Man, it’s been a crazy 2 weeks as we’ve settled into our new routine. Denali and I are becoming great pals as we spend pretty much all our time together. Every now and then I get some time to myself when we have a nanny cover, but we’re still looking for that perfect person.
Anyhoo, we were setting her in the boppy the other day and this comparison pic came to mind. Crazy how fast she’s grown.
Despite telling myself and everyone else that I wasn’t nervous, I has butterflies in my belly all the way there. It started out pretty good… I showed up at the right place at the right time. Too bad that alone isn’t good enough anymore.
I read up on my first patient and headed over to see him. Game face on. Enroute I was stopped by a frantic nurse who had decided she could read EKGs and my other dude needed my attention. I later discovered that she could not read nor could she even DO an EKG. Anyway… The dude was having trouble breathing. I basically hovered around him all morning until we transfered him to the ICU on rounds. I didn’t have my notes done, know my patients, or have pretty much anything done. I’m pretty sure I looked like a complete idiot…
Game face was all gone my 8 am.
In the end I survived my first day and so did all my patients. I even got to stick a big a$$ needle in a guys belly. Funny enough the same procedure the intern freaks out about on the first episoe of scrubs.
I made it home by 7 pm (after starting at 6 am) to find dinner on the table, the house clean, and Denali happily munching on raw broccoli. Then we watched a movie and snuggled. I probably should have been reading about who knows what, but I decided I deserved a little break after a hectic day.
Here’s to a better day tomorrow!
This first 9 months have flown by faster than we could have imagined. We’ve seen our lives change in pretty much every way possible as I’ve thought more about it.
I pulled together a lot of video we had kicking around. I couldn’t use any of the really early stuff since apple has a way they do things, and if it ain’t in the right format, they don’t do it (and we didn’t have enough time in the song, or everyone’s attention span).
I’m starting to get more used to iMovie, have a feeling I’m using it incorrectly for most things, but getting by. If anyone has good suggestions of sites with decent tutorials, that’d be great to know. Again, let me know if this one doesn’t play correctly.
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All parents have those photos that they find adorable, but there daughter is mortified to even know exist. Well we caught that moment on video.
We figured we’d get a head start on the collection of family videos that will be shared with future friends of our daughter. I think this one will really make a great opener.
This could be considered gross in most contexts, but we feel like our personal blog that you, our friends and family, have sought out, makes it your own problem. In reality, you’ll probably be laughing your pooper off.
Unfortunately google video stopped taking new uploads, so we’re back to hosting it on our own server. Hopefully it works ok. Please let us know if it doesn’t.
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A happy one to all dad’s out there. I picked through our collection and found some of the great pics katie took that I think capture some aspects of the father daughter relationship.
Well just orientation so far… and we don’t even get paid for it so I’m not sure it even counts.
It went well considering that I arrived to the right place at the right time, found 2 other residents who are breast feeding and they showed me where the lactation room is, I got free lunch, everyone I met seems really nice, and I made it home in time to make eggplant parmesan and strawberry rhubarb pie for dinner!
Did you know poo is really gross?
Since Denali started loving solid food about a month ago, he poo has been really nasty… just like big people. Our first though was, “This sucks!” Our second was, “We have to do this for 2 more years? This really sucks!” Next came, “Let’s try potty training her.” It was a unanimous decision, so we’re giving it a try.
We don’t have a book, a favorite child development expert, or even a school of though to follow. We do have a cute pink potty, extreme patience, and the notion that poo is really gross.
So far it’s going pretty well. A few things are on our side. She doesn’t mind sitting on the potty, and seems to enjoy us hovering over her (afraid that she might fall off or in). She poops at the same time everyday. Then 20 minutes later she gets diaper rash. We have to be pretty on top of the poop anyway. When she does get diaper rash we let her sit without a diaper for a few hours a day… might as well put her on the potty several times a day instead. If we wait long enough she does pee most of the time and we have successfully captured one poop. She does not however seem to have any concept of “I just pooped.” or even “There is slimy poop in my pants.” Hopefully we’ll get to that soon, but in the mean time we’ve saved 2 diapers today!
