tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53101425894139907412024-02-19T05:16:32.408-05:00Darwin has 2 MommiesA blog about 2 chicks raising their little bird.SupersammyGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12747989985735407882noreply@blogger.comBlogger319125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310142589413990741.post-22285722874420775062015-05-29T15:57:00.001-04:002015-05-29T15:57:21.369-04:00The coolest movie ever!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Ella turned 3. Holy Hell how do I have a three year old. I finally downloaded the pictures. Her birthday was on a weekday this year so she had a party at daycare and then we met her bff and family for ice cream.</div>
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We had her party on Saturday at our house. As usual I didn't take enough and the person who was taking pictures while she opened presents put the camera on a wacky setting so they didn't turn out so great. Someday when I am rich I will hire a photographer to take pictures at my parties. I did so much better last year. I didn't get any good pictures of the shirt I made E or the matching bunting. My mil has a picture of the three of us. I need to check with her and my bil to see what pictures they got. Anyway. It was hotter than the surface of the sun but we hung out outside and then went inside for cake and presents. E loved being the center of attention and it was really fun. My cake turned out well. I was happy with the colors but my practice cake actually tasted better. I used whole eggs on the big cake and egg yolks on the practice. It was still really yummy though.</div>
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<br />SupersammyGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12747989985735407882noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310142589413990741.post-23676831014881648842012-07-16T14:51:00.004-04:002012-07-16T14:51:50.938-04:00codingMost people when they hear you a teacher immediately say oh you are so lucky you have your summer off. These people don't really know very many teachers. Most of us spend our summer months working summer jobs and taking classes. While I do spend many days recharging and relaxing I would say I spend an equal number working. The bonus is that I don't have those pesky kids to get in my way. I love my job and the kids are the best part but holy hell I would get so much more accomplished if those kids didn't slow me down so much (I kid...kind of).<br />
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This summer I have attended a couple of workshops (one for grad credit) and am now working on a research project. I am helping analyze data for a research project looking at the efficacy of technology rich professional development programs. A few summers ago I worked on the project interviewing subjects and then summarizing interviews. Now I am coding the qualitative data from a teacher survey. Ugh it is so tedious. I keep repeating $$$$$ to myself to keep myself going. These teachers like to fill those open response sections with lots of words. With little E's birthday party last Saturday I have not had very much time to work on my task and now I need to finish by tonight/tomorrow morning. I worked a ton yesterday and set the alarm this morning so I could work before E got up and Shazam left. I squeezed in some more time while E napped and will be locking myself in a room tonight as soon as Shazam returns so I can get this done. So much for that image of teachers sipping mojitos at the beach. E just got up so we are going to brave the outside and go to the pool for a little bit then home for dinner and more coding!!!! At least it looks like this weeks work will pay for another month of Montessori.SupersammyGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12747989985735407882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310142589413990741.post-20080099311606562402012-07-12T23:11:00.003-04:002012-07-12T23:11:56.676-04:00Part 3<div style="text-align: left;">
I spent most of that second night trying to sleep but between the nurses in the corner of my room staring at me. I don't think they left the room (seizure watch perhaps?). Anyway I was awake when the herd came to round the next morning. They reported that I was holding steady and the plan was to keep me pregnant until 48 hours after my first steroid shot (beta complete). I don't think that I noted that I was getting blood drawn every 4 hours to check my platelet levels, kidney and liver function. Pretty much they were waiting for my levels to get bad enough that it was too dangerous to be pregnant. So as of really early o'clock I was doing fine (well as fine as one is with severe pre-eclampsia). </div>
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Around 9 am the herd returned which I took as a bad sign. It turned out that my liver and kidneys decided to crap out on me. The time had come. I woke Shazam up before they told us what was going to happen and we sat together to hear the plan. Pretty much we were told we were having a baby asap I was next in line they said. There was some urgency as the doctor told us that I was getting much to sick to stay pregnant. I called my bff and told her the news and asked her to come. Shazam called our parents and they started on there way to Boston. We realized that we had no camera and my dad at some point ran to his car to get his. We were already to go. </div>
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Then hospital time happened. We waited for about 3 hours. When the mfm and the resident finally came in to talk to us before the c-section I had to make fun of the resident who told me 3 hours ago that things were going to happen fast. Turns out there were two other women/babies that were more critical than me and bumped me out of line. Quite frankly I will wait three hours if it means I was only the 3rd sickest person on the floor. Since I was pretty sick at this point they must have been in rough shape. At this point I was scared shitless but I decided that I was going to put no energy into stressing out and or trying to control what was going to happen. At this point what ever was going to happen would happen. The only request that I had for the doctor when she checked in with me before the section was that she go and get herself into a good place. Her response was that in the operating room she is always in a good place. Exactly what I needed to hear. I wanted only positive energy when the baby was born. They took me back to the OR and Shazam stayed back to change into her scrubs.</div>
