tomorrow we go to disneyland

hooray!

words i don't like

secret sauce
succulent
savory
secrete, secretions
slice
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earwig
juggernaut
ointment
flesh, fleshy
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i thought i would show some photos of seamus when she was a baby. this one is of her the very first time she pulled herself up to standing. i was at work when it happened but eric caught a photo of it. she was always so cute in those overalls!





seamus went through many many cute stages. i loved her pink striped onsie. it was one of my favorites.










when she got a little older she went through a bit of a goth phase















here she is all bundled up getting ready to go for a bike ride and i love this photo of her with the home depot smock - she is on the go! one day she was trying to put the smock on and was having a few issues, finally she was just like "what the hell?" she didn't learn that from me, that is for sure.
















there have been many conversations about who the babies look like. as seamus gets older she looks more and more like me. she looks very much like i did when i was her age. as proof, here are some photos of me when i was little.
same hair cut, same shirt with tennis rackets and plaid pants

dug vs dug, the effects on seamus

so friday was a pretty good day at work, i think. i can't really remember too much about it. the night before i went to a networking event at club owned in part by a guy who went to youngstown state and is friends with jen. that is crazy to me. i told him that we are now on a mission to get jen to come for a visit. dug from LA came up for the event as well as to see tweezer live in concert. dug was supposed to play the triangle but didn't. so sad but the drummer in the band was really hot so that made up for it. friday dug came over to visit the kids because he hadn't ever met sirus and i have been giving him a hard time about it. sirus and dug were instant friends and sirus proceeded to slobber all over dug's treo. dug used to be a manny so he knows how to hang with the kids. sort of. as soon as we walked into the house seamus started crying. she was in her room just waking up from a nap and she started to cry and didn't stop crying until a bit after dug left. i think she thought we were going to marry her off to dug and he was there to collect his dowry but of course that was not the case - there is no dowry. seamus has been having a tough time lately and not really napping or sleeping very well so there has been quite a bit of crying going on.
saturday seamus and i took starla to go swimming. it was so fun and starla just gets cuter and cuter every time i see her. she is having a baby boy which is very exciting because her baby and sirus can be buds. seamus had fun in the pool, went underwater twice and kicked her feet all over the place. she was a little nervous and she wasn't ever totally comfortable, but it was fun and i can't wait for this summer to take her and sirus up to my mom's and for swimming in the baby pool in the yard.
after swimming we loaded all of the bikes in the car and headed to south seatac. i had been toying with the idea of racing on sunday but allie convinced me that i should actually do it so we went down to pre ride the course but it wasn't set up when we got there so we debated on what to do. we decided to go to jack in the box and then head home. babies napped and after they got up we went back and road the course. i had decided that if it took me an hour or more to do one lap that i would not race. alas, it only took 30 minutes to do a lap, so i commited to racing.
sunday morning eric worked on my bike since i had complained that i couldn't shift down into my granny gear. before the start of the race we were hanging out with some folks and i pointed out that eric adjusted my shifting wrong and everyone looked at me funny. he had them correct but my miss thinking was probably why i couldn't down shift the night before. its been so long that i can't remember apparently. today was the 3rd time i had been on a mountain bike and the 4th time i had been on any bike at all in the past 18 months or more. the 3rd time was yesterday, the 2nd time was wednesday and then the 1st time was the road ride i had done the previous sunday. long story short, the race was way more fun then i could have hopped for, i came in 3rd in my category (slow old women) and there is no way i could have gotten off the bike and run for almost 4 miles. i have a lot of work to do!

easter weekend

they let us out of work a bit early on friday and i headed home. my mom was there watching the babies so i asked her if she could stay for a little bit so i could take a nap. apparently i really needed it because i slept for 2 and 1/2 hours. apparently i was tired because i also took naps on satruday and sunday as well. i don't remember too much of friday other then that.

on saturday i don't remember anything really either. i went swimming in the evening and there was a creepy guy there who followed me when i changed lanes. i probably wouldn't have taken notice 0f him at all and the fact that he was creepy except that when he first got into the pool he sat cross legged at the bottom for like a really long time. it was weird. swimming was fun though and i think i want to try to take seamus for family swim next weekend.

