This collection of entries is from October 02, 2005.
Went to my mom's house for the usual Sunday night dinner, like we've been doing for years. Decades, even.
Tonight's different. Diane and Melinda are bringing Jack over. His first night out with the family.
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Melinda brought Jack into the house in his car seat/carrier thing. Every time I see him now, he looks the same and looks different. Is it possible that he changes so quickly? He's only 2 weeks old. He's in such demand - trying to get everyone's attention. Actually, he's just trying to remember how much he's learned about life in just 2 weeks. We're just getting suckered into providing for him and holding him and comforting him. At this age, that seems to be pretty simple - especially since we're not with him 24 hours a day. Melinda is doing a bang-up job, as well as Diane. They're dragging, though. His feeding cycles are a little tight, making for only very very short naps. Yes, they're dragging.
That picture above is of Jack as I took my turn holding him tonight. You know how hard it is to try to hold a camera with one hand and try to take a picture with a macro focus in low-light while trying to hold onto the subject with your other hand? It took a couple of tries - either I was too close and couldn't get the camera to focus or I moved too much and blurred the shot. I was fortunate, however. Jack had just been fed and was in one of his "Milk Coma's". Apparently after he feeds, he's just light's out. In fact, it was kinda scary because you couldn't even tell he was breathing. He would just lay there, so comfortable and peaceful. Every couple of minutes he would kind of sigh, this cute little high pitched, but quite whisper sigh and move around just a hair and then he would continue on dreaming of whatever he was dreaming about.
I sat on the couch in the living room. Mom finished putting away dinner, so she had to have her time with Jack, so I didn't have much time with him tonight. I felt so much different this week compared to last week. I didn't panic, I just held him and basically just kind of stared at him the whole time.. I couldn't really talk to him - there were others in the room. And he really wasn't listening - he was out cold.
It's that weird thing that takes over though, where you just look at him. You trace the arch of the cartilage on his tiny little ear. You check out his nose, his eyebrows. You absent mindedly stroke his back. Des it feel good? Does he care? He doesn't seem to react - he sees to be enjoying that deep sleep of his.
So Mom wrestled Jack away from me. That's the way it's going to be, I guess - Jack's going to be passed around and fought over for quite some time.
I guess the key is to treasure what time you have.
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Freaky little thunderstorm that just caused havoc in the neighborhood with heavy rain high winds, and hail. There's debris all over the neighborhood (we even lost a plactic downspout drain pad - we found it down the driveway almost in hte street).
The storm followed us all the way to my mom's house. We had standing water on Golf Road that I haven't seen in the 20 years we've been out here. Couldn't take the tollway - too backed-up. The traffic on Higgins flowed, at least, though it was a bit dicey going through standing water or when the clouds just opened up and you couldn't see very far in front of you.
Still hot & humid afterward. And summer is over, right?
For the first time in a while (actually, only 5 years but it's long enough) it's time to get ready for post-season baseball.
But it took until today to figure out what was going on. We swept the Cleveland Indians (which I was surprised/shocked about).
We end the season TIED for the best record in all of baseball (best in the AL at least - we tied with the ST. Louis Cardinals) - 99-63. I think that's an OK comeback from our little "slide". (The Cardinals had the best record in baseball at 100-62. We came pretty damn close after losing our best record to them in August)
So, here's how the AL plays out for the ALDS First Round:
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Boston Red Sox vs. Chicago White Sox
Gm 1 BOS @ CWS Tue Oct. 4 4:00 pm ESPN
Gm 2 BOS @ CWS Wed Oct. 5 7:00 pm ESPN
Gm 3 CWS @ BOS Fri Oct. 7 4:00 pm ESPN2
Gm 4* CWS @ BOS Sat Oct. 8 TBD
Gm 5* BOS @ CWS Sun Oct. 9 TBD
* - if necessary
New York Yankees vs. Los Angeles Angels
Gm 1 NYY @ LAA Tue Oct. 4 8:00 pm FOX
Gm 2 NYY @ LAA Wed Oct. 5 10:00 pm ESPN
Gm 3 LAA @ NYY Fri Oct. 7 8:00 pm ESPN
Gm 4* LAA @ NYY Sat Oct. 8 TBD
Gm 5* NYY @ LAA Sun Oct. 9 TBD
* - if necessary
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