Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Just talking out loud...

Scott always cracked up when an old co-worker of his would say, "I'm just talking out loud here..." during meetings, so yeah- we say that now :)

Anyway, first I have to admit that at this very moment (11.:21pm) I'm up way to late knitting and sewing and, wait for it,...watching a re-run of Real Housewives of NYC. Wowza. That's a whole other post but here's my food for thought for the night-

One of the characters was just discussing getting ultrasound treatments in her armpits to stop sweating problems. I don't know exactly what the ultrasound treatment is doing to stop her sweat glands from producing sweat or what exactly is going on there. Again, a whole other post on that.

All I keep thinking is that we use the same technology used to stop sweat glands from producing (amongst other things) routinely on almost all babies in America. At least once in every pregnancy. Just to make sure. Not because we have cause for concern, but rather to catch anything we should have been concerned about (but didn't notice in our thirteen second appointments) or possibly could be concerned about- just to add stress to the pregnancy without any additional guidance. Or, just to see if there are boy or girl parts floating around in there.

I'm getting another glass of wine.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Amazing

I know I'm way behind on pictures. They'll be up in the next few days, I promise :)

On another note, I finally got some of the stories I grew up hearing first hand this past weekend. So amazing.


In a nutshell, my great uncle was born a preemie twin. Both of them combined weighed no more than 5 lbs. The nurses used to carry him around in their pocket (what?!). In 1928. He married another preemie twin, born in a field in Cuba in 1930. Together they had eight healthy, amazing children, and my aunt's twin and his wife had 9. (My uncle's twin died shortly after birth.) Two sets of preemie twins born during the depression leave a legacy of 17 children and three of them are still alive at 79, 79, and 81. Amazing.

Monday, April 13, 2009

4.11.09 On the Hunt.

4.10.09 Dying Eggs.

4.9.09 Kiddos.

4.8.09 Costco is hilarious.

4.7.09 Halloween tic-tac-toe

4.6.09 Storytime crafts.

4.5.09 Soaker from CICDC Sale, $1.00. Two shirts, pants, and drum from Twice Blessed sale, $3.00. Not hitting the baby with the mallet, priceless.

4.4.09 Awaiting the Hunt

4.3.09 New Seedlings

4.2.09 Get Well Goodies

4.1.09 Dirty Dishes

3.31.09 "You had a bad day, You're taking one down
You sing a sad song just to turn it around..."