Hmmm and other thoughts

Ok so I was really really tired yesterday and I thought I posted a blog entry here but couldn't find it. So I went looking around at the other blogs I found that I had posted it at the Stek Action Blog. Since it's all about me feeling like a zombie there is some irony there. I left work at about 1:00 yesterday because I was a waste of space. A few of us had worked until 11:30 and then Ian didn't let me sleep once I got home either. Last night was thoroughly refreshing. So I'm back and you can expect to see more posts as the days go on. I have new pics but they are at home so I'll add some tonite or tomorrow. Mom and Dad are visiting this weekend - that should be fun. My mom and I are gonna do some shopping on Sat and then Sunday we have our block party. I can't believe it is almost October - that will be such a busy month! We are heading over to Ann Arbor for a week to visit Layale and Brian and then on the weekend of the 18th we'll be in Greenville/GR for someone's birthday and someone else's party. The following weekend we will have a little party for Ian here in Oak Park with his friends from daycare and the neighbor boy. Then it is Halloween. Yikes! It makes me tired just thinking about it all! But that is next month... right now I have a little breathing room. And truth be told I am looking forward to visiting everyone in October and showing off Ian. He is so wonderful, cute and smart too!

I Love Jon Stewart

ugh

Monday's the deadline... I've been working... a lot...
So forgive me if I haven't been on top of the blog. I am alive. We are doing well. Just busy. Aaron has been a peach. For the most part he has been taking care of Ian in the evening and not complaining that I am never home and have had to work on Sundays. Last night was a bit of a doozy too. For some reason Ian kept waking up and when I would crawl into his bed to sooth him he would push me and say No over and over. But when I tried to move and get out of his bed that was worse.

Day care was rough yesterday. I have no idea what happened but Aaron tells me that when he picked up Ian he was in the big kid's room cause the care taker/s in the toddler room called in sick. The problem was he was very dirty, his nose was plugged with dried and caked up snot, he had dried snot on his face, he was very tired like he didn't nap, and extremely thirsty. So we're a little ticked. I understand things happen and people get sick. But if you are unable to take care of Ian's basic needs then they should have called us and had us pick him up. Poor little guy.

Not a lot of news to tell. Ian can now count to two, he likes to say two word nouns like 'Teddy Bear' and 'Bush Baby'. He has a book of animals that he loves to look at and name - hence the Bush Baby. He continues to be insatiable when it comes to reading books.

Alan, Barb and the kids are coming tomorrow to visit. We are looking forward to that. My Mom and Dad are visiting the weekend after that. Busy Busy

Working Girl

We have been crunching at work to try to make a deadline on the 15th of this month. I've regularly been working 10 hour days plus and had to even come in for a spell over the holiday weekend! ARGH! Glad I get time & a half! Not long ago nobody got OT in my business and it was absolutely expected that the junior engineers work long hours until they proved themselves (or collapsed). I'm glad things have changed in the last few years and this is only temporary.

Mary came to visit this weekend and we canned tomatoes! Some vacation for her, huh? :-) Nah, it was a bit of work, but nice to hang out with her. We also took the excuse to go out to dinner a lot (do you hear the budget stretching) and make an excursion to the Lincoln Park Zoo. Lincoln Park Zoo is a great place to see the animals in and out of the cages. Since it's the free zoo in Chicago it gets an interesting slice of humanity in Chicago.

Gotta go - I hear little feet awake.