Our big preschooler!
Being silly with her bag
Daddy's fancy handy work
Finding our cubby
Getting our name tag
Really, just one more picture!
Sitting at group time circle.
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Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Preschool
Well, I can't believe it, but we have a preschooler in the house. Yes, it is only two mornings a week and yes, it is only 3s preschool, but still, it is a step in the big world for Raegan. We went to her open house last week and got to meet her teachers and some of her 'classmates'. She made her way around the room to all the different areas starting with the play house/kitchen area first. Like most of the kids in the room, she played by herself or near the other kids. I am hoping this will help her be a little more social with kids. She told Michael that she didn't play with anyone yesterday during her first hour of class, but I am betting they also didn't have a lot of play time. She told me she learned criss cross applesauce (how to sit during group time) and not running in the classroom. She also said they read a story about paint, but didnt sing songs. There was crying, but not from her or me; it was from other kids in the class. Hopefully we continue on a path just like the first day where she is eager and ready to go to school!
Our big preschooler!
Being silly with her bag
Daddy's fancy handy work
Finding our cubby
Getting our name tag
Really, just one more picture!
Sitting at group time circle.
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Our big preschooler!
Being silly with her bag
Daddy's fancy handy work
Finding our cubby
Getting our name tag
Really, just one more picture!
Sitting at group time circle.
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Monday, August 12, 2013
Squishy
The cat is out of the bag again; out family is expanding by two feet on February 12, 2014! It is now facebook official and has been announced to the world that we are pregnant. We told family and close friend before letting the Internet world know by sending a postcard with a picture and a math problem
Several people knew I was pregnant before we told them. They must have good pregoradar :). We are calling the baby Squishy (from Monsters University and Finding Nemo. No animals to stock up on this time). My official due date is February 16, but because this one will for sure be a scheduled repeat c-section, we are going ahead and picking the 12th. We didn't want a valentines baby and Michael already has off school for Lincoln's birthday, so we figured, why not!
Raegan is really excited and hoping for a girl because as she puts it, she already has a brother. Joshua has no clue and probably won't for a while. We have been working on him being gentle and nice and practicing holding and rocking babies. Sometimes he is so sweet and then in the next instant, he's back to being a rough and tough boy.
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Several people knew I was pregnant before we told them. They must have good pregoradar :). We are calling the baby Squishy (from Monsters University and Finding Nemo. No animals to stock up on this time). My official due date is February 16, but because this one will for sure be a scheduled repeat c-section, we are going ahead and picking the 12th. We didn't want a valentines baby and Michael already has off school for Lincoln's birthday, so we figured, why not!
Raegan is really excited and hoping for a girl because as she puts it, she already has a brother. Joshua has no clue and probably won't for a while. We have been working on him being gentle and nice and practicing holding and rocking babies. Sometimes he is so sweet and then in the next instant, he's back to being a rough and tough boy.
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Sunday, August 4, 2013
Day 2
Here we are at the end of day two. Lots of walking, plenty of sun and touring.
We started the day with a ferry ride to see Lady Liberty. Lines were not too terrible once we figured out where we were going; there are so many people going in so many different direction, if you choose to try to follow the wrong ones, you never know where they will bring you! We were able to secure a rail position to get great pictures. It amazing how many people were on that boat with us taking the exact same picture! We figure if you wanted to rob a boat of tourist, you could probably easily get 10k in camera/electronic paraphernalia.
After the statue, we were suppose to visit the 9/11 memorial, but missed out call time and I forgot the papers, so we just had lunch and headed back to our room to change for Newsies, take two! When we arrived at the Nederlander, we were surprised to see so many people lined up waiting to go in. The line literally wrapped around the block. I guess I must've been early to other shows I've seen in NYC, because I've never experienced that. We waited until the very end to go in and sat a minute before it started. The show was amazing; we had awesome front row balcony seats. Almost all the cast is making their broadway debut and they did a fantastic job. The dancing/choreography is dynamic. After the show, I was able to get quite a few of the actors autographs. No idea who most of them were when they were signing, but it's all part of the experience.
A quick dinner was followed by a little shopping in Times Square for the kiddos at the Disney store. Nothing says NYC like a Princess Sofia doll and Woody :)
Tomorrow brings another attempt at the 9/11, a walk among Wall Street, the Daily Show, and Empire State Building!
