Well, I know it has been a couple of weeks since I have uploaded pictures. Things have been kind of crazy around here and I have been barely willing to pull out the computer, much less upload pictures. However, I have been taking a few shots every now and then and I have uploaded some of the better ones.
Well, with a set of new clothes and a visit from the grandparents, we found a reason to take lots of new pictures. Not that we really need a reason to take pictures.
Well, it is Saturday and that means it is time for our weekly photo op with darling Emily. We missed last week due to Emily being sick, which made her a grumpasaurus. In addition to the cute outfits that she has been in over the past week or so, we have a few bath shots because she looked too cute falling asleep in the bathtub. Also, we have several shots with her in this tacky golden onesie with some eagle or something on it 
Before long, we will get pictures of her that show off her beautiful maroon onesie with a bulldog on it
OK, so I am being lazy and not uploading the pictures that Ashley and I have taken. I will get them uploaded when I get a chance. However, Ashley took Emily over to Misty and Stephen’s house for a “play date” on Sunday and Misty took some pictures.
With the arrival of the new TiVo HD, I began investigating all of the features that I missed out on while only having a Series1 TiVo. That search led me to check out Amazon Unbox, a feature added to TiVo in early 2007 that allows you to rent or buy movies from Amazon and have them downloaded directly to your TiVo. My first thought was “Where do I sign up?” After doing a little more digging, I found out that each movie rental is $3.99. Each rental movie can only stay on the TiVo for 30 days. Once you start the movie, you have 24 hours to finish it before it expires. Personally, I think that this is a horrible model and that TiVo could do better.
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Last week, I mentioned that Emily started her first week at daycare. Although I did not yet know it, she came home at the end of that first week with her first cold. It is now half-way through her second week of day care and I have come down with a cold. Now, I knew that having a kid would mean that you get sick more often. I just did not realize that it would happen this quickly.
Well, Emily has completed her first week at daycare. Ashley and I are slowly starting to get things together. Every couple of days, we take a few more pictures, with bursts on the weekends. The mornings are kind of hectic. We get up around 6am so that Ashley can get ready for work and I can get the baby fed and dressed. Finally, around 7am, I get to eat breakfast, shower, and get dressed. Then, I take back that baby for about 15 minutes while Ashley finishes getting ready. We finally walk out the door about 8am. I think we are going to try something different next week so that we can all get out the door a little earlier.
Since Ashley has dropped back to 30 hours a week for a while, she picks the baby up around 3:30pm or 4pm. When I get home around 5:30pm, it is time to prepare dinner for us and the baby. Yes, she wants to eat at the same time that we do, so we wind up eating in shifts at the moment. She then plays for a little while before taking a brief, early evening nap before bath-time at 8pm. After I give her a bath, Ashley takes over rocking and giving one last bottle before bed. At this point, I am downstairs cleaning bottles, making up bottles for the next day, cleaning up after dinner, and making lunches. It takes each of us about 30 minutes to finish our tasks, so Little Bit usually goes down between 9pm and 9:30pm. Normally, she is down for the night until around 6am the next day.
A recent post on Good Math, Bad Math caught my attention this morning. The article talk about mathematics being independent of a deity; mathematics is based on abstract reasoning so it will be consistent whether the universe was created by a benevolent deity or whether it just is. The article is in response to a geometry class description at a Baptist high school. However, a comment by chaos_engineer just made me laugh out loud.
Of course. Christians would be taught real geometry, with the Euclidean version of the parallel postulate.
People who practice flawed religions would naturally be more comfortable studying flawed, non-Euclidean geometries. Jews could learn Riemann’s version of the parallel postulate, Muslims could learn Lobachevksy’s, and atheists could learn H. P. Lovecraft’s.
OK, so maybe it is just funny if you are an amateur mathematician and a fan of H. P. Lovecraft. However, I am both
Well, tonight was the first night that I was in charge of giving Emily her bath. All said, I do not think that it went too badly for my second time to ever be involved in giving the baby a bath. She was good throughout the whole thing and even seemed to be fairly happy through most of it. After I picked her up and gave her to Ashley to dry, Ashley let the F-Word slip. You know, the most horrible of words that you can say around a new baby. That is right, she said fuss! Of course, it bothered Emily so much that she decided to do just that. She fussed. And fussed. And fussed. Finally, we got her dry and clothed and warm and she seemed to calm down. Ashley is rocking her before bed right now.
Emily has had a big day. She went to a work cookout with Ashley and I. She got to meet most of my coworkers, their spouses, and kids. She even got toted around by some of them. After all that excitement, we have had a bit of a hard time getting her to calm down tonight, but she is just so tired that I think she will sleep for a while, even though Mommy said the F-Word
More pictures of Emily are available I promise to actually make a post with some substance soon