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(and if you can’t see youtube videos at the moment, try this)

Week 8

and Week 10

have been posted…

I think that last picture is my favorite here lately, he looks like such a doll…

And some explanation, in Week 8, the one where he has a furry thing in his mouth is actually fun-fur on a pacifier; John was trying to make it look like he had a goatee like Daddy. And in Week 10, the pictures at the beginning where he’s just smiling away were taken literally an hour after he got his shots. He’s such a champ…

Happy Wednesday, everyone, we’re almost there!

Week 9 pictures are up, you can see them here…

And a preview…

There’s not very many because the 2 month photoshoot was in the middle of them and I pulled that one out into another page.

Have a great Thursday everyone; it’s almost Friday!

Yay, we made it through the 2 month appointment.

Here’s the update.

He did really well with the shots, and he’s doing pretty well now. He’s a little grouchy, but who wouldn’t be? He cried for maybe 2 minutes in the doctor’s office, and even smiled at me when we got home. Glad he’s not too ticked at us.

Dashy in the jumperoo…

(You might want to make your window smaller so the quality looks better… I think embedding it doesn’t work well on some macs to I just posted the link instead…)

ETA:

My son is a comic book hero.

I kid you not. I googled his name to see if anyone had stolen his pictures and I found mention of “Dash Dixon, Man of Might”. So then I googled that, and came across a site where you can download comic books. So of course I did. This is from Hilman Publications, Miracle 1, circa 1940…

When life hands you lemons, ask for tequila and salt.

Work related, and not worth cruddying up my blog over

Dash’s site has some new pictures, the link is here…

A preview…

And one of Dash holding up his head… this is his latest trick…

OK, so I ususally don’t just go off on a rant.

I’m pumping at work, which I hate. The only good thing about it is it does give me an excuse to be away from my desk for 20 minutes. But other than that, it’s not fun. It’s messy and cumbersome, and I’d just much rather be actually breastfeeding my child. Here’s how my super Mom-friendly workplace handles it, too.

So first, I try to pump in the bathroom. I have an electric pump and it makes a swishing noise. So these old women come in there and are like “what is that? Is that the air-conditioner?” “I thought it was an air-freshener…” So I jokingly say “are you talking about my breastpump?” And they laugh and apologize and I laugh it off. Fine. Then later that day I use my handpump because it’s quiet, and it takes for freaking ever. Like 40 minutes. So that’s not going to work. Back to the electric pump. Someone comes in the bathroom, hears the pump, and just turns back around. OK, stop flipping out. So I email our secretary and ask her if she can think of a place; a janitor’s closet would be fine.

So she emails me back that there’s a training room, a conference room, and an empty office. So I’m like, score, empty office. No, not really. It’s really someone’s office that works from home most of the time, “but they won’t be here at least the rest of this week” Bleh. The training room and conference room are used often, too, so that’s not going to work. So then I just decide to use the server room up here. It’s small, and quiet, and no one uses it except the printer is in there so occasionally something is printed. I figure I’ll just stop when someone prints something and slide it under the door. I mean, we’re all computer nerds, we don’t really do paper. So in the three days I’ve been pumping in the server room, my boss has come to the door and pulled at it hard, and this other guy comes up to the door, sees it’s closed and curses “Shit!” outside the door. Oh my God. Should I just put a sign outside, “My boobs are hanging out and will continue to hang out for another 15 minutes, please come back.”? This is insane.

From all of us very, very happy Dixons…

So, I’ve been kidding myself with the whole work at home thing. It would be tons better than what I’m doing now, but really, I don’t think it will cut it. I don’t want to have to close the office door on my baby because I have to get work done.

So John and I are talking about this and we’re brainstorming what we can do. Rental properties, a business from home, a business together… and then John offers to go back to school so I can stay home. There’s a program at Calhoun for aerospace technologies that feeds into NASA here. It’s a two year program and when he graduates he should be able to make what I’m making. So the plan is he goes to school for a couple of years, I keep sucking it up at work, and then when he’s done, I stay home and he works. What kind of guy offers to do that though? He’s 38 years old and he’s going back to school for me. I don’t even want to go back to school. I just think he’s awesome for being the slightest bit willing.

I posted new pictures on Dash’s site…

Here

And here’s a preview…