Family Matters, Week of 2-18-05
Hello once again friends, here we go with Friday’s Patented (as everything is patented nowadays) Family Update:
Ericka
My wonderful wife has been doing all of that monotonous crap I hate doing, and that I love and respect her dearly for: This includes the thankless job of taking care of the kids (though I try to rectify that as often as possible), doing laundry, cleaning the house (and after me), and her primary focus this week has been preparing for Abby’s Birthday party this Saturday.
Speaking of, this directly relates into her getting into the Dessert Extraordinaire Mode, which will astound you with her baking prowess. Yes, prowess, she prowls the night in search of the Next Great Sugar Rush and let me tell, that’s a rush you want to be a part of. No Red Bull/Vodka craziness here, I’m talking about good ole fashioned Atkins-Hatin(tm) Carb-Licious Sugar baked, sculpted and displayed in all the ways that make your heart, mind, and waistline melt.
Did I mention I need to go back to the gym?
I’ll try my damndest to get pictures of her birthday creation, hopefully in conjuction with the launch of her blog, which will be up Very Soon Now. This is the part where Ericka bugs me about her birthday being almost a month ago (FYI: Her Birthday is 1/28) and that the domain I bought from her is collecting dust in the most unformidable of fashions.
But, enough of this. This wonderful woman brought to you by the letters I, L, and U. Good luck figuring out my Omega Code there.
Annie
Annie has the flu! Yea, this is followed us usually by the words “Ah, hell.” At least, I know I do. I wish desperately that my little girl didn’t have to suffer with fevers (The highest recorded was 103.5, but who knows if it ever peaked 104) and pain and lack of eating. I mean, the girl is a rail as it is and we have a hard enough time getting her to eat. This just compounds the problem.
Soon, I will be the sole father of an invisible girl. We could do shows and stuff.
I know my sister Rhonda wanted to take her for the weekend, but that’s pretty much been curbed as of now.
One other thing of note: I will be out of town the first week of March for my company’s big once-a-year shindig down in Texas. This means that with Annie getting sick right about now, I should have just enough time to catch it, try and slow it down with cold meds, and then get it with a vengence as soon as my plane leaves for the largest state in the union. Good luck to me, heh.
Abby
Well, Abby is as Abby does, and I’m currently pushing to get her to use Sign Language. One of the worst parts of being a parent is the frustration when your child can’t communicate. While They say (yes, They) toddlers can understand sign language a year before they can actually speak it, I have my doubts. However, these doubts lie in the scope of such understanding, not in the ability itself.
My bud Jeremy has taught his son Lex how to sign, though he does it mostly with his feet (is that right? I don’t want to mis-type or anything). This, to me, is exciting as All Get Out, and you just don’t know the joy of your kids finally getting a clear message sent. Even now Annie has some problems with language that sign language could perhaps overcome, or at the very least we try to teach her how to sign so she can let Abby see by example.
Oh, and she turns one year old tomorrow. That kicks ass.
Speaking of kicking ass and wrapping this up, Ericka picked up the Saw DVD yesterday. Did I mention I love this woman? That movie is the shiznot bizzle-wizzle boom-bah. That’s izzle-speak for “Highly Enjoyable Entertainment.”
