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ith him on how well behaved he is i took will to the library and barnes and noble with a friend and her little one will had so much fun and he plays so well with other kids he is so easy going and such a great sharer even a former nanny at b n complemented will on his well mannered behavior and his attention span with the train set will has started saying ei ei o which is a riot i also giggle still over all his uh ohs i will never get sick of that one he also loves the show extreme makeover home edition he claps along and when the do the home reveal he gasps and covers his mouth it is hilarious tonight is somewhat sad i always hate sunday nights knowing that i am not going to have family snuggle time in the morning i have to travel to denver this week too so i will especially miss my little guy the travel will make this week hopefully fly though i also am doing a panel for chicago booth business school s moms group i hope i can provide another interesting perspective on this whole juggling work mommy thing sometimes i feel like i struggle in this area and other times i feel like i have it down pat like these past few weeks leave a comment happy halloween november 1 2010 filed under uncategorized birdlegs02 9 32 am this year was will s first legitamite halloween and it was a blast when we got will suited up he was amazed at what he saw in the mirror he ran up to it and started kissing the mirror i guess you can say he loved his costume we went trick or treating with a bunch of the kids from our condo the older kids were on to the 3rd house by the time we were done with our first but it was nice to go out as a group will did awesome i was very suprised that he took right too it typically he is a very shy little boy but he went right up to the door and stood in line for his turn he even held up his bucket for his treat i was kind of suprised considering we didn t show him how it worked beforehand he got a little frightened at one of the houses where a man was wearing a really scary mask he floped right now and was not moving he was obviously not having that we made it up and back 3 blocks and at the last house will went right up to the door and tried opening it the majority of people were out on their porches handing out candy so will went right up to the door and tried to open it the man answered the door and will and lily barged right on in they saw a dog and were determined to go pet it they apparently ran into their living room and pet the dog for a good 5 mintues luckily the homeowner was all over it and couldn t stop laughing 15 months and breaking and entering great leave a comment notice a pattern september 20 2010 filed under uncategorized birdlegs02 7 09 pm ahhh it seems like every spare moment i get is either spending time with the family working or tidying up the casa i feel like i barely have time to shower let alone blog ergh we have had lots of fun filled weekends 2 weekends ago we traveled up to kenosha to visit an apple orchard i put it in quotations because it hardly seemed like an apple orchard this place was the biggest kitchy overpriced orchard that i have ever seen honestly lame 40 for a bag of apples it was also a madhouse i was very disappointed in our experience and will taking will elsewhere for pumpkins joe ended up taking us over to north beach state park i was very surprised that they don t charge per vehicle to enter which isn t the case in wisconsin or indiana it was beautiful we spent a lot of time sitting on the beach playing in the sand or will s case eating the sand and searching for pebbles will also rode his 4 wheeler on the path it was quite hilarious this past weekend was busy saturday we went to the farmer s market in downtown evanston i was pleasantly surprised at the amount of quality vendors there as a woman there selling beautiful knit hats for 25 i am still contemplating buying one will also tipped a children s folk singer so she let him play with her instruments and she sang him a few fun songs will also had his first taste of apple cider and he picked me out a few apples to bring home for snacks speaking of snacks will s favorite new thing is to go in the cupboards and bring me endless boxes of raisins he seriously ate 5 boxes last night we then made a trip over to the library which i might add is quite beautiful if you live in the evanston area i highly suggest checking it out the children s area is quite amazing and the librarians are some of the sweetest and knowledgeable ladies will found a few books to bring home and dad found a few too j that said will is huge into dinosaurs right now we found several dino toys in the target 1 bin and they are his favorite toys at the moment i get a kick out of him when he makes roar noises as he plays he loves to read about dinosaurs too he actually enjoys the fact books more than the fictional ones which is actually pretty cool because i am learning something too i know that a stegosaurus had a battle club for a tail to fight off hungry meat eating dinos and that the troodon was a small but very fast dinosaur that was covered in feathers yep hanging out on a friday night with dino books is what all the cool kids are doing jealous will is also into trucks he vrooms his cars all over the kitchen and living room 1 target bin sand toys seriously i love target we also went to the brookfield zoo this weekend will giggled tremendously at the penguins that swam past him it was precious he manages to melt my heart more and more every day he also loved the camel it was one of the first animals he saw at the zoo he pointed and yelled his little heart out he was just a tad excited j i loved taking him to the zoo although i am making sure that a nice wagon goes on the list for will to give to santa this year that would have made things a lot easier here is a pic from will s photo shoot with jenica as always she takes simply amazing pictures of him leave a comment no more peanuts for my peanut september 2 2010 filed under uncategorized birdlegs02 7 06 am i have been awful about updating this again life has seriously been chaotic so at least i have an excuse right right yeah didn t think so so much has happened in the last few weeks will s two lonesome teeth were joined by another 9 in a matter of 2 weeks 3 of them being molars awesome seriously fun times at our house these past few weeks i feel bad for him that has to be horribly painful we got these homeopathic pellets that we crush in warm water that have been my savior highly recommend them will has taken a liking to dinosaurs he wants me to read his favorite book dino stomp at least 20 times every night and i glady oblige he also stomps and growls like a dino it is too freaking adorable i also found a few dino figurines in the target 1 bin that have become his new go to toys love the 1 bin love target we have found his favorite books and toys there we also had our first allergist appointment a few weeks ago i love his doc she is very down to earth it is a starter practice and the doctors are younger and they really get us dr murthy spent over 2 hours with us at that appointment she ended up doing a skin prick test on his back a lot of people think including myself before this appointment that they test for everything they actually don t only select things that have been a possible suspect in the past she also did a few common household allergies like cats and dust mites and this post was interupted by a throwing