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We started the day with a ferry ride to see Lady Liberty. Lines were not too terrible once we figured out where we were going; there are so many people going in so many different direction, if you choose to try to follow the wrong ones, you never know where they will bring you! We were able to secure a rail position to get great pictures. It amazing how many people were on that boat with us taking the exact same picture! We figure if you wanted to rob a boat of tourist, you could probably easily get 10k in camera/electronic paraphernalia.
After the statue, we were suppose to visit the 9/11 memorial, but missed out call time and I forgot the papers, so we just had lunch and headed back to our room to change for Newsies, take two! When we arrived at the Nederlander, we were surprised to see so many people lined up waiting to go in. The line literally wrapped around the block. I guess I must've been early to other shows I've seen in NYC, because I've never experienced that. We waited until the very end to go in and sat a minute before it started. The show was amazing; we had awesome front row balcony seats. Almost all the cast is making their broadway debut and they did a fantastic job. The dancing/choreography is dynamic. After the show, I was able to get quite a few of the actors autographs. No idea who most of them were when they were signing, but it's all part of the experience.
A quick dinner was followed by a little shopping in Times Square for the kiddos at the Disney store. Nothing says NYC like a Princess Sofia doll and Woody :)
Tomorrow brings another attempt at the 9/11, a walk among Wall Street, the Daily Show, and Empire State Building!
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Location:W 81st St,New York,United States
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Day one
We finally made it! Our trip to NYC started out rough with over an hour and a half wait for super shuttle (who will be hearing an earful from us when we get home) at LaGuardia, but once we made it to our hotel, we figured things would get better. We were able to check in, which was a bonus. However, our room has two single beds (that we were told we should be able to change tomorrow). It is clean, tiny, but had a nice view of the American Museum of Natural History.
We ate Shake Shack burgers sitting on a park bench in a drizzle. After we attempted to use the subway to head to Times Square only to find the station right outside our door is closed! Another change of plans. Because we were supposed to see Newsies at 3, we headed back to the hotel to change and then took a detour to get to Times Square. Funny story- turns out we bought tickets for Sunday afternoon not Saturday. Guess we don't get to see the Mets play; oh well next time.
After all our missteps, we had a great afternoon wandering the natural history museum and the museum of modern art. We ended our long crazy day at the Top of the Rock, which is the top of the Rockefeller Center. The views were amazing even if the wait for it was 30 minutes.
Good night for now. Pictures to come soon!
View from our room
Castle in Central Park
Thomas Crowne painting
Degas ballerina
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We ate Shake Shack burgers sitting on a park bench in a drizzle. After we attempted to use the subway to head to Times Square only to find the station right outside our door is closed! Another change of plans. Because we were supposed to see Newsies at 3, we headed back to the hotel to change and then took a detour to get to Times Square. Funny story- turns out we bought tickets for Sunday afternoon not Saturday. Guess we don't get to see the Mets play; oh well next time.
After all our missteps, we had a great afternoon wandering the natural history museum and the museum of modern art. We ended our long crazy day at the Top of the Rock, which is the top of the Rockefeller Center. The views were amazing even if the wait for it was 30 minutes.
Good night for now. Pictures to come soon!
View from our room
Castle in Central Park
Thomas Crowne painting
Degas ballerina
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Location:W 81st St,New York,United States
Friday, August 2, 2013
New York, New York
Michael and I are off to fabulous NYC for three nights without the kiddos. (A special thanks to the Podgor house as they take care of said kiddos) We are super excited to have this chance to visit one of my favorite cities. We plan on seeing and doing as much as we can while there. We will post pictures and write as we go along!
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Spring?
The end of February is upon us and we're hoping that spring is in sight. However, we have just had a fresh snowfall. We have been quite lucky though, we haven't had too much snow. The couple times we got hit was not bad. We even got to take Raegan sledding for the first time. She loved it! A complete daredevil, she even went down by herself, on her belly! Another time in the snow was spent building snowmen.