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Back in operating room I got my spinal from the anesthesiologist. She then told me that she had sent a resident to go find my husband. I told her the poor boy would be looking for a while since I had a wife. Once I was numbed up and laying on the table Shazam came in and things got started. I must say it was one of the strangest experiences of my life. I couldn't feel anything from my chest down but I could tell they were moving me around since my shoulders were moving around. Wacky. We were told that the baby might not cry when he/she came out and were happy to hear our feisty little one cry when she was born. We had been team green until this point and were so happy to know that we had a daughter! The nicu team was working on her and told Shazam she could go over and see her and take a picture. That would have required Shazam to walk on the other side of the curtain and to keep from adding a third patient in the room she stayed put. So the Neo took our camera and snapped a few pictures of of Little E pretty much at her littlest. </div>
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After a Little E was checked out by the nicu team they brought her over for a quick kiss and then she was brought to the nicu. I later learned by reading her chart that she scored a 2 and a 4 on her apgars. I am very glad that I didn't know that at the time. I think I would have flipped out. Once E was on her way things in the OR were pretty light. My theory was if the doctors could chat and make jokes then things we going ok. After being sewn up I was returned to my room and waited to be transferred to the to the maternity floor. We didn't get to go until about 8 pm since we needed to wait for the nurse shift change. They wheeled my gurney into the nicu and I finally got a good look at my girl. She was intubated at that point and had both an umbilical line and peripheral iv in her hand. She looked so wiped out but already had little curls on her head. Her preemie diaper was huge on her and the tape flaps that attach the diaper on each side actually overlapped.</div>
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</div>SupersammyGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12747989985735407882noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310142589413990741.post-32695142011373900772012-07-10T22:26:00.001-04:002012-07-10T22:26:39.668-04:00I interrupt this terriversary with some cake!So although I have not finished Ella's birth story I needed to post tonight a happy story. <br />
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Ella had a great birthday and was showered with a wonderful day. Daycare was decorated with balloons and as soon as she got in the room all Angelica, Violetta, Grisella and Carmen gave her lots of hugs and kisses. Ella happily told anyone who would listen that it was her birthday. She had chocolate cake and a wonderful homemade card from all her friends. To end the day we grabbed a slice of pizza at whole foods and then met e's BFF for ice cream. It was a great day. <br />
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While E was at daycare. I decided that I wanted to try to make a orange and pink ombré cake. Damn you pinterest damn you. I am glad I did a practice cake as I learned some things. <br />
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I think it turned out pretty well but I will be making some changes for Saturday. First I need to tone the color back a bit I think a bit more of a pastel would be nicer. It was a bit too much. I also want to change the pink to a softer pink. I went with the bright pink instead of the soft pink and i think that was a mistake. The color differential was not what I wanted. I want the layers to stand out a bit more. I hope I will be able to pull this off for E's birthday this weekend. Not bad for a first time and say that this is a pinterest success. The challenge will be pulling this off with a bigger cake. I used a 6 inch pan to make the practice one since I didn't want to waste a huge cake. The cake was very soft so I may cut a little bit of the liquid in the cake since I think it would be a total mess to try to move the 10 inch layers without them totally breaking apart. I may actually freeze them on cake rounds so I can actually stack the cake. I also did an ok job leveling the small cakes by hand but I don't know how well I will do it with a larger circumference. I am going to be a mess. My plan is to bake the layers Friday and freeze them and then frost in the morning on Sat before the party.</div>SupersammyGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12747989985735407882noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310142589413990741.post-47644019299719402662012-07-09T23:12:00.001-04:002012-07-09T23:12:27.948-04:00Part 2So I took a fast ride to the brigham in the the wee hours of the morning of the 9th. Once I got there we had an ultrasound with a less than friendly tech who left Shazam and I in the ultrasound room and didn't tell anyone to bring me back to my room. Once in the room I was hooked up to the monitors and left to bake literally for the next 24 hours. They kept the room dark so I have no understanding of time. I remember them rounding in the morning telling me I was doing ok. At some point a neo came down and spoke with us but I have very little recollection of that. At some point my parents came and stood at the end of my bed for a few minutes I tried to make my mother feel better since I could tell she was freaking out. I sent out a text message that can only be described as e e cummingsesque which freaked the recipients out more than I was trying too. Shazam left at some point to get some food with her bff who drove down. I spoke with my bff but I don't know what I said. Pretty much I don't remember much of what happened over the next 24 hours. All I can really recall is that I was freaking hot. Mag is the devil I swear. I was convinced that I was going to spontaneously combust. I sent Shazam to get me a mix of cranberry and apple juice with crushed ice. I really wanted to lay in it. We rounded out the day with the second steroid shot (ouch!). Shazam snoozed on the couch/bed thing and I lay in bed on my side listening to the babies heart beat. I was terrified. I gave the baby pep talks and did some yoga breathing. I must have slept some but I don't really remember it. I mostly just tried to will my bp down and my liver and kidney function up. It didn't work and the next day would be the day we met our daughter.SupersammyGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12747989985735407882noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310142589413990741.post-40949977188067855252012-07-08T23:04:00.002-04:002012-07-08T23:04:55.243-04:00Terriversary pt 1In the world of my fellow preemie moms we have anniversaries and we have terriversaries. Anniversaries are those things that come every year that you look forward to while our terriversaries are the occasions that we dread that come every year whether we like it or not. We all have them, the day a loved one died or when a bad break up happened. They are the bad days the ones we crawl under the covers and just hope for the day to end. Tonight marks one of those days for me. It is the day my pregnancy went to shit. It turned what should have been the happiest few days of my life to probably the most terrifying. <br />
