Hopefully she grows up and enjoys cooking more than I do!
SLK
Monday, June 29, 2009
Can I brush your chicken?
An attempt to find an object Norah would hold onto other than my finger. Awesome.
Hopefully she grows up and enjoys cooking more than I do!
SLK
Hopefully she grows up and enjoys cooking more than I do!
SLK
Just Busy.
No, I'm not dead...just extremely busy. I'm not sure how much time I have between now and when Norah wakes up for the day, so here are some random thoughts and updates:
I put in 40 hours at Target last week. Holy crap - I think it almost killed me. All of my work last week consisted of helping to put the store together. Who knew employees manually put up the selves, racks, and all the other fixtures needed when a new store opens?! All the hard stuff is pretty much done and we are starting to put product on the selves. HOW EXCITING!
I've met with HR and I will NOT be working 40 hours this week. Thank God.
August is going to be a mess. I'm already stressed out about it.
Pumping at work is soooo not glamorous.
Marshall and I had our first date night since Norah was born. Saturday night we left Norah with some good friends of ours and went out to eat at the Olive Garden (we had a gift card) and made the 7:30 showing of Transformers 2! I think we both really enjoyed the time together.
It's still raining. Oh sun, oh sun...please come visit New England.
Starting in August, I will be watching Hayden (and Norah) on Fridays. Hayden is the son of a now former hall director from UNH. Hayden's mom and I have become good friends over the past year...and I'm really excited to be able to help them out! I'm also REALLY glad they will be staying in the area!
Norah has become a fuss pants in the evenings lately. Last night she cried for about an hour and half despite all my efforts to calm her down. At one point, I even had the vacuuming running just because it was the only thing to make her stop crying for a bit. I'm hoping she doesn't develop colic and this whole fussiness is just a phase. I read an article that says "fussiness" peeks at 6 to 8 weeks and then starts to decline. Well, here's hoping that's true - not knowing why your baby is crying is disheartening to say the least!
We received some great books in the mail from the Bruin Family! Thank you! They have already been put to use! I just love reading to Norah. :o)
My dad's pay has been reduced without a reduction in his hours. ftw.
Our tickets to fly back home have been selected and purchased! Hooray. (My days off from Target have also been approved) I'm a bit terrified to fly back home alone with Norah - but so excited for all that is planned!
Welp, I hear the little one moving around.
Love to you all.
SLK
I put in 40 hours at Target last week. Holy crap - I think it almost killed me. All of my work last week consisted of helping to put the store together. Who knew employees manually put up the selves, racks, and all the other fixtures needed when a new store opens?! All the hard stuff is pretty much done and we are starting to put product on the selves. HOW EXCITING!
I've met with HR and I will NOT be working 40 hours this week. Thank God.
August is going to be a mess. I'm already stressed out about it.
Pumping at work is soooo not glamorous.
Marshall and I had our first date night since Norah was born. Saturday night we left Norah with some good friends of ours and went out to eat at the Olive Garden (we had a gift card) and made the 7:30 showing of Transformers 2! I think we both really enjoyed the time together.
It's still raining. Oh sun, oh sun...please come visit New England.
Starting in August, I will be watching Hayden (and Norah) on Fridays. Hayden is the son of a now former hall director from UNH. Hayden's mom and I have become good friends over the past year...and I'm really excited to be able to help them out! I'm also REALLY glad they will be staying in the area!
Norah has become a fuss pants in the evenings lately. Last night she cried for about an hour and half despite all my efforts to calm her down. At one point, I even had the vacuuming running just because it was the only thing to make her stop crying for a bit. I'm hoping she doesn't develop colic and this whole fussiness is just a phase. I read an article that says "fussiness" peeks at 6 to 8 weeks and then starts to decline. Well, here's hoping that's true - not knowing why your baby is crying is disheartening to say the least!
We received some great books in the mail from the Bruin Family! Thank you! They have already been put to use! I just love reading to Norah. :o)
My dad's pay has been reduced without a reduction in his hours. ftw.
Our tickets to fly back home have been selected and purchased! Hooray. (My days off from Target have also been approved) I'm a bit terrified to fly back home alone with Norah - but so excited for all that is planned!
Welp, I hear the little one moving around.
Love to you all.
SLK
Sunday, June 28, 2009
All New! Exclusive Norah-related Content!
Bath time.
Bath time sad face.
Sitting up, having a conversation.
Family portrait.
Extreme close up.
I took this video this morning. It's just Norah lying on her changing pad and doing her thing for four minutes or so. She was pretty vocal and active this morning. My favorite part is at 3:39 when she yelps and startles herself, then gets on her invisible bike and rides away.
She also recently figured out that she could put her own hand in her mouth to suck on, so that's pretty exciting. I guess it's the little things at this point of life, you know?
