Baby #3 is a girl!

It's a girl!! (Abby is relieved!) And Norah is her name-o. She was born on Tuesday morning after only 5 minutes of pushing... 6 pounds 5.8 ounces of dimples and soft, warm skin.

This is Norah on day one:

still pregnant...

Oh wow! It has been a long time since I updated!!! I'm still pregnant, even though I wasn't sure how much longer I would be last month. I was having preterm labor and was put on modified bedrest for a couple of weeks, until I hit the 36 week mark. I am now 37 weeks, and according to my exam yesterday, I am 2 cm dilated and 70% effaced. How much longer?? We are all very excited for this one to come! We still have no clue as to whether this one is a boy or girl, but we do have names picked out for both! I'll update more later, as I am too tired right now. I'm going to take advantage of my last few napping moments before baby number three arrives!!!

M.

Horrified Observers of Pedestrian Entertainment

Horrified Observers of Pedestrian Entertainment

23 questions...

1: Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what it says: Janey had never been asked before, and every summer it had been a thorn in her side to know that 100 of the coolest, most talented, and most important people in New York had been invited, and that she was specifically not among them.

2: Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first? A green sippy cup, with an orange lid, filled with milk.

3: What is the last thing you watched on TV? Shrek 2

4: WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what the time is: 6:44

5: Now look at the clock; what is the actual time? 6:30

6: With the exception of the computer, what can you hear? The jingling of Auggie and Sandy's collars, and the kids playing downstairs.

7: When did you last step outside? What were you doing? About an hour ago, to get my makeup out of the car before it froze!

8: Before you came to this website, what did you look at? My email.

9: What are you wearing? My middle school gym shirt, and a pair of blue sweats.

10: Did you dream last night? I did, but I do not remember about what.

11: When did you last laugh? Shrek 2

12: What is on the walls of the room you are in? A phone, and a picture of an outdoor cafe in Italy... I'm in my kitchen.

13: Seen anything weird lately? Does this quiz count?

14: What do you think of this quiz? Is it over yet?? I find it immensely amusing, but it's keeping me from dinner.

15: What is the last film you saw? Shrek 2

16: If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first? Plans to build a new house.

17: Tell me something about you that I don't know. I have an addiction to cereal.

18: If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do? I'd like stupidity and thoughtlessness to be painful.

19: Do you like to dance? Not really

20: George Bush: is he a power-crazy nutcase or some one who is finally doing something that has needed to be done for years? A lot of the latter, and a incredibly tiny little bit of the former.

21: Imagine your first/next child is a girl, what do you call her? Kimberly

22: Imagine your first/next child is a boy, what do you call him? Benjamin

23: Would you ever consider living abroad? Certainly before kids, now... maybe not.

A Bumblebee and a Flower

A Bumblebee and a Flower.

by Abby


A Bumblebee and a Flower 

Baby #3 on 12/22/04 (head is on the right) 

an update for the month...

Well, hooray, hooray!! School ended last month for me until next September!! I'm not taking any classes this semester due to the circumstance of pregnancy! Classes end too close to my due date. I was a little worried about my English final. I had to write a five-hundred word essay from memory - no notes or outlines allowed during the final- on one of three controversial topics. The first topic was about anti-Semitism and why Jew-haters hate Jews, which I was not about to even attempt, being that my teacher is Jewish. The second was on the differences between the Protestant and Catholic religions, and the beef between the two groups. The third was about what blacks and whites hate about each other, and the long time battle between the two races. Eesh! I wrote mine on the latter of the three. Anywho, it turns out I was worried over nothing! My grades came in the mail... turns out I got an A in Sociology and an A in English, leaving my current GPA intact at a 4.0!! Hip hip hooray for me! It took alot of studying and neglecting my children for those grades, lol!

Christmas was fun this year! Abby was so much more involved this year, more than any other year and was so excited. We emailed Santa her wishlist, and she even put one together for Georgie! (I know, emailing Santa! Who knew?) Anyway, she got her exercise Care Bear, and many other toys... Georgie got the train set that Abby said he wanted. She left cookies and chocolate milk for Santa, which I'm sure he enjoyed very much... no regular milk at this house!

Georgie is talking more... his current words are: dad(dy), mom(my), Abby, baby, ba-ba, yea!, yeah, no, eat, go, ball, football, yum, hello, bye-bye, and during Sunday's Eagles game, he kept saying: "Go, go Eagles!" (if I think of any more, I will add them in later.)

We had about a foot of snow come down over the weekend, which Abby loved! (Georgie, not so much.) I spent the longest two-and-a-half hours of my life freezing in the cold while she played in the snow, making snow angels, snow pillows to sleep on(?), and she was digging and digging forever. The pictures are on our photo website, if you're interested.


sleeping in the snow?! 


That's all for updating now... I have to make something for dinner. Hopefully the only thing I will be making is a phone call for take-out. I'm too tired to cook!

By the way, here's a picture of the ultrsound we had done three days before x-mas (and no, we still don't know if it's a boy/girl! I'm looking forward to being surprised!)


"Baby #3" (head is on the right) 

M.

chain letters of 2004

GOOD BYE TO 2004!

I want to thank all of you who have taken the time and trouble to send me your chain letters over the past year. Thank you for making me feel safe, secure, blessed, and wealthy.

Because of your concern...

I no longer can drink Coca Cola because it can remove toilet stains.

I no longer drink Pepsi or Dr Pepper since the people who make these products are atheists who refuse to put "Under God" on their cans.

I no longer drink anything out of a can because I will get sick from the rat feces and urine.

I no longer use cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a water buffalo on a hot day.

