By Moose Admin on 12/11/2009 11:21 PM

We have now had our tree for about a week now.  We picked it up (or cut it down) last Saturday, and put it up I think Sunday night.

We didn’t get a chance to decorate it though because we had such a busy week.  The day we put it up, we did get the lights on the tree, and have had a glowing tree for a week now.

Tonight after work though, we got to spruce it up with all of our family Christmas ornaments.  Everyone was looking forward to tonight, but I think Hosanna was the most excited.  She really enjoyed putting the ornaments on the tree.

Below are pictures from tonight’s tree decorating festival.

 

By Moose Admin on 12/10/2009 10:42 PM

I took some pictures of my office last night and thought I would share them with you.  As most of you know, I am doing my extra work in my shed/office. 

It has been cold her in Lake Stevens, (I can say that now because we just got annexed and are no longer Everett.) but my children and I have installed some insulation to make the office a tad bit warmer.

We are about half way there with the ceiling just about finished and on wall done, but I can already feel the difference.

I also (as you can see in the photo) have purchased a couple heaters and am keeping a bit warmer than before!)

Below are some pictures of Elisha helping me put up insulation.

   

With the help of the boys (who I didn’t get pictures of) and Elisha, the shed is much better and I can now do work a whole lot more comfortably.

By Moose Admin on 12/10/2009 1:50 AM

Monday the 7th of December, the kids had a Band/Choir Concert, and man they did good.

Isaiah played his Saxophone in the intermediate group, and he played his trombone in the beginners group.

Gabriel played his trumpet in the intermediate group.

Elisha sang in the choir and played her flute in the beginners group.

Lastly but not least, little Hosanna sang her little heart out in her choir group.  I don’t have very good photos though.  We were not allowed to use flash during the concert, and I was trying out a new setting on my camera, which I didn’t find out until later, wasn’t very groovy, but I have a couple pictures for you to view. 

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By Moose Admin on 10/20/2009 3:41 AM

As most of you know, I have been doing the polyphasic sleep schedule called "Everyman".

This allows me to sleep for 4 hours total a day and have more time to get things accomplished. For those unfamiliar, my sleep schedule is as follows.

• 9pm-midnight (core sleep)
• 5am (20 minute nap)
• Noon (20 minute nap)
• 5pm (20 minute nap)

Last week was a busy week for us at the house, with Titus our newborn here, and I found that I was skipping my naps.

The first day I was okay, but the second day, I woke up at midnight night cranky and tired. I thought about it though, and it makes sense. Without the 20 minute naps, I am running on only 3 hours of sleep total. It would be just like if I was doing normal sleep and only got 3 hours of sleep. I would be tired and cranky.

It makes sense.

So to all of you out there trying the "Everyman" polyphasic sleep schedule, please remember your naps. They are VERY important and key to succeeding with your polyphasic sleep.

By Moose Admin on 10/1/2009 6:50 PM

Wednesday, September 30th 2009, my son, Titus Brodie Silva was born.  He weighed in at 7 pounds and 2 ounces.  He was 20 inches long and very handsome!  The Lord sure did bless us!  Titus Brodie was born at 1:17 am in the morning after 5 hours of labor.  Nancy Spencer, our midwife, delivered Titus.  She has delivered the last 4 of our babies.  She is awesome and I am so glad to have her delivering our babies.

To the right is a picture of Titus right after the birth.  You can also see Hosanna in the picture at the top.  She was supposed to call out the sex of the baby, but was so sleepy that we could not wake her up to do her job.

We are very thankful that Titus is here.  It was very different this time.  Titus is our 7th, but he has definitely been different.

It all started September 29th at 12:30pm.  Grace had an appointment at Nancy’s for a check up.  While at Nancy’s office, Grace started to “Leak” as she says.  In actuality, her water was beginning to leak.  When it started, it wasn’t much, but by the time Grace stopped by CRISTA on her way home, she was leaking so bad that she created a puddle in the CRISTA parking lot.

After a potty break, Grace and the family headed home and I started to pack up my stuff to go home too.

When I got home, I found Mrs. Spurling and her daughter Hannah had already arrived.  Mrs. Spurling had said she would come and help with the delivery while her daughter would take care of the kids.  Mrs. Spurling is practicing to be a doula so she was going to be in the bedroom for delivery.

I called Nancy after I got home and she said she would arrive at our house around 7:30pm.  At this point Grace wasn’t having any contractions, but Nancy said that since her water had broken that it was important to have the baby that night.

At around 7:45 Nancy arrived and shortly after that she broke my wife’s other water sack.  (note: women have two and sometimes three water sacks.  Pretty neat huh.?)  Once the water was broken, Grace started to have contractions.  The contractions were pretty far apart at 5 minutes.

Grace had a hard time with this delivery because her contractions never got closer than 5 minutes apart.  Fortunately Nancy had everything under control and soon we had a bouncing baby boy!  We were also very excited because the baby was born in September.  We already have an October birthday, so it was extra special that Titus was born in September.  We now have birthdays in September, October, November, December, January, February, March, and June.  (that also includes Momma and my birthdays.)

