Suse's Adventures in Motherhood

This is an account of my successes and failures in parenting from the time we got our first dog to raising my twins.

December 09, 2005

The Wienermobile

Skylar, Jack and Jarrod with the Wienermobile in 2004. They came upon this in one of the shopping malls in Irvine, CA where we go for groceries. The OM people were kind enough to take this Polaroid of my family. All three of them got little Weinermobile whistles, too.

Skylar and the Duke

My daughter, Skylar, with John Wayne in the summer of 1992 or 1993. Yeah, right! At our local strip mall where we used to go regularly for the best donuts in the world (and I don't mean Krispy Kremes) there was a cardboard cut out picture of John Wayne just standing in front of one of the stores. We asked both kids to pose with him but only Sky would do it. It is remarkable how realistic the picture of the Duke looks next to my little girl.

November 21, 2005

Luau 2004


The Baugh clan decked out for a back yard luau in August 2004. Standing (l to r), Claire Baugh, Jack Bertram, me, Phyllis (aka Karen) Todd, Skylar and Jarrod. In front are Becky Baugh and Derek Chee.

Thanksgiving 2004

Pictures of my family at our Thanksgiving dinner. Top left is my dad, Robert Baugh, top right (l to r) are my sister, Claire Baugh, my husband, Jack, and me. Below are (l to r) my son Jarrod, daughter Skylar and twin sister, Becky Baugh.

November 16, 2005

Kids at UCI - 11 years old


Here are the kids (Skylar on the left and Jarrod on the right) at the UCI Staff Picnic. Jarrod looks like he is being swallowed by his tee shirt! (For more information on this picture and even, go to my UCI blog at http://suseatuci.blogspot.com)

Relaxing

I'm taking a break on May 14, 1990 watching Jack play with the kids. Posted by Picasa

November 15, 2005

Adopted Children

This is a picture of an adult manatee cow that I "adopted" at a reserve in Florida. It gave me a very maternal feeling to support such a large but gentle creature. I also adopted a calf but unfortunately it did not return to the reserve the second year. That was devastating to me as they all have names. I will see if I can find a copy of the publication with the names of my adopted "children."

November 14, 2005

Strawberry Moose Blossom

Strawberry Moose Blossom (aka Blossom) was our first "child". We bought her before we got married with the assumption (erroneous) that we would continue living in the house on Louise Street with Jack's mom. There was a big back yard so no problem for a medium sized dog.
These are pictures of Blossom in the back yard of the Louise St. house in January 1979 - she was 11 weeks old. She was a pedigreed red and white female Bassett Hound. She was a very sweet dog. Her only problem was that she peed much too easily. This was quite apparent when we got to hold her at the pet store but we didn't mind. Jack and I had always wanted a Bassett Hound ever since we saw the tv show "People's Choice."
These are pictures of Blossom as an adult dog. I'm not sure of the dates but the one on the left is at my Mom's house at Christmas time and the one on the right is in our apartment. These were probably taken when she was three or four years old - 1982 or 1983.
This picture of Blossom was taken August 12, 1990. She is eleven years old and showing it. This is after we had our human kids but before Blossom's accident.