I have an issue with leaving jobs unfinished and rooms a mess. I'm almost done for the day (check the timestamp below, sorry if there is little sense in this blog as I am sleepy) in terms of organizing baby's room.
Today Amy and I went through all the clothes and sorted them by newborn, 3-6 mo., 6-9 mo. and greater than 9 mo. I'm in the middle of washing the newborn clothes so that we may have them ready. All other clothes will be put away until he is ready for them.
We have also gone through toys, feeding things, diaper changing stuff, and other items.
The closet is pretty much organized, we have lots of shelf space thanks to the new shelf organizing system, and many shelves are currently empty.
Christmas is coming, and our wishlist is pretty much the things remaining on the Babies "R" Us registry. At least now we are organized and will gladly take more baby stuff (no 6-9 month items, please, we have a storage tub overflowing with those size clothes).
Some may say, "Chad, get some sleep, worry about this tomorrow" but I say this, "It is already tomorrow, and I consider it conditioning for the next several months (or years)."
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Official Blog
In the past I've used a quasi blog, but now I'm ready to edit any time, anywhere with a real live blog complete with RSS feeds and an easy interface. Maybe I'll get Amy to start blogging too.
After things started falling into place with the baby (less than 24 days left until D-day) and I accidentally deleted one of the posts, I decided it was time to join the big boys in blogging. So here I am. Visit this blog to get all the up to date info on baby and the family.
I'm also using the blog as a little experiment for work. We are trying to keep up to date with communication and blogs and pod casts are one way of doing that. I feel that if I myself blog regularly I can learn more about it and find out ways to properly use it at work. I'll probably start up two additional blogs, one on each of my two other sites in order to become better and practice what I preach. I may kill one or both later, depending upon how I like where they are going.
Nothing new happening. The nursery is pretty much set. We just need to organize the closet, blankets and towels. Amy has a shower today at work so perhaps this weekend we will organize the stuff. Decide what goes where and what it is that baby needs in the first month or so.
Until next time, take care.
After things started falling into place with the baby (less than 24 days left until D-day) and I accidentally deleted one of the posts, I decided it was time to join the big boys in blogging. So here I am. Visit this blog to get all the up to date info on baby and the family.
I'm also using the blog as a little experiment for work. We are trying to keep up to date with communication and blogs and pod casts are one way of doing that. I feel that if I myself blog regularly I can learn more about it and find out ways to properly use it at work. I'll probably start up two additional blogs, one on each of my two other sites in order to become better and practice what I preach. I may kill one or both later, depending upon how I like where they are going.
Nothing new happening. The nursery is pretty much set. We just need to organize the closet, blankets and towels. Amy has a shower today at work so perhaps this weekend we will organize the stuff. Decide what goes where and what it is that baby needs in the first month or so.
Until next time, take care.
Saturday, December 2, 2006
Baby Could Come Sooner
Amy was sick earlier this week and went to see the doctor. He informed her that the baby’s head is down and may be ready to deliver two weeks early. Sadly that puts it on Christmas Eve. Please baby, please don’t come out the few days surrounding Christmas or New Year’s Eve, we don’t want you to share your birthday parties with any holiday!
(Tomorrow around 5 or 6 am there will be less than 3 million seconds until Jan 7. If the new due date is infact Christmas Eve, that cuts 1,209,600 seconds off of our prep time!)
(Tomorrow around 5 or 6 am there will be less than 3 million seconds until Jan 7. If the new due date is infact Christmas Eve, that cuts 1,209,600 seconds off of our prep time!)
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Nursery Finally Cleaned Out
We have finally cleaned out the nursery. All that remains is baby’s stuff and some networking components. Anyone need some cables, a rack mount hub or switch? I’ll probably eBay them all as one since they didn’t sell individually last time.
I have half the closet complete. We are trying to buy supplies little by little as we put money away for Amy’s time off next spring since she is extending her maternity leave, a portion of which is unpaid. It is so nice to finally see the room coming together. I snapped a few pictures to share and posted them online. It looks a little empty compared to the other rooms around the house containing the displaced desks and office supplies.
