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Kids say the darndest things

"When I was your age, I wore pull-ups, but now I wear underwear!"

Line of the day as delivered by Jessa (age 2.986) to Zev (age 2.986 plus 4 minutes).

Jan 30 Construction Zone Update

I am going to try to do this a little differently than the last few posts. I find uploading the images within the blogger app to be somewhat difficult, so today, we will post links. 

The biggest achievements since the last post are the removal of almost all of the rest of the kitchen, addition of primer to the addition and complete installation of the new hardwood floor. Anyway, check it all out below:

Picture 1: Expanded entryway and hallway

Picture 2: Office, new Mantle outline

Picture 3: View of former playroom to dining room

Picture 4: Expanded dining room, other side

Picture 5: Tiling is started in away room bathroom

Picture 6: Kitchen view, post primer being added

Picture 7: Away room picture

Picture 8: The guys making it happen. These guys have been on the project since the start and are here almost every day. 

And just to keep it all real, here are some goofy pictures of the twins, and again, and again. 

And a picture of Eliana and her play dough sculpture. She is getting so artistic!

   

Construction Zone Update

Howdy from the construction zone. Here are some updated pics with commentary. The progress made is extraordinary so far this month.

The above picture is looking through the existing kitchen to the dining room. You can see the cabinets are gone and the flooring is mostly gone. We have started eating in the old dining room again since it allows for more space.

Here is a view of the soon to be expanded laundry room. The frame of its new boundary is at the front of the picture. The flooring there will be removed eventually.

This picture shows the newly expanded hallway from the front door. The powder room is now out of commission. The hinging lightswitches present a unique obstacle of navigating the ground floor.
In this picture you can see the kids are coping with the changes very well. This picture also lets you see that Eliana is putting her new tying skills to good use. She tied the two rolling boxes to the back of the fire truck and little Zev was driving the big sisters around the house. How cute is that?We have setup some mats for the kids to play on in the kitchen and the dining room. In this picture Jessa and Zev are enjoying doing some art in the dining room. They are very good adhering to the "don't touch the fiberglass" rule.

Even little Davica gets to play on the mats with her siblings!

The kids still enjoy watching folks work before they leave for school in the morning. In this shot, the girls are watching a crew put insulation in the addition. This picture was this morning.

The insulation went in so fast, that Dave asked the drywallers if they would like to start today. And below is what they accomplished:

This is the back door of the addition.

Here is the new bathroom. Tub area still needs a tub and some tile!

Here is the away room. Please note that all ceilings are in now!

This is a view of the family room of the addition. Now you can get a feel for how the cathedral ceiling will look.

And finally, the new kitchen. Check out all the lights! It is going to be sweet!

