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Rough time

Julie Medero — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:20:09 +0000

Martin’s had a rough couple of weeks. Since turning 3, he’s started sleeping through the night in his own bed, fully weaned (NOT his choice, sadly), and started working on transitioning to a new class at school. We think this has all added up to not enough parent time and too much independence at once.

As a result, we’ve seen an increase in hitting, kicking, and tantrums. This weekend we tried to focus on lots of good snuggle time, but drop-off in the new class was still very, very rough this morning. It’s so hard to watch him be upset with his world and not know how to help him get oriented again! Here’s hoping he settles into a new routine soon!

This can’t get any easier.

Julie Medero — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:06:01 +0000

Shawn had a big birthday last week (cough30cough) and we were eligible for new phones this week, so we now have a fancy pair of iPhones in our house. Hopefully having Internet everywhere makes these posts too easy .not to make. I have the wordpress part figured out and I have a camera, so as soon as I know how to upload pics with our password stuff on them we’ll be set!

Martin’s on his first of two swimming trips of the day. He’s in the wading pool with dad now and we head to the community center for mom & me lessons tonight. He loves the water and is convinced he’s already an expert with nothing left to learn. We aren’t quite as sure he’s ready for solo diving board adventures as he is!

There are a few scattered pictures up to …

Julie Medero — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:08:45 +0000

There are a few scattered pictures up tonight:

A few leftovers from a week ago
This week’s pictures are also up!
And, finally, here’s a sneak-peak at next week

Things are going well here. My mom’s in town (hi mom!), making her our first Florida visitor to Seattle. Marty’s super excited to have is “Bamma” visiting him, and had a very happy day with her today.

It’s been a couple of weeks now, so I feel like I can mention that Shawn’s been able to put Martin to bed at night without too much trouble pretty regularly. It’s so refreshing to get up after bedtime stories and leave the room once in a while! Hopefully this eventually leads to sleeping longer at night, too…two years of sleepless nights is enough for me, thanks much!

Photo update

Julie Medero — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:59:57 +0000

Look at me, with my fancy new camera and my picture-uploading dependability! Highlights of this upload include:

Martin’s first dress-up outfit: a rubber finger toothbrush, an oven mitt, and a vinyl smock over his cut-off pajamas. Classy!
A bike trip to Mighty-O for donuts, followed by a very messy trip to the playground with dad and then up to campus to meet mom for lunch.
A trip out to Olan Mills for some portraits. Martin was accompanied by his buddy Curious George, and was lucky to have a *very* patient photographer who actually got some pretty good shots of him! We also got ourselves talked into buying a year-long membership, so we now have unlimited sittings at any Olan Mills we want to go to with any family or friends we want to bring along, and we get an 8×10 each time. Extended family, take note!
And, finally, a trip to the playground with dad this morning in between rain showers. Martin practiced his climbing, rolled in the mud a bit, and stopped to smell the flowers.

Enjoy!

A second batch of photos for the week

Julie Medero — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:40:46 +0000

A new batch of pictures are up on my photo site! The newest ones are from our trip to the Children’s Museum with Alexander and his parents, as well as a couple from last night and this morning showcasing Martin’s awesome new cheesy fake smile that he likes to flash every time he sees a camera.

(Also, welcome to anyone who’s just found this site. If you don’t have (or don’t remember!) the password to the photo site, drop me an email, IM, or message on Facebook and I’ll get you squared away!)

Once more, with feeling

Julie Medero — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:02:43 +0000

What can I say? The trouble with getting out of the habit of posting is that the longer I go, the more I feel like I need something Big and Monumental and Exciting to be worth of my first post back.

I don’t have that. But we’re going to try to get back in the swing of things, anyway.

What we do have is a fancy new site: medero.net. Shawn and I will both be posting there. Posts about the Martastic one will still find their way over to the old livejournal page, so those of you who are used to reading that, or who can’t imagine ever looking past your LJ Friends Page can continue to follow us that way.

And as a quick reward to anyone who’s either still checking the old site or already checking the new site, here are a few pictures from our fancy new camera that we got yesterday, replacing the one that Martin smashed the lens on a couple of months back: Donuts, visits from old friends, and a glimpse of Seattle!