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Easter 2015

April 11, 2015 1:53 pm

Mom was here helping with Corinne for a few weeks and she happened to be here over Easter. She helped Heather dye some eggs and made sugar cookies and cooked Easter dinner. Thanks Mom!

The Easter Bunny paid us a visit but just when Heather discovered what had happened it started raining. And it rained right up until we finished finding eggs and came back inside, so that was really convenient. Heather didn't care though and it wasn't too cold regardless.

The Easter Bunny hid 4 special "golden" eggs for Jess.

They found almost everything, but got stuck on the final egg.

And some additional photos:

Tech Museum

12:54 pm

Heather's been feeling a little uneasy about the new family organization. So on April 1st I took the day off and we went down to the Tech Museum in San Jose for which Mike and Tina gave us a gift certificate for Christmas.

Heather had a blast.

We started with the requisite Chick-Fil-A, since one was in the area. As we pulled in to the parking lot Heather began exclaiming, "I love Chick-Fil-A. We're so close I can almost taste it!" And as soon as we walked in, "This is the best day ever!"

So the trip started off good.

At the Tech Museum she liked playing with the infrared camera:

And anything she could put her hands on, which was pretty much everything:

The downside of the visit was that the place was crawling with school groups with little to no supervision. Nothing particularly bad, but every exhibit was therefore swamped and trying to get a chance to play with it was difficult at times. But, after about 2:30 when all the school groups left it was quite nice. Heather got a chance to have the robot artist draw her picture:

And the spelling robot wrote her name in blocks:

It was fun. We'll have to go back sometime.

Corinne Olivia Dickerson

March 19, 2015 2:49 pm

Born Tuesday March 17, 2015 at 1:15pm. 7 pounds 6.9 ounces and 20.5 inches long.

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Additional details will follow in a different post.

Family Pictures

February 24, 2015 8:26 pm

Heather drew pictures of each of us today. I find it fascinating that all children go through a phase where people are just heads with appendages. But look at those faces! Eyebrows! And the possibly intentional size difference between Heather and us!

If you look really closely at Heather, next to her right hand is a little dot. She added that so that she wouldn't be lonely. She's been spending a fair bit of time on measures to not be lonely lately. I think she's feeling a little neglected with all the turmoil happening in the house over the last couple weeks as we try to get everything rearranged and ready for the baby. Hopefully we'll have time to give her some attention before her world gets turned completely upside down.

Consistency!

February 15, 2015 5:39 pm

Along with rewiring the house (and re-arranging furniture to put Heather in what is currently the office) I wanted to get all the switches, outlets, wall plates, etc. in the house to a common style.

When we moved in there were white and beige items with varying styles of outlets, outlet covers, rocker switches, and toggle switches. Now (except for the garage) all of the switches and outlets are a consistent style (rocker switches) and color (white).

Had to replace 4 bags worth of stuff:

But now we have these:

Hooray!