At long last, after many long months, we finally started riding again! We took a break in the rain to explore our neighborhood last evening, and take a trip down the bike path today! It was a great feeling to be back on the bike after all this time off. Between the time off at the end of the pregnancy and now, I don’t think we’ve ridden together in around a year.
The child carrier was a great investment (we essentially traded the scooter for it), as I think it’ll really give us the opportunity to get back into the active lifestyle that we had to set aside for a while. If anyone is in the market, we’re totally sold on the chariot. It is expensive, but if you can find one on craigslist, it’s a great deal. The suspension is key if you want to go on anything other than smooth pavement, and the design if phenomenal! I can breakdown and fit the whole thing in our prius in about 1-2 minutes (needless to say, no tools required)! Denali loves it and plays a coos in the back as we ride.
woot!
The regulars probably saw a post a few days about a 10 pm Craigslist purchase made in the parking lot of Sears in Portland, Maine complete with a terrible pic taken from my iPhone. We never did share exactly what we bought… Here it is!
The Chariot Cougar 1
This thing is the Hummer of strollers/bike trailers. Rain cover, bug net, sun shield, adjustable suspension, converts to a jogging stroller/bike trailer/cross country ski sled/hiking rickshaw with a quick snap of few pieces. Accessories of course sold separately. I’ve had my eye on this for about a year now (YES, since before Denali was born!). After several days of web research, hunting all of New England’s Craigslist, and trying every model sold locally Kailas and I agreed that this on is in fact the best and not just more expensive than all the others for no good reason. The reviews are all amazing, the resale value is awesome, the features are functional, its the only one that fold up enough to fit in the Prius, it’s sexy, and Denali looks SOOO cute in it :)
When we decided to have a baby we made a pact with ourselves that we weren’t going to let a baby change who we are or the things we like to do, but it would of course change how we do things. We feel like we’ve done a pretty good job of that so far, but are excited to take things to another level and hope our new toy takes us on many adventures. Maybe to the zoo instead of Madagascar, and maybe down the bike trail instead of up a mountain. This thing is pretty beefy so we’re thinking off road rails to trails type stuff and fire roads will be fine… no overgrown single track, crossing streams, or “bridges” made of 2×6s.
We all get those silly emails from the wacky nigerians offering us millions in return for, well, nothing! What a great and generous world, especially those that have so little, able to give so much. Right, for those that don’t know, it’s the nigerian 419 scam.
The other day I posted some stuff on craigslist when i got the following reply:
from “johnson cole”
Hello…I saw your item posted on craigslist,
i hope it’s in good condition?I am willing to pay the said amount for the item.
I want to bring to your attention that i will not be able to pick up the item
just because of my work schedules as i am presently out of the state representing my company
(SUN Magazine) on an official trip..I am buying this item into my New Store where i sell both brand and like new items.
I will add $100 for the shipping and insurance fee and payment via PayPal for a safe and secure transaction.
So kindly get back to me with your PayPal email address so that i can proceed with the payment ASAP..
so, classic, right? I respond letting him know i’m not going to bother with wire transfers, etc. He confirms to me that it’s all good, i give him my email address and much to my surprise, I get an email from “paypal” indicating I have recieved a payment.
so, in short, i feel for it for about 60 seconds. i was totally surprised, thinking that there may actually be some lonely soul in nigeria that actually wants to buy something, but can’t because his country is full of scammers. i quickly logged into my paypal account to confirm, yes, that this was yet another scam and i didn’t have any funds in the account from mr. cole.
looking through the headers i discovered his real email address and let him know the gig was up. turns out he had a gmail address, so i continued our conversation on google chat:
me: hello s***forbrains
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Anyhoo, that’s that, the dialog begins!
It’ll be interesting to see what’s behind the fake! a real human dealing with life, just like the rest of us, but in a different situation choosing a different path, rationalized, none the less (we all do it).
I’m going to inverview the guy, will post it as it becomes available.