Sunday night: 7.5 hours in her crib
Monday + Tuesday nights: the usual 4- to 5- plus 2- to 3-hour combo
Last night: Prez candidates so boring that after the debates, she slept from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m.

EIGHT HOURS!!!

First set of photos from month three are now online, and they include the obligatory bath photos!

Friday night we had Angel's colleague Virginia and her husband over, and they were kind enough to bring both the food and the wine. Unfortunately for me I was not able to enjoy the dinner as much as I would like. On Thursday night I started to come down with something, starting with a headache. By Friday morning I had a full on case of lower digestive trouble with nausea thrown in for good measure. Was not as productive at work as I could have as a result. Had the problem throughout both Friday and Saturday, only starting to recover Saturday night.

Anyhoo, feeling better now, and for the first time in 3 days I am looking forward to actually eating something!!

Nora - Month Three

Okay, so I have been crap. Oh well... Anyway, photos added to the Month 2 gallery and I have added a slideshow for the photos taken just after Ike.

Next batch of photos will be... MONTH 3!!! Yikes!

Nora - Month TWO!

The Day After Ike

Well, kind of anyway. There are still a load of people without power, some schools have not started back (mainly due to power... at least in the Houston area), lots of traffic lights are still out, which is causing mass chaos at rush hour (and out) as people have no concept of taking turns at a downed light as if it was a four-way stop sign. Sigh.

Little Nora has recovered from the torture she was put through last Thursday on her two month anniversary, and is typically doing really well at night. She can average anywhere between 5 and 7 hours sleep (or downtime) overnight which is helping us get a little more rest. Some nights are better than others, but still... progress.

She is able to hold her head up pretty well now, but still cannot lift herself up off her belly using her arms yet. Her legs are another matter... She has always been a wiggly baby and her legs are generally pumping nearly all the time (even in sleep). The result is that she has really strong legs. If we hold her up she can hold about 80% of her weight so is more leaning on our arms for support than anything. Could be that she will decide to skip crawling and will go straight to walking... who knows.

On another front, I did manage to play golf this weekend. Wildcat was hit quite hard by the storm and although the course is in great condition, the clubhouse was fairly badly hit. Tarp all over the roof, no carpet anywhere and I believe they were running on a generator. Golf itself was good. Couple of blowup holes but still managed a 92, which for me on the lakes course is a great score.

I have been delinquent on uploading new photos, but I will get on that soon... hopefully later today or tonight.

More to follow...

...the nurse has immunized thee (5 shots and 1 oral dose); blessed art thou among infants, and blessed is the fruit of science, Infants' Tylenol, which comforts thee.

In other news, she weighs 11 pounds and 7 ounces, is 23 inches long, and has a 15.25-inch head.

And the rash that might have been caused by a virus has faded a lot.

UPDATE: 1st October - Photographic proof added...

But still getting a Nora fix!

Angel sent a couple of photos yesterday, and while we were talking she put me on speakerphone and Nora, who was fussing at the time, seemed to settle a little when she heard my voice... freaky!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO....

Drooling on mum be fun!!!

Burrito Baby

More photos to come soon, including a couple from just after Ike hit.

Bissy has power. And internet. Gas never stopped working. Tap water is safe. Ahhhhh.

And Verizon is a wonderful cellphone company to be with. One month's free service for those Ike hit "to thank our customers and show them we care even if we can't physically be there."

...so it is now nearly 5 days since Ike took a stroll through South East Texas on his way north. Texas is still recovering with downed trees and limbs still lying on the side of the road as they have been cut up and moved out of the road in most situations.

People are still going a little crazy, queueing up all over the place for ice, food, and especially gas. People either were really not ready for this, or they are completely incapable of surviving without power and A/C.

We still do not have power at home and with the latest status being that the power company is going round making the quick large fixes they can then returning to trouble spots later, we may be without power for a while. The other night, when Angel and Nora spent the night at a family friends house, I stayed at home. Around 2:30am the power came on for about 30 seconds to a minute, went out and then came on breifly again. The second time we heard a bang which sounded oddly like a transformer blowing out, and since then nothing. Not even much signs of the power company... that makes us think we are in the latter situation of being a 'trouble spot'

Given that the world around us is still ongoing I needed to get online to get some work done, and we have a raft of electronics that needed to be recharged. Hence trekking up to highjack an office in the Cy Fair Cancer Center. On our way up we had a funny encounter. With power out the traffic lights are out too so intersections become more crowded. On Kirby there is a filter lane for people to turn left on. This guy went through the lights in front of us then wanted to take a left, but instead of going into the filter lane he was in the left most active lane.

I then honked at him as he was blocking my lane then I went around him.

He proceeded to jam on the accelerator and pull up beside us on our right (I guess he was not in a rush to take the left).

There was a back and forward were we were telling him to use the filter lane and he was shouting at us that it was an emergency (hence why he followed us I guess) and proceeded to swear at us before calling us an 'arrogant individual' before peeling off to move to the lane where he could take a left again. There is more to it, but that is the jist of it... just a very weird reaction... and a symptom of how some people are acting after the storm. Overall the community has really pulled together, but some seem to be unravelling at the edges... lets hope either power is restored or that they go and jump off the closest bridge into the Bayou!

I will have photos online soon... probably tomorrow, but don't have the memory card with me! Lets hope that power comes back although it has not really bothered either Angel, Nora, Cammie nor I too much, but having a working fridge and freezer would be nice!

Came inland just East of Galveston Bay, south of Houston on Friday night. We started to get the wind in the afternoon and it got steadily got worse over night. We finally lost power at a little after 4am.

Our area had minor damage, none serious structural damage, and no broken windows in our house or any in the complex that we know of.

Anne is out of town, but her house has power and she was kind enough to let us stay here tonight... Nora was getting fussy.

Updates and photos when I can get power at home.

Yesterday, Nora and I met Mary and Kio at Memorial Park and enjoyed a pleasant two hours snapping photos of the baby's First Park Outing. Once it got a tad too warm for comfort, we dropped the pup off at Crooms and headed over for Nora's First Starbucks Trip.

She was miffed she only got coffee cake secondhand.

Soon, baby, soon.

Also, she wore a teeny baby camp shirt from Uncle Sherwin and accompanied me to PetSmart for her First Cammiefood Run.

In the afternoon, I tossed the kiddo back into her dad's furry arms, jumped on the motorcycle for the forst time since we saw two pink lines (so good to be back!), dropped off a fecal sample at the vet's (Miss Wazz's innards are parasite-free), and went to MD Anderson, where I got my return-to-work plan set up (October 10). Long day!