January 1, 2016 11:57 pm

First

A lot has been going on these past few months!

Wesley started Kindergarten and it’s been so fun seeing all the schoolwork he brings home. Over the course of a couple months, I read the first three Harry Potter books to him for his bedtime stories and gosh, is there anything better than sharing interests with your kids? He is obsessed with all things HP and listens to wizard rock constantly – I find papers all over the house with song lyrics he’s written down. 

I maaaaay have let him know that the west coast Wizarding World of Harry Potter opens this spring and now we’re both dying to go. 

Thora requires constant vigilance. She made it onto our roof this summer while we were installing a drip edge. Daniel had his back turned for approximately 45 seconds and she scaled the ladder, wiggled through the rungs and then just crouched up there until Daniel heard her shoes squeaking on the metal and went up to retrieve her. 

At a few days shy of 20 months, she still doesn’t put herself to sleep so we rock her to sleep in the Tula for her nap and at bedtime. She loves putting on her own socks and shoes, brushing her teeth, and getting into trouble.

She plays a game where she says “I’m mommy” and I say, “no, I’m the mommy!” and she says “ah-I’m da mommy” and so on. (It’s way funnier than it sounds.)

She loooooves Wesley and calls him “Weh-wee” and they usually get along really well until she shouts at him or something and he gets his feelings hurt. He is fantastic with her and is always happy to help out. 

She doesn’t sleep through the night yet so sometimes we’ll try to stick her in with Wesley when she wakes up. He volunteered the idea and reported back that he “tried to snuggle with her but she just wanted to sleep in the crack” which says a lot about them both, I think. 

She’s still allergic to dairy – it’s not an anaphylactic thing (yet?) but she gets a full body rash if she eats anything with cheese or milk or butter. Possibly eggs too, we’re not sure. Wesley is pretty conscientious of it which is great – he moves his milk cup or cereal bowl out of her reach if he leaves the kitchen before he’s finished. 

She still nurses a couple of times a day as well as morning and bedtime, but she can easily skip the daytime sessions if I’m at work or something. She’s also mostly nightweaned; very occasionally Daniel isn’t able to get her back to sleep at like 3am so I’ll nurse her to make it easier. And she’ll happily demand to nurse if I’m in bed, so after six months of being SUPER GREAT at not sleeping on the couch, I’m often back there so that I don’t have to nurse her all night. Sacrifices, man. 

Daniel gets to go to El Salvador again in a few weeks while I am stuck at home with the kids, BUT this time I’m not six months pregnant, super sick, and parenting a 3.5yo so I am pretty sure it’ll be better this time. It does make me fantasize about running away to Canada by myself for a weekend though. 

What have you all been up to? Who even checks in here anymore? Haha. 

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September 30, 2015 5:19 pm

Saga of the Storage Locker

:note: nothing

After completing a long distance moving journey, we finally got the key to the storage. Not one, not two, but THREE WEEKS after we moved in. Which means we spent a good portion of the day continuing to arrange our belongings. The mattresses, box springs and bed frames all needed to go into a climate controlled self storage unit from a nearby self storage facility, along with a tent and various other needed-but-not-constantly-needed items. They’ve been hogging up space in our front closet and in the living room for three weeks now, since the crazy landlord lady didn’t give us the key right away.

As it turns out, she did give “Daniel” the key, but um, it was a different Daniel, in a different building. So some random dude in Portland has a key to the Masterlock guarding our storage area. Yay. She came by a few days later to give us our key, after she got our message about still not having it. How weird is that?

Also, I have tested out a company called winkflash. They print your digital photos for you for .12c each, and they only charge a .99c flat rate shipping fee, meaning whether you order 2 photos or 2000, you still only pay .99c to ship the order. I ordered 13 prints in the early early morning (read: 12:30am) of the 27th, I got an email on the 28th saying my order was processed and shipped, and I received them today, the 30th – FROM RHODE ISLAND. The prints are of nice quality, on photo paper (I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between these and film photos if I was asked) and come with an index print that shows thumbnails of all the photos in the order. I’m actually very satisfied with them, and I think I’m going to do all my photo printing through them from now on. Those weird kiosk/vending machine things in drugstores never seem like they’d do a good job.

winkflash even has little organizer “album” things, and you can have as many as you want and can upload as many photos as you want. There’s no bandwidth limit. I think they’re great.

So yes, our apartment is a bit cleaner and I have new fun photos. Hurray!

Oh, I finally updated my “currently” information (after almost two months, sorry!) and added my countdown and an “elsewhere” bit. Just to spice things up, I guess!

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September 19, 2015 11:47 pm

Website Changes!

:note: Office Space

Things will be very weird here in a moment – I’m going to try to put up a new layout and move my journal to the main page. My apologies for any errors, etc. All should be fixed by the time I go to bed tonight. For others out there who don’t have the time to fix their site, they can rely on services like manchester web agency.

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New layout! It’s gray and green and has hippos. I realize it’s all wonky on the journal and I’m working on it, but for now, enjoy. I hope it isn’t too much of a shock. :D If you don’t see it, click here and that should switch it for you.
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I fixed the wonkyness and everything should be showing up okay now. I may tweak a bit of positioning with comments and stuff, but for now it’s good enough that I’m going to bed. I know it’s a simple layout, but I traced the hippo myself and I’ve been DYING to use him. I’ve also been dying to use my new favorite font, Oceans 11. So there you have it. :)
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[edit: 11:48am]
Forgot to mention that I couldn’t get the journal to show up on the index page, so it’s here to stay (at least for now). I have all my WP stuff in a folder and want to keep it that way but have the journal be on index.php – is that even possible? I thought it was. I couldn’t get it to work though. Hmm. Also, I will be trying to implement nested comments here in a bit – we’ll see how that works.
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