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My pregnancy up until this point had been pretty uneventful. Other than lots of puking in the first and part of the second trimester things had been going as planned. Baby and I had both been looking good. I started getting some headaches at some point in June nothing horrible but out of the norm for me. Being the stubborn new englander I worked right through it. One day at school I was feeling kind of strange so I went down to the school nurse to get my bp checked. It was high for me. So I called my ob's office. I told them the reading I think it was 130/85. The nurse at the ob told me it was fine and not to worry about it. Looking back now I should have pushed to be seen. My bp pre pregnancy was 90s/60s so while it wasn't all that high it was a substantial increase for me. It was around that time that the swelling started. My feet were pretty bad but I have a job where I was on my feet all day long. It was hot. I was pregnant. I thought it was normal. Looking back at this picture of me from the last week of school I was already starting to really swell up.<br />
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In early July I wasn't feeling great but knew I had a doctor's appointment coming up and thought I could hold out. July 3rd I felt horrible but thought I must have over did it in the sun at a bbq. The fourth I spent sitting with my cankles up. I should have known there was a problem when I was wearing my wife's shoes (I wear a 6.5 and she wears an 8). My crocks didn't even fit. <br />
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I was feeling better after the holiday and worked my nanny job on the 8th. I picked up Sophie and her friend Ashley at tennis camp and cooked dinner for the family. On the way home I talked to my bff Miche and as I pulled into the driveway I was telling her how I was doing great and how excited I was for the end of September to come. We said our goodbyes and I went in to have some dinner. I ate hummus and tabouli on pita. I think there was grilled chicken in there all I remember is the tabouli when I barfed it up. A little while after dinner I started feeling sick. I had been having horrible heartburn for a while so I reached for my tums and started popping them. At about 10 we decided to go to sleep. I laid down for a few minutes and had to get up and went to the bathroom to get sick. Thats when the tabouli came back and I must say I have yet to be able eat it again with any enjoyment since then. I went back to lay down but was back up in minutes. When I returned Shazam asked me if I wanted to go to the hospital. I immediately said yes. It was one of those times that I just knew something was not right. Shazam and I decided that I must have food poisoning or a terrible bug. We never considered that there was something really wrong.We drove the 10 minutes to the Hospital and when we got there the staff was less than on top of things. They told be to pretty much get in line to be seen. I had to get up and go throw up again and when I returned to the waiting room a pain which I now know as epigastric pain took over. I pretty much commanded Shazam to get me some help. After a very direct conversation someone came and took me away in a wheel chair and took us up to maternity. <br />
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Once in a room the nurse asked me to pee in a cup and then tried to take my bp. She couldn't get the bed bp cuff to work. I am not sure if that is because it was too high or if the thing just wasn't working but as soon as she got a reading she left the room very quickly. There was a doctor in my room a moment later. My bp and what I assume was protein in my urine confirmed that I had developed pre eclampsia and that I was going to have to deliver in the next 48 hours. We were terrified. The doctor left to find me a bed at a hospital with a nicu that could handle a 30 week preemie. I got a steroid shot to help develop the babies lungs, morphine to help with the pain, and I started mag (the fire drug). I think Shazam ran home at this point to walk the dog and get some supplies but at that point I was high as a kite from the morphine that things were a little fuzzy. After an ultra sound of my liver to make sure things hadn't gone really crappy there and a quick peak at the baby I was off to town with the sirens blaring and lights flashing. I remember trying to give Shazam directions to the hospital which must have seemed crazy to the nurses but I am the navigator of the family and she had to drive alone. By this point it was the wee hours of the 9th.<br />
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This is the day when it all changed. What every my birth plan had been and my plans for my babies infancy went down the drain with that freaking tabouli.SupersammyGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12747989985735407882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310142589413990741.post-14410624942555693432012-06-25T20:59:00.002-04:002012-06-25T20:59:43.712-04:00Pride<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;">After three years we finally made it to Pride as a family. For one reason or another Shazam and I have never been to pride together and for the past couple of years the weather has been crapy so we have no brought E. Well this year it worked out and the weather was wonderful so off to pride we went. E loved the parade and the T ride into the city. The ride home was a bit rough because it was a packed train and not one person offered us a seat. Let's just say riding the T trying to hold a stroller and keep an over tired 2.5 year old balance was not tons of fun.</span><br />
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<br />SupersammyGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12747989985735407882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310142589413990741.post-19407114955186740032012-06-10T09:21:00.001-04:002012-06-10T09:21:23.790-04:00Breakfast for twoThere are some things about Little E that makes me wonder how she is not genetically linked to Shazam. One of these things is their mutual love of breakfast foods. I generally don't eat until lunch time (which is 10:30 for me at school). Little E and Shazam wake up ready to eat. For the past few months when breakfast time comes around they make one big bowl of cereal, Little E grabs two spoons and they head to the couch for as Little E calls it "cherio with Mommy". It is pretty cute.<div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmfIXIlptXuXzv9bvnzBiDWBLoC4unpAajCLt5qPb-FdQgZ0gwcwX45gH8YY1yuPNaFmkWmQf14tDpYe0fbnfIhU_1Dyz788Zuq01Pn245-lHDYoTy2m-227ZRDvOuZlljH4REJMj9W3Qb/s640/blogger-image-658638877.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmfIXIlptXuXzv9bvnzBiDWBLoC4unpAajCLt5qPb-FdQgZ0gwcwX45gH8YY1yuPNaFmkWmQf14tDpYe0fbnfIhU_1Dyz788Zuq01Pn245-lHDYoTy2m-227ZRDvOuZlljH4REJMj9W3Qb/s640/blogger-image-658638877.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju-Hd6dBczvfMAKdvySJ4mx4gOYIH18T-2ORVk_vlareVvOKq9JmDYx-91OvpL_GTlXUqWVDYn-gcN1AwVPVHPPRiI3yn0uLM9iOredqeC4kCO0XRRb-xreStFNbYAy_e5eDnb5TJF_wi9/s640/blogger-image-279468499.