Sunday, December 14, 2008
Life is going to be very different!
I finally learned how to blog from my i-phone! Watch out I will be posting like a mad woman! But not tonight because I am going to start packing for our trip to Disney World!!!
It's all over
Akiva thinks the perks of being the fourth child are amazing!
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Have I mentioned
Half of our family is sick. Matt, Jordan, and Akiva are sick. Lior has a runny nose and I am trying to stay away from all the "boogers", it is not easy. I tried to get Matt to sleep upstairs with the baby last night to breath in all the soothing vapors. He came back at two in the morning, I think he is doing his best to infect me. Everyone needs to start feeling better soon because when Jordan is sick she is a total misery. She just wants to be held and does not want to share the lap with the big kids. Thank goodness she will share with the baby because he wants to be held all the time too. Can you feel my pain???
Lets hope the forecast has less snot in my future.
Lets hope the forecast has less snot in my future.
I have been thinking
I have been thinking and thinking and thinking. When I have not been thinking I have been stressing. I have been doing a lot of stressing. It seems that as soon as I paid for our vacation to Disney World I realized we were broke. That very day Matt found out he needed over two thousand dollars in dental work (another reason why I refuse to go to the dentist). We made the decision to go anyway because what the hell, the kids are only young once and the economy can not be bad forever!
So we are going away on what could be the last vacation we take for a VERY long time. While I have been in a funk over my realization an interesting thing happened, I was offered a position teaching at the girls school. A part time position which would enable Sydney and Lior to attend school more often but left me at a loss as what to do with Akiva and Jordan. That made me think more and stress more but it led to some important decisions. The first and most important decision I made is that I do not want to go back to work. I want to spend as much time with the kids as I can. I always say that I want to spend time with the kids now because they like me now and want to spend time with me. I know there will be a time when this is not the case. I also know that I have to go back to work to some degree. I think that I might be able to see some clients privately to make the extra money we need to make ends meet. The beauty of this plan is that I can do it while the big girls are at school. Hopefully my mom will be able to watch the two little guys while I am working but I am working on a back up plan if she can not.
The second major decision I have made is to pull the girls out of school next year. We just can not afford it. It breaks my heart because they love it but Jordan also needs to start going to school next year and three tuition's cost about the same as an entry level Honda Civic. This decision has been the hardest. I feel bad because Jordan will not get the same opportunities Sydney and Lior did. She will not have the same early Jewish experiences and education, that is the hardest thing for me to deal with. Maybe by the time Akiva is ready we will be able to afford it. I am looking into some early childhood programs that are less expensive and have found a few that will fit the budget. Jordan and I will be trying some out as soon as I order her birth certificate.
I have made some other decisions of late but these decisions are the ones that have been weighing heaviest on my mind. I hope I have made the right decisions for the kids and for me. One thing I know for sure, I need a vacation.
So we are going away on what could be the last vacation we take for a VERY long time. While I have been in a funk over my realization an interesting thing happened, I was offered a position teaching at the girls school. A part time position which would enable Sydney and Lior to attend school more often but left me at a loss as what to do with Akiva and Jordan. That made me think more and stress more but it led to some important decisions. The first and most important decision I made is that I do not want to go back to work. I want to spend as much time with the kids as I can. I always say that I want to spend time with the kids now because they like me now and want to spend time with me. I know there will be a time when this is not the case. I also know that I have to go back to work to some degree. I think that I might be able to see some clients privately to make the extra money we need to make ends meet. The beauty of this plan is that I can do it while the big girls are at school. Hopefully my mom will be able to watch the two little guys while I am working but I am working on a back up plan if she can not.
The second major decision I have made is to pull the girls out of school next year. We just can not afford it. It breaks my heart because they love it but Jordan also needs to start going to school next year and three tuition's cost about the same as an entry level Honda Civic. This decision has been the hardest. I feel bad because Jordan will not get the same opportunities Sydney and Lior did. She will not have the same early Jewish experiences and education, that is the hardest thing for me to deal with. Maybe by the time Akiva is ready we will be able to afford it. I am looking into some early childhood programs that are less expensive and have found a few that will fit the budget. Jordan and I will be trying some out as soon as I order her birth certificate.
I have made some other decisions of late but these decisions are the ones that have been weighing heaviest on my mind. I hope I have made the right decisions for the kids and for me. One thing I know for sure, I need a vacation.
