Daycare Begins

This week is Cal's first week at daycare and so far it's going pretty good, based on the feedback from the staff and how he's slept in the evenings. Last night he actually slept from 9pm to 3:45pm, and he has been going back to sleep much easier after feedings since he started daycare. Angie is back at work, which is now a juggling act to find time to get everything done and pump etc. She is doing the drop off in the morning, while I'm doing the pickup after work. It's crazy how fast the time goes by, we get home, eat dinner, go for a walk and the next thing you know it's his bedtime.

While the Vikings continue their downward spiral, I look forward to the Wild season starting next week. It's going to be hard to watch games, but the Wild on the radio is better than the Vikings on TV. Work is pretty steady now, I'm thinking it will stay that way until the holidays.

This weekend we are making our annual trip to the Renaissance Festival with Jeremy and Kelly. I'm looking forward hanging out and having a few drinks, hopefully the weather cooperates. 

Too Hot To Trot

We are at the beginning of a week long heat wave, with temps expected to reach 100 degrees on Monday. Bad news for a couple of reasons - it's going to be a long week at work without air conditioning, and we can't take Cal for a walk or anything outside. All I have to do is make it to the weekend, and then we have nice weekend planned in Duluth. We plan to take Cal on his first road trip and stay at a hotel on Lake Superior. Hopefully it will be cooler, especially with the breeze coming off the water.

We hit the State Fair for a few hours yesterday, before it got uncomfortably hot. We ate some cheese curds, sunnies in a boat and finished with a twist cone from the dairy building. I snagged a nice pair of Minnesota Wild lounge pants (on clearance) at Fan Central, and a few other free goodies from the DNR building. We had planned on doing the Renaissance Festival this Saturday, but decided to push it back until late September when the temps are more fall-like.

Calvin & Jobbes

Cal is 7 weeks old today! It’s already amazing to look at pictures we took and see how much he’s grown. We now have a pretty good idea of what he likes, but more importantly, what he doesn’t like. Sleeping would have to be number one on the dislike list. He is capable of sleeping of more than two hours at a time, but for one reason or another he just doesn’t do it. Perhaps it’s the size of his stomach, gas, the temperature outside, or maybe the fact that he loves us so much he wants to stay awake. Either way, it’s something we hope will eventually work itself out in due time. In the meantime, he loves bath time and going places in the Baby Bjorn carrier, he eats like a champ and craves activity and stimulation. He just has a hard time being idle for long periods of time... who does that sound like? Angie is convinced she gave birth to me!

In other news, work is really dead. Ever since the week before the 4th there hasn’t been much to do around there. I continue to look for new employment opportunities, specifically a place that offers 401k match, annual performance evaluations, air conditioning, and a lunch room. Just today I applied at large format digital printing company near downtown St. Paul. The main problem is my job doesn’t have one universal title, it’s been classified as Printing, Desktop Publishing, Production, Graphic Design, Marketing, and everything else in between.

I’m really excited to go out fishing for the first time this season, and maybe even more excited that our friends Steve and Jess just picked up a small fishing boat! I recently purchased a new Shimano Citica baitcasting reel which I’m anxiously awaiting to arrive. I also picked up a new St. Croix medium casting rod to pair with the reel. Consider the fact that most of my xmas and birthday gifts from last year were fishing lures and you can see how anxious I am to get on the lake. Once my new rod and reel is setup, I was thinking about going down to the river to get it fine tuned, maybe even catch a fish or two in the process.