Peg Ostrander
Theo
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born Jan 30, 2018 · 8 on Oct 5, 2026
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43 records, oldest first2011
Jan 8
Feb 21
Grandchildren charm bracelet
One charm for each grandchild - a book (Hannah), a trombone (Owen), a fish (Lucas), a shamrock (Maeve), a bear (Theo), a juniper sprig (June). Six charms. Never appraised.
2018
Jan 29
1 3/4 yds of the small bears print, and batting
Jan 31
Theodore Sami Khoury, born last night in Portland, January 30, at 9:41 their ti…
…me, which was nineteen minutes to midnight here. Seven pounds nine. Sami is for Samir's grandfather.
We were at home, in bed, with the suitcases for Gulf Shores standing open on the floor. The telephone rang on R.'s side and he answered it in the dark the way he answered it through thirty years of bridge emergencies…
Jan 31
Theo, for the birthday book: Theodore Sami Khoury, born Tuesday, January 30, 20…
…18, at 9:41 in the evening, Portland time. 7 lb 9 oz. Sami is for Samir's grandfather.
I go to Portland March 6 to 13.
Feb 1
Airfare to Portland, one ticket
Mar 4
Theo's quilt: done. No. 38.
Bear Paw. Twelve 10 1/2-inch blocks, three by four, with 1 1/2-inch sashing and cornerstones, and a 3-inch border: 42 x 54. Browns and rusts on a cream ground, forest-green border. Backing: small bears walking in lines.
Label: "For Theodore Sami, from Grandma Peg, 2018. No. 38."
Mar 12
Portland, the sixth day of seven. Theo is six weeks old, long, bald and very al…
…ert.
Kate is tired. She does not want advice and I have given almost none; I have done laundry, made soup, and walked the baby around the block in the drizzle so that she could sleep. On Friday she came downstairs, found the kitchen clean and the baby asleep on my chest, and cried, and said it was hormones, and I sa…
Jul 7
Family week, thirteen of us, and the new kitchen held. Theo is five months old…
…and was handed up and down the dock all week. Hannah is nine and read to Gus on the dock yesterday, an entire chapter book, holding up the pictures for him to see.
Gus cannot manage the steps down to the lake. On Sunday he stood at the top, looked at the children in the water, and whined. So R. carries him down in t…
Jul 8
Family week 2018, practical. Thirteen, with Theo (five months).
- Sleeping: Kate, Samir and the baby had the north bedroom; David's four went to the tent and the sofa bed between them. It will not do for another year. The shed question is open again.
- Loons: two hatched, one left by the Fourth. Nobody saw what happened.
- Gus cannot do the steps to the lake. For next year: a ramp…
Oct 16
Walnut for Theo's toy chest, 36 board feet
2019
Jul 6
The week of the Fourth: thirteen people, one puppy, one pontoon. Maeve is three…
…, and asked me at breakfast whether I was "the same Grandma as last time." I said I was. She looked me over and said, "You got smaller."
Theo is seventeen months old and goes straight for the water every time he is set down. Birdie has learned "sit" from Hannah, "no" from everybody, and how to open the cooler from O…
Jul 7
Family week 2019: thirteen, a puppy and a pontoon.
Per Ray, the pontoon rules, posted in the boathouse:
1. The plate says ten people. Ray says eight, plus the dog.
2. Life jackets ON for anyone under 13, and for Theo at all times within sight of water.
3. Nobody rides in front of the rail.
4. The driver is over 16 and has had the motor explained by Ray. So far that is…
Sep 8
Home since Thursday. Church; I had altar guild and set out the green. Pastor Kr…
…istin preached on counting the cost, and R. counted the house instead: 142.
R. fell asleep in his chair this afternoon with the ball game on the radio, which he does not do before the seventh inning. I had to tell him the score.
Sunday calls: Ellen, yes. David, yes, from an airport. Kate sent a photograph of Theo w…
Oct 14
Freight to Portland - Theo's toy chest
Nov 28
All of them came. Ellen's four, David's four, Kate and Samir and Theo: thirteen…
…at the table, here, for Thanksgiving, which has not happened since Kate moved west.
R. carved sitting down. Theo is twenty-two months old and ate only rolls. Lucas, six, asked his grandfather at the table whether he could see the thing in his heart, and R. said no, but that he has a picture of it, and after pie the…
Dec 15
Christmas 2019, sizes:
- Hannah (11): 14, shoe 6.
- Owen (8 1/2): 10. Skates 3.
- Lucas (6): 7.
- Maeve (3 3/4): 4T. Wants a doctor's kit "with a real shot."
- Theo (nearly 2): 2T.
Lykke: julekake x2, limpa x2. No kringle ordered.
2020
May 10
Mother's Day. All three called. Kate held Theo up to the screen and he licked i…
…t.
We have been at the cabin a week and mean to stay until the leaves are down. Everything came up in two vehicles: the sourdough, the Bernina, R.'s pills for ninety days, the dog, forty pounds of flour.
