Traveling with 3 month olds

Flying with a 3 month old is nothing! It's easy! At 3 months, Caleb had flown to Illinois, California and Florida.

Driving with a 3 month old is a whole other ball of wax. You can't take the baby out of the car seat when you're driving (as opposed to at the airport or on the plane). Plus, the same trip takes only a few hours instead of 3 days. (Yes, 3 days of driving from Wichita to Cleveland.) Have I mentioned that Reva only likes the car 50% of the time? The rest of the time is spent screaming, even if we're moving! (If you don't have kids, you haven't yet learned that stoplights are evil. It's one of the great discoveries of parenting.)

I would much rather be flying, but we couldn't afford 4 tickets this year. Josh'll be done with his dissertation next year, though, and working, so hopefully we won't have the same problem.

We're sorry we won't get to meet Julia just yet. But we're looking forward to seeing her in May.

(This is in reference to Doug's comment below about New Years. Apparently, the new version of Blogger is not good enough to recognize an account that has been converted as a team member of this blog, so no comments from Jill until Doug has a bit of time to switch the blog over. Hopefully that won't be too long since I think it's out of beta now. Sadly for you, I can still create new posts.)

Happy Birthdays!

Happy Birthday to Mr. Papsdorf and Mrs. Greenwald. I hope the first day of your fourth decade was spectacular (and that I got your ages correct).

Our Eyes Only

The new version of blogger lets you make blogs password-protected and just for authors. Doug could make the BLD blog visible only to those of us with passwords so we could post pictures with impunity (which I do anyway, but I know some people are more careful).

Just a suggestion. (I'm sure the new blogger does lots of other things, too, but I haven't spent too much time looking at it.)

new years plans

hello all. if you are coming to lovely cleveland for new years, please let me know your plans when you get the chance. all i know so far:

- the mazzuccos are coming by plane, arriving saturday & departing monday; i have their flight info
- the papsdorfs are coming by car, arriving saturday & departing TBA
- maurissa can't come

i should probably start planning food and sleeping arrangements so just give me the heads up.

hope you are all doing well and can't wait to see you.

New Address

Devon and I moved into our new house on Nov 17th. We're still organizing things, but some pictures are up and the tree is decorated. I don't want to post the address online, but as soon as I get the internet connected, I'll email it out. All previous addresses should get forwarded to us so never fear. We are now officially in Modesto. We're renting, but it's nice to be in a home without neighbors on the other side of the wall. I hope the holidays are treating you all well.

Rob

Joining the ranks

Hi Friends,
I made the requisite call to Shan, so I thought it safe to post my crazy news! (I hope she doesn't mind my teasing her)
Jay and I told our parents this Thanksgiving that we're expecting a baby in July. I guess that makes it true. Although, given our schedules of late--Jay phrased it best when I told him, How is that *possible*?
Regardless of the logisitics, which I shall spare you, I am well on my way to getting pudgy and to setting records for peeing. Luckily, since I've been on surgery, after an initial pep talk, baby has been quite cooperative in the morning sickness department. If not for the exhaustion, which may be work's fault somewhat, there are times when I could forget that I'm pregnant. I'm almost afraid to write that--better go knock on some wood.
Miss you all!
Fondly,
Kristin

The flight is booked

The Mazzuccos are going to Cleveland. All four of us, Dec 30 to Jan 1.
See you there...
Info below


Philadelphia, PA (PHL) to Cleveland, OH (CLE) on Sat., Dec. 30, 2006
Cleveland, OH (CLE) to Philadelphia, PA (PHL) on Mon., Jan. 1, 2007
A confirmation e-mail of your itinerary will be sent to dcm3@alum.dartmouth.org.
Flight Details:
Depart:
6:30 a.m.
Sat., Dec. 30, 2006
Philadelphia, PA (PHL) Arrive:
8:05 a.m.
Cleveland, OH (CLE) Travel Time:
1 hr 35 mn OnePass Miles/
Elite Qualification:
500 /100% Flight: CO2488
Aircraft: Embraer RJ145
Fare Class: Economy (I)
Meal: None
No Special Meal Offered.
Continental flight 2488 operated by ExpressJet Airlines, Inc. dba Continental Express.
Depart:
3:17 p.m.
Mon., Jan. 1, 2007
Cleveland, OH (CLE) Arrive:
4:47 p.m.
Philadelphia, PA (PHL) Travel Time:
1 hr 30 mn OnePass Miles/
Elite Qualification:
500 /100% Flight: CO1599
Aircraft: Boeing 737-800
Fare Class: Economy (I)
Meal: None
No Special Meal Offered.

ThirdEye

Julia, please ask your dad to add the Third Eye Associates website to the list of BLD links.

The site its' quite up and running yet, but you can check it out anyway.

Dan

Happy Thanksgiving

Gobble gobble

Mr. Papsdorf Goes to Washington

Just thought I would let you all know that if you're looking for something fun and exciting in our nation's capital this weekend I could probably sneak you into "Christ's Descent to the Dead in the Early Latin Church: The Eternal Fate of Those Who Died before Christ."

Yes, that's right, yours truly will be discussing the doctrine of Christ's descent to the dead as it developed in early Latin Church at the AAR meeting in Washington D.C. this Saturday. Now for those of you who aren't excited by the prospect of discussing obscure doctrines from the 5th century the AAR is also the place to hear about the latest developments in feminist, post-colonial interpretations of just about anything and breaking news in Wicca studies, so a good time can be had by all. (I'm sure Lincoln and Rob would be enthralled.)

So, if any of you happen to be in the neighborhood trying cases before the Supreme Court (Kevin), lobbying for looser regulations in the biomedical field (Dan), or trying to sell confused tourists Abraham Lincoln's car (Willis), let me know. Otherwise, I'll try to sneak into some really funny papers so I can post some fun synopses next week.

That is all.

P.S. Reva, Caleb, Jill, etc., are doing fine.

The Company

Aqumen Biopharmaceuticals. Add it to the blog list if you want to. Yee haw!

Two weeks' notice

The day has finally come.

Today I accepted a position as Director of Regulatory Affairs and Project Management at a startup medical device company (I'll tell you the name when it's public knowledge). The job requires 70% of my time, and it allows me to do whatever I want in my free time.

Tomorrow I give two weeks notice at my company.

The Monday after Thanksgiving, Third Eye Associates, my regulatory consulting and product development company officially launches.

Thanks, everyone, for their prayers. I'm really excited for this to finally be happening. Now, of course, we have to find some paying clients.

New Year's Eve dates

I need to submit for my vacation days and was wondering when people are arriving and leaving Cleveland.

I started work again yesterday. It's hard to believe Reva is already 6 weeks old.

good times

we got a new cat. his name is sam. he has the luxury of staying at my house and trying to eat my cereal. when gretl, our other cat, visits from hillary's apartment, he likes to sit on sam and bite his neck. if i have kids, i hope they are just as well behaved.

Mo Dee gets her due

For those who don't still get the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, the "Seen & Heard" section has a blurb about and even a photo of our very own Maurissa and her work on "Over the Hedge". Woohoo!