Home With the Kids

Debbie went out for the evening with her friend Mary, so tonight I am home with the kids. They are both in bed now. They were really good. Sara was pretty tired so she fell asleep as soon as I put her in bed and Seth had his normal bedtime routine. All nice and easy.

Now I am playing with my Linux computer. Let's see if I can learn something.

Back in the Blogosphere

Well, after a long absence I am back in the blogosphere. I've just completed setting up Ubuntu (Linux) on my laptop and so-far so good. One more step to a Windows free world.

The new job is coming along fine. I am busy, but good busy.

It seems like I just have random thoughts this evening.

Working Outside on the Screened Porch

I am sitting on the screened porch this working on the continuing job search. I have a couple of good warm prospects, but I am still looking just in case those don't pan out. I have not really wanted to write about my little break much because there really hasn't been much to write about.

It turns out that not working for a month has been really good for Debbie and the kids. I am getting to spend a lot of time with them. I think Seth is really enjoying it. I think it will be hard for him when I go back to work. Maybe not, though. He is incredibly resilient.

We have had a couple of beautiful fall days. I hope they hang on for a while. That is one of the nice things about this area, we generally get a long autumn.

A visit to Glen Echo

Glen Echo September 1 2007

Cutting Shrubbery (again)

This afternoon I cut an arbor vitae tree next to my garage. It was infested with bag worms, which were interesting, but deadly. They ate almost half of the bush. I wasn't too worried about cutting this plant because it really was not in a very good place to begin with.

Dad came over to lend me his mattock, which is better than mine, for digging out the stump and to give moral support.

We actually have beautiful weather today. It is sunny and 85 degrees with low humidity. Kind of a perfect day.

Drivin' the RV with Nana

The Kids

Here is a picture of the kids from last Sunday

Sara Sleeps Well

Sara is sleeping very well. In fact, she has almost from the beginning. What I mean by "sleeps well" is that she typically falls asleep about 8:30 in the evening, sleeps until 2 or 2:30 am, eats, and then goes back to sleep until 5:30 or 6 am. That's pretty good for a newborn.

Seth, as I recall, was up every two hours for about six months.

I think part of the difference is that Debbie and I were listening for every little noise that Seth made when he was sleeping. We called it re-binkying. He would fuss a little then we would crawl out of bed and pop the binky back in. With Sara we have been allowing her to go back to sleep on her own when she is not needing to be fed. That has worked fairly well for her and I think she sleeps longer at night because of it. Also, Sara is much less reliant on the binky than Seth was. In fact, most of the time she doesn't want it and spits it out almost instantly, or cries in a "get that thing out of my face" way. We're good with that.

Father's Day

It's been a good Father's Day so far. The kids are napping now. I went over to M+D's to get some day lilies and then I fixed a broken phone jack.

Debbie made spinach quiche for breakfast. It was very good. Tonight we go back over to the parents for dinner.

Family Dinner

Cresses headed off on their next cross country adventure yesterday. They set out in the RV about 9:30 am and will do a lot of touring as they work their way home.

We sat down to dinner last night, just the four of us, and it occurred to me that this was the first time we have had dinner with our little family. It was good.