Our Kids

Lela (who loves music) was excited to tell me about a new song she learned in school today. I assumed it was with Teacher Aimee but when she started to sing it I began to wonder. It went like this:

I wish I was a little pot of piss
I wish I was a little pot of piss

Here I interrupted her and said, I am not sure those are the right words. She seemed a bit flustered and tried again, mind you she has never used the word piss and I don’t think she knows what a pot of piss is. She tried again and it came out the same, now she looked upset. She tried again and it came out like this:

I wish I was a hippopotamus
I wish I was a hippopotamus
I would hop and I would dive and I would jiggle and jibe (she didn’t get the ve)
Oh I wish I was a hippopotamus

I thought it was funny how she took a word that she did not know hippopotamus (we say hippo) and made it in to words that sounded like what Teacher Aimee was singing.

The girls wanted me to explain why and how the doctor could tell they were girls in my tummy from the ultrasound and how did they know Phoebe was a girl. So I was explaining it to them how it took a lot of practice and study for the technician to learn how to tell the difference. Well that was not good enough.

So I asked them if they looked the same naked as Daddy did. They laughed and said NO. Then Lela told me that daddy’s vagina was different from theirs and then went on to say how funny daddy’s vagina looked. HA HA! I decided not to tell them that it was not called a vagina since they seemed to be happy with the answers they got.

We have decided to tell the girls what things are when they ask and not to nickname body parts or trivialize the differences between men and women. We also are teaching them that those are things we talk about in private and not at school. We will see how it goes.

Landis is in a funky meltdown mode. I think it is a developmental spurt because she is not sleeping, not eating and melting down. She is not sick. She is also repeating all words, trying to spell things, say her alphabet and other language related things so I think her little brain is in overtime. I finally figured this morning if I let Lela and Piper play together and I play with Landis there is much more harmony in the house, at least for now. Phew glad I figured that one out the meltdowns were getting contagious.

Well I have been getting quite a few spontaneous I love yous from Piper and Lela. Piper has always been an I love you kind of girl where Lela has not but I have been getting them from her more frequently lately.

The other night I was putting Landis down to sleep, this involves me laying right next to her while she puts herself to sleep. While we were laying there she rolled over half asleep touched my face and said I love you mama. It was one of those moments where you were like, did that just happen? I was so glad that I was there in her last moments before sleep and that she went to sleep feeling loved by her family. That was a moment:)

A few months ago we bought the girls bunk beds. We have been using them unbunked and although they liked them it wasn’t helping with the coming in our room every night. Now that I am settling in and “nesting” I am ready to get rid of stuff we are not using and streamline. So we are moving things around and shaking things up, something I seem to do on a monthly basis.

This Saturday Jason bunked the beds. I really like our bunk beds because they are low, there is not a ton of clearance (for an adult) from the bottom bunk mattress to the bunk bed on top of it but Lela doesn’t seem to mind. Piper is in the top bunk and I am not worried about her up there. It has a great rail and she really doesn’t come in our room much and with the beds bunked I don’t think she will at all. Lela still came to visit us last night but we are working on that too. We will be removing the little beds from our room so as not to make it quite so inviting.

We have named all the girls before they were born and this is no exception. We wanted another P name to add to the long list of Ps in the family: Peggy, Paige, Paula, Piper and we also wanted to give her a name that meant a lot to us (other than our last name).

Drumroll please…….

Phoebe Melissa Haslup will arrive the first week of Feb if all things go as planned.

Melissa is my sister in law and we love and respect her tremendously and we wanted to honor her by giving her name to Phoebe.

So Mel, we love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck.

First the funny thing. Piper wanted the batteries changed in her walking, barking dog with all the ear infection drama I forgot. So she asked again. Then she asked again. Finally she brought it over the next day and said, “Mom can you fix my dog today all you have to do is (here she turned him over) put some batteries in his vagina.” HA HA HA!

The other funny thing is that Piper has picked up several of my sayings and added them to her repertoire here are a few:

What’s up with that?
Smack it up in a ding dong (this one cracks me up)
Are you for real?

The thing that is not so funny is that Landis has the double ear infection virus that Lela has. I knew something was up on Wednesday night and decided to take her in on Thursday since the weekend was coming. I am glad I did because she has the same virus and apparently it is one that has a of blood and pus behind it and causes the ear drums to burst. So the ped said her ear drums may burst and there may be a lot of blood (ewww) but not to worry. I think we caught it early enough that she is going to be okay. She definitely has a higher pain tolerance than Lela but is doing great now that we have started her on meds (motrin and antibiotics). This is her first round of antibiotics but I know it is warranted.

Anyhoo, the fun never ends here at Haslup house. One day we will get a full night sleep again (I know I am just dreaming right).

I can’t believe it has been so long since I posted. It is not like 100 things have not happened that are worth posting but of course I won’t remember 99 of them now, ha!

The girls have been very busy passing around a cold. Least of which landed Lela with a double ear infection and one of her ear drums burst. It was quite awful. We had been calling/going in to the doctor with an on again off again low grade fever but no diagnosis. We even had to do a urine sample which is fun for a 4 almost 5 year old but all was clear. We went in on Friday and all was clear, went in on Monday due to ear pain and whamoo double infection. Late that night, well really early the next morning her ear drum burst all over my pillow. Thankfully that ended her agony. Now we seem to be on the mend but that girl does not like to take medicine. She is so sweet but gets so spooked about things, I feel just awful but either I convince her to take it or I just shoot it down her throat, either way it doesn’t go over well.

I was just complaining how we have gone almost 5 years without antibiotics for the girls (once for Lela) and now she has been on them twice in a month. I do have her on probiotics as well so that makes me feel a little better but gah!

Landis’ nose starting running today so I figure we have picked up something else so we will see how that makes its rounds. Hopefully they will be creating tons of antibodies to fight off anything bigger and badder that is waiting for us this “winter.”

We will go to Costco tomorrow and load up on more fruits/veggies to boost our immune systems and keep washing our hands again, and again, and again:)