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

Baby steps

So two big things this week (3 if you count the comments thing)
2 days ago on tuesday we took Claire to get a check up which includes shots.
Claire weighed in at the Dr.s at a nice 13lbs 14.5ozs, but they weigh her with the diaper on so we dont count that. We weighed her again last night and got a 13lbs 8ozs which is a much more believable number.

Kristin and I also got shots for H1N1 (ooohhhhh ahhhh) and the normal seasonal stuff.
The scary part is its never as bad as it looks (Claires is but shes a tough little bugger). It is nice to know that at least some of the strains that are floating out there are not going to effect us and what antibodies Kristin makes Claire will get. SWEET!
The second big thing is today Claire is at DayCare (dummm dumm duuuuuuum.)

This is a big step for us and i must admit the people that are watching (at least Linda. i havent yet met the husband) are nice people and the house is ,yes, a tad out of fashion, but a cool place to be once Claire is old enough to notice.
We got some things done like grocery shopping and such , but we do miss her and of course want to have her back. Especially with a picture like whats above. (BTW thats the cute picture of Claire of the blog)

We have fixed the blog to receive comments more readily which is cool. I havent played around with it to much but it seems to work.
To post a comment you have to hit the post comment and then go to name/URL and type what ever name you want and then post your comment. simple enough i hope.
Last of all i also hope to be finished with my new navi piece this week. It only took me a week and a day so far to do the install. Its funny how much time flys when your at home but at work it seems to drag its bad leg and cough , wheeze and die before five o'clock (or whenever you get off). Although regardless of what your doing be it home or work you never seem to have the time of day to finish what you need to.
and with that its time to pick up Claire form the daycare.
ps Surprised you all with a mid-day post. need to keep you on your toes.

and on the 7th day there was BLOG

Not much to report this time.
Claire weights in at a remarkable nothing lbs 6ozs ( 13lbs 6ozs for all those that didnt see last blog)
We have a 2nd doctors appt. coming up for the usual cocktail of shots this week.
I going to inundate this blog with pics as i dont have much to say.


i thought this photo was funny in a "we need to talk" sort of way

this one is of course the "CUTE picture of the blog.....of the Claire"
Also Claire related is that this upcoming week we are going to be testing out
our daycare "specialist" ? Dont quite know if thats the title or even what to make of the these people we are entrusting our own flesh and blood with. It'll be my first time meeting them so i hope to have a good impression of them and them of me.
From Kristins description the main specialist sounds vaguely like Alice from the brady bunch

I dont have a idea what the Husband looks like but he works at Cambells soup factory
which makes me think of this

yeah i'm weird, i but i can guess only about 1/2 of the 2 people that read this will get it.
well its getting late.
Good night.

The Specs

So i have been forgetting to post these.
Claire is on the verge of weighing nothing.
She was weighed last night at 12lbs 15oz's.
i say shes going to weigh nothing as shes almost 13lbs and like most hotels
13 is a baaaaad number (shut you mouth)
although its funny whats unlucky in other areas of the world.

A quick cute claire pic of the blog


Other odd 13's
This is supposedly on a one dollar bill.

1. 13 original colonies,
2. 13 signers of the Declaration of Independence,
3. 13 stripes on our flag,
4. The final version of the Great Seal was submitted on the thirteenth of June
5. There are 13 steps on the Pyramid,
6. 13 letters in the Latin above,
7. 13 letters in "E Pluribus Unum",
8. 13 stars above the Eagle,
9. 13 bars on that shield,
10. 13 leaves on the olive branch,
11. 13 fruits, and if you look closely, 13 arrows.
12. And, for minorities: the 13th Amendment.

The day after the storm. . . .

As my other half mentioned, yesterday's storm was a monster. (Although I ask, whose yard was that photo of?) Claire and I hung out at home in the dark all day, luckily the power came back on at the opportune times when she needed her bottle. Plus, it meant I got out of cooking dinner last night!

We last left our Duo !

Thank you for small favors.

