No, Not Disapearing :)

Just extremely busy with the move.

We are currently T minus 2 weeks to the official move, and boxes are stacked all over our apartment.

The place we ar e moving to: a 4 bedroom house with a 3-season front porch and a 2-season back porch. The living area and kitchen are smaller, but all the bedrooms are bigger, and the fourth one is going to be used for our computer room and my office. Chloe will be going to a new school, but it's hours are betteR (they start at 9 and go to 4), and the bus picks up and drops off right outside our front door.

Work news... Someone at my office that I have worked with for years (used to be the team lead on my team), and who was recently promoted to supervisor, has requested me to be his new team lead. So I have an interview tommorrow for this!

The problem is, I'm not sure I want it. Financially, while it will mean more money, it also means we have to put Chloe in daycare after school. Combine that with little aloryn's daycare cost, and the fact that if I am in the office, if either of the kids are sick I have to take a day off, where right now I can still work through it.

Tough decision, but it would put me on-par with what my wife makes. All in all, we would actually probably lose a dollar an hour, but... It may be worth it. Some have mentioned that I have become almost "hermit-like" when it comes to a work environment. May be time to prove them wrong.

Baby: Jen's doing great, although she has Gestational Diabetes of a "minor" degree. Literally, her numbers were only 1 or 2 outside of the "normal" range at each marker on the challenge test. So my wonderful wife can't have her favorite treats (chocolate, ice cream, cookies, etc), even in moderation. She is on 0-sugar except for fruit diet at the moment.

Aloryn is kicking normally, responding to voice, light, pressure, and is a little bugger already! Whether it's coincidence or signs of her going to be a problem child, she already has an attitude, and that attitude is "leave me alone". Even now, as she grows more, she refuses to let ultrasounds, dopplers, and fetal monitoring go on without a fight. As soon as a monitor is put on, she kicks and punches directly on the pressure like there is no tommorrow. Last time we had to trick her by pressing down on side while she was monitored from the other. And the fetal monitor belt... yesh. It had to be moved back several times because she kept kicking it hard enough to move it off.

My project:
Has been put on hold until we move. I have most of the codework done, now it is a matter of making things look pretty, setting it up, advertising, etc. Still a month or two away (especially the making it look presentable... i have always been a behind the scenes guy, I hate actually making pictures and the like).

The Future:
We have decided that in September of 2009 we are taking the kids to Disneyworld again. Currently we have my mother in law and 2 friends from CA going with us. Even this far out, it is shaping up like it will be a great trip. My mother-in-law is coming for the soul purpose to babysit Aloryn while we take chloe on the rides she can't go on, and as she put it, to spend time with "all of us" individually because she doesn't get to often. Add in the fact that some of our online friends are planning a trip to meet us there, this could be our best trip yet!

Well another morning has come and gone, wifey is awake, time for me to get moving.