.99.
...you find yourself thinking, "Wow, the house is so quiet and peaceful with only nine children".
...you have enough children to constitute not one, but TWO large families.
...you have a laundry basket devoted entirely to lonely socks seeking their mate.
...when you got to buy your children those cool "spin toothbrushes" because you think they get their teeth so much cleaner...but the store doesn't carry enough styles/colors for your children to each have a different toothbrush.
...when you can't take all of your children to the doctor's office at the same time because the waiting room has only 10 seats.
...when you still have seven children that are required by law to sit in a carseat or booster seat.
...you call the doctor to get your children tetnus shots, and they tell you they don't have enough in the office and need to order more from the health department.
...you take up more than one entire pew in church.
...you take only half of your children to the library, and STILL get asked if they're all yours.
...you go to fill your children's flouride prescription at the phamacy and you clean them out of every pill they have...and it's still not enough.
...you spend sixty dollars on socks...and not everyone gets new socks.
...you go shopping at Costco and the cashier asks if you're having a soccer barbecue.

May 10, 2011

Wow, what is it with babies coming in clusters? I was totally swamped in December/January with births and newborns...February, March and April were slow, and now I'm drowning in babies again (not that I mind!) Two births so far this month, and another one coming up...and then sweet little Abigail. Oh my goodness, is she perfect or what?! Click over to Little Earthling Photography for more pictures of this sweet girl.

Well, yesterday was day for of dairy free for Apollo and me...Sunday he was uncharacteristically happy...but maybe he was just having a good day. Yesterday...happy. This morning, happy and frisky. I am afraid to get my hopes up that this is the answer to his breathing and weight gain issues, but I am cautiously optimistic- that's for sure.

At the doctor yesterday his weight was down to 16 pounds 7 ounces...that's less than his nine month weight. But the doctor believed it was perfectly reasonable that it was an allergy to milk and/or reflux. Because Apollo had a good two days we decided to wait on the reflux medicine...the doctor said any time I felt like I wanted to try it, just call and he'd call in the prescription, but he'd like to give the dairy free a good two weeks. I agreed to this, but if he gets completely miserable again, we'll pick up the meds.

Also, yesterday for the first time ever, he sat in his high chair during dinner with no screaming...when he was done eating, he sat and finger painted/played until we were done. You know, like a regular old baby does...this morning he is frisky and happy...

And last night...he took his first steps! He let go of the wall, stood on shaky legs, and stepped over to his exersaucer...he repeated it a couple of minutes later. I know I should be happy, but it makes me kind of sad...what makes my baby think he can walk???

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