Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Odds and Ends

I can't believe that September is almost over. It has flown by! Here is the old bullet point list.

  • We have finally gotten rid of the stomach bug, and I hope that we won't be getting it again anytime soon.
  • Ten took Mia on her first trip to the zoo! They had a great time. She loved looking at the fish and monkeys. He snapped a few pics of their day out together, and it seemed to me like she was most interested in her plum (which she calls an app...for apple). Meanwhile I stayed at home and just enjoyed a quiet afternoon to myself.



Love these two.


  •  Mia is obsessed with two things right now....socks and princesses. This combination together just thrills her. She wants to prance around the apartment with her princess socks on all of the time. She wants them on first thing in the morning.

Mia is actually wearing three socks here. One pair of pink ones, and then she found the Ariel sock and had to have that one on too.


  • I am finally getting my energy back. This means I cooked...actual food....two days in a row. Ten was shocked. The first night it was just a simple chicken, onion, and pepper stir fry with steamed rice and miso soup. The second night I whipped up an awesome lasagna and side salad. One the menu tonight is leek, potato, and bacon soup with fresh bread from the bakery. Yum!
  • I ordered a ton of holiday books for Mia. I may have went overboard just a tad, but who doesn't love a good Christmas or Halloween story.

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Norovirus. I Loathe Thee.

We have been out of commission here since Saturday. Oh it has been such a long, long week. Mia woke up with a weird look on her face Saturday afternoon and then got sick all over the bed. Repeat later on the couch. Repeat later on the play mats, and repeat again on the couch. Yes, it wasn't a fun day.

However, she got over it in less than 24 hours, so I didn't think much about it until I woke up not feeling well on Monday. Oh, it was a long Monday....and a long Tuesday. 6 pounds lost by Wednesday and I was ready to brave the world. My first stop was Walgreens.

Cleaning supplies and new toothbrushes. Toothbrushes are a must after getting sick.

What is driving me most crazy about this though is that this is the second time in two months that I have caught this thing! How is this possible? We are the hand washingest people you ever did meet. I just can't wrap my mind around it. However, I have gotten invites to hang out with people who have sick kids this week. Crazies. I am blaming it all on you. For the love of humankind, keep your sick kids at home.

So, I am trying to avoid the urge to become hermits for the fall/winter. It is so, so tempting. I'm totally over puking my brains out every day.

Anyway, so that is life here lately.


On the agenda today, trying to find a yukata for Mia with 24 hours notice....thanks a lot play group who knew a week ago!

Friday, September 13, 2013

Green Card Interview is Behind Us

This is what September looks like:


Sorry for the bad pic....but it's from my phone.


Yes, we are out of the apartment basically every day. We have weekly play dates, swimming classes, music classes, and gymnastics classes. Sprinkle in a few Japanese classes and kids parties (I think 3 or 4 this month)....and you can see that we are always on the go. I honestly don't mind though because it is much better to get out than sit at home all day.

Anyway, blogging has taken the back burner this month because we have also had some other really important things going on. We had our GREEN CARD INTERVIEW! I prepared for weeks getting all of the necessary papers together, memorizing answers to questions, and putting together photos for our album. On Tuesday we arrived at the federal office (ten minutes late....oops) and met a woman who talked like she had been locked in a room with dementors... I think the interview went fine, but the sad part was that she didn't ask for 90% of what I had been told to prepare!! Either way it is a huge weight off of our shoulders. Now, all we have to do is to get the card in the mail :)

In other news, we made a big announcement on Facebook. In case you aren't my facebook friend....

That is right. We are expecting Baby #2 at the beginning of April! I'm sure Mia hopes the baby will be born in March....because who wants to share a birthday party. I have had two appointments so far and everything looks good. Heartbeat is strong and baby is measuring right on schedule. The plan for this baby includes biweekly appointments starting at 16 weeks and weekly progesterone shots. If all goes well, then this will be the extent of it. If I start to show signs of going into early labor, then it will get more complicated. Also, let's hope we can work it out so a home health nurse can come to me instead of me having to go there for shots....because seriously....who has time for that.

In other news....the doctor's wanted to test me for all sorts of genetic diseases. What the F! I was never asked to do these things in Japan. I was getting told...well how about we test for this and that....I mean there is a 1 in 8,000 chance for some of these problems. I can see already that birth in NYC is much more clinical than what I am used to. I have already told the doctors no to several things....so I'm sure they are loving me.

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

The Weekend That Wasn't

Our Labor Day weekend was what you would call unremarkable. Gloomy rain clouds were hanging over the city all weekend long, so we weren't really sure if we should venture out or not. We were so indecisive about it that it ended up being not. 

We did normal things this weekend. We went grocery shopping.
We watched the Lion King. Mia forced us to dance to the Disney station on Pandora. I whipped up some s'mores in the microwave... using marshmallows that could have possibly been from Thanksgiving last year. We played with sidewalk chalk. We got Mia her first real pair of tennis shoes. You know all of those kinds of things. We did none of the spectacular things that we thought we should have been doing, but it was all okay. 

I guess one down side of living here is that there is always something going on, so you feel like you should be out having life experiences....whatever that means.

In other news, I guess it is unofficially fall now. Ten had to wear a tie to work today, so that means summer is over. I'm looking forward to less humid days and holidays. I can't wait for lots of pumpkin and apple and then snowflakes.

Tonight, I am throwing a little end of summer/beginning of fall dinner. We will do summery foods followed by a nice fall dessert. It only seems right to say goodbye and hello at the same time.

Now, I leave you with an unrelated picture. I didn't snap a picture of this weekend, so this will have to do. Mia has officially figured out how to open her finger paints. This makes for interesting mornings.




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