Swinging
We took the kids to the park the day after Thanksgiving (Can you believe that it has taken me so long to post the pictures?). There were not enough swings for everyone so I decided that my kids could share. Lior shared with Jordan
and Akiva. 
Jordan shared with Akiva, Sydney and Lior.
Sydney shared with Akiva 
and enjoyed pushing Jordan and Akiva! 
It is a good thing they are small and fun was had by all!
and Akiva. 
Jordan shared with Akiva, Sydney and Lior.
Sydney shared with Akiva 
and enjoyed pushing Jordan and Akiva! 
It is a good thing they are small and fun was had by all!
Good hairdays
It does not happen often but when it does I can not resist their cute little faces. I love how the girls look with their up but they will not let me do it often and they do not leave it in for long. But when they do leave it in they just look so cute! 
Lior has been leaving it in the pony tail longer but when she takes out the holder she destroys it. 
Sydney keeps taking the holder out and asks every five minutes for it to be put back in and after the fiftieth time I loose my patience. I can not even get Jordan to leave it in long enough to take a picture but she also likes to play the "put it back in game".
Lior has been leaving it in the pony tail longer but when she takes out the holder she destroys it. 
Sydney keeps taking the holder out and asks every five minutes for it to be put back in and after the fiftieth time I loose my patience. I can not even get Jordan to leave it in long enough to take a picture but she also likes to play the "put it back in game".
Akiva at eight months (almost)
It is completely blowing my mind. Akiva will be eight months in the matter of days. How can he be doing even more wonderful things? 
He held a bottle on his own the very first time I gave him one and likes sliding down the slide with his more than eager sisters. 
Everyone wanted to hold him going down the slide, they take turns. 
Now they like going down in a line. It is amazing he did not even cry when he landed in the grass. I am going to have very tough kids because of my need to take photos of every little thing!
Akiva is pretty much refusing to take food from the spoon preferring to shovel in as much food as humanly possible on his own. He has eaten macaroni and cheese, canned pears, rice, cream cheese sandwiches (without the cranberries!), boiled carrots, matzoh balls, hummus sandwiches, and of course our favorite Cheerios!
He has decided that even though grass looks good it is not a great snack! He has also started drinking from a sippy cup, by himself! I went and got him one with handles so he can maneuver it better but he knows he wants to drink out of that cup! 
I am going to skip the bottle all together and just put him right on a sippy cup.
Akiva decided that he liked standing in his crib so he decided to do it himself. Matt needs to lower the crib in our bedroom because he is no longer safe. He has started to pull himself up on toys around the house. As you can imagine when he pulls himself up on a doll stroller the results are not what he expects.
Akiva loves clapping hands and will even do it on command, most of the time. His favorite pastime seems to be playing with his sisters or watching them play. He laughs and laughs when they talk to him or tickle him. I am sure that because of their interest in him, he will be up and chasing them around in no time.
He held a bottle on his own the very first time I gave him one and likes sliding down the slide with his more than eager sisters. 
Everyone wanted to hold him going down the slide, they take turns. 
Now they like going down in a line. It is amazing he did not even cry when he landed in the grass. I am going to have very tough kids because of my need to take photos of every little thing!Akiva is pretty much refusing to take food from the spoon preferring to shovel in as much food as humanly possible on his own. He has eaten macaroni and cheese, canned pears, rice, cream cheese sandwiches (without the cranberries!), boiled carrots, matzoh balls, hummus sandwiches, and of course our favorite Cheerios!
He has decided that even though grass looks good it is not a great snack! He has also started drinking from a sippy cup, by himself! I went and got him one with handles so he can maneuver it better but he knows he wants to drink out of that cup! 
I am going to skip the bottle all together and just put him right on a sippy cup.Akiva decided that he liked standing in his crib so he decided to do it himself. Matt needs to lower the crib in our bedroom because he is no longer safe. He has started to pull himself up on toys around the house. As you can imagine when he pulls himself up on a doll stroller the results are not what he expects.
Akiva loves clapping hands and will even do it on command, most of the time. His favorite pastime seems to be playing with his sisters or watching them play. He laughs and laughs when they talk to him or tickle him. I am sure that because of their interest in him, he will be up and chasing them around in no time.
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