Quote of the day

4/16/12 - GOS:




"You must be getting old! You are getting a lot of bug bites and some gray hair." 
- G, age 6




Last weekend was Easter.  Had a nice weekend.  Saturday = Easter Egg Hunt at Mom's church. 
Sunday = 
Easter Bunny surprises 
church (Mom's)

home to make the soup

out to deliver the soup

Home for some basketball (Easter Bunny gift) and to have a ham dinner - with Cousin Cheryl and Paupi and Mem.

FYI, the 3 little kids came straight home from church and changed into their unders and ate candy.  It was a little unique.  I laughed.  They just stared at me like I was nuts - Hello!  It's candy time!

Quote

Natural Child: Any child who is not artificial.
Real Parent: Any Parent who is not imaginary.
Your Own Child: Any child who is not someone else’s child.

Adopted Child: A natural child, with a real parent, who is all my own.
~ unknown

Little Details - documenting the little things

Well, a month has passed since the girls' arrival. I can't believe a month has already gone by. wow! It's flying. They are doing so well here. Their vocabularies are expanding, they are laughing and playing and just last night - dancing WITH G & Z to the Fresh Beat Band!

My favorite K quote: "Mamamamammamamama! Squirrel on fence!" She can ride a bike with training wheels and both twins can ride the scooters (too early really).

M who couldn't recognize the front of a puzzle piece from the back a month ago can now do 10 piece puzzles and can match colors (fish puzzle).

K has had some regression to infantile behaviors (which I think is a good thing?). She's allowing/demanding that I rock her in my arms before bed. I sign to her. She flops her body like a baby. One night, she even started crawling. M has allowed me to do this twice this week. She watches. I was pleased when she whispered: "Me, too..." to the rocking/singing. I still hear crying and yelling in the night but it is getting better - or maybe I'm getting used to it.

G started preschool on 9.8.10. We went the day before to officially enroll her. She did well (stayed in the classroom for over an hour while I filled out paperwork-painted two pics and had goldfish for snack). She was so excited on her first day because they were having mac & cheese and broccoli for lunch. She came home very hungry. She refused to eat their mac & chees because "it isn't like the mac and cheese we have at home, Mom! It's yucky there. And, they didn't even cook the broccoli!" She did take a short nap during rest time. The teacher said she had a great first day and only about 10 mins before I picked her up had asked: "Isn't it time to go inside?" - they were playing outside and apparently she was ready for the day to be over. After her first day, I took her out for ice cream. She picked bubblegum ice cream. Nice 1:1 time.

She did say that she thinks that this school is the school for her!

She was reserved and quiet and didn't share a lot with me other than she liked painting the best. She was unhappy the next morning when I told her that she only goes to school 3 days a week. She was really ticked and wanted to go Thursday (that day) as well.

Here is my favorite quote from her first official day. She said this as we were up in the morning getting ready for school:

"I don't want to blink anymore. I miss things when I blink and I don't like missing things." - G

Classic.

I sent in my registration for the local Mothers of Multiples today. I'm encouraging another new friend, Stacey, to do the same. She is "expecting" twins - a foster placement late this year. The next meeting is a clothing sale which excites me!

We've been to McDonalds this month and had the McDonalds' (family) over for a playdate. We are having a yard sale on Saturday - purging the baby clothes and gear (I hope that doesn't come back to bite me!) and just living life. Busy. Loud. Appointments. Work. Need a haircut (who has time for that with 4 kids/single mom?)

Update on Z-man: He's maturing a little. Maybe this is how men learn to be quiet - having so many women around. I'm looking for a movie to take him to see (first in-theater movie) so we can have a Mom/Son date. He's sharing a room with Gianna - except, she is sleeping in my room at night (he wakes her up too much!). The twins have Z's old room. Musical rooms but it is working just fine.

Quote

I'm not into the whole Saint thing BUT I read this on a blog today and it touched me:

You have no body on earth but ours,
No hands but ours,
No feet but ours.

Ours are the eyes through which
your compassion must look out on the world.

Ours are the feet by which
you may still go about doing good.

Ours are the hands with which
You bless people now.

Bless our minds and bodies,
That we may be a blessing to others.

St. Theresa of Avila

Z-man

When someone asks him his name he responds with "Z-man!!". I love it! It's so funny.

The thing that brought tears to my eyes this morning is:
I am working at home on a project. From another room, I could hear the music playing as the kids were working on some kind of project at the island. Z-man starts singing: Kum ba yah. Seriously, I love that he knows this song (and so many others). It's a real benefit to have them at home with my Mom where she can play (and teach) them Christian songs.

And, something I lifted from someone's facebook profile:

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” -- Albert Einstein

People ask me all the time how I do the work that I do (building/creating new things). I get to work in the imagination and make those ideas become reality. This is how God made me. Maintaining the structure in an existing organization seems boring to me.