Jim Hrdlicka did not come for the opener, the first one he has missed since we bought the place. R. fished it wi…
Nov 26
Thanksgiving for two. A turkey breast, one pie, the good plates anyway. Three c…
…alls on the laptop between noon and four, a time zone apiece.
Theo is nearly three and wanted to know why Grandpa was in the computer. Kate said Grandpa was at his house. Theo said, "Then why is he small?"
After the last one R. closed the lid and we sat.
Dec 6
Christmas 2020: everything by mail. Three boxes, posted December 5.
To Naperville:
- Hannah (12): women's small. A proper journal, bound, and a good pen.
- Owen (9 1/2): 12. A puck bag, and "The Hobbit."
To Denver:
- Lucas (7): 8. Fly-tying kit, beginner's, chosen by Ray.
- Maeve (4 3/4): 5. Three picture books and a library card holder.
To Portland:
- Theo (nearly 3): 3T. Wooden tr…
2021
Aug 9
No, Grandma. It falls down THIS way. Do it again.
Aug 15
Portland, the end of the second week. It was 103 degrees on Thursday, and the s…
…ky is the color of weak tea from the fires. We have lived in the basement with two fans and a baby in a diaper.
June is five weeks old, dark, unhurried, and sleeps with her fists up by her ears. Theo is three and a half. He has been very good about her and very bad about everything else, and I am the one with time t…
Aug 23
Portland, August 1 to 21: what to remember.
THEO AND NUTS. He was tested in the winter. Tree nuts: walnut and pecan are the bad ones, and Kate keeps all tree nuts out of the house to be safe. Peanuts are fine; he eats peanut butter daily. What that means for me:
- No walnuts or pecans in anything I bake for a gathering he is at. That is the banana bread, the sa…
Dec 6
Wooden workbench for Theo, shipped to Portland
Dec 12
Christmas 2021: six.
- Hannah (13): women's small, shoe 8. A gift card to the bookshop near her.
- Owen (10 1/2): 14. A mouthpiece for the trombone.
- Lucas (8): 8. Polarized fishing glasses.
- Maeve (5 3/4): 6. December's book, and a reading lamp.
- Theo (nearly 4): 4T.
- June (5 months): 6-9 months.
2022
Jul 9
Fourteen. All of us in one place for the first time: June is a few days short o…
…f a year old and had never seen her cousins except on a telephone. She was passed down the dock like a bucket at a fire. She walks if she has the porch bench to hold. Theo, four, has appointed himself her interpreter. Hannah is thirteen and spent a good deal of the week on the swim raft with a book, not wanting to be…
Jul 10
FAMILY WEEK 2022, July 2 to 9. All fourteen of us at once, for the first time.
WHO SLEPT WHERE
- Lake bedroom: Ray and I.
- North bedroom: Kate, Samir, and June (11 months) in the travel crib.
- Back bedroom, the two twins: Ellen and Mark.
- Sofa bed in the main room: David and Julia.
- The porch, four cots: Hannah (13), Owen (11), Lucas (8), Maeve (6).
- Theo (4): the trundle in his parents' ro…
Dec 21
Christmas 2022, here, because of the knee. All fourteen, in shifts: Ellen's fou…
…r the 22nd to the 24th; David's four the 24th to the 27th; Kate's four the 26th to the 28th.
Sizes:
- Hannah (14): women's small, shoe 8 1/2.
- Owen (11 1/2): 14-16. Skates 6.
- Lucas (9): 10.
- Maeve (6 3/4): 7.
- Theo (nearly 5): 5.
- June (17 months): 2T. Her bed quilt is on the frame and will be late.
Nothing w…
2023
Aug 13
Lucas's ten-year quilt: done, and in the post tomorrow for the 21st. No. 49.
Fish. Twenty of them, each a pieced block 12 x 16 inches, swimming in four rows, every other row the opposite way: northerns in greens, walleye in gold and olive, a row of bluegills, and one musky down the left side that is three blocks long. Water is seven different blues. Twin, 68 x 88.
Backing: the trout-stream pr…
Dec 10
Christmas 2023, in Portland, six days. We fly the 22nd. Everything for Napervil…
…le and Denver is posted by the 12th; what goes to Portland must fit two suitcases.
Sizes:
- Hannah (15): women's small. She has stopped eating meat as of October; no beef sticks in that box. A set of good coloured pencils, 72, and paper.
- Owen (12 1/2): men's small. Skates 8.
- Lucas (10): 12. A fillet knife, with…
Dec 28
Christmas in Portland, six days. Rain on every one of them. Theo will be six ne…
…xt month and has a loose tooth. June is two and a half and says "No thank you" to everything, including the things she wants.
Samir's parents had us all on Christmas Eve. Nabil and R. went off into a corner and talked about culverts for an hour and a quarter. Leila sent me home with a tin.
This was the first Christ…
2024
May 26
The cabin has real internet as of yesterday. A white dish the size of a pizza b…
…ox on the gable of the boathouse, and a little box in the main room with one light. R. put it up himself on the extension ladder, with me holding the foot of it and Arnie giving advice from a lawn chair. R. says it is for the cameras and the weather.
