Sympathy post....

I just received pathology results back from my biopsy and need to have more of the skin excised off of the top of my foot. My mole is (or should I say was since i currently have a gaping hole where my mole used to be) a dysplastic blue nevis. It is not cancerous, but it is abnormal cell growth. These are mostly commonly found in people of asian descent. Go figure. Anyway, I need to go back on February 6th for another outpatient surgery. I may just have a nervous breakdown!!!

Time flies when you're the satterpellatons!

January is almost gone! We've had a busy month, so busy that I am so behind on posting!

We started out the month with a combined business trip/vacation to NYC. I brought my mom and lex to sight see and spend some quality time together while I had a site visit at Mt. Sinai on the Upper East Side. Lex and my mom had a blast going to the central park zoo, the children's musuem of NYC, central park, and riding in taxis. Lex was the ultimate city kid and LOVED all the action and couldn't believe that no one ever goes to bed in NYC. When I was done with my day on Friday, we took a carriage ride through central park and lex had a blast. We did the ultimate toy store tour: FAO schwartz (where poor lex had performance anxiety on the Big Piano and started to sob when everyone watched her), the World of Disney (where lexo was able to meet Pooh and Piglet), Toys R Us in Times Square and finally the American Girl store, where Alexa became big sistuh (as lex says--which will be another post) to Miley.

We came home from NYC and celebrated Hav's birthday (Happy Birthday HAVALYNN!!!)

I had another business trip, but this time it was a local one to DC.. Since it was a Tuesday night, Bran and I were able to hit Kaz Sushi Bistro for restaurant week in downtown DC. We had a yummy sushi dinner with great wine and were finally able to celebrate Bran's new job.....

Which brings me to: Bran started his new job with Kadix Systems this past Tuesday and so far is very happy with the open environment there! YAY!

On other fronts, last Friday, I had two suspicious spots biopsied on my right foot and I practically hyperventilated throughout the entire procedure. Bran was there for moral support especially since my dermatologist found out that one mole on my foot was pigmented deeper than she had expected and wound up doing a punch biopsy that required stitches. UGH! Then, this weekend, I somehow took the bandage off of my foot in my sleep and pulled out a stitch! YUCK! Last night I was feeling better and decided to workout, and now my wound is infected! FUN TIMES! :) Lex has been a great doctor bringing me a new band aid every morning for my "sitches".

As most of you have noticed, Lexo definitely has her own way of pronouncing words: SOOL for school, sistuh for sister, and pommuh for palmer. Two weeks ago, I had lex evaluated at the children's speech therapy center of ashburn, and it was determined that Lex needs a little help with her speech. Lex was such a trooper sitting through 90 minutes of testing and was just so cute and smart. Anyway, she goes for an hour of speech therapy once a week and just adores her teacher, Miss Heather. Every morning she wakes up and asks: It is time for seech today?

Well, off to bed! HOpefully tomorrow I'll add pictures!

3.95 Miles and Loved every minute of it!

This is the second sunday that Amy, TAG and I have run together and I cannot thank them enough for dragging me out there last week. I've worked out 4 times this week, including a 3.3 mile run last Sunday, and a 3 mile run with Amy on Thursday. Today's run was the farthest I've ever run and I think I could have kept going! It is just SO much easier doing this with my closest friends to chat about anything and everything! Let's keep it up!!!

Christmas Cards 2007

Thanks to Steph (http://www.thehipstudio.com/), this year's christmas cards were beyond gorgeous!

Did I forget to say something?

This is lex's response to me whenever I tell her no, in hopes that if she forgot to say "please" or something else, that I'll change my mind.

Tonight's example:

Lex:
Mommy, I want to bring this ice pop to dinner tonight?
Jen:
No, baby, you can't bring it.

Lex: Did I forget to say something?

Catching up!---December 2007

I have so many pictures to post and so many updates that I don't know where to begin! We've done so many fun things this month! I'm going to work my way backwards so that I don't forget anything.

First, Lex had a special day today with her special friend, Ms. Katelyn, who was also lex's pre-school teacher. Ms. Katelyn is leaving to teach in England and Lex is so sad, which makes me sad! Alexa has progressed with leaps and bounds under her care and guidance. She's such a great teacher!

Anyway, Ms. Katelyn came over today and Lex was waiting for her since 6 am :) They went to the park and Lex showed Ms. Katelyn everything! They had lunch at the mall, rode the merry go round and the train!

Cookies for Santa!

I love the new cookie plate Lex made this year!! So cute and so perfect for Santa to eat his cookies and milk from!

Reindeer Food

Alexa made reindeer food with oatmeal sprinkles and of course, some red and white sparkley glitter so Rudolph could find the food in the moonlight of the yard!

Alexa made sure that she made a bag for herself and a bag for Andrew. Andrew made sure that he spread his out in a path, whereas Lex put her food in the yard in little piles in each corner. The next morning when we went outside, lex saw some of her piles and none of Andrew's and she kept saying "I should have made paths" .

Zoolights!

Lex, Bran, GG and Uncle Dan ventured into DC to attend the Zoo Lights Display at the National Zoo. It was a perfect night and we drove around DC to see the White house afterwards! Lex LOVED seeing all of the lights!

This is the waterfall display! The way this picture was taken makes the water almost look like ice!

The Satterpellatons!

Lex and Samuel's Sleepover

Boy oh Boy, did we have fun when Samuel slept over. Bran, Lex, me, Uncle Dan and Samuel first had dinner at Pei Wei in Leesburg. We let the kids choose either Pei Wei or Kobe (ie turn left or right and Samuel chose left!) and they had a blast eating their noodles with chopsticks. Samuel actually had more fun sitting with Bran and stealing his rice! Samuel also had an intense conversation with Lex's Uncle Dan about transformers. We stopped over at my mom's house and Samuel discovered that GG didn't have Uncle Dan's childhood transformers and my mom told Samuel that she thinks she probably put them in the garbage as Uncle Dan is 3o years old. That ensued countless questions from Samuel: GG, why did you put Uncle Dan's Stormstream in the garbage? why gg? Uncle dan, where are your tranformers? Excuse me, Uncle Dan, did you have the transformer that turns into a radio?

We couldn't stop giggling. Lex and Samuel played SO well together! Lex wants another sleepover SOON!