:: Schmap Seattle Ninth Edition: Photo Inclusion
Hi Kat,
I am delighted to let you know that your submitted photo has been selected for inclusion in the newly released ninthedition of our Schmap Seattle Guide: Woodland Park Zoo http://www.schmap.com/seattle/activities_fremont/p=15719/i=15719_129.jpg
If you use an iPhone or iPod touch, then this same linkwill take you directly to your photo in the iPhone versionof our guide. On a desktop computer, you can still see exactly how your photo is displayed and credited in theiPhone version of our guide at: Woodland Park Zoo http://www.schmap.com/?m=iphone#uid=seattle&sid=activities_fremont&p=15719&i=15719_129
Finally, if you have a blog, you might also like to checkout the customizable widgetized version of our SchmapSeattle Guide, complete with your published photo: http://www.schmap.com/guidewidgets/p=8049049N06/c=SM20061368
Thanks so much for letting us include your photo - pleaseenjoy the guide!
Best regards, Emma Williams,Managing Editor, Schmap Guides
Monday, October 26, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
shots, shots, and more shots
On Monday we went to Kaitlyn's 5 year well child check up.
She is practically perfect in every way. Her brain power is off the charts and she is perfectly proportioned in weight and height. Like I said practically perfect in every way.
At her well child check up she got the last of her early childhood vaccinations. She got the last of the polio series, the last of the chickenpox series, and the last of the diphtheria, tetanus, & pertussis series. All of us girls also got our seasonal flu shot. So poor Katie bug got 4 shots, while Sam and I just got 1.
I also asked our Dr if the flu bug we had was the H1N1 flu bug. He asked several questions and said that more than likely we most certainly did. I then asked "if we had swine flu, do we need the swine flu shot?" He said that since we did a good job of managing our symptoms at home and did the right thing by not leaving the house, we also didn't confirm with a test that we had H1N1. Without confirmation he couldn't officially say we didn't need the shot. But that if he were us he wouldn't get it, none of the regular flu bugs going around had a fever for 6+ days.
So we were terribly sick, we most likely had the swine flu, and my children screamed for joy that they didn't have another shot to get!
Life is good folks and don't forget to stockpile the Mucinex at home!
She is practically perfect in every way. Her brain power is off the charts and she is perfectly proportioned in weight and height. Like I said practically perfect in every way.
At her well child check up she got the last of her early childhood vaccinations. She got the last of the polio series, the last of the chickenpox series, and the last of the diphtheria, tetanus, & pertussis series. All of us girls also got our seasonal flu shot. So poor Katie bug got 4 shots, while Sam and I just got 1.
I also asked our Dr if the flu bug we had was the H1N1 flu bug. He asked several questions and said that more than likely we most certainly did. I then asked "if we had swine flu, do we need the swine flu shot?" He said that since we did a good job of managing our symptoms at home and did the right thing by not leaving the house, we also didn't confirm with a test that we had H1N1. Without confirmation he couldn't officially say we didn't need the shot. But that if he were us he wouldn't get it, none of the regular flu bugs going around had a fever for 6+ days.
So we were terribly sick, we most likely had the swine flu, and my children screamed for joy that they didn't have another shot to get!
Life is good folks and don't forget to stockpile the Mucinex at home!
Friday, October 16, 2009
Kaitlyn is 5 today!
My Katie Bug is five years old today.
How did this happen?
I swear it was just a few months ago that her and Eric were playing games and keeping me awake at night. Yes, she has always been a daddy's girl even before she was born.
Wasn't it just a few weeks ago that she babbled to me all day in her own language and I understood about half of what she said and commented on all of it. We carried on lengthy conversations, even though she was barely one.
When did my darling little girl get to be so big?
Probably she got bigger when she was arguing her case better than any hardened new york lawyer. She may have gotten a little bigger when her sense of fashion compelled her to comment on my clothes. She may have grown just a little bitty bit while she wrote & illustrated her first book. Or when she decided that she wants to be a horticulturist and write gardening books when she grows up. She might have grown when i wasn't looking or when she was sleeping or reading me stories or creating the most complicated story lines involving all the princesses in the playroom or being the perfect little girl that she has always been.
No matter how or when it happened, It did. My baby is 5.
How did this happen?
I swear it was just a few months ago that her and Eric were playing games and keeping me awake at night. Yes, she has always been a daddy's girl even before she was born.
Wasn't it just a few weeks ago that she babbled to me all day in her own language and I understood about half of what she said and commented on all of it. We carried on lengthy conversations, even though she was barely one.
When did my darling little girl get to be so big?
Probably she got bigger when she was arguing her case better than any hardened new york lawyer. She may have gotten a little bigger when her sense of fashion compelled her to comment on my clothes. She may have grown just a little bitty bit while she wrote & illustrated her first book. Or when she decided that she wants to be a horticulturist and write gardening books when she grows up. She might have grown when i wasn't looking or when she was sleeping or reading me stories or creating the most complicated story lines involving all the princesses in the playroom or being the perfect little girl that she has always been.
No matter how or when it happened, It did. My baby is 5.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Driveway
Well it finally happened the driveway project is done!
Eric with help from his Dad moved all 7 tons of gravel and spread it out in the driveway.
It's been a slow long process, this driveway project.
But it's done yeah!
Eric with help from his Dad moved all 7 tons of gravel and spread it out in the driveway.
It's been a slow long process, this driveway project.
But it's done yeah!
