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Grazie Zia Elena!

Posted by John on 30th October 2008

I like it!Made with love by grand-aunt Elena.

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April Fool’s!! Pesce d’Aprile!!

Posted by John on 1st April 2008

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Most of you should have figured out it was an April Fool’s joke. We are NOT having twins, only one baby girl. I sent out an email this morning to my collegues, and everybody believed it and sent back congratulations. At that point I started to feel a little bit bad, but it was still damn funny!!

Sorry also to the people who commented on this blog. Tom’s comment was weird. So at first he thought it was a joke, but he still believed it… eh? Susan seems to have caught on. Anyway, this will be the only twins joke I’ll be able to do. Happy April Fool’s Day!!

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We’re having twins! – Gemelli!

Posted by John on 1st April 2008

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We didnt want to announce it yet, but I think it’s time now. We are having twin girls! We are very excited about it but also very scared. Luckily we live in a country where we can afford help. With twins everything in our apartment seems small. And I don’t even want to think of when we go out… We’ll deal with that problem when it comes up. I wonder how Logan will react to his his little sisters.

UPDATE: April Fool’s!!

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Happy 2008!

Posted by John on 2nd January 2008

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I hope you had a good end of the year, because I sure didn’t. After a very nice family Christmas, I had a terrible end of the year.

On 27th I had to take Becky to the hospital because she vomited all previous night due to food poisoning. She got IV for basically the whole day. After I got back I also took Logan to another hospital, because he had a fever of 40 degrees. Luckily they’re both fine now.

In the meantime I found out that I made a huge mistake at work, and lost some important data. On a scale of 1-5 where 5 is the worst case, this was a 4.

Then this Monday I came to work thinking that I would have a slower day, instead I had the worst working day of my life. My system was down for 6 hours, and I kept running around and stressing about it for the whole day. Then I had come in on New Year’s morning and work a couple more hours.

I really hope the rest of the year will be smoother, hopefully the arrival of my daughter will change things for the better.

Anyway, I wish everyone a Happy 2008!

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Merry Christmas 2007!

Posted by John on 28th December 2007

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This was our first family Christmas and it was real fun. Last year Logan was too young, but this time we had the tree and decorations, we had a nice catered dinner (I had so much to eat!) and then we opened presents. Mostly we watched Logan open his presents, he was obviously at the center of the attention. Here are some photos:

I hope you all had a nice Christmas too, Happy Holidays!!

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