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We took a tour today of El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, CA, where I’ll be delivering baby #2. It’s a really nice hospital, and I feel better all the time for choosing midwives Olga, Lin, and Bethany. With all the ideas about birth within a hospital environment, …
Today I feel like I’m in an abyss of choices. We’ve been hoping that Sara Ellen could start at Cupertino Cooperative Nursery School soon. I’ve been making sure the VP knows we’re still interested and recently she sent out the email to wait-listed families asking that we inform …
I seem to alternate between thematic posts and a rundown of an average day. I’ve had random thoughts that I considered sharing as a status on facebook but then thought I’d rather save and perhaps expand on it, or at least add it to a days rant. Then there is …
It’s really a very average day, except that I’m five months pregnant (:-D easily tired, running to the bathroom, and hungry), and getting ready for Mom coming to town tomorrow evening, and Tim going out of town on Sunday.
On returning home from driving Tim to work, Sara Ellen and I …
That’s what Sara Ellen did today, amazed Mommy. Please enjoy, along with me, her list of achievements.
She did need a little convincing, and by that I mean putting her on it myself, to sit on the toilet this morning. But after that we were dressed and ready to …
I did it, I finally made the decision to toilet train Sara Ellen. I had been planning on, and hoping for some time now that she would decide when she was ready and it would happen. I hoped she would realize diapers were gross, or that all her …
A couple months ago I wrote What I Wish I’d Known Then – My List For Next Time. I listed the things I like to get for a future child based on my experience with Sara Ellen. It’s true I was hiding this pregnancy at the time …
How are we like our parents? Some things are obvious to see; the way we are built, or facial features. Other things are harder to see, the kinds of choices made and how those are influenced by our personalities. Though some folks may look very little like …
The following information is a little more personal than I typically share. However, I feel it is important to share experiences that may be common but may go unshared. And now that we have made public the expectation of our second child in June 2010, I feel free …
Or, Den fjerde fødselsdag. I suppose that’s more appropriate but I have a little French on the brain.
Either way, we celebrated Sara Ellen’s fourth birthday yesterday. It was an amazing party. Sara Ellen woke up to a decorate house. Emily made pancakes. Tim …