here is sirus on saturday morning wearing the overalls that i made for seamus when she was a baby. i think sirus is much bigger then seamus was because i thought she wore these when she was 9 months old. sirus was being very photogenic!




when i got back from swimming it was time to decorate easter eggs. i wasn't going have seamus decorate eggs because i thought it would be messy but then my mom suggested that she could color them with markers. i hadn't thought of that. it took a little bit before seamus realized that she was allowed to color on the eggs.


she did a good job of coloring the eggs and coloring herself. she wonders why we don't let her have the markers very often.



sirus sat and watched the egg decorating. he wasn't sure what to think.



easter morning seamus searched for all of the easter eggs. she found two that had cadbury cream eggs inside of them. seamus was allowed to play with them, but they were for daddy.


sirus found some eggs, too!


the easter bunny brought seamus some gardening supplies - gloves, a trowel, hand rake, garden clogs and a tote bag to carry it all in. sirus took claim on the tote and decided it was his man bag.


seamus let sirus know that she will always love him, even if he carries a man bag.

an no day is complete without some jumping off of the stairs.

later in the day eric got my bike all together and i went for a 40 minute ride. i have some work to do in the bike riding department. my arse is killing me this morning. i had pretended that i would race this coming weekend but when i realized it was this weekend i wisened up and i am not going to do it. i will hopefully go for another ride though.

dug from de-troit came for a visit

and seamus wanted to show him what she was about. instantly she started screaming. not scared screaming just super duper excied screaming. she was so exited to meet dug and his girl friend that she hardly knew what to do with herself. good thing she finally figured out what to do - jump of the stairs. in the past she had jumped off the bottom step. this morning she jumped from the 2nd step but for dug, she jumped from the 3rd step! that is pretty huge considering that is about as high as she is tall.

here is seamus getting ready to jump!


and she is off!


she got some major air!


whoa!


putting down the landing gear


getting ready to land

safe and sound on the ground again!


and over to watch the video dug took of her jumping!


it wa cute to watch seamu because she would watch the video but before they got to the part where she actually jumped she would run back over to the stairs and jump again!

i can't remember too much about yesterday during the day. i do remember lunch and how i wasn't hungry so i went to the coffee bean and got a cappucino and the saw some carrot cake that looked really good so i got some of that and saved it for later. it was actually not very good at all so that was disappointing. after work we headed out to a going away party for someone at work who is leaving the company. i had two very tasty pina colada adult beverages with some strawberry stuff swirled through it. those were so good. i then went to the hotel because i did not want to go see v for vendetta. i walked over to the cheesecake factory to pick up some dinner - asparagus and snap peas and strawberry cheesecake. i dont knwo why i bother to pretend like i am going to eat something real when i know i just really want the cheesecake but its good to get some veggies in there and at least they were veggies and not a hamburger or something like that. this has totally turned into a food diary i am noticing... i got up this morning and went to the gym accross the street and had my own mini duoathlon. i was on one of the exercise bikes pedalling away. there are like 30 bikes there and i was the only one on any and some dude came in and got on the one right next to me. i just don't get it. so after i pedaled for a bit i went over to the treadmills for a while. funny stuff though - a guy i work with, i won't name names, haws had the hiccups for a few days now. he had really bad strep throat and got a shot in his arse that made it go away but now he has the hiccups. he went back to the doctor and they gave him hiccup medicine but its not working.

