The nightmare we feared has come to reality. For evey lottery winner there's someone one with the same random luck but on the other end of the spectrum. I can feel the flesh of my cheeks and arms hanging off my bones. My arms feel so week, but I can't stop pacing around. How do you deal with this ( Read more... )

I don't know why I haven't put in the good things that have happened over the last year... trips to HI,NY,VA, Lina born and niece #4 (how is my brother going to survive 4 girls??). . . I guess I can always back date them in when I'm feeling nostalgic ( Read more... )

Zman dressed himself completely, and even put his shoes on the correct feet! (When I was a kid, I had to tie my shoes, none of this velcro laces stuff). He also was able to catch a tennis ball I threw to him (he actually asked to play catch ( Read more... )

I came out of the shower this morning to find Zman dressed! He took some clothes out of his drawer and put them on all by himself. Of course they didn't match, and the shorts were on backwards, but A+ for effort ( Read more... )

"I want to catch jellyfish, like sponge bob ( Read more... )

Fri Zman crashes hard at daycare. Lee takes him to a dentist who says he needs to pull out his 2 front teeth. I tell her don't do it, we can get a 2nd opinion later. She starts hunting around for another dentist at 4PM on Fri, and they'll all closed. When I get home she yells at me for not letting her have his teeth pulled out. From the 1st ( Read more... )

Last week I was editing Easter 2004 home movies on the PC, and Zman came by and saw the footage of him getting his basket of candy. The rest of the night he was asking for his basket. He'd go to the closet where he knew it was (on a very high shelf) and point up and say, "I need my basket!" When we finally gave it to him he said, "where's the ( Read more... )

Jen visited for just the weekend - quite a trip for a 2 day visit (especially considering her 7hr layover in MSP), but it was good to see her. We took the little man up to the ski hill and went tubing. The weather sucked but it was great fun. Zman kept saying, "there they go!" each time other people would slide down the hill. The next day he ( Read more... )

Yesterday Z came up to me while I was reading a magazine and said, "read the book ( Read more... )