Infant Soy Formula

hmm...guess my last picture didn't work. oh well.

Here is a great article on soy, this woman is a weston price chapter leader and publicist for the Weston A Price Foundation.

http://hartkeisonline.com/2009/12/30/soy-infant-formula-buyer-beware/

Family resemblance

I just got this picture by email. This is my moms mom, so E's great grandmother....crazy!

Makeover

E is in DC for a few days (we'll join her on Thurs) NeeNee gave her a gorgeous makeover today. Thanks Lil, now my 7 year old looks like a very short 20 year old going out on the town ;)

Missionaries

This companionship was our favorite last year, they are back together again downtown. And now they are superstars! Also you can read more here

Sadly I am all out of pictures. Our camera is gone forever. We are guessing that L threw it in the trash. We have turned our little apt. upside down and it is nowhere to be found. Meanwhile I will post some old pictures from a picture CD that I found. The only one we have pre digital camera. ( I was too cheap to get them every time I had pictures developed.) But right now I am eating a grapefruit and too lazy to go and get it. So in the interim enjoy my sisters latest post about REAL milk :)

Halloween

This is so late!

Hannah Montana, a little too sexy but it was because the only clean jeans she had were a little too big and sagged.

Arrrrgh... our little pirate....or orthodox Jew with a bloody sword. We kept getting asked what he was supposed to be so apparently I didn't do a good enough job with his costume...but hey it was free! I'm sure my kids will grow up and tell their therapists about all of their homemade hand me down costumes. (check out the sidebar for 2007's costume)

We went to Chelsea Market on Fri. Here is Xan Man running away.

Checking out the loot.

Can tried to get them to eat the entrails....

L was not having it. E is always a better sport than he is....sometimes he's so dang serious.

The finished product....so expertly done as always.

L is of course shaking his booty.

We found some cleaner jeans that fit a little bit better for the ward party on Sat.

Halloween is always fun because its the one time when my kids can go nutso with the candy. We do have it occasionally at other times but very small amounts. Anyway they go crazy for one day and then its gonzo.

I won the LOTTERY!!!

OK so it wasn't the REAL lottery but it was the Wicked lottery which truthfully is almost as good. When the guy called my name we all screamed...we were the only ones who screamed. It was almost like a Dr's office waiting room. No enthusiasm whatsoever. Oh my name got called? Thats nice, I guess I'll go wait in this line over here now. Seriously, major lamos.

I tagged along with Karley and her friend from UT. Since K had seen it already her friend Tiff and I went. Anyway, I won and we were excted and then because it was the some kind o anniversary they were calling 2 extra people. When Karley's name got called we just about peed ourselves. Come to find out (when we were trying to pay for her tickets) that she won.....a book. We got moted. Whatev, she got a book and we got to see wicked in the front row for 25 bones.

This is the stage. That is the "curtain" being raised. My knees were up against the orchestra stand. So friggin awesome. Oh and the play was awesome. The girl who played Gahhlinda was Laura Woyasz...she was A-mazing.

Watch it Here

Cord Clamping

I saw this great blog article by an OB/GYN about delayed cord clamping, a practice that has been done for who knows how long by the known world and continues to be done by most midwives. But now that OB's are talking about it hopefully it will be something that will be looked at more and accepted more by Dr's. Recently I had a client tell me that her Dr wouldn't "allow" delayed cord clamping, simply stating that it was extremely dangerous to the baby. Well, during the birth, his partner who attended the birth was MORE than happy to allow the cord to finish pulsing before cutting. When we told him that his partner was adamantly opposed to it he said "No way, really? He must've been joking" Oy.

Here is the article. I am going to paste below my favorite part of the article :)

I wonder at times why delayed cord clamping has not become the standard already; why by and large we have not heeded the literature. It is sad to say that I believe it is because the champions of this practice have not been doctors, but midwives, and sometimes we are influenced by prejudice. Clearly, midwives and doctors tend to have some different ideas about how labor should be managed, but in the end data is data. We championed evidence based medicine, but tend to ignore evidence when it comes from the wrong source, which is unfair. It is fair to critique the research and the methods used to write it, but it shouldn’t matter who the author is. In this case, Mercer and other midwives have done the world a favor by scientifically addressing this issue, and their data deserves serious consideration.

Snow Globe

This is L's "lemon juice" (or a fake picture of it b/c I can't find my camera) We don't know why he calls it this, but he does and he loves it. When he can't find it he asks "where's my wemon juice?" and upon finding it: "Oh, hehe ders my wemon juice"

Fieldtrip

E's class took a fieldtrip to the Union Square Farmers Market, one of my favorite places in the city so of course I had to chaperone.

When I got to school with L Miss Krady was a bit (very) nervous that I wouldn't be able to keep track of one extra child.....one extra 7 year old. hmmm....she must not be a parent :)

Eric P was my extra kid and of course he didn't go wandering off...aren't I a good babysitter? And just for the record I was the only ONLY parent who didn't lose track of any of their kids at one time or another. Boo Ya. I myself was a little unnerved during the subway ride when the boys were acting like houligans and their mothers weren't saying anything. Oh well at least they didn't get any parenting advice from any nosy NY'ers. (I have a great nosy NYer story to come)