September 2006

September 24 -- I'm finally back online. The unthinkable just about happened. Our business computer died a week and a half ago and tring to replace it was difficult. Fortunately, I had everything backed up, but it's still a pain to reload all of the software.

Lauren went in for her 6 month check up and shots on Friday. I am so glad that we made it through that. I think it's harder for the parents to see their child get shots than it is for the child to get them. Lauren cried for a minute, but she was okay after that. She weighed 16lb 14.5 oz and was in the 80th percentile on height and the 70th percentile on weight. Tall and thin. I hope she doesn't wind up as a model :)

We put her down on her blankets in the living room today and we saw her almost crawl. I think it is a matter of days and not weeks before she becomes mobile. I've got a LOT of work to do around the house to make it childproof. This is all so exciting for me because I've never been around babies--for those of you who don't know, I'm an only child. We haven't had any small children on our side of the family since I was about 10 and I really didn't pay any attention to babies back then.

September 30 -- This is the first weekend we've had in a while where we can say that we're not TOO busy. We've always got stuff to do, but this weekend's load is a little lighter than usual. Lauren is helping me update the site. Over the last couple of weeks, I've gradually gotten the new computer up to speed and I fixed our old computer. Now we've got wireless access here at the house. This gives us a lot more flexibility to process images faster and keeps us from being without a computer if one goes down. It's also a good policy to have everything completely backed up. Just like you need at least two cameras at a wedding, you need two computers at home with all of your images on both.

We took a nice walk to the park this morning. I got a couple of really nice photos of Beth and Lauren--neither of which are hard to photograph. I'm really going to try to be a little more agressive when it comes to keeping this site updated. It's nice to know that it helps me keep in touch with everyone, even at a distance. My goal is to start putting little video clips online sometime within the next week or two.

It's hard to believe October is almost here. I went in Lowes about a week ago and they already had their Christmas stuff out. I cannot understand having Christmas stuff out this early. Before the end of this decade, they will have the Christmas stuff on the shelves by Labor Day...mark my words. It really just makes me sick.

No football this weekend. Beth and I just got back from the mall. We got her some shoes and a couple of shirts and a pair of pants. We got me some new sunglasses. Lauren got a rattle.
It's been a good Saturday. I hope you all are doing well.