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju-Hd6dBczvfMAKdvySJ4mx4gOYIH18T-2ORVk_vlareVvOKq9JmDYx-91OvpL_GTlXUqWVDYn-gcN1AwVPVHPPRiI3yn0uLM9iOredqeC4kCO0XRRb-xreStFNbYAy_e5eDnb5TJF_wi9/s640/blogger-image-279468499.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic_oZpsOK6AP1NkyxGmrKOvVCcBKMDyfiq5_S5QivbX8FNfXFhYqmkzQoirUvrKDgtMhGSOaIMdUqA7gUtFVSJotyEbV0qbIFzfLoYYYp-YBYNvsUmGZTiQ7_odYk4jq1d2Ts402tGPquA/s640/blogger-image-349410394.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic_oZpsOK6AP1NkyxGmrKOvVCcBKMDyfiq5_S5QivbX8FNfXFhYqmkzQoirUvrKDgtMhGSOaIMdUqA7gUtFVSJotyEbV0qbIFzfLoYYYp-YBYNvsUmGZTiQ7_odYk4jq1d2Ts402tGPquA/s640/blogger-image-349410394.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbLVmlFQUsI-0GuAyEGEWt9ajHVA_-n5WzFdewRZ5E0Vw1z7WyeZaO-2zrwxerJpDpZ-vDNI-bGThzLOhoto0eXxMsdWLf4vCIRvAM0uJ-uxxCI3VEJaGeMl4RJkG4AnPp0aPe_8EmCduw/s640/blogger-image--1041098125.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbLVmlFQUsI-0GuAyEGEWt9ajHVA_-n5WzFdewRZ5E0Vw1z7WyeZaO-2zrwxerJpDpZ-vDNI-bGThzLOhoto0eXxMsdWLf4vCIRvAM0uJ-uxxCI3VEJaGeMl4RJkG4AnPp0aPe_8EmCduw/s640/blogger-image--1041098125.jpg" /></a></div>SupersammyGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12747989985735407882noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310142589413990741.post-44718095292377532372012-05-30T09:53:00.000-04:002012-05-30T09:53:49.472-04:00DucksWe have been exploring all of the parks in our town and went for the first time to a park on the river. Ella loved feeding the ducks and geese. So much so that Shazam arranged to bring her after daycare yesterday. I was supposed to tutor but that got canceled so I got to go as well. It was great fun and she was totally wiped out when we were done.<br />
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For the third year we walked in the March of Dimes March for Babies. For the first time we didn't have to walk in the rain and huddle under tents during thunder and lightning. It was a very nice change. We had a nice group of friends and family and raised over $2000 for the cause. We have been making E a shirt every year with her age and weight and it has been amazing to see how much she has grown. In 34 months she has gained almost 27 pounds. After the walk we hung out on the Esplanade and had lunch and went to the playground. On our way back to the garage we stopped off at the public garden to take E on her first swan boat ride. It was a blast and she loved it. A perfect time of year since there was cute fuzzy ducklings lined up on a ramp to an island just like the book.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Walking" with Sara and Gordon.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How cute are my parents holding hands.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The view was so much nicer without the rain.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Little E would not look at the camera her ice cream was too yummy. Sorry about your pants Sara.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My BFF and Shazam's BFF on the swan boats.</td></tr>
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<br />SupersammyGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12747989985735407882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310142589413990741.post-45084046476894934092012-05-20T21:07:00.002-04:002012-05-21T21:19:42.924-04:00By this time tomorrowIt will be over!<br />
Shazam will officially be a social worker and I will hopefully never here the words "I am going to the library." out of her mouth again. So after two years and sacrifices from all our parts we will be done with graduate school! I think we both are surprised at how hard this has been on us. We went into this thinking that it would be hard but we had no idea. There have been times in this process that both Shazam and I have both felt misunderstood and not supported but we made it through and tomorrow we get to celebrate. Tomorrow is going to be a great day. Fingers crossed that the rain holds out and that little E makes it through the ceremony. We even have dinner that does not include nuggets and a baby sitter. Now that is reason to celebrate! Congrats Shazam! Little E and I are so proud of you!SupersammyGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12747989985735407882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310142589413990741.post-24202629773768624632012-05-16T22:03:00.000-04:002012-05-16T22:03:01.202-04:00You deserve and updateSo as usual I come to you with my tail between my legs apologizing for not blogging. Has it really been since January? I hope that this popping up on some of your readers gives you some joy. Lots have been going on some great and some not so great.<br />
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The good<br />
E got into Montessori School and we got a great financial aid package. So Montessori here we come!<br />
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Shazam is finally done with grad school. After two fucking years I have my wife back. I know it is nothing compared to other graduate programs but really two years were totally enough for me.<br />
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The school year is wrapping up and I had a great year. No snow days so we are out super early this year!!!!!<br />
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The bad<br />
Big E Shazam's grandmother and E's namesake passed away the end of last month. This has been crushing for all of us. We knew it was coming but not at the speed that it did. Shazam is muddling through but this was not the way we imagined her last week of grad school to be.<br />
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It sucks. We love her family daycare and they truly have become just that, family. Ella loves it there and she is loved there. Which makes finding a new school for her all the more difficult. So I have been untying the decision off for months now but now it is time I have to figure this put. We have three schools on the list right now. Really 2 but I am keeping options open. School 1 is my first choice. It is a Montessori school and my mom was a Montessori teacher. I love the teaching method and I think Ella would do awesome there. The school is beautiful I mean Montessori school by nature are pretty. The wood materials, the cloth napkins, the cups hanging on a hook. I can picture her on may with the pink tower. Only one problem.....the money. Sweet jesus the money. It is totally out of the question without financial aid. I mean it is $3000 more a year for just the 8-3 program. Forget the after and before care I would need. That brings the grand total up to close to 8 grand more a year. So without financial aid or a lottery win Ella much to my mother's dismay will not be Montessori educated. The financial aid and admissions application are comical though. There is a whole page for ella's financial information. The do not seem to have a spot to record the contents of her pink piggy bank but there is a spot to record the contents of her trust fund. It seems as if a trust fund should eliminate you from financial aid but that is just me. There is also a page to record the homes you own...there are three blanks available my guess is that if you own three properties you should be screened out at that point. Well at least we will look good financially. I think the admissions director also mentioned that they REALLY encourage diversity at the school. I hope they have not filled their lesbian preemie teacher/social worker quota and bring us on board.<br />
