Florida, Day 3

I'm in Orlando for Autodesk University 2005 right now. 3 days in, and my brain is fried fried fried. It's been an adventure.

 

When I got to my hotel, I wanted to put my passport in the room safe. Only problem; I couldn't find my passport. I determined that it had most likely fallen out of my bag on the airplane, so I spent the next two days on the phone with Air Canada and United to see if they found it. As of yesterday, they hadn't, so I decided to give up and report it lost. I called the canadian passport office, and after realizing I would be on hold for at least half and hour, bailed and decided to try again later. Good thing, because at about 2:00 am last night, my room phone rang. I was only semi-conscious, but it was the shuttle driver that brought us from the airport to the hotel. Turns out my passport fell out in his van. Luckily he remembered our conversation (which centred around Alberta, and our upcoming money from the gov't), and remembered that he had driven us to a hotel on the resort. It seemed like he'd already checked at a couple of other hotels before getting the right one. Long story short: I have my passport back!!! What a relief!

 

The conference has been fantastic so far. Every class overloads my brain, but I can't wait for the next one to start. I'm learning tons.

 

 

Four Week Photograph

It's actually a couple of days old, but it's too good not to share...

Four Weeks

We've been busy busy busy!

I've been back at work since last Monday. It took some adjusting, and I still would rather be at home than at work. I feel like I'm missing so much by not being there during the days. Oliver changes so fast right now that I almost feel like he's a new person every time I get home. I'll put a new photo up soon.

Last Sunday, we sat and watch football all day. I had him on the couch with me, and was explaing why CFL is so much better than NFL. Luckily there was a Raiders game on in the morning, so we started at 11:00 with 4-down sissy ball, then moved on to Montreal-TO and Edmonton-BC in the afternoon. He seemed to enjoy watching the TV, and he farted once when BC scored, so I think he gets it. ;)

Holly's dad was in town for a few days over the past week, and got to spend some quality time with his grandson. I'm looking forward to BC fishing trips in the future, and Norm can teach O and me (it's been a while) which end of the fishing rod points to the water.

I'm off to Florida for a few days on Sunday, and am a bit anxious about leaving O and Holly. At least there are plenty of people willing to help out while I'm gone.

PS. That project I was working on before Oliver was born went to the other team. It's official now, and they have broken ground on the Robbins Health Learning Centre at Grant MacEwan. I'm pretty dissapointed, since we put a lot of effort into what we still feel is an incredible building. I can't wait to see what the other team designed; I'm sure it'll be impressive.

Three weeks plus a day

I went back to work this week. I'd much rather be at home, to be honest. O seems to change every day, even if just a little bit. His Grandpa Norm came into town last night, so we'll be visiting a bit with him over the next few days.

Otherwise, not much else is going on... especially not sleep! I seem to have caught a cold at the office as well, which is making me even more tired. And Holly's up a couple of times a night to feed the little guy, so, yeah, not much energy to do much else at the moment. It's a good thing parenting is so awesome!

Oliver at 2 weeks

Oliver was two weeks old yesterday. I didn't have a chance to post it until now, but here's a picture from late last night.

Oliver with Ggm. Shirley

 

Oliver Neil with Ggp. Neil

We went to visit Holly's grandparents yesterday. This is Oliver with his namesake, Great Grandpa Neil.

2 weeks old

Oliver is two weeks old today, and I have newfatheritis. I'm constantly awed by the way he changes from day to day. He's started to look around, and it seems like he's doing it on purpose. When we go to get him from the crib, he'll look towards us. When he's awake in the living room, he moves his eyes around, and keeps his eyes focused when his head turns. His arms have started to move with a little more control lately; he'll push the soother from his mouth if he isn't interested, and he pulls towards his mouth when he wants to. His legs are still flopping around on their own schedule, though.

Holly and I are doing pretty good as well. I went to the glass studio last night since O was born, and will soon be working my own shifts. I also went to work this morning to try to get a head start for next week, and to give Holly a chance to adjust to not having me around all the time. We've been out and about a fair amount lately, either for walks or grocery trips or visiting.

I think I'm getting the hang of this parenting thing. right.

Like father like son?

The other day, my mom and dad brought this picture by. At first, I thought it was Oliver, but no! it's my baby picture from 1975.

Oi. And vey.

Last night was the hardest night so far. I think O had a bad case of gas, and as a result he would NOT sleep. I tried, Holly tried, I tried again, we changed him, Holly fed him, we rocked him, we held him... no luck. He finally fell asleep at about 2 am, after about 5 hours or trying. The good news is that he slept until 6 or 7, and is sleeping again now, so at least Holly can catch up a bit.

On the bright side, I finished a book last night! Into Thin Air is a true story about a group of expeditions to the summit of Everest in 1996. It's a fantastic read, and I highly recommend it.

First doctor's appointment

We took O for his first doctor's appointment this morning. Everything is good. He's still a bit jaundice, but is getting pinker by the day, and weighs in at 7 lb 2 oz. That's 2.5 oz down from his birth weight, but 5 ounces up from when he left the hospital (all babies lose weight right after birth).

Last night he slept for arond 4-5 hours, twice! Very nice. I think it's the sheapskin blanket a very dear friend brought over.

We're starting to settle into a routine of sorts. Hopefully we'll start exploring in the next day or two. Holly's healing very well from the section, and we actually walked to the clininc this morning for the checkup. There is a lot of people we want to see soon, and our apartment isn't very conducive to big gatherings, so we'll probably have to start heading out instead of staying in.