[ Posted by Maggie
Mon, 19 May 2008 15:17:46 GMT ]
I’ve been trying to work on a longer post that’s been going through my head, but it’s not turning out in type the way I had imagined, so it’s just going to have to wait for now. But I do want to let you all know some things and ask for prayer for our dear Princess Olive. She’s having surgery tomorrow. It’s a tonsillectomy and is out-patient. Please pray for the surgery and pray that it’ll have a big impact on her. The doctor said it should help her sleep better (she snores and has sleep apnea), and it may improve her speech! It also may help with night time potty training because it should take care of the sleep apnea, which can cause bed wetting. I’m not putting my trust in the doctor or this procedure, but in the Lord. He’s the one that ultimately will determine the outcome. I’m still planning to take her to speech therapy and continue washing sheets, but if the Lord should choose to let the surgery help in these areas then I’ll be thrilled and He can have the glory! And if He chooses not to, then He can have the glory for the plans He has for her and the rest of us.
Also, while I’m not counting on it quite yet, we’ve had a breakthrough the past couple of days. She’s only has had one little accident (besides a long nap and night time) and she’s been telling us when she needs to go. Not once has it been because we told her to go! I’m so happy, but again, we’ll see if it sticks. She even told me during church and was dry and went when I took her. I’m praying that the surgery won’t set her back too much.
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[ Posted by Maggie
Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:55:55 GMT ]
I got sleep last night, 6 hours without even needing to get up and go potty!!! I almost woke John up to tell him, but decided he should get some sleep too. :) When I told him after he woke up he asked if I wet my panties. LOL
Poor Princess Olive, John left the house to strap in the car seat and she thought he was going to get the baby. I told her the baby was still in Mommy’s tummy and we have to wait until it was ready for it to come out. I told her that we had to wait a long time for her to come out when she was in my tummy, and we might have to wait a while for this one. She almost started to cry. :( I’m so glad she’s excited about the baby coming though!
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[ Posted by John
Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:58:45 GMT ]
I have not posted to this blog ever but Hannah had a cute moment I thought I would share with you all. After eating some left over home made lasagna, which mommy had made a couple of days ago, Hannah said she was done. I dismissed her and told her to wash her hands. She went as usual and I followed after her a few minutes later.
I found her with her bib in the sink, the water running, and she was scrubbing it clean with her tooth brush. This made me laugh, but I told her I would take care of the bib and took it to the sink after putting her tooth brush back. Once I had returned after putting the bib in the sink I found she was cleaning the sink with her tooth brush.
It’s hard to tell her not to clean with her tooth brush since I don’t want her to stop wanting to clean, but not with the tooth brush she uses every night. I explained that as best as I could and then I took her brush away and figured we would get a new one later.
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[ Posted by Maggie
Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:08:15 GMT ]
So Hannah’s been understanding a little bit more that there’s a baby inside Mommy’s tummy. She gives my tummy hugs, kisses and “noses”. Well the other day she tried to give the baby juice. She held one of toy baby bottles up to my tummy and asked if the baby wanted juice. :) She’ll be such a good big sister.
Another funny… the other day she had a baby doll in the car with her. We got to our destination, she threw the baby on the ground, asked if it was ok and then told the baby that she’ “be right back.” I’m not so sure what to think about this one. It was sweet that she asked if the baby was ok and told it she’d be back, but throwing it on the floor… not so good.
Well that’s it for Hannah funnies, if I think of anymore I’ll be sure to post them.
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[ Posted by Maggie
Fri, 11 May 2007 19:21:42 GMT ]
I’ll start with a funny Hannah story that happened just this morning and then give you an update on things.
