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A bit of misfortune
Emma is due this week! Thursday, Feb 18 is our official day. On sunday evening Thao returned home from work and felt extra tired, and retired to bed while I watched the end of the superbowl. I slept in our guest bed to give her some rest, and the next morning she had the day off but seemed a little sick. She had a small cough, her voice didn’t sound great, and we figured she might need some more rest. By Tuesday she had a fever and was clearly sick. She wondered if it might be covid but I said it was still early. On wednesday she decided to go…
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Happy Holidays!
Hope you had a peaceful holiday break. Thao had a week off, and we got into the holiday spirit by opening a bunch of gifts – that we bought for new baby Emma. For the past few months we’ve been receiving lots of packages from our baby registry, many that we ordered and many from friends and family. We squirreled them away in the closet until last week, when T announced it was time to start opening things and finding a place for them. So we pulled out all the boxes and began unpackaging. Thao did a particularly clever thing surrounding a buy buy baby promotion that gifted you a…
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We got Showered!
Our friends threw a baby shower for us this past weekend and it was beautiful. It was really touching to see all the people who came out for us.
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Sarasota
thao and i took a trip to sarasota this past weekend. we found a dog friendly airbnb in bradenton, about 15 minutes north of siesta key beach. The De Soto National Memorial Siesta Key Beach doesn’t allow dogs so we went to the de soto national memorial park thinking we might find some shoreline there. It was beautiful but not beachy; it’s mostly mangroves along some 3,000 feet of coastline. It’s set up with some educational installations that history buffs may find interesting. The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Our second day we visited the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. John Ringling was…
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Road Trip to the Carolinas
Thao had a week of vacation and we decided to take a road trip up to the smokey mountains and check out the fall foliage. The leaves don’t really seem to change color here in Florida. Given the pandemic and wanting to take Kalbi along with us we opted to drive. It was Kalbi’s first long trip in a car and we were a little worried about how he’d do, but he didn’t give us any trouble. We drove about 7 hours up to greenville on the first day, and then a couple hours up to our cabin at mars hill, which is about 20 mins north of Asheville. T…
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reading
thao’s been reading this book each night before bed. so many new things for us to learn!
