tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-319628262024-02-28T01:27:13.018-05:00rccalynrccalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277113279437358026noreply@blogger.comBlogger159125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31962826.post-26825083590850797322018-08-29T17:13:00.002-04:002018-08-29T17:13:26.577-04:00kids are funny
8/6/16
K, telling Ebeth how old she'll be in a few weeks "3! And then I can drive! "
1/29/17
We just had church at home. K prayed at the end. "Dear God, God loves us and is gonna give us toys all day. Amen"
3/16/17
"you and Daddy must be related"
"Because we're both boys"-R
"Or because he's your daddy and you're his son"
"Part of it is cuz we both have teeth"-R
3/19/17
"stop it! Or Irccalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277113279437358026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31962826.post-2064744253129156142016-07-25T14:27:00.002-04:002016-07-25T14:28:29.013-04:00Playing catch-up on funny kid quotes
9/1/15 Arianna
"I had the weirdest dream. It was a stormy night, and it was raining - of course. And someone was IN LOVE with me! And he was like 2 or 3 years old and he kept trying to kiss me on the cheek!"
Did you love him back?
"Well he had 3000 moms and 10 dads and 3000 grandmas and 2 grandpas"
So did you love him back?
"Not so much"
1/4/16
K: "Mommy my butt hurts"
Me (dubious she knows rccalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277113279437358026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31962826.post-26118769422340051122015-08-17T14:20:00.003-04:002015-08-17T14:20:57.809-04:00Summer 2015
6/25/15
"Mommy, don't look now but on her birthday your baby is about to be a toddler" -Arianna about Karina
6/27/15
"Mommy, do you wanna play soccer with me?"
"Yes, Roman, I'd love to play soccer with you!" (never thought I'd say that!)
8/5/15
Arianna prayed to ask Jesus in her heart.
8/7/15 - Karina is 23 months, but acting so much older!
Last night was bath night, but I left around 7 for rccalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277113279437358026noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31962826.post-85878066652846701712015-06-18T01:19:00.000-04:002015-06-18T01:18:53.842-04:00MemoriesI'm feeling stressed. I want to remember everything. I want to remember the night when Roman (4) poked his face into the crack in our door at 9:45pm wearing a spiderman mask. I want to remember the dinnertime when Arianna (6) figured out the trick to "Johnny Johnny Johnny Johnny Woops" before anyone else. I want to remember Marissa (9) saying there were just so many babies she was going crazy cuzrccalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277113279437358026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31962826.post-85792732669876030202015-06-18T01:18:00.002-04:002015-06-18T01:20:26.962-04:00Catching up - Fall 2014
I found this old draft that I never finished. Guess I'll post it!
8/28/14 - Karina turned 1.
Roman at dinner "Uh Mommy, I have a water problem!" He had spilled it in his tray.
9/6 - K took her first step! She was standing next to Marissa's chair and Marissa scooted it away so K was standing alone and she was so distracted she took a single step toward Marissa.
A: Mommy can we have a treat?
rccalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277113279437358026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31962826.post-59738060288772800212014-08-04T02:34:00.001-04:002014-08-04T02:48:24.621-04:00End of summer 2014Well, tonight I have been dealing with a bout of mastitis due to Karina not nursing much during our busy Sunday. I had a low fever, major headache, and achy legs. I napped a little this afternoon, which is probably why I am still awake at 2am!
It's hard to believe summer is drawing to a close and it's almost time to begin another year of homeschooling. It's been a good summer, full of lake house rccalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277113279437358026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31962826.post-26400006298549904152014-03-01T09:35:00.001-05:002014-04-06T11:03:01.892-04:00Things to remember - early 2014-How Roman wants to cuddle all the time, especially at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and bed time
-Arianna says "You Nork" instead of New York
-When Roman is scared, he says "Mommy, I scary!"
-The way Karina softly rubs my belly, arm, and chin and holds my finger while she nurses
-The intimate chats Marissa and I have while I wash her hair
-How Roman keeps informing me that I "*gasp* have a big rccalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277113279437358026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31962826.post-87473660151506954392014-02-22T08:56:00.001-05:002014-02-22T08:56:49.302-05:00Karina updateKarina woke up this morning saying "dadadada" - she is almost 6 months old. No matter how many babies I have, I'm never prepared for how fast they grow up. She's delightful in every way. She's happy almost all the time, and if she's upset, it's always an easy fix. She grins at her siblings like crazy and they all adore her, fighting to sit in front of her and talk baby talk to her. Karina is rccalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277113279437358026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31962826.post-60177254204348171232013-11-20T12:50:00.001-05:002014-01-01T15:07:38.090-05:00Roman is 3!Drinking asparagus soup with straws, "I made a mess on my forehead!"
