Two weeks ago the computer that had driven my/our web sites, and served as my lab environmnet died after 9 years of service. The system has since been replaced and everything is back up and running. Today ‘kp-vm01’ will be taken to be recycled, so we say a tearless goodbye and thanks. – If you look close you can see a 3.5″ floppy drive. Remember those?
I’ve always loved the food in Houston and one of my biggest joys coming back home for the holidays is the chance to eat at the favorites we don’t have access to in Washington. Those favorites include: fast food fave Chick-Fil-A, good old fashioned Texas BBQ from Goode Company or Harris County Smokehouse, any and all Tex-Mex, particularly Lupe Tortilla or El Tiempo Contina, specialty foods like Czech goodness like kolaches at Kolache Factory, some wholesome food at Baba Yega, and a good ole hunkin’ burritos at Freebirds World Burrito. Then to finish it all off, we can’t pass up a dip at Marble Slab (sorry AJ, no dairy for you!).
AJ will tell you the food isn’t that bad in Seattle, and while that might be true, 30 years in Houston has shaped my tastes for life.
AJ and I are incredibly happy to welcome our beautiful little girl, Cora Marie. She was born on September 4, 2011 at 11:51 AM at Overlake Hospital in Bellevue, Washington. When she was born, she weighed 7.04 lbs and was 18.75 inches long. I have to say, as a the “labor coach”, that AJ did an incredible job with labor and pre-labor, and I will leave the details for her to tell. There were no complications with the labor or delivery and Cora was born completly naturally with out any issue.
Like her mom and dad, Cora was born with jaundice and she had to be admitted to the Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for light therapy to treat the jaundice. We may get to take her home tonight (fingers crossed).
AJ is doing really well, and is bouncing back from the labor and delivery incredibly well. After Cora was born and we were moved to a recovery room, she was already walking around which astounded the nursing staff. All-in-all, the family is doing great and couldn’t be more excited for all of the adventures to come.
We now have the curtains up in the baby’s room.
Like I said in the previous post the nursery is coming along. Next addition…….shelves.
As AJ and I head into the 9th month of the pregnancy I thought it was time I chimed in. I am happy to say, much to a lot pf people’s disbelief, we do not know the gender of the baby. As we continue putting the nursery together we both commented about how this baby is already spolied. I thought I would put a picture up of the crib with the menagerie of Winnie the Pooh friends the baby will have. I’ll post other pictures once we get the nursery back together. Today has been all about hanging the curtains and valence.
