Fishing

Glenn loved to stand out by his dad while fishing. He would pull up a weed, bend it, and pretend it was a fishing pole. He'd bend it so he'd have fishing line going down. So, I bought him a fishing pole (Dora, of course). He loves it. The funny thing is that Glenn almost caught 2 large fish, even though he doesn't have a hook, while his dad didn't catch anything. Glenn's pole came with a fish shaped weight that's pink to practice casting. The fish were following it as Glenn reeled it in. Here are some pictures of the first time he used it. Note he chose to wear boots. :)

Poor Glenn got kicked in the mouth this morning at school. We got a call that they were rolling around on the floor and someone's foot struck his mouth accidently. He would have been fine to stay at school, but when there's a good amount of blood, they require the parent to come check on the child. It just bled a lot because it was the inside of his lip that split open. He'll be fine. I asked him if he wanted to stay at school or go home, and he started tearing up, so we just decided to bring him home. He had a rough morning. First he rubbed sun block in his eyes so I had to flush them out (he actually liked that and wanted me to continue doing it). Then I made him give me his sunglasses when we got to school. That didn't go over well and apparently he was so upset about it that he hardly ate his snack. Then after getting kicked in the mouth, I figured he just needed to go home- he'd had enough.

On the lighter side, I have a funny story about Bob. The other night he took a sleeping pill. He sometimes gets a little silly when he takes those. At one point when I was trying to fall asleep, he looked in my direction and said, "It's all pink over there." I asked him what he meant and he said, "you know, pinky." I attributed it to the meds, and then about a minute later, under his breath, he said, "Girl power." It was so funny. He had no recolection of it in the morning.

Computer Crash

So, I was doing the right thing by having an antivirus software on my computer. It did an update on Monday and required a reboot. When I did that, it wouldn't restart, but said that a system file required for booting the computer was either corrupt or missing. I tried to do the fix (by looking up what to do on the Internet- on Bob's computer of course), but it didn't work. I talked to a computer repair guy yesterday and he said if that fix didn't work, then what he would do is to reinstall Windows. So, I did that and of course that reformats the hard drive. So, I've lost everything. We have a backup drive on the computer, but the backup file is corrupt and it stopped backing up for some reason in May of last year anyway. So, if you're reading this, please email me so I have your email address, and also email me your mailing address. I lost all my pictures from 9/06 to 8/07. Luckily I didn't delete the pictures on my new camera that I got last August, so I think I still have all those pictures. I keep thinking of things I lost, like all the edited videos of Glenn (at least I have the unedited versions on tape). I don't have the disks for a lot of the software, and I'm sure I keep remembering other things that are gone.

Other than that, things are going well. My blood counts have been pretty good, and the baby is growing well. He keeps me up when I'm trying to nap. Glenn hasn't been napping much in the past few weeks, although he did nap Tuesday and Wednesday this week (which was such a treat since that's when I like to nap, too, when he gets home from school). The weather is wonderful here. It's been in the upper 70's pretty much every day since Friday, and no rain. I'm so used to spring being the rainy season, but our rainy season is in the fall here. Bob's going to be doing a ton of travel for work between now and 3 weeks prior to my due date. I told him no travel starting June 16 so that he doesn't miss the birth. I'm seeing my OB every other week, and starting in May, I'll be seeing the high risk OB (perinatologist) once a week. Oh what fun! But at least on those weekly appts, I get an ultrasound, so I get to see the baby. We're going to have a whole collection of ultrasounds on DVD. :)

Here are the pictures I promised.

The first pictures are of his egg hunt at preschool:




The next pictures are of a much COLDER egg hunt at Bob's brother's house in CT on Easter:





Glenn visited his grandmother's 1st grade class while in CT. When the kids went to their desks, Glenn wanted to go to a desk, too. Luckily she had one empty desk. Notice his feet don't even come close to touching the ground:


These last pictures were taken at the Lutz Children's Museum in Manchester, CT.

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So, it's been a month since I last posted- Sorry! There wasn't really anything to report, and then we were away for 2 weeks. Bob had to do some training in CT for 2 weeks, so Glenn and I went with him. We stayed with Bob's family on the weekends and my parents during the week. It was a really nice visit, but 2 weeks is a long time to be away from home. Glenn and I caught a cold while we were there, of course. I had my birthday on Easter while we were up there. Apparently Easter won't be on my birthday for 200 more years, so that was special. We drove to CT, and made it in one day. We thought we were going to do it in 2 days on the way home, but we got to South Carolina around 5, so we decided we might as well just drive home. We got home at 10:45, so that wasn't too bad. But we were pretty tired today. Of course Glenn woke up at his usual 6:45. He's so resilient.

When I get around to uploading my pictures from our trip, I'll post some.