Today...

[ladymoreta]

Kris, she's adorable!!!

FYI, I believe I started a thread on Babywise, and it came up in a few of my other sleep help threads about DS, so if anyone is interested, you might start looking around spring and summer of 2010 in the infants forum. Lots of my friends used and swore by it, but it wasn't a good fit for us.

[HouseofWool]

Thanks guys. She was so happy to start the class tonight. I think she thought dance class is all day long and possibly a boarding school.

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[Curegirl]

Kris, she's gorgeous!!!

[poky]

Thanks guys. She was so happy to start the class tonight. I think she thought dance class is all day long and possibly a boarding school.

You didn't read her this to give her that idea, did you? http://www.amazon.com/Ballet-Shoes-S.../dp/0679847596

[SuzySunshine]

You didn't read her this to give her that idea, did you? http://www.amazon.com/Ballet-Shoes-S.../dp/0679847596

Whenever I see that book I think of You've Got Mail

[HouseofWool]

You didn't read her this to give her that idea, did you? http://www.amazon.com/Ballet-Shoes-S.../dp/0679847596

Nope. But, I must have read Ballet Shoes and Skating Shoes a dozen times each as a girl. I hope she will like them as much as I did.

Really, I think she is just excited to be doing a big kid activity that doesn't involve her brother. When the teacher came out and started gathering up the kiddos, S rocked it. When asked her name she stated full first, middle, and last names. She didn't fuss about going off by herself and came out happy as a clam, wanting to know if she could stay and do another class.

[Curegirl]

I used to read the Bad News Ballet series while growing up. All this ballet talk makes me want to go back to dancing! Kris, your daughter sounds so delightful!

[SoonerTexan]

I read Ballet Shoes and Theater Shoes

[GreyhoundsRUs]

She's so grown-up, Kris

[Liisi]

Today, I'm actually enjoying the rain and wind... cozy inside with chamomile honey vanilla tea

[MrsK]

Today, I made a major breakthrough in my geneology research. I've been trying to learn more about my reputedly crazy g-grandmother forever and I haven't been able to get anywhere. I had a names of parents that didn't match anything or make sense in the context of my family. I heard that my g-grandmother may have been adopted. I had records showing that she immigrated to the US from Hungary as a 3yo and somehow ended up in the midwest without parents but it does not appear that she was on an orphan train.

I also had my grandmother's courthouse wedding picture with her aunt and uncle, the only witnesses to the wedding. About 25 years ago, my grandmother told me that her Uncle Irving and Aunt Pearl from California had been in town and it was their 35th wedding anniversary so they went with her and my grandfather to the courthouse. She also mentioned that her uncle was a doctor. I've been looking for his decendents to see if anyone was researching his family.

The other day, I googled his name and came up with one image. An eyeglass case from a 1930's optomitrist's office in San Francisco. It was posted on a facebook page by the optomitrist's grandson who is a third-generation optomistrist. I contacted him and it turns out, we are cousins. His grandfather was Uncle Irving. He'd never heard of my g-grandmother but said that his Uncle Irving was one of several children. He and his sister Anna - who I also found in my grandmother's photo album - were sent to live with relatives in the Ohio after their mother married a wealthy man who did not want to keep all the children from her prior marriage. He says that they each got one of a set of candlesticks. He has one of the candlesticks and a woman came into his optomitry shop about 6 months ago with the other candlestick; she is a decended from Anna and she's still living. Then he asks me about a last name that he vaguely remembers because his grandfather had cousins who had a name something like. . . It was the name I had for my g-g-grandmother! The name that didn't match anything or make sense or appear to have anything to do with the city in which my g-grandmother lived most of her life. It's the family (probably cousins) that adopted her when she immigrated here. Woo Woo! And now my research has me fishing around in Ohio where I never thought to look. I found them in the census, they are from Hungary too, and their decendents are in the same business they were in 4 generations ago. Off and running!

This is my idea of a good time.

[ladymoreta]

How fun, MrsK! It makes me think about what genealogy research will be like in a couple of centuries. If technology hasn't obsoleted itself, our descendants can find out so much about us and our daily lives!

[MrsK]

How fun, MrsK! It makes me think about what genealogy research will be like in a couple of centuries. If technology hasn't obsoleted itself, our descendants can find out so much about us and our daily lives!

Heaven help us if they find our iMSN discussions. "G-grandma wrote THAT in the Sex & Intimacy subforum?"

Very cool, MrsK! What parts of Ohio?

Cinci!

[diggitydot]

OMG, that is an amazing find!

[MrsK]

Right? She immigrated in 1890 as a 3yo. How on earth would I have ever found anything confirming or disproving an adoption - whether formal or not - from 120 years ago. I'm completely amazed. My new-found cousin says he had a suitcase full of photos and documents, all in Hungarian or Hebrew, including photographs of the Hungarian cemetary where our ancestors are buried. I'm going to have to keep after him to get those scanned so I can send them out for translation. I'm going to contact the other cousin with the candlestick (she's the daugher of a daughter of a daughter so I hope she'll have more on the oral history since the women usually do) and the adoptive family in Cinci too.