Uncollected ravings

If I don’t get a word in now, I will never recover.

Despite everything Jeff has said, I still affirm that they are sitting around all day eating Bon Bons. Now, since I’m at work, I don’t have any proof, but I do know that there are NO Bon Bon’s in the house now.

I was able to get William into his car seat without having to get out a hacksaw. Britax has JUST enough strapping on the seat to make it work, but it wasn’t going to until the car seat was out of the car. The attachment plate on the back stays inside a plastic cover normally, but there is enough play in it and the tightening strap that I could make it work at it’s furtherest limits.

Of course, I had already figured out how to do this using my rappelling webbing, had already cut it and was trying to figure how much to attach to each side. We put William in the seat, and started to work the straps back through. He was extremely helpful to this process. Let me wiggle around, let me buckle this, unbuckle that. He was having a good time. In the end, I was able to get him strapped on down.

Today will be the real test, however, as that was with the seat out and able to be moved around. I think I’ve got it set now as long as no one pulls the adjustment strap when he’s not in the seat.

Setting up the house lighting has been both fun and frustrating. Each switch talks to the main controller via RF, but they are supposed to route through each other to form a mesh network. That actually works pretty well, but for some reason, a few of the switches don’t always respond back well. It gets them, but it takes a couple of tries.

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Saturday morning

We are up and doing fine. Since the debacle of Wednesday night, William has gotten motrin during the day and the pain medicine at night. He has been able to sleep much better.

Poppa came up last night and both kids were thrilled to see him. William promptly let him know that he was ‘stuck’. He brought William two new toys and a little gift for Mary from friends in Arab. MaryVic ‘helped’ William open them. He is getting a bit possessive though and if he could hear her playing with the new baby boom box toy, he’d start fussing.

William and Baby boom boxWilliam and the jungle book

All is well, I was over my bug on Saturday. MaryVic is a little needy due to all the attention William has to have right now. Greg has been working on the light switches at the house and they are ‘automated’ to a degree. We can change them on and off from the computer. I have to say that the motion detector in the garage is pretty cool. It automatically turns the lights on when you walk in there.

What’s really funny about the new switches is that if the lights do go off, the first word out of the kids’ mouths is ‘Daddeee!” If he is around, William will start going ‘dark, dark, dark…’ until they are turned back on.

MaryVic has dance class then we’ll try taking William out to lunch and Costco for his first outing. We wanted to try going out to the library yesterday but it rained all day.

We’re trying to decide about MaryVic going to daycare while I’m home with William. I would just hate for her to come home with a bug and us get sick since flu season is still going on. We may try a day or two a week though and take a friends suggestion to take her straight to bath when she gets home.

FYI, there have never been any bon-bons in the house.