As many of you know.  I have a son.  He is 20 months old and is trying really hard to talk.  Well for a few months almost a daily ritual is for me to pick him up and toss him on our gigantic bed doing "ready", "set", "GO!" 

He has even started saying it when we get ready to toss him up onto the bed.  However, I realized today.  Hearing "Ready.."  while you are in the kitchen and he is out of site is a scarey thing.  Recently I caught him pushing his little tykes slide over to the couch, climbing up and jumping off the slide onto the couch.  So hearing "ready.." from the other room is now scarey as I have to ponder 2 things very quickly.

 

1.  Is he about to hurt himself?

2.  What is he jumping off of now?

Oh the joys.....

 

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Not many of you know.  But I work from home.  I do have an office in the garage, however watching my 19month old son I have turned the dining room table into desk number 2.  There are 2 things I realized today would be most helpful. 

1.  "go in the living room" - This would be great.  For instance, I am on the phone and he keeps trying to drive his car on my laptop and keeps bringing it to me to put the wheel back on.  I had to recall this number back 3 times cause I couldn't listen to the menu to figure out where i needed to go. 

2.  Please just say "hungry"  - i gave him breakfast, but apparently he was still hungry.  So instead of saying "hungry"  he fussed and kept making terrible noises that I don't think people should make.  If he had said "hungry" he would have gotten food faster and I wouldn't have tried to eat my own head in frustration.

 

Thanks.  

 

I needed that...

 

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Ummmmm....  houston we have a problem.... Ok.  So we all know there is a period after your kid is born that you are not aloud in the nether regions. Many people don' t think much about it... until you start this horrible dark dark time in your life... See, my wife and I have always had a pretty healthy relationship... for the last 8 years..... Never longer than 14 days with out some sweet sweet lovin.  Well, here I am, day 34.  Issues are definitely apparent.  I am very irritable.  Having some very interesting dreams. Talk to the wife, and there is nothing we can do until the doc gives the green light. I feel bad, i really do, i am going crazy.  My wife has dropped her pregnancy weight extremely quick.  And I do still lust for my wife.  Some might not, I don't know why you wouldn't still "want" your wife.  But I do.  More than you can know.  But I feel bad that it seems like I can't think of anything else. So the other day I ask her, "why doesn't it seem like you are bothered by this time frame?"  She says it does.  I don't see it, she doesn't say anything to me about it.  Maybe she doesn't understand, I know we are at the mercy of a doctors visit.  But maybe just knowing that my wife wants me the same way I want her would be enough.  I think it would be.  Us guys are not all that deep, we are pretty simple creatures.  Just knowing IS enough.

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On sunday Nov 18, we went over to moms.  We were all sitting around wondering about the after thanksgiving day sale.  Wondering if Stacy was still gonna be pregnant.  Sis said that since it didn't look like the baby had dropped yet she would still be pregnant. Well, we got home that night.   Got some sweet lovin (oh yeah), and went to bed at 11:00.  At 1:00AM Stacy wakes me up saying she thinks she is in labor.  Oh boy, here we go :)  So we get our list of stuff together and sit on the couch and start timing the contractions.  8 Minutes Apart.  I go back to sleep on the couch and at 2:00AM Stacy says, call the doc, contractions are 4 minutes 30 seconds apart.  Water had not broke so Doc said to head on to the hospital and we would be ok.  We leave, get to the hospital at 2:45AM.  Get into triage and get her hooked up to a monitor to monitor the baby, while asking all kinds of questions, they ask me if I wanted to cut the cord?.....  Almost 3:00am in the morning, and you are asking if I want to severe the life line between child and mother.  PASS!!!! but then about 10 more questions in, I start thinking... "what if we don't have another kid, what if this is it?  Will I regret not having done that honor?"   But i figure there is no way I am going to ask this nurse to go back seeing that Stacy is already kind of hurting.  Then i hear something on the baby monitor, "what the hell was that?" i thought in my head, didn't have to wait long to find out.  Stacy goes "i think my water just broke"  Yep, nurse confirmed.  We are staying, baby is coming.  4CM Dialated.  Contractions 4 minutes apart.  First baby, plenty of time.   So we get put in our room.  I call her parents, Patty says, "I will come down now, dad will be down after while."  Call my parents, mom says, "we will be down later, its gonna be awhile, so we will come down in a few hours."  Call sis, she says "call back when the doctor says you have 1 hour to go."  Ok, everyone notified, did my part. Another couple contractions, monitor not staying on Stacy well so the nurse isn't able to keep an ear on the baby.  She tells Stacy she has to stop pushing.  We have plenty of time to go, bloodwork is being done, epidural will be given as soon as labs come back.  But Stacy says she can't help it, her body is pushing whether she wants to or not.  Nurse says thats odd, checks again, uh oh, 9CM dialated.  She then says the worst thing she could have said "sorry honey, you aren't getting an epidural.  You are doing this all natural."  ....... you know what Ms Nurse?  You should have kept that bit of info to yourself.  I never saw a look of terror on anyones face than I saw on Stacys.  So here we are, 3:45 in the morning.  In a delivery room, nurses trying to find the midwife and finish all the prep work.    They yell for Gwen.  "Gwen is stitching someone else up."  "Well have someone else do it, this baby is coming!!!" So Gwen finally comes in, washes up, puts on gloves and another contraction starts.  Ok PUSH!!!!! PUSH ATTEMPT NUMBER 2!!!!! PUSH ATTEMPT NUMBER 3!!!!!   Holy crap theres the baby...... "Dad would you like to cut the cord?"   Wait, I thought i had passed on this..... she hasn't read the paper work.  It went to fast.  So I got to cut the cord.  Nurse starts cleaning the baby up and Stacy's mom opens the door.  Shocked as hell.  I call mom, "If you wanna see your grandson, you better come down here."  NO WAY...  Call Sis, "You coming to see this baby or what?"  "NO WAY.... I hate Stacy... I was in labor alot longer than that" So delivery was quick.  Recovery was quick.

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short updates. Been so long, so much has happened. Found out we were having a baby, had the baby.... ok so not so much has happened, just big things. Oh, new business partner bought into the company Dec 18 2006. Working our REALLY well. We are now 1 year into it and things are looking really good. We turned things around and are actually doing the things real companies do. (end of year numbers, planning, forecasting and goal setting for next year.)

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