Nolan had his 12-month appointment today, and - since he was fever free - got 4 shots. Bad mommy, giving such a bad gift! Between already being not-quite-well and the shots, he had a pretty rough night. In fact, he's still having a rough night, so other updates will have to wait. I know, shocking.
Here are the details:
My teeny, tiny peanut is officially the smallest member of our family at the same mark -
Length: 27.75 inches (< 3%)
Weight: 17lb 15oz (< 3%)
Head: 18.5 inch (60%... hehe)
He's actually still hugging what would be the line he's on, if it extended below the chart... so no concerns, maybe he's just a "late bloomer"? Still, I'm kind of shocked. The lady at Meijer was today, too, when she argued with me that it couldn't possibly really be his birthday, despite the fact that he was wearing a birthday shirt and birthday bib. And despite the fact that I'm his mother, and - although extremely not with it these days - know the date of each of my children's births.
So anyway... :)
The appointment went well. It was actually the most comfortable and well he's been in days, until we ruined that with immunizations. Hopefully he'll perk back up tomorrow!
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Happy Birthday, Nolan!
I can't believe it's been a year since my favorite little boy entered the world! He has reminded me more about love than I ever thought possible. His smile lights up a room (or a store, or anywhere we happen to be), his hugs and kisses melt this mama's heart. He's freaking adorable too, and I can't wait to see what the next year holds for us!
More to come later - appointment update, monthly update, maybe some other ramblings. For now, enjoy "Nolan's First Year" --
Happy Birthday to my sweet baby!
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Emotional Overflow - an attempted Explanation
Not too long ago, the girls were finishing watching a season finale of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. If you've got daughters or know any Bronies (google it if you must), you know the show is actually quite good, and it's not terribly surprising that the writing could dig a little deeper even than just capturing the imagination of young viewers.
It was a climactic moment, one in which Twilight Sparkle underwent a transformation and became an Alicorn and a princess - a very big deal, after proving her worth through various trials and events. As the episode was nearing an end, I came into the room and Avery looked at me. She said, completely incredulously, "Mommy, I'm so happy that I almost started to cry!"
I explained that I, too, do that sometimes. "Isn't that interesting," I continued, "that we cry when we're sad and when we're happy?"
"Why do we do that?" she asked.
Good question, right? The best answer I could come up with was something vague about being so filled up with emotions that they spill out in the form of tears.
I'm reminded of this tonight as I watch Nolan's First Year slideshow for the umpteenth time. I'm so overwhelmed with gratitude for these three precious miracles, and tonight especially for the one we'll celebrate this week!
It was a climactic moment, one in which Twilight Sparkle underwent a transformation and became an Alicorn and a princess - a very big deal, after proving her worth through various trials and events. As the episode was nearing an end, I came into the room and Avery looked at me. She said, completely incredulously, "Mommy, I'm so happy that I almost started to cry!"
I explained that I, too, do that sometimes. "Isn't that interesting," I continued, "that we cry when we're sad and when we're happy?"
"Why do we do that?" she asked.
Good question, right? The best answer I could come up with was something vague about being so filled up with emotions that they spill out in the form of tears.
I'm reminded of this tonight as I watch Nolan's First Year slideshow for the umpteenth time. I'm so overwhelmed with gratitude for these three precious miracles, and tonight especially for the one we'll celebrate this week!
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
One of my favorite pictures. Ever.
PJs, workout clothes, bad hair (me). Too busy/lazy to remove the color cast.
No problem. I'm overwhelmingly in love with my little family - the 3 kiddos here, and the man who took and shared such a picture without us knowing.
Seriously, so undeserving.
No problem. I'm overwhelmingly in love with my little family - the 3 kiddos here, and the man who took and shared such a picture without us knowing.
Seriously, so undeserving.
