I can't believe that it's almost halfway through the year. Things are still kicking along. I got the crockpot recipe that Laura found going around 11:30a or something and it's currently set for 4.5 hours. Looks good, though. Not a very soupy recipe, so we'll see how it looks.

Another couple of storms again this week. Oh, I guess the last time I wrote was just before the big tornado that hit Moore, OK. Anywho, the 19th was when it all started. This storm went right over us and a tornado landed a few miles from our house, to the East. We were in the bathroom and all that. Connor actually kinda had fun because it was something new to hang out in the bathroom for a little while with piles of blankets, pillows and both dogs. It wan't a long time, so that was good. He was starting to get antsy. We went in and out a couple of times, though.

The next day, the 20th, was another big day of storms/tornados. Unfortunately, it was a devastating one that hit Moore, OK, about 20 miles South of us. About $2 billion in damages I guess. Anywho, it luckily missed us, but it could have easily been us, I guess. I think Edmond is in a "favorable" location or something because storms and such always seems to miss above or below us. Knock on wood.

A storm shelter would be a great fall back, but they're pretty expensive and it's a rental. Who knows how long we will be in OK.

I've been super tired lately. More than normal, like more than usual fatigue. It's sort of like last Summer when I was super tired and I may have had mono. Feels like that. Hopefully, it passes.

Back to my fantasy story. I've written a little more outline, but I'm doing a lot more details in my head regarding the story, i.e. getting more in-depth. I just need to get it down on paper! I dunno why, but it's hard to get my ideas onto paper. I just need to write it even if it's all scattered so I at least have it down and go back later to flesh it out.

This weekend we're going to head to Bartlesville to go to Sunfest, which is something that Laura used to go to I guess. Hopefully Connor isn't crabby! He's still at like 8 teeth or something, although I don't know how Laura counts those. He rarely lets you look at his mouth.

He's napping right now and I'm just watching the news about the storms/tornado possibility South of us. And North, too. Got lucky again!

I have a little time before I head to bed. I guess I just need to do a recap of the first few months of 2013. 

Laura and my birthdays weren't too overdone, I don't think. Honestly, I can't remember much from a few months back anymore...not sure why, but it's definitely because of Connor. I'm sure I can remember if I sat down and thought about it hard, but not quick recollections. 

We did travel to Colorado in February with Connor. That was a pretty stressful ordeal, but we learned a lot from it. It went generally okay. I think there were just things that we would do differently the next time around. Of course, the next time around would be totally different as Connor would be much older. The next one will probably be in August or September (or both?) and he'll be a year and a half. hopefully we won't need to take the car seat, but then again, I don't think he'll sit for an hour or so quietly. You never know, I guess. It's just that the car seat was so big and heavy. We did okay, though, for the most part. We enjoyed our time in Colorado and caught up with friends/family. 

At this point, Connor was still only taking a few steps, but by his first birthday, he was walking like it was nothing. They develop and grow up so fast.

Next up with Connor's first birthday. We had it in Tulsa and had close family/friends. He got a lot of gifts and I think he had fun. He ate a good amount of the cake that Laura had made for him. She also worked on a lot of the cake toppers for him and they turned out great. 

April was still on the cold side for this year and it's only recently been starting to warm up. Laura had applied to the Portland VA, but the two openings was cut to one and, in short, it looks like we're staying here for the time being. We'll keep trying, though, whether it be Portland, Denver, etc. It's really not bad here, but the past couple of days and dealing with tornadoes could change that outlook. 

We had a big Mother's Day/grandparent's anniversary two weeks ago. It went well, as usual, though I think at times it was a little stressful due to weird, unforeseen events. 

At any rate, that's where we are now. 

