So we're finally settled in enough here in our new digs to be able to sit down and post some new stuff. Unfortunately all of the video I've taken since we moved won't move onto my computer but I've made a fun conglomerate of some older stuff. Get ready to boogy! The dancing queen is in the house!
BTW, if someone savvy with these things can tell me why some old videos on this post have spontaneously stopped working I'd be much appreciative.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
End of July, Begining Tomorrow
Alright. We have been very busy with our new lives here in the Greater Boston area. We are dug in and the art is on the walls. We are eating out side in the backyard almost every night, while tasting tasty treats from my new Grill (thank you dad). Love that grill. Any way. Mica continues to become more and more amazing as the hours go by. She is putting words together and making simple sentences. Just like her father... It tends to be hot here in the summer and the need to be sprayed with water is great. So we have found the water structures at several playgrounds. Not to mention the time we spend at the beach in Maine. Love Maine. My family has had the pleasure of playing in the sand and splashing around in the shallows with Mica and they love it. Michelle and Elisa are in a tight competition for favorite Auntie. Hard to tell who will win the award but it sure is fun to be able to go back to bed when you pass Mica off at 5 a.m. Love you Both. Mimoo is also having time to spend with Mica My mother has been down from Maine to babysit, that is great. About me. I have been doing some fishing, lots of house stuff, grilling, and part time super-hero work. Photos are going well and am really excited to go to my first class. for now that is the story. But we will have more soon. enjoy the pics.
Eric
Sunday, June 08, 2008
A few new pictures
We've just been up in Maine at the Reed's beautiful house. It was grey and dreary but a treat to be up there, nonetheless. I expect to spend much more time up there this summer! It's been an eventful couple of weeks since Eric and Blue arrived. I spent my first weekend away from Mica last weekend-- which meant that Eric spent his first weekend alone with Mica too! He took her up to Maine so he had help from his eager mother and sister, Elisa. All went well and my boobs just barely managed to not explode from the lack of nursing. On a sadder note, my grandfather passed away last Monday. He was 96 and it was certainly time for him to go. It's tough either way, though. Then on tuesday we signed the lease for our new place! It's a single family home about a 15 min walk from my mother's house. It has a big back yard and lots of space to grow. It's a bit dilapidated, but we don't need anything fancy-- just space. It's a block from Fresh Pond which is a big resivoir with a park all around it. Great Blue walking. And according to the real-estate lady Ben Affleck's mother lives around the corner and when he's visiting he takes is daughter to the local playground. Goody.
Enjoy the pictures and we'll post more soon! Love to all the San Fran. folk, and we miss you much. To the Colorado folk-- we'll see you soon!
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
We've arrived!
Ok, still no pictures, which is really why everyone reads this anyway, but I thought I'd update that we have all safely arrived in Boston. Mica and I flew in via the red-eye (predictably painful, but could have been worse) about a week ago and Eric and Blue just drove in today. Us girls are VERY happy to see them! We've been searching for apartments but still haven't found "the one." I'm confident it will appear, though. Apparently here in Boston not only is our dog a liability but Mica is too! There's a law that says that for a child under 6 to live in an apartment it has to be deleaded-- which is a huge and costly renovation, not appreciated by owners. So our field is narrow. Eric took pictures along the way so we'll get some of those up soon and I'll try to take some pics of Mica too. Our wires for hooking up the video camera are packed away in the containers so probably no video until we move in. Sorry.
Hope all are well around the country.
much love.
Hope all are well around the country.
much love.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
moving update
We move in 6 days and counting. No new pictures or movies to post but I thought I'd share thoughts anyway. San Francisco has been a great city and at the same time very difficult. I would say it's not the best place to move to and immideatly get pregnant. Maybe this transition (to parenthood) would have been hard no matter where we were, but I can't help thinking that the abundance of bars and young pretty people made it just a little bit more awkward. We've made some great friends here-- family friendly and not. Young people here are ready and willing for the world to spill down on them. I think (hope) we go to Boston, wiser, more mature and more understanding of what we need to be happy. Hopefully we can find it.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
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
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
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
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.
Monday, February 25, 2008
We have exciting news! I got word last week that I got into MIT's Masters in Mechanical Engineering program! I'm astounded and very excited. What this means is that we'll be moving back to Boston in June! So to all the east-coasters: we're comin' home. It's going to be a lot of work but I think we're up for it. Eric's still not sure what he's going to do for work so if anyone has any suggestions I'm sure he'd love to hear them.
Otherwise life is chugging along and Mica just keeps getting cuter. Poor bean has another cold! She seems to be the definition of the "snot nosed kid."