Joshua continues to grow and grow. He finally sprouted two teeth in the beginning of January and he is back to mostly sleeping through the night. We do not look forward to him getting the rest of his teeth as that will probably mean more sleepless night for all. At his nine month check up he was 19 pounds 12 ounces and 28 inches long. He is fully cruising along anything he can walk with. Every once and a while he will stand for a millisecond but hasn't gotten to the point of standing up without help.
Our first two dates of the year where great times for us to talk about where we are going. We have so many things we want to work on in the next five years. I have spent some time reevaluating what I am going to be doing. In five years time, I hope to either be back in school for counseling or back in the classroom.
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Joshua continues to grow and grow. He finally sprouted two teeth in the beginning of January and he is back to mostly sleeping through the night. We do not look forward to him getting the rest of his teeth as that will probably mean more sleepless night for all. At his nine month check up he was 19 pounds 12 ounces and 28 inches long. He is fully cruising along anything he can walk with. Every once and a while he will stand for a millisecond but hasn't gotten to the point of standing up without help.
Our first two dates of the year where great times for us to talk about where we are going. We have so many things we want to work on in the next five years. I have spent some time reevaluating what I am going to be doing. In five years time, I hope to either be back in school for counseling or back in the classroom.
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013
2013
Happy New Year! I hope that everyone has had a great ending to 2012 and has had a great start to 2013. We are so glad to be moving onto a new year as 2012 was rather bumpy for us. Our one bright shinning spot was of course Joshua being born. Of course, we had many other happy memories, but are not sad to see this past year behind us.
Our holidays were busy as usual, hence the lack of posts. Nothing too crazy to report through the holidays. Raegan was scared of Santa again, but would get close enough to say hi. She did however know what Santa meant and was exceptionally well behaved through the month of December. It helped to have Bud, our elf, as a spy to keep her in check. Sometimes I wish I had a Bud to keep me in check, especially when dealing with a rambunctious 2 1/2 year old and a precocious now 8 month old.
Joshua entered 2013 at 8 months old, weighing somewhere around 18/19 pounds and 27 inches. He is crawling quickly around the house, climbing anything that doesn't move (and sometimes things that do move), and basically getting into anything and everything he can. He is still working on getting those teeth out, but can gum cooked carrots, bananas, puffs, Cheerios, yogurt drops, and baby Cheetos. He is going to eat us out of house and home before he's a year old! His smile makes your heart melt and his laugh is infectious, especially when he's giggling at Raegan being goofy.
Raegan is our big helper at almost 3 (yikes!). She can almost get herself dressed, just needing help with socks or shirts sometimes. She has quite the little attitude and is as stubborn as her mother (another yikes!). She is a lover and only sometimes a fighter. Her favorites include Doc McStuffins, her babies, and reading Pinkalicious or Fancy Nancy.
Michael and I are looking forward to a fresh start and a year full of dates. My Christmas present to him was 12 dates, sans children, to reconnect and in general just get out of the house. We don't know what the rest of the year holds for us, but we know as long as we have our family, we have all we need.
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Our holidays were busy as usual, hence the lack of posts. Nothing too crazy to report through the holidays. Raegan was scared of Santa again, but would get close enough to say hi. She did however know what Santa meant and was exceptionally well behaved through the month of December. It helped to have Bud, our elf, as a spy to keep her in check. Sometimes I wish I had a Bud to keep me in check, especially when dealing with a rambunctious 2 1/2 year old and a precocious now 8 month old.
Joshua entered 2013 at 8 months old, weighing somewhere around 18/19 pounds and 27 inches. He is crawling quickly around the house, climbing anything that doesn't move (and sometimes things that do move), and basically getting into anything and everything he can. He is still working on getting those teeth out, but can gum cooked carrots, bananas, puffs, Cheerios, yogurt drops, and baby Cheetos. He is going to eat us out of house and home before he's a year old! His smile makes your heart melt and his laugh is infectious, especially when he's giggling at Raegan being goofy.
Raegan is our big helper at almost 3 (yikes!). She can almost get herself dressed, just needing help with socks or shirts sometimes. She has quite the little attitude and is as stubborn as her mother (another yikes!). She is a lover and only sometimes a fighter. Her favorites include Doc McStuffins, her babies, and reading Pinkalicious or Fancy Nancy.
