Overheard today: Elsa helping Monti do thank you notes for 3rd bday.. Elsa ” what do you want to say in your thank you notes?” M: “thank you”
simple enough.
7/22
Dahlia learned to point.. She points at things…… funny as hell. I guess you gotta be here to see it 🙂
7/23
“Daddy- the CVD is out” Monti (talking about a cd)
Monti is calling us all the Haddons. I am Steve, Elsa = Mary, Monti is of course Eliza and D = Ben. Josh I guess is The Lumps.
Words: Monti – Airport = O pert
Monti calls trucks – frucks
She has an amazing vocabulary. She is pretty mischeivous. Dahlia is so sweet. Will fall asleep actually in the crib… Something Monti never did. We are somewhat settlling into this new house… Buying furniture to fill it. Need to get blinds badly. Elsa at the doctor. I’m about to get on a conference call. Monti is playing with Mr. Potatohead. Dahlia with Elsa. Bought a couch last week with KC when she was here. It will be delivered tomorrow. I head to portland tomorrow for some calls on Wednesday. my first driving trip for the job.
Waiting for the new van to come next month.
Also, Monti has this word that she uses sometimes – – “superbuys”.. We don’t know if it means supervise or what. She uses it like
Then we superbuys it..
We have no idea what she’s talking about.
She is nuts about Madeliene next door. She has only played with her about 20 mins total so far. Our fence is crooked. We hear that the builders won’t cover it in the warranty . . I gotta figure out if that is true. We are waiting for the rest of our security deposit from long beach. They only paid part of it.
We just moved in to our new house last week. Dahlia was so good on the trip
She slept about 85% of the time. Monti however was a bit nervous about the whole thing. Didn’t really like sitting in the car that long. Lumpy was bad on the drive and Jackie was great. Corky hid most of the time.
Monti calls the remote control the nemo remote — mixing the movie Finding nemo with it.
Dahlia is such a smiler… Smiles so much. She is so good tempered. Monti wakes up with yelling… Yelling, kicking.. I have to tell her to lay back down and be quiet.
Mom and Dad were out here to help with the move-in. The move-out was hell. We had bub, louis, Maggie and Rob helping. It started at 7am Monday and we didn’t have it ready to go till 4pm Tuesday.
Dad installed the garage door opener. Mom watched the girls for two days straight it seemed. House move in was 100x easier than out.
The drive to here was pretty once past Sacramento.. The state line went up into the snow line.
I’m a bit nervous about my new working partner. He is a bit tense all the time.we shall see how it goes. I’m currently getting part two of my ACSA training this week in Cupertino.
Well it’s mere days before baby #2 arrives. Monti is such a sweetie. Think she may know something is up. Our possible names are:
Elsa likes Cici or something like that.
I also like Samantha.. Probably a few more. It is hot hot hot.. No breeze we are dying here in the Long beach apartment… Lesa and Gabe here… Lesa here to help with the new baby before she goes back to school. Elsa’s parents coming in this Thursday I believe. It will be a full house here.
But back to Monti. She was crabby today – didn’t eat very well and went down for a nap at 11:30 am which is early for her. They went to 2nd street then but came back and M was crabby. I had a big presentation for Disney – the intro of the G5 to them. It went well.
We ask monti – where’s your sister? She points to her belly. So cute. She has ceased saying awwright right after we gave the grandpas the tee shirt. Guess she read it and got disgusted with herself. Elsa big and uncomfortable. Not sleeping well. Our bed a fit and fury of heat… We have fan blasting on it. Elsa pressuring us to finish with the name ideas. she is starting to pack for the hospital. I am not nervous this time – in fact i’m looking forward to it . I should really get my camera and everything together. maggie breaking up with fess or having serious problems. I am not sure where they are at at the moment but I know it’s hard on her and him. I feel bad it’s been 5 months since i’ve written last. I’m sure there have been things i’ve forgotten but I guess you have to start again sometime……..Monti will count all the way past ten.. sometimes she jumps around. She likes a show called Dora the explorer. Stil likes Maisy but not as much as before. She also likes blues clues. She is getting better about letting elsa go away. She can be babysat. Elsa and I saw first movie in a long time the other day – Whale Rider. Good movie.Well i’m tired and should head to bed. I’m reading Bone Collector right now. Elsa also reading a Jeffrey Deaver book.
Monti is saying “pooh” and such now.. We think she may be getting close to sitting on the potty…
She is so sweet. Got her haircut last week by Nani.. She calls her Nina.
Monti now says quite a few words…
Awwright is Yes
May = maisy – her favorite mouse
Poppa = dad
Tick Tock = mom
Nani = elsa’s mom
Don’t think she can say grampa yet.
She will repeat just about anything you say to her however…
She doesn’t seem to like Maggie much but poor mags just keeps trying.
Has a hard time saying maggie
Loves Cottage Cheese…
Can say Mickey Mouse (mick Mous)
Quite afraid of the Disney rides these days. Elsa and Kim took the girls to Disneyland a few weeks back and Monti got afraid in the Pinnochio ride and the Pirates ride I think, so now, even on Small world, she cries iin between areas (the dark areas).
She is so damn sweet. She sleeps with her arms straight up and tries to turn throughout the night. She still sleeps with us, and no change in sight, however she barely nurses anymore. She likes to take afternoon nap, but doesn’t like to go to bed at night much. I’m sitting in LAX waiting to get on a plane to San Jose for some training on Xserve RAID. Monti and Elsa flew to Chicago this morning for a week. I will be flying right to Las Vegas this Friday to meet the guys there. then Back Sunday night – mags will pick me up with Mat, who is visiting colleges out here for grad school.
My current computer is a 1Ghz G4 DP with a 17″ mac flat panel and a 20 ” Dell Flat panel. My powerbook is a 15″ 500Mhz g4 titanium.
Monti loves cut strawberries, smoothies,… She LOVES oatmeal, esp the strawberry oatmeal by quaker. She asks for it at almost every meal. Dad was just out, … He lost Bill Cutshall a couple of weeks ago and is taking Jeff through the paces… He was out for business but then extended with us the past weekend. Apple’s stock is around $15 right now. The world is tense.. We may go to war w/iraq, N. Korea is threatening… A rare cloudy day in LGB.. They are flying the planes out the opposite direction due to storms over the ocean. I am rooming with Brian Loose.
I call Monti “Gums” or “Gummalowski” or “Gumby”
She doesn’t like to sleep with just me.. Cries like crazy when E goes to the bathroom.
She likes to use her fork… Likes to stab potatoes and eggs. And when done she throws it on the ground.
I am working on the SchottenServer stuff. Elsa helping but worrying about gifts for Xmas. I’ve been loading games up on my XBox.