That brings us to options two and three. One really doesn't work without crazy scheduling stress. They don't own until 8. This is a problem if I need to do drop off since school starts at 8:50. At this point I am assuming that Shazam will have a job at one of the hospitals and will not be available ditto do drop off. While this school is the cheapest the stress of figuring out a morning nanny to take her to school and the added expense does not make sense to me. Option three is in the middle price wise and I liked the space much much better than option 2. Pretty much I think we will plunk down our non refundable deposit for option 3 and see what happens with Montessori taking pity on us. The admissions director said they can't do a full ride but they can come close so here is hoping. Now I need to go and write about how Ella likes to spend her leisure time and what our educational goals are for Ella. Are there two year olds that have non leisure time? I am pretty sure Ella's life is leisure time.SupersammyGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12747989985735407882noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310142589413990741.post-83227153759127535092012-01-01T23:45:00.000-05:002012-01-01T23:50:43.725-05:00Happy 2012 Good Bye 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
2011 was another great year for our family. Busy as Shazam worked hard on her masters, Super Sammy G worked her tail off and Little E grew and grew! Little E is hardly the same child she was a year ago. She was still a 21lb baby last January and now she is all toddler and tipping the scales at 28 lbs. I was a bad blogger but really I think I was just overwhelmed trying to get through the day to day that I just didn't have the energy to do much more than keep us clothed and fed on a daily basis. Some days I didn't even do a good thing at that. So here is 2011 in review.</div>
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We started 2011 watching Auntie Beth run in the Millennium mile in NH. She did great!</div>
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Hung out around the house and considered career options.<br />
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Little E discovered that she loved her puppy Darwin's bed. Who needs fancy pott.ery barn chairs!<br />
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Mid month we had an epic snow storm and little E had her first experience with some real snow!<br />
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Amah and Gumpy (Grandma and Grampa G) bought her an awesome table. She loves it and eats, plays and draws at it daily.<br />
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At E's 18 month appointment we found out that she had lost weight (not good for a growing toddler) so we started project chubby cheeks to fatten up little E. She got to enjoy milk with cream added, butter in everything and lots of ICECREAM!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I think she likes it!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">E you have a little something on your face!</td></tr>
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February<br />
February started a little rough with E's first real injury (ouch) from a fall onto the storage cubes.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nice cut above her right eye.</td></tr>
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She was still in love with her dog bed.<br />
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E made her first cupcakes for Mommy's Birthday<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The chef</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hey Mommy why is my cupcake so small compared to you?</td></tr>
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E wasn't feeling great that night and ended up in the ER with breathing issues. We now are a proud owner of a nebulizer. She was a real trouper with her treatments and was on the mend soon. Her lungs seem to be her only holdover from her prematurity.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Being a good sport about her breathing treatments.</td></tr>
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March<br />
We started taking trips to the local farm. The snow was still on the ground but E loved stomping in the puddles and seeing the animals<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Splash</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Exploring the Barn</td></tr>
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Ella started really loving some of her new toys. Cutting fruit is still a popular game.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The chef</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking cute in Mommy's hat</td></tr>
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With Easter on the way E got her first tast of a marshmellow peep.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mimi Ella and the peep=yum</td></tr>
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She got her portrait taken for Easter with a real live bunny!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ella and some eggs</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ella and the bunny! Her dress even matched</td></tr>
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April<br />
Ella's funny little personality is in full swing. Why she was in the sock bin with Kermit I have no idea but she was having a good time.<br />
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With the weather improving we spent alot of time as a family hanging our at the local historical site. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ella wants to climb just like Mommy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mommy and E in a tree!</td></tr>
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We also returned to the farm where the lambs were starting to be born.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Love Chickens</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New lambs so cute!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trying to prevent E from jumping into the pig pen</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">E weighs in as a piglet!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ride um cowgirl</td></tr>
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E went to her first Boston Marathon to cheer on a friend. We are lucky that the marathon goes right through our town.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waiting for Kathleen</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mommy and her awesome sign</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Run Kathleen (in center with black skirt and shirt)</td></tr>
