This week has been crazy. I took Monday and Wednesday off of work... Monday to go to the doctor and Wednesday to hang out with Nico. When I went to the doctor, I tried to have the conversation with him about replacing my left knee. He doesn't seem to think that is a good idea, since I can still play my sports. Says I ought to consider doing different sports. What is weird is that he was completely different with Dave, wants to help Dave get his shoulder squared away, so he can keep doing judo. This was very strange.
A couple of nights ago Nico and I were pretending to be EMS workers:
Isn't that adorable?
This was also the same night that the Blackhawks lost to the Bruins. Here are some of Nico's thoughts:
Isn't he funny?
Dave and Nico are headed to a wedding in Louisville this weekend. I am going to stay at home with the dogs. I am hoping to be very productive. But I might go see a movie. Or two. :)
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Thursday, December 1, 2011
Its gonna tickle...
Nico knows about Santa. Can you believe it? I thought his first really fun Christmas would be next year, but turns out he is learning about Santa at school and from his friends (Avery went to see Santa and told some kids at school about it). Nico knows that Santa says "Ho ho ho." How great is that? Also, Nico has taken to describing extreme things with "big fat". So Santa has a "big fat" belly. And a "big fat" beard. And a "big fat" red coat and "big fat" boots. Its pretty fun.
His language development continues to amaze Dave and me. He's using "just" a lot- which is awesome. He wants "just a little ketchup" or "just one more minute." But probably the best thing he is doing is repeating things I say... so for example, whenever we brush his teeth. Lets be real here, two year olds suck at brushing their teeth. So, I often help. This works much better than me holding him down and force brushing his teeth, which is kinda like trying to force brush a cat's set of teeth.
So I let him brush his teeth and then tell him he missed a few spots that I have to get. I start with his lower teeth. Then his upper teeth. Then I tell him, "Now we gotta do the roof of your mouth- its gonna tickle." And so now, when I am done with his lower teeth he says, "Now we gotta doe the roof of my mouth- its gonna tickle." My heart breaks into a thousand pieces every time he says it. Its hilarious. He's also starting to use his imagination- in that he is substituting other things for a particular situation.
So the other night we went to Bahn Thai for dinner and we tell him we gotta hold hands in the parking lot, so that we dont get hit by a car. He says, "I dont wanna get hit by a car." Then he says, "I dont wanna get hit by a train either" and "I dont wanna get hit by a grocery cart" and "I dont wanna get hit by an airplane." Its really the most amazing thing.
Such a fun stage.
Here is a family picture that we took last weekend. We ordered our Christmas cards last night- whoot!!
His language development continues to amaze Dave and me. He's using "just" a lot- which is awesome. He wants "just a little ketchup" or "just one more minute." But probably the best thing he is doing is repeating things I say... so for example, whenever we brush his teeth. Lets be real here, two year olds suck at brushing their teeth. So, I often help. This works much better than me holding him down and force brushing his teeth, which is kinda like trying to force brush a cat's set of teeth.
So I let him brush his teeth and then tell him he missed a few spots that I have to get. I start with his lower teeth. Then his upper teeth. Then I tell him, "Now we gotta do the roof of your mouth- its gonna tickle." And so now, when I am done with his lower teeth he says, "Now we gotta doe the roof of my mouth- its gonna tickle." My heart breaks into a thousand pieces every time he says it. Its hilarious. He's also starting to use his imagination- in that he is substituting other things for a particular situation.
So the other night we went to Bahn Thai for dinner and we tell him we gotta hold hands in the parking lot, so that we dont get hit by a car. He says, "I dont wanna get hit by a car." Then he says, "I dont wanna get hit by a train either" and "I dont wanna get hit by a grocery cart" and "I dont wanna get hit by an airplane." Its really the most amazing thing.
Such a fun stage.
Here is a family picture that we took last weekend. We ordered our Christmas cards last night- whoot!!
Monday, October 10, 2011
Weekend funs!
