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The idiocy of the Snuggie

January 28th, 2009 6 comments

After you get finished watching this video the first question you may have is why the heck anyone would want one of these.  These geniuses have taken a garden variety bath robe, turned it around and attempted to corner the market for household blankets.

Guys, Kriss Kros called from 1992 and they want their backwards clothes gimic back.
Now, I’ll allow that there are two plausible reasons for wanting to wear a snuggie…

1) Your job description involves trying to kill Darth Vadar

We love our snuggies

We love our snuggies

2) You are rocking a stone mason tatoo and you happen to know where the templars lost treasure is buried.

These people look good in snuggies

These people look good in snuggies

That’s it. There are no other possible reasons that you would want to wear, much less pay for one of these things. Just listen to their marketing pitch. There target market is people who  either:

  1. have trouble getting their arms out from under a blanket or
  2. those who don’t have access to a coat for times when they are outside.

Trust me, the market segment defined by people who can’t get their arms out from under a blanket or who don’t have their own coat is not a very lucrative one.

The best part of the snuggie informercial is that they’ll send you two for the price of one.  The flaw with this is that anyone who would consider buying a snuggie more than likely doesn’t have a significant other which wich to share their second snuggie.

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Matt and Erin get Married…..

January 27th, 2009 430 comments

…. well actually this is almost completely picture of me at their wedding.

As some of you may know, my brother Matt got married over the weekend.  I couldn’t make it due to Ruby’s premature arrival so my family did the next best thing.

How was the wedding you ask?

Well just have a look

With the bride and groom

With the bride and groom

 

Here I am celebrating with the bride and groom.Erin obviously has a great sense of humour.

Come to think of it.  You really need to be able to laugh, both at yourself and at others to be a Holliday.

Erin will do fine with her new family.

The only problem with this picture is that it makes me look shorter than Matt when everyone in our family knows that I am the tallest. 

 

Upsetting my brother

Upsetting my brother

Now I’m usually well behaved, but get a few adult beverages into my cardboard self and there’s no telling what my hands may do.My brother Jim is clearly disgusted with my behaviour.
 

Playing games

Playing games

Here my brother Matt is very happy that I successfully anchored his “tip cup” team.Grandma if you aren’t aware of what “tip cup” is, some people will describe it as a combination of cribage and crokenole…… I have yet to meet any of these people but I’m sure they exist.

Also pictured is my younger sister Ashley.  Though to be politicallly correct since she’s living in England now she may also answer to the moniker of “bird” or “The Mrs”.

 

jim-allie

Jim and Allie

Allie, showing that she’s not the jealous type, forgives me for what I did to Jimmy earlier.

Though Jimmy seems to be keeping good track of my hand.

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The week in Photos

January 26th, 2009 Comments off
 

Bundled up

Bundled up

This is how you sleep when you’re trying to conserve body heat.I guess there’s something about being squished in a womb for 9 months 7 and half months that makes this comfortable.I just don’t get it.
 

Ruby smiling

Ruby smiling

This is as close as Ruby has come to having her first smile.Also shown in this photo is an anonymous person who didn’t want this photo posted because “she[sic] looks awful”.Thanks to the miracles of modern technology we can post this great photo of Ruby and no one has to know who the mysterious stranger holding Ruby is.
 

Bath time

Bath time

We got to give Ruby her first bath on Saturday.

Ironically this picture shows the nurse bathing her.

Come to think of it all I really got to do for the bath was to get Ruby’s water ready and with that task I was sent back to do it again because the water wasn’t warm enough.

   
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New pictures of the “Rubster”

January 23rd, 2009 10 comments

Holding Soother

Holding Soother

Here is Ruby showing off again.

She’s holding a soother in her mouth while shuffling a deck of cards with here feet**

** Not shown, her feet.

Reading with dad

Reading with dad

Here is Ruby enjoying her favorite evening pastime, reading to daddy.

She will often help him when he gets stuck on some of the larger words.

Sleeping peacefully

Sleeping peacefully

Pretty cute, enough said:)

Talk to the hand

Talk to the hand

Ruby’s saying good bye.

Don’t be alarmed if it looks like she only has 3 fingers.  Her thumb is doing some weird sort of blending with her index finger.

We assure you she has all her digits.

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Chris is omnipotent

January 23rd, 2009 745 comments

So what do superman and I have in common?

We can both be in more than one place at the same time.

My brother Matt is getting married this weekend and due to Ruby’s early appearance I won’t be able to attend the wedding, it’s in Guelph.

So my family, being my family, did the next best thing.

  1. They got a picture of me
  2. blew it up to life size
  3. tiled it across 8 large sheets of paper
  4. printed it out
  5. and glued it to a large piece of cardboard.

