It is Martin Luther King Day. The kids know who he was and what he did that was so special. I like that. During Church the day before, Trent saw Brenden drawing a person and asked who it was. B said it was Martin Luther. So even in a Mormon church you will find the peripheral influence of a black man who tried to make the world a better place for those he loved more than 40 years ago.
I had planned to wake up late and let all the kids sleep in, but plans changed. My Mom said she wanted to take us all out for breakfast and let the kids play at the Container Park downtown. (That was later voted down once we heard there was going to be a parade downtown...traffic and congestion with little grandkids running around wasn't going to be our ideal morning, so we opted for a breakfast joint closer to home).
I was going to pick Mom up at 8:30 and take her to meet up with Court and her 2 kids at Babystacks. But when I had everyone in the car at 8:15am and turned the key, nothing happened. In disbelief and a slow rising anger festering, I tried again. Did I think somehow the car would magically change from dead battery to life? No go.
So, I called Mom. Called Trent. Knocked on 3 neighbor doors with no luck and then called Trent again to come save us. He promptly arrived within 20 minutes and pushed my car out onto the driveway while I served as the brake master. Within 5 minutes my van was up and purring beautifully. I called the kids back into the car and we almost forgot Kent's jacket. Brenden thought he was being helpful by bringing it inside when we unloaded the car to wait for Trent...luckily we someone noticed it was not present and accounted for before we left the driveway.
Just down our community's street, I see that my gas gauge says I have 4 miles left in my tank. I tell the kids to pray that we'll make it to the gas station without having to push the car...and somehow am able to putt into the nearest gas station after having to make a turn in the opposite direction toward Mom's house.
Two small diversions that were unavoidable, but thankfully turned out much better than it could have.
After finding an hour wait at Babystacks, we try another restaurant. It was delicious. Kids tummies were happy. Mommies bellies were satisfied. Then it was off to Grandma's house again to let the kids roam free and play together. They went straight to the backyard and soon had swords, light sabers, balls and ride on cars going. Court, Mom and I got to sit around the kitchen table and talk. So nice.
After putting Kent to bed, I ran to a kids store and picked up a swing for baby Dean. Bless this invention....has allowed me to make dinner, fold laundry and otherwise get tasks done that I wouldn't be able to with a screaming baby who cannot yet self soothe.
I walk into my parents house after the store and see Poppy with Brenden and Kyleigh on either side of him watching Disney short films. One was called "Paperwork" or something to that effect and it was very cute. Another one was Goofy trying to install his surround sound speaker system and giant screen tv before the big football game.
Got home in time to make dinner for the family before Trent arrived home from work. After clean up, we sat down on the couch and had a 'Planning meeting' for FHE in which we scheduled all the assignments and activities and lesson ideas from January to June. Feels so good to have a plan.
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Monday, January 18, 2016
Sunday, January 17, 2016
Last night/early this morning, I drove myself to the Summerlin Hospital Labor and Delivery to make sure that baby Dean is ok. On Friday, I felt like I might be leaking amniotic fluid, but it wasn't constant so I didn't do anything about it. Saturday I felt a little, but again not constant or alot like with Kent, so I didn't go get checked. I did call the doctor office and the nurse paged the doctor on call (twice-and he never responded either time), so Trent and I just prayed that baby was ok and that we would be directed regarding what to do....and then went to bed. At 3:30am I woke up very suddenly with a weird dream. After trying to go back to sleep, I quietly asked if I should go to the hospital to have them check. When I couldn't rouse baby Dean to make any movements, I finally decided to be sure that he was ok and go to the hospital. Leaking amniotic fluid, as important to know if that's the true case or not, having a non-responsive baby fetal movements worried me most. So I got dressed, woke Trent up at 3:45am and told him that I was driving myself to the hospital to get checked out and I would call him if anything happened.
