New Pics

Laziness here, follow the link for a few new pics.

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8BcsWrlm4asd0¬ag=1

Personality Test

Make and Take

My mom and I went to the local "Make and Take Gourmet" yesterday, and had a blast! We made 8 dinners each to go into our freezers. I'm so thrilled, because now I don't have to do all the prep work for dinner after school, I just take it out and put it in the oven. Plus, I didn't have to mess up and then clean up my own kitchen!

This is what I made:

• Anniversary Chicken
• Beef Stroganoff
• Berry Baked French Toast
• Cheesy Pizza Casserole
• Chicken Divan (we're heating this one up tonight)
• Chicken Enchiladas
• Italian Herb Crusted Pork Chops
• Three Cheese Manicotti

I think I'll go again sometime in January!

Brothers

What Kind of Nerd Are You?

Happy Halloween!

Wilard Wigan

Wilard Wigan is an artist who creates works of art in the eye of a needle. Go here to check it out, pretty amazing!

10 Books That Every Child Should Read

There is a list here of the 10 most amazing books that the author thinks every child should read. Have you read them all? Here's the titles only version, go to the link to see the full list.

1- Charlotte's Web (read many times)
2- Miss Osborne the Mop (haven't heard of it)
3- Where the Red Fern Grows (read)
4- Pippi Longstocking (read once, wasn't hugely into her)
5- The Borrowers (read and LOVED)
6- Little Men (did not read)
7- The Mouse and the Motorcycle (read a few times)
8- The Giver (read in college for a class)
9- Island of the Blue Dolphins (always wanted to read, never did for some reason)
10-Hatchet (know of it, did not read)

Ron Mueck, Hyper-Realist Sculptor

Wow. Amazingly, creepily, fantastically life-like. Click here.

The Amazing Skidboot

A video about Skidboot, an amazing dog!

Social Experiment, Black vs. White

It's been a while since I've posted any interesting finds across the internet. Here is one I came across tonight. A high school girl made this film, which recreates a social experiment first done over 50 years ago. Young children are presented with identical dolls, one black and one white. They are asked which they prefer, or which is the "nice" doll. Sadly, the results have not changed in 50 years.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1537573613487300290

Brotherly Love part 1

We were all reading stories before naptime. Nick was actually looking at the books, which I thought was very cool!

Brotherly Love part 2

Daniel wanted to give Nick a bottle, so I pumped for him to be able to do that. The thing is, Nick was already full, and didn't really want much to do with it! Daniel didn't know that though, he was just thrilled to "help".

The Next Head of Microsoft

Here's Daniel with his "new" computer setup. It's one of my old computers that has pretty much been stripped of programs except for pre-school stuff.

Babblers and Books

I created a group over at www.goodreads.com for those of us who play the game Babble and are interested in books. Feel free to join! If you don't want to join the group, but would like to be on my friends list, find my profile within the group and ask to be my friend.

New Pics

Who dropped and broke the baby?

My Personal Post Partum Diary

Ok, this is sort of more for me than anyone else out there reading, so you can feel free to ignore it! In fact, unless you're pg and interested, please do ignore! I just wanted to kind of keep track of what is happening when post partum. Somewhat for me, and somewhat for a pg friend of mine.

Sat, Aug. 11- 162.5 lbs, false labor pains all day
Sun, Aug 12- more false labor, then real labor started 2pm-ish, delivered 7:41
Mon, Aug 13- 150 lbs, went home less than 24 hours later
Tuesday night into all day Wednesday, milk started coming in
Wednesday-Friday, engorged, settled by Friday
stitches got sore at this point, more of a reaction to "Always" brand than anything, switched brands, got better
Sunday, August 19th, 145.5 lbs
Monday, August 27th, 144 lbs, had my two week midwife check in appt. No exam, just an office visit.
Monday, September 4, 142.5 lbs, and I fit into my size 10 shorts now!

What is a Boy?

This was on the wall at the pediatrician's office today, and I thought it was so perfect! The receptionist kindly gave me a copy.

What is a Boy?

Between the innocence of babyhood and the dignity of manood we find a delightful creature called a boy. Boys come in assorted sizes, weights, and colors, but all boys have the same creed. To enjoy every second of every minute of every hour of every day and to protest with noise (their only weapon) when their last minute is finished and the adult males pack them off to bed at night.

Boys are found everywhere-- on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around, or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them, and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair, and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.

When you are busy, a boy is an inconsiderate, bothersome, intruding jangle of noise. When you want him to make a good impression, his brain turns to jelly, or else he becomes a savage, sadistic jungle creature, bent on destroying the world and himself with it.

A boy is a composite-- he has the appetite of a horse, the digestion of a sword-swallower, the energy of a pocket-size atomic bomb, the curiosity of a cat, the lungs of a dictator, the imagination of a Paul Bunyan, the shyness of a violet, the audacity of a steel trap, the enthusiasm of a firecracker, and when he makes something he has five thumbs on each hand.

He likes ice cream, knives, saws, Christmas, comic books, the boy across the street, woods, water (in its natural habitat), large animals, Dad, trains, Saturday mornings, and fire engines. He is not much for Sunday School, company, schools, books without pictures, music lessons, neckties, barbers, girls, overcoats, adults or bedtime.

Nobody else is so early to rise, or so late to supper. Nobody else gets so much fun out of trees, dogs and breezes. Nobody else can cram into one pocket a rusty knife, a half-eaten apple, three feet of string, and empty Bull Durham sack, two gum drops, six cents, a slingshot, a chunk of unknown substance, and a genuine supersonic code ring with a secret compartment.

A boy is a magical creature-- you can lock him out of your work shop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up--he is your captor, your jailer, your boss, and your master-- a freckle-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing, bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with the two magic words--"Hi Dad!"

by Alan Beck

Pictures!

Moments after birth. I was wearing a flesh colored bra, I'm not naked here! Eek!
The brothers meeting for the first time. The little panda was Daniel's gift to Nicholas.

Nicholas Logan

He's here!

Nicholas Logan was born on August 12th at 7:41pm. He weighed 7 lbs, 3 oz and was 20 inches long. I'll add a picture here as soon as I have a chance to!

Short birth story: I had false labor all day Saturday and Sunday. It finally settled into active labor Sunday afternoon, and we headed into the hospital. I arrived and was 3-4 cm. After only about 2 hours, I had the ob check me again, and I was almost fully dilated! During labor I was so focused on relaxing that Doug couldn't even tell when I was having contractions. The ob said it was a "silent labor." (Not pain free mind you, just silent! LOL! I went med free.) He broke my waters, and 15 minutes of pushing later, Nicholas Logan entered the world. He scored 9/9 on his Apgars, and is just perfect! We got to come home less than 24 hours later, and it's great to be home.