The weekend was pretty fun. I took Nico to work with me in the morning on Friday to show him off (my boss hadnt met him yet). We took bagels for the office and deemed ourselves, "Bagel Heroes!".
The weekend started a little early for me- because Nico's school called to tell me he has gastro-plague and to come get him. So I left work at about 11 and scooped him up. He was looking kinda tired, so we went home for lunch and a nap. I finished one christmas gift and started another (booyah!!) When Nico woke up, we went to run some errands, which included a trip to the pond in Myers Park to feed the geese. Coincidentally, all we had were some animal cracker type cookies... which the geese REALLY liked. Go figure.
When Dave was done with work, he came home and scooped us up to go to the Oktoberfest that was in town. We had brats, apple struedel, pretzels, cupcakes, snocones, and beer (I know the cupcakes were a little out of place, but Lucy and Leo's was there... Hello....). Nico didnt have any beer, but did play a few games of cornhole, where in he insisted on standing over the top of the game and slamming the bags into the hole.
I stayed up late and revised my IRB application. When we got up in the morning, Dave took Nico to the highland games in Ocala. I stayed home to catch up on some soccer stuff and house-cleaning. Which is kind of a bummer...
Sunday morning we got some groceries. When Nico went down for a nap, I started some cooking. I made chili and jalepeno popper things. I also managed to burn the hell out of my thumbs with the unidentified hot peppers I have growing in back yard. Since starting them in my garden, I have been rather cavelier with jalapenios. Which are delicious in grilled cheese. These other peppers are green, but shorter and fatter. So I thought they were just the dull boring cousin of the jalapeno. Apparently not so much. After washing my hands several times, I made the mistake of taking my contacts out with an affected thumb. And promptly burnt the s$#t out of my eye. IDIOT. In any case, I have been proclaimed "Chili champion!" of the house!!
In any case, Nico and I made some blueberry muffins (based on Alton Brown's recipe) after nap. And they are off the hizzie, fo shizzie (translation: they are very good.)We also cleaned his pool, watered the garden, played ball and did his favorite thing: take the garbage and recycling bins down to the street. Dave played soccer in the evening and I went for a run. It was a great weekend.
Nico's language is REALLY coming along. He is now bargaining... so if I tell him "One video, then we have to get up and do some laundry," he says: "How about two more videos?" His memory is getting to be insane. Dave and Nico drove by Cross Creek Animal Hospital this weekend. Cross Creek is where our neighbor took Drake when Drake escaped and cut his foot. Nico has only been there once (when we went to check up on Drake) so there is no reason for him to associate this memory with anything else. And it happened 9 months ago. He pointed out crosscreek and said, "where Drake went when he was hurt." How can he remember that? Its amazing. Still adorable. Still makes me want to bite him. :)
The weekend started a little early for me- because Nico's school called to tell me he has gastro-plague and to come get him. So I left work at about 11 and scooped him up. He was looking kinda tired, so we went home for lunch and a nap. I finished one christmas gift and started another (booyah!!) When Nico woke up, we went to run some errands, which included a trip to the pond in Myers Park to feed the geese. Coincidentally, all we had were some animal cracker type cookies... which the geese REALLY liked. Go figure.
When Dave was done with work, he came home and scooped us up to go to the Oktoberfest that was in town. We had brats, apple struedel, pretzels, cupcakes, snocones, and beer (I know the cupcakes were a little out of place, but Lucy and Leo's was there... Hello....). Nico didnt have any beer, but did play a few games of cornhole, where in he insisted on standing over the top of the game and slamming the bags into the hole.
I stayed up late and revised my IRB application. When we got up in the morning, Dave took Nico to the highland games in Ocala. I stayed home to catch up on some soccer stuff and house-cleaning. Which is kind of a bummer...