Had to park at the ER entrance since that's the only door that's open. Go to 2nd floor, tell the nurses what's going on and receive direction on where to change and leave a urine sample to be tested. Got hooked up to monitors and the moment I heard the baby's strong heartbeat via the monitor, my own heart slowed and I was calmed. Now, at least, whatever came next...whether it is or isn't amniotic fluid...I didn't care. Baby was ok. If it is amniotic fluid, I have to deliver the baby within 24 hours to avoid bacteria getting into the sac and causing infection for baby. Nurse said she wanted to test urine first and then would do the amniotic fluid test. She came back and said that I must drink alot of water because my sample was perfect. Well, Trent and Brenden don't call me a camel for no reason..... :)
We did the amniotic fluid test and it came out negative. I was very relieved as baby Dean would be too early as of yet. I'd like his lungs to develop further before he breathes this outside air. I finished my pre-registration paperwork for when I do deliver the baby and the nurse still hadn't come back in as she said she would to unhook me from all the monitors, so I unhooked myself, wiped off that gooey jelly from my belly, got dressed and walked out to the front desk. She had to print my discharge papers still, so I waited for that, signed that I was "ambulating" myself home, and 2 hours later, I crawled back into bed.
Trent woke up at around 7 and asked if everything was ok, I told him yes. He asked if I had called him, I said no, baby is ok so there was no need to wake you up. He got all the kids ready for Church...including fixing them eggs and toast and printing off his lesson for Young Men.
I was just happy for the rest of the day that baby is ok and thankfully, baby Dean was kicking and a whole lot more lively as well....I sure like to feel him inside. Healthy baby=happy momma.
Had to park at the ER entrance since that's the only door that's open. Go to 2nd floor, tell the nurses what's going on and receive direction on where to change and leave a urine sample to be tested. Got hooked up to monitors and the moment I heard the baby's strong heartbeat via the monitor, my own heart slowed and I was calmed. Now, at least, whatever came next...whether it is or isn't amniotic fluid...I didn't care. Baby was ok. If it is amniotic fluid, I have to deliver the baby within 24 hours to avoid bacteria getting into the sac and causing infection for baby. Nurse said she wanted to test urine first and then would do the amniotic fluid test. She came back and said that I must drink alot of water because my sample was perfect. Well, Trent and Brenden don't call me a camel for no reason..... :)
We did the amniotic fluid test and it came out negative. I was very relieved as baby Dean would be too early as of yet. I'd like his lungs to develop further before he breathes this outside air. I finished my pre-registration paperwork for when I do deliver the baby and the nurse still hadn't come back in as she said she would to unhook me from all the monitors, so I unhooked myself, wiped off that gooey jelly from my belly, got dressed and walked out to the front desk. She had to print my discharge papers still, so I waited for that, signed that I was "ambulating" myself home, and 2 hours later, I crawled back into bed.
Trent woke up at around 7 and asked if everything was ok, I told him yes. He asked if I had called him, I said no, baby is ok so there was no need to wake you up. He got all the kids ready for Church...including fixing them eggs and toast and printing off his lesson for Young Men.
I was just happy for the rest of the day that baby is ok and thankfully, baby Dean was kicking and a whole lot more lively as well....I sure like to feel him inside. Healthy baby=happy momma.
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Wednesday January 13, 2016
Kent ran into my room as I was reading on my Kindle. He saw his train track on the floor and got down to start rolling the train cars around the track. Kyleigh soon came in and he got her to play with him...she's easily convinced as she likes having a buddy to run around with just as much as he.
Later, in the tub, Brenden and Kent were done washing up, so I left to grab Kent's pj's and let them play around in the water for a bit. When I come back, I hear Brenden telling Kent that the boat is in a rain storm! Watch out! And they carry on together...full on imagination going on...who knows: sinking ships? tough sailors? did anyone survive? I will never know. I forgot to ask them.
Kyleigh chose and set up the Lion King board game after I asked her what fun thing they wanted to do after homework was done. She had to wait an agonizingly long time for Brenden to finish his homework and for me to finish writing my thank you note to my parents for their Christmas gifts. (I was also looking into sports leagues schedules and pricing for the kids this winter season).
She saw me writing them a note, so she drew them a picture of kids playing at a pool and thought they could post her picture in their "pool aria".
