Friday, July 9, 2021

My first blogpost

 Today I am 6 years old.

I like Spiderman and Hulk and Captain America.  Spiderman is my favorite.

I like the color green.

I can count to 101.  My favorite number is 12 because there is a show of someone named Twelve.

My family is kind to me, except for Peter and Aaron. (Peter: Hey, I'm nice!)  My mommy took care of me when Aaron pushed me down the stairs.  We had to go to the hospital.  And one time I was trying to save the cat from Marshal and Beau and I fell down the stairs.  I like my dad and mom.  

This is a picture of my family when I was a baby.  And it was my birthday.


My favorite thing to do is go to the big slide park and work on Aaron's project.  We will get our scooter because my bike is broken.  Grandma I hope can read this because I love you.  And I love Grandma Diane and I was adorable to mom when I was born.  And I said a prayer today.  And Grandma I love you a lot and Grandma Claverie.  And there was my mommy when I was born.  And we went bowling.  We went camping a couple days ago.  And I love my entire family.  I miss my grandpas.  They were all my favorites.  When my grandpas died I was sad in Mommy's belly.  

Sam

Sunday, June 19, 2016

Oosa Bubas

Oosa Bubas started out as a question.  Who's the baby?  It eventually morphed into Oosa (for who's the) and Bubas (for baby).  He is now addressed as either Oosa or Buba.  Oosa Buba is reserved, not to address him, but rather engage in the fun question where everyone is googling over him once more.

Oosa is the youngest child of 7.  He was nearly born on the front lawn of the hospital.  My labor started and went from 0 to born in 45 minutes.  When I stood up to get out of the car his head literally fell out of me. 

From facebook:  [OOSA] made his grand entrance into the world today at 3:27 pm. He crowned in the parking lot of the Kaiser entrance. A nurse just getting off duty ran pushing us to the Emergency Room. The rest of him was delivered while still in the wheelchair after they cut my pants off. We are both fine and recovering from all of the excitement.

Daddy missed the whole thing.  Aunt K was my birth escort and drove me to the hospital.  She took this picture after they cut my pants off and out he came.  I'm still siting in the wheelchair.
 

Aunt K told me later, "I don't think you realized how much you were screaming."  This is Daddy meeting Oosa for the first time.

I was convinced that I was having a daughter. 

When I went in for one of my prenatal visits the doctor couldn't find the baby's heartbeat.  For several excruciating minutes he looked and looked and looked.  Finally he went and got the ultrasound machine and wheeled it into the room.  I was, by then, a mess.  I was scared for my baby.  Once we established that the baby was wiggling and fine I asked, since we were looking anyway could we perhaps see what the gender was.  A boy.

I told the doctor, "I am knitting a pink blanket!  I've already given away all my boy clothes."
And then I cried for the daughter I felt like I had lost.  And then I felt ashamed of myself, because my sister-in-law can't get pregnant and cried some more. 

So I need my son to know, more than anything else: He is wanted and loved.
He was named to that effect.  Hannah named her son Samuel, the boy prophet of Israel, because it means, "God has heard."  God gave me the child I asked for.  Perfect, healthy and beautiful. 
1 Samuel 1:27 "For this child I prayed; and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him"

Oosa sleeps in a co-sleeper attached to the bed.  He hold my hands and falls asleep.  If ever he realizes that I've gotten up to settle other children or use the bathroom, he will sit up in bed and cry until I've returned. 

His baby blessing, Daddy pronounced the blessings of previous generations upon his head.  His middle name is after Gilbert Lloyd, the first ancestor on the Lancaster line who joined the church. 

He is very special.  We are expecting big things from this little powerhouse.