up will he has a little residual post dasal drip and that mixed with milk no good i just got him out of the bath and i am attempting to get done with work early so we can head out for our mini road trip to wv work mixed with washing sheets and blankets should make for a fun morning lots to do before we leave but promise to give some more updates once we get back leave a comment insert violin playing here july 26 2010 filed under uncategorized birdlegs02 7 46 am what a week will ended up staying home the whole week he sounded fine with just a little cough on thursday so he went to school daycare called me at 12 30 because the poor thing developed a fever which made him out of commission on friday due to school rules we were supposed to go to appleton because joe had two appointments and will seemed fine we packed up the car and headed out will typically falls asleep within 10 minutes of hitting the car seat this trip no dice i tried distracting him with every possible toy video song nada this broke into full on freaking out for a good 45 minutes we pulled off at the rest stop did some comforting and will took his first drink from a bubbler as soon as we pulled out of the rest stop he was dead asleep i knew something was up so my mom and i tried taking him to a walk in clinic saturday morning apparently they cannot treat anyone under 18 months seems like an odd age why 18 wouldn t 24 months make more sense they called around town to see if any pediatric office could fit him in but of course luck was not on our side we ended up at the er with no other options i always have this huge fear that nothing will be wrong and we wasted everyone s time i have no idea where that comes from probably from this craptastic doctor that i had growing up she was wretched anywho he ended up having a pretty bad double ear infection medication is always a challenge due to his amoxicillin issues so they gave him the pneumonia dose z pac the first dose did nothing for the pain so i had to call the er back for them to prescribe ear drops i am hoping that it is clearing up and he will have another ear check mid week seriously never a dull moment in our house everyone was over for turkey and if it wasn t will sobbing it was my little nephew daniel i am surprised that the great grandparent s didn t want to gouge their eyes out and they were able to tolerate the screaming for as long as they did while we were gone we apparently missed the great chicago flood of 2010 just as we were leaving friday a monsoon was leaving its mark on evanston and now we are back all is quiet on the western front will seems to be more like his good old self he even went out for a stroll in the cozy coupe and a trip to the park sunday night i am exhausted it has been a rough week thank god it is monday i think that is the first time i have ever said that leave a comment playing catch up july 21 2010 filed under uncategorized birdlegs02 8 14 pm so i realized that it had been over a month since the last blog post i feel bad because i would really like this to be a source of an alternative baby book for sir william also i still haven t figured out why this is not accepting my line spacing so any suggestions appreciated william is 14 months old now today is my second day at home with him he has croup apparently it is going around awesome the doctor said he probably also needs to stay home tomorrow which j will take he actually is doing very well so i think he might go back tomorrow it has been nice being able to stay home with him although i hate that he isn t feeling 100 this weekend we are going back to appleton looking forward to it as is will j has 2 appointments up there so it is business and pleasure this summer is going way too fast and we have so much going on i still need to schedule time to go out to pa to meet my girlfriend s little one joe s family is coming in for the airshow we will be having jenica come down sometime for pics and other random things we want to accomplish this summer will is pushing through 3 new teeth right now all on top finally he still only has the two bottom teeth that he started getting the day before my birthday i just hope that they come in fast so he can be spared any uncomfortableness today really marked that he is a full on walker he only crawled once today it is so funny watching him waddle around the house i can t help but laugh he is so proud of himself he walks up to me with those big blue eyes and holds his hands up for me to scoop him up ahhh he just melts my heart he also started being a monkey like hardcore crazy monkey i turned my back for 1 5 seconds to put a sweatshirt of his in the closet and there he was scaling his toy bin twice then i was getting lunch ready and there is the child climbing up the stove there is also no way to babyproof the stove except put those knob covers on i am really hoping that we can get around it so far the only thing we have babyproofed is the outlets and 75 of them had the thingamabobs in them when we moved in he actually does really well with telling him no there are a few things that make no fall on deaf ears porky s water dish and pushing the foot stool around the house other than that we have a pretty obedient little scutter hopefully he will not feel the need for climbing into dangerous situations any time soon and with that a picture of the little turkey this is from the 4th of july parade in evanston comments 1 priorities filed under uncategorized birdlegs02 2 55 pm this summer has been crazy busy work chasing will keeping joe in line it s hard work seriously though i have been doing a lot of soul searching these past few weeks i have always loved my job there was never a question when i found out that will was going to be joining our happy little family that i would be returning to work being a working mom is hard being a mom in general is hard not a day goes by that i don t have this cloud of guilt over my shoulder leaving my sweet william in the care of someone else for 8 hours a day my summer hours are a bit out of control this is one of the lovely things about working a salary position 8 hours is not a days work try more like 10 12 it is getting to the point where i need to make some serious choices i firmly believe that the interaction that will receives with other kids at school is beneficial however i think there is also a lot that school can t provide him i wish there was some sort of part time option that would make it still worthwhile i just finished a book about a working mom that was in the same predicament that i am in she of course found her happily ever after grey area in her world of black and white i find it to be a joke honestly in the land of real estate costing upwards of 350 000 for a dump how does this broad have the choice to stay home or work this character ended up quitting her job and starting her own business so she could spend more time with her little one but also follow her career dreams i don t think her ending was as happily ever after as it left us it may make me a pessimist but running your own business is a huge time sucker she is still not going to be able to give 100 to her daughter and work i also would like to know how many mothers out there have really found that balance whether you are a working mom or stay at home we all have our challenges our vision that the grass is greener on the other side when can i relax in my green grass also william is a full fledged walker now he has been walking for some time...