Uncomfortable Questions From A 4 Year-Old

Tyler is very smart. We have known this for a while. For example, he is always pointing at words that we have not taught him and telling us what they say. He is a great brother and the recent birth of his sister has triggered a series of questions that make Lisa and I a little uncomfortable. The first one was this: "Daddy, what part of mommy's body did the baby come out of?" I thought about telling him that the belly button opens up, but I decided it was better to be honest and I told him that mommies have a special part below their bellies where babies can come out. He then turned to Lisa and said, "Oh, did it hurt?" The following are some of our favorite/most awkward questions that he has asked us in the last two weeks:

"Mommy, why is the baby eating out of your arm?"

"Mommy, why do you make milk like a cow?"

"Can you make the babies eyes blue like mine?"

"Mommy, when is your belly going to get big again?"

"When your belly gets big again, can it be a boy?"

Those are the few questions we can remember and/or feel comfortable sharing on the blog. Needless to say, we have to be very careful about what we talk about at our house!

More pictures

Here are a few more pictures of our baby girl. I'll try to write more later but we are all doing well.

Welcome Kate JaNae Muir!!!

Thursday, October 9th (10/09/08) Kate JaNae Muir was born at 6:22 pm. She weighs 7 lbs 6.5 oz and is 21 inches long. She has lots of dark hair and she looks a lot like her brother Zane did when he was born. Kate gave us a scare because her umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck pretty tightly. We were afraid because she was very silent when she first came out and wasn't breathing very strongly. However she quickly recovered and everything seemed okay for a while. Then in the nursery, her oxygen saturation kept dropping so they put her in the NICU to keep an eye on her. She had to be on oxygen for a few hours but they took it away this morning and she has been breathing well since. She is a great eater and took to breast feeding like an old pro. We are hoping to bring her home tomorrow evening or Sunday morning if all continues to go well. We strongly suspect that she is the cutest little girl ever (no offense to everybody else's little girls).This is when the NICU nurses were working on her right after birth. Thank goodness for great nurses!
Here is Kate with her mommy and me. I got to deliver her (don't worry, Dr. Leavitt was there for backup). Kate wasn't so sure she liked her first bath. . .
But she sure looked cuter with all the gunk off!

Lisa is doing well. She is tired and sore (she tore a bit). We are so excited to get her home. Her brothers think she is all right but they are a little turned off by all the wires connected to her in the NICU.

I got tagged....

I got tagged and now you will have to forgive the condition of my house seeing how I am 38 1/2 weeks prego and only have a husband on the weekend. I had to take pictures of 1. kitchen sink 2. my favorite room 3. fridge 4. closet 5. laundry room 6. self portrait 7. kids 8. dream vacation 9. favorite shoes 10. the bathroom

I hate doing dishes and the dishwasher was full.

My favorite room is the kitchen because I love to cook but there is no way I'm taking a picture of that right now, I'm already embarrassed to have to take pictures of my messy cluttered home.

My sweet husband just got back from shopping for me! Before it was bare

This is our coat/game closet.


My so called laundry room but really little closet.
Me.

My kids before going to bed.

Here is supposed to be my dream vacation but really the only dream I have is to get out of the country and see something different and unique and not have to take my children.

My favorite shoes, I know, I know I couldn't find the other boot and its not like I've been able to wear them the last few months anyway.


My bathroom in all its glory.

I will confess that I did clean up a little before I took some of the pictures because things have gotten crazy lately and I have little interest in deep cleaning at the moment seeing how I can barely move.

Anyway, I now tag Kaysie, Dallas, Becky and Jolynn. And for those that don't already know if I haven't had the baby by Thursday I'm getting induced on Thursday morning so stay posted for pictures and events.

Little trouble maker

So we have been having a difficult time keeping little Zane in his bed. He likes to sneak out of his room usually crying and throwing a fit and will keep it up for hours. We have tried everything, super nanny techniques and all, and nothing seems to be working. Brian can get him to wear down faster than I can but with Brian out of town most of the week, things aren't going well for mommy. So the other night Brian was home and thought he had gotten the kids to bed in a reasonably short amount of time. As he came out of our room, this is what he found, Zane had snuck out of his bed yet again and had posted himself outside our bedroom where Brian was. Unfortunately for Zane he was too tired to follow through with his usual routine and fell alseep on the floor. Even though its hard and challenging, finding him like this was really cute!!

Any suggestions for getting him to stay in bed I would gladly take. This is a fairly new development and I think it has something to do with the new baby on the way, but any help is welcome.