Happy 4 Months Old Iris!

She celebrated by discovering the spinning mobile on her swing last night


She also celebrated by taking her last dose of her antibiotics for her ear infection this morning & will be seeing her doctor this afternoon for her 4 month check up.

Go Hoyas!

More Stuff White People Like

I saw both of these in person this morning:

• A guy doing Tai Chi in front of Benaroya Hall on Second Ave in Seattle, right across from where I work. I was pretty surprised that "Doing Tai Chi in Public" wasn't on the SWPL site yet, but it will be soon, I'm sure of it.
• 15 minutes later I was waiting for my coffee at sbux & heard this:

Barista placing drink on counter: "I have a grande steamed soy Earl Gray tea"
Customer: "Is that the London Fog?"
Barista (unenthusiastically): "yeah"

My eyes rolled so far up into the back of my head I think I could see my brain

Hoyas Lose Big East Finals

Roy had a big game last night in the semis against WVU, as I hoped (25 points & 13 rebounds), but the whole team was flat tonight & we lost to Pitt by 9 in the finals. It wasn't really that close of a game -- we would have gotten blown out if Pitt hadn't missed 22 free throws.

Oh well - we'll probably end up with a #3 seed in the NCAAs now, but that's OK. We weren't gonna get a #1 seed anyway so a 2 or a 3 is not much different.

Hoyas-WVU tonight

West Virginia upset UConn yesterday & that's who the Hoyas play tonight 7PM eastern. They have a guy named Joe Alexander who scored 34 vs. UConn. I like the Hoyas chances if they can hold him to low double digits.

My Hibbert fears were well founded yesterday - he fouled out in 14 minutes with zero points. He always has terrible games against Villanova, so I kind of expected him to struggle somewhat, but the zero points foul out was pretty shocking. Look for him to bounce back & have a big game tonight.

The game's at 4PM Pacific time so I'm instituting a news blackout until I can get home & watch it on tivo delay. No calls/text messages please.

GO HOYAS!

Hoya Update #2

Hoyas won by 19 but it was much closer than that for most of the game. Nova scored the first 11 of the 2nd half to tie it & had taken a 4 point lead when Hibbert got his 4th foul around the 15:00 mark.

Sheesh - only Nova can give us a nerve racking game in the shape of a 19 point win. I hate playing them, as I may have mentioned previously.

Next up: winner of UConn-West Virginia, tomorrow night 7PM Eastern. I'm thinking it will be UConn but we'll see.

Hoya Update

I hate playing villanova

Hoyas 9AM Start; New Five$

Georgetown's "reward" for finishing first in the Big East regular season is that we get to play in the first game today, starting at noon Eastern time, which is 9AM Jimmy time. I set the tivo but am closely following the game online. I debated trying a 'news blackout' and watching it when I got home w/o knowing what happened, but knew I had zero chance of going thru an entire work day without someone emailing/texting/calling or whatever.

My buddy Scooter sent me a text msg about the game right after tip off. I texted him right back & said "you can email me - I'm at my desk". His reply: "I'm at a bar so I have to text". Then I called him a name.

They're looking all right so far-- up 40-29 at halftime. We're hitting lots of 3s which doesn't usually last for the whole game but we'll see. More worrisome is that our big man Hibbert left early w/2fouls, zero shots, zero points.

On another note (get it - note? like Federal Reserve note?) - is everyone as excited as I am about the new 5-dollar bills that came out today? Last time a redesign of the 5 happened was right before Irene and I got married, in May 2000. I got my first new one the day of our wedding and decided it was good luck, so I kept it (which wasn't so easy, since we were in Vegas). I still have it in my wallet today.

Here's what the new one will look like:I have a spot in my wallet for the first one of these I see too

Iris Back at Day Care

Iris is feeling quite a bit better after getting her first dose of antibiotics last night and second one this AM. She slept pretty well thru the night (in her car seat again) and had no fever and a smile for daddy when she woke up - something we hadn't seen for close to a week.

