So we're at the post office the other day and I'm attempting to mail a couple packages. No easy feat with Miss Nicole tagging along. She truly is living up to her Curious George moniker. I'm in the middle of the transaction with the mail clerk and I look over to see a 7-foot cardboard Star Wars display tumbling to the ground. Of course, it was our friend, Nicky George, who caused the toppling of R2-D2 , Darth Vadar, C-3PO and the like. I'm completely mortified and I rush over to try and undo the damage. Unfortunately, whatever sort of balance this unwieldy display possessed has now vanished at the hands of our little magician, Nicole the Amazing Trouble Maker Extraordinaire. I'm frantically trying to make the darned display stand up while at least a dozen people wait in line watching me. I've become the entertainment for the bored post office patrons. I know they're thinking Can't she control that child? So embarrassing!
Anyway, I somehow manage to lean the display against the wall and it precariously balances there. I return to the counter, expecting the mail clerk to be angry for messing with USPS property, but he has a bemused expression on his face. He says in a surprisingly hopeful tone Do you think the display's broken?
Oh, I don't know. I'm sure it can be fixed, I say with little conviction. It sure seems broken to me, but at this point I just want to get out of the place. He goes on to tell me that there are several Star Wars fans just chomping at the bit to bring this display home with them so if it's broken, the display is up for grabs. They've even written their names on the back! Now I feel better. Nicole's mischievious act is going to make one of the legions of Star Wars fans a happy person. 
Oh, and if you're wondering why the US Post Office has Star Wars displays, it's because they're going to be releasing Star Wars stamps. They've even transformed some of the blue collection boxes to look like R2-D2 as a promotion for the new stamps.
May the force be with you.
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May 12, 2007
New House!
Nicole has a new mantra and she says this with the enthusiasm that is usually reserved for a certain annoying purple dinosaur, high-pitched furry red monster or that other mythological creature, “Daddy!” This mantra is “New House!” All of us in the George Household are a little over-excited about moving to the new house. After living in limbo for over 2-1/2 months, we’re ready to lay down roots again. I have to admit, checking on the house has been a bit of an obsession with me. When we first moved here, I would drive by the house every day. After the exterior of the house was completed, it became a bit trickier to log its progress since I was pretty sure the workmen wouldn’t appreciate me winding my way through the house with three kids in tow. So we now try and limit our viewings to the weekends when we don’t have to worry about walking through a minefield of construction supplies. Nicole and the boys seem even more energized than usual during these visits to the new house. It’s like they sense our excitement and when let loose, they bounce around the house like it’s a giant pinball machine. They become Uber-Georges. Anyone who has seen how enthusiastic our little monkeys are on a daily basis can imagine how ramped up they get on the drug called “New House!” Maybe the fact that I literally started jumping up and down when I saw the kitchen gave the kids a clue that mommy was excited about “New House!”
the kitchen
Only a little over a month to go … We can’t wait!!! Did I say we were excited? (Sorry if I sound a little like a Katie Holmes robot. I have not been brainwashed by Scientologists. I’m truly excited. Ooops, said it again.)
May 10, 2007
Baby Leopard Revisited
I've been thinking a lot about the Summer of 2004 recently. That's when Miss Nicky George began her life as a 2 pound, 1 oz miracle. It's amazing that I don't think of Nicole's early struggles more often. It's easy to forget when you have a vivacious, bright and funny as all get-out toddler like Nicole that she began her life hooked up to machines.
Two things have brought me back to those early days in the Good Sam NICU. One is that the book club I started in Austin chose a book by Ann Leary (wife of Denis Leary) called "An Innocent, A Broad." Ann tells her story of how she and Denis travelled to London when she was 26 weeks pregnant and unfortunately her water broke. She was placed on hospital bed-rest in a London hospital, but two weeks later her son Jack was born. In a sardonic tone, Ann describes how she navigated not only the NICU, but the cultural differences in Britain as well. Jack is now a hale and hearty teenager so we can all breathe a sigh of relief that it turned out well.
The second event that has brought this all back is that a woman named Kate in Nova Scotia just recently delivered identical twin boys at 27 weeks gestation due to twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. This is the same condition that precipitated Nicole and Peyton's delivery. A friend from my twins group in San Jose told me about this woman's recent birth since she knew that we had gone through the same thing. They are both involved in an online mom's group called "Maya's Mom" . Kate has poignantly written about the birth of these very fragile little guys in her blog: Sweet/Salty .
She is a gifted
writer and her descriptions have brought back a lot of feelings that I
never really documented.
Here's a photo of our little leopard a week before we brought her home from the NICU. She was 6 lbs even. I remember taking her out shortly after she returned home and people asking me if she was a preemie. "How do they know?" I wondered. When you have a baby in the NICU, your reference point gets very skewed. You get accustomed to seeing very little babies. For us, 6 lbs was HUGE!
Barton wore his "Livestrong" bracelet for the duration of Nicole's NICU stay.
much bigger now!
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