Entries from February 2008

February 26, 2008

fun with vaccinations

The handyman (who is more anti-vax than me since I am a science nerd) and I both read The Vaccine Book by Dr. Sears and decided to wait on the MMR vaccine due to the Bean at her one year check up (my ped was fine with this).   We did most of the other vaccines but [...]

February 21, 2008

lunar eclipse

Here is a shot I took from my front yard of tonight’s lunar eclipse at 10:48 pm. It was so freaking beautiful out and really, really amazing. Some day I will learn how to actually use my new camera,especially the editing software that came with it (sigh), but even fuzzy it [...]

February 13, 2008

juno

Don’t get me wrong I really liked the film.  But, I wasn’t as blown away as I was expecting to be and maybe it is because Juno seemed like a composite of several favorite high school students I taught.  I like teenagers and I guess working with them (especially with the somewhat edgier ‘alternative’ nerd crowd that [...]

February 12, 2008

lesson learned

My mom’s 83 year old sister Tess is visiting my mother for an entire month and honestly two weeks into the visit I am just sucked dry as I have logged in enough endless hours sitting around at my folk’s house that my sanity is now in question.  My aunt is not only recovering from breast cancer (can you [...]

February 7, 2008

slacker sleep habits

Can someone explain to me why on a normal day (like every other day this week) when I put the Bean down for her morning nap she sleeps oh say 15 or 20 minutes before she is up raring to go.  But on days when I want to go somewhere she sleeps an hour or [...]

February 7, 2008

the one year old

The bow lasted about 5 minutes but doesn’t she look so sweet and femme? I can’t believe she is now a toddler. My baby!

February 5, 2008

happy birthday to the bean!

I can’t believe how fast this year has flown by and that my baby is one year old today.  Pics to come (as soon as I figure out how to get them off my new camera)…..