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E was really excited to get her Easter basket and was totally into her first egg hunt. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Easter Bunny E</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finding some Eggs</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More Eggs</td></tr>
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At the end of the month we made it to another Sheep Sheering festival with my parents. Lots of fun.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Traditional sheering. The sheep just lay there.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shazam and my mom</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ahma Gumpy and E.</td></tr>
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May<br />
We started the month with our annual March of dimes walk. We almost made it through the whole thing without thunder and lightning. I am counting on a sunny beautiful day this year. We were joined this year by our fav nicu nurse, her husband, my parents, and both Shazam and my best friends. They all humored me and wore the crazy bee hats I found so that we could be team Bumble Bee!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mama and E</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A little over 20 lbs above her birth weight</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ready to walk</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ahma Gumpy and E</td></tr>
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As the weather warmed up E hit the pool.</div>
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E also got a little daring and started climbing things for fun.</div>
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E also started spring training making her Mommy and Uncle Jeff proud.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">She's got quite an arm!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Batting Practice with Uncle Jeff</td></tr>
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We took our first trip as a family to the Aquarium. E loved it espesially the tide pool. She loved getting her hands of the animals. The penguins and seals were also a big hit.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mama Ella and the Sea Anemones</td></tr>
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June<br />
We were back to the farm again. This time we got to meet a chicken and see the piglets that had been born! E also sported pig tails for the first time.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mommy and E walking to the farm yard</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love you chicken!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Piglets</td></tr>
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Hanging out at home</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Doing some work with mommy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wearing a Nightgown for the first time</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Painting the back stoop with water</td></tr>
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We also attended E's cousin's dance recital. We thought E would last about one act but she sat for the entire first act. She loved it!<br />
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We also squeezed in strawberry picking at the end of the month. She ate more than she put in the bucket though.<br />
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July was probably the busiest month we had all year. We packed in friend's, 4th of July, E's Birthday and the beging of a vacation.<br />
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We started the month with a playdate at the park with a friend<br />
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Fourth of July weekend started at the lake and ended up at Great Mimi and Great Buba's party in NH. E had a great time. She loved the parade.<br />
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E had a Pinwheel 2nd birthday party in NH at Mimi and Buba's. It was a blast. I recycled decorations from E's 1st birthday party and they turned out really well. E had a great time with the sprinkler, bounce house and cake!<br />
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We spent some hot days at the local spray park were E loved running through the water (the child has no fear).</div>
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We moved from our 2 bedroom apartment to a larger and nicer 3 bedroom apartment at the end of the month. It was a great change and E now has her own bathroom and we have room to spread out a bit.</div>
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Our new town has a town pool so we were frequent visitors to the kiddy pool after we moved.<br />
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August<br />
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We started out the month with a vacation to P-town for family week. E loved the ocean and the pool and we had a great time with friend old and new.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making sand castles</td></tr>
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We really enjoyed the family week festivities and had a blast in the preschool playtime in the park every morning and even marched in the parade!<br />
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When we returned home from vacation it was back to the farm to check on our animals.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hello Goat</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Big Girl</td></tr>
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We made it to the pool almost every day!<br />
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We went to the zoo! E's favorite part was the petting area. She spent a lot of time kissing the goats.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mama and E checking out a tortoise</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love you goat!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Goats rock</td></tr>
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She also spent some time working on her Kramer hair!<br />
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September<br />
September brought our awesome summer to an end. We all returned to school and back to the grind.<br />
E enjoyed arts and crafts in the breakfast nook.<br />
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October<br />
We made it to E's first country fair. She loved it and had a wonderful day. She fed the chickens, saw a giant pumpkin, rode her first pony and carousel. It was a awesome day.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">E gets her love of Chickens from her Mommy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Loving the Pony</td></tr>
