http://www.leigha.org Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:17:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It seems almost all of my close friends have small children. As a result, Anna has no lack of babes to play with. Both she and I are very fortunate for all of these people in our lives. The "mommy support group" has been a critical element in my transformation ... http://www.leigha.org/?p=19 Stinky is almost 3 months old. The idea that I am her mother has finally sunk in. For the longest time, I felt like an exceptionally hard-working baby-sitter, and that Stinky's family would come to claim her soon. Reality seemed surreal even though I had daydreamed about it my whole ... http://www.leigha.org/?p=17 Anna Caroline Averbuj was born Wednesday, March 1, 2006 after a sonogram 2 days prior estimated her weight at 8lbs. 14oz. and a head circumference nearing too big to pass through my pelvis. Our OB recommended induction and that afternoon we knew we'd be parents come sometime on Wednesday. We ... http://www.leigha.org/?p=15 My great grandmother was Anna Calderon Reich. She passed away March 16, 2005 at the age of 102. This is her life story. My great grandmother's parents, Anton and Consetta Calderon, came to Chicago in 1887 from a small town in Sicily. According to my great grandmother Anna, they were very ... http://www.leigha.org/?p=14 Happy 2006! I am so happy to be rounding the corner into the final stretch of my pregnancy. As expected, the bigger I get, the more uncomfortable I get and I am anxious to get this baby out! Her nursery is almost ready and we are starting to get really ... http://www.leigha.org/?p=13 The word seems to be out, but in case you haven't heard, Pablo and I are expecting our first child in March 2006. Her name is to be Anna Caroline Averbuj and she was a very unexpected but welcomed surprise. Anna was my great grandmother's name. She passed away not ... http://www.leigha.org/?p=12 To read more about our wedding plans, please click on the engagement entry. I extended the entry to include more details about the wedding. http://www.leigha.org/?p=11 On March 22, 2005 Pablo and I got engaged. Right now we are in the very prelimenary stages of planning a wedding for spring 2006. We will post more information once we start making some decisions. As of July 2006 some of the more important decisions about the wedding have been ... http://www.leigha.org/?p=10 I am very excited that the Ernest and Erin (the soon to be Benson's --October 2005) are coming to see us for the New Year. We are looking forward to their visit especially since it is Ernest's first time visiting the not so soon to be Averbuj's (also known as ... http://www.leigha.org/?p=9 Good news! This site has finally been updated with something new to look at. You can see pictures of my Kindergarten classroom here. This weekend was our Fall Harvest Festival. Our school goes all out for this event and transforms half the school into Harvest Town and the other into ... http://www.leigha.org/?p=8