Briefly, about Angie and myself, my company or a pseudonym of my current company, successfully re-bid our contract with the government. That has added quite a bit of planning and preparation for new network structure come March 1st, and with my current servers calling it quits after 4 years of faithful service, it makes my job all the more complicated. Angie's job has become a bit more exciting with the new CFO coming into her own and beginning to recognize Angie's talents for her job. As an example, Angie had estimated a multi-million dollar figure and was four thousand dollars off the exact number that the team of auditors came up with at year-end. I was impressed, and more importantly, so was her CFO.
Esme has begun some new things too, primarily she is very intentionally balancing while sitting up. We keep her kind of corralled, but it's really amazing to watch her lean forward to pick something up and then shift back to compensate. Another source of real interest to me and to her is the water pouring from the faucet. She cannot quite 'get' that there is something there, but she can't grab it. Her little hands clench and open in the stream repeatedly, until she gets distracted. Angie decided last weekend that she would let Esme try some applesauce out and proceeded to get a series of wonderful faces, but nothing that would seem like actual ingestion. Later that weekend Angie and I were chomping on an apple and decided to see what Esme thought of an actual slice of apple. Esme thought that this was wonderful and began contentedly sucking on it. Only afterward did we notice that her two little front teeth on the bottom had been shaving apple away as she sucked. I did get a picture of that, I thought it was too cute.
On Saturday we took her for a spin in a new bike trailer we bought on Friday. It doubles as a stroller and strikes me as so much safer than those seats that mount on the back of a bike. Here are several pictures of that morning:
Three weekends ago we took a walk on the Cooper River bridge with Mimi and Grandpa Denis. We were fortunate to run into my friend Carl who was biking over the bridge, and he stopped to take a few pictures for us. Here they are:
Esme is currently uner the weather, though. She officially has an ear infection and has been prescribed her first ever round of antibiotics. In a total blast from the past for me, it is the same pink amoxicilin I was guzzling as a kid for all my ear aches. I have completely resisted tasting it, but boy does it bring me back. On athe Esme front as well, she has been, up until being sick, sleeping relaibly in her crib all night. I would say through the night but to be specific we were tending to wake up once or twice to a quiet sniffle as she dug for her pacifier in the middle of the night, and she would fall back to sleep immediately after we got it back into place. Of course with her feeling poorly we are having "crib parties" instead of quiet restful evenings.
Hopefully that catche everyone up with the basics, good night all, I will add more as I get news, pictures or time.
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