What has been happening lately?

   Life has been very busy lately. More busy than I expected when I was pregnant. Four kids are a lot of work, but four kids that are all of different ages are even more. I am getting used to the constant demand of my time and attention. With Funky Monkey and Girly Monkey in dance and soccer, and Little Monkey in dance and homeschooling them all, and Baby Monkey still in the infant stage I find that most days test my patience and endurance. 

   Recently, we have noticed hat Baby Monkey has started to spit up a lot after nursing and in between nursing. Since Little Monkey had reflux when he was a baby we recognized that as such. On top of having to change mine and Baby Monkey's clothes on constantly he developed a bad rash on his face from putting his fingers to mouth full of stomach-acid filled spit up and then smearing it on his cheeks. Little Monkey was a victim of that side effect too. Little Monkey lived with that for a whole year before it got better! I just didn't want to deal with it for so long with Baby Monkey Luckily, when Little Monkey was 2 years old we took him to a chiropractor (for his elbow, not reflux) and the wonderful doctor informed us that we should have brought him in when he was a baby as a chiropractic treatment would have helped with reflux. I have ever heard of babies being treated at a chiropractor, but supposedly it is done very frequently. So as soon as we suspected reflux in Baby Monkey I booked an appointment with the wonderful doctor. The treatment itself is very un-invasive. I lie down on the bed and lay my son on my chest. The doctor then uses a little clicking tool to gently click and adjust babies' spine and joints. Baby M smiled and cooed the whole time. Apparently, it felt good. 

A new distraction!

   Sometimes I wonder if we are just little pawns in someone's game. It always seem like just when we can bear no more then something else happens. Distractions seem to interfere with my plans all the time. Take today for instance. I had great plans for what I could get out of today. Since Saturdays are very busy already I didn't have great plans but little ones just to get me a bit further on my to-do list. We are having another cake for Girly Monkey tomorrow with Daddy's family (they couldn't make it last weekend since they were all away). So I planned to get all the Monkeys to all their activities and then come home and bake a cake for tomorrow and go through some of the baby clothes. I really have to get on that since I am now 34 weeks. I still don't know what I have and what I need.

   The morning started in a very ordinary way. We ate breakfast, got ready for Funky Monkey's dance class, and left. Daddy went to soccer and I took Funky Monkey and the other 2 Monkeys to dance class (only Funky Monkey has class in the morning but all 3 have to come with me). I dropped off Funky Monkey at the class and parked the car. Another mom just dropped off her son and we started talking about the fog and being busy and loosing track of time. Suddenly, I got a phone call from Daddy. It's very unusual to hear from him at this time since he should be on his way to soccer (he is a head coach of Funky Monkey's team). I answered that call thinking that he simply forgot something. But that was not the case. It turned out that he was in an accident. He run a red light and hit someone in another truck. The first thought through my mind was if he was OK. He said that he was fine. So I immediately thought of the other car. Daddy drives a big, cube van and if he was to run into someone then the chances were that the other person was not so lucky. Thankfully the other guy was fine too, since Daddy swerved in the last second hitting the other guys' bumper and not his driver side door.