End of the road

Today dawned early as Toddler Jeneric and Baby Wily prepared for the big game - Vikings vs the Eagles.


The girls were ready to cheer in their Vikings' outfits.


Baby Wily can't believe what she's seeing. The Vikings did not bring their A-game.

We'll have to retire the jersey until next year (and the onesie, well, perhaps a doll could be convinced to wear it for a day).

Now with added fiber

Wow, are we regular in our postings or what? Don't believe me? Take a look at the right-hand navigation pane at the Archive. 55 posts in 2006, 53 posts each in 2007 and 2008. Even prune juice won't make you more regular! Here's to a 2009 where we skip the bran muffins and go straight to 3 or more posts per week.

Pictures tomorrow to brighten your return to work.

Start as you mean to go on

Welcome, 2009. We begin the year as we mean to continue, with more pictures and posts. More goofy grins, cute poses and quirky comments.

Toddler Jeneric kicks us off with her insistence on ending 2008 with a Grr! Hey, have you ever seen a lion in sunglasses and mittens (or snow, for that matter!)?

A green Christmas

Having narrowly escaped an epic storm system, the Wily Jeneric family spent a lovely 10 days in an unseasonably warm Florida.

We started off simple, with a dip in the pool (do note the lovely hair clip Eric is sporting):






And followed that up with a concert and Christmas parade.

Look at all those beads! Are they shiny enough to distract from her pox marks?


More beads, please! and candy, too!


Listening to smooth jazz Christmas carols with Grandma & Grandpa.

We hung some ornaments.




Baked a few (dozen) cookies.

Those cookie cutters make the best animal shapes ever!


Yeah, I convinced Grandpa to share the beater. Yum!

We visited the penguins at the zoo:


Fed a giraffe or two:


And communed with the fishes.


There were presents on Christmas,


And swimming, too!


For Boxing Day, we hit the beach:


Then we hurried home, quick as a snail:

where someone slept as we waited on the tarmac in Fort Wayne, Indiana (an unscheduled stopover on our return flight).

Although the sun and sand are gone, we're keeping our spirits high with our own kind of aquatic fun:


To our friends and family,
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and a peaceful New Year!

(Pox)^2

Oh, yes. And baby makes two.

(FYI: Baby Wily had her 2-month check-up yesterday, weighing in at 13#, 3 ox (63rd percentile) and reaching 23 1/4 inches (88th percentile). We'll have to return next week to get her first set of vaccines. Apparently, sick kids do not make for good vaccination risks.)

A pox upon our house!

Huzzah!

Many of you know we love science, but perhaps you did not know that we've been shunning the vaccine for Varicella zoster (chicken pox). It's not a bad vaccine, but it just seemed like too much. A shot for a disease that is typically harmless (yes, there are rare complications and we are keeping an eye open for those). Since Toddler Jeneric successfully contracted the virus on her own, we're done with that debate. And the timing couldn't have been better, since most of the activities have wound down for the year and she will be better by the holidays.

You might wonder about Baby Wily. In children under 6 months, chicken pox is quite rare as they still harbor the antibodies from their mother (provided she had chicken pox and, as I'm sure Jenni's parents can attest to, she definitely had the chicken pox). On the off-chance that Baby Wily does come down with chicken pox, it is likely to be quite mild.

Brought to you by the number 2!

What does 2 mean to the Wily Jeneric family today?

a. The number of ounces Baby Wily drank from a bottle.
b. The number of shoes Eric can now wear.
c. The number of job searches that Jenni applied to that were suspended due to economics.
d. Baby Wily's age
e. All of the above.

Got your answer? If you chose e, you'd be correct!