Right now my desk area is a little messy with papers and supplies I need to go through sometime over the next few weeks. That mess didn’t stop me from putting up a counter that displays the number of seconds until baby’s arrival! Similar to the one that counted down for our wedding (and now counts forward the number of seconds we’ve been married) this one is set to midnight January 7th, the estimated date (date and time may change). This count down is one better as the majority of people are worried about the number of days, so I’ve displayed that too (precise to 6 decimal places of course)!
I have half the closet complete. We are trying to buy supplies little by little as we put money away for Amy’s time off next spring since she is extending her maternity leave, a portion of which is unpaid. It is so nice to finally see the room coming together. I snapped a few pictures to share and posted them online. It looks a little empty compared to the other rooms around the house containing the displaced desks and office supplies.
Right now my desk area is a little messy with papers and supplies I need to go through sometime over the next few weeks. That mess didn’t stop me from putting up a counter that displays the number of seconds until baby’s arrival! Similar to the one that counted down for our wedding (and now counts forward the number of seconds we’ve been married) this one is set to midnight January 7th, the estimated date (date and time may change). This count down is one better as the majority of people are worried about the number of days, so I’ve displayed that too (precise to 6 decimal places of course)!
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Pretty Sure It’s A Boy
If you haven’t been able to make sense of the ultrasounds, I hope the title of this entry sheds some light. I’ve been using the male pronoun for a while around people, and I don’t think a certain individual has picked up on it. But I won’t mention his name here.
Anyway, I’ve been plugging away at work, grad school, and the nursery. I am happy to say that midterm is here, work is getting less hectic, and I have all the paint up in the nursery including the closet. The last bit of remodeling I need to do is to hang the shelving track in the closet.
Anyway, I’ve been plugging away at work, grad school, and the nursery. I am happy to say that midterm is here, work is getting less hectic, and I have all the paint up in the nursery including the closet. The last bit of remodeling I need to do is to hang the shelving track in the closet.
Friday, September 29, 2006
Buddy's Issue
Two weeks ago, as news of our baby picked up after the ultrasound we noticed a drastic change in Buddy’s behavior. We didn’t want to pin it on sibling rivalry because that would be absurd. What does a rabbit know about the life changing events around its owners?
The problem was this, Buddy would dig out all of her litter, and move her litter box away from the corner and then do her business in the corner. After a few days, no matter how many times we cleaned up and moved the box back, she would keep doing it and it started to smell.
Well, me being the logical troubleshooter I am, I started figuring out what changed in her cage/life around that time. I had run out of some old litter and switch fully to a new brand, after a few weeks of mixing half and half new and old. Could that be it? With the old brand not available at our pet store, Wal-mart, Target, grocery store, Pet Co, Pet Smart, Fleet Farm, etc it seemed we were out of luck.
So Amy suggested securing the litter box in the corner even though that meant some extra work when cleaning it. Buddy tried and tried to move the litter box for days but couldn’t, we finally got her to use it, but not before she would dig all the litter out. With no litter coverage it still smelled.
My next suggestion was maybe the baby’s ultrasound picture on the desktop of my computer was freaking her out. So I put it back to the usual blue background. That didn’t work.
We then wondered if she had a health problem (sore tooth, paw, etc) that she was trying to tell us about. We scheduled a vet appointment for tomorrow.
Miraculously, she stopped last Monday, the day we scheduled the appointment. Perhaps it was this that brought her behavioral issue to a close or perhaps it was one, unusual change that I made.
She has a lamp in the loft on a timer that provides extra light during the day. It has those low energy bulbs so as not to use too much electricity since it is on every day for 12 hours. The timer is a simple Christmas light timer so that we don’t need to worry about turning it on during the day or off at night when we are gone or asleep.
