http://www.kirchhoff-family.com/wordpress Family Life Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:07:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It echoed through the house this morning as I got out of the shower.  In my head, I beat out the mantra, "Stop.  Stop.  Stop."  Only, when I saw the cause of the ruckus I smiled and couldn't tell Carlo to stop.  He's so inventive.  He'd dragged down two of ... http://www.kirchhoff-family.com/wordpress/2008/11/21/boom-boom-boom/ By golly, I love Noelle.  I love her personality and her self-confidence. At school she and her classmates make books every week.  The teacher provides the start of a sentence and gives each child a blank sheet with a big area for a picture and a line below.  The children cut ... http://www.kirchhoff-family.com/wordpress/2008/11/20/i-like-my-jewelry/ http://www.kirchhoff-family.com/wordpress/2008/11/20/carlo-home-with-a-stomach-bug/ I've been writing an essay in my head on and off about adoption, international adoption, etc. This research, my children, adult adoptees ... so much to consider when thinking about adoption. The Lie We Love Suffice it to say that, as with much in life, nothing is clear cut ... there ... http://www.kirchhoff-family.com/wordpress/2008/11/18/the-lie-we-love-at-the-schuster-institute-at-brandeis-university/ Carlo had new tubes put in his ears on Friday.  There was nothing else for it.  The old ones had come out after only seven months, whereupon he instantly got an ear infection.  Seeing as he has not had any ear infections since the first tubes went in last February ... http://www.kirchhoff-family.com/wordpress/2008/11/16/i-dont-ever-want-to-go-to-that-doctor-again-never-again/ Nicky April 2006 September 2007 November 2008 6 years and 8 mo 8 years and 2 mo 9 years and 4 mo 35.5 lb, <3rd percentile 42.75 lb, <3rd percentile 48 lb, <3rd percentile 43", <3rd percentile 45.5", <3rd percentile 47.5", <3rd percentile Noelle August 2004 September 2007 November 2008 1 year and 1 mo 4 years and 2 mo 5 years and 4 mo 21.9 ... http://www.kirchhoff-family.com/wordpress/2008/11/12/kids-are-growing/ Nicky, Noelle and I cast my votes today (lots of terms up in NJ this go round).  Not Carlo.  He got dropped off at school, first.  I brought Noelle to vote with me at every election since she came home and she has always behaved just fine.  I brought Carlo ... http://www.kirchhoff-family.com/wordpress/2008/11/04/voted/ TVLand is showing 3rd Rack From the Sun in a marathon, apparently. Oh, it was good, wasn't it? I might have to delete off those two seasons of Battlestar Galactica that have been waiting for me to get to them for months to make room for it.  I can go buy those ... http://www.kirchhoff-family.com/wordpress/2008/11/03/3rd-rock-from-the-sun/ Well, I had to follow-up. :-) I emailed the coordinator in Nicky's orthopedist's office to see if she had contact information for the neural monitoring fellow.  She responded and said not to worry.  She'd follow-up with them and have them properly resubmit and I wouldn't ever get a bill, because they ... http://www.kirchhoff-family.com/wordpress/2008/11/03/nothing-like-insurance-claims-2/ Gotta love them, don't you.  There is always one I'm working on at any given time. Nothing like getting a check for $760.60 and an EOB that says you'll owe the provider $2208.37.  I suppose it could be much worse, given the $$$ CHOP actually bills for Nicky's surgeries.  This is ... http://www.kirchhoff-family.com/wordpress/2008/11/03/nothing-like-insurance-claims/