Hannah skipped her nap yesterday and was asleep soon after 8 (very unusual for her) and as a result woke up at 7:30, so while John and I were getting ready for the day Hannah sat on our bed and played with things on my dresser. One of these things is a small box that I keep change in. She was having fun bouncing the coins on the mattress and hearing them clink. I came and sat with her for a little while (making sure nothing was going up the nose, or in a ear, or anything) and she asked to get down. We have quite a tall bed, I need a stool to hop in, and she can get up, but down is a little difficult for her. So I helped her and a fist full of change down. She looked back at me and said “I’ll be right back” (in her own language of missing letters of course), so I sat patiently to see what she would do. Usually those words result in something quite amusing and today was no different. She came back with a piggie bank that Grandma Rita got her for her birthday and put the change in it and asked for “mo’”. So she went through out our room finding any change she could and Daddy let her empty some of his change bank and now her piggie bank is quite full. When she received the bank for her birthday my aunt and uncle put change in it for her, but that was over a month ago and since then the bank has just sat, until this morning. It amazes me what picks up on and what she remembers that may not emerge for months later!
Updates: My back was in quite a bit of pain after the popcorn incident, but I’ve had some better days since. We purchased a La-Z-Boy just my size and that is one place that I can sit/lay very comfortably with little pressure on my back. I also got a back brace from my chiropractor that works wonderfully and has significantly reduced the pain while I’m wearing it. Some wonderful ladies have provided some meals for me and have offered to help me clean, which has helped me be able to rest more. We are so blessed to be in such a wonderful church family. I hope to be able to take over some of the light housework soon.
Some people have asked about potty training, well she’s back in diapers for the time being. Right now there are more important behavioral issues with her that need to be addressed and a fresh start later may be more productive. She does still go before bedtimes in order to delay, but not much else than that.
I had my first appointment with my midwife yesterday and we were able to hear the baby’s heart beat. I’m excited to have a Christian caring for me and my baby during this time and am excited about having this little one in an environment that I am so comfortable in. I’ve been a birth story junkie lately and am dreaming up my own ideas of what I want this birth to be like.
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[ Posted by Maggie
Sat, 05 May 2007 16:58:30 GMT ]
I’m on a blogging roll! Well my daughter is making it easy, and I have to write this one down before I forget all the joys of last night (it was Friday night, 5/4/07, I had to take a break from writing this one). So last night started out like a mostly typical night. The only differences is we babysitting 2 other little girls so we had 3 to watch over instead of just one. No biggie though, we know and love these girls and are happy to take them whenever we can. So we had dinner and a movie night, and of course movie night includes popcorn.
Well the movie wasn’t really holding their attention, the 2 other girls were looking at a book with me while I was laying on the couch, John was so wonderfully cleaning our bathroom, and Hannah…. well apparently she was sticking popcorn kernels up her nose! I didn’t notice this until she came and was trying to pick her nose and then complained when I told her to stop. So I told her to grab a Kleenex, thinking it was just an ordinary booger bugging her, but no… it was popcorn kernels! Notice the s? Yes, not just one, but two! One in each nostril. I yelled for John, we tried squeezing them out, but Hannah wouldn’t have it, then I briefly tried tweezers, but they were a little pointy and I was afraid of pushing them up further. John had just been cleaning and wasn’t dressed to go out so I grabbed her, put on my flip flops and ran out the door to go to Urgent Care.
I am so thankful for our Urgent Care office, they only see patients of the doctors in that group and they’re right around the corner. I am very thankful for them, except for last night. Hannah and I got there and I was starting to unbuckle her a very nice lady in the car next to me said she just went up and there’s a note on the door saying they’re having computer problems, so they’re closed and we need to go to the ER!
So to the ER we go. We sign in and are next to see the nurse. By this time I’m realizing that I didn’t put shoes on her, so I’m needing to carry her the whole time, not good on my back. We do get in to see the nurse fairly quickly, and she says we’re next for a room. So we go back to the waiting room. But while we were talking to nurse I feel my lap getting wet. I should’ve changed her Pull Up before leaving too. So I go and change her, at least I grabbed a Pull Up from the car. So now not only does she not have shoes on, but no pants either, because they’re wet.
2 hours later we make it into a room. Praise the Lord! We’re finally going to get to go home soon. Well not really, turns our the doctor is 3 hours behind on patients, so we get to wait in the room for 3 hours. By this time the girls have gone home and John has come to join me. I’m very grateful because Hannah has not been fazed one bit by the popcorn kernels and they seem to be making her hyper, but with no shoes on she needs to stay very contained, I needed a break. The doctor sees us a little bit before 1 am. He was looking for some nurses to help him with Hannah, decided not to wait and had us hold her down, less than a minute later the kernels were out and we were out the door. On the way home I was looking at the papers they gave us and on the home care sheet, number 3 was “teach your child not to put objects up his/her nose”. It made me laugh, I would think that would be obvious.