Stay Gold!
MMK
Bath time sad face.
Sitting up, having a conversation.
Family portrait.
Extreme close up.
I took this video this morning. It's just Norah lying on her changing pad and doing her thing for four minutes or so. She was pretty vocal and active this morning. My favorite part is at 3:39 when she yelps and startles herself, then gets on her invisible bike and rides away.
She also recently figured out that she could put her own hand in her mouth to suck on, so that's pretty exciting. I guess it's the little things at this point of life, you know?
Stay Gold!
MMK
Monday, June 22, 2009
A Taste of Things to Come
A few people have been asking lately for us to post new pictures/videos of Norah since we haven't had any Norah-related visual media on here in awhile. We haven't been holding out intentionally, though... We've just been uber busy with parenthood, our jobs, and trying to maintain something of a social life lately. Give us a few days, though, and hopefully we'll post some new stuff.
Norah has her first cold right now. She's a snotty, sneezy mess. I did manage to get one good picture of her today, though, after I'd given her a bath to make her feel better. So here's that!
She always looks so cute after her baths.
Anyway, we promise we'll get more up here soon... No jokes.
Stay Gold in the meantime.
MMK
Norah has her first cold right now. She's a snotty, sneezy mess. I did manage to get one good picture of her today, though, after I'd given her a bath to make her feel better. So here's that!
She always looks so cute after her baths.
Anyway, we promise we'll get more up here soon... No jokes.
Stay Gold in the meantime.
MMK
Thursday, June 18, 2009
I'm Thinking...
Here are some thoughts that I have in my brain right now:
Babies are mentally exhausting.
Coke Zero is a far superior soda product when compared to most other products currently available on the consumer soda market.
I still fully believe that "moderation" in terms of alcohol consumption is, for the most part, a lie which most people choose to believe in order to justify their indulgence in and support of a product which is directly responsible for the death and suffering of hundreds of thousands of people in this country alone every year.
Is it really biblical to say that premarital sex is a sin? The Bible tends to use the words "adultery" and "sexual immorality" when defining what is a sexual sin, but I don't think premarital sex is ever explicitly listed. Anyone want to clarify this for me?
America's Funniest Videos is probably the most hilarious show ever constructed. It's a show that delivers on the claim of its title.
If such a person exists, I can say without a doubt that I am most definitely not the "baby whisperer."
This is one of my favorite photographs ever:
The Soiling of Old Glory
I struggle with being okay with the idea of anyone being a "social justice expert." I struggle with the idea that we should support "social justice" work at all. While I values the things which the social justice movement embraces as important, I can't help but the movement itself is a bit self-serving and masturbatory.
I feel slightly worthless and disconnected when I step outside of my work at the university and realize what a safe, sheltered bubble we operate in as students affairs professionals.
Our dentist here in the 'Shire kind of sucks. We're going to change soon, hopefully.
We've lived in New Hampshire for exactly one year and three days today. The time has passed quickly, but it's been wonderful.
We've had a lot of rain this summer, but no thunderstorms. That's crap.
Norah is rad. I love my kid and my wife.
It's bed time.
Stay Gold, everyone.
MMK
Babies are mentally exhausting.
Coke Zero is a far superior soda product when compared to most other products currently available on the consumer soda market.
I still fully believe that "moderation" in terms of alcohol consumption is, for the most part, a lie which most people choose to believe in order to justify their indulgence in and support of a product which is directly responsible for the death and suffering of hundreds of thousands of people in this country alone every year.
Is it really biblical to say that premarital sex is a sin? The Bible tends to use the words "adultery" and "sexual immorality" when defining what is a sexual sin, but I don't think premarital sex is ever explicitly listed. Anyone want to clarify this for me?
America's Funniest Videos is probably the most hilarious show ever constructed. It's a show that delivers on the claim of its title.
If such a person exists, I can say without a doubt that I am most definitely not the "baby whisperer."
This is one of my favorite photographs ever:
The Soiling of Old Glory
I struggle with being okay with the idea of anyone being a "social justice expert." I struggle with the idea that we should support "social justice" work at all. While I values the things which the social justice movement embraces as important, I can't help but the movement itself is a bit self-serving and masturbatory.
I feel slightly worthless and disconnected when I step outside of my work at the university and realize what a safe, sheltered bubble we operate in as students affairs professionals.
Our dentist here in the 'Shire kind of sucks. We're going to change soon, hopefully.
We've lived in New Hampshire for exactly one year and three days today. The time has passed quickly, but it's been wonderful.
We've had a lot of rain this summer, but no thunderstorms. That's crap.
Norah is rad. I love my kid and my wife.
It's bed time.
Stay Gold, everyone.
MMK
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