She was pretty smily again when I dropped her off at day care, so we're hopeful that she's well on her way to recovery.

Iris' Diagnosis

Poor little Iris has an infection in both ears, and a ruptured eardrum in the right one. Her doctor told me that baby eardrums usually heal up within a week or 2, so it sounds a lot worse than it is. She'll be on antibiotics for the next 10 days & will get checked out a week from friday when we take her in for her 4-month check-up.

She's much more comfortable & sleeping much better today than she was yesterday, that's for sure. Hopefully she'll have a normal temp tomorrow & be able to go to day care and both mommy & daddy will be able to go to work.

That's all the news for now

Iris sick day #2

Daddy's taking a sick day at home with Iris today. Here she is hanging out on the couch this afternoon - she's been sleeping a lot today, which hopefully will help her get better faster.

She has a dr. appointment at 3:50 this afternoon.
Hopefully we'll find out it's only an ear infection or something easy to treat like that

Iris's First Sick Day

Iris stayed home today. She's had a fever all weekend, and wasn't feeling better Monday morning. I got to stay home with her. We had plenty of quality time on the couch; Iris napping on and off all day.

Iris meets her aunt from Michigan

Irene's sister, Helen, came out for a few days to meet Iris at the end of February. Iris got to hang with her cousins, Emily and Ryan, who came up to Seattle to see Auntie Helen.

Daddy's Little Doll

Here's my new favorite picture of Iris, taken about a week ago:

Those dangly thingys are toys we have
clipped to the car seat handle

Separated at birth?

Jim's sister Denise (AKA Iris' Aunty Geegy) sent us a picture of her wearing her smart new reading glasses today. Her new short & sassy haircut looks a lot like Iris', so we thought we'd see what Iris looked like with a pair of Jim's similar glasses.

What do you think? Please vote in the Comments section below.
Separated at birth?
Strong family resemblance?
Similar glasses only?
Both cute in their own way?

White People Like ...

#11. Asian Girls

Jim just added Stuff White People Like to our list of Favorite Sites. Following is an exerpt from the site which made me laugh out loud.

95% of white males have at one point in their lives, experienced yellow fever. Many factors have contributed to this phenomenon such as guilt from head taxes, internment camps, dropping the Nuclear bomb and the Viet Nam War. This exchange works both ways as asian girls have a tendency to go for white guys... Should white guy / asian girl marry, they produce hybrids that are atheistically pleasing, but are very annoying. This practice is also a means by which white people can catch up to the asian peoples in the population race, as most of the hybrids often act white rather than asian.

You ought to be in pictures

I love this photo of our friend's little boy, Luca. What a cutie!

PS: That lighthouse is a famous Australian landmark. Luca lives in Sydney. His family's blog is called 'Sunburned Feet' & can be found under the 'OUR FAVORITE SITES' list.

The Mom Song

As an aspiring fretful mom, I look forward to many years of being a mom and giving grief to Iris. Enjoy...

RIP Alonzo Morton (1992-2008)

My college buddy John Morton's cat Alonzo died late last night after a brief illness. Alonzo had a lot in common with our own Freddy, from birth date (Alonzo was a year older) to their obvious physical similarity - they could have been brothers.

Here's a shot of Alonzo (he's the big guy on the left) with his roommate Weezer I took when we were in Memphis for Mort & Kate's wedding (you already know them from Gracie's Crib).RIP Alonzo

3 months old!

Happy 3 months old, Baby Iris!

Road trip to West Linn

We hit the road this past weekend, driving down to Oregon to visit Shirley, Bob, Ryan and Emily. We weren't sure how she would do in the car for the 3-hour drive. She doesn't always fall asleep when she's in the car, and we dreaded the thought of a crying baby for the whole drive down. She did surprisingly well. She only fussed when she was hungry and had a dirty diaper.

Iris hardly fits on her cousin Emily's lap.