I haven't been playing WoW since May 1st or something like that. I've started to work on my fantasy book a little more now, but still "stuck" in a sense. I need to just get over the first few pages and just write. I have a weird tendency to make each page write perfect as I write it so that when I'm done writing, the book is done. However, after reading some techniques on writing and outlining, I decided I'm going to try a general outline first and then fill in the details later. I just need motivation to finish out the story, but for that I still need to come up with a good resolution. I think I need to also accept the fact that the first draft is going to suck a lot. It'll take a long time of reworking it to make it even acceptable. I hope to have Laura read it first and give some critiques.

That's really it. Connor has been talking more and more and having more personality. He's sort of starting to get an attitude. I think he's trying to learn to speak more clearly, I've noticed. Some words come out more and more pronounced, relatively speaking. He does understand a lot more though. I think he's bored during the days. I do try and go out and do interesting things, but I dunno what to do. I dunno about Gymboree yet. :P He loves to play outside, though. He wakes up about 6a, still takes a couple of naps, one around 9a and then around 2p and goes to bed around 7p. Not sure when to transition to one nap, I know we need to soon, but he's not ready for it, I don't think. He does get tired a lot and sleeps the two naps for an hour and a half or more each, plus he usually sleeps through the night, so, at the moment, it seems that he does need it. He'd be pretty cranky with one 2-hour-ish nap, I think. 

I still need to go to the doctor, too. And the dentist. I just keep pushing it off. Story of my life!

Well, this week was tornado week here. One landed a few miles from here while we did our precautions in the bathroom in the middle of the house. Today was another threat, but it missed South of us. Demolished Moore, OK. Could be time to move, regardless of jobs!

Well, I should head to bed. I was going to get more writing done tonight, but alas, didn't get to it again. I just need a laptop with no internet connection or something. I get distracted too easily.

Wow, really, another month gone by RIGHT AFTER I said I'll write soon...sheesh.

I think I'll try to write this week. I've been itching to work on my fantasy story...still thinking about the best way to go about this plot every night while trying to go to sleep. I just can't come up with a cool storyline/resolution.

Hopefully, it'll hit me soon.

Aaaaaaannnndddd another two months...well, almost. Connor's waking up now, but on his next nap, I'll be back to write some.

Wow. 2 months since my last blog. What's been going on? Hopefully I can catch you up soon.

Okay, let's get on with the 2012 review!

Certainly a huge year for me and Laura. The first months leading up to Connor's birth was hectic. We had a lot going on in terms of figuring out work (the biggest issue I think), getting his room ready, getting all the stuff we needed to get him home, and basically just getting ready to have him! The first months went quick, if I remember correctly.

Connor Kazuaki Yamamoto was born 3/30/2012 at 2-something in the morning! 2:44 or something. I can't remember. It was a quite the grueling battle, mainly for Laura. I was just tired. She was tired and in pain. I guess an 18-hour labor will do that. We went in around 8 in the morning and I think we both were expecting maybe a couple of hours of labor at the worst. Issues with the pitocin led to a longer-than-needed labor. Oh well - everything well smoothly in the end and everyone was okay. That was the important part. After the long day, the next few days were spent keeping him fed and getting used to it all. I had taken a week and a half off from work when he was born. Laura was able to take about 6 weeks of full-time leave, which was nice. Oh yeah, the leave situation was another thing that was very annoying. That aside, there was then a 2 week part-time leave that Laura took to ease me into parenthood full-time. I told my work about this whole stay-at-home thing, oh, I think in early February or so. I quit April 20-something.

The first few weeks were hard getting used to, of course. I was at work, though, so it was all Laura for a month and a half. I really can't remember how much he slept in the beginning. I think 30 minutes or an hour after being up like an hour. Man, it's embarrassing, but you really do forget things during first time parenthood. There is so much going on. Luckily, Laura's Mom helped for about a week after he was born. I'm sure Laura appreciated that.

Skip forward a few weeks. I think my Mom came down to visit/help as well. Then after that, one Connor was settling down and his "schedule" more consistent, Chris and Alicia. Skipping forward a couple of more months, he was finally starting to interact but he still couldn't move. A couple of MORE months and he was finally crawling. Time was going so fast for us, it literally went like the last couple of sentences I wrote. All the little things in between have been forgotten, at least in my mind. It's like, birth, first poop, first bottle feeding, first roll over, first-[insert event here].

