Our family is doing fine here in Virginia. We had our first snowfall of the winter and it totalled about an inch and disappeared in a day. Rachel is learning to walk better and better. She no longer stumbles around like a drunken sailor. It is more now like a buzzed college student. She can even walk back in forth between rooms and not stumble or have to grab something for support. She has even increased her pace. She also is babbling more and more. She makes D sounding words when she sees me. She also makes M sounds when she is crying and needs her mommy. Plus she will occassionally say momma and dadda. At least it sounds an awful lot like that.
She still has only one tooth and you might even see it in some of these pictures if you look hard enough. It is on the bottom and in the front. It is not white and really kind of opaque. But she sure can bite things with it. She also had an accident where she somehow bit through her lip and bled (a little) . One minute she is sleeping in her crib and the next she is crying and blood is everywhere. Well, according to Lisa, blood was falling from the walls like in the Shining. Lisa was freaking out about the blood. By the way lisa was reacting, i ran up the steps expecting to see pools of blood and possibly dismemberment. In reality, there was a blood spot on the sheet the size of a quarter (maybe even a nickel) and some blood smeared on the bars of her crib. Plus some on her lip and chin. I literally expect more blood when i order my medium rare steak at a restaraunt then i found in her room. But i digress...
Here are some pictures taken from the last week or so. I hope you enjoy.
There always seems to be something going on around the DC area and this week was no different. You might have heard but if not, the democrats have taken control of the white house and we have a new president. The city was shut down for 2 days and the only way in was by foot and metro. It made for some slow days at work with few customers (union contractors were off monday and tuesday) working. Plus the non-union guys could not report to work if the job was in DC. So there was alot of sitting around and BS'ing with co-workers for 2 days. My company employs 7 african americans and only 2 showed up for work on Tuesday. And they are our truck drivers who are usually finished for the day by 11:00am.
While i am not a person who completely understands the hype and the immediate need to idolize a politician, i am happy that the country seems to have come together and feels hope. I might be a conservative who voted for the old geezer, but things happen for a reason and i think this just might be what the USofA needs. Having hope is a great thing and maybe all of this will eventually lead to our 401k's going up. (nothing better than realizing your personal rate of return in your 401k is negative 32%) Hope > No Hope. The immortal Carl Spackler said "So I got that goin' for me, which is nice." It is nice.
She still has only one tooth and you might even see it in some of these pictures if you look hard enough. It is on the bottom and in the front. It is not white and really kind of opaque. But she sure can bite things with it. She also had an accident where she somehow bit through her lip and bled (a little) . One minute she is sleeping in her crib and the next she is crying and blood is everywhere. Well, according to Lisa, blood was falling from the walls like in the Shining. Lisa was freaking out about the blood. By the way lisa was reacting, i ran up the steps expecting to see pools of blood and possibly dismemberment. In reality, there was a blood spot on the sheet the size of a quarter (maybe even a nickel) and some blood smeared on the bars of her crib. Plus some on her lip and chin. I literally expect more blood when i order my medium rare steak at a restaraunt then i found in her room. But i digress...
Here are some pictures taken from the last week or so. I hope you enjoy.
There always seems to be something going on around the DC area and this week was no different. You might have heard but if not, the democrats have taken control of the white house and we have a new president. The city was shut down for 2 days and the only way in was by foot and metro. It made for some slow days at work with few customers (union contractors were off monday and tuesday) working. Plus the non-union guys could not report to work if the job was in DC. So there was alot of sitting around and BS'ing with co-workers for 2 days. My company employs 7 african americans and only 2 showed up for work on Tuesday. And they are our truck drivers who are usually finished for the day by 11:00am.
While i am not a person who completely understands the hype and the immediate need to idolize a politician, i am happy that the country seems to have come together and feels hope. I might be a conservative who voted for the old geezer, but things happen for a reason and i think this just might be what the USofA needs. Having hope is a great thing and maybe all of this will eventually lead to our 401k's going up. (nothing better than realizing your personal rate of return in your 401k is negative 32%) Hope > No Hope. The immortal Carl Spackler said "So I got that goin' for me, which is nice." It is nice.