i could eat blubber if it was crispy

saturday i went to the pool up the road and swam the whole .5 mile distance. it was slow and i stopped about every 50 yards but i swam the whole distance so it made me happy.
sunday i headed out for LA. eric and the kids dropped me off at the airport but as i was standing in line at security but i discovered that i forgot my drivers license. so i called eric and he went home picked it up and then came back to the airport. that was totally nice of him. when we got to la we rented a chevy cobalt which is essentailly just like my 1996 pontiac sunfire. we laughed, we cried and then we cried some more when we realized that neither of us had directions to the hotel. we called a few people from home, i got caught waving good bye to one of the people on the phone and then we finally made it to the hotel ok. so then we went to ruth's chris for some steaks. david, who is my travel partner made the comment that i ate just as much as he did. so what, it was damn tasty.
i woke up early and went and ran on the treadmill at the gym next to the hotel. i ran much faster then i ever have! it must have been the steak. then we came into work. i don't remembe too much of the work day but it was fun as it always is when i come down here. in the evening we met up with dug for some sushi roku which was so good. i was so hungry i was going to pass out that i downed a bunch of salmon shashimi and then pretty much a whole rainbow roll, a whole some other tempura spicy tuna roll and then 1/3 of two of these totally awesome lobster roll. i then ordered some tasty mochi but when i asked how many peices came she said two, so i ordered what i thought was two orders but she only brought one. as a result i had to order a "bananabobana" ice cream creation from room service when i got back to the hotel.
tuesday i woke up early and went to the pool at the gym next to the hotel. its an outdoor pool but its heated and it was so nice. i think i like swimming. i swam the whole .5 mile stopping once after 20 lenghts and then again after like 10 lengths and then about every 4 until the time was up. i swam more then .5 miles but it was relaxing and nice. i switched it up between crawl and breast stroke trying to do more crawl and just resorting to breast when i was tired. i was happy. we then met up with my boss and some other people from work at dennys for breakfast. i had 6 peices of bacon! it was small bacon but still.

shopping for free

so last night a bunch of people i used to work with a long time ago got together. one of the folks had moved to chicago and was back visiting. i hadn't seen him since like 1999 or so. all of the other people there i had seen at least once since seamus was born, some more then once but none of them often enough. it was fun though and it was as if we hang out together all the time - we started up right where we had left off. its been a really long time since i hung out with a group of people and felt completely comfortable so it was just a lot of fun.

and the margharitas were damn tasty.

sirus had his 6 month doctor appointment today. he is so cute and so good. he got 4 shots and made a funny face and a little whimpering but never cried. i picked him up and he started smiling at the nurse. he is 50% for height, 75% for weight and 100% for head. Just like Seamus his head is bigger then every other baby his age.

fotoz

for some reason everything is being underlined an totallyout of order right now. oh well.
seamus is so sweet when she sleeps. she calls that blanket her muck blanket.

the photo below is of seamus right before we left for brunch on sunday and she is taking my photo with her view finder.







oh! look no more underlining! how did that happen? these are of sirus's second attempt at rice cereal. he thinks rice ceareal is prettytasty!

luke came over for a visit. seamus and luke rode the rocking horse. seamus went to get her hat and put it on backwards so she could be like luke. then she leaned in for a kiss!

fake 8:30 is the new 11:00

on saturday seamus's friend Luke came over for a visit. luke is just a few days younger then seamus and they have hung out before. it was fun to watch them play - seamus would try to hug and kiss luke and at one point decided she wanted to run around in just her shirt. i don't know why. there were a few small power struggles over some of the toys but all in all it went pretty well. my favorite part of the day was when luke started playing with a little airplane. seamus took it from him and ran up into her bedroom. luke was kind of upset so i tried to divert his attention by showing him seamus's cow-in-the-box. he turned the handle maybe twice and we heard just a few notes of the music before we heard pounding feet upstairs and a screaming seamus "NO COW-IN-THE-BOX". in less then 2 seconds she was back downstairs trying to take it away. how in the world did she hear it?

so on sunday eric and i didn't wake up until 8:30. It was amazing. Even though it was fake 8:30 because we set the clocks ahead the night before so really our bodies were still adjusted to it being 7:30, the mental rush of opening our eyes to see a clock that said 8:30 was almost more then we could handle.

the plan for the day was to take seamus and sirus to see the easter bunny. since seamus didn't do so well with santa claus this year i decided i would show her the photo from last year of her sitting on the easter bunny's lap. she really liked the easter bunny last year and just sat there petting his fur so i had high hopes. as soon as seamus saw the easter bunny she started crying and started walking the other way. i took sirus over to the bunny and seamus's crys turned into "where's sirus" all concerned that he was with the easter bunny. eric asked if seamus wanted to see him and she just cried some more pulling eric away. they walked away and every time eric tried to get her to stop she would get all upset again. finally eric put her on his shoulders and it seemed as though that since she was now taller then the easter bunny it was ok. sirus was the only one with a photo with the easter bunny this year. we then went to the play area for about an hour. i was carrying seamus when we finally were leaving and i asked her if she wanted to go see the easter bunny and she looked at me, paused, then very quietly said no.