UPDATE!

so yet another post.

Not much going on.Last weekend we lost water for a 12 hour cycle here. Nothing like not having running water to realize how much it means to you. We do have water back but its not quite right as it was before. Daryl is running over the house to clean out the pipes and make sure everything is back to order.
Claire is up to 16lbs 8ozs

She still doing the screech. The growl and the smooch have taken a back seat for now.

Claire does say something to the effect of dada just as she chattered mama with some random chatter scattered throughout.

um PICTURES...

yah

Claire opening her Valentine present from Day Care (linda and fred)

Present opened

Fancy Picture.

My two beautiful ladies

Enjoying the sun kicking my feet up.

The dogs were barking

And a daughter enjoying sitting on the couch like a adult. hopefully not a trend to be setting :D

and FIN

have a good night

sweet 16 or 101 uses of a rubbermaid

So Claire is over 16 lbs which is nice.

Shes sitting my herself and sitting up in the bouncy chair to look around.

Claire can stand whilst leaning on daddy for a indefinite amount of time or till she gets bored.

She has learned that her vocal cords can make a growling noise and also reach subsonic levels ( much to Kris and I's dismay.

Also Monday (i think) was Claire's first meal with meat. (hence the growling shes a carnivore now)

enough with the chit chat and on with the show.

a bunch of pictures again

and well even try some video

HA HAAAA

and i think it even works

on to something completely different. The Goodman family doesnt like USPS.

there. we said it.

Unfortunately USPS has lost or misplaced a package going to Daryl and getting a hold of them on the phone is more difficult than getting a straight answer out of them or having them help you find the missing package OR having the tracking system tell you when or where they shipped the package. UGH! Unfortunately. we also have had some issues having things shipped to the house to the point we're shipping things to Daryls work.

I can understand if we have had things stolen from our door before or hell theft in the neighborhood at all ( which we havent. at least we gotten everything we expected to get), So now we are contemplating a home video surveillance system accessible from anywhere with an internet connection. BOOYAH

The Goodman show begins. move over big brother and/or enter in reality sitcom here.

Daryl is trying for 2 cameras (front and back) but we might just get one.

We are also considering putting a hidden parcel box out in front (hence the 101 things to do with a rubbermaid) so we can avoid the whole "well theres a lot of theft around here" yeah i see they stole your brain stupid ( and now i breath in deep and out ahhh i feel better already.)

As always we'll keep you posted sooner than later once the smoke clears.

unless someone steal the site. >:(

^ heavily laced with sarcasm.

3 times a charm

I realized i had not written in a while but geez a month.

although this is a update its just mainly pictures.

Sleepy sleep

happy claire in her holiday outfit

its not really mad Claire but she had a period of time when she made this face and breathed through her nose quickly its over now. she just Growls alot

this is of today when she had her third check up. Daryl took the picture all stealthy - like because he wasnt sure pictures were allowed. (:D)

also we dont know why Claires doctor wears a leather jacket we just assume she jumps on a Harley and drives off after the appointment. or shes just that cool.

either way shes a pretty good doctor.

Claire is growing up and out weighting in at 15 lbs and 12 oz sans clothes (our scale) or 16lbs 1 oz with diaper (doctors scale). Claire got her shots today but she shrugged them off like a champ. Shes getting solid foods regularly now and seems to love anything we toss at her.

she still hasent gone though all her Christmas toys yet but is making progress. (she also loves all her toys) Claire has been able to roll both sides now and likes to show that off. Shes still learning the whole sitting thing but is trying.

everything else is pretty good so far. <- i know very generic but itll have to do for a bit till i can go into the rest.

thanks for sticking with it.

late taRDY SLACKER

So another post another week closer to Christmas.

A lot of things have happened since then.

First off the neighbor i was explaining about in the last post.

Has past on. Her name was Lyn (not even sure of the spelling)

Unfortunately thats all we really know about that side of the Doc household.

We are trying to help Doc but he seems to be well taken care of.

At work a secret santa exchange cropped up belatedly and i was able to get a person that i wanted. hehehe so much fun.

Another thing is i was able to clean some stuff out of the garage (kind of. its a start)

and am trying to get more involved in reorganizing the house. Daryl needs to stop being a pack rat.

In other news totally found a cool bottle being sold for Mountain Dew (Check green lab art)

and its on my desk now. Read above statement and now you understand. Although mine didnt come with the snowboard. ( i want my money back)

quick movie cap (been tapering off a bit)

Zombieland - very funny but gory. I always wondered if a zombie has to bite (fluid transfer) you for you to become a zombie why doesn't it happen if a Zombie sneezes (fluid transfer) on you. Not as menacing i guess.

I love you beth cooper - yeah it was meh

Inglourious Basterds - its a Tarantino flick so i didnt expect much. Needs to be fleshed out TBH.

