...the last month or so has been very busy around here. My last post was...well...low key. ALL of the kiddos were sick. Well after a couple of weeks and a couple, or three, visits to the ER, we finally got all of them well again. Nile and Noah ended up with double ear infections and Bronchitis. James and Jonah both had double ear infections and Jonah's ear drum had actually ruptured from all of the congestion. I felt horrible! We are such bad parents! When the doctor told us about his ear drum, I just thought of all the time that Jonah was so fussy and crying (even with tylenol) and any one of those times he could have been in just dire pain from the pressure on his ear. My sister Lela's ear drum busted the same way and she said it was extremely painful. Like someone sticking a knife in your ear. Until it ruptured, then it was immediate relief. But just the thought that Jonah was going through that and there wasn't a thing I could do about it...and we had no idea. {Sigh}
Anyway, we had four kids on three different kinds of antibiotics. And I have to say, James and Jonah did much better with taking their medicine than Nile and Noah did. So after about day two of antibiotics, it was like day and night with the kids. They were eating normally, jumping around and fighting with each other. N/N were eager to get back to school and J/J actually started sleeping through the night again. Whoo hoo! Next week is their checkup and hopefully all is well.
And so...just like the passing of this random sentence...my birthday slid by with an...eh (shrug).
April is here and it's already the middle of the month. On the 11th (Saturday) Mom had her confirmation with the Catholic Church. It was a very nice (but long) ceremony. Sunday (the 12th) was Easter and we had a really nice day. Lela and Lee were here. Lee was riding out with Ken at work. Iris and Lily stopped by on their way back from Glaydys's house and stayed all
afternoon. Sharon and Mom had cooked the night before so we had some deeeeelicious food for lunch and Sharon stopped by on her lunch break from work. Mom's birthday was coming up on Monday (the 13th) So Me, Lela, Noah and Nile made some cupcakes and decorated them with some candles and sang happy birthday to mom. It was a nice day and I really didn't have to do much cause there were so many people here to entertain the little ones that it was quite a relaxing day. The clean up on the other hand was a real chore. But it was worth it. So I have some pictures ...I just have to remember how to put them on the blog. LOL
And here we are...J/J are napping...will be up any time now. And N/N are playing outside in the mud. We have had a couple of really rainy days and they are taking advantage of the...yuck outside. Oh! I have to tell you about the latest additions to our family. I don't think I posted about it last year, but around November/December we found two praying mantis. We found them about two weeks apart from each other. The first one was a green female that was affectionately named Spike. We kept her for about two weeks. She was awesome to watch. We kept her in a plastic container with holes in the lid and some sticks for her to climb on. We caught bugs for her everyday. And she ate ALOT! Her favorite were flies. Which I absolutely hate. They are disgusting! Bleh! So catching them (in a cup) and feeding them to Spike was honestly...FUN! Those flies had no idea when they came into this house that we had one of the coolest fastest predators on the planet, in our kitchen. It was so cool to watch her stalk and strike...and eat. So anyway, she got fatter and fatter and fatter. She looked like she was going to explode. {I think I have some pics somewhere} So about a week or so later, she stopped eating. Then one morning, there was an egg sack on one of the sticks. So I did some internet research which said that female Mantis die shortly after laying their eggs. And so...I had to let her go. She had to be free in her last days. (sniff sniff) So sadly I released her on a plant outside and slowly walked away. I didn't cry. Really. I didn't. Now during her time in captivity. She was an absolutely delightful pet. The boys took her to school for show-n-tell. And they watched her and fed her everyday. Well, about a week after her release, we found another female mantis on the back deck. This one was brown. She was affectionately named...Stingray. LOL And so the cycle began again. And believe it or not...she layed an egg sack too! So, we had these two mantis egg sacks in a little plastic container with holes in the top. We kept it in our kitchen window. And because t
he sacks have to (winterize) we left them in the window all winter long and into spring. And believe it or not! One of the sacks hatched. Yesterday. We had about 30-40 tiny praying mantis running around in the container. Then they started escaping. Anyway, they have to eat really small things like fruit flies. Well, I don't have the time or energy to try to catch that many fruit flies everyday, so we released the babies this morning. They are happily laying in wait on our garden plants. They are so cute too. We did have to keep some though <-- you knew that was coming right?! So we have five baby mantis in their little habitat. And Noah found some tiny bugs on our basil plant, so we put them in there. FOOD! Hopefully they'll be able to eat something soon. They normally eat aphids...which...on a normal day, we have a ton of on the dandelion plants in our yard. But! since we've had a ton of rain lately, we have no aphids. Anywhere. Hopefully they'll return soon so I can feed our babies. Cause if they don't have food to eat...they will eat each other. Bleh! I never thought I'd be happy about aphids in my yard! LOL And yes, we still have one more egg sack left. Hope they hatch! (grin)
So that's that for an update. Hope to have more soon.