Otherwise life is chugging along and Mica just keeps getting cuter. Poor bean has another cold! She seems to be the definition of the "snot nosed kid."
Saturday, February 02, 2008
Hello
Well its been a while since I have posted and I have lot to say. I have been busy with work, my new hobbie, health issues, Sarah, and of course Mica. I am still working for Edgewood and getting more comfortable every day. What that means is that I am able to do the hard work that needs to be done while I am there and leave it there when I go home. It has taken some hard practice but it is working. I am building the relationships and learning alot about Emotionally Disturbed kids. At the end of the day I feel like I did some good in some small way. That I think is job satisfaction. I have also been getting into the photo game. Like Sarah said earlier in another post I got her old AE-1 going which turns out is a workhorse of a camera and a great learning camera. It allowed me to take alot of pictures and spend lots of money on film and developing. I got some great shots and it made me think in ways I hadn't before. I was never one for doing art as much as appreciating it. Well now I DO ART. I have had a great time walking this city and beaches finding the little lovelies that can be seen through the view-finder. I have even taken pictures of something other than Mica. I kinow its hard to believe. I am looking into getting a flicker page going and then you can bookmark even another of our sites. Well I hope you are all doing well and enjoy all the photos I am about to load onto the page.
Love ERIC
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Some New Photos
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
It's a New Year
Happy New Year to all! Mica is now one year old and people keep asking me if I can believe it's been a whole year. I definitely can. It's been a LONG year. That said, I look back at the pictures of her when she was first born and I have a hard time imagining that it is the same person. I have learned so much this past year about babies, about myself, and about Eric. I look at those pictures and think of all the things I didn't know when she was born and it makes me want to have another baby just so I can feel more informed the next time. Mica's an incredible being and brings joy to our lives every day. She still wakes up multiple times a night, screams when she has her diaper changed and eats copious amounts of paper, but we lover her for all of it. One special joy recently has been to watch Eric and Mica's relationship grow. They are more comfortable together and have more fun than I remember them having this whole year and it's great to watch.
We went home to Eric's family for Christmas/Mica's B-Day and had a great time. It was very relaxing and nice to see the family. Mica cleaned up in the present department and Sherry had to mail 5 boxes back to us! There's video of her first birthday cake in the newest conglomerate (it was a bit anticlimactic). Eric has recently taken up photography having found my old film camera while we were digging through the Boulder storage unit last summer. He's officially obsessed and quite good at it too! He's been so far a die hard film guy, but after spending obscene amounts of money on developing he's decided to embrace the modern age and go digital. Once that happens we'll be sure to post some of his artwork on the blog.
We're home now and happy to be back in the swing of things. Thanks to the Springfield crowd for a great week and see you soon!
We went home to Eric's family for Christmas/Mica's B-Day and had a great time. It was very relaxing and nice to see the family. Mica cleaned up in the present department and Sherry had to mail 5 boxes back to us! There's video of her first birthday cake in the newest conglomerate (it was a bit anticlimactic). Eric has recently taken up photography having found my old film camera while we were digging through the Boulder storage unit last summer. He's officially obsessed and quite good at it too! He's been so far a die hard film guy, but after spending obscene amounts of money on developing he's decided to embrace the modern age and go digital. Once that happens we'll be sure to post some of his artwork on the blog.
We're home now and happy to be back in the swing of things. Thanks to the Springfield crowd for a great week and see you soon!
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
New Video
Some day we might have video of the rest of the family, but really it's the Mica video you all are looking for anyway right? It's been a big month-- walking, talking, waving, clapping... Big things happening at the Reed household. My first two grad apps go in this week and Eric starts a much needed two week vacation as of this friday. Party! We're looking forward to flying home to visit with the Reed contingent over the holidays and celebrating Mica's 1st Birthday! Still can't believe it's been a whole year. Although Eric and I were discussing that with all the lost sleep we've actually experienced more hours of this past year than probably any since we were her age! Makes me tired just to think about it. But it has been fun and we're totally in love with our little bundle of trouble.
much love to all,
Sarah
much love to all,
Sarah
Saturday, November 10, 2007
New Video!
Hi All!
So we had a great Halloween. Mica got all dressed up as a punk rocker-- mohawk and all. Eric's been really into my old film camera and took some great pictures but as they're on film it might take a while to get around to converting them into the 21st century. Mica's unfortunatly getting her second cold in so many months and is wicked congested. Poor little bean. But otherwise life is good. Eric and I have been getting out on our own more thanks to some great babysitters. Our compound (our building and the two next to it that all share the crazy backyard) had a big party last night with a tiki bar and all. One neighbor brought in a big screen and projector and showed some crazy indipendent short film that was super funny (and wierd). Mica continues to be quiet the party animal and was a total hit. Her friend Lorcan (two weeks younger) came over and they wrestled for a little while. Really Lorcan crawled around at high speed and Mica tried to tackle him whenever she could catch up. I hope to get video of the two of them soon because they're hilarous! Finally a baby that's not terrified of Mica!