He's just over 9 months now and I can't believe he's that old already. He starting to babble, eat solids pretty well, eating out at restaurants. I suppose the next thing is walking! He's starting to try now. Sort of dangerous, actually, if you're not watching.

Come to think of it, a lot of the 2nd half of the year was me getting used to taking care of Connor and getting into the groove of things. Laura took a job here in OKC, obviously, so we're here until about June, at which point we need to decide whether or not we're going to stay here or move. It seems for now we're going to be here since Laura should probably work a year or more before moving on.

It snowed a little during this Christmas, which was a nice change since the last few years. We do miss the snow. Although it snowed, nothing really stuck, so it wasn't THAT great.

The big present for me this year was a banjo! I had watched a banjo documentary on Netflix a few months back and I got really interested in. I always liked the sound of a banjo, though, but the documentary kicked it into high gear. This was a DIY kit, so I had to stain the parts and put it together. It took a couple of nights, but now it's put together and tuned and everything. Getting used to playing it and fingers don't hurt since the first few nights! I remember I was "decent" with the guitar, so hopefully I can pick up the banjo fairly quickly - a few months before I can start playing some decent tunes.

And so, 2012 has passed. A big year for sure, probably the biggest year in terms of lifestyle change for us. Connor is great, but he is also tough to take care of and work what we liked to do around. We've seen a couple of movies in theaters thanks to Laura's parents watching him, etc. I've gone to a few doctor's appointments taking him with me. Sometimes he does extremely well, sometimes he cries the whole time. Makes me nervous, for sure. My driver license is actually expiring at the end of this month, so I need to go to the DMV. Of course, it'll probably take an hour or two of waiting, so I can't really take Connor. Laura's Mom is coming out next week and she's going to watch for a while while I go. Hoping it goes smoothly/fast. I first have to go to the DMV then to the tag agency to get my actual license. Stupid.

This year will probably be another big year, not because we're having another child, but because Connor will be walking, talking, and all that it brings. I'll probably need to step out of my comfort zone more and take him to events and stuff...dreading that!

We have a few trips out of state planned for this year as well. We're juggling going to CO next month. This will be his first time flying! I'm nervous about that as well. Thankfully, the flight is pretty short, maybe a little over an hour, so it shouldn't be too bad. Besides, people aren't flying to be in a quiet environment, right? Oh well.

Anyway, gonna go take a bath now I think. Laura is watching the season premiere of Poopton Abbey.

It's the third, THE THIRD, of the new year and I haven't even done my usual year-end recap. I will promise to do that this weekend after Connor's down and I can think for an extended period of time. I do have a couple of goals for myself this year, however. We'll see if these get done:

1. Matt said he would draw the pictures to a storybook that I wanted to make for Connor so I need to come up with a draft. I had an idea in mind. Just need to flesh it out. 
2. I want to get a lot done, if not finish, on my fantasy story. I got a "how to write a fantasy/sci-fi" book for Christmas so hopefully that'll help. I just don't have the time to sit down on a regular basis to write. I'd like to get a schedule going, like a couple of times a night set aside an hour or two or something. The thing is, I'm the type to want to set aside several to work on something. It takes like an hour for me to get into the rhythm. Plus, I still do need to tweak my story. There are some things that I need to change to make it work. 
3. Start taking more photos again. I was going to do the photo-a-day thing, but I'm already 2 days late. Poop. 

That's it for now. We'll see how it goes.

I've been wanting to write more in my fantasy story lately...just need to find time and creativity, I guess!

Connor is sleeping a LONG time right now (and today, in general). Hopefully this doesn't screw up his nighttime sleeping.

It's Friday, though! Not sure what we're going to be doing this weekend. I know we're going to try and head to Walmart to do some giving tree shopping for a kid or two, but nothing else planned. Laura's parents are coming up this weekend as well.