The Tuesday night before Roman's 3rd birthday, the girls were sick and I was worried Roman was next. He started crying in the middle of the night, so I went to check on him cuz he never wakes up at night. We ended up cuddling and goofing off at least 4 times throughout the night, and I loved every minute of it. At one point I rccalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277113279437358026noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31962826.post-22385075755829110822013-11-09T11:06:00.001-05:002013-11-09T11:06:38.462-05:00snippets 2
This morning the girls woke up and played in their room, Dan was at a church event, and Karina slept late after nursing at 8:30am. I went into Roman's room and cuddled with him for a bit. Then we went to my bed and read book after book after book. Love that sweet boy.
Yesterday morning on our way to CC, Marissa asked why Merida from Brave wanted to "change her feet" - "change her fate" with a rccalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277113279437358026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31962826.post-90746842929531375202013-11-04T13:54:00.003-05:002013-11-04T13:54:36.450-05:00Snippets
"Mommy, you leff it in my room, I foun' it!" -Roman calling me from nap to tell me I left my water bottle in his room.
Last night Karina slept from 10pm until 7:30am without waking up! It was wonderful! She has only been waking up once anyways, but this was extra nice.
Yesterday, Dan took Arianna to the store to grab a few things we needed. He took my van key off my key chain because he doesn't rccalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277113279437358026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31962826.post-43526896442728039612013-10-05T14:22:00.000-04:002013-10-05T14:22:41.723-04:00Welcome to the world, Karina!
Karina Brielle was born August 27, 2013 at 2:47pm.
I want to write out her birth story here so I don’t forget it:
In the early morning hours (1-3am) of August 27th, I woke up feeling
odd. I felt like I was leaking, so I got a towel to lay on, and tried to
get back to sleep. I was having sporadic contractions, but they weren’t
painful at all, but I really couldn’t get back to sleep either.rccalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277113279437358026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31962826.post-85870737868999698152013-08-03T14:01:00.001-04:002013-08-03T14:01:24.308-04:00August?!
How can it possibly be August already?! I'm almost 36 weeks
pregnant, and each week goes by so slowly, but I'm surprised it's
August. I've blocked out the whole month from other activities and
appointments (except for mine every week of course), and we'll be
starting school soon so hopefully we can get a little done before it's
baby time.
This morning I got up and went to a kids' clothes rccalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277113279437358026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31962826.post-70374605473342537052013-06-26T13:40:00.000-04:002013-06-26T13:40:08.067-04:00Ugh2nd week of swimming lessons, and I'm so incredibly frustrated with my girls. Marissa has been getting progressively better, even though I know she can do more than she is. But Arianna is boggling my mind. Despite having almost one-on-one attention, the girl who is typically afraid of NOTHING is terrified to do ANYTHING in the water. She started out the first week doing pretty well, but suddenly rccalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277113279437358026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31962826.post-53715496257188414832013-06-13T20:49:00.002-04:002013-06-13T20:49:07.497-04:00Remember thisI'm writing this because I want to remember every detail about tonight.
Dan's coming home from work late (OISF meeting), so it's just me and the
kids. We did dinner, baths, and bedtime. Roman was crying for some
reason, after I had put him to bed and was finishing up with the girls.
So I went in to see why, since he's usually completely happy to go to
bed. I asked him what's wrong when I rccalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277113279437358026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31962826.post-85964524264187846762013-06-02T10:56:00.000-04:002013-06-02T10:56:53.821-04:00Catching upTime to play catch-up again! It's Sunday, and tomorrow I will be 27
weeks pregnant! I'm home from church this morning because somehow I got
this awesome head cold/allergies and I need a million tissues every
second. Dan has it too, but not as bad, and he seemed mostly better
this morning. Not fair! Haha.
