Road trips to meet Internet friends…
Posted by: Sarah on: June 30, 2009
Liz, Quinn, Kaitlyn, Shoshanna, and Sarah
Some of you may know that I help moderate a mailing list for parents and caregivers of micropreemies. Today Shoshanna and I had the luck to get to meet the founder of that list, Liz McCarthy. Liz had micropreemie twin girls almost exactly a year after I had Shoshanna, and Liz’s girls were due a year to the day after Shoshanna was. They lost Corinne after just a few hours and have had pretty big food- and sensory-related struggles with their surviving twin Kaitlyn. (You can read their whole story on Liz’s blog.)
Shoshanna, Quinn, and Kaitlyn chowing down
So Liz and I have known each other online for three and a half years now but had never met in person before this afternoon. We had an awesome playdate at Liz’s in-laws home at the Chautauqua Institution this afternoon – very much worth the 3 hours in the car there and back! The kids (also including Kaitlyn’s cousin Stella) played, ate snacks, mostly listened when we told them to avoid the swamp on the playground, played some more, and ate dinner while the adults chatted about this, that, and everything.
It’s such fun to finally meet people in person who I’ve corresponded with for years, who I feel like I know pretty well even though we’ve only ever seen each other in pictures and maybe talked on the phone a couple of times. Bonus points for them being awesome preemie parents, too!
Saturday morning, in our tent…
Posted by: Sarah on: June 29, 2009
5:55 am… Shoshanna wakes up.
S: Mama, why it’s light out? Is it morning?
Me: Mphfff.
S: Mama, the sun is up! It’s morning.
Me: Mphffff.
S opens the wall separating the sides of the tent.
S: Mama, it’s morning! The sun is up! Can I get up?
Me: Mphfffff.
S sees my sleep mask which is the only thing that allows me to sleep past when the sun comes into the tent starting at 5:30 am.
S: Mama, why that thing is on your face?
Me: Because the sun is up.
She’s a morning person and she’s even more of a morning person when she’s on the sunny side of a tent on one of the shortest nights of the year. She went down for a nap by 11:30 am.
echoes of a thud
Posted by: Sarah on: June 22, 2009
Remember the other shoe that dropped last September? And all the evaluation that eventually led to Shoshanna being diagnosed with a 25% gross motor delay and her starting to receive physical therapy 2x/week?
That other shoe now contains Sure Step SMOs.
*melt*
Posted by: Sarah on: June 15, 2009
I picked Shoshanna up early from school today because she had an appointment; afterwards we went to run our weekend errands that didn’t get done over the weekend. As we were sitting in the cafe at Wegmans I asked her what her favorite part of the day was. (This is the usual question we ask her to find out what her day was like.) She said, “Having dinner with you at Wegmans, mama.”
Pre-k graduation is this Friday. The Kindelas class will be performing “The Gingerbread Boy” for the assembled folks. Shoshanna was cast as the Narrator (which has the most lines) because she is able to read her part and so won’t have to memorize it. I said that she’ll memorize it anyway.
I was wrong; she didn’t memorize her part.
She memorized the whole play.
big big big day
Posted by: Sarah on: June 6, 2009
We had a very big day today. This morning was kindergarten registration, and then we went straight from there to one of our favorite SCA events, which is a demo and renaissance faire at the Herschell Carrousel Museum. Read the rest of this entry »
Miss Shoshanna meets Mister Lincoln
Posted by: Sarah on: June 4, 2009
We bopped down to Maryland for 36 hours or so last weekend… like you do. Grandma and Opa had secured tickets to the Children’s Concert at the Kennedy Center and we had promised Shoshanna that while we were downtown we could go to the Lincoln Memorial, which she had been begging to do ever since they learned about it at school around Presidents’ Day. So after the concert we had a picnic by the tidal basin (which is where we finally found parking after driving around in many many circles) and then we walked over to the Memorial, with Shoshanna (who hadn’t napped) complaining the whole way. Jury’s still out on whether the complaining was preferable to the howling that accompanied the walk back. Needless to say, she passed out very quickly once we were back to the car.
(It should be noted that this was our first-ever trip sans stroller. I think it went OK all things considered. I am considering making the trip to Maine this summer without wheeled conveyance for Shoshanna, too.)
The Children’s Concert was fun – Shoshanna was excited to meet Maestro Mouse. The program was a bit long for her (see previous note about the lack of nap… it was a 1 pm performance) but she did enjoy it.
We also introduced her to my favorite ethnic cuisine: Ethiopian. I think she likes it as much as I do – permission to eat with your fingers? That’s all you had to say to her!
Getting to see Jacy and Josh one more time before Cousin arrives next month was a nice bonus, too. My sister-in-law is almost obnoxiously good at being pregnant. ;)
(The shirt, in case you can’t read it, says “Beer Belly”. It was Matthew’s idea.)
Look who got a fancy new toy?
Posted by: Sarah on: May 24, 2009
And just for fun…
Posted by: Sarah on: May 12, 2009
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I took S to the doctor yesterday for her runny nose that just won’t quit and they went ahead and swabbed her for strep.
You guessed it. Little Miss No-Symptoms has it, too.
She’s a bit run down today but has been cleared to go back to school tomorrow – I hope she feels up to it. Goodness knows I need to not have her home so I can get a boatload of work done tomorrow!
Why yes, life is crazy. Why do you ask?
Posted by: Sarah on: May 10, 2009
I have been pestered by Grammy because I haven’t updated. SORRY!!!
March for Babies was brilliant… we got super-lucky with the weather, Shoshanna got to swing with Buster Bison and she rode her bike for the whole 3+ miles. We were also featured in a really nice article in the Buffalo News the week before the March. We are still getting comments from random strangers and various acquaintances about that one – a picture of Shoshanna was on the front page of the paper, above the fold. As if we needed her ego to get any bigger.
So that was two weeks ago. Then last weekend we drove 8 hours round trip to Punxsy to go to Aunt Jacy’s baby shower. 
Well, we girls went – the boys all went geocaching while we were at the coffee shop eating cake and playing silly shower games and watching/helping Jacy open shower presents. Shoshanna also made a “best friend in Punxsutawney” – Jacy’s cousin Jackson, who just turned 5. They got along very very well – it was pretty cute. At one point Shoshanna even had to fix Jackson’s tie for him, which was just hilarious and stereotypical and sweet (and yes, I have a picture, but I don’t publish pictures of other people’s kids on the blog without their permission!). Jacy’s doing great and we’re all really looking forward to meeting Cousin in July.
This week Matthew went to pre-k to talk to the kids about being a computer scientist, including teaching them all to count in hexadecimal; I’m sure we’ll be getting “thank yous” from the other parents very soon. And Friday was the annual Parents’ Breakfast, which I had to miss (but Matthew could go to) because I had strep throat. So now we’re watching Shoshanna like a hawk to see if she starts showing symptoms – you’re contagious for about 48 hours after starting antibiotics (which I did at noon on Thursday) and the incubation period is 2-5 days.
- Kim: Ava loved her SMOs and luckily, we got her in them early enough that she only needed them for about six months before she was officially discharged fr
- Kim: Oh, I'm so jealous! Looks like you all had so much fun--love the pics of the girls together!!
- Laura Hopper: Oh my gosh, she looks so much like you in that profile picture, Sarah! Missed seeing you this past weekend, but thanks for the congrats and hopefully
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