Sunday morning we got some groceries. When Nico went down for a nap, I started some cooking. I made chili and jalepeno popper things. I also managed to burn the hell out of my thumbs with the unidentified hot peppers I have growing in back yard. Since starting them in my garden, I have been rather cavelier with jalapenios. Which are delicious in grilled cheese. These other peppers are green, but shorter and fatter. So I thought they were just the dull boring cousin of the jalapeno. Apparently not so much. After washing my hands several times, I made the mistake of taking my contacts out with an affected thumb. And promptly burnt the s$#t out of my eye. IDIOT. In any case, I have been proclaimed "Chili champion!" of the house!!
In any case, Nico and I made some blueberry muffins (based on Alton Brown's recipe) after nap. And they are off the hizzie, fo shizzie (translation: they are very good.)We also cleaned his pool, watered the garden, played ball and did his favorite thing: take the garbage and recycling bins down to the street. Dave played soccer in the evening and I went for a run. It was a great weekend.
Nico's language is REALLY coming along. He is now bargaining... so if I tell him "One video, then we have to get up and do some laundry," he says: "How about two more videos?" His memory is getting to be insane. Dave and Nico drove by Cross Creek Animal Hospital this weekend. Cross Creek is where our neighbor took Drake when Drake escaped and cut his foot. Nico has only been there once (when we went to check up on Drake) so there is no reason for him to associate this memory with anything else. And it happened 9 months ago. He pointed out crosscreek and said, "where Drake went when he was hurt." How can he remember that? Its amazing. Still adorable. Still makes me want to bite him. :)
Monday, October 3, 2011
I been around the world...
I was in Orlando, Florida.
In any case, Nico and Dave survived last week, with no scarring. So that is good. While I was gone, Nico started putting "Can I?" on the front of questions. So instead of saying, "Nico wash the dishes." he is now saying, "Can I wash the dishes?" Its pretty awesome. He has also started inquiring about the world around him. Like, "Mama, did you take a shower?" "Is Daddy in the bathroom?" and "Where is Drake?"
He is also addicted to Calliou... a show about a preschool boy on Sprout. There are a ton of Calliou videos on youtube... so there is that. They aren't bad... usually about 8 minutes a piece. Is it good that he watches 3 in a row when its time to go to bed? No Is it good that he generally only wants to watch when he is bored?" No. Are Dave and I terrible parents for letting him? Probably. Oh well. If it means that now he wont be a doctor, I guess I am going to have to do a good job on selling him on why its awesome that he isnt going to be 150,000.00 in debt when he graduates. Meh.
So the weather here was beautiful this weekend. I got home on Friday night and we spent the night just hanging out and catching up on my Nico snuggles. Saturday we did some errands and ran up to Thomasville to catch part of a TUFC game (several of our high school girls were playing in a tournament). We ended up stopping by PoBoys on the way home and having an early dinner. Sunday we did some more errands and I stayed home with Nico while he napped so Dave could go to the gym. We made chef salad and homemade chicken noodle soup and pretzels for dinner. Dave had wanted to check out Oktoberfest in the All Saints neighborhood, but apprently it wasnt very Festy... This adds to Dave's annoyance with Tallahassee. He is a little spoiled because in Louisville, with all the Catholic churches everywhere, you apparently couldnt swing a deadcat without hitting a festival for some saint, for some reason.
In any case, Dave wants to take Nico down to the Highland games next Saturday in Ocala. He is thinking about making it a day trip... if I dont go, I could stay and watch the dogs. If I did go, we would need someone to let the dogs out (cue song, "Who let the dogs out?")
I applied for a job in Tallahassee last week. I had a phone interview on Thursday and have a face to face interview scheduled for tomorrow. Its managing a project at the Med School. The PI said that they could convert it to a post-doc, which would benefit me immensely. It would be a dramatic improvement in my LIFE. I would be able to work a job that would inherently add lines to my CV through publishing. Plus maybe I'd be able to have a more flexible life... and work the way I like to work, which is early in the morning and after Nico goes to bed. This way I wouldnt have to be trying to bang out papers and job applications at 3 in the morning because my 40 hour a week job expects me to work while I am at work. Pfft. The real benefit for me is that I would be a lot more competitive on the market when I go back on in a year... unlike now, where I dont feel very competitive.