Blog Updates
First, a photo here and there from a much larger number of events than I would like are being moved directly to the photo albums, because I simply can't catch up around here, what with birthdays, and huge parties, and weddings, and leases, and mortgages, and moves. Don't forget to check them out while you're waiting on me anyway...
jenniferkaufman.zenfolio.com >> Family Snaps
password: chateaukaufman
Second, and this is still being considered, I might be making this site private. For whatever reason, I have been getting spam comments and emails incessantly. I always used to get one or two here or that that would make it through my filters, but now it's 3-5 a day. They aren't getting published, but they're driving me crazy. It's probably an overdue move, anyway. What I need to know, and I have just heard from a few of you and was surprised anyone was still reading along aside from a few family members... is that you're reading. I'd just have to add your email to a list of approved readers, I think, and it would load as usual. Thoughts? Opposition? I don't care to continue deleting spam emails for the time being until I figure it out.
Now go see some pictures. I still have cute kids ;)
jenniferkaufman.zenfolio.com >> Family Snaps
password: chateaukaufman
Second, and this is still being considered, I might be making this site private. For whatever reason, I have been getting spam comments and emails incessantly. I always used to get one or two here or that that would make it through my filters, but now it's 3-5 a day. They aren't getting published, but they're driving me crazy. It's probably an overdue move, anyway. What I need to know, and I have just heard from a few of you and was surprised anyone was still reading along aside from a few family members... is that you're reading. I'd just have to add your email to a list of approved readers, I think, and it would load as usual. Thoughts? Opposition? I don't care to continue deleting spam emails for the time being until I figure it out.
Now go see some pictures. I still have cute kids ;)
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Disneyland/California: February 25
About 8 hours before we were supposed to leave for the airport for our cross-country flight to California and our first trip to Disneyland, we found out that said flight was canceled! Apparently there was a good deal of snow in Denver (isn't there always?) and all flights there were rerouted or rescheduled. It was not acceptable for us to get to California a whole day-and-a-half late, so I found myself on the phone - on hold for literally 3 hours (that's not a typo) - getting us onto a flight with a partner airline leaving the next afternoon. Our travel day would start (and therefore end) much later, but we'd be able to hit the ground running the following morning, instead of almost two days late - not to mention any money we would have lost on tickets, hotel, etc.
So there we found ourselves at the Dayton airport, with an incredible American Airlines staff, ready to fly to Santa Ana via Chicago. The very quick flight was completely uneventful, with Nolan sleeping exactly the duration (ie falling asleep as the plane sped up on the runway and waking upon landing), and the girls doing their math activity books and playing with Wikki Stix the entire time without complaint. If only all flights could be so short!
We had quite a bit of time at O'Hare, so we took our time getting lunch at Reggios - and of course tracking down (easy, with my keen radar!) the nearest Garrett's Popcorn! Finally we hung out at our gate for just about an hour, got seats all together (despite not knowing until the same day we were on this flight), and had another pretty good flight - though this one was 4 hours, so we all got a bit restless by the end! It also ended up pretty turbulent, and all 3 of our carseats were missing temporarily when we landed - one literally missing, left in Chicago. The AA attendant was excellent though, so we quickly had a loaner booster and were on our way. It had been a long day and was quite late (EST), but we were so thankful to have at least made it to the West Coast on the planned date! It was ridiculous to me to think that after all that we had just finished, we wouldn't even be leaving for more than 24 hours still on Frontier's proposed rescheduled flight.
As we were sitting in a bit of traffic on an otherwise easy drive from SNA to the hotel, I looked up at one point and literally laughed out loud. I had "known" what to expect regarding the differences between Walt Disney World and Disneyland and had prepared accordingly, but it was so absurd to me to be parked on the highway next to a shabby used car dealership, with random office buildings and construction projects around, and peeking out amidst them see the Tower of Terror and the Matterhorn. They were just right there - sitting out in the open! :)
The Disneyland resort area was, as mentioned, a quick drive from the airport. We found an inexpensive buffet called Captain Kidd's just a block from our hotel and directly across from the Disneyland entrance, and thought it looked like as good a choice as any to eat. Reviews were mixed, but how bad could it be? Turns out, pretty bad. We got enough to fill our tummies for bed though, and as tired as we were, that was all we were really hoping for.