The other AWESOME thing was that Mrs. Spurling and her daughter Hannah cooked us both eggs and toast, with fresh tomatoes.  It was awesome.  I know I already said that, but I really want everyone to know that they were such a great blessing to us.  I just pray that the Lord will bless them ten times more than they blessed us.  (that will be hard, but nothing is impossible with God)

Thank you Mrs. Spurling and Hannah!  Also thank you Nancy Spencer for being our midwife, but most important, thank you Lord for taking such good care of us.  We love you and thank you so much for Titus and our friends.

Below are some more pictures of the Titus birthing action.

      

Elisha was there for the birth.  She was a blessing to have around.  She sure does love Titus, and Momma.

And this is our sweetheart Jubilee, who was VERY excited about holding her new little brother.  She isn’t the baby anymore, but at least she seems happy still.

Well that is it for today.  It took me a day to get this posted just because life has been so busy.

I hope you all enjoy the pictures.  I will send out emails, and post here in the near future when I get all the pictures up in our Silva~Moose picture album.

By Moose Admin on 8/25/2009 2:50 PM

This morning Jubilee was running around the house with a curtain rod in her hand charging Mommy and me.

She was having a blast, laughing out loud as we tried to escape her little spear like pokes.  I had to take a picture, and since I wanted to mess a little with Photoshop, I decided to doctor it up a little bit.

Here is my Little Amazon Girl!

~Michael Silva

By Moose Admin on 8/22/2009 7:57 PM

Today the whole family went to the American Dahlia Society National Show.  It was pretty neat.  I have never seen so many flowers on display in my life.  We have only been interested in dahlias for 2 years now, and will be joining the Snohomish Dahlia Society this year.

Before last year, if you had mentioned dahlias, I wouldn’t have been able to tell you what they were.

Last year I did some computer work for a couple that I work with, and I brought by daughter Elisha along with me for some company.  While we were at the couple’s house, Elisha noticed that they had some very pretty flowers growing outside their home. 

Elisha found out that the flowers were dahlias and she learned a lot about dahlias that day.  The next day I talked with the Diana, the lady whose computer I helped with, and told her that Elisha was very interested in growing dahlias.

Diana gave us three dahlia tubers that year, and two of them actually grew.  This year we got a bunch more from Diana and Dave (her husband) and all of them have started to grow.  We don’t have blooms yet, but they are close.  I will post about those when they get bigger.

~Michael Silva

By Moose Admin on 8/16/2009 6:34 AM

Last night I decided to sleep all night, just so I would be good for church.  The last few days have been weird schedule wise, so I didn’t stick 100% to my schedule.  I figure I will start again fresh Monday morning.

When my wife and I woke up, she was feeling sick (morning sickness sick).  Then as each of my other children woke up, I found most of them were stuffy and having issues breathing, so we decided to stay home today.

The only one in the house still asleep is Elisha.  Gabriel is back in bed all warm and wrapped in his blanket.  It seems like one of those sleepy mornings.  I think we all want to go back to bed!

Anyway, I got some good pictures of the kids this morning and wanted to share them.

          

By Moose Admin on 8/8/2009 5:55 PM

Every Saturday morning I get up and with one of the kids help I cook a big breakfast.  We usually have pancakes with strawberries and syrup, with bacon on the side.  Some Saturdays we have french toast in place of the pancakes.

This morning Jubilee woke up early and the breakfast wasn’t finished being cooked yet.  She was hungry so we put her up to the table to eat one of the first cooked pancakes.

She was up to the table for about 30 minutes max and Isaiah said, “Woh look at that.” while pointing at Jubilee.  We all looked over to see Jubilee asleep at the table in one of the worst positions I have ever seen any of my children asleep in.

I carefully picked her up and brought her into the bedroom to snuggle with Momma.

~MykkMoose (Dad)(Mike)

By Moose Admin on 8/3/2009 4:16 AM

Most children hate going to bed.  I have 6 kids and none of them like the idea of bedtime and or nap time, but Jubilee is being the best of all our children about bed time.

I usually carry her around for a couple minutes and then I bring her to her crib and put her in.  She lays right down 7 out of 10 times.  She does require a few things though in order for her to lay there without fussing.

• She needs her glow worm stuffy.  (Hotta is it’s name.) **
• She needs her blanket.
• She likes me to rub her back for a couple minutes.

As long as she has the above she does very well.  After a few minutes into the back rub, I walk out (she is usually still awake) and she doesn’t fuss or cry a bit.

I just wanted to blog about my girl.  She is awesome and I love her LOTS.

NOTE:

** Hotta is the name Elisha gave the stuffy.  Elisha says Jubilee called it that, but I have my doubts.  It’s okay though, because even Jubilee has taken to calling this stuffy glow worm thing Hotta.