Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Our favorite versions of "Let It Go"
With two girls ages 8 and 10, it is clearly no doubt that we are Frozen fans! And, you may even remember, Ariel had a Frozen themed birthday party for her birthday this past year. The girls really wanted to be Anna and Elsa for Halloween, but with our special delivery, the momma hasn't been thinking too much about Halloween costumes and preparing to celebrate that holiday. It's been all about baby instead and all the local stores are sold out of Anna and Elsa costumes as well as Etsy. I had shared our favorite versions of "What does the fox say" a while back and have been meaning to share our favorite versions of "Let It Go" and I am finally getting around to it. Enjoy!!
The original "Let It Go" with scenes from the movie...
Can you say TALENT?? This man and all the character voices he can make are just amazing!! My boys, especially love this version and sing the song with many of these voices regularly!!
This was one of the first "Let It Go" video's we watched and the kids all still talk about the sweet little girls and how they mixed up many of the words. Sometimes, I even catch them singing their silly mess ups, just to be funny.
This guy also had a "What does the fox say" parody. So funny!!
I really should memorize some of these lines and use them regularly with the kids. "I said no, I said no, ....", "I said share your best toys when you play", "That pout never bothered me anyway", "will you slow down before you end up in a cast?".
Now I can bet what song you'll be singing the rest of the day!! ;)
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
2 weeks old PLUS a first feast day
Our sweet little guy, our no-named-baby-on-the-blog, turned 2 weeks old today!! Neil and I are dragging with very little sleep feeding a preemie every 3 hours, but this lack of sleep is such a blessing to be given the opportunity to hold and snuggle and love a baby again! How blessed we are to have another little young one to raise!! So, if it seems we are out of it, and especially with my hubby returning to work, just give a good pinch or shake to wake us up again. ;) The transition and babymoon have been going marvelously well, and we are so thankful for the outpouring of love and support with "meals of love" from family and friends. With Neil taking care of baby and I and the rest of the crew, he hasn't had to prepare one meal since baby was born because of the generosity of others feeding our bellies. It has given us more time with each other and most especially, more time snuggling and bonding with baby!!
Not only was today our little guy's two week birthday, but it was also the first feast day of a new saint - Pope Saint John Paul II!! Kiddos colored pages of him today, watched a show "John Paul II: Be Not Afraid" on EWTN, watched two cool videos on YouTube....
...and we celebrated by eating Polish Sausage for dinner. How cool for Neil and I to grow up with him as Pope and then also be around for him to be named a saint and celebrate his first feast day!! What an amazing man he was!! My favorite quote of his means so much every time we have a new baby, so how fitting it is that we are celebrating his first feast day with a newborn brought into our lives and family and home just two weeks ago today...
++Pope Saint John Paul II, ora pro nobis!!++
Thursday, October 16, 2014
A whole lot of sibling LOVE
You know when you go on a vacation with a .......l...o...n...g....... drive and how the kids ask every two minutes that question that drives every parent *W*I*L*D* --- "are we there yet?". Well, having a new baby with older siblings is somewhat similar. I bet you can't even guess that question, although completely wonderful and sweet, but asked a zillion times definitely can start to make your head spin --- "can I hold the baby?" -OR- "is it my turn yet?". Yeah, we've been playing LOTS of baby hot potato around here and what a beautiful blessing it is that our new little guy has ALL these brothers and sisters who love and adore him so much!!
~~Rose and baby~~
~~Pookey and baby~~
~~Max and baby~~
~~Ariel and baby~~
~~Melody and baby~~
~~Mario and baby~~
~~Fone and baby~~
~~All 8 of them~~
Isn't 8 great?!?!
++Thank you, God, for these eight beautiful, wonderful blessings you have sent to us!!++
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Introducing...
...young one #8 born on the 8th!!!
What a sweet little guy to make his birthday easy to remember for all of us! I had posted the first four days of our novena to Fulton J. Sheen no problem and on the night of novena day 4, I went in and got my steroid shot at 9:30pm. But on the morning of day 5, I woke up around 6am with some incision pain on my left side that came with a pretty strong contraction. As soon as the contraction went away, the pain went away. Then I texted my wonderful sister (who is an OB nurse) right away and asked what to be watching for and she told me to pay attention to baby movement and more contractions/pain. So I moved to the reclining chair and had two more smaller contractions with the same incision pain - one more towards the middle and one on the right side, and again it went away when the contraction went away. Sweet baby boy was moving like a champ, so that was very reassuring. My sister suggested that I call the doctor still and let her know and to NOT drink or eat anything, just in case (thank you, Laura, for following your gut feeling and telling me this!!!!!!). Thankfully, my doctor was the one on call and knows my body and I very well and she asked me to head into Labor and Delivery for an NST. Neil was so wonderful and was going to take the morning off and I'd run in to be monitored and more than likely, be home in a couple of hours.
