On occasion I am inspired to write, now is one of those times. I was just reading through Rion and Mike's blog, they are prolific bloggers, photographers and storytellers, and friends from back in college. I often find myself rediscovering my love of photography and storytelling whenever I visit one of their many sites. They also always have a line on some cool new site or piece of electronics gear (I need one of these!). They are expecting a baby any time now, and I'm especially curious to see if their blogging diminishes. However, I suspect it will only increase.
Anyway, now that I've dispensed with the preamble, lets get to the meat of things. It has been so long since we've posted anything, I don't know where to start. As you'd expect we have dozens of photos and a few videos of little Aubrey, every week he discovers something new in this world we're all so used to. It's amazing to see him becoming more and more aware of his surroundings. I never realized how much joy I'd find in watching him pull, poke and swing wildly at some colorful plastic toys attached to his co-sleeper, there is such determination in his face when a toy is just out of reach.
He's also discovered his leg, back and neck muscles can work together to roll him over. Since this discovery a few weeks back, he's been rolling all over the place, ya can't look away for a second if he's on the bed or changing table cause he'll end up on the floor, which would no doubt traumatize me and Virginia more then him!
He's graduated from the "swaddling" technique (think Burrito wrap) to sleep and nap, a technique that we'd gotten pretty good at implementing successfully, to the completely unpredictable "big arms" or "arms a flayling" technique. In other words he sleep like the rest of us, on his back with a blanket over him. This is a big step in development, but for us parents trying to get the little man back to sleep at 3 am it can be a frustrating experience. Alas, it is one of many changes, all with their own pros and cons.
Everyday he is more expressive in his face, his voice and his body. He grabs for things, makes silly face and blows bubbles and appears to be reading my mind!
On the home front we are in full remodeling mode. We've decided to sell our place so we can move into a nice 3 bed, 2 bath house about 10 blocks from our current place. It was a tough decision to sell, we love our little place, but we need more space as we're falling over each other and the many baby related things I swore up and down I would never buy. So in order to sell we need to get the place all fixed up, new kitchen floor, counters, appliances, tile back splash, and some electrical work. bathrooms been painted (by me), new tile floors, bathtub refinished (looks amazing!) and fixtures (me too). This morning there was a crew there beginning to install new windows in the entire place. And another group is busy staining baseboards and hopefully installing them soon. It's crazy! I only wish we'd been more decisive when we first bought the place and made these improvements then. Oh well, so it goes. :-)
This Old House from Ashley Bright on Vimeo.
And where is Virginia and Aubrey through all this remodeling chaos? They are up in Vancouver at Mom's house, hanging out with Lita. And they may be there for a little while longer, as our windows are looking like a big, long, difficult job. In the meantime I am holding things down here at home. It's so lonely here, I've gotten so used to having my famdamily here all the time. Not to mention I have been hold up in the bedroom since it's the only room in the house that isn't turned upside down, with furniture covered in plastic sheets, and generally ib a state of chaos.
Well there ya have it, a little update on our lives. :-)
Ashley,
ReplyDeleteLove the new pics of my nephew. Hope I can see him soon, maybe I'll have to take a trip out to Seattle in the summer time. Thanks for being such a great dad to him and husband to my sister.
Elena