Well, got the American Mensa results back yesterday. Bad news. I didn't make it in. I thought I probably wouldn't, but anyway. The worst part wasn't even that I didn't get in. So, the test consists of two tests, the Wonderlic and the Mensa Admissions Test. The Wonderlic is some old test from the 30s that they use for various thing, most notably for pro football players, for some reason. It's a 50-question test with a time limit of 12 minutes and you have to answer as many as you can correctly. I can't remember if there's a penalty for wrong answers. I think there was. Anyway, I got a 29 on that test and that put me at the 83rd percentile, not even close to the 98th percentile required.

The Mensa Admissions test was a longer test consisting of probably 150 or so questions total spanning 7 sections of various topics. I got a 92 on that test...do you know what percentile that put me in? 97th...97th!

So close, but, not good enough. Oh well. It was something I wanted to do and now I know. You can take other standardized tests to see if you can get in, but I'm pretty sure you can't take the Mensa test again. I think they use the same test over and over again.

It's Friday, and I'm looking forward to a relaxing weekend. I really need to go to the doctor to get checked on my lymph nodes and tiredness and stuff. Could be allergies again, but I don't think so this time. I just gotta get the motivation to make and appointment. I don't want to take Connor, sigh.

Sucker's starting to get hot here! I can't stand it already and it's only like 94-95.

Things are still good. Pretty much into the weekday routine and schedule. Sometimes he gets cranky at night, but that's only 1 or 2 times a week, if that, and that's probably expected anyway. I wish that he would sleep through the night though, from when we put him down at 8pm-ish to 5am or so. We can only hope.

Not much news to report. My upset stomach has finally passed (as have my swollen lymph nodes). I guess I had a longer case of mild rotavirus (suspected) than I had planned for. I'm still not sure if it was the rotavirus, but, I think it was. Connor's poops have been normal the last couple of days too, so I think it was a simultaneous thing.

Tomorrow Laura's parents and Kelly and Ryan are coming over in the morning to eat breakfast. I'm going to make the fluffy waffles that we had again. Going to double the vanilla extract to give it just a bit more flavor and it should be good. We bought some bacon too, which we haven't in a long time.

What else. We're in the process of figuring out moving and what jobs to accept and all that for Laura's next step. We'd like to move to Portland, but there aren't any jobs and the one interview that she's waiting for from OHSU still hasn't contacted her. On top of all that, our lease (that we don't have a signed copy of...) is running out in like a month or two or something like that, so we have to start worrying about that too.

The next month is going to be stressful!

I'm still alive!

Glad it's Friday tomorrow. Today was exhausting, for some reason. Connor had good naps, but for some reason I was super tired. I put Connor down at 4:45p, right before Laura got home, and I just fell asleep on the floor for almost 2 hours! Laura was sad that she couldn't see Connor much tonight, though.

Not sure what's going on this weekend for Father's Day and stuff. I think Laura's parents are coming up or something.

As I see I have some time, I'm going to work on Connor's face timelapse!

Must. Update.

Dang, last night we had the biggest hail storm that I've ever seen or been in. Luckily, we were, again, just out of the path of the storm, but there were cities reporting grapefruit sized hail...damn! I saw pictures online this morning. Also, the Walmart Neighborhood Market nearby had some downed power poles too, like 10 of them. The driveway and streets were littered with branches and leaves today.

It was kind of cool, though, because I finally got to use my flashlights and headlights and stuff. Not to its full potential, but enough. I thought at one point, the hail was going to shatter the front storm door. I got nervous for a second, so I closed the front door. It was also really loud in the garage when I went in there to get a flashlight.

Baby's waking up...

Well, it's Memorial Day weekend, whatever that entails. We're going to be heading out to Tulsa here in a couple of hours once Laura gets home and finishes packing and feeds Connor. He was a bit fussy eating this morning. Got a little frustrated, but after a 10ish minute "cooldown", he seems to have eaten about the same as he usually does, although a bit later.

Nothing new the report. Been having some spamming issues with some of my websites, so I had to take down a couple. One didn't really matter, the other was TJ's Kinja Designs website. The last one was my Cranes For a Wish website that I didn't want to take down, although I haven't updated it since August of 2011. Anyway, I think it's fixed now. I should really get back into it...no time though!

Maybe I'll post again this weekend if I find some time.

