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It is a pleasure to announce that Kristin Robillard has been promoted to Plant Manager for the Vermont facility. Kristin’s extensive knowledge of the Vermont operation, as well as her people management and problem solving skills will be well suited to the numerous challenges that are a daily part of a plant manager’s responsibilities. Kristin holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Business from Jacksonville University. She will begin her new role on October 24, 2011.

Congratulations Kristin - we know you have worked hard and deserve this. Best of luck in your position, we are proud of you and know you will do wonderfully!

A quick Snider update

I do use this blog to keep track of what the girls are doing, so I wanted to update before I forget what is really going on in our world. Jenna had her 4 month check up and weighed in at 10lb 8oz, the doctors were fine with that, but wanted us to come back at 5 months to check her weight and get Claire her flu shot. Jenna jumped up to 11lb 3oz (below 5th percentile), 24 inches long (5-10 percentile), and a 40cm head circumference (below 5th percentile). While she is pretty small, she is within ounces of Claire at 5 months and the doctors were not concerened at all, so neither are we! Jenna is nursed in the morning before I leave for work (yes, I wake her up to feed her) and then she gets (3) 4.5 ounce bottles of pumped milk at daycare, nursed once more at home, sometimes twice, and gets 4oz of formula before bed. She goes down around 8:30, goes back to sleep after I nurse her in the morning and Dan wakes her up to get her ready for daycare. She is still sleeping in a cradle in our room, but it's about time to make the move to a crib. We certainly don't mind having her in our room because she does not make a peep - not even when my alarm goes off multiple times to get up. Last week I put her down without swaddling her and she slept just the same, so I think we are done with the swaddle. How is she old enough for this already?

Jenna started rolling over from her back to her stomach at 4.5 months. She hangs out on her stomach for a little while and then gets mad and fusses until we turn her over again - what a fun game this can become! She still enjoys her play mat, but it's about time to pack up her little chair. She tries so hard to sit forward and ends up flopping over the side of the chair trying to grab whatever is in reach. She seems to be enjoying daycare and is doing well there. The transition back to work for me was pretty good. We are slowly getting into a routine, it just means dinner gets on the table a little later than it used to.

Unfortunately, my breastfeeding days are quickly dwindling down. Not sure why, but I feel guilty about it and I don't remember feeling this way with Claire. I am just not producing enough to keep up with her and pumping at work is becoming too much when I am just not getting enough. I would like to keep the morning and night feedings, but not sure how that will work unless I continue to wake Jenna up before I leave. We will see....but I'm afraid this will come to an end very quickly.

Other than that, we have been staying busy - we hit the Big E which Claire absolutely loved, had a good visit over Columbus Day weekend with Andrea, last weekend we went down to Maryland to visit friends and see Clemson play, and Thursday night we are heading to Ohio for Dans cousins wedding. Claire and her cousin Gretchen are the flower girls - can't wait to see how they do!

Jenna says hello!

For the crafty ones

I thought these Halloween treats were cute, maybe a good activity for the little ones.

Owl cupcakes

Candy Corn cookies

Happy baking - I think we will be making the cookies this weekend

Family Weekend

Finally got around to doing something with the pictures Dan & I took over family weekend. I must say we slacked off in the picture taking department, but we still enjoyed looking at the pictures we captured. Hope you enjoy as well (for those of you watching at work - there's music with the video)!

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We survived

Mommy survived her first week back at work, Claire survived her first full week of preschool, Jenna survived her first week of daycare, and Dan survived the chaos. Not sure we have ever been so happy to have a weekend to relax. And now for the pictures....Claire was ready for the first day of preschool.
Her first day was only a drop in so I got to go with her while Dan stayed home with Jenna. Claire is lucky enough to have two of her daycare friends in her classroom with her. I think that made the transition much easier. Her teachers are wonderful and she seems to be enjoying it. She cracks me up when she comes home and reports back exactly what happened that day and is so proud to show off the new songs she is learning.
Jenna doesn't seem so impressed to be taking pictures at this hour of the morning
Claire loving on JennaSomeone loves to make muffins on the weekends, but I think she enjoys eating the batter more than making the muffins.
Our last visit with Andrea before her California departure. Andrea took her to Build-A-Bear and they made matching teddy bears. Claire made Auna-bear and Andrea made Claire-bear - they recorded messages for each other and put them in the bear, so every night at bedtime we hear "Auna loves you Claire, I miss you" over and over and over
I love this picture, but I am starting to think these girls looks a lot like Mommy
This is Claire dressing herself - maybe she wanted to make sure every color of the rainbow was represented?
We took Jenna back to the doctor for her 4 month visit last week and she once again weighed in at 10lb, 8oz. This visit the doctor seemed to believe that it's the nature of our girls to just be small. She wasn't concerned at all and actually recommended holding off on solids for breastfed babies until 6 months. I remember starting vegetables with Claire and 6 months, but I have no problems holding out as long as Jenna seems happy. The ladies at daycare love having her there and she is always happy and smiling when we pick her up. Look like we are back into our new normal

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