Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Cecelia Wednesday Picture
Our little girl is getting bigger.
Maeve about to enjoy supper.
We went out to have a nice meal with Mary on her last day. She leaves for New York tommorrow. We are very sorry to see her go!
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Jon smiles at Cecelia
Isn't she cute!?
Dressup for Maeve too!
I like my new dress!
Avae plays dressup
Maeve hangs out with Cloe and Alisa
The girls had fun at our local Down Syndrome family party.
Maeve and Alisa share books
We like to read!
Jenna and Nadeane visit with Cecelia
Maddy and Angela REALLY like Cecelia
And she likes them back!
Ruthie likes holding Cecelia
Marie wants to babysit Cecelia AND Maeve
Anytime you want Marie!
Mary Louise comforts the new Linkert
It was meet the Gruenwald day for little Cecelia. It's really quite an event!
A bit of rest after a long day.
I'm really starting to think that Steerforth is getting spoiled with all the visitors lately.
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Bev gets her baby fix
And Steerforth gets some action as well.
The Obergs stop for a visit
Not only to see Merrill, but also to see Cecelia.
Steerforth looks forward to Easter
He also enjoys the new easter bunny stickers from Grandma Linkert.
Some other sisters...
Working in the kitchen.
Maeve gets an early easter gift
from her Aunt Mary.
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Cecelia shows her college colors
She's growing so fast, Janet wanted to get her into this outfit before it was too late.
Sisters hanging out Saturday morning
Aunt Mary checks out her new niece
Maeve and Mary say Hi!
We get aunt Mary for a few days this week. She flew in from New York Friday. Maeve is glad to have her here.
Aunt Mary is coming!
The girls look forward to seeing their aunt real soon.
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Maeve's supper
Since dad went to band rehearsal this evening, Mom served Maeve some pasta. She greatly enjoyed it.
Maeve gets a glimpse of Spring
Grandma Linkert brought some window stickers of the Easter Bunny. Thank you Grandma!
Time to wash that baby blonde hair
You can see 'lia had a great time!
Cecelia's first bath
Aunt Mary is coming Friday, and we want to look our best!
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Wednesday pic
Cecelia tries out a new blanket from Grandma Linkert.
Devin and Cecelia with their new moms.
That would be Rebecca and Janet.
Maeve at Kindermusik
It was a good Wednesday. We got the family packed, and went to our last day of Kindermusik today. Here's Maeve playing the drum.... I kept looking for the trombones for the kids to play, but she didn't bring any. We get no respect....
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
RSS feed now availible (really!)
Finally figured those out tonight...
RSS is a feature many websites now have. It gives you the ability to know if I've updated the blog with new posts or not, without actually having to go the the website and waiting for pictures to load.
If you're using MS Internet Explorer, I'm sure there are ways to use the orange icon on the right side of your screen (below the "A day in a life" link), but I don't know how it works. Perhaps someone out there who does know can help us out there in the comments.
This is real easy if you are using Firefox as a browser, as you'll have a little orange icon in your address bar you can click and subscribe.
If you're not using Firefox, you should consider it. It's a great browser with lots of neat little tricks you can use that are much better then Internet Explorer. It's also considered by most people safer and more secure. Go to getfirefox.com to find out more. Installation is quick and easy, and you can import your favorites from IE with ease.
RSS is a feature many websites now have. It gives you the ability to know if I've updated the blog with new posts or not, without actually having to go the the website and waiting for pictures to load.
If you're using MS Internet Explorer, I'm sure there are ways to use the orange icon on the right side of your screen (below the "A day in a life" link), but I don't know how it works. Perhaps someone out there who does know can help us out there in the comments.
This is real easy if you are using Firefox as a browser, as you'll have a little orange icon in your address bar you can click and subscribe.
If you're not using Firefox, you should consider it. It's a great browser with lots of neat little tricks you can use that are much better then Internet Explorer. It's also considered by most people safer and more secure. Go to getfirefox.com to find out more. Installation is quick and easy, and you can import your favorites from IE with ease.
Tuesday Merrill Blogging
Merrill has been in tough shape lately.
