Dad (Brett)
All around
rockstar geek. Brett enjoys his job as a Clinical Data Manager (helping research medical breakthroughs at Celgene); in his time off he enjoys reading books, watching movies, and learning new tricks on his camera and in Photoshop. He absolutely adores his wife and 2 daughters.
Mom (Erin)
Complete supermom. Erin loves her job as a Youth Field Researcher (aka 'mother'); in her plentiful spare time (ha!) she enjoys sleeping, re-reading Twilight or Harry Potter, and cuddling with Brett.
Aeriana ('Wacko', 'Princess')
Hybrid Angel/Devil. Aeriana loves her mommy and daddy, each of whom she loves to test at times and pretend innocence at others. A veritable sponge, Aeriana wants to do anything she sees an adult doing; she loves babies and especially adores her little sister, taking great care of her every need.
Zoe Jean ('Stinker', 'Cutie')
Growing fast, Zoe wants to be just like her big sister. Very goal oriented, she'll find a way to get that toy she's been looking at. She loves her pacifier and can't help but snuggle up to her blanket. Zoe is as relaxed as they come, she just loves chillin' out and watching TV.
Dang, we have a ton of books... literally!
That fact that we have a lot of books is no surprise to us, and probably no surprise to anyone reading this. In a development that could hold interest to me and me alone, the site we use to catalog our books,
LibraryThing, has implemented a 'physical characteristics' feature. This new feature takes whatever information it has for your books (too bad it's not perfectly accurate, that would be even more interesting) and calculates things like total number of pages, height, weight, etc.
As I said, among those who see this blog I could possibly be alone in finding this interesting... or maybe there are a few of you who are just dorky enough to be intrigued (don't worry, I won't tell).
Among other derived statistics, all shown
here, I found the following to be the most fascinating - and yet, still spectacularly useless.
VolumeU-Haul book boxes: 69
Bathtubs: 4.2
WeightTotal (pounds): 2,304
Blue whales: 0.00968
Value of weight in gold: $37,584,605 (I'm intellectually millionaire! ...or something)
If all the pages in all the books were laid end-to-end...Circumference of earth: 0.1704%
To moon: 0.0178%
And since a picture is worth a thousand words (hmmm... how many total words do we have in our books? Maybe that should be the next added feature!)
And here, in all it's boxed-for-moving glory, our books!
(Erin's comment accompanying this picture was "Sometimes I think we have too many..." - but fear not, her temporary insanity will surely pass.)
Labels: books, pictures
A Letter to a Hero
Dear Beecham Research Laboratories,
Thank you for being intelligent, for spending the money, and I dare say being guided by the Spirit to develop new and modified medication that has saved countless lives. My little baby is finally getting better after a double eardrum rupture. Twelve hours after her first dose of amoxicillin she no longer has a ridiculously high fever (105 degrees!) or massive amounts of puss coming out of her ears... oh and she's no longer screaming incessantly. For this reason you are my hero right now! So from all the moms out there that have seen the awesomeness of this medicine, I say thank you!
Before
After
Ahhh all better!
Labels: baby, Erin, pictures, Zoe
My Morning Soundtrack 2
Aeriana knows she's supposed to stay in bed until the clock says 8:00; she's pretty good about it and when she wakes up earlier than that she usually talks to herself or sings quietly (sometimes not so quietly). This morning while getting ready for work I was able to hear her beautiful voice singing I Am A Child of God, Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam, and the following inspired twist on a classic.
One little monkey jumping on the bed,
he fell off and bonked his head.
Momma called the doctor and the doctor said,
Hello!
Two little monkeys jumping on the bed,
one fell off and bonked his head.
Momma called the doctor and the doctor said,
Hello!
Three little monkeys jumping on the bed,
one fell off and bonked his head.
Momma called the doctor and the doctor said,
Hello!
....
....
Nine little monkeys jumping on the bed,
one fell off and bonked his head.
Momma called the doctor and the doctor said,
Hello!
Ten little monkeys jumping on the bed,
Momma said "No more!"Aeriana knows well that mommy is in charge of when the monkeys should stop, not the doctor...