Bowl Results volume 3

SAN DIEGO COUNTY CREDIT UNION POINSETTIA BOWL
(9) Boise St 16
*(11) TCU 17

SHERATON HAWAII BOWL
*Hawaii 21
Notre Dame 49

MOTOR CITY BOWL
Florida Atlantic 24
*Central Michigan 21

MEINEKE CAR CARE BOWL
West Virginia 31
*North Carolina 30

EMERALD BOWL
Miami (FL) 17
*California 24

CHAMPS SPORTS BOWL
Wisconsin 13
*Florida St 42

INDEPENDENCE BOWL
*Northern Illinois 10
Louisiana Tech 17

PAPAJOHNS.COM BOWL
North Carolina St 23
*Rutgers 29

VALERO ALAMO BOWL
*(21) Missouri 30
(23) Northwestern 23 OT

ROADY'S HUMANITARIAN BOWL
Maryland 42
*Nevada 35

PACIFIC LIFE HOLIDAY BOWL
(13) Oklahoma St 31
*(17) Oregon 42

TEXAS BOWL
Western Michigan 14
*Rice 38

BELL HELICOPTER ARMED FORCES BOWL
Houston 34
*Air Force 28

GAYLORD HOTELS MUSIC CITY BOWL
*(24) Boston College 14
Vanderbilt 16

CHICK-FIL-A BOWL
LSU 38
*(14) Georgia Tech 3

SUN BOWL
*Oregon St 3
(20) Pittsburgh 0

INSIGHT BOWL
*Kansas 42
Minnesota 21

OUTBACK BOWL
*South Carolina 10
Iowa 31

GATOR BOWL
*Nebraska 26
Clemson 21

FEDEX ORANGE BOWL
*(12) Cincinnati 7
(19) Virginia Tech 20

CAPITAL ONE BOWL
*(15) Georgia 24
(18) Michigan St 32

THE ROSE BOWL GAME PRESENTED BY CITI
(8) Penn St 24
*(5) USC 31

COTTON BOWL
*(25) Mississippi 47
(7) Texas Tech 37

ALLSTATE SUGAR BOWL
(6) Utah 31
*(4) Alabama 17

AUTOZONE LIBERTY BOWL
*Kentucky 25
East Carolina 19

INTERNATIONAL BOWL
Buffalo 20
*Connecticut 38

Verizon Tech Scheduling

These guys seem to believe their advertising. Believe it or not, their products are no better than anyone else and their service stinks. Below is an approximate schedule of every call I made or received to attempt to move the ONT box from the back of our house to the side:

Call#	Approx Date	Purpose
1	12/1/2008	Request technician come and move box
2	12/2/2008	Call back from verizon to choose date for tech to visit
3	12/5/2008	Visit from tech. Tech determined I needed to schedule a visit through his supervisor to have work completed
4	12/26/2008	Called supervisor to schedule ONT box move. He suggested I call toll free # to schedule the move.
5	12/26/2008	Called toll free number from above. Person suggests I call different toll free number to schedule the move.
6	12/26/2008	Call new toll free number and put in request again. Told to expect call in 24 hours to schedule visit from tech to perform service.
7	12/28/2008	Received call from Verizon. Indicated I put in a maintenance request and need to call back with a new service request. I refuse and suggest they call me back from the proper department.
8	12/28/2008	Received call from supervisor I contacted in call #4. He indicated I should call back with a new service request. I refuse and suggest they should figure out who does the service and call me back.
9	12/30/2008	After not receiving a call from Verizon, I call back supervisor from call #4. He indicates the he received the "same run-around" that I received. He promised to come on Friday to complete the work.

To be continued on Friday....

Bowl Results volume 2

SAN DIEGO COUNTY CREDIT UNION POINSETTIA BOWL
(9) Boise St 16
*(11) TCU 17

I was a bit concerned about this game after BYU got so thoroughly dominated the other night by the crap-ola Arizona (you should know that Stoops has parlayed his first winning season and crappy bowl victory into a 3 year contract extension. Dick Tome must be dying inside to see what has become of the once strong program he built.). Anyhoo, TCU proved that the MWC is indded strong with a really good defensive performance even though their offense tried like hell to give the game away.

Look Ahead to the SHERATON HAWAII BOWL:

Fatter Tuna (Sorry, Charlie) is going to call the plays in Hawaii. Seeing as how the Rainbow Warriors (I know it is really just warriors, but the gay imagery is just to funny to conjure up here) can play some 'D', I expect ND to complete their second straight losing season.

Many ND apologists keep making excuses for Weis by saying that he is loading up ND with talent. My guess is that most recruiting services are rating players ND recruits higher just because they are recruited by ND. There are many stories you can find through the blogosphere that suggest this is true. I wouldn't be surprised to learn someday that there is a backdoor deal Weis has with Lemming just to keep his recruiting numbers high.

Personally, I could care less if ND keeps him or fies him. It affects me very little. They can waste their money on that bloated windbag as the rest of America just laughs. My bigger concern is that they might one day hire someone who actually has a clue how to recruit and coach football.

Kids at the Bris

I took Eliana, Jessa and Zev to a Bris yesterday. Eliana and Jessa were very excited to get to see a "little baby".

We arrived and they were not disappointed. Eliana said, "Aww, baby Micah is so cute. Look how little he is!"

I carefully chose a seat. One where we could see baby Micah, but not necessarily see all of the "action". I felt oh-so-smart as they placed baby Micah down on the pillow and the girls could see his head, but not much else. As the Mohel started his work, Eliana notices the scalpel and says "what is he cutting?"

I gave her a thoughtful, but correct reply and added, "it's the same thing that happened to Zev at his bris."

Not a second later, Zev says "What they cutting?"

Eliana immediately interjects with a high level of confidence, "its the same thing that happened to you are your bris."

Luckily, he accepted her answer as fact and let it go.

Bowl Results volume 1

Bowl games from December 2, 2008, with commentary. My original winning pick has the *.

EAGLEBANK BOWL
Wake Forest 29
*Navy 19

I figured that there was nothing materially different about this game than the first they played this year. The first half was similar to that first game. However, Wake showed up for the the fourth quarter this time and that is why the results are different.

MAGICJACK ST. PETERSBURG BOWL
Memphis 14
*South Florida 41

In a matchup of really crappy teams, one looks for some reason to pick one over the other. In what is essentially a home game for USF, I figured they would be better prepared to win.

