Rob's Books

I added a new blog to our website called 'Rob's Books.'

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Where's My Radio?!?!?

I forgot about the early mornings. Elliot has been getting up earlier and earlier lately. This morning was the first time in a long time that we have been up before six. I don't mind being up early, but I do have one rule: if you are going to get me out of bed early, then you have to be happy. I am still working on this one with Elliot. He is waking up too early for some reason, and he is not ready to be awake. Could be his cold, his teeth, his bowels, could be anything really. The worst part about the whole ordeal is that when we got our house ready to put on the market we out away our stereo, which means no NPR news in the morning. I usually turn on the Channel 5 news, which is mostly a daily update on homicides, car crashes, house fires, sexual offenses, weather, traffic, and the Reds score from last night. I miss my NPR.

Things have been going OK lately. Elliot is about half-way through his latest antibiotic. He had an ear infection and luckily this antibiotic does not appear to be messing with him too much.

I am headed to the doctor this afternoon so he can drain some fluid from my eye-lid.

Elliot is headed to the doctor next Monday for some kidney tests to make sure that the urinary tract infection he had earlier this month is not a symptom of something else.

Chinese Fire-Drill

It seems we need to do this every few months - get all the kids out of the car, have them run around, and then end up in new seats.

Elliot has outgrown his car-seat (setting a new Liesland record in the process), so we had to shift everyone's seats. This always makes Andrew happy, because it means he gets a new seat.

The exciting and sad part of the whole ordeal is that it is just another step away from infancy for Elliot. Pretty soon he is going to be starting on food, which I can hardly believe.

As a parent, sometimes the hours are slow, but the days,weeks,months seem to fly by.

Mea Culpa

I guess it's my fault. For the past few weeks, things have been going well. So well in fact, that I was starting to get a little confident - maybe too confident.

Sunday I got sick. Whenever someone gets sick our routine goes out the door, as well as our ability to keep up with the kids. Susan handled herself well - even getting all three kids to sleep on Sunday night.

Now I am better, and it is time to clean. . .

Photos

I put up a few new photos in our 2007 I gallery and some shots from our trip in the new 2007 Vacation Gallery.

Where have we been?

At the Dr's office, the hospital, Northside, KY, Onalaska, Duluth, Minneapolis, Clive.

Dr's Office

Elliot had his 4 month check-up in late June, where things went well. At the end of the visit he got some vaccines and the Dr said that he may act sick/have a fever for a couple days, which he did. After 6 days the fever had not gone away, so we went back to the Dr, who told us to go to the hospital to get some tests.

The Hospital

We got some blood tests done, an x-ray, and finally a urine culture. Finally, we figured out the he had a urinary tract infection. We got him on an antibiotic, which made him a little fussy, but his fever went away.

Northside

We were supposed to skip town the morning of July 4th, but due to Elliot's illness, we decided to take a day to gather our selves. In the morning, we made it to the Northside 4th of July Parade, which is pretty cool.

KY

Not leaving on the 4th also made it possible for us to make it to our 4th of July family party, which was a lot of fun.

Onalaska

Finally, we made it out of town and hit the road. It took us 11 hours to traverse the 600 miles from Cincinnati to Onalaska, WI, which is right next to LaCrosse, WI. We visited with our friends Sarah, Kevin and Samuel for a few hours, and then it was back on the road.

Duluth

On Friday, July 6th, we hit the road again and travelled a few hours farther North to Duluth, MN. We got settled into our cottage, and then headed to Hope and Jeff's pre-wedding party. We got to hang out with a lot of Susan's friends and had a good time. The wedding was on Saturday night. Sunday we hit Gooseberry Falls, and then headed south to Minneapolis.

Minneapolis

In Minneapolis we stayed with Susan's friend from high school, Maribeth, and her husband Erik, whom we hadn't seen since our wedding. While in Minneapolis we visited Susan's college in St. Joseph, MN.

Clive

Tuesday evening we left Minneapolis and headed to Clive, IA, just outside Des Moines, to stay with Susan's parents. We stayed in Des Moines for a few days, and had a grand old time.

Now, we are back in Cincinnati, trying to get settled back into a routine. It always takes a while for everyone to get back in line after some time away from our normal existence.

Hopefully I will get some pics up soon.

I will try to keep you updated. . .

Random Vacation Moments

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We just got back from a 10 day vacation, and here are some random videos. I was not sure if any of them were good enough to make it alone, so I combined them all into one super-video.