i sat for a group of artists last week and the photo your see in the heder is a snippet of a 2 minute sketch. i wanted to surprise daddyjay with some pics of me and i walked away with 4 that i love. not sure yet if i’ll put up 2′ x 3′ nude drawings in my house, but that one down there is one that will go in the baby’s room since it’s all belly and hands.
i’m going again in a few weeks when the belly is that much bigger and i’m that much more uncomfortable.
speaking of how i’m feeling…i’ve had lots of pelvic pressure and some pretty uncomfortable contractions. nothing to write home about, but it’s much different from the last 2. i didn’t feel a single contraction with the girls. the nurses would ask, “did you feel that? it was a big one,” and i’d just shrug. i definitely felt them with my mister, so i know these are just braxton hicks bad boys.
that’s what jeebs asked daddyjay last night. we’ve already told them that daddies have sperm and mommies have eggs that join together to make babies.
they wanted more.
they wanted to know how the sperm gets to the egg in the uterus. i went through it all and explained that a penis fits in a vagina and that’s one of the purposes of them. they didn’t get as grossed out by the whole ordeal as i thought they would, although gracie sat up and said,
“you mean you did that with us?!?”
“and you did that with this baby?”
“when?”
after i said last year in november, she said, “ok.” and was over it.
it was much less traumatic than i thought it would be. totally thought it would be more exciting. i guess i should consider myself lucky that they didn’t make a big damn deal about it.
the ladies and i made an end of the year present for ms. w. the rest of the photos can be seen over at flickr. i don’t know how to blog more than one photo at a time from flickr, so pardon me and go there to see those. too tired to cut and paste (which i’ve done in the past) as i’ve been going at it all day long.
we had an engagement party for aunt enemy and uncle alice. some photos of that too. daddyjay smoked 3 pork butts. did you know hat’s really from the hog’s shoulder? he’s good at smoking butts.
well, we have finally decided on a boy’s name. of course, i’m not divulging it, but it was on the list and it’s not my favorite (which was jasper,) but i do like it a lot. it’s even becoming more of a favorite than jasper clayton was. of course, we may be having a girl so all of this back and forth between me and daddyjay about a boy’s name could have been for naught. the girls don’t like the name, but we’ve explained that they don’t get to pick. and the bug says it in the cutest way.
now, we have to come up with a hebrew name for the boy’s name. here’s where i’ll ask for help from the rabbis at temple. since the girl’s name we have picked out is the one we were going to use when the boy was born, we’ll keep it. we already have a hebrew name for that one.
if, indeed, it is a boy, i’m not particularly looking forward to another bris. mainly because of the circumcision, not the religious ceremony.
i do love naming my children. this has been tons of fun. baby agrees and is kicking contentedly.
i need to find someone to sing jason’s part in this song with me. i love it. the lyrics, the melody, the harmony. wow. this is really good.
and yes. they were saying ‘buttocks.’ shrek says it in one of the movies. i thinks it’s the first one, when he gets shot in the ass by the arrow. i’ll have to watch them now.
you know what a butt hawk is? neither did i. i’ve been perplexed for 3 years by this term. the girls would moon each other and talk about their butt hawks all the time. any guesses? i’ll let you guess and give you the answer another day. maybe tomorrow, if i get around to it.
sex. the little ladies (mind you, they are 6 frickin’ years old!) asked daddyjay what sex was last week. he was reading a book to them, a children’s book about sprites, fairies, and other creatures that create different scents and stains. it’s a rather cute book, save for this one entry. it’s all about a fairy who makes armpit smells and you know what that means…pheromones. and you know what they said? sex, sex, sex. in a kid’s book, you ask? why yes. in a kid’s book. specifically, this one.
here’s the excerpt:
What is, perhaps, less well-known is the fact that Flettera Floralillia is obsessed by sex. In fact all the scents and aromas that she creates under our arms are directly aimed at sexual stimulation. Flettera is convinced that the under-arm area is the most erogenous of all zones and that it is enhanced by smells.
daddyjay stopped reading immediately and one of the gals said, “what’s sex?” he told them he’d have to think about how he wanted to talk to them about it. we talked a bit and i called the trusty aunt lu who i go to in most of these circumstances since she is a model parent. we ended up going with the basics. i told them sex is what mommies and daddies do to make babies. they didn’t ask any more questions. they were fine with that. i was glad that i took the time to think about how to answer, otherwise i would have gone into MUCH more detail and probably confused them completely. they know that babies are made from a sperm and an egg, but aren’t sure how they get together yet. they’ll learn someday. until then, i like my ladies to have 6 year-old knowledge.