Well, this past week marked the beginning of Laura's transition back to work, part-time. This meant that I would be home with him the first half of the day and then Laura would come home around 1pm each day. It went well for the most part, although I was nervous. There was only one day, Friday I believe it was, that was difficult. He was overtired and wouldn't sleep nor want anything to eat. I was getting frustrated because he just wouldn't get to sleep, even though he wanted.

Other than that, it's going well.

This weekend we went to an antiques mall to check some stuff out. Nothing interesting caught our eye. I forget what we did on Saturday. Wait, that IS what we did Saturday...wow, my time and memory are slipping. Today is Sunday, okay. I've been tired or something this weekend and trying to catch up on sleep from the weekday or something. I woke up at like 10:45a today. I took Connor to the other room to put him to sleep after he woke up and ate around 7am. Apparently, he slept until almost 10a, which is great. I was sleeping in the glider.

Not sure what we're up to today. It's already 1p, so, who knows.

Great 7-hour sleep last night!

Today was Laura's first half-day back to work after her short maternity leave. She was sad, but she'll be back in a few hours! He's taking a pretty good nap right now. I should eat something since I'll need to entertain him in a bit...he's been making small sounds here and there this past 1.5 hours.

Way behind on this blog. Sort of falling behind on Connor's blog, too. Need. More. Time.

Laura goes back to work next Monday, so it'll be just me and Connor during the days. Sort of nervous. Hopefully, I can pull off all the things I need to do correctly. I think the hardest part will be feeding times and getting the milk warmed and ready and all that. Hard to time how long he will sleep and stuff.

Went to Wesley's b-day today. This morning Laura's family came up to visit for the event. We ate brunch at Bravo's and Connor slept all through that, and he actually slept from 11am to about 2pm. As he woke up, we fed him and got ready to head to Kelly and Ryan's for Wesley's birthday party. He started getting fussy shortly after we got there and he didn't get much good sleep while we were there. After three hours or so, we headed home. He's been fussy the last few hours (I called this happening yesterday!), but hopefully he sleeps long soon. Don't want to have another difficult night.

Mother's Day is coming up and we're not sure what to get my Mom. She's coming here in 3 days, on Thursday, for 6 days, I think. I hope it goes well...

It's come by so quick. 2 more full days of work and I'm going to be a stay-at-home-Dad!

I'll post back with training details and such later. Gotta try and get some sleep before we tend to our boy tonight. It might be a long night.

It's almost as though this blog is merging with Connor's blog, since what he does is basically what I'll be doing as well. I'd hate to stop writing in my blog though. I need to think of another idea to keep it going.

I have 1 more week of work left and then it's full-time at home for me! Going to Tulsa I believe next week for a few days. Then, my Mom is going to be visiting from 5/3-5/9. After that, it's going to be uneventful until our 2-month pediatrician appointment...whoa, I'm already talking about 2-months from now! He's a bit over 2 weeks right now. Time flies even faster when you have a kid!

Among other news, this past weekend, I entered 2 photo contests that I thought I might do good in...we'll see. Total cost was around $50, so I hope I get SOMETHING out of this... both will have their results around mid-May, so I'll report back then.

Yup, it's hard to blog both for Connor and me at the same time...

Anyway, all's well so far and he was born on 3/30/2012 at 2:44am after a grueling 18.5 hour labor by Laura. She did great, though. I don't think anyone else could have done what she did in the way she did it. She got through those contractions via how she practiced in her pregnancy and did great. Love you!

Work has been good the last 2 days I came back. Not having too much trouble staying awake, but I'm definitely tired.

Connor did great last night, too, but the first night was sort of rough. We went and saw the pediatrician on Tuesday. After a stupid 30+ minute wait, Connor is doing well and he's already back up to his birth weight. Laura and I totally forgot diaper change stuff and, of course, he poops as we see the doctor. Thankfully, they had diapers and stuff in the office.

Now it's just getting into the rhythm and hoping that he sleeps more!

Sorry, been forgetting to write in here. We've scheduled the induction for tomorrow morning at 7:30am, so the next time I write in here will be after the baby is born! I'll have a website for the little guy, trying to blog in there everyday, but I'll try and not forget about MY blog, too.

We have a lot of the stuff already ready, but I'm sure we'll have some last minute stuff tonight.

I rented an iPad 2 so we can use it in the hospital, the guests can use it, etc. Other than that, I think we're both getting nervous and the countdown has certainly begun!

