Time on my hands
Hi all, this is Jera. Allie and Julianna have completed their first week of school which means I'm slightly less busy with time to help Brad blog.
Back-to-school-time is bittersweet. I miss them, but they were ready to go. It's also nice for them to get the affirmation and guidance from someone who is not Mom.
Allie is now a third grader. Julianna is in first. Lily starts school next Wednesday which means our baby will be a schoolgirl. I don't want to think about that yet, so more on that when the time comes.
Allie is responsible, kind-hearted, and funny. She likes to work. Even when she was a baby, she preferred challenging puzzles and games to playing pretend. She's adamant on making others happy, so she always tries her best with everything she does. She was cooperative even in labor and delivery. Allie was born on July 18, 2000 at 8:24 AM. She was born one week early and I was only in labor for 8 hours. I swear, from the moment I laid eyes on her, I could communicate with her. I don't remember having that feeling about my other two newborns, but with Allie, she could tell me everything she needed to in an instant. She walked at 9 months and talked at 10 months with her first word being "balloon".
Julianna, on the other hand, is our easy-going, free-spirited, always-in-character middle child. If she's not being Ariel, she's Miley or Hannah or Sharpay from HSM. She walks around the house with a little strut, shaking her hair, and talking to me as though she's 25. I'm only Mom if she's tired, hungry, or sick, otherwise I'm her sidekick. When it's time for homework, she sits at the kitchen island staring out the window or talking, talking, talking....whatever it takes NOT to put pencil to paper. When she was born, and the nurses would bring her to me in the night, I always knew she was coming because she was screaming. Not crying. And nothing's changed....she's still as dramatic as the moment she entered this world on April 8, 2002 at 6:53 PM.
And along came Lily, who's been full of surprises even before she took a breath. She arrived on April 13, 2005 at 8:13 PM (weighing 7 lbs. 13 oz...13 must be her lucky number). At 27 weeks, she tried to make an appearance but after 3 days of some nasty drugs, contractions stopped and, ironically, I went 5 days overdue. At least her delivery was easy. Lily loves being the baby in our family. She works it too. She does a good job keeping up with her big sisters which makes her seem to grow up so fast. She still has that cute little kid voice and pronounces many words in her own little way so we're trying to drink it all in before she grows up. She puts her little hands on her hips and talks to me like she's in charge.
They are all precious, happy, and absolutely adorable. And I'm not just saying that because I'm their mother. Just ask their dad.
Allie is now a third grader. Julianna is in first. Lily starts school next Wednesday which means our baby will be a schoolgirl. I don't want to think about that yet, so more on that when the time comes.
Allie is responsible, kind-hearted, and funny. She likes to work. Even when she was a baby, she preferred challenging puzzles and games to playing pretend. She's adamant on making others happy, so she always tries her best with everything she does. She was cooperative even in labor and delivery. Allie was born on July 18, 2000 at 8:24 AM. She was born one week early and I was only in labor for 8 hours. I swear, from the moment I laid eyes on her, I could communicate with her. I don't remember having that feeling about my other two newborns, but with Allie, she could tell me everything she needed to in an instant. She walked at 9 months and talked at 10 months with her first word being "balloon".
Julianna, on the other hand, is our easy-going, free-spirited, always-in-character middle child. If she's not being Ariel, she's Miley or Hannah or Sharpay from HSM. She walks around the house with a little strut, shaking her hair, and talking to me as though she's 25. I'm only Mom if she's tired, hungry, or sick, otherwise I'm her sidekick. When it's time for homework, she sits at the kitchen island staring out the window or talking, talking, talking....whatever it takes NOT to put pencil to paper. When she was born, and the nurses would bring her to me in the night, I always knew she was coming because she was screaming. Not crying. And nothing's changed....she's still as dramatic as the moment she entered this world on April 8, 2002 at 6:53 PM.
And along came Lily, who's been full of surprises even before she took a breath. She arrived on April 13, 2005 at 8:13 PM (weighing 7 lbs. 13 oz...13 must be her lucky number). At 27 weeks, she tried to make an appearance but after 3 days of some nasty drugs, contractions stopped and, ironically, I went 5 days overdue. At least her delivery was easy. Lily loves being the baby in our family. She works it too. She does a good job keeping up with her big sisters which makes her seem to grow up so fast. She still has that cute little kid voice and pronounces many words in her own little way so we're trying to drink it all in before she grows up. She puts her little hands on her hips and talks to me like she's in charge.
They are all precious, happy, and absolutely adorable. And I'm not just saying that because I'm their mother. Just ask their dad.
posted by Sticks and Stones @ 2:48 PM
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