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We enjoyed a very mild mid October and E and Mama did a photoshoot at the local historical society.<br />
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E was a ladybug for her first trick or treating. She was a natural and ran up to each house for her treats!<br />
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November<br />
We had more fall fun with E's cousins.<br />
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We spent Thanksgiving in VT with my extended family. This will be out last holiday at the farm as my uncle is selling it. It was bitter sweet for us all.</div>
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December<br />
E's drawings started to really take shape this month with pictures of people<br />
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We had lots of holiday cheer from picking a tree and triming it to building a gingerbread house. E was really into the spirit and spent her time talking about Santa and hugging her tree.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waiting for Santa</td></tr>
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2011 was a really tough year. Balancing school, work, parenting and marriage has been really tough. We are all looking forward to Shazam finishing graduate school in May. Who knows what 2012 will bring us. What ever it is I look forward to sharing it with my great family!<br />
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<br />SupersammyGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12747989985735407882noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310142589413990741.post-81728669792736063582011-12-29T17:03:00.001-05:002011-12-29T17:03:00.888-05:00Blogging on the goMy new years resolution is to blog at least one time per week. I just got my iPhone so perhaps I will blog on the go and actually do it! Crossing fingers. I am going to work on my year in review<br />
Post. I missed doing it last year and really enjoyed doing it two years ago. . Perhaps I should do two years in review. See ya soon.SupersammyGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12747989985735407882noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310142589413990741.post-18864064168190379552011-12-12T22:44:00.002-05:002011-12-12T22:44:52.714-05:00<div class="sflyProductPreviewWidget" style="height: 494px; width: 425px;">
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Today I took Little E to a historical house (well really the grounds). It is super pretty there and they have sheep and chickens that we can go and check out. I ended up taking some pictures of the girl. I am pretty proud of some of the shots. I used to take tons of pictures of my friends kids but somehow I never set out to take so good shots of E. So today was the day. It was beautiful in the 60s and sunny. Here are some of my favorites.</div>
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<br />SupersammyGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12747989985735407882noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310142589413990741.post-67877314569958387262011-10-14T08:40:00.003-04:002011-10-14T08:41:01.237-04:00BirthdayE's Birthday was one of the highlights of the summer. I can't believe that E is two already (although by the temper tantrums I would say not so hard to imagine). We had her party at Mimi and Bubba's house in NH. The weather was great and I think everyone had a wonderful time. The theme was pinwheels and I am proud to say I repurposed a lot of the decorations from Ella's owl themed 1st birthday. We borrowed a friends bouncy house and had a sprinkler for entertainment. A nice lunch and some cake and we were good to go.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I took the owl off her sign and put a pinwheel on. How green am I!! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another repurposed decoration. The Letters are from last years banner. I made the pennants out of scrapbook paper and added some pinwheels and put it back on the ribbon.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ella's pinwheel outfit I ordered off etsy. She looked so cute!</td></tr>
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ISupersammyGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12747989985735407882noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310142589413990741.post-57277609382735736632011-10-10T20:19:00.000-04:002011-10-10T20:19:05.854-04:00Summer Recap???Tons has happened since last I blogged...like a whole season. Geez I really need to get back into this. Since the only way I think I will remember anything is if I write it in the blog. Poor E will wonder what the heck happened her second year of life. Only 17 posts in 2011 so far. Whoops. Really E stuff happened I promise.<br />
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We had a great summer with lots going on including moving and a nice vacation to P-town. It was nice to be together as a family although I would not recommend leaving for vacation one week after moving. The week going into the move was really hard. The move was really hard. The week following the move was hard and the week after coming home from vacation...hard. But we are mostly moved into the new place which is great. We spent the remaining weeks of the summer playing at the pool and getting used to the new place.<br />
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I must say it was bitter sweet moving from our old apartment. I mean it was beyond time as we had outgrown it a long time ago but it was Shazam and my first apartment together. We got engaged, married, pregnant and brought a baby home there. There were so many memories tied their. It just seems strange that we don't live there anymore.<br />
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The new place is great though. Lots of room and tons of storage. We have so many closets it is great. I really love the layout and the kitchen is works very nicely. I am enjoying having a gas stove again after 5 years. <br />
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We are back to the grind here with Shazam in her second year of grad school an me back to teaching 6th grade. E is in daycare 4 days per week this year and I am doing drop off 3 days per week as well as pick up every day. I am a very tired woman by the time the end of the week comes around. Shazam is loving her internship at The Brigham and while is hard work ( she is on the gynecological oncology service) she is learning a ton and it will also be very good on her resume. School for me is going very well. I had tons of changes with my team this year but it is going really well. It is nice to teach something for the second time around. We also have really nice kids this year which is a total bonus.<br />
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Little E is doing great. She still is a little mini but has been gaining weight and now is 27lbs according to our home scale. She is wearing 2T tops and 12-18 month pants. The child has the stumpiest legs and a very long torso. She is enjoying art projects at home and I love getting projects together for her.<br />
