Lots of firsts!

Hi all,
It's been a fun month for the Reed family. March was busy and then Mica and I got sick, but once that was all over we've been doing much better. Mica is talking up a storm. New words every day! She's really good at mimicking an will try to say nearly anything you encourage her to. I got inspired by a friend to attempt some early potty training. I got it all set up way in advance-- got the potty, the training pants, the book... ANd she's been watching ME go for months. Amazingly the first time I tried to have her poo on the potty she did! It was incredible (highly orchestrated, but incredible nonetheless). Unfortunately the excitement more or less ended there and she has since pooed in the hallway directly outside the potty at least 3 times. I might give up for now and wait until she's a bit older. It was fun while it lasted, though.
We've been instituting some new sleeping policies, that while they are hard, seem to be working. Mica has been moved out of our bed and into her crib. We're not allowing her to get out of the crib or nurse at all until morning (although as part of the weaning process we have been waking her twice at night to feed, and will be dropping it down to once tonight). This is a HUGE change for her, and me and it's been a bit traumatic for both of us. What really worries me is if this is so hard what am I going to do when she goes off to Kindergarten?!! Or, god forbid, wants to go to college!!! She is sleeping much better, however, which, for all of us, is long awaited.
The biggest news as of today is that we've just gotten back from our first camping trip with the little Bean! We went with 15 of our closest friends here and it was great fun. We camped amongst some enormous redwoods and drank great wine. I still have a belly ache from the chili! Mica and Blue both had a blast. I barely saw Mica as she wandered from one eager caretaker to the next, and she slept great considering our tent was barely 10 feet from the party (so that we could hear her when she woke). It was great and makes us very excited for some good east coast camping this summer!

Sarah

Pictures For The Masses

April Already.

Well I have been told that people are getting tired of the last post and they need their fix. Well. You ask and you shall recieve. Sarah, Mica, and I are doing well and are gearing up for the move. We just got back from an amazing trip to Oahu and I learned that it really is that amazing. Pictures above show just a small part. Thank you Kathrine and all the crazy Swedes. Sarah has not only been excepted to MIT but she has already been given her Research position (of her choice). Mica just found out that she is going to to be attending Harvard in the fall:) Im sorry thats not true at all. Mica has been making great leaps in the language department. She can say (not all in order): mama, dada, bob, eye, ear, blue, woof, No, clock, bird, car, dog, and can also make the sound an elephant makes "with the whole arm". She can also point at her ear, eye, nose which she kind of said this evening and her belly button. I am sure that there was something I missed but you all get the drift. She is getting faster and has now figured out how to get down in the crawl position and slide backwards. Stairs are her favorite thing to play with going up and down for as long as you can stand it (while holding her hand of course). Enough about those to glory hogs. I am doing well and just three days from a well deserved unemployment. I gave my notice and Im out. I have had a pretty good run at this job and for all who know what I have been doing I only had to go to workmens comp. Twice. Not bad. I have become very tired of being hyper vigelant and stressed about the saftey of myself and of others. I have been sleeping less and angry more. Not a good combo. I have givin myself some time to be at home with Mica more and to enjoy SF before we leave for our next Adventure. I have learned alot but look forward to getting away from this field for a while. Well thats the scoop for now. Until next time. Tight Lines.