Also at work

Sierra Select is JVC mobile rep of the year and JVC mobile (i think just mobile) Distributor of the year. Not sure if thats just the USA or not. Kind of cool. No fringes yet, but when we got kinetic (a battery line) distributor of the year John and the reps got a plaque and a picture with a big fat guy(turns out he was our rep. ow!)

Yes i have a picture of said event (dont ask. i was young and impressionable then)and yes thats the rep. Obviously they must do well. ..or he ate all the profits cause we havent been able to get product from them in a while.... or batteries taste like donuts.. ok ill stop....dang. and that was a small photo....stop stop stop.

its late

so heres the news youve been waiting for(ie digging through the random crap i write)

Claire is now 15lbs round a bout with some very overwhelming and very random houred output.

so good news there.

Kris and i are still looking for a jogging stroller, but most seem to be made cheaply and we dont want to risk it (craiglist/Ebay ones) or are very nice and cozy but cost somewhere around 5 to 7 hundred dollars (store bought). We still have a nice gift card for Babyrus (TY Bev and Matt) so maybe well try and see what they have (i can tell you what they have its a Lucille's about a 10min drive away). booyah

and heres a Cute picture offfffff CLAIRE

Its not safe for work. 0.o

Yes thats right NSFW!!!!!

and with that i bid you adieu.

Snow Sno No

So the expected cold front moved and dumped nary a inch of snow. other parts of the Sacramento area got quite a bit but nothing for the Goodman family.

We did however get frost and then rain ...its great.

i could never figure out how that always seems to work. its dry, but cold and as soon as the weekend comes rain and lots of it. whys the weekend the focal point on some more than less desirable weather. oh well

soooo Christmas right around the corner. lots to do not enough days to do it. cant wait till its over.

so a new segment

Movies

The Gamer - Good but a little to much T and a little funny realistic.

Body of Lies- good stuff very Tom Clancy

The Hangover - finally got to see this and its ok not quite meh. some funny lines i guess

Funny People - its ok. Some really funny parts mixed in with life (watched it over 2 days so that might have affected the score)

working on

I love you beth cooper (meh so far)

and a couple others

Also we found out that our next door neighbor Donalds (DOC) girlfriend (?!?)

might not have till April before the Big C claims her. Sad stuff. Kristin and I are trying to think of ways to help by maybe cooking some meals for him, but i guess ....yeah . sucks

At work on D side. Sierra select is picking up a bunch of new lines so we hope that means that Sierra is out of the slump, but well see. D is also thinking of going back to school and working on becoming a physical therapist which brings a funny SNL skit to mind.

Wish him luck

and now drum roll please

CLAIRE PIC OF THE BLOG

oh geez how could i forget

we gave Claire her first real food

Avocado

afterwards she asked for some chips next time.. and now she wants a ring of salt around the milk bottle. weird

so now its Claire eating food as the pic of the blog

and were done good night

Idears

Been to long and for no good reason other than i didnt want to mess with the login.

low and behold i didnt have too. worked like a charm albeit a charm that took way to long to mess with to get it to the point to work like a charm. On to other new problems. the wifi at home is acting up (just another a niggle that D has to take time to figure what changed)

Major construction is floating rather interestingly through the Goodmans heads.

Kris's mind

Daryls mind

(which gives some idea of what we're thinking)

Claires mind

.

yeah we can only hope that the ideas come to fruition which would

help out short termish we think.

on to other things.

D's movie list for the ....for now

The Brothers Bloom - good movie

The Ugly Truth- (set in sacramento) had a good start. a little to much potty mouth (even for me)

InkHeart - good kids movie for when they aren't scared of the dvd player. Could be a littel scary(for kids) but good)

GI Joe - good action but bad adaption

Star Trek - good movie. hear that if your a trekky youll not like it.

The Proposal - good movie. last "DATE" movie before we became parents (special place in my heart i guess)

Terminator Slavation- Meh. it was better than people said (nuff said)

Year one - dont waste the time

working on The Gamer - good so far

(the benefit of stay up till "the cows come home" <- quoting a thank you card :P)

Ok now ill stop boring all the people who came here for one thing

CLAIRE!!!

shes hovering at 14lbs 10 ozs around there.

output is backish to normal (if theres such a thing as normal output)

and shes doing very well

its supposed to snow for most of the morning tomorrow so who knows this might be a semi white Christmas for Claire.

Heres a newer pic

Claire says MOAR!!! Sophie tastes good.

No sophies/ giraffes were hurt in the making of this blog

Night all

cha-cha-cha-changes

just a quick post.

weve been having issues with the blogger as its switched over to a new loggin (like 2 years ago) and for some reason just recently been making it very difficult to loggin.

i think its been resolved but wanted to do a post just to see if it was really fixed.

Thanksgiving day has gone and pasted and now we steel ourselves for the difficult trek to work.

Thankfully the weather has been holding in some very perfect days but some very chilly nights.

Also were still on our search for the mythical bike trailer/jogging stroller combo finding some good deals on craiglist but most just seem to be the rebadged rattle death traps that dont really hold a child of Claires age.

oh well

heres a picture

even though this was a trial run.

