Yesterday was Zach's 4-moth checkup. The doctor confirmed that everything is going as it should be. And that Zach is a big kid! He weighed in at 16 pounds, 6.5 ounces (in the 75th percentile) and is 27 1/4 inches (97th(!!) percentile).
Zach didn't enjoy his booster shots one bit, but he was ok last night. A little grumpy this morning, but better than the last time.
Friday, January 23, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
A new routine
Christine went back to work a couple of weeks ago (on a slightly reduced schedule), so we've been adjusting to a new routine around here. She goes to work Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and works a normal 8 hours. But on Tuesday and Thursday she works from home in the morning and takes the afternoon off. To help out, we've hired a nanny to come in and take care of Zach from 9-3 when Christine has to go in to the office. When Christine works from home we try to split the duties until the afternoon. Things seem to be working out ok, though Christine really wants me to double my salary somehow so she can quit! :)
Some other random notes...
- Zach has his four month checkup tomorrow. And his next round of shots. Poor guy! :(
- We met Chad and Karen's little boy, Ashton, last week. He just turned 1 month old on Monday. It's hard to believe that Zach was that small not that long ago!
- The Cardinals are Super Bowl?!?!?!
- It's been near 80 degrees here this week. Someone forgot to tell Mother Nature it's only January.
- We're going to the FBR Open with some pretty sweet (and free!) tickets next week thanks to a company that my company does business with.
Hopefully I'll get back into the habit of posting a little more often...
Some other random notes...
- Zach has his four month checkup tomorrow. And his next round of shots. Poor guy! :(
- We met Chad and Karen's little boy, Ashton, last week. He just turned 1 month old on Monday. It's hard to believe that Zach was that small not that long ago!
- The Cardinals are Super Bowl?!?!?!
- It's been near 80 degrees here this week. Someone forgot to tell Mother Nature it's only January.
- We're going to the FBR Open with some pretty sweet (and free!) tickets next week thanks to a company that my company does business with.
Hopefully I'll get back into the habit of posting a little more often...
Monday, January 12, 2009
Four Months!
Zach turned four months old today! Time is just flying by!
He's doing really well. He's sleeping so well that he gets more sleep than we do, especially now that Christine is back at work. We can tell a difference almost every week in how he is growing. He becoming a lot more aware of his surroundings and smiles and laughs a lot. He's a really good natured kid. He's playing with a couple of the toys he got for Christmas, but he still has to grow in to most of them. I'm sure he'll be playing with the rest in no time!
Thursday, January 8, 2009
National Champs!!!
2nd time in 3 years! It's Great! To Be! A Florrrrrida! Gator!
Too bad we couldn't be there for this one :)
(Come back Tebow! One more year! One more year!)
Too bad we couldn't be there for this one :)
(Come back Tebow! One more year! One more year!)
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| From BCS Championship Game |
Saturday, January 3, 2009
2008 In Review
2008 turned out to be a pretty busy year. We thought it might be a little more calm than 2007 was after all of our travel, but we were wrong! :)
In January we found out that Christine was pregnant. That started the work in our old house to start making sure we had room for the upcoming addition to our family. We cleaned out the room Christine used as an office and we used the treadmill in, planning on making it a nursery.
We cleaned a lot of stuff out and went through the rest of the house and had a pretty good sized yard sale. This turned out to be the most expensive yard sale you could imagine! One of the items we had was our old treadmill. The lady that ended up buying it couldn't fit it into her car, but we offered to drive it out to her house. So later that afternoon we drove out to her house. We noticed that there was some new house construction in the area, but the last time we looked at hew houses was during the middle of the housing boom and prices were crazy. We thought we'd stop and take a look just to see what prices were like. We were pretty surprised at how much prices had fallen. Two weeks later we had written an earnest check for a new house!
We had thought we'd look around some before then, so it wasn't completely out of nowhere, but we happened to stumble into the right situation with a spec home at a pretty good price that would be ready in plenty of time for us to get settled before Zach was born. So we had to move quick to get our old house ready to sell as soon as possible. We rented a storage unit and cleaned the house out as much as we could, had the entire interior of the house painted, and did some landscaping work. After a few weeks we were ready to put the For Sale sign up!
We were lucky enough to get the house sold for most of what we were asking for after only 3 weeks. The timing couldn't have worked out any better since they wanted to close about two weeks after we closed on our new house. Thanks to a lot of help from friends and family, we were able to get moved in without too many problems (though there's still a mess in the garage....).
Also during this time, I accepted a new job. I was given the chance to work from home doing some web development and database work while doing some management work that would be similar to what I was doing when I left my job at Lockheed Martin. With Zach on the way, this was a great thing to come along! So now I get to work from home and be around during the day to see what's going on. Sure beats the 1 hour+ commute!
And the biggest news of all, Zach was born September 12th! He was 22 inches long and weighed 8 lbs 3 ounces, even though he was almost 3 weeks early. Christine had to be induced because of her blood pressure being really high, but everyone is healthy and is doing really well. It's amazing how much Zach has grown and changed in just 3 and a half months! We can even tell a difference week to week sometimes. He's been really easy on us too. He's been sleeping through the night for a while now, sometimes as long as 9 hours or more. And he's almost always in a good mood. Unless he's hungry, then watch out! :)
So 2008 was a pretty busy, but great year. We're hoping to have even more fun in 2009!
In January we found out that Christine was pregnant. That started the work in our old house to start making sure we had room for the upcoming addition to our family. We cleaned out the room Christine used as an office and we used the treadmill in, planning on making it a nursery.
We cleaned a lot of stuff out and went through the rest of the house and had a pretty good sized yard sale. This turned out to be the most expensive yard sale you could imagine! One of the items we had was our old treadmill. The lady that ended up buying it couldn't fit it into her car, but we offered to drive it out to her house. So later that afternoon we drove out to her house. We noticed that there was some new house construction in the area, but the last time we looked at hew houses was during the middle of the housing boom and prices were crazy. We thought we'd stop and take a look just to see what prices were like. We were pretty surprised at how much prices had fallen. Two weeks later we had written an earnest check for a new house!
We had thought we'd look around some before then, so it wasn't completely out of nowhere, but we happened to stumble into the right situation with a spec home at a pretty good price that would be ready in plenty of time for us to get settled before Zach was born. So we had to move quick to get our old house ready to sell as soon as possible. We rented a storage unit and cleaned the house out as much as we could, had the entire interior of the house painted, and did some landscaping work. After a few weeks we were ready to put the For Sale sign up!
We were lucky enough to get the house sold for most of what we were asking for after only 3 weeks. The timing couldn't have worked out any better since they wanted to close about two weeks after we closed on our new house. Thanks to a lot of help from friends and family, we were able to get moved in without too many problems (though there's still a mess in the garage....).
Also during this time, I accepted a new job. I was given the chance to work from home doing some web development and database work while doing some management work that would be similar to what I was doing when I left my job at Lockheed Martin. With Zach on the way, this was a great thing to come along! So now I get to work from home and be around during the day to see what's going on. Sure beats the 1 hour+ commute!
And the biggest news of all, Zach was born September 12th! He was 22 inches long and weighed 8 lbs 3 ounces, even though he was almost 3 weeks early. Christine had to be induced because of her blood pressure being really high, but everyone is healthy and is doing really well. It's amazing how much Zach has grown and changed in just 3 and a half months! We can even tell a difference week to week sometimes. He's been really easy on us too. He's been sleeping through the night for a while now, sometimes as long as 9 hours or more. And he's almost always in a good mood. Unless he's hungry, then watch out! :)
So 2008 was a pretty busy, but great year. We're hoping to have even more fun in 2009!
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