Among good news, looks like my super cool gift to Laura should turn out good - 4/4 items should be received in time! I just need to sit down and think of a good presentation for it.

What else. The weather is getting quite cold. Well, actually, it's been cold for a couple of weeks now. It's only in the 50s usually, but a few 30s and 40s scattered. This would be warm in Laramie, but now that we're used to the hot weather, it's quite chilly. It's pretty windy and overcast now, too.

We've been dealing with the stupid squirrel problem lately as well. Dumb roofers took out the barrier that they put up last year and didn't put it back so they got in again. Traps are out right now. They already caught one. I think this time there was only one or two, so hopefully it's a quick solve.

That's about it. Next week is prep for Christmas, I guess. We're going to Tulsa for a few days as usual. I'll try and write out my year-end summary again. This year was quite the big change for us, obviously!

Whoa, already a month? I am severely forgetting about this blog thing.

Let's see. Let's talk about golfing. So, we all went golfing in Tulsa like I mentioned on the 27th of Oct. It was very cold in the morning, but by mid-round, things were warmer and it was actually quite enjoyable. I was teamed with Laura's Dad against family friends. Bill was pretty good and consistent. Ron I think it usually only okay, but he played pretty good I think that day. Hence, we lost. I can't remember by how much but it wasn't too bad. We could have played better, but it was good overall. Dave had some nice shots and saves for our team. My short game sucked, as always. The course was pretty interesting as well, with canyons and creeks and such. There was one hole, where the tee was like a couple of hundred feet (maybe less) higher than the green. After we shot, we proceeded to drive our carts down the path. There were lots of signs that said "slow" because it was quite steep. Dave and I went down first. Dave was sort of going kind of fast at the beginning and I was beginning to worry a little. At one of the of hairpin turns, Dave realized that right before the turn, he was going too fast, so he had to slam the brakes. Of course, that just made us spin almost. The cart began to tilt but Dave got his leg out and I think that helped to keep us from not tilting over. Anyway, after that he still seemed to go faster than suggested, but oh well. It was fun overall and I'd like to do it again when the weather is nicer. I sort of miss playing a lot of golf, but yeah.

Since then, I've had more health exams and blood tests and everything seems to be fine. I gotta get my mind to believe that now. Poop.

Thanksgiving was last week and Connor had a fun time I think. He interacted with a lot of new people and strangers, so kudos to him. He ate most of what we ate as well.

Now, the thing that sucks is that he's teething pretty badly, so his sleep at night, we assume, have been crap. Utterly crap. I'm usually up sometime between 2 and 4am in the morning for the rest of the day. That doesn't sit well for me. By mid-morning, I'm exhausted and by later afternoon, I'm dozing off to sleep.

My Mom came over as well for a few days during Thanksgiving. She had fun, but as always, I was stressed out by the end. I took her to the airport today and she's now back in CO.

The big news over the weekend - oh, wait, Connor got baptized this past weekend as well. That's big news. He did great. No crying at all during any of it. It was pretty short and simple and I didn't have to do anything real weird or something that would make me uncomfortable.

The day before the baptism, however. Man. We were on our way home from Tulsa and as we got off the turnpike, we were about 5 minutes from home, literally. We stopped at the light and once it was ready to go again, I hit the gas and something clanked and the car just wouldn't go anywhere. We think it's the transmission since the car just revved. Anyway, we started to panic because it was a fairly busy intersection and crowded because of some people coming home from Thanksgiving, I imagine. I was like, what are we going to do! AMAZINGLY, a state trooper in his SUV was right behind us. The odds of this happening are like, so small, I can't even begin to fathom. He walked up and told us he was going to push our car to the nearest parking lot, passed the lights and to the left. He just pushed us with his car. I really don't know what we would have done. We would have blocked one lane and it would have been horrible. Plus, I was in my pajamas and dress shoes still... embarrassing to be standing outside in that.

