Liberty wouldn't leave my side for very long
Titus on the trike
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Finally! Some pictures
Liberty wouldn't leave my side for very long
Titus on the trike
Friday, March 20, 2009
Babies Update
Yeah, that doesn't really roll off the tongue. I'll leave it to my sis-in-law Amy (English major) to tell me what it should be...
Rebekah went to the doc yesterday and things still look good. Heartbeats were a little lower but the doc didn't seem concerned. the next four weeks are crucial. If Rebekah can make it to 35 weeks before going into labor we can have a (semi) normal experience. Otherwise, if she has problems they'll pump her full of drugs and steroids to stop the labor and then kick her over to St. Lukes like last time. Ugh!
Please pray for grace and health for both Rebekah and the babies. Rebekah just has to deal with the pain and she's been a real trooper. I felt the boy last night and wow, it was freaky. not just a little kick. He was doing somersaults and ninja moves and stuff. I thought he was gonna go all Sigourney Weaver Alien on me. I had to stop myself from jumping up and grabbing my flamethrower. (No, I don't really have a flamethrower but I do have matches and some hairspray. that'll do the trick)
Baby Clell only has two arteries in his umbilical cord which is not atypical, but that does mean he is a higher risk baby. Titus was the same way and came out normal. Well, he's got more cuteness and mischievousness (is that a word?) than is normal, but that's ok.
anyway, we'll keep plugging away. We're trying to round up child care and stuff. That's kind of coming together but volunteers are welcome.
Rebekah went to the doc yesterday and things still look good. Heartbeats were a little lower but the doc didn't seem concerned. the next four weeks are crucial. If Rebekah can make it to 35 weeks before going into labor we can have a (semi) normal experience. Otherwise, if she has problems they'll pump her full of drugs and steroids to stop the labor and then kick her over to St. Lukes like last time. Ugh!
Please pray for grace and health for both Rebekah and the babies. Rebekah just has to deal with the pain and she's been a real trooper. I felt the boy last night and wow, it was freaky. not just a little kick. He was doing somersaults and ninja moves and stuff. I thought he was gonna go all Sigourney Weaver Alien on me. I had to stop myself from jumping up and grabbing my flamethrower. (No, I don't really have a flamethrower but I do have matches and some hairspray. that'll do the trick)
Baby Clell only has two arteries in his umbilical cord which is not atypical, but that does mean he is a higher risk baby. Titus was the same way and came out normal. Well, he's got more cuteness and mischievousness (is that a word?) than is normal, but that's ok.
anyway, we'll keep plugging away. We're trying to round up child care and stuff. That's kind of coming together but volunteers are welcome.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
up late
I'm staying up late because one of our c02 detectors went off. A little freaky, because we couldn't figure out anything wrong. We have a wood stove, so that was probably producing it, but we couldn't get it to stop. I finally took it outside and tested it and it still went off! Well, that seemed suspicious. Unfortunately, the other detector started going off too. I swear, it was sympathetic alarming or something. After yanking the batteries and putting them back in, it quit going off and then I never could get it alarm again. So, hopefully we're ok and not going to die in our sleep or anything. That would be a real bummer.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Correction
Rebekah just corrected me. She's @ 29 weeks. I can't keep track. it keeps going up for some reason. Like the inverse of the stock market.
Daddy's girl
by Grant
Liberty is a chip off the old block. She is sooo lazy. Watching her try to get out of the carseat is both frustrating and hilarious. And just now I put some crackers on the table right by her face. Instead of reaching up and grabbing them as I thought, she tried to suck them off the table with her mouth. I of course, indulged her a little by giving the cracker a nudge into the chasm of death (cracker death that is).
BTW, anybody on facebook can follow my blog easily because I have it importing into my facebook notes section. That is so cool. So non-techies that don't understand rss feeds can still stay on top of my inanities with a minimum of inconvenience.
I had somebody ask today what the gender is of the new twins (previously called beta twins in blog posts of yore). One male and one female homosapien is what they tell me. So, 3 boys and 3 girls. 1 dad. 1 mom. 1 female cat. I guess our next dog needs to be of the male persuasion...
Liberty is a chip off the old block. She is sooo lazy. Watching her try to get out of the carseat is both frustrating and hilarious. And just now I put some crackers on the table right by her face. Instead of reaching up and grabbing them as I thought, she tried to suck them off the table with her mouth. I of course, indulged her a little by giving the cracker a nudge into the chasm of death (cracker death that is).
