Christmas Break Happenings

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.

December 22, 2011

Enoch bought this puzzle for our family to enjoy on our memorable trip to Fred Meyer. You know, the one where he also bought the hatchet? Yeah, that one.

This puzzle was in progress on our dining room table for several days. After many hours of enjoyment Tilly finished it yesterday.

Plenty of LEGO building has been going on as well. The boys have told me they want to sort their LEGO now so they can build more efficiently. They are currently all dumped in the two drawers of our train table. It's a wonderful way to store them, but not such a wonderful way to sort them. The LEGO are easily four or more inches deep, which makes finding that exact piece a bit daunting. The boys are wanting to sort them by color, and then sort the "special" pieces by type. Anyone out there organize their LEGO?

Last night was a rough night with Apollo, but he slept in our bed from 1-4 am without nursing! He has never been able to sleep with us, but both night since his surgery he has, which is fine with me since I could listen to him breathing that way. As soon as he's healed, we'll be working on limiting his nursing and night nursing. Now that he's hit 20 pounds, we're not so worried about his weight.

As far as the ENT, we've only seen him twice. Once in May when he diagnosed the reflux and probable milk allergy, and then again earlier this month when he was referred by the pulmonologist to do the bronch. As I said yesterday, his job is done, we won't be seeing again, so we're not too worried about our "lack of communication". The pulmonologist will see that he does indeed have a "narrowing of the trachea" and he seems more willing to listen us about how it affects his eating and breathing.

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