Family is great

OK, so it has been a while since I wrote last. I'm still trying to get used to the new work, get home, hang out with Roran and Jess schedule. There is eating, cleaning and paying attention to Loki and Meow Zoom that needs to fit in there as well.

So this is going to be a short message about how friggin' awesome our family is. I have to say that everyone is being rock stars about this. I love the fact that Roran has helped pull my side of the family a little bit tighter together. Jess' side was always pretty tight, but mine was more like a net...with a lot of holes. But thankfully there seems to be some tightening of that with Roran. Which is really good because both Jess and I want a lot of family contact for Roran. There is so much history within that network. So much that we couldn't remember (or want to remember) all of it and I believe that it will help enrich his life even more by having those different perspectives.

This past week, Roran got to hang with Uncle Dave, Grandma and Grandpa and will be hanging out with Great Aunt Fern this week. I have to say though, I was very surprised by David's visit. As a lot of you probably know, David and I don't exactly have the best relationship. It seems no matter how hard we try it just doesn't really get anywhere. That being said, he was awesome with Roran. It was very nice seeing him hold Roran and how relaxed and focused he was on him. It was a side of my brother that I haven't seen in a really long time.

Well this is a bit late, Great Aunt Fern was here and it was great having her. She had a lot of fun with Roran as well. At least in between feedings and diaper changes etc. Fern did have to leave a bit earlier than we had originally planned, but this was offset by her being able to arrive a day earlier. =) So all in all it worked out great.

Now we just have to get Roran to meet the rest of the clan and then we can work on trying to have a big family reunion to keep everyone in touch. If you are reading this, LMK what you think of that idea. It could be fun. ;-)

Thanks everyone and we'll chat soon!

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Could Roran be any more cute? :-)

Cute things of Roran

So I had to go back to hell on Monday (that would be work in laymen's terms). It really sucks. Not only am I not that much of a fan of what I'm doing right now, it is keeping me away from Roran and Jessica. I'm worried about how much I'm going to miss of him growing and changing. Not that we can do anything about it. In a perfect world I would be able to take time off w/o having to worry about how we were going to pay our mortgage, bills and buy food for everyone, but as we are all aware of (I'm sure), we don't live in a perfect world.

Anyway, on to what I had intended to write about: Roran. Today he did the cutest thing. I finally got home and was able to hold him in between feedings. He was out like a light, which is no small feat considering that he was no where near calm when Jessica gave him to me. But Jessica needed to be able to relax a bit and I needed to hold him.

On to the point. While I was holding him, he did the cutest yawn, stretch, eye rub, stretch, yawn back to sleep you could ever have seen. I wish I had my camera so that I could post it here. But I'm sure that there will other times that I can capture.

On another happy note, my aunt Fern, Roran's great aunt, will be coming to visit for a few days the end of August. We are using the guise of her babysitting while Jessica and I have a long awaited date night (we'll be seeing Diana Krall at the Chateaus St. Michelle). It will be her first time actually seeing him in person and one of our first outings with just each other. It should be a great night all around.

Now if we could just figure out how to get more milk stored up so I can help feed him and we can have our 'alone' time, we would be good. =)

And if we could get the cats to get more used to him...

Until next time, have a good night!