I sent my family a picture text of some of Brenden and Kyleigh's spelling that came home in their backpacks this last weekend. It was pretty funny stuff. B wrote "cherofee" for trophy. Kyleigh wrote puncuwashune for punctuation and as I sounded out the letters, it made me smile. She also wrote caoint for count, and tramplein for trampoline.
Little Kent starting to talk and the older two starting to write stories (B brought one home he made up about a dragon and soldiers and people in a castle and the dragon can both breath ice and fire...and the dragon stole the people's baby so the people tried to trick the dragon to get it back...very clever). I kept that story and put it in my middle drawer of my nightstand to place in his baby book to keep forever.
I love being a Mom. I am so grateful I get to be present for all these great memories. How fleeting they are and how special because they are the pieces to each of their personalities.
Brenden said something to me after he got home from school that sure made me happy. I asked him what snack he wanted and told him how much I missed him while he was gone to school. He said he was so happy that I was his momma. I grabbed his face and said if I wasn't his mom, I would go search for him because I love him so much, I want to keep him. These kinds of things maybe stick with the kids longer than I think because many hours later, when they're going upstairs to get ready for bed, he yells down the staircase, "Mom, would you sell me for one thousand dollars?" I tell him no. Then he asks if I would for two thousand? I repeat my same answer as before. Maybe he just likes to know the dollar value I hold for him :) These kids sure are my favorite treasure.
Glad I get to have another one to climb onto my lap (like Kent did tonight as we watched 1 episode of Bugs Bunny before bed...because it was a motivation to shower quickly...and sitting right next to him wasn't close enough. Halfway through the movie, he climbed right onto my 8 month pregnant belly's lap). I loved it and just endured the 'crowded quarters' while it lasted.
It was a good day.
Later, in the tub, Brenden and Kent were done washing up, so I left to grab Kent's pj's and let them play around in the water for a bit. When I come back, I hear Brenden telling Kent that the boat is in a rain storm! Watch out! And they carry on together...full on imagination going on...who knows: sinking ships? tough sailors? did anyone survive? I will never know. I forgot to ask them.
Kyleigh chose and set up the Lion King board game after I asked her what fun thing they wanted to do after homework was done. She had to wait an agonizingly long time for Brenden to finish his homework and for me to finish writing my thank you note to my parents for their Christmas gifts. (I was also looking into sports leagues schedules and pricing for the kids this winter season).
She saw me writing them a note, so she drew them a picture of kids playing at a pool and thought they could post her picture in their "pool aria".
I sent my family a picture text of some of Brenden and Kyleigh's spelling that came home in their backpacks this last weekend. It was pretty funny stuff. B wrote "cherofee" for trophy. Kyleigh wrote puncuwashune for punctuation and as I sounded out the letters, it made me smile. She also wrote caoint for count, and tramplein for trampoline.
Little Kent starting to talk and the older two starting to write stories (B brought one home he made up about a dragon and soldiers and people in a castle and the dragon can both breath ice and fire...and the dragon stole the people's baby so the people tried to trick the dragon to get it back...very clever). I kept that story and put it in my middle drawer of my nightstand to place in his baby book to keep forever.
I love being a Mom. I am so grateful I get to be present for all these great memories. How fleeting they are and how special because they are the pieces to each of their personalities.
Brenden said something to me after he got home from school that sure made me happy. I asked him what snack he wanted and told him how much I missed him while he was gone to school. He said he was so happy that I was his momma. I grabbed his face and said if I wasn't his mom, I would go search for him because I love him so much, I want to keep him. These kinds of things maybe stick with the kids longer than I think because many hours later, when they're going upstairs to get ready for bed, he yells down the staircase, "Mom, would you sell me for one thousand dollars?" I tell him no. Then he asks if I would for two thousand? I repeat my same answer as before. Maybe he just likes to know the dollar value I hold for him :) These kids sure are my favorite treasure.