When I arrived to L&D and was hooked up, I was contracting every 6 minutes - doh! Since I was still only 35 weeks 3 days and had only had one steroid shot (the evening before) and more than likely, still hasn't done it's "magic" yet, they gave me a shot of brethine to calm down the contractions. Things looked good for about a half an hour and were calm, but contractions came back just as long and just as strong as the medicine started wearing off. I let Neil know a little before 11am what was going on and that the contractions were coming back, so he decided to head in and sit with me, but still had to get kiddos ready and drop them off at my mom's first. Then at 11:30am, three nurses knock on my door with their scrubs on and ask, "Do you know why we are wearing these?" Uh, I guess I do!!! And, then I grabbed my camera and took a picture to send to Neil as they started wheeling me away to prepare for surgery....
Oh boy!!! Guess this was going to be the birthday for our little guy!! I asked them how long we had and they said 12:15pm, so pretty much immediately and my husband wasn't even there yet! Thankfully, Neil showed up with plenty of time to spare, but what a surprise of a day for us all. My poor mom and my mother-in-law didn't even have enough food to feed our crews plus we had NOTHING packed for the hospital (including a real camera!!) since the section was scheduled for October 14th. We soon realized that none of this truly mattered - baby was coming early and we just had to say "yes" and trust God with his lungs and development and my uterus.
With all the prep and the anesthesiologist arriving a little late, our sweet little guy was born at 12:55pm and my c-section lasted about 40 minutes - pretty good for an 8th c-section. The NICU doctor looked at him real quick and after his raving apgars (8 and 9!!!) handed him off to the nurses and then to us. He roomed with us the entire time at the hospital and was breathing like a champ and had no preemie issues at all! And, very similar to Rose's section, I was very thin but doctor still had to cut into the uterine muscle, unlike with Pookey how there were windows and openings. How blessed I am to have a wonderful doctor and her partners for knowing how to handle my high risk pregnancies and deliveries!! And, how blessed I am to have such wonderful prayer warriors in my family and friends and our heavenly friends (Ven. Fulton J. Sheen for this pregnancy) and a wonderful God who has watched my baby and I this whole time and protected us from anything devastating that could have happened. I am one blessed and very grateful momma to be a given such a beautiful gift from God...
Things went very well in the hospital and when our sweet baby was 52 hours old (just 2 days old!), we headed home where I knew I could be more comfortable and recover better, even with the noise and busyness of large family living. For me, that's all normal and I absolutely LOVE it!
And, now we need some help from our blog reading friends - we don't have a blog name for our little guy. Please share your ideas in comments. Right now, we are bouncing around "Mickey", "Yoda", "Bruiser" (did you notice the bruise on his little head??), but we cannot settle and agree on which name. Please help us out, will you???
What a sweet little guy to make his birthday easy to remember for all of us! I had posted the first four days of our novena to Fulton J. Sheen no problem and on the night of novena day 4, I went in and got my steroid shot at 9:30pm. But on the morning of day 5, I woke up around 6am with some incision pain on my left side that came with a pretty strong contraction. As soon as the contraction went away, the pain went away. Then I texted my wonderful sister (who is an OB nurse) right away and asked what to be watching for and she told me to pay attention to baby movement and more contractions/pain. So I moved to the reclining chair and had two more smaller contractions with the same incision pain - one more towards the middle and one on the right side, and again it went away when the contraction went away. Sweet baby boy was moving like a champ, so that was very reassuring. My sister suggested that I call the doctor still and let her know and to NOT drink or eat anything, just in case (thank you, Laura, for following your gut feeling and telling me this!!!!!!). Thankfully, my doctor was the one on call and knows my body and I very well and she asked me to head into Labor and Delivery for an NST. Neil was so wonderful and was going to take the morning off and I'd run in to be monitored and more than likely, be home in a couple of hours.
When I arrived to L&D and was hooked up, I was contracting every 6 minutes - doh! Since I was still only 35 weeks 3 days and had only had one steroid shot (the evening before) and more than likely, still hasn't done it's "magic" yet, they gave me a shot of brethine to calm down the contractions. Things looked good for about a half an hour and were calm, but contractions came back just as long and just as strong as the medicine started wearing off. I let Neil know a little before 11am what was going on and that the contractions were coming back, so he decided to head in and sit with me, but still had to get kiddos ready and drop them off at my mom's first. Then at 11:30am, three nurses knock on my door with their scrubs on and ask, "Do you know why we are wearing these?" Uh, I guess I do!!! And, then I grabbed my camera and took a picture to send to Neil as they started wheeling me away to prepare for surgery....
Oh boy!!! Guess this was going to be the birthday for our little guy!! I asked them how long we had and they said 12:15pm, so pretty much immediately and my husband wasn't even there yet! Thankfully, Neil showed up with plenty of time to spare, but what a surprise of a day for us all. My poor mom and my mother-in-law didn't even have enough food to feed our crews plus we had NOTHING packed for the hospital (including a real camera!!) since the section was scheduled for October 14th. We soon realized that none of this truly mattered - baby was coming early and we just had to say "yes" and trust God with his lungs and development and my uterus.
