Our life

According to my calculations, calendar, and now my “Ages & Stages” email, DD is 9 weeks old today. Yesterday, she was exactly 2 months. Where does the time go? Mommy and baby are doing great. Don’t tell mommy, but dd feels like she’s growing a good bit. That’ll be our little secret, okay?

Today will be a super hard day. Today is round 1 of the vaccinations (if you don’t include the ones at the hospital). We’ve both been really torn on which ones we’re okay with, and which ones we “conscientiously oppose”¹. One one hand, we know they can help (polio, Hepatitis B, Rotovirus). But on the other hand, there is a growing group of people that believe its the vaccinations that are causing the rise in the number of Autism cases. The CDC has stated that they support the IOM’s findings: “the evidence favors rejection of a causal relationship between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism”. I hate government speak. “favors rejection”? Why can’t they release a study that just says “its safe”.

Saturday, C and I went to the Minnesota State Fair. It was hard, leaving dd behind with grandmom Oz. But we both knew it would be good for her, Oz, and us. Every now and then, mommy and daddy need to get away for a bit. We had a grand old time. We ate a ton of unhealthy, deep fried foods on a stick. Pronto Pups, Gizmo, Rice Burger, Mac and Cheese on a stick, Chicago Style Hot Dog(!!!). That’s one of the biggest perks to going to the fair: the food. So many choices, so little time. Check out the gallery below.

Sunday, we went over to G&G’s to help clean things up. Just had to get rid of some old heavy stuff. I can’t explain how theraputic it is to break things apart with a sledge hammer. After a productive day there, we decided it was time to just hang out. Continued the hanging out all day Monday. The rest of the week was uneventful at the house. C cooked some fantastic dinners all week. A nice quiet week with my best gals. One item of note: Wednesday, we had our first ever vibrating dinner. The seat we have for dd haas a vibrating attachment. Traditionally, she’s hated it. But Wednesday night, during dinner, it was the only thing that calmed her down. Go figure.

Today, after the doc, we have something special planned. I’ll share that with you after we get away with it.

Hope everyone had a good week.

1. if you conscientiously oppose a vaccination, the state lets you get a legal waiver from the school/day care requirements, per http://health.state.mn.us [↩]

For those of you who didn’t know (or didn’t check the about page), we live in the balmy, subtropical state of Minnesota. The land of 10,000 11,842 lakes. As you can imagine, fishing and boating are pretty big around here.

St. Paul was chosen to be the host of the 2008 Republican National Convention. If you’ve turned on a TV or looked at any news site, I’m sure you knew this already. While short of riots, the protesting is getting a bit out of hand, especially with the inclusion of these “anarchy” guys, the RNC Welcoming Committee.

Without giving my opinion on the whole thing¹, I’ve noticed that the protests are creating some fantastic photo opportunities. I’d love to grab a couple of cameras, some water and granola bars, and spend a day down there shooting pics. But we have dd, and she’s far more interesting to me.

But I did see this morning that the protesters got out of hand last night again. The riot cops shut them down near Mickey’s Diner. When I saw the image on the news, I thought to myself “I sure hope someone took pics of that!”. They did:

Thank you flickr, and thank you SportShotChris

Other noteworthy flickr pages:

WaynePhotoGuy
jcbehm
Stacey Graham

1. two things I rarely discuss in any setting: religion and politics. [↩]

According to my calculations, calendar, and now my “Ages & Stages” email, DD was 8 weeks old Friday. Almost 2 months! Wow! Mommy and dd are doing fantastically. I’ve had to get to know her all over again this past week. She smiles all the time. A couple times this week, she’s called me at work, just to giggle. If you don’t have a kid, but you’re planning on it, wait til you get that phone call. So, so cool.

Let me try to catch you up on the past couple of weeks. We’ve been super busy, super tired, super happy.

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According to my calculations, calendar, and now my “Ages & Stages” email, DD was 7 weeks old yesterday. Mommy and dd are doing fantastically. This whole thing will never cease to amaze me. She’s really starting to develop a personality. She definitely knows who mommy is, and most times knows me (the plague of every working father). But I’m okay with that. I want her to know at least one of us really well. I’m glad that’s mommy.

Unfortunately, I don’t have alot to report. I’ve barely seen her (I’ll explain later), and the time I have, I didn’t take inventory. She seems bigger than this time last week. I did measure her last Saturday (21.5 inches). I’ll make sure to have a new measurement for you next week (scouts honor).

Last night, Montgomery had their annual “Movie In The Park”. Its a movie on a giant inflatable screen, played in the park outside of the high school. Always a fun time. This year, it was Radio (with Cuba Gooding Jr.). DD’s first! I know she loved it, and will continue to love it!

I apologize for not writing much lately. I think my brain’s overwhelmed. But I promise, I will get back to writing soon.