Thursday, December 25, 2008
Monday, December 22, 2008
Holidays and Blogging....
Howdy,
Just firing off a quick post since it's been over a week and I have been remiss in making any updates.
First off, the holidays are crazy, the days leading up are crazy, and the freakin' snow that we have had cover our city is insane!
However the fun part was bring Alya outside to stomp around on top of piles well over her head in high. That little squirrel is going to be a snow girl. I can't wait for when Sasha takes her skiing for the first time. I just know Alya is going to love it.
Meanwhile, Marcus is living the world of molars - and it doesn't agree with him. Alya's teeth just flew in, but Marcus is creeping along one molar at a time. Poor guy is doing wakes ups thanks to pain, which has not been fun for us as well.
Plus, he's still holding out on the walking thing. Or at least was until last night. We had dinner over at Rob and Mayumi's last night, and while My Neighbor Totoro was on for Alya and Kaede, Marcus made the move. He took a couple of steps from the television to the coffee table to grab the remote. Marcus most certainly has a y-chromosome.
Okay, that's all for now, but the goal will be pictures and another post before Christmas. Wish me luck!
Be seeing you,
Jon
Just firing off a quick post since it's been over a week and I have been remiss in making any updates.
First off, the holidays are crazy, the days leading up are crazy, and the freakin' snow that we have had cover our city is insane!
However the fun part was bring Alya outside to stomp around on top of piles well over her head in high. That little squirrel is going to be a snow girl. I can't wait for when Sasha takes her skiing for the first time. I just know Alya is going to love it.
Meanwhile, Marcus is living the world of molars - and it doesn't agree with him. Alya's teeth just flew in, but Marcus is creeping along one molar at a time. Poor guy is doing wakes ups thanks to pain, which has not been fun for us as well.
Plus, he's still holding out on the walking thing. Or at least was until last night. We had dinner over at Rob and Mayumi's last night, and while My Neighbor Totoro was on for Alya and Kaede, Marcus made the move. He took a couple of steps from the television to the coffee table to grab the remote. Marcus most certainly has a y-chromosome.
Okay, that's all for now, but the goal will be pictures and another post before Christmas. Wish me luck!
Be seeing you,
Jon
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Why isn't Jon sleeping?
Hey all, it's bar time in Milwaukee and I'm not sleeping right now. This is kind of a bad thing as the kids will be waking up in about four hours....
But they had a great time today, as Sasha, her mom (Susan), and Holly had their cookie bake-a-thon today. At least seven varieties of Christmas cookie were baked today and all of them are delicious. In fact, they pretty much were dinner for me tonight.
Anyway, the kids got to play with both grandmas as my mom came by as well. Plus they danced to Christmas songs that Holly and Susan played on the piano. Alya has that spinin' and wavin' down. Marcus just has the beat.
His rhythm skills were really showing when a bunch of my friends came over to play Rock Band on the PS3. Fun times for all of us, but Marcus thought that the drums were best and he held onto a drumstick for most of the time he was in the basement with us.
Unfortunately, that was at 11 PM.
Marcus has two teeth coming in right now, so for the past three nights he has woken up between 10:30 and 11 PM, not going down for at least an hour. I can only hope that these new teeth finish cutting soon.
Okay, that was enough to clear the mind and enable sleep.
Take care everyone and have a safe weekend.
I'm going to have a yummy one, that's for certain.
Be seeing you,
Jon
But they had a great time today, as Sasha, her mom (Susan), and Holly had their cookie bake-a-thon today. At least seven varieties of Christmas cookie were baked today and all of them are delicious. In fact, they pretty much were dinner for me tonight.
Anyway, the kids got to play with both grandmas as my mom came by as well. Plus they danced to Christmas songs that Holly and Susan played on the piano. Alya has that spinin' and wavin' down. Marcus just has the beat.
His rhythm skills were really showing when a bunch of my friends came over to play Rock Band on the PS3. Fun times for all of us, but Marcus thought that the drums were best and he held onto a drumstick for most of the time he was in the basement with us.
Unfortunately, that was at 11 PM.
Marcus has two teeth coming in right now, so for the past three nights he has woken up between 10:30 and 11 PM, not going down for at least an hour. I can only hope that these new teeth finish cutting soon.
Okay, that was enough to clear the mind and enable sleep.
Take care everyone and have a safe weekend.
