Capps' as Shadrach

Today is Daegan's birthday, but it was also Capps' first time to be a part of leading chapel. Last night, after I put the kids to bed, he came up to my room and said, "Can you sometimes not sleep the night before you have to do chapel?" So cute. Of course, I know exactly how he feels.

They really did a great job. He was Shadrach. In the picture below, to the left are the people bowing down to the idol and on the right are the flames of the furnace.

During the first song he just stood with his hands in his pockets (big shock!) and didn't do the motions. He participated more with the next one.

I usually stay for lunch after attending chapel. I thought it was all perfect timing because it was Daegan's birthday and I'd be there to eat with him too.But his class had a field trip and left right after chapel. So I went yesterday and ate lunch with the kids for Daegan's birthday and I ate lunch with them today for Capps' chapel.

The pregnancy and birth of Daegan

This was a our fourth pregnancy in 2 1/2 years. We lost our first baby at 11 weeks. We then got pregnant right away with Mollee, 12 months and 9 days later Tavis was born. Then I was pregnant again. I was very sick from the beginning. I wanted to keep it a secret, but Jason made a snide remark at Sunday lunch that I was eating for two about 24 hours after I took a pregnancy test. My due date was March 19th.


I remember the nausea was bad. I lived on phenegran. It was very helpful, but made me very tired. I was in a constant cycle of napping a lot because of this and then having insomnia at night. The nausea lasted until about 16 weeks.


I stopped nursing Tavis when I was 15 weeks pregnant. Not because I had to, but because he lost interest. I felt the baby flutterings at 15 weeks, but no major movement until 18 weeks. My first ultrasound was at 16 1/2 weeks and they said it was maybe a boy? The placenta seemed really low, so another ultrasound was scheduled for 4 weeks later. At 20 weeks we got "definitely a boy" and the placenta was fine.


I'm assuming it was because my uterus muscles never had a chance to recuperate, but I had severe groin pain from 22 weeks until birth. It required a maternity belt and I hated sleeping (but loved sleeping) because that made it worse. With this pregnancy, I had my first experience with heartburn and was given a prescription for that at 31 weeks.


I was severely uncomfortable the last trimester of this pregnancy. I had tons of Braxton Hicks (again, told it was because my babies were too close together) that started at 33 weeks. The baby was extremely active and seemed to drop at 34 weeks.


On a Sunday night, at 37 1/2 weeks I went to the hospital after contractions all day - for two hours they were 5 minutes apart. Jason had the stomach flu, but I didn't want to risk not getting to the hospital, so we took the kids to Papa and Grandma's around 9:00 and went to the hospital. I was monitored for an hour and the contractions stopped and I was only 1cm. They sent us home.


On Thursday, at 38 weeks, I saw the midwife and she stripped my membrane and ordered me to be induced on Sunday (3/9/03) because of my severe discomfort. Friday I began having contractions at dinner time. At 10 PM, we decided to get the kids up and take them to my parents again and head to the hospital. After sitting there for an hour - no change and no contractions. False Labor Again! Since I was supposed to be induced the next night, they decided to keep me and start my antibiotics.


I received Pitocin at 9:00 AM and the midwife broke my water at 10:15. By noon I was 6cm. Daegan MacLeod was born at 2:35 after only two pushes. Jason actually delivered Daegan (after he wouldn't even cut the cord with Mollee) and I got to cut the cord. He weighed 7 lbs. 6 oz. no tearing, no problems. I got to nurse at 3:00.

Life with three babies (Mollee was 2 and Tavis was 15 months) was a bit hectic, but somehow we survived. I am very thankful for pictures, otherwise, this time might have been 'just a blur'.

When Daegan was 5 months old, we bought a house (our current home) that was trashed! We lived with my parents for a few months while Jason spent his evenings fixing up our new home. Somewhere in that time with my parents, we got pregnant again. More on that story in July!

Capps' Journal

In kindergarten, the kids are encouraged to write in a journal. They don't emphasize spelling as much as they emphasize phonics and the sounds you hear in a word. It is so fun to see the spellings that they come up with.

Here are a few samples:(The quilt is beautiful)(The Dad found the dragon)(David killed Goliath)(100th day was fun! We wrote 100!

I brought 100 Cheerios. Capps)

And if you are wondering about the picture,

this is what he looked like on the 100th day.

So Fun!

Music Conglomeration

I ran to Target with Ruth today (she is only here until May 1 so she might pop up in a lot of posts until then). In the car, she made a snide remark that I had a lot of CDs. She is of the 'next' generation and buys albums on iTunes rather than buying CDs - how long until everything is digital and there are no more CDs or DVDs?

Tonight, I was the 15th car in line at the Little Caesars drive-thru. As I was flipping through my CDs looking for something to listen to, I did find it slightly humorous what an array of music I enjoy. I attribute a lot of this to having JR as a brother, you'd understand if you knew him. I can remember riding in his TC3 to school while he would frantically rewind and fast forward a tape (yes, I said tape) to find the exact song he wanted to listen to that day.

I thought, just for fun, I'd list the CDs that are in my sun visor right now -in no particular order.

1. REM, "Dead Letter Office"
2. REM, "Life's Rich Pagent"
3. Lady Smith Black Mambazo, "Journey of Dreams"
4. Coldplay, "X&Y"
5. Paul Simon, "Graceland"
6. Jane's Addiction, "Nothing's Shocking"
7. the Cranberries, "everybody's doing it so why can't we?"
8. Traveling Wilburys, "Volume One"
9. KT Tunstall, "Eye to the Telescope"
10. Indigo Girls, "Indigo Girls"
11. Queen, "A Night At The Opera"
12. Pearl Jam, "Back Spacer"
13. The Police, "Syncronicity"
14. James Blunt, "Back to Bedlum"
15. Coldplay, "A Rush of Blood to the Head"
16. Yo Yo Ma, "Complete Cello Suites, Inspired by Bach"
17. Black Eye Peas, "The E.N.D."
18. Led Zepplin, "IV"
19. Jimi Hendrix, "The Ultimate Experience"
20. Toad the Wet Sprocket, "fear"
21. 4 Non Blondes, "Bigger, Better, Faster, More!" (#3, 'What's Up' is actually my ringer on my phone)
22. Sarah McLachlan, "Rarities, B Sides and Other Things"
    

Don't judge me if you aren't into this kind of music! But I'd be curious, if you had to pick one of these albums to listen to, which would you choose?

Eye Color

Check out these eyes!What color do you think they are?
We always just say grey.

Death of a Plastic Playhouse

We bought a Little Tikes plastic house for our backyard when Tavis had just started to walk (about 8 years ago). I remember shopping and researching and picking out what I wanted, but then I just bought a cheap one at a consignment sale.

It has served us well. When we moved to our current house, we put it on the screened-in porch just off the kitchen. There have been countless evenings that I'd just open the door and the kids would play out there while I was getting dinner ready.

(Tavis with cousin, Miles)

(Capps)Mac went out yesterday to play and when he climbed on the walls, it collapsed.We are getting past this stage in life, so there will not be a replacement. We threw all of it away, except the slide. I'm guessing David might be able to get a little playtime out of it now the weather is getting warmer.

Thank you playhouse for many years of fun!

...in Four Weeks!

This is the first day in four weeks I have been home, just me and Mac! Everyone is at school and no one is sick....for today! Just trying to enjoy that. Cleaning the house, not taking anyone's temperature or having the t.v. on for eternity.*sigh* Come on Spring!

Tomorrow, dentist appointments and David for the afternoon.