NEW MEXICO BOWL
*Colorado St 40
Fresno St 35

I went with conference strength on this one. Plus I figure Pat Hill jumped the shark about three years ago. The giant killing Fresno of a few years ago with their "Anyone, any time, any place" motto seems completely dead at this point.

PIONEER LAS VEGAS BOWL
*(16) Brigham Young 21
Arizona 31

I figured the MWC owned the PAC-10 this year and why stop now. With a very good MWC team playing a crappy PAC-10 team, you don't go against that trend. Shows you how much I know. I guess we can take Stoops off the hot seat and give him Crappy Bowl Winning mediocre coach status. Whoop-de-freakin-do.

R+L CARRIERS NEW ORLEANS BOWL
Southern Miss 30
*Troy 27

Wow. A complete toss up game between two teams that serve as scare fodder for BCS teams. What a game though. Fitting it went to OT since pick 'em status seemed the only real way to handicap this one.

Bowl Game Picks 2008

Howdy Folks. After a somewhat dismal record picking games last year, I am going to give it another whirl this year. I will make the picks in a quickly in list fashion and follow later with posts on any items of hilarity or interest. Onto the picks (winners denoted by *):

EAGLEBANK BOWL
Wake Forest (7-5, 4-4 ACC)
*Navy (8-4, 4-2 home)

MAGICJACK ST. PETERSBURG BOWL
Memphis (6-6, 4-4 C-USA)
*South Florida (7-5, 2-5 Big East)

NEW MEXICO BOWL
*Colorado St (6-6, 4-4 MWC)
Fresno St (7-5, 4-4 WAC)

PIONEER LAS VEGAS BOWL
*(16) Brigham Young (10-2, 6-2 MWC)
Arizona (7-5, 5-4 Pac-10)

R+L CARRIERS NEW ORLEANS BOWL
Southern Miss (6-6, 4-4 C-USA)
*Troy (8-4, 6-1 S. Belt)

SAN DIEGO COUNTY CREDIT UNION POINSETTIA BOWL
(9) Boise St (12-0, 8-0 WAC)
*(11) TCU (10-2, 7-1 MWC)

SHERATON HAWAII BOWL
*Hawaii (7-6, 5-3 WAC)
Notre Dame (6-6, 4-2 home)

MOTOR CITY BOWL
Florida Atlantic (6-6, 4-3 S. Belt)
*Central Michigan (8-4, 6-2 MAC)

MEINEKE CAR CARE BOWL
West Virginia (8-4, 5-2 Big East)
*North Carolina (8-4, 4-4 ACC)

EMERALD BOWL
Miami (FL) (7-5, 4-4 ACC)
*California (8-4, 6-3 Pac-10)

CHAMPS SPORTS BOWL
Wisconsin (7-5, 3-5 Big Ten)
*Florida St (8-4, 5-3 ACC)

INDEPENDENCE BOWL
*Northern Illinois (6-6, 5-3 MAC)
Louisiana Tech (7-5, 5-3 WAC)

PAPAJOHNS.COM BOWL
North Carolina St (6-6, 4-4 ACC)
*Rutgers (7-5, 5-2 Big East)

VALERO ALAMO BOWL
*(21) Missouri (9-4, 5-3 Big 12)
(23) Northwestern (9-3, 5-3 Big Ten)

ROADY'S HUMANITARIAN BOWL
Maryland (7-5, 4-4 ACC)
*Nevada (7-5, 5-3 WAC)

PACIFIC LIFE HOLIDAY BOWL
(13) Oklahoma St (9-3, 5-3 Big 12)
*(17) Oregon (9-3, 7-2 Pac-10)

TEXAS BOWL
Western Michigan (9-3, 6-2 MAC)
*Rice (9-3, 7-1 C-USA)

BELL HELICOPTER ARMED FORCES BOWL
Houston (7-5, 6-2 C-USA)
*Air Force (8-4, 5-3 MWC)

GAYLORD HOTELS MUSIC CITY BOWL
*(24) Boston College (9-4, 5-3 ACC)
Vanderbilt (6-6, 4-4 SEC)

CHICK-FIL-A BOWL
LSU (7-5, 3-5 SEC)
*(14) Georgia Tech (9-3, 5-3 ACC)

SUN BOWL
*Oregon St (8-4, 7-2 Pac-10)
(20) Pittsburgh (9-3, 5-2 Big East)

INSIGHT BOWL
*Kansas (7-5, 4-4 Big 12)
Minnesota (7-5, 3-5 Big Ten)