So I learned a few things from this, and if you’ve read this far, I thank you. :)
1. Popcorn bowl needs to be put away immediately after popcorn is finished.
2. Objects up the nose is not so urgent that you should not think through what to take with you. Especially if your child is not in pain, you will be low on the priority list at the ER. Shoes are a must, several diapers will be needed and possibly a book or small toy for your child to play with.
3. Popcorn kernels up the nose is a stimulant apparently and will make your child bounce off the walls, it will also make you forget all about your back problems, until the kernels are out, then child will fall asleep on Daddy and your entire body will ache.
Have a great day everyone and be sure to watch out for popcorn kernels up the nose! :)
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[ Posted by Maggie
Thu, 03 May 2007 15:35:34 GMT ]
Well it has again, been quite a while since I’ve posted an update. Well here’s some funny things Hannah has done recently. A few weeks ago Hannah would start talking about Dodo while we were in the car. Dodo is her grandfather, my dad, and she loves him very much. But then I started noticing a correlation. When ever she talked about Dodo she also saw a motorcycle. You see Dodo has a motorcycle and last time we were in Sacramento Hannah got to sit on the motorcycle. So now whenever she sees a motorcycle she points and says “Dodo!” It’s quite cute.
The other funny things that she has done both happened yesterday. We went to Pei Wei Asian Diner and of course, when we have Chinese food we have fortune cookies. Well this time she wanted to do it all by herself. So she broke the cookie in half, removed the fortune, held it up to her face and “read” it. She was looking quite intent at it and mumbled something, it was so funny.
And then last night. She went to bed and she was yelling for Da (Dad). John was about to go in and discipline her, for calling yet again, but then we heard something very funny. You see Momo and Dodo bought her a dog a couple of years ago that you can push one ear and record a message and then push the other ear to play it. Cute idea, but the message doesn’t stay for long. Well Hannah had pushed the record ear right before calling for Da and then the next thing we hear is this electronic dog calling for “Da!” We just laid in bed laughing. So now she has a dog that will do her calling for her. :)
I’ll write more about what’s been going on later. Sorry it’s been so long.
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[ Posted by Maggie
Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:57:58 GMT ]
I promised more about Hannah. Here new words: “I do it!” and “I did it!”. She really likes these phrases when crawling into the van. She can get all the way in her car seat now, she just needs us to buckle her. She keeps us smiling! :)
Potty training-She’s really coming along. She’s had a few accident free days now, including naps! Hurray! Of course she had three accidents today before noon, but that’s ok. I have been putting her in Pull Ups only for sleep times, and she seems to do ok with that, and I’m now able to wash our clothes and not just sheets. :)
Discipline-Still reading Shepherding a Child’s Heart. WOW! I have becoming more and more convicted of needing to be constantly in the Word and to pass that down to Hannah. I pray that God will give me an unquenchable desire to be in His Word and to take EVERY opportunity to pass His Word down to Hannah. Oh, how I desire for her to grow to love Him, and for me to love Him more and more.
New things- I started a Scrapbook Night in our Clubhouse and invited some neighbors and ladies from church. We had our first one last night. 3 people showed up, 2 ladies for the neighborhood and my cousin. We had a good time and I was able to work on my 2007 album. My goal is to keep current with 2007 and then work backwards. First the Grand Canyon (in progress) and then Hannah’s baby! Praise the Lord for digital cameras! We have everything on the computer, by date, so it at least won’t be too difficult to work backwards. By the way, if anyone (who I know) wants to come, let me know and I’ll get you the info.
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[ Posted by Maggie
Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:06:38 GMT ]
What does “ba-beesh” mean has been a topic of conversation between John and I for several months now. Hannah uses this “word” quite frequently. She sings it after going potty, sometimes says it at dinner time, really just about anytime. It is a word though, not just a sound. She’ll use it in a sentence, frequently with other made up words, but this one is special. She uses it over an over. Who knows if we’ll ever know.
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