Amy had mentioned that she mainly misbehaved at night. We figured it was because we were in the bedroom and she knew she could get our attention. Which is what she does around 8:00 every Saturday and Sunday morning when she wants to be fed. She’ll bang her food dish, throw a toy around, or start playing with her bell. (Such a demanding rabbit)
Since she misbehaved at night, I wondered if she wanted a light on, so I turned on a light in the nursery so she could have a little bit more light. She was perfect that night. I then bought a photo sensing night light and put it next to her cage for the next night. That didn’t work. The next night I left the nursery light on. She was perfect.
I have since removed the timer from her lamp and she now has a lamp 24 hours a day. It’s a double bulb, so we only leave one on all the time, and have resorted to manually turning on and off the overhead light (which is also the energy saving bulbs). We have had no problems since Monday, which is also, as I mentioned the day we scheduled an appointment for her.
You’d think she would want some darkness, but at night she perches herself on top of her house in her cage in direct light of the lamp instead of hiding on the dark side of it.
We may or may not learn more at the vet this weekend, but for now it seems Buddy is content. As long as she behaves, we are content too.
The problem was this, Buddy would dig out all of her litter, and move her litter box away from the corner and then do her business in the corner. After a few days, no matter how many times we cleaned up and moved the box back, she would keep doing it and it started to smell.
Well, me being the logical troubleshooter I am, I started figuring out what changed in her cage/life around that time. I had run out of some old litter and switch fully to a new brand, after a few weeks of mixing half and half new and old. Could that be it? With the old brand not available at our pet store, Wal-mart, Target, grocery store, Pet Co, Pet Smart, Fleet Farm, etc it seemed we were out of luck.
So Amy suggested securing the litter box in the corner even though that meant some extra work when cleaning it. Buddy tried and tried to move the litter box for days but couldn’t, we finally got her to use it, but not before she would dig all the litter out. With no litter coverage it still smelled.
My next suggestion was maybe the baby’s ultrasound picture on the desktop of my computer was freaking her out. So I put it back to the usual blue background. That didn’t work.
We then wondered if she had a health problem (sore tooth, paw, etc) that she was trying to tell us about. We scheduled a vet appointment for tomorrow.
Miraculously, she stopped last Monday, the day we scheduled the appointment. Perhaps it was this that brought her behavioral issue to a close or perhaps it was one, unusual change that I made.
She has a lamp in the loft on a timer that provides extra light during the day. It has those low energy bulbs so as not to use too much electricity since it is on every day for 12 hours. The timer is a simple Christmas light timer so that we don’t need to worry about turning it on during the day or off at night when we are gone or asleep.
Amy had mentioned that she mainly misbehaved at night. We figured it was because we were in the bedroom and she knew she could get our attention. Which is what she does around 8:00 every Saturday and Sunday morning when she wants to be fed. She’ll bang her food dish, throw a toy around, or start playing with her bell. (Such a demanding rabbit)
Since she misbehaved at night, I wondered if she wanted a light on, so I turned on a light in the nursery so she could have a little bit more light. She was perfect that night. I then bought a photo sensing night light and put it next to her cage for the next night. That didn’t work. The next night I left the nursery light on. She was perfect.
I have since removed the timer from her lamp and she now has a lamp 24 hours a day. It’s a double bulb, so we only leave one on all the time, and have resorted to manually turning on and off the overhead light (which is also the energy saving bulbs). We have had no problems since Monday, which is also, as I mentioned the day we scheduled an appointment for her.
You’d think she would want some darkness, but at night she perches herself on top of her house in her cage in direct light of the lamp instead of hiding on the dark side of it.
We may or may not learn more at the vet this weekend, but for now it seems Buddy is content. As long as she behaves, we are content too.
Friday, September 15, 2006
Boy or Girl?
We had the final ultrasound today and thought we would show you the pictures!
We decided not to tell anyone right away and let people figure it out for themselves. (Just to make it fun!)
We never did get around to trying all the wives tales. Maybe next time. Yes, we have a name picked out, but we are not telling that either!
See if you can tell!
We decided not to tell anyone right away and let people figure it out for themselves. (Just to make it fun!)
We never did get around to trying all the wives tales. Maybe next time. Yes, we have a name picked out, but we are not telling that either!
See if you can tell!
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