After checking in the Fairfield Inn, I was incredibly pleased with our hotel choice. It was less than a 10 minute walk to the entrance (a shorter walk than the Contemporary to Magic Kingdom, for you WDW vets), Disney themed/decorated, as clean and updated and friendly as I have come to expect from all Marriotts, and our room was honestly far more spacious than the DVC studios to which we are accustomed. After wrestling with not staying on property (and fully understanding and supporting the reasons it's truly not important to do so at DL, despite being a resort snob at WDW :)), I was immediately happy with our temporary digs.
Kyle finished putting the kids to bed while I ran down the street to Target for a few necessities. I had planned to unpack when I returned, but everyone had had such a hard time getting to sleep (and Elise was actually still awake after 11EST) that I decided instead to set an alarm and do it in the morning, rather than risk waking anyone.
Haha. An alarm. Stay tuned...
So there we found ourselves at the Dayton airport, with an incredible American Airlines staff, ready to fly to Santa Ana via Chicago. The very quick flight was completely uneventful, with Nolan sleeping exactly the duration (ie falling asleep as the plane sped up on the runway and waking upon landing), and the girls doing their math activity books and playing with Wikki Stix the entire time without complaint. If only all flights could be so short!
We had quite a bit of time at O'Hare, so we took our time getting lunch at Reggios - and of course tracking down (easy, with my keen radar!) the nearest Garrett's Popcorn! Finally we hung out at our gate for just about an hour, got seats all together (despite not knowing until the same day we were on this flight), and had another pretty good flight - though this one was 4 hours, so we all got a bit restless by the end! It also ended up pretty turbulent, and all 3 of our carseats were missing temporarily when we landed - one literally missing, left in Chicago. The AA attendant was excellent though, so we quickly had a loaner booster and were on our way. It had been a long day and was quite late (EST), but we were so thankful to have at least made it to the West Coast on the planned date! It was ridiculous to me to think that after all that we had just finished, we wouldn't even be leaving for more than 24 hours still on Frontier's proposed rescheduled flight.
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| Grand Canyon. Somewhat cooler from closer to the ground, I think? |
As we were sitting in a bit of traffic on an otherwise easy drive from SNA to the hotel, I looked up at one point and literally laughed out loud. I had "known" what to expect regarding the differences between Walt Disney World and Disneyland and had prepared accordingly, but it was so absurd to me to be parked on the highway next to a shabby used car dealership, with random office buildings and construction projects around, and peeking out amidst them see the Tower of Terror and the Matterhorn. They were just right there - sitting out in the open! :)
The Disneyland resort area was, as mentioned, a quick drive from the airport. We found an inexpensive buffet called Captain Kidd's just a block from our hotel and directly across from the Disneyland entrance, and thought it looked like as good a choice as any to eat. Reviews were mixed, but how bad could it be? Turns out, pretty bad. We got enough to fill our tummies for bed though, and as tired as we were, that was all we were really hoping for.
After checking in the Fairfield Inn, I was incredibly pleased with our hotel choice. It was less than a 10 minute walk to the entrance (a shorter walk than the Contemporary to Magic Kingdom, for you WDW vets), Disney themed/decorated, as clean and updated and friendly as I have come to expect from all Marriotts, and our room was honestly far more spacious than the DVC studios to which we are accustomed. After wrestling with not staying on property (and fully understanding and supporting the reasons it's truly not important to do so at DL, despite being a resort snob at WDW :)), I was immediately happy with our temporary digs.
Kyle finished putting the kids to bed while I ran down the street to Target for a few necessities. I had planned to unpack when I returned, but everyone had had such a hard time getting to sleep (and Elise was actually still awake after 11EST) that I decided instead to set an alarm and do it in the morning, rather than risk waking anyone.
Haha. An alarm. Stay tuned...
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