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So tonight Liam was using me as his own personal jungle-gym when we had a little mishap. As he was attempting to scale the top of Mount Daddy he slipped and head butted me. The bone behind his eyebrow hit me right on the top of my cheekbone. I am man enough to admit that it hurt…a lot. I literally saw stars. Funny thing is that Liam did not seem to feel any ill effects. As I tried to recover my faculties Katie looked him over decided that he was fine.
Within the hour Liam started to develop a bit of a shiner. We decided that we would try to document this most momentous of firsts. That adventure is shown below.
Not off to a great start.
We tried to get him to sit still by giving him the flashlight we used to check his eye with.
You can almost see it...I promise it is there.
After all that, this is the best we could do. It is on his right eyelid. Kind of anti-climactic as far as the bruise goes, but at least he has great hair.
I was lucky enough to have a three day weekend due to President’s Day. Katie and I spent the majority of the weekend lounging around the house playing the Xbox 360 and playing with Liam. It has turned out to be, in Katie’s words, “The Best Weekend Ever!” Oddly enough neither of us feel the least bit guilty about our weekend of slackerness.
Don’t get me wrong we still did the day to day house chores, but other than what is required everyday to keep the house up and running we did nothing. It has really been great. I think Liam would prefer it to be this way. Both parents around to play with him all day must seem like a little slice of Heaven for him.
During all this time together Liam has developed a new talent; the ability to “parrot” what he hears. While not entirely new, this weekend he has really put the polish on this newest of achievements.
As a result of this new development we are both on watch-what-you-say-mode. This applies mostly to me because I have a tendency to say things that I would prefer Liam not to learn. Not really curse words or anything like that, just some phrases and words that I should not have picked up myself. Once again, being a dad has forced me to become a better person.
Having kids really is a blessing.
-David
Do you ever get the feeling that there is more on your plate than you can eat? I am getting that feeling right now. I am set to leave the Army on January 1, 2008. While that may seem like a long time from now, to me it is an all too close deadline. Between now and then I need to find a job, a house, a retirement plan and health insurance. Hopefully finding a job will take care of everything but the house, but finding that job may prove to be very tough.
Don’t get me wrong. I have plenty of options, but that is all they are right now…options. I am applying to the FBI, studying for the LSAT, looking into working in the intelligence field in San Antonio or San Angelo or San Wherever, thinking about starting my own business building furniture, or even using my degree and getting back into the architecture field.
The big problem is that they all sound like decent ideas. My current plan is to keep pursuing all these options (and any others I can think of) see which ones work out and choose the best one. I know that in the end none of this is really in my hands and we will end up wherever the Lord wants us.
Wish me luck.
-David
Still working on the whole spoon concept, but oatmeal sure is good.
A sharp looking little boy.
It appears that I have once again fallen into the abyss of not blogging. I have lots of really good reasons why and I could easily list them here, but what it comes down to is, “life happens.” I have just not made the time to keep up with posting regularly. I am not really sure how many people actually come here, especially with the long drought.
That being said, however, I have been moved to come back and make a very important post. Our very good friends, Paul and Anne Cortez, have a 6 month old baby girl named Eva Elizabeth. At Eva’s last check-up the doctors discovered that she has a heart defect that is causing her blood pressure to be extremely high. The only way to remedy this defect is heart surgery. A specialist is being flown in from San Diego and will perform the surgery on the 9th of April.
Eva is totally unaware that there is anything wrong with her and she is not in any pain. She should recover very quickly once the operation is complete.
Paul and Anne are our very best friends and are our surrogate family here on the island. While Eva is not our child she is as close to our hearts as anyone we share genes with. As such we ask that you all lift up a prayer for Eva and her parents. We pray that God will calm their nerves and keep Eva safe while on the operating table and that God will steady the hand of the surgeon and grant him wisdom in his decisions.
Thank you all in advance for your help.
-David
