The Prodigal Son

Dear Reader,
Please view exhibit "B" (as in BoBo). God has found the perfect person to return my faith to me. How could such a one as this exist but for God's own design. Notice the perfectly round button nose, and the buns perfectly balanced by the baby pooch. mmmmmmm.

First Haircut

PoPo: He got haircut.
Jose: Yes, he did. His first.
PoPo: Did he cry?
Jose: Yes...
PoPo: Don't do it.

This was from a few months ago, and the baby mullet is growing back in. We've all noticed it, but no one has had the determination to make another haircut happen.

The Disco Center Babies

This is Bo playing with the babies at the daycare he visits Tuesday and Thursday afternoons for playdates. He loves the babies! And hopefully asks for them any time we put him in the car. The Discovery Center is a Montessori-influenced 0-6 year old day care where the liberal and academic tend to send their kids. So they do cloth diapers, "follow the baby," have extensive food lists for each child, et cetera. They are so lefty, however, that they can't just follow one pedagogy. Most of the care givers are Education people, and have been there for over 17 years. And lovelovelove babies. Bo is a little rock star there. All the ladies love him. Babies, toddlers, teachers. What's not to love?

Chubmaster

notice the sleeve of fat covering the wrist.

Great Visit

This is from Bo's visit with Gung-Gung while he was in-patient at Bronson a few weeks ago (for heart attack). Both guys are doing well. Both had drs visits today. And both were good, so far. Bo will need his quarterly visit with his GI in a few weeks for us to feel good, and my dad will need his echo cardiogram results interpretation next week for us to feel good about that.

Dr. Doom was happy with Bo and said he looked the best he's ever seen him. He had an ultrasound and the bladder looked clear (nothing suspicious in there) and his kidneys looked as good as they did 3 months ago with no additional stone formation.

He does have a site infection, but the blood cultures came up negative, so the antibiotics are just to treat the site, where the line enters his chest. It got a little red and puffy. Tomorrow is his last day of antibiotics, and hopefully this will be the end of that.

Pantless Wonder

In his dude shirt my girlfriend from work gave me. It's 3T and I wasn't sure it'd fit a 21 month old, but I guess he's husky. And a dude. And in true dude fashion, would rather not wear pants.

Never a Dull Moment

More news is usually complicated news. I'm very annoyed to not have any pix to post. Jose gave our old camera to his niece and it was so old that it wouldn't accept the new SD card he bought her. So instead of downloading the pix we had on our card, he just handed it over. Needless to say, all those pix are gone forever. Growl.

AND we didn't even get to have the visit we planned. AND I'm scheduled to take vacation tomorrow, but instead of visiting with family, we are in Kalamazoo. No family, no nurse, antibiotics and a potentially scary site infection (much less scary than a full on line infection, but we won't know for sure until the cultures come back tomorrow and the next day).

Sigh.

Deep sigh.

I've been experiencing bouts of high blood pressure (I wonder why), and dizziness/faintness. And I'm avoiding seeing my doctor because I'm afraid of what he'll say (yeah, stupid, I know).

BUT, at least the surgeons were cool about letting us treat Bo from home instead of in the hospital. And we had an awesome datenight Saturday. My girlfriend had her birthday party at Fire and it was soooo fun and cool and lovely.

PLUS I just went through the Rite of Sending and the Rite of Election at St. Toms and the Cathedral, the former of which was WAY more emotional than I expected and the latter of which was WAY more annoying. Note to self, I totally picked the right parish; no WAY would I ever be able to sit through a mass at St. A's. It's just too impersonal for me.

Epilogue: Jose is at sculpture class, and aside from sadly not really vacationing, I'm looking forward to 6am(!) pilates, and bonus, baby was asleep by 6:30pm.