Of course, IE says that its hard to say how competitive I am because rejection letters havent started going out yet. It may be that I am short listed in all the places I have applied (which would be awesome). Highly unlikely, but it would be awesome. Then I would end up in a place where I have to make the choice between staying in the post doc (which will end in two years) or leaving to take a tenure trach job somewhere.
He also says that doing a post doc with the college of medicine might take me further away from sociology and demography. Which I think is a valid concern... it might be hard to go back to demography or even sociology once working with the med school for a while. Of course, I have papers in the pipeline that could keep me solidly in demography. So there is that. But its a nice place to be in. And its definitely nice getting job applications off. Last week, I applied to the University of Delaware, University of Maryland Baltimore County, University of Louisville, Connecticut College, University of Missouri Kansas City, Francis Marion University and Denison University. My next batch includes The College of New Jersey, U of Nebraska, Loyolay New Orleans, Kent State, UC Santa Barbara, American U., Utah State and Old Dominion.
If I got this job then, I would probably not send out the next round of applications. Then I could spend more time with this guy:
Seriously. Dont you just want to bite him?
In any case, Nico and Dave survived last week, with no scarring. So that is good. While I was gone, Nico started putting "Can I?" on the front of questions. So instead of saying, "Nico wash the dishes." he is now saying, "Can I wash the dishes?" Its pretty awesome. He has also started inquiring about the world around him. Like, "Mama, did you take a shower?" "Is Daddy in the bathroom?" and "Where is Drake?"
He is also addicted to Calliou... a show about a preschool boy on Sprout. There are a ton of Calliou videos on youtube... so there is that. They aren't bad... usually about 8 minutes a piece. Is it good that he watches 3 in a row when its time to go to bed? No Is it good that he generally only wants to watch when he is bored?" No. Are Dave and I terrible parents for letting him? Probably. Oh well. If it means that now he wont be a doctor, I guess I am going to have to do a good job on selling him on why its awesome that he isnt going to be 150,000.00 in debt when he graduates. Meh.
So the weather here was beautiful this weekend. I got home on Friday night and we spent the night just hanging out and catching up on my Nico snuggles. Saturday we did some errands and ran up to Thomasville to catch part of a TUFC game (several of our high school girls were playing in a tournament). We ended up stopping by PoBoys on the way home and having an early dinner. Sunday we did some more errands and I stayed home with Nico while he napped so Dave could go to the gym. We made chef salad and homemade chicken noodle soup and pretzels for dinner. Dave had wanted to check out Oktoberfest in the All Saints neighborhood, but apprently it wasnt very Festy... This adds to Dave's annoyance with Tallahassee. He is a little spoiled because in Louisville, with all the Catholic churches everywhere, you apparently couldnt swing a deadcat without hitting a festival for some saint, for some reason.
In any case, Dave wants to take Nico down to the Highland games next Saturday in Ocala. He is thinking about making it a day trip... if I dont go, I could stay and watch the dogs. If I did go, we would need someone to let the dogs out (cue song, "Who let the dogs out?")
I applied for a job in Tallahassee last week. I had a phone interview on Thursday and have a face to face interview scheduled for tomorrow. Its managing a project at the Med School. The PI said that they could convert it to a post-doc, which would benefit me immensely. It would be a dramatic improvement in my LIFE. I would be able to work a job that would inherently add lines to my CV through publishing. Plus maybe I'd be able to have a more flexible life... and work the way I like to work, which is early in the morning and after Nico goes to bed. This way I wouldnt have to be trying to bang out papers and job applications at 3 in the morning because my 40 hour a week job expects me to work while I am at work. Pfft. The real benefit for me is that I would be a lot more competitive on the market when I go back on in a year... unlike now, where I dont feel very competitive.
