baby chicks

Tabor picks the same chick every-time.  It's name is scissors.

The HOA in our neighborhood doesn't allow chickens.  That is the sole reason I sometimes get the itch to move.  Robert and I love chickens.  The kids love chickens.  This year Grandma Lori said we could get some baby chicks and then move them into her coop when they are old enough.  This gives us a few short sweet weeks with chicks in our garage.  The kids hold them ALL OF THE TIME. So fun!

broken leg

Kitt broke her leg just over two weeks ago.  She was jumping on the trampoline with an older cousin.  Typical.  When I brought her into urgent care it was horrible. Due to being pregnant I was unable to be with her during her x-ray.  She FREAKED out, to say the least.  It took 3 people to pin her down.  Due to her experience in the x-ray room she was super wound up.  I held her hand and it still took 4 others to keep her still enough to wrap the splint.  They kept mentioning how strong she was.  They kept telling me to sing her songs.  At one point I did sing "the farmer and the del" but my singing voice is not the most soothing.  So I told stories instead.  That was also un-helpful.  After a half hour of crying she was just plain mad.  She was yelling things like "don't touch me ever again" and "get away from me".  I told her they were just putting on a band-aid and she glares right at me and says "I don't want a band-aid".  It was sad.

The 4 days in a splint were only ever so slightly better.  She couldn't put weight on it, leaving her without any independence.  I couldn't unload the dishwasher without being interrupted 8+ times (and I am not a slow un-loader).  She would ask for something she didn't really need and then add on in a sad little voice "I can't walk".  I had to do whatever she wanted.  At one point she insisted she wanted to ride her trike.  She was carried out on set on her trike.  She concentrated and tried and tried to ride that bike, then looks up and says "I can't do it".  

Now I have never broken a bone so I was imagining the entire healing process to be like this.  Not so.  We went in for her appointment to put on her cast.  I brought my mother with me (due to the horribleness of the last visit).  This one went WAY better.  My mom told stories (with props) and entertained the whole time.  She also carried her which kept me from the stomach cramps of the previous 4 days.  Kitt picked out a pink cast and was thrilled when the doctor offered to put sparkles on it.  Now she can put pressure on her leg and it doesn't slow her down a bit.  She is so much a happier.  A happy Kitt = a happy mom.  

Bahama Cruise

It has been a long time since we blogged.  Our main excuse has been that our camera has been having issues, but we got  new camera right before our cruise to the Bahamas, so now we just need to catch everyone up.  We went on a 7 day cruise with two of Robert's siblings, cousin and some friends of Robert's brother.  So there ended up being 6 couples and no kids!  However, I have to admit that I had a little bit of anxiety leaving the kids so long, since we have never done that before.

I really don't know where to start.  We ate so much food and enjoyed all the amenities that the ship had to offer.  We attended many of the nightly shows, spend time lounging around the pool, enjoyed our offshore excursions in the Bahamas and our one stop in Florida.

Our only negative experience was getting woken up early Easter Morning to a rocking ship.  We hit some stormy weather and the ship was really moving.  There were a lot of people on-board getting sick and I definitely was feeling it being 20 weeks pregnant.  Luckily it passed later that afternoon and we had smooth sailing the rest of the time.

After that one rough morning, I was ecstatic to get off at our first stop in Florida.  However, even most of the shops we explored in Port Canaveral seemed to rock a bit.  I turned to Robert in one of the shops and said "do you feel like we are moving?" Snorkeling was definitely a highlight and we were able to use our underwater camera which made it that much more fun.  Robert enjoyed posing for the pictures on sandy bottom.