Posted by Katherine on May 21st, 2008
Ted’s seventh week-iversary took place during a whirlwind trip to New England to celebrate my birthday.
On Friday I got to eat at my two favorite restaurants, Firehouse Pizza and Jackie’s Galaxy. My Mom made my favorite kind of cake, chocolate with peppermint frosting!
On Saturday Ted’s aunts, cousin, and I went to my stepsister-in-law’s baby shower. Somehow I didn’t end up with any photos, but it was a lot of fun. Great food and an explosion of pink, very cute girly stuff.
After that we headed to Kim’s for a birthday party with friends from college and Victory.
It was so much fun. So good to see our friends that we just don’t see enough. And to meet their babies and see how much their kids have grown…
Here is the “email train” with significant others and babies.
Then on Sunday we headed to MA for another birthday/meet Ted event.
He got to meet Great Nana and Great Grampa, as well as Uncle John and Aunt Mary.
Here is Ted with aunts and cousin Jack.
And since Ted is now waking up, here is one last photo of him with his godfather and godmother.
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Posted by Katherine on February 22nd, 2008
Wow, here I am writing my first post on AfterVictory.com. Crazyness. I assume most people who read our site get the reference, but for those who don’t, Victory is the the supermarket where Pat and I first met. It no longer exists. Well the supermarket is still there, but different owners, different name.
So what’s new with me?
I am working less hours now. I told the store manager that I wouldn’t mind if he cut back my hours as long as I was still full-time. He decided to give me Fridays off! Now every weekend is a long weekend. It is super sweet.
On Sunday my co-workers threw me another baby shower. It was so nice. I couldn’t believe how many people came to celebrate with us! Its great to know that Ted has lots of local people who care about him! He got lots of handmade blankets, necessities, cute outfits, a diaper cake, and even another handmade sweater and cap set. Have I mentioned how lucky he is? And Pat and I too.
I haven’t decided when my last day at work will be. The idea of going into labor at work is as unappealing as going into labor home alone. I think I am leaning towards the home alone idea and therefore might leave work two weeks before my due date. I don’t know. Too many big decisions for me. Guess I am feeling overwhelmed in general these days.
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Posted by Patrick on January 25th, 2008
As some of you may know, the Rockland-ave family of…. family members is set to expand by 1 in the next few months.
This is very exciting news, but it also presented us with a problem in regards to stuff. I have lots of stuff, Kate has lots of stuff, and the cats even have a lot of stuff, but very little of that stuff will be compatible with Ted. We also had a doctor check with his ultrasound machine and he confirmed that Ted is arriving without clothes or books or blankets or toys. What gives with that?
Lucky for us we’re related to some problem solvers. So last weekend we flew up to New England for a baby shower. We got to see lots of family members and friends (including blogrollers Kristen & Josh, my folks, Megan and Brett and crew, Jay & Erin, BSP and Tracy and lots of cool other people without blogs), which was cool on its own, and ate lots of good food and got tons of great stuff for Ted. So much stuff we filled a van with it to get it back home!
Here are some pics (I stole from Cheech) from the day:
Now Ted’s room totally looks like someone could move in there and bet set as a baby. Big-time thanks to all our families (especially the guest blogger) for putting this on and for all our friends and fam for coming to see us and give us cool stuff! It was a fun weekend.
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Posted by Patrick on January 13th, 2008
This past week and weekend were busy, but good. My work was very busy, but I did manage to sneak out on Wednesday to meet up with Kate for some more ultrasound action. We got to see Ted wave his hands and wiggle his toes. Too early to tell if he has the classic Irish nose that my father and I share, but he did look pretty cute and happy there. The doctor said that he’s got all the required fingers and toes and that he’s the right size for the number of weeks-in he’s at.
I also found time to finally fix our broken photo gallery here on Rockland-ave.com. It lives again, with all the old pics still in place. Apparently the hosting company upgraded their software, which screwed up our installation, resulting in me having to uninstall and reinstall the gallery a few times. We use the super-sweet open-source software called Gallery, by the way, which is great if you’re into the whole hosting-photos-on-your-own-website thing.
Friday night we went to Kat and Matt’s place where we were served Sukiyaki. It was tasty food, and good to see them again!
Saturday we hung around, did some Ted’s-room related crafts, and then at night went out to see the movie Juno. It was a good movie, filled with quality actors and actresses. The soundtrack was also excellent, as we picked it up on our way home the movie.
Today was comparatively lazy. I slept in, then went to visit DJ at his place. He got a Wii for Christmas, so we played some Metroid and some Super Mario. The Wii remote controller is great, it’s such a departure from traditional gameplay with its waving and pointing and whatnot. I bet Ted would like it.
Quite a week. Next weekend will be exciting as we’ll be back up in New England!
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Posted by Patrick on December 18th, 2007
Inspection
Saturday I went and took the Celica to get inspected, and besides a license-plate-light that was out, it passed and received a new sticker. Pretty crazy that it’s the second North Carolinian inspection for my car… but more crazy that its the seventh inspection for the car since I drove it off the lot. Seems like just yesterday I was throwing all my savings into a shiny silver car. I really didn’t think it would last this long, but am glad it did as we really can’t afford another car as shiny as the Celica. Kate’s car is getting a turn on the ol’ inspectotron this weekend. Her car’s had even more inspection stickers then mine… but she doesn’t drive like a maniac so it’s not really surprising that her ride still rides.
Festivus
Kate and I did our holiday shopping in (almost) one fell swoop over the weekend. We also picked up a tree from the Raleigh Farmers Market, as its all about locally-grown-tree’s and nice people who put trees on stands for you. Our friends Kat and Matt invited us over for Christmas day this year, so we’re looking forward to that.
iMac
I like my job and what I do, but up until last week my job only provided me with a computer built in the same year as my car. It was a great computer in its day, but not really up to snuff for today’s modern website worker. I don’t have proof, but I suspect it was burning oil. Or silicon.That all changed when they brought in a brand new iMac for me to use. This computer is sweeeeet in every way a computer should be. Big screen, dual monitor, and chock full of ram so Photoshop runs quickly. It even has software that runs Windows on it, which makes testing websites much easier, since I don’t have to get up from my desk and find a Windows computer every time I make a new page. It’s come a long way from the original iMac.
Photo Gallery
Our Rockland-ave photo gallery is currently busted. The hosting company upgraded their server software, and our gallery software apparently doesn’t play nice with it. Hopefully this weekend I can check under the hood and get it to work. Makes a guy want to print out all his photos and put them in a shoe box.
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