Renée

Renée Gabrielle Michaela
8 lbs. 4 oz.
20 inches long
November 26, 2008 at 8:08am

She arrived 1 week and 2 days early! My water broke and two hours later at the hospital contractions started. Epidural, rest, and push. Voila! Mike says her arrival was a drive-thru delivery. It was the delivery of my dreams!
We are at home adjusting to life with a little one. It is wonderful!


Afternoon of birth


Big Sister Phoebe loves on her new sibling


Those are pads and earphones for the hearing test. I think she looks a bit like Lea from Star Wars


Her foot blocking any further picture taking


She ate football style and had her arm over my belly. When she was finished, she didn't relax her arm, but just fell back in satisfaction.


Poppa and Renée hanging out. She keeps peeking out with one eye.

Best preview (actually, the only one worth my attention) Harry Potter 5. Weasley looking more git-ish than ever! The small glimpse of Snape looked remarkably de-greased. Good image for Mom. Won't see it on opening day though. Too disappointed about the move to next summer. Oh! It starts! Well, it was good. The extreme Edward eyeball close-up showed the edge of a contact. That bothered some. If nothing else, this is a demonstration that I am from a totally different generation than the focus of this story-hair styles, clothing, what is cheesy (at least to me). Someone in the theater was actually sobbing when Edward kissed Bella's forehead. Yeah, I guess she might have been a Whoo Girl.
Either that, or I am totally jaded.
Also of note, no animals were harmed or drained dry during the making of the film.

Twilight

Well, I would not get too see Twilight unless it was this morning. I
couldn't stand in lines with anxious teens. Crying out loud, I
couldn't stand in line period!
Only like 30 people In the theater. Looks like college age crowd,
except for mr and the 50ish couple.
So, I'll update after the show.
Stacy

Sculpture in the eye of a needle!

http://www.guzer.com/videos/needle-art.php

Incredibly small sculptures! Sold it all for $20 million.
I gotta get a hair from the back of a house fly and get painting!

Great Escape, Feline style

The cats enjoy their romps around the back yard. Vern and Josie go out the back door and return in through the back door. Vern scares so easily that she doesn't even really go near the fence (the unknown is beyond)!
One of our fence boards had warped and offered Josie an easy out to roam to the front door. Upon repair, she was always at the back door.
Baby Cat (obviously named by Phoebe when she was 3) is another story. She is an escape artist! She waits on our front porch for Phoebe to get home from school. I have gone around the fence line and discovered 3 places she could be getting out from and fixed them.
Well, I just watched Josie & Baby Cat conspire to slide bricks, dig holes, and burrow under our fence to the great dry creek beyond. ARGH! Cats!

37 weeks

So, I am walking around at 3cm and 70% effacement. Mike says before Thanksgiving. Michele says within the next 5 days. I am saying nothing as I am sure I will jinx it.
What do you think?
Sorry, no picture at this time. Will talk with Mike to get you one, though.

Happy Dance

Obama!
Video
on MSNBC of his acceptance speech.
Favorite parts:
his daughters have earned the new puppy coming to the White House;
young people rejected the myth of their generation's apathy;
this is the chance to make change and without us it will not change-summon our spirit of patriotism and responsibility!

Gosh, that last bit really sums up my feelings. We each do our part and our country will grow and prosper; in turn each of us will grow and prosper.

To our next 4 years!

Election Day 2008

Love Google's image for the election.
We got to early vote here. Thank goodness, too, as I wasn't looking forward to long lines.

ARGH! Makes me mad!

There is nothing like those in the education field being stupid and making everyone else in the education field look like freakin' morons!
Hell no, Cindy, I won't vote for you to get on the school board!!! I'm actually frightened you might get on a surf board!
Courtesy of Apostrophe Abuse

Wrap Rage

Wrap Rage (wrapping rage or package rage) is the common name for heightened levels of anger, frustration and violence resulting from the inability to open hard-to-remove packaging.-Wikipedia

I just viewed the front page of Amazon and they are implementing some changes in packaging. This is something that I have wished to see happen for so long! I wouldn't mind seeing a bunch of cardboard boxes on store shelves-no over-visual stimulus! The same with board games. I really wish they would quit with all the cheesy plastic holders for cards, little wooden pieces, dice, etc. Just give me the box with pieces! Geesh!