Pro re nata.

Maybe I should just rename it to the Weekly Dose. Oh well. So Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by Dr. Marc Weissbluth? Amazing. It works. About 1 week into training, Lucy's pretty much sleeping through the night. If she does wake up, she can get herself back to sleep. And today, she had a 2 hour morning nap and a 2.5 hour afternoon nap. Amazing. And since she goes to bed at 6:45pm, Tracy and I actually have dinner, together, at the dining room table even. It's kind of crazy. New iMac (Mid 2010) showed up on Tuesday, kind of worked on getting it set up, and still working thought Aperture. It's impressive, but lots of capabilities, and there's lots to learn. Just trying to figure out how to organize photos in projects, folders, albums, keywords, libraries. Lots to go on. But some great functionality. Probably going to be a while until I figure out a good workflow I'm happy with. Handbrake transcodes fly on it. We're calling it TEAMac. Also loving the built in SD slot. Except right now I'm typing this up on my old MacBook. Just can't use TEAMac on the couch. Had date dinner Friday night at Wakamono at 5pm. Even then we were late getting Lucy back in time for bedtime, so she went down late, and woke up a couple times that night. Routine is good. Saturday slung her up in the Baby K'Tan and went to Green City Market and delightful pastries]]. Sunday went out to the {Argaos]] to visit and pick up supplies at the Target. And Monday just hung out at home with the sleeping baby. Kind of nice. Lucy's got her 4 month checkup tomorrow, and I have to go into the office Wednesday through Friday. Thinking about biking, but I'm not sure if I want to show up sweaty.

I really need to try harder to update more frequently. Shouldn't be hard, should it? I've been doing it for 10 years. Another week goes by. Lucy's sleeping through the night. So that's been nice. Her four month appointment went well last Tuesday. Everything checked out. Nice and healthy. She cried for the nurse practitioner, and again when she was getting her vaccinations, but that might have been more about the strangers and/or lying down, than the poking and prodding. I was in the office Wednesday-Friday last week, so got to eat bad fast food. McDonald's 2 days in a row. Cupcakes, donuts, candy. Yum. Although, I think I might have actually lost a little weight. Maybe because I did some walking on my commute, longer than down the hall from the bedroom to the living room. Saturday went to the Lakeview Arts Festival. Sunday tried bringing Lucy to church for the first time, by myself, and she lasted 15 minutes in the pew, and another 30 minutes in the back vestibule, before I had to leave. Oh, and it was by myself because Tracy was working. Went out to dinner Sunday night at Rocks Lakeview with Lucy. A little warmer than we thought, but she cried for a bit then took a nap. Otherwise, another week down.

I'll try and get better at the daily updating again starting next week. Big news is Lucy's getting baptized on Sunday. Al and Nicole flew in, separately, today, since they're going to be the godparents. And headed out to Woodstock tomorrow for Joy's wedding shower. So gonna be a little crazy, as usual. Baptism's going to be pretty low key, which I think is pretty cool. Just immediate family that could make it. And my mom's cooking, or has already cooked all the food, and she came over on Wednesday and cleaned/baby sat. On Tuesday Tracy and Lucy had a girls' lunch with Espy, and then my girls stayed out at my in-laws for a bit. The drive back in was rough though, stuck in traffic, around 2 hours to get back, so well past Lucy's bedtime. Worried that going to sleep an hour off the routine would mean her getting up in the middle of the night, but no apparent affect. She's been sleeping through the night no problem. I'm impressed. And she's always so happy to see us when we get her early enough in the morning. I'll try and remember to bring the camera at some point. Otherwise, I've been watching Skins on Netflix Watch Instantly. I saw Better Off Ted Season 2 is now available. And finished off the first book of Avatar: The Last Airbender. I'm loving Netflix, not so much on the Wii, but I can't get a new Apple TV with Netflix built in because I don't have HDMI running through the wall from the AV Cabinet to the TV. Unless I get a HDMI to Component video Receiver or video processor. Put a cheap SSD in the Mac mini to speed things up and/or cool things down. Also tried putting a Compact Flash card instead of a hard drive in one of the Apple TVs, but that's not so easy.