In case you're wondering...

...where The Blog has gone lately, here's a quick rundown on what's been going on:

• Your faithful correspondent has been fighting yet another cold. It's had me feeling pretty run-down and miserable, but otherwise is more of an annoyance than anything. (If you detect a stuffy-nose sound in my typing, that's why.)
• The construction on the house has been rapidly reaching a crescendo - the main crew is just a few days away from finishing up with the bulk of the work, at which point they turn everything over to the subcontractors (tile guy, sheetrockers, painters, etc.). Which means there have been guys popping their heads in the door every twenty minutes or so, more days than not, setting the dog barking, which wakes the baby up, which gets daddy grumpy, and all of which makes for very chaotic days. Add that to the sound of tile-cutting saws and hammers on the roof, the usual banging and sawing and sanding coming from outside, the cutting and banging from the new office (where the window trim is being installed), and the phone ringing like mad, life around the house has been... well, migraine-inducing.
• Grandma Kay has started going to the gym, at the prompting of Jan (our housekeeper and sometime-babysitter and family friend), which means we've been hot-seating it with the one vehicle that's available to us during the day (the Manly-Man Truck), since their car is STILL (after five weeks or so) in transit via Canada Rail's car-transport service. Apparently it got held up at the border, waiting to go through Customs. I'm glad to see Mom getting some exercise, and it's making a very obvious difference in her energy level and general enthusiasm, but it does make juggling errands a much more interesting experience, with only the one car for three of us to get around in. I'm hoping their minivan gets here, sometime soon, preferably before they're ready to head back to Michigan...
• Da Boo is getting very, very busy. He's crawling all over the place, especially toward anything dangerous, dog-drooled, unhygenic, or otherwise off-limits - so you really can't turn your back on him. He's also gotten a handle on the whole standing-up thing, but unfortunately, he hasn't quite mastered the art of sitting DOWN again - so he'll suddenly start yelling out of sheer frustration, especially when he's somehow slipped down into the splits and can't figure out either how to get un-splitted or onto his butt. (This is especially fun when he does this in the crib, when he's supposed to be taking a nap.) He's also learning new consonants, so in addition to "dadada," he can now say "bababa," and "vavava," and even "lalala." No "mamama" yet, worse luck - I think he's holding off on that just so he can drive his momma crazy.

That's the short version of why I haven't been keeping up with this blog in the manner to which y'all have become accustomed. Sorry. You'll just have to wait in line behind all the construction guys, the baby, the grandparents, and, let's not forget, my lovely wife...

Speaking of whom... Felicia and I are leaving this afternoon for the Mt. Ashland Inn (the B&B where we got engaged, what seems like half a lifetime ago), for our very first weekend away from the baby. Wish us luck - at this point, I'll consider it a minor triumph if we get out of the house, AND don't come running back around 11pm tonight, all lonely for the baby. (And you might want to wish the grandparents luck, too, since they're the ones who are going to be trying to figure out how to handle this little Tasmanian Devil without his momma around to throw a boob at him when he gets cranky.)

Lots of new photos in the album, by the way. (Yes, folks, this IS a bribe to keep y'all quiet while I get my legs back under me... Shameless, am I not?)

Comments

[Haim, Emily, Eliana, Daniel and Rudy]

Flea,
Joshua is growing so quickly. He is gorgeous just wish we saw each other alittle more often. The kids are doing great and growing up so quickly. The house looks beautiful and the deck is to die for- cant wait to see you in July. Love ya!!

Haim

[Denise]

Joshua sure is a cutie. Enjoy keeping up with you on the blog. Travis is doing all the same things here, getting into everything, babbling a lot. Wondering if Aunt Kay is really there? Does she ever get out from behind the camera to be photographed with her grandson?

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