August 15, 2005

Forgive the cliched title, but it’s happened. The thing every parent wants to happen and every parent that has already had it happen tells you that you don’t want it to happen. You know, locomotion… and I’m not talking that bad 80’s song by Kylie Minogue.

Yes, Hayes has started to move. And in the most curious of ways. He’s rolling. He’s doing the log roll across large spans until he hits something hard and unmoving. Then he tries to roll the other way. And worst of all, he’s doing it quickly.

Now we can’t even sit him on the ground without him launching to his stomach and rolling off to the fit-in-his-mouth du jour.

Yup, it’s begun. Once he figures out how to sit back up from there, we’re screwed.

April 4, 2005

Well, today is my last week at work, as Jen goes back a week from today. That’s right, I’m going to be a stay at home, work at home dad. Starting next week.

Starting next week.

Starting next week. It’s starting to sink in.

We’ve been discussing this for… well… since we found out Jen was pregant. Child care in the city of Boston is outrageous, setting us back around $2k a month for a reputable place. We figured that I could actually make more money for the family by working from home 20 hours a week then I could working 40+ and putting HBomb in the care of strangers.

Jen’s got the health insurance and the higher paying job, so she’s the obvious choice to go back to work. She also has a job that needs to see her on a daily basis and have her work 8 hours in a row, unlike my job for a black ops unit of the CIA as a web designer, which allows me to work from home at off-hours.

In the end it was an easy choice.

March 14, 2005

Thank you everyone for the outpouring of support while we went through that difficult time at Children’s.

Now, on to some fun stuff — more pictures!

March 9, 2005

Excuse the extra punctuation, but we got a call from the coordinator at Children’s and she said that their neurologist had looked at the records and thought this was not too serious so they’d slot us in at the end of the month. This, after his lump has become firmer during the night.

Earlier, Jen had been on a conference call with the two pediatricians at our practice who agreed that the change was a bit disconcerting. And that we still don’t know the cause. The radiologist called them this morning and had an addendum to his previous diagnosis: it was not caused by trauma (maybe now they’ll stop asking us) and the fluid is between the skull and the skin. Duh.

Jen held her ground with the coordinator, let her speak her piece, then asked if she had spoken with our docs this morning. No, she said, but was going to call them after speaking with Jen, and the neurologist was making his diagnosis from the paper he had in front of him. Jen asked her to please call them, because they seemed to think that this required more urgent attention. She agreed.

We are now left waiting. Again.

March 2, 2005

Happy birthday Yahoo! (Does that require 2 exclamation points?) Check out their netrospective. It’s quite cool in that totally ripped off 10x10 kind of way. I know it’s terribly off-topic but I feel the need to pay homage to the site and search engine that got many of us more interested in the web. Or at least showed how to find stuff. And will likely be a huge part of our childrens’ lives.

To celebrate, how about you enjoy a free ice cream from Baskin Robins, courtesy of your friend at More Diapers… er…. ok, it’s from Yahoo!.

January 31, 2005

Since Hayes is sleeping more, I am feeling more motivated to post some of the half million or so pictures I have taken since the H-Bomb was born. Man, it’s amazing how much more crazy I’m likely to go with photos when I don’t have to pay for developing! I’ve built a little gallery, beginning with Jen going in to get dilated, and ending with a picture I took yesterday. Hope you like!