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Week in review

// March 2nd, 2009 // family

I think the weekly Lyla updates will now be merged into one big post that talks about all of us: Jina, Lyla, myself…Charlie and maybe even Riley. I’ve written so much lately about my girls, I don’t really talk a whole lot about my job or what’s going on with me personally.

Of course, most of what is going on is Lyla. She’s had a very interesting week. There are changes happening and we noticed them this week.

First off, she decided to start putting her right hand behind her head. She grabs her face, her ear or just the back of her head. It’s sort of what I do with my arm when I’m sleeping.

Now, Jina and I have a little bet going on whether she’ll be left-handed or right. Jina is a southpaw if you didn’t know, and I’m a normal person.

Since she’s doing that with her arm, I think I’m winning for now. But we’ll see.

Last time at the doctor’s office, she said Lyla would probably start clasping her hands together in front of her face and maybe start putting them in her mouth. It’s like she suddenly realizes that she can make them meet.

Well, that really was evident this week. She’s not only putting her hands in there, but grabbing her blanket gnawing on that. In fact, she grabbed my thumb today and pulled it into her mouth. So amazing that she’s starting to realize that she can do that.

She was incredibly fussy on Friday, but has been mostly an angel other nights. She’s still doing this random “up every 3-hours” now and then, but the last few nights she’s gone to bed without so much as a peep.

Jina

My wife’s week was fairly simple: Sick on Tuesday, home the rest of the time. She was unfortunate enough to catch a bad cold and even lost her voice a bit on Saturday.

But like the trooper she is, Jina was still able to feed Lyla and take care of her while I was at work. Breast milk actually prevents babies from getting sick most of the time, so the right thing to do when mommy is sick is to keep feeding the baby.

Jina was cooped up all week, so we went out on Saturday morning to get  few things from Home Depot, but she started feeling worse that evening. But Sunday she was 10-times better and we think the cold is gone now.

Mike

Last week was super-busy for me. I started a new class (got an A- in my last one, yay!) and then it was a lot of stuff going on with work.

As some of you know, I’m being “groomed” to become a project manager at my company. I have a practice project that actually became a bit difficult and I even had to ask the company we’re working for to pay us a bit more money for all the extra work we’re doing. It got a bit stressful, but ultimately worked out.

Of course, I asked for more on Friday and am crossing my fingers on that.

My new class started this week, which is US History 1865 to 1945. I love history so these classes are attractive to me. Although doing the work isn’t and I tend to get a bit stressed out when I get busy with work, life and then school on top of it.

Only a few classes left to go!

We also bought a new refrigerator this weekend, sometimes we didn’t expect to do, but an idea we had been talking about. The arrival of our tax refunds also helped.

But we’ve had our little 18 cubic foot box since 2001 and it’s started leaking. It’s been a good little fridge, but is on the small side and we find ourselves constantly out of room.

We also were looking at a $300 reverse osmosis system, and figured we could just get a new fridge for a little more and then have decent drinking water from that.

I’m soooooooooooo excited over this new fridge, which I know sounds crazy. But I’ve never, ever had a refrigerator with an ice and water dispenser, so I’m overjoyed. It’s going to be fun.