Luv ya!
Anyway, we had four kids on three different kinds of antibiotics. And I have to say, James and Jonah did much better with taking their medicine than Nile and Noah did. So after about day two of antibiotics, it was like day and night with the kids. They were eating normally, jumping around and fighting with each other. N/N were eager to get back to school and J/J actually started sleeping through the night again. Whoo hoo! Next week is their checkup and hopefully all is well.
And so...just like the passing of this random sentence...my birthday slid by with an...eh (shrug).
April is here and it's already the middle of the month. On the 11th (Saturday) Mom had her confirmation with the Catholic Church. It was a very nice (but long) ceremony. Sunday (the 12th) was Easter and we had a really nice day. Lela and Lee were here. Lee was riding out with Ken at work. Iris and Lily stopped by on their way back from Glaydys's house and stayed all
afternoon. Sharon and Mom had cooked the night before so we had some deeeeelicious food for lunch and Sharon stopped by on her lunch break from work. Mom's birthday was coming up on Monday (the 13th) So Me, Lela, Noah and Nile made some cupcakes and decorated them with some candles and sang happy birthday to mom. It was a nice day and I really didn't have to do much cause there were so many people here to entertain the little ones that it was quite a relaxing day. The clean up on the other hand was a real chore. But it was worth it. So I have some pictures ...I just have to remember how to put them on the blog. LOLAnd here we are...J/J are napping...will be up any time now. And N/N are playing outside in the mud. We have had a couple of really rainy days and they are taking advantage of the...yuck outside. Oh! I have to tell you about the latest additions to our family. I don't think I posted about it last year, but around November/December we found two praying mantis. We found them about two weeks apart from each other. The first one was a green female that was affectionately named Spike. We kept her for about two weeks. She was awesome to watch. We kept her in a plastic container with holes in the lid and some sticks for her to climb on. We caught bugs for her everyday. And she ate ALOT! Her favorite were flies. Which I absolutely hate. They are disgusting! Bleh! So catching them (in a cup) and feeding them to Spike was honestly...FUN! Those flies had no idea when they came into this house that we had one of the coolest fastest predators on the planet, in our kitchen. It was so cool to watch her stalk and strike...and eat. So anyway, she got fatter and fatter and fatter. She looked like she was going to explode. {I think I have some pics somewhere} So about a week or so later, she stopped eating. Then one morning, there was an egg sack on one of the sticks. So I did some internet research which said that female Mantis die shortly after laying their eggs. And so...I had to let her go. She had to be free in her last days. (sniff sniff) So sadly I released her on a plant outside and slowly walked away. I didn't cry. Really. I didn't. Now during her time in captivity. She was an absolutely delightful pet. The boys took her to school for show-n-tell. And they watched her and fed her everyday. Well, about a week after her release, we found another female mantis on the back deck. This one was brown. She was affectionately named...Stingray. LOL And so the cycle began again. And believe it or not...she layed an egg sack too! So, we had these two mantis egg sacks in a little plastic container with holes in the top. We kept it in our kitchen window. And because t
he sacks have to (winterize) we left them in the window all winter long and into spring. And believe it or not! One of the sacks hatched. Yesterday. We had about 30-40 tiny praying mantis running around in the container. Then they started escaping. Anyway, they have to eat really small things like fruit flies. Well, I don't have the time or energy to try to catch that many fruit flies everyday, so we released the babies this morning. They are happily laying in wait on our garden plants. They are so cute too. We did have to keep some though <-- you knew that was coming right?! So we have five baby mantis in their little habitat. And Noah found some tiny bugs on our basil plant, so we put them in there. FOOD! Hopefully they'll be able to eat something soon. They normally eat aphids...which...on a normal day, we have a ton of on the dandelion plants in our yard. But! since we've had a ton of rain lately, we have no aphids. Anywhere. Hopefully they'll return soon so I can feed our babies. Cause if they don't have food to eat...they will eat each other. Bleh! I never thought I'd be happy about aphids in my yard! LOL And yes, we still have one more egg sack left. Hope they hatch! (grin)So that's that for an update. Hope to have more soon.
Luv ya!
