Trying Hard

Again, sorry for the gap in updates.  This should go live on Friday.

Things have been going good. Harrison's doing well.  He's 4 months old now and has really started lighting up the past couple of weeks.  It's amazing to see him learning new things.  It's not uncommon for DeAnne or I to see something new happen and call for the other to come check it out.  Usually, Harrison will decide at that point to not repeat whatever it was, but DeAnne and I have come to an understanding that the one who saw it is not lying and in a day or two, Harrison will be repeating whatever it was consistently.

Thanksgiving is next week.  No major plans.  DeAnne will be making her annual Black Friday shopping trip with her mom.  Maybe with some time off I can actually get a blog post up two weeks in a row.

We're heading down to Mobile this coming Friday.  We're going to head down when DeAnne gets off work and spend the weekend with Courtney and Edwin.  We haven't been down in a long time and we're looking forward to seeing them.  It'll also be interesting to see how Harrison does in a different environment.  Hopefully we'll manage to remember everything we'll need.

For those of you that saw on Facebook, our cat Izzy is doing well.  It's not much fun trying to give him a dropper full of antibiotics, but such are the things we do for the fur-babies.

If there's any interest, I may do a single post updating the Christmas shopping posts from last year.  I never heard if anyone found them useful and no one ever used a link I posted to purchase anything, but I've already been asked by a few people at work about things such as Xboxs and Playstations.  Let me know if you would like to see an update and I'll see if I can't get one put together.

--Paul

Long Time Coming

I have to apologize for the lack of updates to the blog.  It's been a crazy couple of weeks and the mornings just don't afford me much of an opportunity to blog anymore.

Harrison's doing well.  He's growing like crazy.  We had to go to the doctor on Monday and he weighed 16 lbs and 13 oz.  He hadn't been feeling good all weekend so I took him in to get looked at.  Turns out he has a double ear infection.  This is the second ear infection he's had in 6 weeks time or so, so it looks like we're heading towards tubes.  Tubes are pretty common these days, so I'm not terribly worried about it, but I hate that he's going to have to go through anything like that.  We had really hoped and prayed that he wouldn't be sick like his mom and dad have been all their lives and while it looks like he been blessed to have avoided the major issues, he may still have to face the combined force of our allergies.

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So it's now Friday.  I didn't have a chance to really finish the post until now.  Harrison's doing better but DeAnne is still struggling.  She's probably going to end up going to the doctor on Monday.  This past Wednesday we went up to Birmingham and met with a neurosurgeon about her back.  He wants her to do physical therapy and come back in six weeks.  I was pretty happy with that order but DeAnne seems to think that surgery would be an instant fix and was disappointed that he wasn't going to cut on her.  Crazy, I know.  You can't tell her anything sometimes.

No major plans for the weekend.  We're having another yard sale in Opp on Saturday but other than that, we're taking it pretty easy.  It's been a crazy couple of weeks for me at work and I need some down time.  Between work and all three of us being sick at different times, DeAnne and I are both pretty run down.  Hopefully next week we can recuperate some.

Have a good weekend.

--Paul