Reading and Singing

FINALLY finished Harry Potter!! It felt like forever when I was trying to get through them - really not long... a month and a half - but now I'm pretty sad that I'm done. I'm kind of having withdrawals. I can't wait to start the series again while reading it to the kids :) Is three too young?? And why did I wait so stinking long to finish the series??? Books 4 and 5 let me down so I just never got around to reading the last two. But they are fabulous! Love. HP.

I started reading Les Mis. I'm trying to decide if I want to keep reading it... It's not the abridged version. And I'm afraid I'm a little to dense to understand it. I'm not quite sure what's going on yet... and I've seen the movie ha! We'll see what happens with May's reading...

As for singing... Lucas has started singing. I love it. My mom and grandma used to sing 'The Cherry Song' to me as a kid. That's what we call it anyway. It's an old riddle song:

I gave my love a cherry that had no stone
I gave my love a chicken that had no bone
I gave my love a ring that had no end
I gave my love a baby with no crying

How can there be a cherry, etc...

A cherry that's bloomin', it has no stone
A chicken when it's pippin', it has no bone
A ring when it's rollin', it has no end
And a baby when he's sleeping has no crying

Levi thinks it's a weird song. He's right. But I still love it :) And apparently Lucas loves it, too! (I recorded on my phone in his dark room... the video really is black, you just need the sound, though, so no worries.)

My grandma met the kids and me in Idaho Falls this weekend, and she tried to sing this song to Lucas in the car. My poor grandma. Lucas's reply was "No. Mommy sing." Lil' stinker!

These kids are growing up way too fast already. I tried to tell them they aren't allowed, but they don't listen :( Right now there are a few really bad days, but most are good days. I love these ages and their age gap. People usually think I just go crazy all the time, and sometimes I do, but most of the time I love it. They play great together. The moments where Levi and I are like "yeah, we should have more" are definitely outweighing the "my heavens, we're crazy!" moments lately ;)

...So I Run Now

If you're read through my new year's goals, you know that I've tried for a few months now to get my life in a healthier place, especially physically. And, as I've said before, I always get those comments: "But you're already so skinny!" "Don't tell me you're on a diet!" Well, I went to a CMA conference this weekend and learned that even skinny people get Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, and as a result of their body weight, they are usually the ones that get skipped with the diagnosis. This will be me in 20 years if I don't do something. I'm sure of it. I love sugar. I love soda. I love fast food, especially Baconators right now :/ I love the unhealthy. The skinnies are the ones that get overlooked when it comes to health. "Oh, you're cholesterol is a little high, but don't worry, you're skinny." This Dr. at the conference said these are the ones that drop dead at 45 from a heart attack. I may have come into the world with a heart problem, but that's not how I'm going out! Especially at 45... so I run now. 

I also got a bit of good news as I asked my OB (the one who gave me the green light to have more kids) in passing what my chances would be to have a VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarian) would be, assuming the next kid is in the right position. He told me 80%. I like those odds :) I would absolutely love to try for a VBAC! I won't get into the opinions and risks and whatever... that's an entirely different post altogether. The main reason for my previous c-sections with Lucas and Via were that they were both frank breech because of the septum (or wall) in my baby maker. They just grew that way. If you've read the previous post, you know the plan is to remove the septum, making it possible (hopefully) for the next kiddos to grow well and position the right way. We shall see. The runner-up reason for the c-sections was my heart. The cardiologists just figured it might be safer to do a c-secion. Did I agree with them? Yes. Was I in shape at all then? No. If I get in shape and am able to run a 5K or whatever, would I still agree? Probably not. We will see how it all works out of course, but at least if I get in shape I can use that as my pro-VBAC argument... so I run now ;)

Special thanks to the ladies that get me up and running 3 times a week now!

Magical March

I know. It's April. It's even the middle of April, and I haven't blogged in over a month. I was trying to get through all of the Harry Potter books for my "magical March" reading :) Cheesy?? I don't care haha! I didn't start until the 13th or so, and I still have the last one to read. I will try to get through that one by the end of this month and then go from there. Maybe Les Mis May? No, I've never read that one either. I had to read Walden in high school instead of Les Mis. Don't ask me why *serious eye rolling*

I started reading Harry Potter when they were first coming out when I was younger, but I stopped after 5. And after reading through them all again, I remembered why. 4 and 5 were definitely not my faves. Love the series, though, love her writing, love the movies. I also hadn't seen the last 4 movies, which I watched the weekend prior to delving into the books. This drives some people crazy! Seeing the movie before reading the book... but I love it! I don't have that great of an imagination. My thoughts when reading aren't very detailed and they're kind of "blurry" if that helps explain it at all ha! The movies are so much better than what I picture in my head most of the time! And if they're not, then I'm usually more disappointed if I read the book first. Like Twilight. We won't even go there.

The picture in my head is always, always different (understandably) than the actual motion picture (yup. dug that word out of the 1950s or whatever). I hate reading the book first and then seeing the movie in a completely different way. It's just frustrating to me for some reason. I usually pay attention to moves better, too. My mind likes to skip the sentences where people aren't speaking. Then I have to go back :/ Reading comprehension was never one of my best skills haha!

Anyway, if you haven't yet read the Harry Potter series because you are a decade behind like me, I suggest you do :) I know my grandma doesn't want to read the rest because she knows what happens (she's so cute) but the books explain sooo much more! And I just love the way J. K. Rowling writes. She's fantastic. I borrowed most of the books from my fabulous midwife Patty (thank you!), since the books that I read when I was younger are my mom's of course. I have the first two, and now I just need to work on getting the rest so that my kids can read them when they get older :)

Well, not much of a review since I'm sure most of England, America and other various countries has already read the series... But, there ya go! If you haven't read them, take on your own month of Magical May ;)