I forgot to put captions on the movie so I'll explain the first part: in the shot are Mica's newest and greatest British nanny, Charlotte, and the little boy is Lukas. As you can see Lukas is sort of warming up to Mica!
Enjoy the show!
So we had a great Halloween. Mica got all dressed up as a punk rocker-- mohawk and all. Eric's been really into my old film camera and took some great pictures but as they're on film it might take a while to get around to converting them into the 21st century. Mica's unfortunatly getting her second cold in so many months and is wicked congested. Poor little bean. But otherwise life is good. Eric and I have been getting out on our own more thanks to some great babysitters. Our compound (our building and the two next to it that all share the crazy backyard) had a big party last night with a tiki bar and all. One neighbor brought in a big screen and projector and showed some crazy indipendent short film that was super funny (and wierd). Mica continues to be quiet the party animal and was a total hit. Her friend Lorcan (two weeks younger) came over and they wrestled for a little while. Really Lorcan crawled around at high speed and Mica tried to tackle him whenever she could catch up. I hope to get video of the two of them soon because they're hilarous! Finally a baby that's not terrified of Mica!
I forgot to put captions on the movie so I'll explain the first part: in the shot are Mica's newest and greatest British nanny, Charlotte, and the little boy is Lukas. As you can see Lukas is sort of warming up to Mica!
Enjoy the show!
Sunday, October 28, 2007
New Video!
Hi Lovelies!
Mica has just turned 10 months old and she's quite the fire cracker. We've been spending a lot of time at our local playground and she's quickly learning the ropes. She's facinated by the other children and shrieks with joy whenever one comes over to play with her. She can now climb up the stairs on the play structure and just made it through the tunnel for the first time yesterday. She also attended her first halloween party yesterday (not quite on the same level as the ones we used to throw in Boulder, but similar). She was the rockin'ist puck rocker of the bunch. The parrot and kangaroo had nothin' on her. I'll post pictures of that soon.
The twins (mentioned below) didn't work out so I now we have a fabulous British nanny watching Mica and Lukas. She's the wife of an old friend of mine. She's miraculously patient and energetic with the tots and Mica is totally in love. I can't wait to speak British with Mica when she gets older!
Eric and I are both tired but hanging in there. I'm taking a one academic class and two evening art classes. I'm also beginning my research as to which grad schools I'll be applying to. Having 22 hours of nanny time really helps but somehow I still feel constantly a bit frazzled. Eric's working very hard to keep up with the crazy kids at his school. They're certainly testing his limits. We see eachother in short spurts during the week, mostly just to confirm that the othe still exists. But we're going to our first concert PM (post Mica) today! It's called the Bridge School Benefit Event and apparently is quite famous. It's put on by Neil Young and a lot of famous bands come play. It's all acoustic, though, so it should be extra interesting. Metallica is on the lineup this year!
Hope you all enjoy the video and new photos.
Mica has just turned 10 months old and she's quite the fire cracker. We've been spending a lot of time at our local playground and she's quickly learning the ropes. She's facinated by the other children and shrieks with joy whenever one comes over to play with her. She can now climb up the stairs on the play structure and just made it through the tunnel for the first time yesterday. She also attended her first halloween party yesterday (not quite on the same level as the ones we used to throw in Boulder, but similar). She was the rockin'ist puck rocker of the bunch. The parrot and kangaroo had nothin' on her. I'll post pictures of that soon.
The twins (mentioned below) didn't work out so I now we have a fabulous British nanny watching Mica and Lukas. She's the wife of an old friend of mine. She's miraculously patient and energetic with the tots and Mica is totally in love. I can't wait to speak British with Mica when she gets older!
Eric and I are both tired but hanging in there. I'm taking a one academic class and two evening art classes. I'm also beginning my research as to which grad schools I'll be applying to. Having 22 hours of nanny time really helps but somehow I still feel constantly a bit frazzled. Eric's working very hard to keep up with the crazy kids at his school. They're certainly testing his limits. We see eachother in short spurts during the week, mostly just to confirm that the othe still exists. But we're going to our first concert PM (post Mica) today! It's called the Bridge School Benefit Event and apparently is quite famous. It's put on by Neil Young and a lot of famous bands come play. It's all acoustic, though, so it should be extra interesting. Metallica is on the lineup this year!
Hope you all enjoy the video and new photos.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
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