Michael and I are looking forward to a fresh start and a year full of dates. My Christmas present to him was 12 dates, sans children, to reconnect and in general just get out of the house. We don't know what the rest of the year holds for us, but we know as long as we have our family, we have all we need.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Half birthday!
Joshua has made it to the halfway point! To my best measurements, he is 17 pounds! And 26/27 inches long. He goes to the doctor next week for his check up, so I'm curious to see if I'm on with them. He is really trying to crawl now; think he got interrupted by learning how to sit up. He just wants to be chasing his big sister around the house :). He also wants to be eating everything; I think he must be getting teeth because he is constantly chomping on everything he can fit in his mouth. Besides toys, he likes apples, pears, bananas, sweet potatoes, peas, and squash. I just tried peaches today and I think they were a little sour, but he still ate them up.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Five months and change
Joshua is now 5 months old and proving to the world what a handful he really is! He has learned to sit up and dump out toys from his basket to get what he wants. He is also rolling all over to the place to get places. At five months, he was 15 pounds 8 ounces and somewhere around 26 inches. He's getting some major thunder thighs :). To help add to those thighs, he has been eating solid food more often. We are actually up to three times a day, with oatmeal and fruit for breakfast, veggie and rice for lunch (only sweet potatoes so far, but he loves them!) and another fruit for dinner. He seems to finally have gotten the hang of eating and, I think, is catching up for lost time.
It's apple picking season! Due to poor apple conditions, we weren't able to pick apples; instead we had to just select them from boxes :(. It wasn't as fun, but we still managed to come home with a bunch of yummy apples. I think Raegan ate like five apples while we were there.
Joshua finally made it to his first Sox game of the year. It was an unfortunate loss (just like the end of the season). I also brought along Rae and the two little ones I watch. Luckily, there were a lot of helping hands. That same week was also the last game of the season, so we had our tailgating crew out in full gear.
In other news, Michael has finished his final season as cross country coach for Hubbard. It is unfortunately ending on a sour note, but they did finish 7th in city, which is the best they've done. We are very excited to have him back home at a normal time.
We made our annual trip to Christmas Mountain in the Dells with a much smaller crew this year. Nonetheless, we had a great time feeding the deer, swimming, and just relaxing. One new things we did this year was to take a mini train ride through the woods and to a pumpkin patch. Raegan really enjoyed the ride and getting to pick out her own pumpkin.
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It's apple picking season! Due to poor apple conditions, we weren't able to pick apples; instead we had to just select them from boxes :(. It wasn't as fun, but we still managed to come home with a bunch of yummy apples. I think Raegan ate like five apples while we were there.
Joshua finally made it to his first Sox game of the year. It was an unfortunate loss (just like the end of the season). I also brought along Rae and the two little ones I watch. Luckily, there were a lot of helping hands. That same week was also the last game of the season, so we had our tailgating crew out in full gear.
In other news, Michael has finished his final season as cross country coach for Hubbard. It is unfortunately ending on a sour note, but they did finish 7th in city, which is the best they've done. We are very excited to have him back home at a normal time.
We made our annual trip to Christmas Mountain in the Dells with a much smaller crew this year. Nonetheless, we had a great time feeding the deer, swimming, and just relaxing. One new things we did this year was to take a mini train ride through the woods and to a pumpkin patch. Raegan really enjoyed the ride and getting to pick out her own pumpkin.
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
Four months gone by
Well, it's official, we now have a four month old! Our big boy is 14 pounds, 10 ounces and 25 inches long. He is right in the 50th percentile, so perfect. What he's up to: rolling over from front to back (which I'm told is advanced) and once and a while back to front, getting up on his knees and rocking (soooooo early), cooing up a storm, and full of giggles. We have tried cereal several times, but he doesn't seem to get it yet. The doctor said he was fine and didn't need anything, so we might just keep randomly trying.
We've had a busy month full of lots of family fun. We celebrated Joshua's baptism on August 4th, which also happened to be HUG Camp Sunday. Joshua was cooperative during the whole service. We had a small family gathering and turned the day turned out to be a great. Best part of the day was when Raegan said loud enough for most to hear, in church, "Joshua's wearing a dress". It was priceless.