BTW, anybody on facebook can follow my blog easily because I have it importing into my facebook notes section. That is so cool. So non-techies that don't understand rss feeds can still stay on top of my inanities with a minimum of inconvenience.
I had somebody ask today what the gender is of the new twins (previously called beta twins in blog posts of yore). One male and one female homosapien is what they tell me. So, 3 boys and 3 girls. 1 dad. 1 mom. 1 female cat. I guess our next dog needs to be of the male persuasion...
Friday, March 6, 2009
Clarification
Rebekah is @ 28 weeks. the previous blog post about weight of the babies was determined by the ultrasound.
I was unable to attend the appt. w/ my wife as I had to be at work to disable a coworkers account and change passwords. I feel like the last man standing in IT. It's not far from the truth. We have a fair number left, but i'm the primary system engineer for about 200 servers and dozens of ancillary systems. I have to babysit the backups this weekend for all that stuff I just mentioned. Argh. But at least I have a job, right? :)
I was unable to attend the appt. w/ my wife as I had to be at work to disable a coworkers account and change passwords. I feel like the last man standing in IT. It's not far from the truth. We have a fair number left, but i'm the primary system engineer for about 200 servers and dozens of ancillary systems. I have to babysit the backups this weekend for all that stuff I just mentioned. Argh. But at least I have a job, right? :)
Self immolation
by Grant
What causes people to self-destruct? It's sad to watch. It's heartbreaking if you know the person well. Giving in to all your wants and desires is the surest path to misery and destruction.
What causes people to self-destruct? It's sad to watch. It's heartbreaking if you know the person well. Giving in to all your wants and desires is the surest path to misery and destruction.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
Uh oh
by Grant
Within the past two weeks we've had a bit of shake up in upper mgmt. The CEO stepped down and his brother's taking over. The CFO is doing something else and another guy was promoted into that spot. The temporary HR manager (who was running an efficiency program earlier) has been permanently put in the post. Now we have some sort of building wide meeting. All meetings these days are bad. But the IT director left for the day so I guess that's good.
In other less anxious news, I went to a car auction on Friday w/ a friend. I don't know if those vehicles went for too much or not, but paying thousands of $$ for a worn out vehicle isn't my idea of a smart move. Most were bank repos and old with high miles. A lot of them had some sort of damage. It was as if all the good vehicles got picked over by dealers and then the rejects got auctioned off to suckers. There were some pretty good deals, but I tried to buy a 22 year old van in pretty nice shape and some psycho lady was prepared to bid to the moon (or so it appeared). I had passed up minivans because thought I could get this cheap, but she wanted it bad. So, I let her have it. What was funny is that I went to lunch and when I came back the auction was almost over and there were still people waiting in line to sign up. Crazy. I'll bet they felt rather chagrined to find out they'd missed everything.
BTW, Beka is still hanging in there but she is not getting hardly any sleep. Typically she's not falling asleep until 4am. Crazy. I would have lost it and been in a padded room if that was me. God sure gives grace.
Within the past two weeks we've had a bit of shake up in upper mgmt. The CEO stepped down and his brother's taking over. The CFO is doing something else and another guy was promoted into that spot. The temporary HR manager (who was running an efficiency program earlier) has been permanently put in the post. Now we have some sort of building wide meeting. All meetings these days are bad. But the IT director left for the day so I guess that's good.
In other less anxious news, I went to a car auction on Friday w/ a friend. I don't know if those vehicles went for too much or not, but paying thousands of $$ for a worn out vehicle isn't my idea of a smart move. Most were bank repos and old with high miles. A lot of them had some sort of damage. It was as if all the good vehicles got picked over by dealers and then the rejects got auctioned off to suckers. There were some pretty good deals, but I tried to buy a 22 year old van in pretty nice shape and some psycho lady was prepared to bid to the moon (or so it appeared). I had passed up minivans because thought I could get this cheap, but she wanted it bad. So, I let her have it. What was funny is that I went to lunch and when I came back the auction was almost over and there were still people waiting in line to sign up. Crazy. I'll bet they felt rather chagrined to find out they'd missed everything.
BTW, Beka is still hanging in there but she is not getting hardly any sleep. Typically she's not falling asleep until 4am. Crazy. I would have lost it and been in a padded room if that was me. God sure gives grace.
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