.....The worst "storm" since the last really "bad" storm hit us.......

ok so we have a bit of terrible weather which left Kristin and most of Sac-town in the dark for most of the day. It wasnt as bad as it could have been (knock on wood) lots of flooding on major road ways but other than that we still have a fence which is vertical (you know the more vertical way)


(ugh and that was a shrunk down picture)
Also we recently switched back over to Att for our cell coverage as they have rollover minutes and are a bit cheaper. we love to save money(who doesnt these days). Another savings we (Kristin) are trying to preform is shopping for the big stuff only once every other week and if we need something to pick it up at the store near us. Its working so far except for lack of freezer space which we'll have fixed soon. Claire's food supply is in the space we have now.
We went back to Umeko fir lunch last weekend and still love the place. We are now just waiting for them to change owners or close on us. Other than that we had a couple of suprise guest scheduled for this week. One would have been Jessica but weather prevented the trip. The other was and might still be Matt. He stopped by work and said hi which is a rare occurrence and plans on trying to stop by again on the weekend.
Alright enough rambling by me.
Thankfully its been rather quiet around here.
Which means its time for CUTE PICTURE OF CLAIRE


This is a oldie but a awesomie picture of the then rare happy Claire.

Ah before i forget Claire has kind of sort of learned to laugh. Its the sweetest thing you have ever heard. I believe the day Claire learned to laughed all the evil in the world disappeared (or took a sabbatical ).
Also if you havent watched the Toystory 3 trailer do so now....
TRAILER

no we'll wait. its that (well we hope) good
The reason for the Pixar pimp is that its scheduled to be released on JUNE 18 2010.
Those with their shoes still on ill do the math for you. That date is the day after Claire turns one.
So expect to see us terrorizing our local movie theater and dragging Claire along.
good night

UPDATE UPDAY SUNDAY!

So September has come and gone and Christmas is around the corner. Oh Christmas.!
On Kristin's side of the family we were thinking of the pulling names out of a hat shtick to make it a bit easier on the families involved. Secret santa or what! FUNFUNFUN.
Claires first Christmas with the families. absolutely cant wait.
On another note Kristin will be headed back to work next month also which should prove a challenge to the Goodman household. Nobody likes work but with the added stress of being the first time away from Claire and back to work after the full 6 month leave all i can say is Oi'.
Kristin and i are trying to improve the Home as always and have concocted a plan to improve the lighting in the back by using some of the low level automatic lights we bought waaaaaay back in like 2007.

We have some solar led lights but as with all of these the solar panel is getting fogged and the batteries only last so long. The task is going to be interesting to say the least as the lights are designed to be mounted from the ground up, but we have to have them upside down to mount properly. Should look quite nice and bright though as the ceiling is a nice reflective white.
Another improvement(MAYBE) is the super deluxe new and improved kita-potty master Kitty bathroom. It was supposed to look like THIS , but a lot more us. So it looks like that in the fact that its made of plastic and looks vaguely like a rubbermaid tub, but the similarities end there as ours is a rubbermaid tub with a cat sized hole cut into it. We cant complain as it came out to around $20 all told instead of the $100 something the ebay one is. The best part is the cats (Bandit so far) use it and seem to like it (we are just glad to get rid of the one in Claire's room.)
and TIME FOR ..... "CUTE PICTURE OF CLAIRE"
BOOOYAH


An oldie but a goodie. Hope you the faithful followers haven't seen these already. If so comment and let us know. For a super size of any of the pictures you can click on them and it will load a larger ( i hope) size.

oh and of course before Christmas theres that little holiday called Halloween ( all hallows eve/ all saints day).

Kristin has been on the hunt for a cool Claire worthy costume. Not only did she find one, but it turned out to be the coolest costume for Claire. We aren't going to partake in the candy hunt as Claire is to young to appreciate it and its not an ideal first holiday to take a Wee one out for.
Oh so heres the costume

ok thats not the costume. Some reason ebay being unhelpful with the picture linking
For the more adventurous here's a link to the PAGE and with that.
Good Night.