Here are some pictures that I wanted to post before, but didn’t get it done on time.
Big
Smile

Chumash Canoe at the SB Natural History Museum

Ready for bed

Weezy at almost 9 months

Today Max fell off a swing at Ehling’s
Park and hit his face on the hard dirt underneath. There was a stick on the ground
that he might have hit (or the swing came back and hit him, nobody actually saw him
fall). When his screams of pain brought Mom over to him, she saw that he had blood
mixed in with his tears coming from his left eye. After speaking to Max’s doctor,
the incredible Dr.
Polito, Toby decided to take him to the ER at Cottage
Hospital to have it checked out. Toby called me to get Weezy from the other mom’s
in the playgroup and then I went to the ER to see them. When I got there (> 1 hour
after being seen by the triage nurse), Max was very chipper, laughing and telling
me how he fell off the swing. Toby and I made the decision to *not* have him seen
at the ER, but to take him to the Urgent
Care in Carpinteria. Then Toby had the brilliant idea to call Dr. Polito again and see if she could squeeze Max in to check him out. Max and I waited less than an hour to see her, and she checked him out and pronounced him fit as a fiddle.

Thank you, God. Max didn’t have to be seen at the ER, Toby has helpful playgroup friends and Dr. Polito and the nurse Tracey were very flexible.

We have traded our lovely MiniUnit at San Luis
Bay Inn in Avila Beach, CA via RCI for
a 1 bedroom unit at the Heidelberg
Inn (second
website) in June Lake, CA.

We love our timeshare. We especially love the fact that our MiniUnit transfers up
to a 1 bedroom unit at almost every other resort.

Toby did a great job in finding this resort. We have never been to June Lake. If anyone
knows of some must experience activities in the area, please leave
a comment.

All 3 City Planners for Carpinteria live in Ventura, thus they can’t get to the ARB
meeting tomorrow, January 13th, 2005. For a while it appeared that the meeting
would be delayed or cancelled. However, the City Manager is a former Planner, so he
is going to present all the projects to the board. I didn’t get a copy of the Community
Development Department Project Review for our application in the mail, so I went to
City Hall and picked up a copy. They have the project described as a 3 story project.
I called our architect to ask about this and some other points. He seemed very confident
that our project would not have any problems with the ARB. He said that, yes, our
project is a 3 story project even though the “third story” is nothing more than a
finished attic. Here are some 3D renderings of the completed project. As always, click
for the full size.