On another fun note, Aeriana played dress up for a little bit this weekend.
Labels: Aeriana, family, funny, music, pictures
Spring was supposed to have sprung...
I was all excited to post about how warm it has been and how much fun we've had outside...
Bubbles are so much fun!
And then this happened...
All I have to say is that the girls better be grateful I hadn't packed their snowsuits yet... lucky kids.
"Seriously mom, you're still taking pictures? I thought we were going to play!"
"Oooooh. Snow!"
"I fell! And it's Cold! And I don't like it!"
"Ooooh snow!" (Gotta love a 2 second attention span!)
What do you do at the end of March with snow on the ground? You make a snowman of course! It was perfect snowman snow! But you really do need your gloves to stay on...
Or maybe you don't.
At this point Zoe was done... "But I don't want to make a snowman!"
While Aeriana was far too wrapped up in the moment... "Something doesn't look right. I don't think it goes there."
While Zoe did a little more of this...
"It has to go on just right!"
"Is there anything else in there? I think we are still missing something."
"Why does Aeriana always get to do everything?"
"OK fine, maybe this can be fun..."
And of course my little princess modeling next to the snowman; I seriously don't know where she gets this. Notice the serious face.
Hey I managed to get a smile!
Then of course the questions start now that the snowman is all done and his hat is on.
"Mom... why is the snowman not talking?" (yes that is what she asked me)
And on that note... Who wants hot chocolate!
"Mmmmmm... tasty!"
"What? I'm not tried I don't know what your talking about!"
All in all not too bad of a day considering there is snow on the ground and it's almost April.
Happy Springtime!
Labels: Aeriana, Erin, family, pictures, Zoe
HAPPY ST. PARTRICK'S DAY!
We had an eventful evening last night and morning. We wanted to catch a leprechaun; those sneaky guys have candy and gold. Come on who wouldn't want someone like that? Aeriana was so excited!
We made a leprechaun trap to catch them. Glitter and all things green attract them. Didn't you know?
Aeriana so proud of her and Zoe's (but mostly her) creation.
The next morning we woke up to glitter everywhere and no leprechaun, but we must have scared him quite a bit, he dropped everything he was carrying. Poor guy.
Checking to see if we caught one!
Mmmmm. Green eggs and green milk. :)
All morning long all Aeriana could focus on was the huge mess the leprechaun made. Not that he turned our milk green (resulting in green eggs for breakfast) as well as our toilet water. No she was only concerned about the mess and wanted to clean it up. So that's exactly what we did. What kind of mother would i be if i said no to my child wanting to clean?
And of course after we were all done cleaning it was time to rest with a book.
You see this look... yeah I get the same one from Brett when I bother him when he's reading.
So lets review... loves presents and chocolate (just like Brett), can only focus on the mess (just like Brett), and when reading, which is often, do not disturb (I'm seeing a trend here). Is her being female the only genetic contribution i made? Oh well, maybe Zoe will be more like me.
Then again maybe not...
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Labels: Aeriana, books, Brett, family, holidays, pictures, Zoe
Even Later :)
This is my late Valentine's Day Cookie Contest submission... unfortunately the other ones fell over as I was about to take pictures. That's what I get for trying to use natural lighting.
Just to let everyone know, if you bump the chair that is balancing a cutting board on a window sill, the cutting board will fall. Stupid gravity.
Happy Valentine's Day!
Labels: food, holidays, pictures
Chocolate?
You say there was chocolate here? I have no idea where it might have gone!
Labels: food, pictures, Zoe
Happy Winter
Labels: Aeriana, family, pictures, Zoe
A Good Weekend
There's no better way to start a Saturday morning than to have a special date with daddy... Dunkin Donuts (pink frosted with sprinkles, of course) and chocolate milk in our pajamas!
Then there's no better way to start a Sunday morning than meeting an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ.
(Elder Christofferson came to our Stake Conference meetings this weekend; an absolutely incredible experience.)
Labels: Aeriana, family, food, pictures, religion, Zoe
