Bouncing is fun!

Baby Pump It Up

What does it mean?!?!

At the French Laundry

Making stuff

It hasn't just been all Geneva all the time around here. I've actually been managing to make some things in my spare time. Thing 1 is these socks that I made for Chris's grandma.


Then, for Chris's birthday I made him a crazy geeky gift. Behold, below, the lilypad arduino bike light patch.

The patch was designed by Chris's brother and then I sewed a circuit into the back that makes the LEDs on the front blink in a circle.

This was inspired by, or actually pretty much copied from, these instructions. It's pretty much crafty nerd heaven in these parts.

And more strep

G woke up from her nap today unusually grumpy and was just a wreck while we picked out that Christmas tree. When we got her home she had a fever. We tried asking her if she hurt, and she said no. We polled body parts then. Does your ear hurt? No. Does your nose hurt? No. Does your foot hurt? No. Does your throat hurt? Yes. That was enough. I had strep throat this week so we took her right off to the doctor even though her symptoms weren't enough that we usually would.

When we tell a doctor we think she has strep throat they're usually quite nice but firm that it's likely to be viral something or another since kids her age don't get strep. But just to humor us they give her the rapid culture and we're two for two on a positive result. It was late today and the only 24-hour pharmacy always has a ridiculous wait with lots of nasty sick people. When we mentioned this to the doctor she said she could do an antibiotic shot instead. We jumped right on that. I'm not afraid of shots - I've had so many in my life. The doctor seemed really surprised and sort of apologetic about even suggesting it. It turned out the shot was extremely viscous so it took a long time and required two shots. Chris says if he had known those facts he would have encouraged us to go with the liquid 10-day course but even for myself I still would have chosen shots. Anyway. Poor baby. Sore throat and two nasty shots tonight.

All this after a trip on the train to the museum where she was super happy and perky. It's amazing how suddenly it came on. And like I showed in my last photo we just got a Christmas tree so we're looking forward to decorating it tomorrow. Although Chris picks strange trees - this one is super chubby with like 10 points on top. I think we'll have to call it a Solstice Shrub instead. I'll try to get photos once it's up and decorated!

Seriously chubby tree

How will we get it in the house?

Babies on a train

Fixing the car daddy built

Learning to juggle

Seriously, could she be any cuter??? I think not.
Thanks for taking this movie Jen!!!