Work has been better. Its 8:30 and I 've already had 4 phone calls with the UK. The nuttiness has become manageable for now. My support is all based in the UK but the client staff that I work with is in the US. This as you can image adds complexity and long days. Its hard to be manage your resource who is good but scattered and sits 3000 miles ( Read more... )

Julian is 3 months old today.

:-)

From nola.com

Looting
New Orleans, 2:15 p.m ( Read more... )

My mother lives just outside of Lafayette, LA and they appear to have missed most of the effects of Hurricane Katrina. The family appears to all be safe. We have friends west of the city in Luling that we haven't heard from yet. I assume M and K weren't silly enough to ride it out. My sister lives in New Orleans (Metairie actually). She told ( Read more... )

It’s a beautiful sunny day ( Read more... )

ARGH ( Read more... )

Normally, Julian's not to bad with the bottle. Frequently we manage to get in 3+oz via the bottle. We practice bottle feeding once a day. Yesterday after about 1.5 oz he decided ENOUGH. And enough was enough and he was decidedly vocal about it. Unfortunately, I didn't listen too well - or let's say we weren't speaking the same language. He'd ( Read more... )

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink

Corollary:

You can give a baby a bottle, but that doesn't mean he's going to drink.

Lessons I've learned from Gaelan and Julian.

 Today was Julian's 8 week doctor's appointment.

Brith 10lbs and 21 inches
Today 16.1 lbs and 24 inches

Edit - Scale problem: make that 13 lbs, 11 oz

Thats 70 percentile in height and 98 77 percentile in weight.   I don't think we have to worry about a failure to thrive yet.

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