January 2011
62 posts
WatchWhile the girls stayed at home, Sean and I went to the beer home-brewing store. After a very tasty IPA, Sean is stepping it up to a Belgium Pilsner. The fat old grumpy brewmaster “Griz” at the shop warned us that it was the simplest recipe but the hardest beer to make. In about a month, we’ll just see about that Griz!
WatchJust watching them go around and around.
Big Day Tomorrow...
Tomorrow is my first full day back to work. Officially, I don’t go back to work full time until mid March. However, I have agreed to work intermittently until then. Tomorrow I have two back-to-back three hour lectures from 9 am to 3 pm. To be honest, I’m a little anxious about it.
Doing these lectures requires a fair amount of studying and reviewing of the material. I worry...
8 Hours!!
Yes— Charlie slept from 8 pm to 4 am last night!! After a fussy and frustrating afternoon of failed Cumi attempts, that was a pretty amazing surprise. Thanks little guy.
I actually think he would have slept longer but Mommy was woken up by her huge milk supply. So, at 4 am after Charlie ripped a couple huge sharts in his pants, we changed him and fed him. Right before I was making the...
WatchWe have started calling Charlie “Chaka” after the monkey from Land of the lost. It just seems to make sense.
WatchSlappin’ the bass.
WatchAir drums.
It's the little things...
After a fussy evening, Charlie slept from 10pm to 3:30am. What an unexpected gift. Thank you Charlie.
Just in case you missed this one the first time...
This is a re-post of the most hysterical dream that Jenny had while we were in the hospital:
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Jenny just had a dream that she was roller blading by Bon Jovi’s house and it inspired him to write a song about her.
She made a point of clarifying that it was the new Bon Jovi, the one with short hair.
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This morning we were laughing about it and she...
“I’m going to have a raisin instead of a boob if he keeps feeding like...”
– Mommy
Priceless...
Total Diaper Changes = 202
Total Feedings = 314
Total number of times a neighbor could have called child services from the hysterical cries heard through the walls = 516
It's 3:40am.
He just slept for 5 hrs and 40 min from 9:45pm to 3:25am. We haven’t gotten that much consecutive sleep since before the contractions started. I feel like the energizer bunny.
Jenny just had a dream that she was Danny Tanner (Bob Sagat’s character from Full House) and she was buying shoes for the Olsen Twins. They were pink ballet slippers. I guess her mind ran out of good material...
WatchMaking beats in the morning is one of our favorite routines.
“How the hell did our ancestors do this without beer and coffee?”
– Daddy
“I feel like my boobs are two separate creatures living on top of me right now.”
– Mommy
Which is it, Red or Blue?
I’ve come to realize that when my son cries there is a short list of possible things he is attempting to communicate. Because we monitor his feedings and diaper changes, we have a pretty good idea of which is bothering him and we can usually eliminate those as problems in a reasonable amount of time. In the moment though, “reasonable” is variable and perception of time is skewed....