His ability to move about has been deteriorating steadily. He doesn't like to get up from bed, or if he's up, go back to bed. His right hand is becoming less and less useful. The only fingers he has success moving is his pointer and thumb, and makes eating difficult. His left is better, but is not used to using it to eat, though he has been trying that lately.
We now just get him out to eat two meals a day. I wish it was more, but to get him to agree to two is difficult enough. He still barely eats, sometimes only a few mouthfuls (after much arguing). It really tries our patience to deal with him sometimes.
He notices the new baby on occaision, repeatedly asks for her name. When we tell him he thinks we should call her Irene, Cecelia is too old of a name. He still likes to watch Maeve when he's up.
Lately again, the question comes to my mind, how long is he going to be with us. Janet and I have been putting together our financial plans, insurance, wills, and all of that, and that's the big mystery is his duration. I'll need to get a job at that point, and I wonder what I'll do, and if I'll make enough so we can get by here in Mound.
Sigh. We'll see soon enough I'm sure. Looking ahead to Wednesday pictures tommorrow!
His ability to move about has been deteriorating steadily. He doesn't like to get up from bed, or if he's up, go back to bed. His right hand is becoming less and less useful. The only fingers he has success moving is his pointer and thumb, and makes eating difficult. His left is better, but is not used to using it to eat, though he has been trying that lately.
We now just get him out to eat two meals a day. I wish it was more, but to get him to agree to two is difficult enough. He still barely eats, sometimes only a few mouthfuls (after much arguing). It really tries our patience to deal with him sometimes.
He notices the new baby on occaision, repeatedly asks for her name. When we tell him he thinks we should call her Irene, Cecelia is too old of a name. He still likes to watch Maeve when he's up.
Lately again, the question comes to my mind, how long is he going to be with us. Janet and I have been putting together our financial plans, insurance, wills, and all of that, and that's the big mystery is his duration. I'll need to get a job at that point, and I wonder what I'll do, and if I'll make enough so we can get by here in Mound.
Sigh. We'll see soon enough I'm sure. Looking ahead to Wednesday pictures tommorrow!
The girls
Maeve and Cecelia spend some time with Sara.
Monday, March 20, 2006
Suzy, Janet and the girls
We had our friends, Suzy and Sara Saleh stop by today to visit. They were in town from Des Moines, IA. It was great to see them.
Sara is 3 months old.
Sara is 3 months old.
Janet and Cecelia take a nap
Maeve checks out sis.
Cecelia in bouncy seat
Janet and Cecelia take a nap
Sunday, March 19, 2006
Cecelia tries out the big stroller
Maeve all dressed up
And ready to go to dad's concert.
Friday, March 17, 2006
Something I've been working on...
You have probably noticed those funny inserts of descriptors in the blog posts lately. We'll I've been trying to find a way we can catagorize our posts so if we are in search of a specific picture, it will be easier to find.
Tags are all the rage in blogging now, and they make sense. I can "tag" a post with any descriptive word I like. So if there is a picture of Maeve and I playing on the rocking horse, I can tag it with the words Maeve, GML4, Rockinghorse. So if I'm looking for that pic a month from now, I should be able to word search rockinghorse, and find that pic.
This will be much helpful as we post Cecelia's Wednesday pics here. I'll tag those posts with "Wednesday", so then a search of Wednesday will bring up those pictures.
I might at some point go back and tag the pics in the past. I know for a fact this won't work on some pics, and will take a long time... we'll see if I get around to it.
I'll be experimenting more with these as we go along. Your patience is appreciated.
Also, the blog has had problems lately. I think it's blogger, and I've been waiting for problems to develope, as there are many bloggers with lots of problems with it. I may try to find other blogging software to use eventually, but it probably won't be for a while.
Also I have had difficulty putting pictures up. So I found another free service to post pics. Flickr has worked well for the last couple days... we'll see how long this will be useful.
Tags are all the rage in blogging now, and they make sense. I can "tag" a post with any descriptive word I like. So if there is a picture of Maeve and I playing on the rocking horse, I can tag it with the words Maeve, GML4, Rockinghorse. So if I'm looking for that pic a month from now, I should be able to word search rockinghorse, and find that pic.
This will be much helpful as we post Cecelia's Wednesday pics here. I'll tag those posts with "Wednesday", so then a search of Wednesday will bring up those pictures.