Friday, October 9, 2009
It's Friday.
It's seven days since Samantha first got sick.
It's two days since Kaitlyn or Samantha have had a fever.
It's hours since I ran a fever.
We have gone through 4 boxes of Kleenex, 3 bottles of children's Mucinex, 1 1/2 bottles of children's ibuprofen, 2 bottles of children's cough medicine, 2 bags of cough drops, 1 box of menthol strips, 3 bottles of hand sanitizer, 1 large can of Lysol, and more adult drugs than i want to think about.
We are not better yet.
But I think we are starting to win the war.
It's seven days since Samantha first got sick.
It's two days since Kaitlyn or Samantha have had a fever.
It's hours since I ran a fever.
We have gone through 4 boxes of Kleenex, 3 bottles of children's Mucinex, 1 1/2 bottles of children's ibuprofen, 2 bottles of children's cough medicine, 2 bags of cough drops, 1 box of menthol strips, 3 bottles of hand sanitizer, 1 large can of Lysol, and more adult drugs than i want to think about.
We are not better yet.
But I think we are starting to win the war.
Monday, October 5, 2009
today
Today was suppose to be the first day of our first review week in preschool.
Samantha spiked a fever of 102 Friday afternoon after a day of healthy normalness. Kaitlyn spiked a fever of 102 Saturday afternoon. I spiked a fever of 102 Sunday afternoon. Eric who has thought for many years that flu shots are silly, is still healthy. He got his flu shot last week. The girls and I get ours at Kaitlyn's well-child-check-up in two weeks.
Now that both girls are getting better and I have gotten out of bed, I will start the disinfecting process in our house. Tomorrow i will wash all the blankets and pillow cases, i will coat the house in Lysol, blankets and pillows from living room will be washed, and sanitizer/tissue/garbage stations will be set up in every room.
There is nothing worse than surviving a family cold only to reinfect each other.
Samantha spiked a fever of 102 Friday afternoon after a day of healthy normalness. Kaitlyn spiked a fever of 102 Saturday afternoon. I spiked a fever of 102 Sunday afternoon. Eric who has thought for many years that flu shots are silly, is still healthy. He got his flu shot last week. The girls and I get ours at Kaitlyn's well-child-check-up in two weeks.
Now that both girls are getting better and I have gotten out of bed, I will start the disinfecting process in our house. Tomorrow i will wash all the blankets and pillow cases, i will coat the house in Lysol, blankets and pillows from living room will be washed, and sanitizer/tissue/garbage stations will be set up in every room.
There is nothing worse than surviving a family cold only to reinfect each other.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Happy October 1st
This has been a fun week for us. It has gotten allot colder outside. With the cold we are more reluctant to stop snuggling under our blankets to actually get the day going. Colder weather means all that wonderful cold weather slow cooked dinners. Less to do at dinner time but I am doing allot of cooking each morning between breakfast, dinner, lunch and a snack by noon.
This has been E week. It's been fun with Elephants, Eggs, Ovals, Pomp & Circumstance composer Edward Elgar, and Amelia Earhart. Granted we have had lessons after lunch everyday this week instead of our usual 10am. That just means our mornings have been free play with me cooking and our afternoons the more structured part of our day.
I did cave in yesterday and turned on the furnace. It was still 63 in the house at lunch time and when we went out to play it felt warmer outside. It was only 54 outside but the sun was warm on your back. It was 90 a week and a half ago, what happened? I will have to start my marathon leaf raking soon. The yard is actually littered with leaves now. I have ignored them until now because i am stubborn and silly and decided that I would not acknowledged the leaves until it was October. It is now the first of October and the last two cold nights have tripled the amount of leaves in the yard. Ugg!
I think we will decorate the house today for fall. My spring/summer decorations just seem very out of place with the furnace on. Daisy's to fall leaf bouquets & jacks to gourds in the vases in dining room, Flowers to leaves & scarecrows in the large picture window, sandals to slippers by the back door, fans to blankets in the corner, oh yes and the heavy drapes for our drafty windows. Yes it's fall, no more ignoring, I love the fall, but winter was just so long last year, I don't even want to consider winter, and to love fall, to embrace fall, I must consider winter.
This has been E week. It's been fun with Elephants, Eggs, Ovals, Pomp & Circumstance composer Edward Elgar, and Amelia Earhart. Granted we have had lessons after lunch everyday this week instead of our usual 10am. That just means our mornings have been free play with me cooking and our afternoons the more structured part of our day.
I did cave in yesterday and turned on the furnace. It was still 63 in the house at lunch time and when we went out to play it felt warmer outside. It was only 54 outside but the sun was warm on your back. It was 90 a week and a half ago, what happened? I will have to start my marathon leaf raking soon. The yard is actually littered with leaves now. I have ignored them until now because i am stubborn and silly and decided that I would not acknowledged the leaves until it was October. It is now the first of October and the last two cold nights have tripled the amount of leaves in the yard. Ugg!
I think we will decorate the house today for fall. My spring/summer decorations just seem very out of place with the furnace on. Daisy's to fall leaf bouquets & jacks to gourds in the vases in dining room, Flowers to leaves & scarecrows in the large picture window, sandals to slippers by the back door, fans to blankets in the corner, oh yes and the heavy drapes for our drafty windows. Yes it's fall, no more ignoring, I love the fall, but winter was just so long last year, I don't even want to consider winter, and to love fall, to embrace fall, I must consider winter.
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