Anyway, after we were in the parking lot, Laura called AAA and got it towed to a AAA-approved service shop. Ryan came to pick us up and take us home before this. Laura waited for the tow truck. Luckily, everything happened very quickly, within 15-20 minutes probably. The next day, I called Hyundai to go about trying to get it fixed under the warranty.

It's currently at the shop. I called today for an update and they were supposed to call me back, but no go. Hopefully, they call back tomorrow or I'll have to call again. I hate doing that.

So, the last couple of days, we've been down to one car and it's sort of annoying because I have to take Laura home and pick her up from work so that I have a car while at home. It's about 2 hours of driving a day. She wants to get a rental. I think we might if we don't get an estimate on when we'll have our car back. I don't think the dealer will pay for one even though she thinks they will. Anyway, I'm gonna wait another day or two to find out more details. Hopefully, it's covered under the warranty and if so, the fix is quick.

Well, last night was a crappy night for me, so I'm going to head to bed early tonight. Probably 8:30p.

See ya.

It's almost been 2 months, sheesh.

There's been a lot going on, so lots to summarize.

Still going to the library lots. We've basically been reading a new book every day, so that's cool.

Connor's naps took a nose dive in the last two months, but it's slowly getting better. His nights were the worst, though, waking up like every 2 hours to feed. It's down to like 2, maybe 3, and we're trying to get rid of that last feeding around 3-4am. The thing is, he's not doing a good job staying asleep after getting him settled down...which means I've been waking up at like 3-4a every other day and maybe 5a every other day. It's getting old. I need sleep.

Other than that, he's growing, man. He's 18lbs 13oz and he's crawling everywhere and sitting up by himself pretty well. I swear I can't remember how the transition from not being able to sit up by himself  to being able to sit up well came from. One day he was just sitting up and we noticed it. Goes by fast.

I did take my trip to Colorado last week! It was a nice break, but it was only for 2 days, really, so there wasn't much that I could do. I stayed at Chris' and saw my Mom and sister for lunch. We played golf and bet $1/hole. Chris talked quite a bit of crap but, alas, there was a reason he was in junior varsity. I beat him 15 of the 18 holes. I was playing at or better than what I used to in high school on the front nine, even. But then, I choked big time on the back nine (still beat Chris though). I shot decent overall. Chris' Dad also came to play. He beat Chris...that's 'nuff said. It was pretty cold when I arrived there, in the 30s and 40s I think. We went to the driving range on Sat and it was cold and snowing, but the next day the sun came out and although the first couple hours were chilly, it warmed up nicely. I still like how the only time I visit, it was the coldest weather this year...

I was going to meet up with Deni, but that day she was in the mountains looking at venues for her wedding, which isn't going to be in Puerto Rico anymore obviously, so she couldn't meet. I headed down to Denver on Sunday and met with Ellen and Matt to see their place. It was a nice place, although located in a slightly sketchy area of Denver, I thought. The dogs were fun too. The black one bit me the first time she saw me, but then was fine after. Got some good pictures too.

Now, back in OK, the Autumn weather is definitely noticeable and some of the trees are starting to change colors.

In 2 weeks, I am golfing with Dave, Ron and Bill. I felt like playing, so after I heard they like golf, I challenged them to a 2v2 scramble. It should be fun. Went to the driving range this past weekend as well. Hit pretty good. I'm not sure why I'm playing so well...I haven't played in literally 3 years. I've only played 3 times in those 3 years and before that was like 2002 or something ridiculous. If I practiced regularly, I bet I could do pretty well in tournaments and such!

Anywho, what else...I'm starting to get a little back into photography again. I think the Fall colors will be a big boost, that is, if I can find a good place for the colors.

Whelp, he's crying now from his nap. I better go...I don't have too much spare time these days...can't even take a nap because I usually spend the majority of his naps trying to keep him asleep...sigh.

Well, the Olympics are finally over. I'm not that big of a fan, just a few sports. And, before I continue, I want to say that trampoline should not be an Olympic sport...seriously.