I no longer go to shopping malls because someone will drug me with a perfume sample and rob me.

I no longer answer the phone because someone will ask me to dial a stupid number for which I will get the phone bill from hell with calls to Jamaica, Uganda, Singapore, and Uzbekistan.

I no longer eat KFC because their chickens are actually horrible mutant freaks with no eyes or feathers.

I no longer date the opposite sex because they will take my kidneys and leave me taking a nap in a bathtub full of ice.

I no longer buy expensive cookies from Neiman Marcus since I now have their recipe.

Thanks to you, I have learned that God only answers my prayers if I forward an email to seven of my friends and make a wish within five minutes. (Jeeze, the Bible did *not* mention it works that way!)

I no longer have any savings because I gave it to a sick girl who is about to die in the hospital (for the 1,387,258th time).

I no longer have any money at all, but that will change once I receive the $15,000 that Microsoft and AOL are sending me for participating in their special e-mail program.

Yes, I want to thank all of you soooooooo much for looking out for me!

I will now return the favor. If you don't send this in an e-mail to at least 1200 people in the next 60 seconds, a large bird with diarrhea will crap on your head at 5:00 pm this afternoon and the fleas of a thousand camels will infest your armpits.

I know this will occur because it actually happened to a friend of a friend of a friend's neighbor's cousin twice removed.

HOPE YOU'RE HAVING A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

finals... ugh

Studying for my sociology final has me exausted. I think I'm done for the night. George and I went to see our three houses yesterday (with Abby and Georgie, since we couldn't find a babysitter) and I found my dream house!! George said if he talks to ketler tomorrow, and all goes well with the conversation, then he will call and put an offer in on the house!!!!! I hope so, because I really love it. I'll let you know how my final goes tomorrow, if I'm not too busy studying for my English final for Tuesday!

busiest time of the year

It was George and my anniversary yesterday. We spent last night looking at a house and afterwards we headed over to Denise's for Sean's birthday. G is at his company party tonight, and tomorrow we might go out for dinner - as long as Denise and Annie are still volunteering to watch the kids! My mom gave us a gift certificate for Villa Barone, so we may eat there for a post-anniversary celebration. George will not be home on Friday - he has another Xmas party, and Saturday we are looking at more houses! Possibly on Sunday, George is going to help Gary move some of his stuff into his new house. Busy, busy. I have to squeeze in studying and shopping somewhere too. My finals are coming up in a few days, and I have not even opened my notes yet! I am only done the kids shopping, and I still have to finish everyone else on my list. I will be happy when Christmas is over, and I can just sit back and relax for a day or two before I start getting this house ready to sell, and some of our stuff organized to move!

George loved the house we looked at yesterday, and I really liked it too... It's in our price range, and we loved the family room: it's 24' x 24'!! It's a huge room. We're going to look at a couple more houses, and we'll decide from there. Tune in again for more updates!!

M.

wiggles and squirms

I am now 18 weeks along, which means in 2 weeks I will be halfway done - baby is medium rare! Anyway, the little one I am harboring is a live wire in the middle of the night ~ rolling from one side of my belly to the other in record time, and tiny feet stretching as faaaar as they will. Only another month or so before it gets too cramped for that nonsense, lol. I am really loving pregnancy again, and I am really trying more than ever to cherish the good, bad and ugly of this one since it is definitely my last time. I have to schedule my ultrasound for next week!!!

George and I think we may have found the perfect house for our growing family - only a mile from my mom's house!! I'm excited to look at it next week. The house has 4 bedrooms, kitchen, dining rm, living rm, family rm, 2 fireplaces, wood stove, jacuzzi(!!), basement, deck, sunroom, etc... It is poifect, so far (without seeing it, of course). We shall see, and I will update as soon as I know more.

We have a busy week ahead... christmas shopping and house cleaning tomorrow, Lucia on Sunday, Monday I have class, Tuesday is George and my anniversary and Sean's bday gathering, Wednesday is George's (other) company xmas party, Thursday or Friday we look at the house, and then it's the weekend again!! Where does the time go?

M.

Yea!!

Yea!!! I am moving on to the fun stages of pregnancy!! No more feeling sick, and I'm getting my energy back! More cravings too. Along with the old cravings, I am also having yearnings for: sushi, belgian fries, pizza from Pietro's & jello. It shouldn't be long now before I feel the baby move. Since I am feeling better I am getting really excited about having another baby.

George and I are getting the house ready to sell. We looked at a house this weekend, but we more than likely won't be buying it. A few reasons contribute:
1. we were hoping to sell this house before we even started to look for a new one.
2. I would love to move out of the city
3. George and I weren't sure about the neighborhood.

When we buy our new house, I want it to be the same house my children come home from college to visit me in. I can't see myself over in this area for that long. We saw a few houses near my mom for very decent prices. I would love to move back closer to "home." The taxes are a little higher, but it all evens out when we wouldn't have to pay for Catholic school over there. I have a lot of ideas about what I want in the new house. George has set his standards too, so together we will not compromise on what we both want. Until next time...

M.

number 3 

Baby #3 (the head is on the left) 

Raise Your Voice

I went out tonight with Nat. We went to the Olive Garden to eat soup, salad & calamari, and we then headed to the movies. By the time we got there, it was 9:30. We wound up seeing "Raise Your Voice," which, by the previews, looked a little corny, but Natalie and I can make any movie Oscar worty by our terms - especially when we are the only two in the theater. We laughed from the previews all the way through to final credits, and the movie wasn't all that funny, nor was it supposed to be. But, all-in-all it wound up being a pretty cute movie. I just got home and settled in, and I'm about ready for a long nap. Talk to you manana. Nighty-nite!