and we're back. [Walt, Wizards, and....Woolungasaurus?]

[bumbershoot]

I think I have wasted quite a bit of the day just waiting to check the MIL in for her flight. I didn't want to miss the window so I haven't done anything meaningful (other than take care of and hang out with Eamon of course).

10 more minutes to go.

Which reminds me of the torture that is the 2'ish more weeks until I can call DVC to book stuff. Ooh I am getting nervous just thinking about it!

 

[kaoden39]

I hate waiting for anything. I need to make any PS I am going to make for our June trip and my heart just isn't into it.

 

[bumbershoot]

In much less important news, the whole day being wasted for checking in to her flight was truly a waste, as Asiana doesn't have online checkin for flights from the States. Or so I've now been told.

After fighting with their website for nearly an hour, and finally giving in and calling the number on the site (only to find out that they have the wrong number on the site), all I can say is....even a website as awful as Asiana's could have a sentence saying "if you're coming from Seattle you can't check in online". The rep indicated they get the question/concern a lot...and I bet a ton of people are from Seattle. So really, you'd think they could toss that in, especially since the flowchart really seems to indicate checking in online is possible.

Then again, you have to go to AIRPORT SERVICES to find the link to internet checkin, so....yeah, horrid website.

 

[bumbershoot]

This is a loooooong work trip.

And I want to send Robert a clip of George Carlin's bit about travel and moving your stuff around. Because he'll be keeping his hotel, and keeping some of his stuff at the Seoul hotel, but he'll be going to Busan for a couple days next week. And it's actually for a work reason that he discovered while out there...it's also nice luck that another aunt is out there, and his mom is going too, and he'll probably stay with family instead of getting a hotel room. So he's left a bunch of stuff at home, then he'll parcel out his stuff to go to Busan, and if he takes a hike he'll bring a little bit of his stuff....etc etc etc.


My brother and I finalized the visit for me and E. We'll visit them while Robert goes to MY island. (I've said this so often E actually thinks I am *from* Ireland, LOL) And maybe we're staying a bit longer than Robert's, which kind of sucks, but visiting them for just a week is WAY too short. And maybe R can take some vacation days to come for a quick visit, since it really seems that our December trip isn't going to be as long as he will have vacation days for by then. (does that make sense?)

And then R&R, my techie brother and hubby, can talk all about DVRs and how to make one, so that we don't have to pay a million dollars to comcast anymore.

 

[bumbershoot]

Editing: OK that's HILARIOUS. I had no recollection that I'd already done a nearly identical post to the following bold blue post! Bwa ha ha ha. Where's my brain?

We'll just say that the WATERPARKS idea is the new idea...yeah, that's it....



You guys are going to crack up at my most recent idea.

Remember, way back when, that I had the idea of Vero Beach for a few days, to get over our jet lag? Well that was dropped because it was just getting so complicated.

But the other day Eamon was watching the '09 planning DVD, as he does, and he saw the Pirate themed rooms at Caribbean Beach Resort. Ooh he loved it! And he asked if we could stay in one.

So I went looking, to see, and they are, meh, reasonable, I suppose. If I had a PIN code it would be better.

But price aside, whether we can do it aside, the thought/dream/wish is this.

Go in late November, stay at CBR for 2 nights. Do NOT go to main parks, but hang around, look around, play at the SIX pools at CBR...maybe even go to a water park! I hadn't figured out how to include a waterpark into our plans once we start going to the main parks, but maybe this would be a way. Could be really fun!

Now if only I could get a PIN code for 40% off moderates in late Nov early Dec.....fingers crossed!



Yesterday I did weights for the first time since joining the Y. Yay! It's kind of fun to have E happily playing in his PE class, and feeling confident enough in him and me to go do other things. With the weights, hours of cardio I'm doing each week, and pilates, ooh I'm going to be in fighting shape by this trip! Though I still do hold out hope that I'll be slim, trim, and strong, with a basketball-shape under my shirt, LOL. I swear if I've got that happening, I'll wear pregnancy jeans with the big panel, unlike last time when I tormented myself by wearing just "big clothes"...I'll embrace the panel, I'll wear the pg jeans, I swear...... But no matter what, I'm going to be in shape, dagnabit. (knocking wood NOW)

 

[kaoden39]

Wow, that is a long trip.

We were told that Loren's tumor is benign. But, I am cautiously optimistic. I am taking him in for an appointment with the orthopedist. I have problems understanding how they can tell from an x-ray that his tumor is benign.

 

[bumbershoot]

From what I remember of my radiology classes, and my (this is truly what it was called, don't laugh TOO hard) Tumors and VD class, especially with leg tumors, you can tell with many of them. They just look different.