So come Saturday afternoon I may be standing up with my brothers as a groomsman after all.

The original picture had me holding Marla’s pregnant stomach.  Marla has since been cut out of the picture so now it just looks like I’m trying to grab everyone’s package:)

I can’t possibly see that getting abused at the reception:)

If you would like your own life sized Chris Holliday cut out please feel free to contact Marla, she will be distributing them.

I hear it’s the hottest gift you can get your lady friends for this years valentines day.

Cardboard Chris and Real Dan

Cardboard Chris and Real Dan

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Reading’s hard, Lets view Photos

January 20th, 2009 1 comment

Here are some Photo’s from the past 2 weeks:

With Dad

With Dad

Here’s a photo of Ruby and dad.

As you can see, both of us have plenty of hair.

The white dot on the side of Ruby’s head is Velcro (TM) which helps hold Ruby’s shades onto her head.

Usually Ruby and Dad will have time together after she has eaten.

The astute among you may also see that I am sporting a pretty sweet mustache that was meant for Matt’s wedding.

Resting with soother

Resting with soother

Here is Ruby sleeping.

She is sporting a wool touque, and fleece vest.

You can also see her holding her own soother with her left hand.

This is a very advanced maneuver and probably means she has more of her mom than dad in her:)

Wearing shades

Wearing shades

Here’s Ruby under a UV lamp.Evidently almost all premature babies are deficient in something called “belly ruben” (sp?).  This has something to do with jaundice.  This condition has since cleared up

The white things on her eys are her shades.  I think they may be Oakley’s.

You can also see the IV in her head, I’m told that the head is often the easiest place for the nurses to find a vein to put the IV in.

The paste like substance on her face helps hold in a feeding tube that goes from nose to stomach.  The tube has since been removed.

Kent eating
Kent eating
This is our cat Kent.

He has nothing to do with Ruby, he’s just on here because he is basically awesome in every way.

In this photo you can see his vertical black stripes in his coat.

I’m no vet but I believe these are racing strips and they help Kent to run fast.

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Ruby at one and a half weeks

January 20th, 2009 2 comments
Marla and Ruby

Marla and Ruby

Ruby is now almost 2 weeks old.  Some people have said that they have a hard time picturing what 2 lbs and 11 ozs looks like.

Here is a picture of Marla and Ruby on day 2.  She really is the smallest person we’ve seen.

I’ve gone back to work after taking 4 days off to help Marla.

Marla’s daily schedule consists of making a lunch time trip to the hospitla to feed Ruby for noon and 3.

Together we return for Ruby’s 6pm feeding and we stay for atleast an hour.  Usually Marla will feed and then Ruby and dad have a half hour of story time, though Marla has been know to hog Ruby and cut into my time with her:)

My work has been great in helping us.  They’ve let me work what ever hours I need to inorder to see Ruby, though considering I can work from home as much as I want that isn’t much of a difference:)

As far as we know Ruby will be at the hospital for atleast the next 3 weeks though it is still too far into the future to set a date with any amount of confidence.

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Ruby’s First Week

January 19th, 2009 1 comment

As most of you know, we had a bit of a surprise last week and we met our daughter Ruby Josephine Holliday 6 weeks earlier than planned. When we went in to a regular midwife appointment on Thursday, Jan 8 we ended up at the Foothills hospital for tests and told a few hours later that Marla had a serious condition called HELLP syndrome and that the baby needed to be delivered right away. The only cure for HELLP is delivery.

The next day, January 9, Marla was induced and delivered a healthy little 2 lb 11 ounce Ruby naturally at 4:17 pm after a pretty intense 5 hour labour. Though Ruby is small she is mighty and she keeps surprising the nurses and doctors with her progress. She is a feisty one and kicks a lot, one nurse even said she was going to be a soccer player without knowing that we both play so that made us quite proud:)

She started off in intensive care at Foothills  and was transferred to Peter Lougheed Centre late last week to a special care unit that is geared more towards getting the babies home and the parents prepared which is a much better environment for all of us. It does suck a bit because it is far from our house, but we are making it work. She has been gaining weight slowly and as of today she is now just over 3 lbs. She was also taken of IV today and out of the incubator so a big day all around for Ruby!

We are excited to see her grow a bit each day and love our visits where we get to cuddle her and read to her. She likes pulling her Daddy’s hair already, perhaps it is time to get it cut;)
We also wanted to take a moment to thank everyone for there good wishes and prayers and support over the last few weeks. The support has been amazing and we can’t imagine how this time would be without it. We have the best family and friends and feel very blessed right now. We love you all!

Stay tuned for some pics which will come tomorrow! We will try to keep this fairly updated as we know you all want to know how Ruby is doing and see lots of pics.

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