Tryptophan

Well Thanksgiving dinner is officially over with and it turned out ...well...good.
i think everyone had a decent time and the seating wasnt too tight. All the dishes were good and thanks to the moms and dad we have more than enough food for an Army.
Thanksgiving official ends sometime around 10:00 tomorrow when all the deals are gone so we still have a bit of time to show our thanks. I dont know how anyone can do it getting up, running around and killing walmart employees. WAAAAY to early to be doing all that at least for me.
Claire is still floating around 14lbs 7-8 ozs right now and with the Daycare having her for most of the day we havent had track of her outtake as much as we's like.
We know how many bottles we get back so we have a good idea of intake which is nice and Linda has been very helpful as far as calling us every couple of hours to let us know everything is good.
Joined another competition and this one gets things a bit more difficult. not only does it matter if you win but you have to auction off the mini at the end and then you could possibly win another prize for most/least amount. I joined it more so to hopefully help the charity at the end. Hopefully it does help and then maybe ill feel like i accomplished something other than just farting around with paint and expensive metal. heres a link.
little angels
Any ways
Short post today
heres the next "Picture of Claire that is in the blog and very cute"


Have a good night

SLACKER.

Ok so i haven't blogged in a while. works been tough and the blogger seems to have some login issues. arrrggh. oh well. So two weeks Claire is now out of the twilweight zone and in a 14lbs 7 oz area. She hasn't had any output in the last couple of days,

if you catch my drift so we think she a little lighter than that.
The holidays are rapidly approaching and with them we are feeling the crunch. The house is becoming cleaner than it has been and there are some changes that were trying to do to make the house more homely. One was the lights for the backyard (which still needs work), another is getting rid of the helper "granny" bars.Thats not our home BTW.

Daryl has joined a couple of online painting comps that would equal some decent recognition and money (whats that?!?)

which would be nice to make some money instead of breaking even. One is sponsored by Justin from secret weapon miniatures who is a friend of Daryls and had just recently opened his own online miniature accessories store. The winner would get a giftcard to his store. (ohh ahh)
The other is a lot bigger (although also being in part sponsored by Justin thanks to Daryl). Both are international ,but the second competition has a 3-4 hundred dollar prize (unfortunately in gift cards) to various stores and online companies. The judges are a group of painters that have won many a competitions around the world, the only good news is i dont have to compete against them. Daryl is going to try and enter something in each of the three categories to increase the odds and maybe get 3-4 hundred times 2 or 3 (one can hope), but we'll see. In other news Doc our rather interesting neighbor has erected a tent(carport with canvas cover) outside in the backyard to help with Thanksgiving dinner.

Thats right he's having guests and they are eating a tent out back. The good news is the weather is probably gong to be bad enough that the Goodman thanksgiving will be indoors away from the monstrosity.
Speaking of which we will be having over Daryl's mom and Kristin's parents this year for thanksgiving and finally opening the Dom Perignon which according to that site goes from $149 to $13,900. This should prove interesting. We can also open the 2001 two buck chuck if anyone cares.


oh and what im sure everyone came for ( i know i did) the "CUTE CLAIRE PICTURE OF THE BLOG"

the picture should be titled "Bad Ducky"

i also have to include this picture

many of you might recognize the look on Claires face as its the one you see in the zombie flicks right after someone has turned into a zombie and is about to eat you.
I think i had a binky and/or a bottle of milk so i was safe then. phew
Good night

The Aftermath

So we got through the week and Halloween is done. We have candy still (Thank you largely impart to MOM (kathy)) albeit not the candy we started with. The sole bag of M&M's that we started with went fast and we were racing to find something sugary and unhealthy relying on some tictacs Kris and i got like 2 years ago when we had a Sam's club card (hope those are still good kiddies).The upside to outdated candy is its quieter in the neighborhood, the downside is of course all the bills for stomach pumping. ah well. Luckily nothing bad happened and everyone seemed to be happy about the tictacs even shouting gleefully when they got them. :D Starting to like the holidays more so than before. Its so much the better seen through the eyes of a child.
Which leads us to how Claire did at daycare. One word good. Although you wonder too good? is she happy with everyone? Is Claire the Bandit of the baby world? Of course we know shes not as we dont make comments like the husband made. "Whats she dressing up for halloween as?" "PINK" and we waited for that to fall on its face as we totally ignored it. although i was thinking "shes a GIRL SMARTY PANTS.
And of course that follows nicely into did we like the Daycare...givers...people.
Kristin took to them and once i met the husband they also grew on me. The house as i said before has a brady bunch feel to it. Dated yet cool. they have a nice video library and a game room with a billiards/pool table that looks like its 5000Lbs

and a Gauntlet video game.

The Kitchen is to the right along with a family room? and a dining room(i think)
I havent seen the bedroom area but the hallway looks ok. :D
and with that heres the ...well the picture of the blog with the Goodman family.
doesnt have the same ring i tell yah. :(


Night all