Glad I get to have another one to climb onto my lap (like Kent did tonight as we watched 1 episode of Bugs Bunny before bed...because it was a motivation to shower quickly...and sitting right next to him wasn't close enough. Halfway through the movie, he climbed right onto my 8 month pregnant belly's lap). I loved it and just endured the 'crowded quarters' while it lasted.
It was a good day.
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
New Years
My first resolution for this new year 2016, is to be a better 'recorder'. I'd like to make sure our family's history is written down and not forgotten. So many wonderful moments and memories happen and I swear to myself that I will never forget that...only to later regret it was not written down. So, here's to a better recorded 2016!
For New Year's day, Steph and John and their two girls were in town, so we took family pictures in my parent's den with their large floor to ceiling bookshelves as our backdrop. I loved that idea. Then our photographer had some cute ideas of having the grandkids underneath the desk with Poppy in the big chair and the rest of the grandkids all over him around the desk. Grandma and the grandkids went to the backyard and they all tried jumping in the air at the same time. Those pictures will be funny to view later to see which kids were successful and which ones only thought they got off the ground.
Then, we went to Grimaldi's for lunch while Court and Jared met his family for Dim Som (?). Then we went to Red Rock for some bowling fun. All the grandkids were on one lane with the bumpers up. Then Mom, Dad, Trent and I. Then John Steph, Maddy, Landon and Scotty on the 3rd lane. Dad and Steph were really good. They got about 120 range. I think I lost in my group. On our way out Scott and Dad just kept bowling everyone's turns. Scott got two strikes in a row. It was cool to see them enjoy it so much. I don't even remember the last time our whole family went bowling. Afterward we went home for kids to nap and the boys (John, Jared, Landon and Trent) went golfing. Mom, Steph and Court rolled out the gingerbread dough that Maddy had made and started cutting out little men, stars and house pieces. After they were almost done baking, the boys came home and we started making dinner for the kids. After they ate, we set out all the candies and frosting colors in bowls and let the kids go to town on the decorating. Some interesting creations for sure! The adults made the gingerbread houses for us to take to the shooting range the next day :)
The next day we met at 10 at my parents house to caravan down past Boulder city to find a shooting range. That way Steph and John could just take off for Phoenix right after. Jared brought his new shotgun and we all took turns having someone throw clay pigeons in the air and we try to shoot them down. Steph, Maddy and I all got 1. You get 2 tries, and we got 1 out of 2. John never got one :) I think Trent, Landon and Jared did. I can't remember if Scotty did or not.
We had our gingerbread houses, cardboard box and metal squirrel targets set up against a small hill. Dad set up his bullets and gun station on a white fold out table and we put on a movie inside Dad's car for the little ones to watch to keep warm and safe from open fire :) It was a real nice set up and a good time. After hugging the Cannons good-bye, we had leftovers for lunch at my parents and then went home to put Kent down for a nap and get some Saturday chores done at the house.
Monday: I carried in 2 cabinets and the homework station for the kids into the kitchen from the garage. I put the cabinets on our gray rug to slide it along the wood floor so I wouldn't scratch the flooring. Then I looked around and found some wood that looked like it could be the top of the cabinets. It fit! Then I found some wood that could be the cupboard doors for the cabinets. And they fit! So all we have to do is buy some hinges and connect the top shelf pieces and we have a custom kitchen unit :) Trent even liked it. Now we have to decide what color to paint it. It is unfinished. I also took the white end table that was in the downstairs bathroom with the bows and arrows inside the basket upstairs next to my nursing chair so I could put a lamp (that I got for free from Janessa Wilstead) and some books and when baby Dean arrives, it will be where i put his binky, burp clothes, etc. So handy!! I love it when I don't have to spend money and the decorating gets done. Then I pulled our Target $1 burlap mini table runner from our kitchen table to the entry way dresser and put our two candle pieces on each side, took a fake flower box with cream flowers inside off the entertainment center shelf and put that in the middle with a tiny picture of Kyleigh and Brenden on each side that I took from the window shelf in the kitchen :) It turned out looking very well pieced together....and all from various decor stuff that I had from different parts of the house. It was nice when Trent came home and he said he liked it. (I think he was most happy that I didn't spend a dime and I made the entry way look classy). :) Win-win for the Sorensen household!
