alive

Yeah, I've been a little lax in the bloggering. I'm alive, Andrea and Felix are mostly recovered from their bouts of cold, and life is sort of back to normal.

I'm busy as all get out at work, Andrea's super busy at home taking care of Felix and working on keeping the vestiges of her career alive until she can revert back to full-time focus on it, and Felix is, of course, super busy learning and developing, and being an all-around genius baby. He cruises around in his walker, fowards and backwards, and he's loving being able to stand by holding on the sides of his crib or pack-n-play. When placed on the floor, he can slither forwards but currently he only has reverse gear when crawling. He's eating solids pretty muchy every day, and a wide range from rice cereal, pureed veggies, and now pureed lamb, which seems boring and gross at first (think of a watery pate) but after the first spoonful he goes absolutely nuts for it. And now I know where the really really bad smelling poop comes from. He now has almost regular mini adult turds. GREAT.

We interviewed babysitters over the past two nights and had some superstar applicants, all of whom we plan to use. Oddly enough, one of them was a girl I went to highschool with (she was one year behind me). In sort of happy/sad news, 3 out of 4 babysitters seem to be very successful and on track to be way more successful than either Andrea or myself feel right now (they were all grad students in medicine or Law, etc...).

But hey, whats important is now we have a stable of stars we can call on to take some of the heat off of us in case we want to go out or Andrea just needs a rest, and luckily none of them are demanding the $$$ that our last round of "Nanny" ads got us. This time we just said "Looking for occasional babysitters, great for college student" and thus got responses from all of these uber-high-quality grad students. sigh.