Archive for December, 2006

If I Weren’t So Tired…

Monday, December 18th, 2006

Turns out that writing a hysterically funny and simultaneously touching blog about a formerly premature baby requires sleep.

On a positive note, the routine slogs on, and I guess things are going pretty well. Of course, it’s hard to tell, we have very little to compare raising Jack too. I had fish as a kid, but somehow this seems different. Maybe ’cause we don’t keep Jack in a tank? I’m not sure.

Anyhow, I know that you’ve come to expect a daily dose of hilarity as Sarah, Archie wend their way down that crazy road called parenthood, so I’m going to try to do better about keeping you up to date. Here’s an example of what you can look forward to:

About 45 minutes ago, Jack puked all over me. It was not awesome at all. In fact, it was the exact opposite of awesome. Parenthood rulez.

Grandpa P

Grandpa Jon

Great Grandma Dorothy

On The Floor

On The Floor

We’ve been holding out on you.

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

Every time one of us tries to post we get distracted. We’ve had so much happen in the past 11 days it’s kind of hard to keep up. So I’ll do this quick before Jack wakes up (again. I mean COME ON ALREADY)

  1. More visits were had with Gran. E and Aunt Jo.
  2. Grandpa’s Peter, Ray & Jon all had QT with the little guy this past week. 3 grandfathers?! It’s just too awesome for words
  3. In addition to grandfathers? Jack met the one, the only, Great Grandma Dorothy. Or, as I like to call her, G-squared.
  4. Jack also met two fabulous cousins, Wendy & Kate
  5. We met with the Early Intervention specialist and an Occupational Therapist. No need for alarm. All is well.

What else has happened? Oh not much. Nothing really. Oh except Jack is on a pooping strike. That’s right. No poop since Friday. You can imagine how happy we all are regarding this particular situation.

There are many pictures to post, but since we haven’t had time to upload anything I’ll leave you with this picture of Jack under a heaping pile of Christmas Presents from Aunt Joan & Uncle Jack…

Xmas came early

I promise a post with content soon. But when in doubt, post a picture of the kid, right?

Why didn’t you tell me?

Monday, December 11th, 2006

That parenting a newborn was so er, scintillating?

Because Dude? This stuff? It’s boring!

Ask me for a cultural critique of Hogan Knows Best…just ask, because I have 4 pages written. I decided that posting it would make me sound like a crazy person. BUT? Those 4 pages can be boiled down to one sentence.

Hulk Hogan is a better parent than Ozzy Osborne.

Go Figure.

My husband owes you $.05

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

Jack is 9 pounds even.

He has also not been, quiet, content or happy from noon today… until Arch walked in at 10:30 pm. That’s about when Jack decided to just conk out. I am following his lead shortly.

To celebrate the slow but steady melting of my brain, please visit my new favorite blog. This post alone makes it worth your while.

Place Your Bets, Place Your Bets.

Monday, December 4th, 2006

OK, tomorrow Jack has a doctors appointment. He will be weighed, and get a shot of Synagis, which helps protect him from getting the dreaded RSV.

Sarah hates shots, and I can only imagine that she REALLY hates watching Jack gets shots even more, so I’m not too upset that I wont be able to be there tomorrow. Jack has been through plenty of unpleasantness and as a parent, I’ve decided to try to avoid putting him though any unnecessary pain wherever possible. I realize that’s unprecedented, and that I’m the first parent to come up with this idea, but dude, I’m totally gonna try.

On the other hand, I’m completely OK with betting on my son. I’m saying that the boy is going to hit the double digits on the scale tomorrow. He’s getting huge as you can see from all the pics, and lately he’s been kicking it into overdrive. He’s sucking down that milk like theres no tomorrow, so I’m accepting all bets. cash on the barrel head, with a house limit of $.05.

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PS – I took these with, get this, a film camera! Yeah, apparently, they used to make cameras that use something called “film”. Basically, you put this “film” into the camera and then you can take the pictures, but you can’t see any of the pictures you took until much later, when you finish taking all the pictures in the “roll”, whatever that means.

It actually gets worse. You have to take this “roll” to some place and get it “developed” only to find out whether or not your picture actually came out.

Point is, its really complicated. I don’t really even understand it.