Well, I'm off to my 32 or 34 week ultrasound. Can't wait to see this little baby kicking and rolling around inside of me on the big screen. I love him so much already!
For New Year's day, Steph and John and their two girls were in town, so we took family pictures in my parent's den with their large floor to ceiling bookshelves as our backdrop. I loved that idea. Then our photographer had some cute ideas of having the grandkids underneath the desk with Poppy in the big chair and the rest of the grandkids all over him around the desk. Grandma and the grandkids went to the backyard and they all tried jumping in the air at the same time. Those pictures will be funny to view later to see which kids were successful and which ones only thought they got off the ground.
Then, we went to Grimaldi's for lunch while Court and Jared met his family for Dim Som (?). Then we went to Red Rock for some bowling fun. All the grandkids were on one lane with the bumpers up. Then Mom, Dad, Trent and I. Then John Steph, Maddy, Landon and Scotty on the 3rd lane. Dad and Steph were really good. They got about 120 range. I think I lost in my group. On our way out Scott and Dad just kept bowling everyone's turns. Scott got two strikes in a row. It was cool to see them enjoy it so much. I don't even remember the last time our whole family went bowling. Afterward we went home for kids to nap and the boys (John, Jared, Landon and Trent) went golfing. Mom, Steph and Court rolled out the gingerbread dough that Maddy had made and started cutting out little men, stars and house pieces. After they were almost done baking, the boys came home and we started making dinner for the kids. After they ate, we set out all the candies and frosting colors in bowls and let the kids go to town on the decorating. Some interesting creations for sure! The adults made the gingerbread houses for us to take to the shooting range the next day :)
The next day we met at 10 at my parents house to caravan down past Boulder city to find a shooting range. That way Steph and John could just take off for Phoenix right after. Jared brought his new shotgun and we all took turns having someone throw clay pigeons in the air and we try to shoot them down. Steph, Maddy and I all got 1. You get 2 tries, and we got 1 out of 2. John never got one :) I think Trent, Landon and Jared did. I can't remember if Scotty did or not.
We had our gingerbread houses, cardboard box and metal squirrel targets set up against a small hill. Dad set up his bullets and gun station on a white fold out table and we put on a movie inside Dad's car for the little ones to watch to keep warm and safe from open fire :) It was a real nice set up and a good time. After hugging the Cannons good-bye, we had leftovers for lunch at my parents and then went home to put Kent down for a nap and get some Saturday chores done at the house.
Monday: I carried in 2 cabinets and the homework station for the kids into the kitchen from the garage. I put the cabinets on our gray rug to slide it along the wood floor so I wouldn't scratch the flooring. Then I looked around and found some wood that looked like it could be the top of the cabinets. It fit! Then I found some wood that could be the cupboard doors for the cabinets. And they fit! So all we have to do is buy some hinges and connect the top shelf pieces and we have a custom kitchen unit :) Trent even liked it. Now we have to decide what color to paint it. It is unfinished. I also took the white end table that was in the downstairs bathroom with the bows and arrows inside the basket upstairs next to my nursing chair so I could put a lamp (that I got for free from Janessa Wilstead) and some books and when baby Dean arrives, it will be where i put his binky, burp clothes, etc. So handy!! I love it when I don't have to spend money and the decorating gets done. Then I pulled our Target $1 burlap mini table runner from our kitchen table to the entry way dresser and put our two candle pieces on each side, took a fake flower box with cream flowers inside off the entertainment center shelf and put that in the middle with a tiny picture of Kyleigh and Brenden on each side that I took from the window shelf in the kitchen :) It turned out looking very well pieced together....and all from various decor stuff that I had from different parts of the house. It was nice when Trent came home and he said he liked it. (I think he was most happy that I didn't spend a dime and I made the entry way look classy). :) Win-win for the Sorensen household!
Well, I'm off to my 32 or 34 week ultrasound. Can't wait to see this little baby kicking and rolling around inside of me on the big screen. I love him so much already!
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