Have a great and very safe holiday, if you're shooting your own fireworks, be careful, if you're drinking, be aware of how much if you plan to drive, and if you aren't careful of how much, don't drive (your mates won't mind you sleeping at their house (couch, floor, driveway in your car, whatever).

Keep the kids safe, and teach them good habits!

I just gave the boy a breakfast bar for breakfast, cause I forgot to bring our oatmeal down to the beachhouse...

He ate 4.

??

He's 2.

Sigh. I did one of those web page guestimations about how tall he's going to be when I put in his current height, weight and age, with Chris and my height... It said 6'2" by 18.

Keeps eating this way and he'll be 6' wide too... LOL!

marietta_sca <3's bunnyjadwiga 

Thank you so much for your help!

Hi! I'm on a team for the Relay for Life, sponsored by the American Cancer Society, which is being held on Friday June 12, into Saturday June 13. I was on the team last year and it was fun.

My grandfather died of cancer when I was 8 years old, and my husband's uncle has a recurrence of cancer. Last year, one of my teammates watched a one year old baby die of Cancer.

This year, hundreds of thousands of people will hear the words "You have cancer", and there's a good chance that some of them will be people we know and love. We have all been touched by cancer in some way ... and we all have the power to make a difference. That's why I have chosen to fight back right here in my own community by participating in the American Cancer Society Relay For Life®.

I want to invite you to join me in the fight against cancer by making a donation in support of my efforts. Further down in this message is a link to my personal Relay For Life® web page where you can make an online contribution. You can make a one time gift or increase your impact by donating monthly. Every amount, no matter how small, makes a difference and provides hope.

Relay For Life® brings more than 3.5 million people from across the country together each year to celebrate the lives of those who have battled cancer, remember loved ones lost, and fight back against a disease that takes too much.

Thank you in advance for your support. Together, we will celebrate, remember, and fight back.

This is a link to my participant page.
http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/RelayForLife/RFLFY09SA?px=6047685&pg=personal&fr_id=12781&fl=en_US&s_tafId=244844

This is a link to my team, Cure Seekers.
http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/RelayForLife/RFLFY09SA?team_id=350914&pg=team&fr_id=12781&fl=en_US&s_tafId=244844 .

to all of my friends that are Administrative Professionals, I feel for you and know your pain! I hope you are well appreciated!

to all of my friends that HAVE Administrative Professionals that work for them, please at least tell them Thank You. It goes a long way!

Almost there.

When you buy the smallest size of pantyhose and they fit, with extra room.

EK 12th Night either moving or rescheduling. School won't allow use of site tomorrow due to snow forecast. Stay tuned for more info.

Mari

When you see this, post in your own journal with your favorite quote from The Princess Bride. Preferably not "As You Wish" or the Inigo Montoya speech.

INCONCEIVABLE.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

EVERYONE else did it, and I got too curious:

Go to Wikipedia and enter your date of birth.
Then pick four events, three births, two deaths, and one holiday

November 19

Events
1493 - Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
1863 - American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
1990 - Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It’s True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.
1998 - Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.

Births
1600 - King Charles I of England (d. 1649)
1942 - Calvin Klein, American clothing designer
1997 - McCaughey septuplets, world's first surviving set of septuplets

Deaths
498 - Pope Anastasius II
1557 - Bona Sforza, Queen of Sigismund I of Poland (b. 1494)

Holiday
United States - Equal Opportunity Day
World - World Toilet Day

I couldn't resist, had to post both of those holidays.

Yesterday was Christopher's first birthday. We went to IHOP for dinner, and they gave him a free ice cream and sang him Happy Birthday :) It was cute. He got to stay up past his bedtime - not much past, but a little bit.
Today we're having a small party for him.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAUREN!

<3

Miss you!

To the EVIL TWIN and the SLIGHTLY MORE EVIL TWIN!


You know who you are... and you know which one is which :)

Christopher
He's 11 months and 1 week. He's walking - only short bursts at a time, but he's walking! :) Yay!
Also, he's started throwing tantrums. haha - they're funny!

Weight
On December 26 when I got my new-fangled scale, I weighed 167.4, with a 28.5 BMI. Today I weighed 150.0. I'm learning how to eat properly, and in the appropriate portions. Doing well.

I love my gmail. Really, I do. I certainly am *not* ready to give it up.

However... Windows Live has come out with some really cute/nifty little options - like the ability to post to LJ from it.

I can check my email from the Windows Live email application, and add contacts, and add things to the calendar in the application, and it syncs with the website applications. I don't know if its immediate or only when I close the program, but either way...

I'm kinda digging it.

Maybe Windows isn't all bad - just as long as they keep XP available.

You might remember that Christopher's hernia repair was scheduled for April 10, but then the insurance wouldn't cover it for a certain period of time. It go rescheduled for May 23.
Monday night and Tuesday night it got pretty big (lots of intestines in his groin) but it kept going back down by morning. Wednesday afternoon, while at daycare, it got really big (lots of intestines in his groin) so the daycare called and said I had to come get him, that wasn't safe (they were right).
I called his pediatrician and got a quick appointment in there. They tried to stuff the intestines back up where they belonged. No such luck. They called up to the on call surgeon at AI DuPont and advised we were on our way, and coming through ER.
Get to ER... the ER doc tries to fix it. Nothing. The on call surgeon tries to fix it. Nothing. One of them (not sure which) takes a listen and says she can't hear any bowel sounds - and isn't sure its a hernia. Off to the ultrasound we go. It is a hernia, and while we're there another doc comes in and torments my baby for about 3 or 4 minutes (it really seemed a lot longer) but did finally get the intestines back up where they were supposed to be... and then advised us we weren't going home.
He got checked in, got a room, and everything was fine the rest of the night (Wednesday night).
Thursday morning he's doing good, the docs say that I should be able to take him home and stay with him, but bring him back on Friday for surgery. Then the hernia came back out, and I couldn't fix it because it was out too far (much like the few days before). So he wasn't going home Thursday after all.
We stayed in the hospital and tooled around all day Thursday and he was on the schedule for the afternoon today (Friday). The doc tells me that he can't have any food after midnight. Well, that sucks. I'm going to have a hungry baby for 6 hours? GAH!
Turns out a nurse found out that he could have formula, but no regular food, up to 6 hours before the surgery, so anything before 7 a.m. (because we did finally find out a *time* he was scheduled, not just "afternoon").
C woke up at 6:10, but no one was around to tell me he could eat. So there he is screaming hungry for almost half hour before the nurse lets me in on the other news... Oh, he can eat before 7. We've got 20 minutes left. I get him to eat 6 full oz (that's a lot for his first bottle).
Anyway, most of the morning was uneventful, he didn't seem bothered by the not getting another bottle. I think we did a mostly good job of occupying him to keep his mind off of food for a while.
They finally take us down to OR and they give him something to relax him so they can wheel him away (that was horrible for me) and then lead us off to the waiting room. That went pretty quick, it was about an hour after we got to the waiting room that they came to get us he was done. Recovery room time, then back to his room (since he was still checked in) and then we finally get to go home after he goes pee (about 4 hours later).
He's in bed - even though he slept about half the day, he's had a long two days. He should be good recovered by Monday to go back to Daycare and I can go back to work.