New Pictures!
According to my Dad...I should be flogged for my lack of blogging. Heheh...probably so. I apologize for the lack of updates. Parenthood has taken a lot of my previous free time, and makes the computer somewhat of a lower priority.

But due to popular demand, Amy and I sat down to today and picked out a few pictures to share with everyone. It's amazing what a difference a few weeks makes. Griffin hardly seems like the same baby that was born 6 weeks ago today. Here's the pics:

Griffin - 5 Weeks
Griffin - 6 Weeks

I'll try to find a minute over the next few days to sit down and talk about how life is. See ya!

 
Visitors from Tulsa!
Yesterday, my Mom Randa (a.k.a. Nana) came down to visit with two of my sisters (Tina and Melissa) as well as my little 9 month old nephew, Joshua (he's Teen's, and he's precious!). It was wonderful to get to visit with everyone. They stayed at the Holiday Inn Holidome here in Wichita Falls, which is in the middle of a major renovation...but has lots of indoor space to spread out, and their room had been recently redone. It has a huge landing on the 2nd floor where we were able to all sit around and visit last night. Afterwards, we ordered way too much food from On the Border (yes, Wichita Falls finally has an O.T.B) and had a picnic in the hotel room. The best part was that since the Kalua ice-cream pies were melting, we had to eat them first, then follow them with Ultimate fajitas. It's pretty cool getting to enjoy your dessert while you're still starving, instead of full to the brim (like I was after the fajitas). Anyway, this morning we woke up to a wonderful thunderstorm that rolled quickly across the area, with lightning and hail...and then almost as quickly moved on and the sun came out. Close to lunch time, we met back up with everyone at the hotel, and went over to a sandwich shop for some lunch before they had to get back on the road heading home. We met up with Amy's grandparents, her dad John, her brother John and his wife Crystal. The food was not that great today (it's kind of hit and miss at this place...although you can tell from one of the pictures that it didn't slow me down a bit), however, the company was fantastic.

Thank you guys for coming down and visiting! We all 3 enjoyed having everyone around. Here's some of the pics from the past two days in absolutely no particular order:

Visitors from Tulsa Photo Gallery

It's a much smaller group of pictures that I originally thought it would be. It felt like we took a million pictures...but due to lighting and such [bad photographer], a lot of them didn't make the cut...sorry.

Have a great Sunday, everyone. I'm heading to the kitchen for some leftovers. All this talk of fajitas is making me hungry...just wish I had another piece of that pie!

 
Doctor Visit Update
Griffin went in today for his 1 month checkup. He weighed 9 lbs 4 ozs and was 20" long. Still a little guy...but so much bigger than he was 4 weeks ago. Dr. Mike looked him over good, and told us that he was perfect. Of course, we already knew that! He got a new immunization shot, the predecessor to 4 additional shots that he'll have to get at his 2 mo. visit. We were told that we could start stretching out his feedings longer at night, in an attempt to get his internal clock adjusted to sleeping all night. At this point, even 5 hours between feedings sounds wonderful to us. One last thing mentioned by the doc was that it appears that GT's eye color will most likely remain blue. According to Amy, the combination of eye color and his recent loss of hair (where'd it all go? he was born with a head full!), makes him look even more like his recently-shorn dad.

I took a couple of pictures before we headed out today. We had a 2:00pm appointment, and his feeding time was around 2:45...so he was already pulling his Little Bird (a.k.a. Baby Bird) routine before we even left. When we got there, the nurse proceeded to parade Griffin up and down the hall, showing him off in the cute little outfit (this is the back) that Amy put him in. Sorry to make you work for the pics this time...I'll add them to the next gallery I post also.

 
"Better Baby" Photo Series
I had completely forgotten about these pics taken late last month...although I felt like I was missing some. Here are some additional shots taken before Easter that aren't nearly as out of focus as the "Blurry Baby" series.

 
"Blurry Baby" Photo Series
These pics were taken over the past few weeks by Amy and I. Almost every one of them is blurrier than a closeup shot of Cybil Shepard in an old episode of Moonlighting. They almost look better as thumbnails...but I had to post them anyway. As you can see, Griffin is quite animated (except when he's doing that sleep thing), and keeps us very entertained. I can't believe that tomorrow will be exactly four weeks since he was born. The time has really gone by fast. He's growing up healthy and happy so far! We go to his next checkup on Wednesday, so I'll let you know how much he weighs and stuff later this week.

My last day at the Carrier plant is Monday. Jason finished up and headed back to Dallas on Friday with enough money to cover this month's rent and lots of motivation to find a permanant job. Tomorrow, I'm going to help James make sure that everything is ready to be shipped back, and that none of the users have any unresolved issues (that I can do anything about, anyway...some are beyond our assistance!). These are most of the machines that we replaced with the new Dells. They range from Pentium 100s with 32m of RAM to PIII 866s with 256m. It's a shame to see some of those 866s going back in a bulk deal with those old Pentiums...they are some fast little machines. It's been great working with James and Jason, and it's with some amount of sadness that the project has drawn to a close. Thanks again J.D., for the recommendation. Hopefully someday I can repay the favor.

I'll be blogging again soon...and I promise I'll try to get some clearer pictures next time.

 
We're Still Alive and Kicking!
Things at Carrier have definitely picked up during our last week here...and things at home are busier than they ever were. I just wanted to drop a quick note and let everyone know that we are still alive and well. Amy and I are still working shifts to make sure that both of us get the sleep we need. Griffin just keeps growing and getting more and more alert every day. He's learned to grin at us, although it's more likely gas...but we humor ourselves that he's doing it for us.

I've been working on some hardware problems on my home machine, so I haven't been able to dump pictures lately. I'm hoping to get everything running correctly tonight, so I can get some new ones posted. At the latest, I'll have some new stuff posted up by this weekend.

Sorry this is so brief...but I have to get back to work again. We're cleaning off the hard drives of the 50+ computers that we've replaced, preparing them for shipment. I'm going to have to start bringing a mask up to work, if things get much dustier! Aaaaaachooo!! Everyone enjoy their week! I'll be back soon.