Happy Holidays 2007

"Train Train!" Jake said

"Ohh, you want to play train?" Mom said

"Yep" Jake nodded

So I found some trains and showed them to him.

"No no! No no! Train! Train!" Jake exclaimed

"Show me trains" Mom said - I always asked him to show me something if he gets upset or I don't understand what he was trying to say.

Jake went in the storage closet and pointed to the Thomas the Train box.

"Train! Train!"

"Let's ask Daddy if he wants to help" Mom said

Jake pushed the box toward Daddy who was sitting on the couch talking with his mom on the phone.

"Daddy, open open" Jake begged

"Jake, I'm talking to your grandma. Wait a few minutes"

"No! Train! Train!" Jake wailed and he was trying to open the box.

"Ok, Ok, I will help you" Daddy said

Daddy and Jake walked to the dining area and started to set the train set up. Daddy still was on the phone with Grandma A. She was the one who gave Jake the train set.

When the train set was set up - he was beaming with happiness and watching the trains go around the track.

Here is a mini movie (click play button to play) If you can't see the movie - Click here

Lisa Lampanelli: I was always [wondering] if God would maybe think my act was awful and make me deaf so I can’t do comedy no more, ’cause that’s why people are deaf; ’cause god hates them.

Male DJ: Now, listen, Lisa.

LL: God hates deaf people, what is wrong with you?

Male DJ: There are gonna be a lot of deaf people there.

LL: Oh, I hope so.

Female DJ: Well there will be. There’s a college within RIT that’s specifically for deaf students.

LL: Don’t you think deaf students, could be maybe just retarded, and they’re trying to sneak by saying they are deaf?

Male DJ: Lighten up a little bit.

Female DJ: You can’t make deaf jokes in this town. (The DJ’s quickly change the subject of conversation.)

Now, my question, what is the difference between Imus and Lampanelli? To me, NONE. At least Imus apologized that he made the “ho” statement, but Lampanelli didn’t give any crap. She went ahead with a show at RIT and without any apology to deaf community for the statement that she made.

It just appalled me greatly that Lampanelli still has a show at Comedy network and Imus was fired from NBC and CBS for making that statement. It makes me to wonder if we are being ignored.

Yes, I am in Orlando. It was last minute thing. A group who went to Orlando to give a presentation at a conference lost their technical person and they were very nervous and begged my boss to send me along so I bought the ticket yesterday morning and flew out at 5 pm yesterday afternoon. Now I am in Orlando airport, typing this blog before I fly back to DC.

Too bad, I couldn't stay here longer but I can't due to Jake. Jason has a friend visiting from Kansas and it was hell trying to arrange babysitters. Jason and Cameron are going to a hockey game tonight so Jake is staying at Noah's house until I come and pick him up at 10 pm tonight. I was supposed to arrive in DC at 8 30pm but we were stuck in the traffic on the way to the airport so I missed the earlier plane and am taking the later plane at 7:55 pm.

Last time I was in Orlando when I was 14, vacationing with my family. Things looks the same even the airport. It has not changed in 15 years. Jeez. It's so 80's. They need to upgrade the airport badly. Perhaps make the airport more interesting like creating airport that looks like Disney World, MGM and Universal Studios.

I better get going and walk around and see what they have in this lousy airport.

So many things had happened. Jason got an even better job and is making more than I do! He now is working for DOD in Crystal City. Our commuting is much easier now that we all ride together to work, I drop him off at the Pentagon since there is a shuttle there that will take him to another building in Crystal City. I continue go in the city and drop Jake at the daycare at my work, then me. We saved a lot of money using this method. Jason doesn' t have to use metro anymore and if Jake has a playdate in the afternoon, he would take a shuttle back home.

Jake now is 21 months old and is signing a lot of words. I was surprised when I saw him reading a book and saying colours by himself. He also can count up to 10. Now I am trying to teach him how to spell his name.

Send me a comment if anyone actually reads this blog. It is my own fault for neglecting this for so long.

The birth was surpirsely easy, but every women are different, I was fine with pains but I need the sleep because none of us went sleep the night before due to a severe thunderstorms that caused the cars' alarm going off in the parking lot until 2:30 in the morning and I couldn't sleep because of the lightening, and Jason was a little scared because the windows were rattling badly - he said "i hope we still have windows tomorrow". It finally sudised at around 2:30 and we finally went sleep, but we had to get up at 5 30 to go to the hospital. So I was so exhausted by 11 am and asked for epidural so I can sleep. I slept until 5 pm, then the doctor checked me and was disappointed that I was still at 6 cm (I was 4 cm dilated when I checked in the hospital and once I got pitcotin, it dilated to 6 cm immediately) They thought I will have a short labour but apparently not. Anyway at 5 pm, the doctor said if I wasnt dilated to 10 cm by 6 pm, then we would have to consider about c section. But by 6:15 when the doctor finally came in and gave a yelp. Said that I'm ready to give a birth. by 7:30, Jake made his grand entrance :) To see the pictures - you can look in my photo albumn and check it out.

Anyway, here is my favourite picture of Jake at 5 and half weeks - just before he goes in for his first swim in the pool at my father's house.