Archive for February, 2009

the cat’s meow

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Peanut has gotten much more interactive in the last few weeks. She’s still trying to figure out how all the parts work and how to move this finger or that finger but she’s much more alert and active. She responds to you when you look at her and tries to talk back to you. Here’s a few photos taken just after waking up. She’s always in a good mood when she wakes up and when she opens her big eyes and sees you starring at her, she gets all smiley.

Monkey

Monkey

Here’s Monkey, talking to herself.
Monkey

Monkey

Here’s me trying to get her attention. She’s totally distracted by the lights.
Monkey

monkey lovin’

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Becky’s been kind of cooped up in the house so I  demanded! generously offered to babysit. I will take any opportunity to get that child to myself.

The really think I’ve developed an addiction to her. I have to keep reminding myself that everyone else isn’t taking the same crazy pills as me and that they aren’t utterly convinced that she is the most perfect baby in the world. (It’s totally true and I’ll defend it to the end!) They don’t want to hear about how she learned how to suck on her fingers and not her whole hand now, isn’t she aMAZING?!!!!

BUT I DON’T CARE. My baby is perfect. I’m going to talk about her. And I’m going to post about her. So. Expect hordes and hordes of baby photos very soon.

Friday, February 20th, 2009

I joined the gym about a week ago. There’s a tiny little gym about a block from my house that costs way too much. In order to justify the ridiculous cost of a NYC gym, I swore I would go. For whatever reason, I’ve been going with a dedication matched only by the religious fervor of my youth. I’ve been 9 out of the last 10 days and instead of dreading it like normal, i’m loving it. My blood sugar is more stable than it has been in months. I have more energy. I’m on a more normal sleep schedule. And I feel hot. Really hot. I’m hoping this isn’t just the honeymoon stage and that I can keep it going.

Sometimes when I’m on the treadmill or the elliptical machine, I pretend that that smiley trainer guy from The Biggest Loser is cheering me on. (I only watch that show because Becky makes me, I SWEAR.) I hear him in my head, hollaring at me. “30 more SECONDS, KL! FINISH STRONG!” And of course, I’m totally the biggest loser and all the other overweight contestants are in awe of my focus and passion.

Hunter Mountain

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Some friends and I took a day trip up to Hunter Mountain for a day of snowboarding fun. While it is no Breck (NEXT WEEK!!!), it was amazing to get on my snowboard again.

the three of us on the chairlift….
Hunter Mountain Chairlift

an all too typical photo of me. Why do I always wave at the camera?
Hunter Mountain Chairlift

Siris had a little “incident” in the park. He comes snowboarding up to me at the end of the trail, and asks me, “am I bleeding? am i? i think I hit my face.”

You think?
Hunter Mountain Chairlift

Mike and I, being steezy fresh
Hunter Mountain Chairlift

he wears glasses and jelly fish aren’t made of jelly

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

I was googling pictures and I found this cute blog by Ethan, who is in second grade and loves animals.

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
My little computer needed some TLC yesterday; took it to the apple store. Of course the so called capeless geniuses didn’t listen to me when i told them what operating system I had on my computer and put the wrong one on. As I was leaving, I had a little voice in my head that said I should start up the computer once just to be sure but did I listen to it? NO. 
So of course when I got my home, said computer was not working and was going into Kernel panic mode every time I started up. (It makes me feel smart that I know what this is but if you ask me anything else past this, i will just stare at you blankly. I have no idea what kernel panic really.) which was making ME go into kernel panic. So I tried to call, got an appointment and had to risk life and limb to get there on time for them to reinstall the correct OS. Grrr…..
i suppose it’s a good lesson to be more assertive. Got this from Jenny when I got home. it would be an awesome tweet if I were of that sort. 

You need a customer service bracelet: WWTD? What would Terri do?

for when you need that boost of confidence…

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Am I awesome.com?

missing home…

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

I went snowboarding the other day for the first time this winter. I think I’ve been pretending it wasn’t winter so as not to feel the effects of not being able to snowboard every day as I have for the past 3 winters. It’s not winter, just an obnoxiously cold fall here.

But being there brought all that back, reminded me of how much I love snowboarding. I love the rhythm of it, the artistry. It truly is an art, a calming peaceful art. And I miss it. I miss the mountains, the sound of snow falling in the backwoods, my friends and family there.

But you know the theory. The grass is always greener. If I were there I wouldn’t be able to see this so often:

Baby

Jaylee’s just starting to smile. It still takes a lot of coaxing. This is one of the first one camera smiles we’ve gotten.
Baby

I love this clear-eyed look of hers, the “who are these people?” look.
Baby