My Sentiments Exactly

Luke says it all. All of the excitement going on in our lives has us both completely exhausted. I hope that I don't lose any loyal readers because of my lack of recent blogging. In the end, it was between sleep and blogging, and sorry, but sleep won out. I didn't quite expect that being the single parent of a 4.5 month old and trying to keep a household and trying to move a household could be so exhausting. I mean, lots of other people do it, right? All I can say is that it's only 23 days until we move, and I can't wait to be settled.

We've had lots of excitement this week. I've been trying to cram as many doctors/dentists visits that we can before we leave so that I don't have to be in a mad dash to find new ones. Of course, I didn't quite bank on cracking a tooth and needing a crown (BTW - our new dental plan won't pay for anything "major" for the first 12 months, let alone the first 15 days). And, we're trying to get lots of visits with good friends in before we leave, too. I hosted a baby shower last Saturday for our good friend Jill (here she is demonstrating her ability to distinguish various baby foods despite the questionable taste). I had it all planned out ahead of time - even had my list for the last grocery items to get Friday afternoon after we got back from Chicago. Then, as luck would have it, I went to start my car after loading baby and all the gear at the airport and had a dead battery that required replacement before any shower preparations. But, Jill had a wonderful time, which made it all very worth it!

So, if you're a male and/or the least bit squeamish, I recommend just skipping over this part. On our last day in the hospital after Luke was born, there was a small mixup in my OB-GYN office. My doctor had not come to make rounds and her partners were not aware until lunchtime that I needed to be seen by one of them. As you can imagine, her partner was not the least bit pleased about having already done rounds and then having to come back to see me on his lunch hour, let alone perform the snip-snip for our new baby boy. Now, fast forward 3 months...as time has gone on, there has been what I will call some excess skin, almost making it look like the procedure might have be repeated, although possibly could have been just the pudginess from his baby fat causing the problem. Our pediatrician recommended that we have it looked at by a pediatric urologist. As if I didn't have enough going on, I managed to squeeze that in this week. It turns out that Luke will likely need what the doctor called a "revision." That seems to mean that in 3-4 months, he will need some corrective surgery to make things all look normal down there. Poor guy. My mom was here to go with me, and our immediate thought was that the original procedure was not performed correctly. That doesn't seem to be the case as much as we would have hoped for it, and the good news is that there will be no problems with any functioning later. I'm just going to try not to think too much about having to hand him over for surgery...not looking forward to that one.

We head to Nags Head, NC tomorrow for a week at the beach with my parents. Very looking forward to a little vacation from moving to re-energize before the final push until the move. We are on track to close here Jun 30 and then in Chicago on Jul 1. My last day in Richmond will be Jun 30. I'll be back after this week with some good pics of the beach. For now, enjoy a few extras of Luke!

Reading with Grandpa Luke