Of course, IE says that its hard to say how competitive I am because rejection letters havent started going out yet. It may be that I am short listed in all the places I have applied (which would be awesome). Highly unlikely, but it would be awesome. Then I would end up in a place where I have to make the choice between staying in the post doc (which will end in two years) or leaving to take a tenure trach job somewhere.
He also says that doing a post doc with the college of medicine might take me further away from sociology and demography. Which I think is a valid concern... it might be hard to go back to demography or even sociology once working with the med school for a while. Of course, I have papers in the pipeline that could keep me solidly in demography. So there is that. But its a nice place to be in. And its definitely nice getting job applications off. Last week, I applied to the University of Delaware, University of Maryland Baltimore County, University of Louisville, Connecticut College, University of Missouri Kansas City, Francis Marion University and Denison University. My next batch includes The College of New Jersey, U of Nebraska, Loyolay New Orleans, Kent State, UC Santa Barbara, American U., Utah State and Old Dominion.
If I got this job then, I would probably not send out the next round of applications. Then I could spend more time with this guy:
Seriously. Dont you just want to bite him?
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Birthday decision!!
I spent some time yesterday at lunch looking around for birthday locations for Nico's birthday. Because he has the misfortune of being born in August, an outside party is almost certainly a no-go (unless it's at a pool). Otherwise we'd have a situation like we had last year, with 4325874958734295 people at our 1500 square foot house... and it rained. Yeah, I am in the wrong business. Apparently the real money is in birthday party locations. 300+ dollars for a party at the ghetto pool at 9am or 630 pm? Right...
So, I think we might just skip the madness this year. Maybe have a fun "Nico Day" that entails going to the pool and getting frozen yogurt. And maybe getting this:
After his little friend Ezekial's birthday party, this might be a good option. If you remember, Nico spent most of the day on a tricycle.
Maybe a good choice?
Seriously... can't you just eat him up?
So, I think we might just skip the madness this year. Maybe have a fun "Nico Day" that entails going to the pool and getting frozen yogurt. And maybe getting this:
After his little friend Ezekial's birthday party, this might be a good option. If you remember, Nico spent most of the day on a tricycle.
Maybe a good choice?
Seriously... can't you just eat him up?
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Dancing Man!
A video from this weekend. Nico dancing to the swing band.
Seriously, could he be anymore adorable?
Other than that, not much going on. I have been staying up pretty late the last couple of nights trying to get some things done around the house. Am looking forward to my long nap on Friday. Seriously... it seems like they usually ask that I report for surgery at 6am, but dont get around to me till 10am... there have been times where I have dozed off and woken up post-op. Like I take a nap and they dont bother to wake me to tell me it's go time. They just give me the good stuff, slice and dice and BOOM into recovery.
So I am signing off for a while. IDK when surgery will be tomorrow. I may have time to post before I go in. But maybe I wont. Catch you on the flip side.
Seriously, could he be anymore adorable?
Other than that, not much going on. I have been staying up pretty late the last couple of nights trying to get some things done around the house. Am looking forward to my long nap on Friday. Seriously... it seems like they usually ask that I report for surgery at 6am, but dont get around to me till 10am... there have been times where I have dozed off and woken up post-op. Like I take a nap and they dont bother to wake me to tell me it's go time. They just give me the good stuff, slice and dice and BOOM into recovery.
So I am signing off for a while. IDK when surgery will be tomorrow. I may have time to post before I go in. But maybe I wont. Catch you on the flip side.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
All day long, just takin it easy...
Nothing new on the Nico front to report. He's getting big and is more fun every day. The whole "wearing" him during soccer games is working out pretty well. Its funny, though. Last night at Chiles one of the Chiles players asked Stevey as she was walking off the field, "Is that a baby on your coach?" Even funnier, is that in the second half, one of their players cleared a ball out of the back to the side line, kind of close to Nico and me... A collective gasp went up from our parents when I reached up and caught the ball over his head. Someone said something like, "Watch out for that baby!" to which I replied, "Its okay- I am a keeper"... and I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night!