I might at some point go back and tag the pics in the past. I know for a fact this won't work on some pics, and will take a long time... we'll see if I get around to it.
I'll be experimenting more with these as we go along. Your patience is appreciated.
Also, the blog has had problems lately. I think it's blogger, and I've been waiting for problems to develope, as there are many bloggers with lots of problems with it. I may try to find other blogging software to use eventually, but it probably won't be for a while.
Also I have had difficulty putting pictures up. So I found another free service to post pics. Flickr has worked well for the last couple days... we'll see how long this will be useful.
Friday cat blogging
Maeve discovers a new way to pet her favorite cat.
The Burfeind Girls
Settle down for a pleasant pic.
Sara, Me and Janet
We have a cookie decorating contest. I won of course.
Ella likes St. Patricks Day
Maeve decorates a cookie
Before she eats it.
Avae liked the doll stroller
But didn't stick around to get her picture taken.
Ella plays with Jack in the Box
It's one of Ella's favs!
Grandma and the girls
Happy St. Patricks Day!
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Cecelia's first Wednesday Picture
... ok well actually her second.
Dad and 'lia hanging out
'lia in her "Main floor" bassinet
As opposed to her "Upstairs" bassinet.
Maeve and 'lia playing on the floor
Maeve's new hairdoo
More fun with Maeve's hair
Sunday, March 12, 2006
Linkert family at church
Maeve's first bunny ears...
Paula and Timmy come to visit
Maeve spent a couple days...
... at Grandma and Grandpa Linkert's house. She comes home with a funky new hairdoo... compliments of her Aunt. 
Home finally.
Mom's ready to go home
A visitor at the hospital
Friday, March 10, 2006
We're home...
And the blog was not working... Seems ok now...
Sorry folks!
Just got home a bit ago... we'll be posting pics soon.
Sorry folks!
Just got home a bit ago... we'll be posting pics soon.
Thursday, March 09, 2006
A breif explanation
Of Cecelia's name...
Cecelia is the name of Janet's Grandmother Denenny (whom Janet never knew I believe), though we changed her spelling from Cecilia. Cecelia is also the patron saint of music.
Irene was my Grandma Linkert's name, who died about 3 years ago. She's the one that inspired the cookbook I have blogged about in recent months, and a very important person in our family.
Janet intends to call her Celia (`See lee ah)... I'm not sure if I'll go with that. I might call her CIL (her initials, like window sill), Ceese (Cease) or Ce Ceese(`See Cease)... also kinda like Ceses (`See says) Ok now... my lips are getting tired.
We'll be going home tommorrow afternoon as long as everything is fine. We have receieved a lot of great notes of joy and appreciation, and thank everyone for sharing in our joy.
Cecelia is the name of Janet's Grandmother Denenny (whom Janet never knew I believe), though we changed her spelling from Cecilia. Cecelia is also the patron saint of music.
Irene was my Grandma Linkert's name, who died about 3 years ago. She's the one that inspired the cookbook I have blogged about in recent months, and a very important person in our family.
Janet intends to call her Celia (`See lee ah)... I'm not sure if I'll go with that. I might call her CIL (her initials, like window sill), Ceese (Cease) or Ce Ceese(`See Cease)... also kinda like Ceses (`See says) Ok now... my lips are getting tired.
We'll be going home tommorrow afternoon as long as everything is fine. We have receieved a lot of great notes of joy and appreciation, and thank everyone for sharing in our joy.
Grandpa Linkert
Is happy to see Granddaughter number 4, you'd think he'd by used to holding these things a little better though, don't you? Cousin Zach stopped by for a visit!
He's super cute and looking great.It was also fun to see Gloria, Carolyn, Deanna and Allison.
Side note... Deanna's middle name is also Irene.
Avae and Ella
Check out their new cousin. They think she's beautiful. They also loved playing on Janet's bed too. Cecelia's Aunt Sara
Sara, Jon, Ella and Avae stopped by for a quick visit, and were very excited to see our new addition. Grandma Linkert and her new little Granddaughter
Maeve and Ceclia
The complete Linkert family
Janet and Celia doing great!
We are pleased to announce the birth of....
