Week 2 Here is Daniel's "office"

Well I am closing in on week 2 of being "back to work". I work from home tomorrow and Monday. So far it is working out, but it is taking a while to get back into the swing of things. Sadly not many issues that were around when I left have been resolved. We are having the same conversations now that we had before I left (typical I guess). In some ways it is not to hard to get back into my "work" mode. The exciting thing is I will soon have a new tool to play with that does reports for me. Yippeee! for me;-)


To the left is Daniel's "office".









Although usually when I go down to visit with him I find him in a bouncer or a swing.








I am also finally posting a picture of Daniel and his cousin Maura that was taken a couple of weeks ago. I told my mom I would do this a while ago. Maura was born in October so she has around 4 months on my little guy.











I really can't think of anything more to post. I should also get back to work. By the way I may not be able to post much after May 9. I will be moving to a new desk....in a cube right in the front by some managers I believe. I won't know what it is like until then. So I will try to keep up but we will see:-)

sleeping through chaos

I just went down for an afternoon visit with Daniel. It was feeding time for several babies, and the caregivers we scurrying to get their bottles all ready. There was quite a bit of screaming going on, and what was Daniel doing? Sleeping through it. I didn't want to wake him and get him started as well. So my visit was quick. I went down ealier and rocked him to sleep and put him down for a nap, that was a nice visit. I leave in 2 hours so I am trying to decide if I want to go down in another hour....or just wait until I leave. On one hand I want to reassure him, on the other hand....I really don't think he notices much.....however I REALLY can't stand going through all these e-mails right now and have become bugged eyed from work. If only I could take a nap with Daniel:-)

Here I am again

Well I am back at work now.....I didn't post last week because I was trying to enjoy my last week at home with Daniel. I plan on working from home Mondays and Fridays, and I will be in the office Tuesday - Thursday. There is a daycare in our building, well a different tower but same complex, I can go down anytime I want.
I have been good so far and have put off visiting. I need to get through the 200 or so e-mails that came for me while I was gone. Luckily I can delete most of them.
However my big issue right now is my e-mail is not working at home, so I would like to get that resolved by Thursday so I can work at home.
I came in for a visit last week and got some good news from a coworker (Jeff). Apparently he has been pushing to get me and him laptops and trying to get my boss to open up to the idea of me working remotely once I move to Port Huron. It is more likely now, and it would be so nice to have that second income. I mentioned it to him before I left that I would like to work from home, but I just didn't think they would go for it. So while I have been gone he has been pushing it for me. Isn't that nice?
I think I mentioned before that I like the people I work with, however I still don't have the bond that I did with my old coworkers. I really still miss all of them, they really were like family to me. However it felt really nice that Jeff was thinking of me while I was gone. I really don't contribute a whole lot to our team still, most of them don't really know what to ask me for (I basically can figure out how to get them any report they want from their data). However Jeff is one of the few that know what I can do. I guess I shouldn't complain to much though, part of my job description is to create my job description so lack of work...kind of falls on me.....

Well enough about work.....the little guy has been smiling up a storm lately....well "a storm" may be pushing it. You have to get him in the right mood, and not hold a camera up in his face. Although we have been getting good pictures of it. I will post those later. He is still a serious baby, pondering all the time.
I should have gotten a picture of him this morning I dressed him up in an outfit that he hasn't worn yet (I was surprised he still had those around). It was like his first day of school I am sure it will be changed before we get home. Geez now that I talk about him I want to run downstairs to see him:-)

Anyways I would really appreciate it if you all could keep us in your prayers for selling our house, my being able to work from home in Port Huron, and e-mail working at home(....that Simpsons episode the other day where Homer was in India, and Apu's brother was answering the help desk for a certain computer company...totally true....so I put off calling the help desk as much as possible...unlike the episode they DON'T change their accent and they aren't that helpful.)

Serious Baby

It is fun to see some of a personality develop in Daniel. So far he is kind of a serious baby. He is always thinking and furrows his brows alot. He moves his hands around and his mouth in a way that makes you think he is going to start saying something. Not just anything, something earth shatering....like how to reverse global warming or something like that. Lately however he has just been crying alot.
We also have been having a problem with him not eating all he should at once, then an hour later getting hungry again. Finally yesterday I had to turn the volume up on his piano shut his door, turn the tv up loud, go into the computer room and wait for an hour. Then I fed him his whole bottle. After that I could rock him to sleep and he finally took a nap (after being awake the whole morning and crying for most of it). Chad and I had discussed this before that the crying and eractic eating probably were linked. So we are now trying to get him back on more of a schedule. I understand right now we can't force him onto a schedule, but what was happening was getting out of hand.
Today I got to see a baby who was content just sitting in his chair watching me clean up the kitchen. He is still having trouble taking naps when he is obviously tired, but it is much better today than the past week has been.