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:: Thursday, January 11, 2007 ::
holy crap. its been a while since i posted and it seems that i've never been busier. anyways in the interest of catch-up-time, here's my holiday email...
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I keep meaning to write one of these catch up letters and, well, here it is. Better late than never. If you want the short version and your life is busy, then Happy Holidays!
…if you want the long version (you’ve probably already read it in my blog or on flickr), read on…also, feel free to tell me to stop spamming you and I might listen. Lets keep in touch.
Artwork for our card ungraciously stolen from the website www.shaketheglobe.com (at least I admitted it)
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Its been another busy year in the WongWong household for 2006. Having a baby keeps us all on the brink of madness/happiness. Amber is flourishing at 15 months and is no longer the bald headed screaming machine of early spring. We were able to stay sane and get through the zombie sleep starved first 7 months before Amber started sleeping through the night. Barely. And Amber’s just growing and learning more all the time. Over the year she’s cut 9 teeth, learned to sleep through the night, mastered crawling, dabbled in standing/cruising and has a few sign language hand signals under her belt. She’s babbling a lot and only has a few real words with her made up ones. She’s made tons of baby friends from mommy classes and been out to the parks, dance class, library time and mother goose for playdates. Lilli even got a car so we could stay mobile for the winter. Its been 18 years since mom has driven so this is a big step. Amber’s allergies are getting better, no more cradlecap, just a little eczema and an egg allergy, although we were stumped by our recent 911 visit to Children’s Hospital for a major anaphalactic reaction. She’s doing great and is turning out to be quite the little cutie. At least we think so. She loves all her doting relatives and friends and is thankful for all their generous gifts! We’ve just started gradual entry for familycare where there are a few kids to play with and she’s learning to get used to the new routine. We think she’ll even learn some Chinese there some mom and dad can practice too. She’s just started waking up again in the night so she can practice her standing/cruising skills. Just in time for mom to go back to work.
Lilli is finally heading back to Blast Radius after 15 months off. We’ll see how different the office is after so long and a revolving door of new and old co-workers coming and going. She barely remembers how to use her mac but is a master of posting pictures to her Flickr account and checking craigslist.org for sale items. The year to date includes such accomplishments as gaining over 30 lbs, losing over 35 lbs, then gaining another 5 lbs, coping with insomnia, planning two block parties, creating a neighbourhood email listserve, publishing a summer edition of the neighbourhood newspaper, learning to drive (again), raising a baby, overseeing the garage renos and yard demolition, helping to paint street banners with the kids, handing out neighbourhood small grant funds, clearing out the house with garage sales, and hosting the family xmas parties. Phew. It’ll be a relief to get back to work.
Mike has been working hard at Radical on some Vivendi video game titles like Scarface, and the Hulk. He’s been able to commiserate with the other new dads on the team and compare how Amber’s doing with their little geniuses. He loves to come home and recuperate with a little baby time (and/or Counterstrike). She’s daddy’s little girl. Our garage/yard renos were a major pain in the neck since we started so late in the year trying to get contractors. Mike finally ended up doing most of the work with his brothers and its coming along great! We barely got a roof and some tarpaper up before the snows and rainstorms hit. It water tight until the spring when we’ll try to finish it off and have everyone over for a bbq bash. That kind of sums it up for us.
Hope the year has been treating you all well and we’d love to catch up with you all. Happy holidays and a great 2007.
:: lilz 8:39 PM ::
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