Life-And-Times TV, A Surprise Story

Word of the Post
Today's word is: niecephews
/niece"fews/ plural noun
Newly created single word for the collective of nieces and nephews; like "cousins", covers both male and female children of a sibling. May also use the term "noonies".
Thank you to the Risley Family, Dustin for "niecephews" and Angie for "noonies". You guys are funny and creative, and I needed a word for this very purpose. If anyone else has a special word to fit this purpose, I would love to hear it. :-)
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This has been a very tiring day for our family. Fridays are going to be busy again for the High School Football season. DH does his radio production thing starting next weekend. So, we were out playing hooky last night. As DH's last free Friday, we had a date. We ate dinner at home, went to our favorite coffee shop, and stopped by a theater to check screen times of movies. We decided that we would go home to watch Rush Hour 2, so we could see Rush Hour 3 on Saturday.

Then we got the call. 9:30 (ish) pm. BIL called DH's phone. SIL was in labor. Dilated to 1, they thought she would deliver in about 12 hours or so. Where have I heard this before? Oh, yeah, when Jelly Bean came! We decided to go home to get some rest, clean a bit and prepare for Parents to come visit. We would get up at 6 (not a minute later!) and go to the hospital in the morning.

SIL doesn't wait around. There was no 12 hours of labor. She was done by 1:30 am. Wow! If we had gone to the hospital at 10, we might have left at 12, like the babysitter did. And we would have missed it anyway. This was especially tough on DH, because he wanted to be there this time. This is his sister, and we both missed JBean's appearance, too.

"The baby" (we couldn't keep saying "it" all the time, made the poor babe sound like a crazed clown!) made an appearance at 1:28 am, weighing in at 7 lbs, 4 oz. and was 19 1/4 inches tall. This handsome new addition is a boy named Carson John.

Allow me to introduce you!

Carson, World. World, a thoughtful Carson.

That tongue sticking out is (according to Gramma B, the most biased Gramma in the world) his way of saying "I love you!" Those fingers are Mommy's fingers, I think. Much like JBean, Gum Drop is a perfect mix of his parents... not too obvious one way or the other. But certain features are unmistakable. He has quite a bit of hair, but it is continually covered by the hats. It is medium brown, and ... I almost said "baby soft". How funny is that?

Sometimes, my own brilliance amazes me. This is, I think, a prize-winning picture. I am pleasantly surprised that you can read the little charm they gave him. This is a profile view, sideburns and a button nose peeking over the cutest little cheek. Uncle DH is so good at holding babies! Those long arms are great support for little backs, the big hands are perfect to hold the tiny heads!


JBean was with Babysitter's family, and came to visit this morning. I tried to get pictures of her expression when she first saw GDrop, but she was too happy to be hugging Daddy. I got some great ones, though.


Grandma P. is holding GDrop, and JBean is not quite sure what he is yet. She did say later that he could come to live at her house. I know that she has no idea what she is in for. At least they have separate rooms! When my Brudder was born, we shared a room. Ugh.


The nice nurses were willing to scheme with Gramma B, and one of them came and "delivered" a baby doll for JBean. This baby got several names: Parker, Sister, Ashley, Baby.... whatever was in her little head at the time you asked her. Then there was Mommy's baby, and JBean's baby.


After meeting both babies, we asked JBean if she wanted to play with her baby. She said, "No, I want to play with DAT one!" and pointed at GDrop. She is quite pleased with herself to have made so many people laugh. She really IS a ham! She will be two on the 30th. We were hoping that GDrop would wait until September, but he decided that he didn't want to wait. (He was 3 weeks early! Think how big he would have been if he really showed up on Sept. 14!?!) So, 5 days shy of two years apart.

Loving and Kissing on the Brudder.

Finally, for tonight anyway, we have the "Bookends". I have a picture somewhere of the two Grampas snoozing after JBean's birth too. This is not quite as perfect a scene as the last time, but cute nevertheless. The one on the left is Grampa R, and the right is Grampa D.

I am now off to bed, yet again. I got no sleep between 9:30 pm call and 2:00 am wake up call. The only sleep I have had is the 5:30 to 9:00 pm nap I just had. But don't let me complain. I was not the one who worked so hard today! SIL and GDrop are both more tuckered than me.

All is well, and God is GOOD!