I'm going to have a yummy one, that's for certain.
Be seeing you,
Jon
Saturday, December 6, 2008
So, what's been going on?
That's a good question, isn't it?
A week has gone by since my last post, so one would think that something must be going on right now. But really, it has been regular life that's been playing with not putting out updates. So this one is going to be a little on the short side.
- Christmas Time is here -
Last Wednesday was the next step in decorating for Christmas - the house interior!
We've got tinsel on the basement ceiling. There is a nativity scene in the front room. Snowmen all over the place. Oodles of Santas floating around, including "Jazzy Santa" who's black and plays "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" on the sax when you press his button.
Multiple wreaths. A few light-up snowflakes for the front windows. Quite a few noise-making Christmas stuffed animals. A snow globe for each of the kid's rooms. And our miniature sleigh with two snowmen and a Cthulhu riding inside.
The best thing about all these decorations is when Alya woke up the next morning and went running from item to item checking it all out. That is what it's all about.
Oh, and we told her that the elves did the decorating overnight. Gotta start the myth somewhere.
Tomorrow may be the start of the tree. Lights will not be on the same, totally insane scale as last year (over 2000 bulbs) but it will be pretty.
- Alya and dogs -
So this past Sunday, we took the kids over to my Grandmother's a post-Thanksgiving gathering. The bad news first - I drank a soda on the way there that triggered something lying dormant in my intestines. The short of it - I ate none of the good food that was prepared and was very uncomfortable for the duration.
However the food was fantastic as leftovers. My Aunt Dolly made some fantastic barbecue ribs. There was Sasha's cornbread stuffing, again which is could eat again and again. Some really good macaroni and cheese, joined by some of the best flaky biscuits around. Fortunately for me, they all reheated nicely the next day.
Also at the house was Ruby the dog. I don't know exactly the breed Ruby is beyond "puntable" but even at that small scale, Alya was terrified. But unlike Thanksgiving, she eventually was able to deal with Ruby being around, eventually evening laughing at the puppy. It's good to know that she'll be able to deal with this fear of dogs.
In fact while shopping on Friday, Alya asked Sasha if she could get a puppy. Sasha's response, "No way in hell." And that's something we're both solidly on the same page with each other.
Be seeing you,
Jon
A week has gone by since my last post, so one would think that something must be going on right now. But really, it has been regular life that's been playing with not putting out updates. So this one is going to be a little on the short side.
- Christmas Time is here -
Last Wednesday was the next step in decorating for Christmas - the house interior!
We've got tinsel on the basement ceiling. There is a nativity scene in the front room. Snowmen all over the place. Oodles of Santas floating around, including "Jazzy Santa" who's black and plays "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" on the sax when you press his button.
Multiple wreaths. A few light-up snowflakes for the front windows. Quite a few noise-making Christmas stuffed animals. A snow globe for each of the kid's rooms. And our miniature sleigh with two snowmen and a Cthulhu riding inside.
The best thing about all these decorations is when Alya woke up the next morning and went running from item to item checking it all out. That is what it's all about.
Oh, and we told her that the elves did the decorating overnight. Gotta start the myth somewhere.
Tomorrow may be the start of the tree. Lights will not be on the same, totally insane scale as last year (over 2000 bulbs) but it will be pretty.
- Alya and dogs -
So this past Sunday, we took the kids over to my Grandmother's a post-Thanksgiving gathering. The bad news first - I drank a soda on the way there that triggered something lying dormant in my intestines. The short of it - I ate none of the good food that was prepared and was very uncomfortable for the duration.
However the food was fantastic as leftovers. My Aunt Dolly made some fantastic barbecue ribs. There was Sasha's cornbread stuffing, again which is could eat again and again. Some really good macaroni and cheese, joined by some of the best flaky biscuits around. Fortunately for me, they all reheated nicely the next day.
Also at the house was Ruby the dog. I don't know exactly the breed Ruby is beyond "puntable" but even at that small scale, Alya was terrified. But unlike Thanksgiving, she eventually was able to deal with Ruby being around, eventually evening laughing at the puppy. It's good to know that she'll be able to deal with this fear of dogs.
In fact while shopping on Friday, Alya asked Sasha if she could get a puppy. Sasha's response, "No way in hell." And that's something we're both solidly on the same page with each other.
Be seeing you,
Jon
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