Cecelia Irene LinkertBorn on March 8th, at 9:37PM.
9 lbs, 4 oz 22 inches long.
When we left home, Janet's contractions were about 2 minutes apart, and very intense, not giving her a break at all.
We got to the hospital about 9PM, and Janet couldn't even walk. We got her into a wheelchair, checked her into the birth center. The nurse took one look at her, announced her "complete" and pushed her bed down the delivery room. The moved Janet to another bed there. The doctor came in asking how far along Janet was in labor, the nurse said again she was complete, and asked Janet to push at her next contraction. When Janet pushed, the doctors and nurses practically claimed together that she was indeed "complete". Janet was told to to push again at the next contraction. Two contractions later, Cecelia entered the world. Janet and I were astonished how quickly it went!
Both Cecelia and Janet are doing very well. Cecelia seems to be nursing and sleeping well. We are all very happy!
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Back home for a bit.
Here's how we spent the day. The doctor appointment this morning was fine, and encouraging (as you saw his post earlier) but didn't think we should head to the hospital yet. We went to Southdale, walked around for a couple hours, then went to a movie (called 8 below, Disney movie), and now home at about 7:30.
Janet has consistently had contractions every 10 minutes throughout the day, and they seem to be getting more intense. However when she calls the hospital, they suggest she wait until the contractions are 5 minutes apart. So we are back home to fee Merrill and let Janet try to sleep. Hopefully things will get moving soon.
We appreciate everyone's support and encouraging words. We'll keep you updated.
Janet's water broke as I typed this... we're heading into the hospital...
Janet has consistently had contractions every 10 minutes throughout the day, and they seem to be getting more intense. However when she calls the hospital, they suggest she wait until the contractions are 5 minutes apart. So we are back home to fee Merrill and let Janet try to sleep. Hopefully things will get moving soon.
We appreciate everyone's support and encouraging words. We'll keep you updated.
Janet's water broke as I typed this... we're heading into the hospital...
Message from Dr. Brown...
She's fine. But any day now... Cervix is 3cm. before membranes were striped, now it's 4cm. Looks like a good week to have a baby. DB
Ok sister (or brother)
You can come anytime now... let my parents dote on something else for a bit. Look at me...
Janet's having contractions....
And it looks like we'll be heading into the hospital soon.
We'll be calling you soon mom.
We'll be calling you soon mom.
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Minnesota Caucus Night
Went to participate this evening. Fun to meet neighbors in Mound.
Janet is still pregnant.
Janet is still pregnant.
Monday, March 06, 2006
I feel bad...
My beautiful wife is expecting any day now... and she is SO ready to have this baby... and I can't help at all. Oh sure I try to do as much as I can around the house, and keep Maeve busy, and let Janet nap when she can, but I want to try to help get that baby out of her.
I've heard a good scare can sometimes start labor, but I'm unsure if Janet would appreciate me jumping out of corners yelling boo. I thought maybe if I pretended to cut a finger off might scare her, but I don't think she would like that either.
Anyone have suggestions out there about how I can get labor started?
I've heard a good scare can sometimes start labor, but I'm unsure if Janet would appreciate me jumping out of corners yelling boo. I thought maybe if I pretended to cut a finger off might scare her, but I don't think she would like that either.
Anyone have suggestions out there about how I can get labor started?
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Announcing the birth of....
Devin Kyle YurkovichSon of my cousin, Rebecca and Robert.
Congrats guys! He's super cute.
What's this?!?!?
Still waiting...
Tried going out and about this weekend. Mall of America on Friday, Matt's Bar on Saturday, went to see Rebecca and Devin Sunday...
The baby is moving alot Janet says. So we hope something works it's way out soon...
The baby is moving alot Janet says. So we hope something works it's way out soon...
Friday, March 03, 2006
Announcing the birth of....
Brody Michael Wroblewski.Son of my good friends, Scott and Jodi.
Congratulations guys!
Thursday, March 02, 2006
From my mother...
" I know you're all concerned about my getting Maeve. Just want you to know that I am all set ready to go " Maeve's waiting for ya bro (or sis)
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Mom and Maeve
Here's another...
This one is a little more recent. The wall color is better here too... 
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