 

[kaoden39]

From what I remember of my radiology classes, and my (this is truly what it was called, don't laugh TOO hard) Tumors and VD class, especially with leg tumors, you can tell with many of them. They just look different.

Really? That's good to know. I still think we need to see the ortho though. Just to feel better and get questions answered that the dr didn't know the answer to.

 

[bumbershoot]

Oh absolutely. I wish we never had to go through primary care people and could just self-refer to specialists. I'd actually go SEE people if we could just do that! I hate having to go through people...we don't have to have a pcp for insurance, but the specialists always want a diagnosis *first*. thhhppppthhh on them.


Did the primary doc give a name for the tumor? Or is that what the ortho is going to figure out?

 

[kaoden39]

He gave it a name but to be honest I was so busy hearing benign that everything else went outside my head. His primary had not ever seen anything like Loren's tumor so I just figure that I need to see an expert with a notepad full of questions.

 

[bumbershoot]

I can imagine the relief. Like when we found out Robert's problem was a simple prolactinoma, and not some SCARY 'oma. Just too busy breathing again, for the first time in a week, to hear much else, right?

 

[kaoden39]

I can imagine the relief. Like when we found out Robert's problem was a simple prolactinoma, and not some SCARY 'oma. Just too busy breathing again, for the first time in a week, to hear much else, right?

Exactly. Now we have our ortho appointment on May 19 and find out whether they want to remove it now or wait. And get all my other questions answered, like the fact that I read that when you have a bone tumor it makes the bones brittle and more likely to break, you know little things like that.

 

[bumbershoot]

I still have all my old notes from school, so if the ortho is really rushed and can't answer everything I might be able to find info for you. Obviously it would only be to supplement the other info you get, but I'd be happy to give you the info I might have.

 

[bumbershoot]

Eamon just finished his main Kindergarten curriculum book.

And I finished scrapping our December '08 trip!

I still have more trips to do, and he still has a couple things more to do before K is allllll done, but we've both made excellent progress!

 

[kaoden39]

Thanks Molly. If I having any pressing questions before the drs appointment I will ask you.

Sounds like you and E are doing real well on your school work. How fun that he is still so excited to learn.

I do have another question for you. I don't remember if you said last year but how long did it take for E to do Bippity Boppity Bootique last year?

 

[bumbershoot]

It actually took quite a long time. But I think that is only because his hair was truly too long for the spikes, and the FGIT just took ages with each spike. Then there was time trying to see if E wanted to change it and get it slicked back. So it took quite a long time, possibly an hour? WAY too long. There were girls that were in and out during the time he was sitting on the chair.


E is now thinking of words to write, or hearing them on shows like Zoboomafoo, and he'll do his best to figure it out, write it, and bring it to me. It's too cute. Some words are perfect, but the vowel stuff is still causing problems. For some reason, the K book, and another phonics K book I found, only cover SHORT vowel sounds.

[Ooh and I caught the big Kinder book in a whoopsie!!! They had a page where you write the short vowel in the right spot- they had the consonants of the word already- to make the word of the picture...and on this page of *short* vowels, they had the word BALL....that is NOT a *short* A, people! E had written an O in the spot, which taking the O as a short sound is correct, but of course that's not how you spell BALL.]

So anyway, I guess they only teach kindergarteners short vowels, and I assume we'll find long vowels in 1st grade? Leaving those poor K kids to be clueless over the summer?

DS wants to start 1st grade work immediately, to bring down to his uncle's and show him what E is learning, etc. I have no problem with that. But if we wanted to take a proper "break", I just think it's weird that he only got the short sounds!

But then that's a problem I had all through my school. We'd get to the end of one grade, spend the summer playing or whatever, then come back and spent half the first semester doing the half of LAST semester over again! AUGH.

It was especially bad in my History class...

Anyhoo, I like having papers brought to me with words on them, even if he's missing the S from "fish" or the I from "birds" (with the s backwards).

 

[kaoden39]

Too funny that he wants to keep going. I think it is great that he is trying to write. My kids teachers for K&1 had them keep journals and write stories as well as they were able too. It helped too. It gave them something to do.

 

[bumbershoot]

Yeaughhhhhhh. Just found out that I can only book with DVC 7 days at a time. Drat!



Ooh, journals, nice! Right now E is incredibly focused on drawing. Scene after scene after scene. My chiro said he used to draw in pencil. He'd draw a scene, then erase it and draw the *next* scene, and so on and so forth. If only someone had introduced flip books to him! He could be working at Pixar now....

 

[kaoden39]

The teachers had them "chunk" the words out to spell them and if they couldn't they had them draw pictures for them. I find that even as teenagers that they still journal in notebooks. It's a good outlet.

 

[bumbershoot]

"Chunk"ing words. Good name for a band, though people would think you're talking about a place in China!


Am soooo nervous for calling DVC in a few days!