Wii Laugh

Word of the Post
Today's word is: evince
/e*vince"/ verb
To show in a clear manner; to succeed in proving beyond a reasonable doubt; manifest; bring to light.
I will attempt to show you that owners of the Nintendo Wii evince a great sense of humor.
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FUNNY FRIDAY
I was in our favorite coffee shop tonight, and one of the baristas showed me this video. I had to share. I warn the faint of humor that there are some that are a bit on the crude side, and one that is NOT what you think, but all are funny!

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Word of the Post
Today's word is: insouciance
/in'sou'siance"/ noun
Heedlessness; thoughtlessness; carelessness; unconcern; the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you.
I long to regain the days of my college education, to experience again the time when homework was the only worry; recapturing the happy insouciance of playing cards at lunch, and having the weekend off.
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Honors have befallen me. I have been blessed by people who read, pay attention to and like my blog. Wow. I really don't know what to say, besides the traditional "Thank You". Allow me to try to do a little better than that.

First, WAY back on Saturday, July 7, Niki gave me this award:

Rock On! I am not a noisy kind of music listener, but this is fun. I want to turn up the radio, do a little head-banging, and wear lots of black with band names on my chest. I have met Niki, and I am blown away by her commitment to God, her open heart, her thoughtful nature, and her coolness as a mom. She prays with a genuineness that puts me to shame. I know she deserved this award, and I hope that I can too.

Next, on Wednesday, August 22, Sally gave me this award:

I have met many new people online, and Sally is definitely one of the nice ones. We will meet face to face someday soon when I go to her hometown for a visit with some friends. Chatting at a Starbucks is definitely in order! I look forward to reading her blog every day. It is good to know that someone else is thinking some of the same things, and reacting in the same ways as I. It makes me feel a little less alone in the world. And that is Nice.

Now, when I got these, it was a tag sort of thing. I am supposed to pass them both on. Since I am new to this world of blogging, I don't really know whom to give them to. I just thought I would share them with you. You can see how cool they are, and pass them on for me!

This past Saturday, we went with the family to see Jelly Bean get her two-year pictures taken. She is a HAM and a hoot. She was having fun playing with the ladies who were taking the pictures. These people at Portrait Innovations here know their stuff. Jelly Bean would not smile, until one of the ladies said, "Show me your teeth!" and "Where did those teeth go?" Smiles came out, but only just long enough to snap the picture, and the lady was fast with the camera. She got to sit in a rocking chair in a "garden", but she was finished with that pretty quick. "I done." She got to play with flowers, sea shells, some posts that looked like the corners of a dock on the ocean, and two different chairs. In the sea shell picture I have on my mantle, she is talking to the ocean like on a cell phone. "Hello! Yes. Gampa? Bye!"

SIL said that this wasn't fair. They expected her to sit in a chair, look at a huge screen picture of her Baby, and tell them that it looks bad. They are all of her Baby, and they are all great! But we had to pare them down. It took 6 adults more than 45 minutes to go through 70 pictures of that 1 little girl. We saw another family come and get their pictures taken, chose the poses, get their prints (20 minute turnaround) and leave while we were deciding what poses to keep.

I have physical pictures, but I don't yet have computer renditions. I have to get those from SIL and her disk. You know the minute I get some, I am posting them here, to brag on my girl! For now, I will try to satiate our desire for pictures with a view from my own digital camera.
Here, Jelly Bean was looking at her reflection in the TV screen. I like this picture because it shows a little of how long her hair has grown. We all want to trim her hair to make it more even, but none of us want to take away those wonderful little fly-away curls! Too cute!

Rumor has it she has a 3 year old vocabulary, and has long had the 2 year old attitude. Dangerous mix. Recently, she was getting a "talking to" for something, and told BIL, "Daddy, don't talk to me anymore." What do you say to that? She was not being malicious about it, so how do you stop that without scaring her? Tough not to just laugh out loud, for me. But, then, I wasn't there in the heat of the moment. I don't know what BIL did about it.

DH was putting her in her car seat on Saturday after our dinner, and then gave her kisses, and said, "I love you." She responded by telling him, "Go to your car." Again, not malicious. We had talked about DH going to his car, and Jelly Bean going to her car, and Gramma and Granpa (I spell they way they do, because that is how she says it) going to their car. So, she just decided it was time. It was raining at the time, so who can blame her? We are still laughing.

Jelly Bean is happy being the center of attention. I hope that doesn't translate into stealing the attention once she is not the focus anymore. At the babysitter's house, she is the youngest of the kids, so maybe she has learned about being part of a group, and the new baby won't be so much of an intrusion. She won't remember her alone time, anyway. It is just something for me to ponder, as her attentive awesome Auntie.

Happy Thursday!