OUTBACK BOWL
*South Carolina (7-5, 4-4 SEC)
Iowa (8-4, 5-3 Big Ten)

GATOR BOWL
*Nebraska (8-4, 5-3 Big 12)
Clemson (7-5, 4-4 ACC)

FEDEX ORANGE BOWL
*(12) Cincinnati (11-2, 6-1 Big East)
(19) Virginia Tech (9-4, 5-3 ACC)

CAPITAL ONE BOWL
*(15) Georgia (9-3, 6-2 SEC)
(18) Michigan St (9-3, 6-2 Big Ten)

THE ROSE BOWL GAME PRESENTED BY CITI
(8) Penn St (11-1, 7-1 Big Ten)
*(5) USC (11-1, 8-1 Pac-10)

COTTON BOWL
*(25) Mississippi (8-4, 5-3 SEC)
(7) Texas Tech (11-1, 7-1 Big 12)

ALLSTATE SUGAR BOWL
(6) Utah (12-0, 8-0 MWC)
*(4) Alabama (12-1, 8-0 SEC)

AUTOZONE LIBERTY BOWL
*Kentucky (6-6, 2-6 SEC)
East Carolina (9-4, 6-2 C-USA)

INTERNATIONAL BOWL
Buffalo (8-5, 5-3 MAC)
*Connecticut (7-5, 3-4 Big East)

TOSTITOS FIESTA BOWL
(10) Ohio St (10-2, 7-1 Big Ten)
*(3) Texas (11-1, 7-1 Big 12)

GMAC BOWL
(22) Ball St (12-1, 8-0 MAC)
*Tulsa (10-3, 7-1 C-USA)

FEDEX BCS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
*(2) Florida (12-1, 7-1 SEC)
(1) Oklahoma (12-1, 7-1 Big 12)

Funny Kid Stuff

Eliana

Eliana was sleeping in our bed and I went to move her to her own. She was completely dead to the world. As I picked her up, still dreaming, she started moving her hand as if it was swinging from the elbow (think Rodney Dangerfield after the ball struck him in Caddyshack), the said:

One little idee idee with the hand...a-cat-a-DOO-la!

The voice she used was weird too. As if she had just inhaled helium. She then was real quiet and passed a huge gas. So, I am not sure what my kid dreams about, but it seems quite whack.

Jessa

After dropping Jessa off at daycare this week, Dorann realized she had forgotten to sign her and Zev in. She went back to the room to sign them in and Jessa was very pleased to see her. She says, "Mommy, you came back!"

Dorann: Yes, I did, Jessa. Mommy forgot to sign you in.

Jessa: (small pause) Mommy, you're so funny.

Zev

Zev was such a helpful guy this week. I had made bagels for the big 3 to eat while we got ready in the morning. Zev was happy to be the delivery boy for his sisters. He brings their bagels up the stairs and gives them to Eliana and Jessa with a "Here you go!" and provides "You're welcome!" in response to their thank yous.

Under Construction 2

Update to current day with new pictures!

It is hard to accurately describe how fast this project seems to be moving along. Dorann is doing a great job making sure that our contractors have information ahead of when they need it so that we cause no delays. I went out to snap some shots tonight and hopefully you can get a picture of what things will look like.

Click on image to enlarge:

1) View of new covered porch at rear of addition:


2) Outside view of away room (room behind the garage). The window juts out from the room and will have a built-in bench. I really like the interesting roof angles.


3) Another View of the porch. Dorann is picking the columns now. The bricks look good!


4) View of kitchen and existing Dining room:


5) This will be the doorway to enter the expanded dining room. The wall behind the new door will be going bye bye.


6) The away room main window. A bench will be built in front of the window for enjoying a good read while relaxing inside.


7) Cathedral ceiling in new family room/kitchen. We are making sure to have plenty of lighting which is a huge complaint we have with existing rooms in the house.


8) The new kitchen will be placed here. There will be a 9+ foot island with a large eat-in area for barstools. We can imagine the crew having breakfast there for many years to come.


9) I am standing in the new kitchen looking toward the Away Room. The high windows should give a nice view of the Smith's colorful bushes in Spring.


What is truly amazing is that the basic outside frame was up within a week of the previous post. The guys have been working on framing the interior rooms and closets, adding windows, and getting ready for electrical and heating to be added next.

Zev, Jessa, Eliana, and Davica are still enjoying watching the guys come in a work in the mornings. Eliana especially looks forward to seeing Mr. Dave, as she is a hopeless flirt.