He doesnt seem to be bothered by it much...except when we have to practice at Medart and he gets eaten up by the sand gnats... which is fair, because I hate practicing there (the sand gnats are awful). Of course it might help if I didnt always forget the bug spray. Its something I have been thinking about a lot lately...I have just kind of treated this little dude, like, "Alright little homey, we gotta do this, then this, then we gotta go to practice. And then..." Maybe I should be more like Betty Draper, and stay at home only doing domesticated stuff with him.
Speaking of Chiles. Wow. So back story: we lost to Chiles 7-0 our first year coaching. Last year we lost 6-0. We had sort of been resigned to the fact that anytime we play Chiles that its going to be a beating- they have too many elite club players, we have a lot of girls that only just recently got serious about playing soccer. But, it is what it is. We actually went into last night's game with a game plan- and executed it. It was pretty brilliant. Without getting into too many specifics- we needed to be patient and disciplined last night. Patient and disciplined. The plan worked pretty well and we lost 3-1. It would have been 2-1, but about half the team got willy-nilly when one of our girls straight jacked the ball from a Chiles player. One of our captains, Mandy had the goal, a really nice set piece half way between the side of the box and the sideline. And Shay. Wow. Shay. She was amazing. She didnt really have much to do through out the game, not like some games in the past where its like shooting practice. During most the game she made the saves she should have, and in the last five minutes, came up with two ridiculous, game winning saves. It was awesome!!
So today we've just been taking it easy. My girl Julia came to town this weekend and we went to get pedicures. Just in the nick of time really, because my feet were FUNKY. And not in a good way. Mostly doing cleaning and stuff around the house... listing stuff on Ebay (so I can get rid of it- man we collect some stuff.)
The picture below is from Friday morning... I had to meet with Ike in the morning and I got us up and going- but had to put him down to do some stuff (get the diaper bag ready, get dressed, etc). He eventually fell asleep in his crib... isnt he precious?
He doesnt seem to be bothered by it much...except when we have to practice at Medart and he gets eaten up by the sand gnats... which is fair, because I hate practicing there (the sand gnats are awful). Of course it might help if I didnt always forget the bug spray. Its something I have been thinking about a lot lately...I have just kind of treated this little dude, like, "Alright little homey, we gotta do this, then this, then we gotta go to practice. And then..." Maybe I should be more like Betty Draper, and stay at home only doing domesticated stuff with him.
Speaking of Chiles. Wow. So back story: we lost to Chiles 7-0 our first year coaching. Last year we lost 6-0. We had sort of been resigned to the fact that anytime we play Chiles that its going to be a beating- they have too many elite club players, we have a lot of girls that only just recently got serious about playing soccer. But, it is what it is. We actually went into last night's game with a game plan- and executed it. It was pretty brilliant. Without getting into too many specifics- we needed to be patient and disciplined last night. Patient and disciplined. The plan worked pretty well and we lost 3-1. It would have been 2-1, but about half the team got willy-nilly when one of our girls straight jacked the ball from a Chiles player. One of our captains, Mandy had the goal, a really nice set piece half way between the side of the box and the sideline. And Shay. Wow. Shay. She was amazing. She didnt really have much to do through out the game, not like some games in the past where its like shooting practice. During most the game she made the saves she should have, and in the last five minutes, came up with two ridiculous, game winning saves. It was awesome!!
So today we've just been taking it easy. My girl Julia came to town this weekend and we went to get pedicures. Just in the nick of time really, because my feet were FUNKY. And not in a good way. Mostly doing cleaning and stuff around the house... listing stuff on Ebay (so I can get rid of it- man we collect some stuff.)
The picture below is from Friday morning... I had to meet with Ike in the morning and I got us up and going- but had to put him down to do some stuff (get the diaper bag ready, get dressed, etc). He eventually fell asleep in his crib... isnt he precious?
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