Theo and June appeared on the screen this morning from Portland, i…
Jul 4
I can't have walnuts or pecans. I can have a peanut, because a peanut is lying…
…about being a nut.
Dec 15
Christmas 2024, in Denver. We fly out the 21st and home the 28th. Birdie goes t…
…o Naperville on the 20th; Hannah has the feeding card.
Sizes:
- Hannah (16): women's small. Paints, the good ones, from the shop Kate recommended.
- Owen (13 1/2): men's medium.
- Lucas (11): 12-14. An ice-fishing rod.
- Maeve (8 3/4): 10. December's book. Ray is building her a bookcase, cherry, to be delivered in t…
2025
Jul 5
Fourteen for the Fourth, and for the first time there was room: the four eldest…
…cousins in the bunkhouse, with Hannah as landlady and a list of rules on the door in her handwriting, the first of which is NO OWEN ON THE TOP BUNK AFTER TEN.
On Thursday morning Lucas caught a northern off the end of the dock on a red-and-white spoon: thirty-one inches by R.'s tape, measured twice, because the firs…
Jul 9
Family week 2025. Fourteen, and a bed for every one of them.
- Bunkhouse: Hannah (16), Owen (14), Lucas (11), Maeve (9).
- Lake bedroom: us. North bedroom: Kate and Samir, with June on the trundle. Back bedroom: Ellen and Mark. Sofa bed: David and Julia. Porch cot: Theo (7), with the dog.
For the record book: Thursday, July 3, about 7:30 in the morning, off the end of the dock…
Dec 14
Christmas 2025, HERE, all fourteen, December 24 to 27.
Beds:
- Ellen and Mark: Ellen's old room. David and Julia: David's. Kate and Samir: the family room, on the sofa bed.
- Hannah: the sewing room, on the trundle.
- Owen and Lucas: air mattresses in the den.
- Maeve, Theo, June: sleeping bags in our room.
Sizes:
- Hannah (17): women's small. A carry-on suitcase.
- Owen…
2026
Jan 18
Theo's quilt, for his eighth birthday on the 30th: finished. No. 51. His ten-ye…
…ar quilt is not due until 2028.
Ocean Waves, twin, 66 x 86. All of the blues are Alice Nettesheim's, against white. Backed in a print of small sailboats.
Label: "For Theo, from Grandma Peg, 2026. The blues were Alice's. No. 51."
Posted Tuesday, insured.
Jan 25
Maeve's ten-year quilt: bound this afternoon. No. 52.
"Night Sky." Twin, 70 x 90. A navy ground with forty pieced stars in whites, creams and three golds, and stitched in pale thread from star to star, the Big Dipper and Orion as they stood over Denver on the night of March 9, 2016. David worked out the positions.
Backing and binding in plain navy. Quilted by Kathleen L…
May 25
Hannah's graduation, yesterday, Naperville, 1:00, outdoors.
- From us: the quilt, and a cheque for $500.00 toward books.
- She starts in Madison on August 28.
- Thank-you note to Mark's mother, who saved us seats in the shade.
Next graduations: Owen 2029, Lucas 2031, Maeve 2034, Theo 2036, June 2039.
Jul 9
They went home yesterday. Fourteen, eight days, and the bunkhouse full.
Hannah is seventeen and off to college in seven weeks. Owen is fifteen and six feet tall and eats standing up. Lucas, twelve, fried the walleye on the Fourth, all of it, at his grandfather's elbow, with R. saying nothing but "now" at intervals. Maeve read on the porch swing. Theo is eight and announces the tree nuts h…
Jul 9
FAMILY WEEK 2026, July 1 to 8. Fourteen people, eight days.
WHO SLEPT WHERE
- Lake bedroom: Ray and I.
- North bedroom: Kate and Samir, with June (5 on the 12th) on the trundle.
- Back bedroom, the twins: Ellen and Mark.
- Sofa bed: David and Julia.
- Bunkhouse: Hannah (17) lower lake side, under the blue quilt; Owen (15) upper lake side, under the green; Lucas (12) and Maeve…
Aug 31
Sunday dinners for Hannah. The list on the refrigerator, so that I do not make…
…the same thing three weeks running.
1. The lentil thing (below).
2. Squash soup, with bread.
3. Mushroom and wild rice loaf, the Christmas one.
4. Egg bake with spinach and cheese.
5. Pasta with the garden's tomatoes, while there are any.
6. Bean chili, the pot without meat.
7. Lefse, potatoes and three vegetables,…
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| First name | Theodore |
|---|---|
| Middle name | Sami |
| Last name | Khoury |
| Nickname | Theo |
| Date of birth | 2018-01-30 |
| Gender | Male |
| Comments | Grandson, Kate and Samir's. NO tree nuts (walnut, pecan). Peanuts are fine. |
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q145 How many grandchildren do we have, and who is the oldest? q027 Where was I when each of the grandchildren was born? q036 Make me a list of every book I have written about in my journal.