Life As We Know It

ExpectNet Poll

I created a new game at Expect Net. We may or may not know the gender of the baby... today or within the next few weeks. Hmm... mum is the word. So, go to the poll and enter your thoughts. We'll let you know the results soon!

Baby Barczak #2 Game

You get points for getting the gender correct LOL!  ExpectNet tallies up all the points. The penalty points are:

incorrect gender:	400 points
date & time:	5 points per hour
weight:	5 points per ounce
length:	10 points per inch

The Baker and his oven

Its 10pm and I'm home already.  I was getting tired so I loaded Porter up and brought him home.  Ryan stayed to chit chat and hang out and, luckily my mom lives about 3 blocks down the road so he can just walk home when he's ready.  I thought I'd get a nice, quiet evening to sit and watch tv, but our neighbors are having some kind of party and all I can hear is this annoying repetitive rap music... the beat reminds me of an Eminem song.  "doo doo doo doo, do do do dooo,  dum doo do dooo. doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo, dum do do doooo"  Bleh. All I can hear is the beat.  Annoying. 

Here are our costumes:

And, just in case you don't "get it", wander on over here. 

And Porter was a little lion.  "Raarrrrr!"  He's actually supposed to be Goliath from JoJo's Circus (my niece Aubri is dressing up as JoJo for Halloween... I'm hoping we'll get them together to get some pictures). They do sell an actual Goliath costume but its hideous... one of those "heads growing out of the kids head" type of costume.

I wish I had been creative and thought of a super cute, "unique" costume like I did last year, but I just didn't have the energy to put into it this year.  And I was fresh out of ideas.  I mean, how can you top this cute, feathery little chicken last year?

(Ryan kept saying we should have dressed him as a wolf this year with a few feathers hanging out of his mouth.  Cute, but uh... how are you going to get a one year old to keep a few stray feathers by his mouth? HAAH!)

Anyhow, he's sporting the Old Navy-Made costume this year and I think it looks pretty darn cute on him.

ISR: Infant Swimming Resource

Watch this video:

I found this website called Infant Swimming Resource (there are other videos on the actual website... as well as lots of information) that is basically a drowning prevention program.  It teaches children as young as infants (just months old) how learn their own buoyancy, breath control and eventually the ability to flip over on their backs and float safely until they are "saved".  In the lessons (and in all these videos) of course there are adults present.  But imagine how priceless these skills would be to a child who accidentally falls in the lake or pool WITHOUT an adult present.  Imagine how much time this skill would buy them.

Here are some other videos I found on YouTube.  Check out the ISR website (link above, or this link is GREAT too!) for more detailed info... these videos are just visuals.  This next one shows super young infants in the water, learning buoyancy etc.

And here, here's one just for fun (This one is not ISR related... just one that popped up on YouTube). What the hell is up with a 6 week old being in a tub of water with a floaty ring around its neck? 

Nicole

AHH haaa haaa!

A few funny pics... thanks for the email grandma!!

 

Photo Collage...

Here is a little collage of pictures from North Carolina...

 

Picture of the Day

Ok one quick picture for today- I need to get outta here and make sure everything is done and set for the graduation party today.  YAY.  OK so this picture cracks me up, even moreso than yesterdays.  :)  Zoey is such a nut. (click on the picture to see a full sized version of it)

Picture of the Day

This is what happens when you're part hound...