With all the prep and the anesthesiologist arriving a little late, our sweet little guy was born at 12:55pm and my c-section lasted about 40 minutes - pretty good for an 8th c-section. The NICU doctor looked at him real quick and after his raving apgars (8 and 9!!!) handed him off to the nurses and then to us. He roomed with us the entire time at the hospital and was breathing like a champ and had no preemie issues at all! And, very similar to Rose's section, I was very thin but doctor still had to cut into the uterine muscle, unlike with Pookey how there were windows and openings. How blessed I am to have a wonderful doctor and her partners for knowing how to handle my high risk pregnancies and deliveries!! And, how blessed I am to have such wonderful prayer warriors in my family and friends and our heavenly friends (Ven. Fulton J. Sheen for this pregnancy) and a wonderful God who has watched my baby and I this whole time and protected us from anything devastating that could have happened. I am one blessed and very grateful momma to be a given such a beautiful gift from God...
birthday: October 8, 2014
weight: 6 pounds 5.2 ounces
length: 18-1/2 inches
birth time: 12:55pm
Things went very well in the hospital and when our sweet baby was 52 hours old (just 2 days old!), we headed home where I knew I could be more comfortable and recover better, even with the noise and busyness of large family living. For me, that's all normal and I absolutely LOVE it!
And, now we need some help from our blog reading friends - we don't have a blog name for our little guy. Please share your ideas in comments. Right now, we are bouncing around "Mickey", "Yoda", "Bruiser" (did you notice the bruise on his little head??), but we cannot settle and agree on which name. Please help us out, will you???
++Thank you, God, for a smooth pregnancy and delivery and our beautiful new baby boy!!!++
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Baby novena - day 4
We're getting there!! Tonight I go in for my second round of steroids to pump up this little guy's lungs so he is ready and good to go to be born a month early. Thanks again for all your prayers - we know they will be answered in accordance to Our Maker's perfect and beautiful plan!! Here is the novena prayer for day 4...
Eternal Father, You alone grant us every blessing in Heaven and on earth, through the redemptive mission of Your Divine Son, Jesus Christ, by the working of the Holy Spirit. In every age, You raise up men and women outstanding in holiness, whose faithful service has contributed significantly to the mission of the Church. In this very way, You used the life and work of Your servant, Archbishop Fulton John Sheen. He inspired great numbers of Catholics and other people of good will to grow in virtue and lead lives pleasing to You and of service to their brothers and sisters in need. He encouraged them to embrace the 'Gospel of Life' by recognizing that in all its circumstances, 'Life is worth living.'
If it be according to Your Will, Eternal Father, glorify Your servant, Archbishop Fulton John Sheen, by granting the favor I now request through his prayerful intercession
for a safe and healthy remainder of the pregnancy and delivery in 6 days of baby Young one.
I make this prayer confidently in Jesus' Name, through the merits of His Passion, Death and Resurrection.
Amen.
For today's sharing on October's Respect Life month, I wanted to share the story of a good friend of mine, Miss Teresa!! (scroll down and read "Teresa's life story") She is the sweet momma who cuts my hair, encourages and prays with me and some other wonderful women weekly during our prayer group, a fellow homeschooler, but most of all just a delight of a friend and sister-in-Christ! Love her to pieces!! You can read about her pro-life story here at Christie's blog, 10 kids of one mom (who is an amazing momma too!)
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Eternal Father, You alone grant us every blessing in Heaven and on earth, through the redemptive mission of Your Divine Son, Jesus Christ, by the working of the Holy Spirit. In every age, You raise up men and women outstanding in holiness, whose faithful service has contributed significantly to the mission of the Church. In this very way, You used the life and work of Your servant, Archbishop Fulton John Sheen. He inspired great numbers of Catholics and other people of good will to grow in virtue and lead lives pleasing to You and of service to their brothers and sisters in need. He encouraged them to embrace the 'Gospel of Life' by recognizing that in all its circumstances, 'Life is worth living.'
If it be according to Your Will, Eternal Father, glorify Your servant, Archbishop Fulton John Sheen, by granting the favor I now request through his prayerful intercession
for a safe and healthy remainder of the pregnancy and delivery in 6 days of baby Young one.
I make this prayer confidently in Jesus' Name, through the merits of His Passion, Death and Resurrection.
Amen.
For today's sharing on October's Respect Life month, I wanted to share the story of a good friend of mine, Miss Teresa!! (scroll down and read "Teresa's life story") She is the sweet momma who cuts my hair, encourages and prays with me and some other wonderful women weekly during our prayer group, a fellow homeschooler, but most of all just a delight of a friend and sister-in-Christ! Love her to pieces!! You can read about her pro-life story here at Christie's blog, 10 kids of one mom (who is an amazing momma too!)
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