Under Construction

Hola! I write today to give you some detail on our little construction project here in the Maryland suburbs, including pictures! We are in the process of adding a new kitchen and family room, ground floor bedroom and expanding our dining room. The whole process has been terribly exciting to the kids. Every day, they wake up to see what Mr. Dave and the crew will be working on.

First, some before shots. View of rear of house:


View from garage side of deck:

View from above deck:


Now some in-process pics! View of 'no deck' (i.e. big hole) from kitchen:


Cutting re bar with the fire-saw!


View from back of house after foundations well under way:


Top view with the new stone porch:


More will be coming soon. As you can see, the grass is completely destroyed. Luckily, we have a lot of useful dirt that was removed from where the deck used to be. The dirt can be used for building support walls for landscaping, supporting the foundation, and best of all, it doesn't cost anything.

Tales from the Barf Side

Emetophobia. That is the technical term for what I have. Fear of vomit, barf, technicolor yawn, bort, etc.

People pay good money to get cured of such things. I am lucky enough to have my own systematic desensitization program occurring on what has become, seemingly, a daily basis in my house. The program's name is Jessa and she is a 23 pound barfing machine.

Fans (or perhaps I should say, The Fan) of this blog may recall a previous post where she got home and held it together just in time to barf all over me. Well, this week, she has surpassed that one. She has tagged me twice in the same week! Now to give the girl credit, she really seems to want to make it to the toilet. I would say that about 75% of her barf content makes it to the toilet. Which is very good for a 2 year old.

The highlight of tonight came at approximately 8:07 pm, when I was holding the sickly Jessa, while talking to the pediatrician on the phone. In the middle of the conversation, Jessa starts to barf, tagging me and the kitchen floor in the process. I rush to get her to the toilet where she finishes the rest of the job. Eliana, being 4 and not being as interested in following instructions when she is getting tired, ignores the instructions of Dorann and heads down the stairs to find her lovey. As she starts to walk through the barf, I break from the conversation with the doctor to yell at her to get back upstairs. She runs up the stairs crying. Poor Jessa is sobbing in front of the toilet. My pediatrician, I am sure is deciding to report me to county authorities, but still finishes the conversation to provide expert advice for caring for the poor girl the rest of the evening.

Fifteen minutes after the incident, all of the kids were asleep. Which just goes to show you how resilient they can be, even when their parents are far from perfect.

Kid-isms

1) Jessa: I saw that dear, mommy!
Dorann: What it a boy dear or a girl dear
Jessa: A boy dear
Dorann: How did you know it was a boy dear?
Jessa: Because it had knees.

2) Doug: This is the song mommy and daddy danced to at their wedding.
Eliana: I didn't get to see that.
Doug: But you have seen the video of it.
Eliana: But I wasn't here yet. I was with Mr. God.

3) Zev: Daddy, mommy is pretty!
Doug: You should go tell mommy that.
Zev: Mommy, you're pretty (hugs and kisses)
Dorann: *speechless*

4) Jessa and Eliana brush Davica's hair.
Davica: smiles
Zev tickles her feet.
Davica: smiles
Jessa brings her a toy
Davica: smiles

Envirolets

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Waterless toilets.

Let that one just hang there for a while. In theory using less water is a good idea, but composting one's own feces in a box within a structure is a bit of a trade-off. Open-field defecation may actually be more palatable.

Barf

As a father of four, you may be surprised to learn that I am somewhat petrified of barf. Greatly fear doing it myself, abhor the thought of it, don't really even like jokes about it. 

So today, much to my chagrin, I was full-scale barfed on by my middle daughter (27 months old). The poor thing was running a fever and we had just gotten out of the car. As I was carrying her into the house, she unloaded all over my shirt and pants. And to be fair, all over herself. 

I started to wonder if I am perhaps lucky for going so long as a father without this happening before. Sure, when infants, the kids have crapped, spit-up, drooled and peed on me. For some reason, that didn't really bother me. The horror of looking down and seeing recognizable food items on my shirt was not exactly the best part of my day. 

After getting the sickly little girl inside, I cleaned her up, read her some stories and rocked her to sleep. I have checked on her about 4 times since she went to sleep and all seems well. Here is to her speedy recovery.

I made the Graphjam Blog

Problem is they screwed up the axes of my graph, which makes it not nearly as funny. It was supposed to go from 1 to 5 and 5 to 1, respectively, for men and women. Cutting of the last bit definitely hurts the impact. Oh well.

Go to the voting pages to vote for my graph if you want it to make the main site. If not, just go straight to hell.


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