We finished
homeschooling for Marissa's 1st grade year and I'm so proud of how it
wentrccalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277113279437358026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31962826.post-47207237790398048502013-02-19T14:31:00.003-05:002013-02-19T14:31:29.737-05:00Coming Labor Day 2013...I'm pregnant! And I can finally share it! I hate keeping secrets, and a pregnancy secret is the worst! I had my 3rd miscarriage last November, so we wanted to be SURE before we told the kids. And so we ended up keeping it a secret from just about everyone we know until we knew it was safe. I didn't want it to get back to the girls, and then have to explain if something were to happen again. But Irccalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277113279437358026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31962826.post-45438552309481261602013-01-10T14:50:00.000-05:002013-01-10T15:19:06.963-05:002013I'm officially a failure at blogging. And I'm so used to typing on my
phone (new Samsung Galaxy Note 2! Love it!) that I wait for auto
correct to fix things on the computer! Arianna is sleeping, Roman is
supposed to be sleeping, and Marissa is playing her My Little Pony game
on the iPad (after some extra CC during naptime) so I'm going to try to
get a quick update in!
Still homeschooling,
rccalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277113279437358026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31962826.post-35698809207182098832012-09-18T15:32:00.001-04:002012-09-18T15:36:51.131-04:00Well, we've been homeschooling for about a month now! It's going
better than I expected with Marissa, and about what I expected with
Arianna and Roman. I was expecting Marissa to fight me more when I asked
her to work on things, but that really hasn't been much of an issue.
She's interested in just about everything we work on, and works hard and
relatively efficiently. We're on week 5 of rccalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277113279437358026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31962826.post-73456599168309068052012-08-13T14:34:00.001-04:002012-08-13T14:34:18.913-04:00End of summerWell, the summer's pretty much over already! This Friday starts our
first Classical Conversations (CC) day, and officially kicks off our
year of homeschooling for Marissa!We just finished up a fun weekend with
Granny and Poppop, only a week after an extended trip to NY to visit
with Grandma, Grandpa, Great-Grandma, and Rara. My PA grandparents, aunt
and uncle from NH, and my brother and his rccalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277113279437358026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31962826.post-4222746692395455412012-07-05T14:03:00.003-04:002012-07-05T14:03:33.574-04:00Happy 4th!Either life is too busy or I'm too lazy to keep this up. One or the other is true all the time. So I'll just start!
Yesterday
I went shopping for 6 hours by myself. It was glorious. It was my treat
because I survived 8 days of single parenting while Dan was in
Nicaragua on a missions trip with church. I have quite a bit of birthday
money, and I'm actually spending it slowly this time, insteadrccalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277113279437358026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31962826.post-81910811446813209462012-05-15T14:48:00.002-04:002012-05-15T14:48:28.545-04:00MAY?!Well, it's May, and Marissa only has 3 weeks left of school! This
month is going very fast, especially when I think about how we're going
to Disney in the middle of June - stress! We told the girls a few weeks
ago, and they are excited, although I don't think they know just how
much they should be excited. Haha! Marissa turned 6 and is seeming so
old lately!
Recently, Wee Praise sang in rccalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277113279437358026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31962826.post-69003183307281178602012-03-14T14:01:00.002-04:002012-03-14T14:01:57.546-04:00Potty, DIYing, gorillaSomehow it's the middle of March already, although it feels like the middle of May. Beautiful weather lately! The girls and I were outside yesterday afternoon for a while - I was trying to take apart a pallet (future DIY project) and they were drawing with sidewalk chalk while Roman finished his nap. You know it's nice outside if I'm willing to be out there
I've been thinking of tons of rccalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277113279437358026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31962826.post-55801412647701890562012-02-06T15:07:00.005-05:002012-02-06T19:56:06.956-05:00Random - FebruaryI just accomplished something I'd been dreading for almost 3 years: Arianna is potty trained! From the time she was a 4-month old crawler and an 8-month old walker, I knew it would be a LOT different from potty training Marissa. With Marissa, I had tried a few times early on, but she just wasn't getting it, and I was hugely pregnant, so it wasn't ideal anyways. But when she was almost 3, onerccalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277113279437358026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31962826.post-80489316838861291582012-01-09T11:09:00.000-05:002012-02-06T15:10:51.877-05:00WeanedI accidentally weaned Roman during the process of getting my wisdom teeth out. I knew it was a risk I was taking, which is why I waited til he was past 1, but I still thought we'd make it. I was nervous about nursing him while I was taking vicodin, so I only did a little bit, when it was mostly run out and time for a new dose. He hadn't been nursing that much anyway, so he barely noticed. rccalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277113279437358026noreply@blogger.com0