Category: personal

No kid #2 yet…  We’re all patiently waiting.  Elias said she’d come today (Sunday) but I guess he was wrong on that count…  The due date is still over a week away…  But at our last checkup Nikki was 2cm dilated and 80% effaced so we were thinking we’d be close, but that was thursday and it’s now Sunday…

Well Elias is officially three now.  He’s also officially potty trained, he made it by about a week which has been awesome for us.  I guess no diapers in the house for 2~3 weeks before we start all over again?  Elias got spoiled rotten at his party, then we saved a few gifts for him…

Yeah yeah, his birthday is Wednesday, I know, but his PARTY was Sunday!!!  I can’t believe how fast time flies, he’s 3 already?  Wow.  He’s also pooping on the potty pretty much all the time now (since last week, no accidents!) which is awesome.  We also got to meet the Stockwell’s new baby Cody Sunday…

Well, potty training is coming along a lot better now.  Elias has gone twice in the last week which is a big improvement.  I also got to go skiing at Okemo on Sunday where it was windy and freezing but the snow was quite good.  Great Harvest also opened in town to we got to…

Yes that’s a joke!  We got to go to NH this weekend with Katie and Matt which was an awesome getaway.  We didn’t have room in the car for any ski gear really so we just brought a sled for Elias and had a BLAST just sledding around the house.  I also got away to…

Well, I had a great weekend.  Saturday was a bus trip to Stowe.  They’d recieved 2′ of snow on Thursday so it was pretty epic.  I actually snowboarded because I met up with a friend who also rides which was a nice change of pace.  It snowed on us on the way home though so…

Had a fun weekend this past weekend in big part thanks to Debbie and Andy.  They took Elias overnight Saturday so Nikki and I could get some things done around the house to get ready for kid #2.  I had won some money in a raffle at work a few weeks ago, and we’d been…

^^^ that’s a video!!! ^^^ Well, big news this week, we got Elias out skiing for the first time (beyond our backyard) and he had a BLAST!!!!  We started in the sled, then he wanted me to go with him.  I said I had my “sleds” in the car and went and got my skis… …

Happy new year?!?! I’ve been trying to get everything caught up around here, but going to Antigua threw a wrench in those plans a bit by adding a ton of more fun new shots to process into the mix…  So this post has everything post Xmas through this past weekend EXCEPT for the Antigua shots. …

Well, for those that don’t know, Elias and I just got back from a week visiting with my parents in Antigua.  Nikki did NOT come on this trip so she could bank the vacation time for the birth of Kid #2 in late March, but she was nice enough to let Elias and I go…

ZOMG people, it snowed in NE, can you BELIEVE IT????  Seriously, that’s sarcasm for anyone who missed it.  Yes this was a “bad” storm thanks to the wind that came with it, and it was a nice bit of snow for southern NE. Anyway, yeah, a new blog post to cover 2 days worth of…

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!  We had an eventful week.  Elias had that stomach bug last weekend which he then shared with Nikki midweek and me Christmas Eve!  Not fun!  But I powered through it as best as I could.  Elias made out like a bandit and we almost need a shovel to clean the front room…

Well, Elias finally popped in the potty again this week!  But just once…  Seems his normal time is early AM so he often goes in his diaper at night, but we’ve been working on getting him to use the potty when he does need to go durning normal hours and finally had some more success…

Busy week this past week for me/us.  I was at the refinery for work all week which meant when I did get into the office for part of a few days I was backed up with too much too do and not enough time.  I also had an architecture shoot and a Christmas party as…

Well, this week I have one of the funniest conversations I’ve heard in a long time to report.  Elias is working on his potty training.  He’s got #1 down for the most part, but #2 is still a work in progress…  Well, one night this week he pooped in his underwear.  So that was cleaned…