Love you bub. You're going to do great. I think I'm the one to worry about more!

Come on baby!

We had some good rain the last couple of days. Soaked the seeds I threw around the yard pretty well. Hopefully they start to grow as it gets a little warmer.

Had an appointment with the doctor today. It looks like she updated the due date to just a couple of days ago, so it doesn't seem as though Laura is that much overdue, just, a few days now. We had another appointment for next Monday, but she thinks we'll have the baby or some sort of activity by then. That would be good. We even got everything we needed packed into the car because we had thought we might induce today, but, now we're just ready, I suppose.

I've been sleeping out on the couch, well, I guess just yesterday, but now tonight as well. Laura just snores a bit loud after she falls asleep and it gives me trouble going to sleep. I don't sleep as comfortable on the couch, but I feel a little more refreshed in the morning. Tonight, I'm going to try sleeping on the guest room bed. Hopefully it'll be good.

Tomorrow is essentially my Friday as the university gets Thur/Fri off for spring break. Woot. It would be a good time for the baby to come, too!

Got to leave work about 45 minutes early because our director let us since it was a nice day. I think it was because she was leaving early and felt bad, but works for us!

Still no baby. We have an appointment on Tuesday to discuss inducing. We're hoping that it happens this weekend so we don't have to induce. Laura hasn't felt much in terms of activity, however, so that's not promising, but it could be any day, so. Cross our fingers!

Sorry about the sporadic blogging. I guess there goes my goal of writing every day. It lasted for a while. I did start up another site for our boy, so I'll probably start writing more/every day over there. I'll try not to forget my blog.

I got some bermuda grass seeds today and threw it around the yard. We want grass since most of our yard is weeds. I would spray weed killer, which I did in some places today to see how well it works, but, at least with the weeds we have, as long as it is mowed once a week, it keeps our yard green. Everywhere it's starting to get green, however, which is nice. Although, that also means that it's going to get hotter and hotter. It's quite warm already, as high as the mid/upper 80s. Summer's going to be blistering again I think. I did "till" a little of the back yard where it's dirt/sand. It's weird that it's sand. Hopefully, it rains the next week or two and the seeds start to sprout. I'd like a lush yard.

Other than that, just waiting on the boy. It can't come soon enough, although, that means we'll be non-stop tending to him, ha.

Got a half-day today at work because the university shut down their power while they worked on something. Got in in the morning and had issues turning my computer on, etc. The lights in the office would dim like every 10 seconds or so. After a while of this, perhaps an hour, the university called the day off because people were frying their computers or something. Anyway, left work around 11:30a or so and went to the store to get some stuff for dinner. Played a little Dungeon Defenders. I'm installing WoW right now...I might start playing again a little bit to pass time once the baby gets here. Who knows. I may or may not have any time at all. The thing is that there's this perk for active players (i.e. Chris) to send an invite to someone to get back into the game and they get a mount and I get a free level 80 character. Sounds good to me!

Sigh...I dunno why I am always tried during the day, but awake after 10:30p and then stay up until like 12:30a or 1:00a...

One more week until the original due date! i.e. he could be here anytime!

Some more people of my work know that my last day is a little over a month from now. One of the development officers came to tell me how she heard that I'm going to be a full time Dad. The student work and my office mate overheard, so, yeah, pretty much our side of the office should know that my time is nigh. The other side, I'm not so sure. I now know that the director knows, though. Guess I don't have to be all nervous now.

Allergies have been kicking my ass though the last week. I've been taking Claritin for about a week now...I'm not sure if it's helping or not, but man, in the first half of the day, I feel like crappy, with sneezing mainly and stuffiness. I wonder how it would be without the Claritin? I got some Flonase, but I haven't tried it yet. It seems weird to spray something up my nose...I'll try it someday when I can't stand it.

I mowed the lawn this weekend because I couldn't stand the crappy weed lawn that is our front yard. Looks much better. I want to spray the front with Spectracide that I picked up at The Home Depot, but I'm afraid if I do, since our lawn is basically weeds, we won't have a lawn. At least if I keep mowing, it'll look green. Maybe there's something that JUST takes out chickweed? I dunno.

Watched Bridesmaids last night. Not that good of a movie overall, but parts of it were funny. I think the big lady that was all hardcore and made funny remarks made the work. Otherwise it was meh.