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She is talking so much more these days (although it is often hard to understand her) and is coming up with more and more multi word phrases. Her favorite right now is "That's cool." She is two and is filled with tantrums over the smallest things but is also filled with so much joy. She loves to dance and sing. She is enjoying books with real plots which is such a nice change from the books with one word and pictures on a page. I am happy to report that some of her favorites are some of mine as well. My sister got her Crictor at some point last year and she finally loving it.<br />
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</div> I love that she asks for books and our nightly reading sessions are such a nice way to wind down the day. <br />
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My goal is to write the blog two to three times per week. I think I will have to do a bit of a photo dump to highlight the summer at some point. I really need to find a way to document our time together as a family. Until next time...SupersammyGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12747989985735407882noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310142589413990741.post-80767057185085573122011-07-15T15:08:00.000-04:002011-07-15T15:08:25.435-04:00I am a ridiculously bad bloggerI totally fell off the 30 day challenge wagon but June is never a good time for me to start a project. I am always so tired at the end of the year. I have been on vacation for about 3 weeks now and am feeling recharged so back to the blog I go. We are deep into getting ready for the move. Boxes are piling up around the apartment and with one week to go I really have to get a move on. Shazam is over at the new apartment painting the living and dining room. It is turning out well although it is a little bluer and less grey than I expected. I guess we are in a blue faze since Little E's room will also be blue. We bought a new rug for the living room and the study and picked up a nice desk on craigslist. Shazam's study should be a nice little retreat. I really can't wait to have more room to work with. I mean our dinning room is currently our only place to eat, our office, and play area. We have a table and chairs, credenza, china cabinet, bench, computer desk, cat climber, and wing chair in there. I can't wait to send all the non dining items to their new homes! There is still so much to do but it is going to be worth it. I was in our bedroom and Shazam was in the living room and with me yelling she hardly heard me! This is going to be nice for when one of us gets up with Little E in the morning and lets the other sleep in. Currently it doesn't really matter who gets up because with the layout of our apartment once E is up it is impossible to sleep. The kid is loud! Last night we tried to eat at the new apartment but all E wanted to do was run around and with wet paint around we had to bail and finish eating at home. No worries we will have tons of time to eat at the new place in the future. Well the little lady is awake so I must run. I need to catch you all up on E's 2 year appointment and birthday party. I will do that over the next few days.SupersammyGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12747989985735407882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310142589413990741.post-88956336891794147792011-06-13T21:42:00.000-04:002011-06-13T21:42:51.939-04:00Little E's Big Girl RoomNow that we are moving I have begun to think about changing things up and giving E a big girl room. I love E's nursery and was very happy with our choices but in some ways that room never developed into what I dreamed it to be. I never really had the intimate moments I imagined in the room. Most of my dreams of quietly nursing a newborn Little E were lost in the months following her birth. Even when she was home we just never spent much time in there. <br />
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Since we were team green we have a very gender neutral room of browns and light green with an elephant theme. It is super cute but I want a little girls room. I love the color combination of light blue and red. I just love the idea of a tranquil pretty light blue room. So I started looking for bedding. Since E is not close to leaving her crib (I would keep her there forever if I could) and it converts into a toddler bed I started looking for some cute toddler bedding. I must say it is very lacking. Most of it was cheap character crap from places like Ta.rget. I found several sets I liked at a place called babybedding dot com. The sets are not too expensive and they have some cute modern patterns. Last week I was hot to trot on the following patterns.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Oh how I love thee she.rbet pips</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>SupersammyGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12747989985735407882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310142589413990741.post-65682399959543420342011-06-12T21:12:00.000-04:002011-06-12T21:12:04.747-04:00Moving on upShazam and I have been in the same apartment for four years. It was great when we first moved in with each other. While the outside of the house was not in the best condition the inside was fine and had plenty of room for us. Over the past few years our family has grown and we have grown out of the space of our two bedroom apartment. Not only are do we need more space in out current place but our land lords have done nothing to keep the place up. The roof is literally falling off. Our neighborhood isn't great and our dog was killed in the road outside our apartment. Those factors added to the fact that we share a house with twenty somethings has made us ready to move. When our land lord told us our rent would be going up $100/month we really wanted to leave but knew it wasn't in the cards. We would never be able to swing the money for a bigger place in a better location. Rents for 2-3 bedrooms in the next town over where we wanted to move were out of our price range at this point. So we told out land lord that we would be staying put she told us she would mail us a new lease. But then a great opportunity came our way. The math teacher on my team owns a two family and his second floor apartment became available. It is a 3 bedroom plus a study and two bathrooms for only $100 more than our new rent. The apartment is not perfect but there were so many more pros than cons. So we took it and we will be be moving at the end of July. We are beyond excited and are so looking forward to more space and a fresh start. So I am trying to wrap up the school year, find a mover, and start to pack and purge. We are looking at paint colors and figuring out what we need for the new place. I can not wait until we are in our new place.SupersammyGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12747989985735407882noreply@blogger.com1