my mom’s dad, grandpa fred, was a quiet man who i felt loved me more than anyone, even though he rarely spoke. it was in the way he would look at us and smile or beg to take our pictures every time we went to their house, which was often. i was in 8th grade when he died and on a field trip. the morning before i left for the day trip, my mom took me to the hospital to see him. i think she knew. i don’t remember my sister or brother being there and don’t know if they saw him that day, but when mom picked me up after school, i knew he died the second i got in the car. i was glad to have those few minutes to say good-bye that morning. there were so many things i never knew about him that i didn’t find out until after he passed away, but wouldn’t have changed how much i loved him and loved the smell of his cigar smoke. i can still picture him sitting on the back steps smoking one.
i barely knew grandpa fred’s dad, fred, sr., but remember him being just as quiet. he did a lot of genealogical research in our southern illinois county for the cemeteries. he plotted most of them. when i was in high school, i wanted to see his research and went to our town library to get the books out. the librarian told me that they were only for adults, but when i told her the author was by great grandpa, she let me check them out to a research table. i felt like i was let behind the velvet rope. no picture of this dandy at my house, but i know my mom has some.
my maw maw b’s dad, my grandad, would have loved my kids. he would have really been taken by my girls and would have been over the moon for the boy. i miss him like you wouldn’t believe, especially in the summertime when we used to go the their farm and eat fresh homemade pickles and strawberry jam made from their crops. he was a good ole’ boy and man i miss him. he wore beat up big smith overalls all the time and had the craziest cackle. as my maw maw b says, he was a corker with a goat-eating-briar grin. i don’t have any candid shots here, but need some, as this church photo doesn’t remind me much of him. no overalls, you know?
i never met my dad’s dad as he passed away just after my dad graduated college. i did run across some pictures of him recently while cleaning at my parent’s house. it was near the end and he was so small. i think he died of cancer, lung cancer, if i’m correct. and he smoked until his dying day. his wife was the same way except that she had emphysema.
i did know my dad’s step-dad, who was my grandpa carl. they lived in florida, though, so we didn’t see them all that much. he was fun. i remember him killing a garter snake in their yard once when we were visiting. and picking limes with him to give to grandma to make limeade. yum.
my kids are lucky that they have 11 grandparents including my folks, daddyjay’s folks and both sets of his grandparents, my maw maw b, and grammy and capt. grandpa in arizona. the girls will remember them all and i am so happy for that. hopefully, the boy and this next one will know and love them all too.
i’m sure i have something interesting going on, but can’t quite figure out what it is. here’s a short rundown:
-i’m 24 weeks and 2 days pregnant
-we keep baby types surprises
-we have a girl’s name picked out
-I have a boy’s name picked out
-i have yet to convince daddyjay that that is the name we’ll use
-here’s the short list of boy names
milo
spencer (called spence)
tucker (called tuck)
malcolm
brody
jasper
cooper
-my favorite is in there somewhere
-i’m thinking of asking the ob if i can see the u/s pictures to see if i can figure out if it’s a boy or a girl, then i can see if i need to fight it or just be happy i already have a girl name.
-i’m thinking of using my kids’s and husband’s names on the blog
-we have a squirrel family living in our crawl space
-along with 2 squirrel skeletons and a bird skeleton
-critter control has been to our house and set traps
-i used to be in a band
-i was the lead singer
-we made a cd
-i miss it
going to bed now. i’ll see what’s in store for friday flashbacks in the morning and try to post again.
the first movie i can remember seeing has got to be e.t. this was 1982 and i don’t remember much about it, except that i cried when e.t. died. i was only 3, so i’m not surprised i don’t remember much besides the emotion and the dark theater.
i distinctly remember waiting in line at the old movie theater in the mall of my hometown…and this line was loooooooooooong. it snaked out of the theater in a big U-shape down to the entrance.
i still love this movie. i’m not sure what impact it had one me, aside from being one of my first movie memory, but it was like the spongebob of my time. the muppets were everywhere when i was 6. movies, merchandising, mcdonald’s happy meal toys. it was muppet mania, as was apparent by the superbly long line at the theater. i guess e.t. was 2 years before, i just don’t remember as much about that one.
i’m not linking others since i have to go get my kiddos outside. maybe i will later.