We finally made it to the zoo for Joshua's first trip, but didn't get to see many animals. We went with 14 kids and 7 adults, so needless to say, there was more stopping to feed and talk than seeing animals. I suppose for his first trip, it was ok with him :).
Besides the zoo, we've made many trips to the park where Raegan is finally adventurous enough to go down the big slides by herself. At the beginning of the summer she was a little timid, but now loves going down even the biggest slides. We also made another trip to the Joliet Slammers baseball game and brought more people with us. Everyone enjoyed the game even if it was a loss.
On August 18th, we helped my Great Auntie Rosemary and Great Uncle Bill celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. They had a special service at mass and then a wonderful dinner for the family to celebrate. Raegan loved playing with her cousin Emma (whom her baby doll is named for) and all the rest of the kids. It was a great night catching up with out of town family.
The kids and I had a sleepover Labor day weekend as Michael and the boys helped my brother Scott celebrate his bachelor party. I'm told fun was had by all and no one got arrested or in trouble otherwise, so that's always good. We enjoyed a quiet Labor Day playing bags with my family and bbqing.
The biggest event of the past month was my brother's wedding on September 8th in Oconomawac, WI. The day was absolutely beautiful with the perfect temperature and almost blue sky. Stephanie was stunning, Scott was tearful, and Raegan stole the show as the best flower girl. She did a great job taking pictures (even if she didn't smile), waiting her turn to walk, and throw petals. At one point she dropped the whole basket of petals, but with the help of Great Auntie Julie, ,she recovered nicely. Both kids held up until about 930 when they just couldn't wait any longer to get to bed. All in all it was a terrific day and we are happy to have Stephanie a part of our family.
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We've had a busy month full of lots of family fun. We celebrated Joshua's baptism on August 4th, which also happened to be HUG Camp Sunday. Joshua was cooperative during the whole service. We had a small family gathering and turned the day turned out to be a great. Best part of the day was when Raegan said loud enough for most to hear, in church, "Joshua's wearing a dress". It was priceless.
We finally made it to the zoo for Joshua's first trip, but didn't get to see many animals. We went with 14 kids and 7 adults, so needless to say, there was more stopping to feed and talk than seeing animals. I suppose for his first trip, it was ok with him :).
Besides the zoo, we've made many trips to the park where Raegan is finally adventurous enough to go down the big slides by herself. At the beginning of the summer she was a little timid, but now loves going down even the biggest slides. We also made another trip to the Joliet Slammers baseball game and brought more people with us. Everyone enjoyed the game even if it was a loss.
On August 18th, we helped my Great Auntie Rosemary and Great Uncle Bill celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. They had a special service at mass and then a wonderful dinner for the family to celebrate. Raegan loved playing with her cousin Emma (whom her baby doll is named for) and all the rest of the kids. It was a great night catching up with out of town family.
The kids and I had a sleepover Labor day weekend as Michael and the boys helped my brother Scott celebrate his bachelor party. I'm told fun was had by all and no one got arrested or in trouble otherwise, so that's always good. We enjoyed a quiet Labor Day playing bags with my family and bbqing.
The biggest event of the past month was my brother's wedding on September 8th in Oconomawac, WI. The day was absolutely beautiful with the perfect temperature and almost blue sky. Stephanie was stunning, Scott was tearful, and Raegan stole the show as the best flower girl. She did a great job taking pictures (even if she didn't smile), waiting her turn to walk, and throw petals. At one point she dropped the whole basket of petals, but with the help of Great Auntie Julie, ,she recovered nicely. Both kids held up until about 930 when they just couldn't wait any longer to get to bed. All in all it was a terrific day and we are happy to have Stephanie a part of our family.
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Friday, August 3, 2012
Summertime
Joshua and Wolfie, whom I'll be watching starting at the end of August
I love watermelon!
Flying man!
Train ride with Nana at the Rosemont picnic
Splash Pad fun
Awww, love for my brother
Doing tummy time with evie
The boys doing tummy time
Daddy time!
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I love watermelon!
Flying man!
Train ride with Nana at the Rosemont picnic
Splash Pad fun
Awww, love for my brother
Doing tummy time with evie
The boys doing tummy time
Daddy time!
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