My Mom is flying in, like I mentioned, in a couple of days. She's only going to be here for the weekend, though. I'm not sure what we're going to be doing. I know we're going to try and watch this sushi documentary we've been wanting to see. I think my Mom will like it.

The weather's been tolerable the last week or so. We've had a couple of thunderstorms and much needed rain. This past weekend, we were able to hit the driving range for the first time in years! It was a little rough at first, but once I got the rhythm going and remembering how to swing again, I started to do decent. I need to start practicing because I want to ask Laura's Dad and see if he wants to challenge another two family friends on a round of golf. I think we'll do pretty good. Anyway, it was fun. We took Connor and he had fun. Laura tried to hit a few balls, but I think she was frustrated at the difficulty. It does take practice. I think golf is really only fun if you're decent at it. Even I get mad when I don't play well and it's generally better than most of the general population.

What else. Connor is still well. I'm doing good during the weekdays. I'm not sure if it's easier than before, but his naps are getting better, so that in turn makes my job a little easier.

Recently, we discovered the library as a source of books...who knew??? I want to start going every week or two and get books for myself, as well as Connor. I do like getting books for cheap at Half Price Books for Connor, but since we go through a book a night pretty much, we might as well start borrowing because there's a limitless number at the library. I was even able to decide that I didn't want a couple of books I put on my Amazon to-buy list because it didn't look good.

So, it seems like Autumn is just around the corner. Weather getting "cooler", for the time being. I can't wait for the leaves to change color. I really want to head out somewhere and get some good shots this year. Last year I was very lazy and didn't get anything.

Oh, one big thing is that we're going to be staying in OKC for another year or so. We had a chance to move to Portland again, but it would just have been a nightmare to pull off in the time we had. It would have involved packing and storing everything but bare essentials within a month, finding a decent place, apartment or hotel, to say for a month that would take dogs/isn't crappy and having to look around in Portland (not sure how) for a place to move to, all with Connor. I think we chose the right thing. There will be more opportunities in the future. On the bright side, now we don't have to fly and travel for the holidays. :P

That's all for now.

It's been a few weeks - the last couple of weeks have been a rough patch for Connor and his napping, so it's taking a toll on Laura and I. He seems to be getting better, but we're not through it yet. This coming Wednesday, Connor has his 2nd appointment for his shots. Hopefully, it goes well...and I'm going to try and not get the rotavirus (assuming that's what I had a for a few days).

I finally went to the doctor for my weird lymph node swelling. Did some blood tests and she said they looked fine, but it looks like I may have had mono several weeks ago. That could explain some of my symptoms, but we'll see. Next week I need to schedule another follow-up appointment to make sure that my levels for whatever signifies mono is getting better. I'm also going to ask a little more about the lymph node thing. Still feels swollen. It's weird because I usually start out fine in the morning and it gets progressively worse through the day.

Chris and Alicia visited a couple of weeks ago as well. They seemed to have fun. It was super hot outside, so we couldn't do much there, and with Connor, we can't really "do stuff", so...oh well. It was good to see them.

My Mom decided not to move out to Vegas to take care of Ken's baby. That was probably a good idea. She's coming again to visit the last week of August for a few days.

We're currently in Tulsa, visiting for Laura's parents' birthdays. Connor had a horrible night last night because the day leading up to his bedtime was horrible. Not much sleep. He didn't get much sleep today, either. It usually is the case when we come here since he doesn't really sleep on the way here and the environment here isn't what he's used to. The crib bounces, the floor creaks, the light is bright, etc. It's also annoying because we need to go up and down to his room every time he starts fussing. The day we get home isn't great either, because it's another 1.5 hour drive and he is fussy when he gets home. Then he takes a day or two to catch up.

They are watching the Olympics right now. I'm not a big fan of the Olympics. It's not that exciting to me. The only sports worth watching to me are probably the track and field stuff.

Well, that's all for now.

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.