Wow, it sure has been a strange week. 2 weekends ago I had to work, so I took last Thursday and Friday off. About a week ago, Tiger was playing around and he busted one of his front teeth loose. So on my Friday off, he and I went to Algodones to see our Pediatric Dentist. The x-rays were inconclusive, and she recommended that he stop playing with it to let it re-set itself. Well, that didn't happen. It was so loose this afternoon that I pulled it out. Tiger was so happy because he was going to take it in to Tiny Tots for show and tell tomorrow. Then he'll put it under his pillow and get money from the Tooth Fairy tomorrow night. The whole thing has grossed Er out pretty good.
Karate has been going well. It is a riot watching the kids (not just ours) try to stretch, do crunches and pushups, and then go through the punches and kicks. Half the class just stares at their neighboor. Some of the kids just goof off. The sensei (sp) ends up retying the belts of about 10 kids during each class. It's a good thing he has a sense of humor.
Soccer is just as amusing. Tiger and Rory are the enforcers of the team. They take down anybody that has the ball for too long. I'm beginning to think hockey and football may be a better fit for them.
I was in Anaheim and TJ Tuesday and today. I told my customers not to count on me being available again until the end of October, due to the imminent arrival of Sydney.
Today we made Er's belly cast. She bought some plaster stuff online a few days ago and Angela came over to offer help and expertise. It came out looking pretty good and I took some video of it for posterity. Er wants to paint it to look like the AZ state flag, which I think will look very nice. Angela has tasked me with reinforcing it with some sort of resin so that when it is all done, it can be hung on the wall. Also, she says that it makes a really cool photo if you lay the newborn baby in it.
My new Nextel phone arrived yesterday and I got it up and running tonight. My work-provided t-Mobile phone was costing the company around $750 per month. I alone accounted for some 26% of our TOTAL cell phone bill. This is with approximately 20 other cell phone users on the plan. The $1.39/min cross-border roaming fee was a killer. Nextel's signal (supposedly) penetrates further into Mexico, so I should have a US signal longer. Also, their roaming fee in only $0.69/min. AND they have a $5/month option to call ANY landline and cell line in select border towns for free (although the cell phone system in Mexico still charges you $0.16/call, go figure?) I also dig the fact that my new phone also has walkie talkie capabilities, which 75% of my customer use (and they don't use regular cell service). Now I can actually call my customers instead of having to drive to their factory.
Gotta run, I'm tired.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Jumping on the family blogging bandwagon!
I'm part of a really wonderul website for really "crunchy" moms like me -- moms who don't circumsize or vaccinate, moms who breastfeed and homeschool and homebirth -- and someone on the website recently posted about wanting to make a blog about her kids, for her extended family, as they all live far away. And I thought, that would be PERFECT for us! Our family all lives REALLY far away. (Or we live far from them, at least.) Anyway, as we're about to move from a 5 member Team Gebhardt to a 6 member Team Gebardt, I think it's time to blog.
Yesterday was the boys first day of team soccer practice. Dustin had gone out and purchased really really expensive soccer items for them (cleats, socks, shoes, balls) from a sporting goods store and I went out and returned it all and bought it way cheaper from (evil corporate) Wal-Mart. Yesterday was also really hot and humid (for mid September), the high was 108 and did I mention the humidity? So we went to the church soccer field at 6pm with the kids and their stuff and a ton of water and watched them practice, and Allegra played with 2 cups of water, as she is want to do. (She loves physics. She will take 2 cups of water and pour them in and out of each other all day long. And spill them.) And as I sat next to Dustin in our little plastic beach chairs with towels on them because it was so hot, I thought, "Oh my god. This is it. This is the beginning of spending our lives driving the kids to various practices and games and friends' houses and team events and shelling out a zillion bucks to pay for it all!" Because, seriously, they now have soccer practice on Mondays and Wednesdays, karate on Fridays, and soccer games on Saturdays. They're 4.
The boys team is called... wait for it... The Chivas. For those who don't speak Spanish, that means, The Goats. The Mighty Goats. The Magnificent Goats. The Grass-Chewing Goats.
Over the summer, the boys were in day camp, and one of their sessions was called "All About Me," and they learned all about their (G rated) body parts. The boys took a fascination with their skeletal system, and ever since then they've been telling us, any time something hurts, that their bones are breaking, or broken. And apparently they repeated that all throughout their soccer practice, as afterwards the coach told me that she thinks they're falling apart; they kept telling her their bones were broken.
So we went home, with instructions to practice (even though the coach scheduled the next practice for TODAY, so I'm not sure when exactly we're supposed to practice before today) and everyone took a bath and went to bed and fell asleep in about 4 minutes. (Except for me because I have pregnancy insomnia, but I don't count.) No whining or asking for water or getting up to go to the bathroom, just SILENCE. It was lovely!
I don't have any pictures of soccer practice because our camera is being repaired. We've had a zillion problems with it since we bought it as a wedding gift to ourselves, however I have to say that Nikon always repairs it, and so far it's always been free. And usually gets it back to us pretty fast. So I expect by early next week. Maybe I'll take a pic of the kids with my camera and see if I can upload it. However I do have a pic of the boys in their karate uniforms.
Yesterday was the boys first day of team soccer practice. Dustin had gone out and purchased really really expensive soccer items for them (cleats, socks, shoes, balls) from a sporting goods store and I went out and returned it all and bought it way cheaper from (evil corporate) Wal-Mart. Yesterday was also really hot and humid (for mid September), the high was 108 and did I mention the humidity? So we went to the church soccer field at 6pm with the kids and their stuff and a ton of water and watched them practice, and Allegra played with 2 cups of water, as she is want to do. (She loves physics. She will take 2 cups of water and pour them in and out of each other all day long. And spill them.) And as I sat next to Dustin in our little plastic beach chairs with towels on them because it was so hot, I thought, "Oh my god. This is it. This is the beginning of spending our lives driving the kids to various practices and games and friends' houses and team events and shelling out a zillion bucks to pay for it all!" Because, seriously, they now have soccer practice on Mondays and Wednesdays, karate on Fridays, and soccer games on Saturdays. They're 4.
The boys team is called... wait for it... The Chivas. For those who don't speak Spanish, that means, The Goats. The Mighty Goats. The Magnificent Goats. The Grass-Chewing Goats.
Over the summer, the boys were in day camp, and one of their sessions was called "All About Me," and they learned all about their (G rated) body parts. The boys took a fascination with their skeletal system, and ever since then they've been telling us, any time something hurts, that their bones are breaking, or broken. And apparently they repeated that all throughout their soccer practice, as afterwards the coach told me that she thinks they're falling apart; they kept telling her their bones were broken.
So we went home, with instructions to practice (even though the coach scheduled the next practice for TODAY, so I'm not sure when exactly we're supposed to practice before today) and everyone took a bath and went to bed and fell asleep in about 4 minutes. (Except for me because I have pregnancy insomnia, but I don't count.) No whining or asking for water or getting up to go to the bathroom, just SILENCE. It was lovely!
I don't have any pictures of soccer practice because our camera is being repaired. We've had a zillion problems with it since we bought it as a wedding gift to ourselves, however I have to say that Nikon always repairs it, and so far it's always been free. And usually gets it back to us pretty fast. So I expect by early next week. Maybe I'll take a pic of the kids with my camera and see if I can upload it. However I do have a pic of the boys in their karate uniforms.
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