08 September 2010

The pool project has made some serious headway in the last two days.  It's almost done!  Here are the pictures for tonight and we have a time-lapse video of the last two days.  You can also see Nora's new favorite mommy game.  Nora loves to mush her face into Jaime's shoulder then she [Nora] laughs and does it again and again.

Time Lapse: Two day pool install special

Okay... and we have a Zoo challenge winner!  It's MJ!  a.k.a. MJ 'the queen' who is quite famous in our large SMA circle.   Look for your special message coming soon.  Oh and BTW:  How the heck did so many of you know the answer?  You people frighten me with your otherwise useless knowledge.

07 September 2010

We went back to the Zoo on labor day ironically enough while the pool guys were working.  We have pool lights installed now!  They don't have power yet, I'll be hooking that up tomorrow evening.  At least the install went well.  At one point I came out and saw two holes cut into the pool.

Anyway, the zoo.  I did say we bought a season pass, didn't I?  Well we are going to use it.  Nora had fun and she got a really close look at this mystery animal. that I got a few close-up shots of.

First person to correctly guess the Mystery Animal,  gets a personalized message from Nora.

Like the one she sent to mommy in the pictures below.  The Mystery animal has Mystery Animal visible in the picture.  It's not the pig, donkey. or the Mexican pool guys.

Click the comments link at the bottom of the post to add your guess  ...or click here: Comments

06 September 2010

It's been a pretty lazy weekend.  The pool guys have been off so there isn't much progress since the last update.  Electrical is installed.  The pool still has the same two feet of water that you saw on the last video.  The water is now hella gross with all sorts of bugs and green goo growing in it.  It's more like a pond now then a pool.  Jaime and I are wondering if they will drain it, fill it with bleach, drain that, then start filling it again.  We hope so.   The pool crew comes back on tomorrow (Monday) to install the lights and hopefully the pump and heater.

We had some University of Tennessee architecture students come over on Saturday to design us a ramp to get from the deck to the pool.  There is a four foot height difference so the ramp must be 48 feet long to comply with code.  Yeah, that's no type-o.  Almost 50 feet of ramp,

We had a backup Nurse come over on Sunday.  She will be Nurse Kim's backup since NK has brain surgery in a week.  There is another nurse we get to interview before we make our decision.

Nora is doing great especially because mommy is home.  She's been talking up a storm and we are trying to get her to sing.  We took her to Border's books on Saturday evening to let her pick out a book....but left with three.  We had our first public mini meltdown as Nora did not want to leave the children's book section.  There was some Elmo paraphernalia in there that Nora had to let everyone know about.  She must have done her Elmo sound perhaps, 80 times, at least.  We were like "yeah, yeah okay we get it".  Jaime kept pulling books from the shelves and reading a few pages, then deciding we didn't want that book, put it back.  Apparently, Nora wants us to buy every book mommy touches.  We really need to get that girl out more often, because it was really fun - despite the tears.

02 September 2010

Jaime is out of town on business so I've been taking care of Nora.  Not single-handed though.  Nurse Kim is here during the day and has really been helping me out to prepare all her nighttime food and meds.  I would not be able to work this whole week if it wasn't for Nurse Kim.  Speaking of the great NK, she taught Nora to do "I Don't know" with her hands.  It's pretty funny to see and you can really see how hard Nora has to work to get it.   This video is mostly for Jaime since I know she's having a hard time being away from Nora.  Enjoy the video, my dear sweet wife and please hurry home!  lol

No Mommy video - father and daughter time