Yeah - so updating often apparently didn’t work - and unfortunately, I don’t have much to show this time around either in the way of content - a few video and photo updates but not much in the way of writing. The last two months have been, in the least, extremely hectic. Much of January was spent with me about ready to pull my hair out over things non-family related as well as some hectic times with Aidan spending two days in the hospital and about another week at home under, practically, house arrest.
Aidan managed to, during mid-January, pick up Pneumonia, Broncitis and RSV all at the same time - his cough that was totally dry quickly turned ugly, mucus-laden and made it difficult for him to breathe between the coughs. We took him into the doctor’s after a weekend of doctor-prescribed “wait and see”.
I won’t go into the specifics about the hospital stay - let me just say that it’s for another post and rant that I hope to finish sometime soon - needless to say, the hospital stay was one of the most aggrevating things I’ve had to endure in recent memory and has made me an ardent supporter of overhauling the industry dramatically before we even think of giving anyone else coverage under Obama’s plan. Aidan took two days to get off of an IV drip for fluids, Oxygen to keep his Blood O2 levels up and a regiment of respiratory treatments every two hours or so. Talk about scary times. After two days, we got to take him home with treatments every four hours for the next week - but as soon as we left the hopistal, we had our real boy back which made us happier than anything.
Since then, he’s been talking up a storm - taking in another two to five words a week, putting them together in rudimentary sentences and surpassing many people’s expectations. We’ll be starting potty training soon as he’s beginning to be actively interested in not only proclaiming the fact that he has done the deed but also he’s got interest in using the toilet. The eariler we get him potty trained solidly, the eariler we can look into getting him into the Bunnell House on campus - a classroom/lab for pre-preschool kids that has high marks everywhere we’ve heard about it.
Since then, he’s also had his first haircut - something that he was a perfect angel for - no crying, no fussing - in fact, he was excited about it! All the new pictures, from Halloween till now, can be seen on the gallery starting on this page.
I’ve also started a Youtube account with some of my iPhone videos (upgraded to a 3gs for Christmas) - you can find all the videos under the username “gimpiuaf”. I finally gave up on the hope of hosting all my videos here locally and submitted to the one-click ease of youtube. I haven’t uploaded many, but here are a few that I’d like to share:
Again, I’m hoping that sometime soon I’ll be able to blog more - I’ve kept a pretty busy schedule lately that hasn’t allotted me the time that I’m so used to having - not to mention, by the time I get home at night, being a Dad is my priority - and, admittedly, by the time he goes to bed? Gaming manages to be my priority - that or my wonderful wife - depending on which one will have me!
Either way, I’m sure that my lofty aspirations will force me, once again, to not blog for a while - I do, however, keep my twitter feed going most days - catch up with us there!







