7/18/06

The wasp nest was sealed yesterday.  An exterminator put some sort of foam on the tree.  The entombed wasps will - theoretically - die.  Unless they find another way out, I suppose.

Logan is getting more playful.  He loves his play mat - I don't know the proper name for the thing.  But it's a square of colored fabric with various textured things he can grab and pull.  It also has two arches that cross over the mat.  You can hang toys from the arch.  Logan seems to enjoy sitting under the arches, trying to batt or grab the toys.  He's getting pretty good at it.  He looks very determined as he stares at the toys and swings his arms.

7/17/06

I got stung by a wasp over the weekend.  The wasp stung me on the ring finger on my right hand while I was clipping grass next to the base of the old cherry tree.  Their hive was in the tree - I must have bothered them.  My hand is really swollen.  Makes me wonder if I'm becoming allergic to bee stings.  

Logan seems to be doing well.  He's spitting up a bit more than he used to.  He's starting to grasp things, and getting better at tracking things.

Heidi dropped her keys into greenlake over the weekend.  We had met Stacy, Pierre, Ethan and Hayden at the playground by the pool.  They were pretty late - they started out a bit late, and were delayed further by the 520 bridge opening to allow a giant sailboat through.  After we met them we walked over to the beach where they rented a paddleboat.  I walked home with Chazz and Logan while they paddled out onto the lake.  Heidi's keys slipped out of her pocket and into the drink...

7/14/06

Logan threw up twice last night.  He was fussy and distracted during dinner, and threw up onto the floor when Heidi burped him.  It was quite a good volume of vomit, milky and white.  I quickly scrubbed it up with a dark blue burby cloth.  I fed him with a bottle during dinner, and after we ate I changed him before we went for the evening walk.  He cried with a singular intensity during the diaper change - shrieked really.  After that he calmed down, and didn't even fuss when Heidi put him into the bjorn.  He threw up again a block into the walk - all over Heidi's fleece.  It was pretty awful looking.

However, that was that.  He ate after the walk, went to bed, didn't throw up and he seems fine.  So there.

Tonight I'm going to bike to bellevue over the I-90 bridge.  It's turned into a warm, sunny day for the ride.  It should be a hoot.

7/5/06

Logan went to his first fourth of July fireworks last night.  The evening was cool and partly cloudy, with the ominous rumblings of thunder interspersed with the pops and bangs of firecrackers.  My parents were visiting, and we had a pretty nice dinner of grilled hot dogs and corn on the cob.  At around 9:00 we walked to Wallingford park, leaving Chazz to fend for himself in the bathroom.  We left the TV on and the windows closed to help screen the sound of fireworks.

The park was filled with children and their parents.  We staked out a pretty good spot with and sat down to wait.  By then the skies had cleared.  From our spot we could see both the Ivar's and the Washington Mutual shows.  Logan slept through them both, as well as the other fireworks going off all around us.

Logan had a pretty rough evening, before finally going to sleep on our walk to the park.  He may have been tired from the previous night, when we took him to a Mariner's game.  We watched the Mariners lose to the Angels 6 to 1 from high up in the 326 section.  Logan would startle every time the crowd cheered.

6/28/06

We went to our first Zoo Tunes with Logan.  Zoo Tunes is a summer concert series that is held on the field adjacent to the north entry to the zoo.  The concerts start at 6:00 pm and go until sundown, which can be as late as 9:00 on midsummer days.  It was a warm, sunny night.  We showed up at 6:00 - I arrived by bicycle from downtown, and Heidi walked from our house.  The field was already full, and we had to sit over by a construction fence.  The zoo is building a new carosel by the field.  They are really making an attempt to attract the kids.

The show was Arlo Guthrie.  He was great for the venue, a wonderful performer.  Spent about half the time telling odd stories, half the time playing songs.  Many of the songs were Woody Guthrie songs.  In fact, we left during "This land is your land."

After the concert we walked home and met my parents.  They arrived about ten minutes before us, and waited outside of our house while Chazz barked at them.  Mom and dad were very excited to see Logan.  We did our evening walk with them, while Logan fussed himself to sleep in the baby bjorn.  Logan got up in the middle of the night again - he's regressing back to getting up for a feeding at around 2:30 am.

6/27/06

My parents are going to arrive tomorrow.  They're driving from Lincoln.  They spent the night in Oregon, and should be here pretty quickly today.

I got to spend the night with Logan.  Heidi had soccer.  I walked Logan and Chazz, fed Logan, and put him to bed.  He needed two bottles worth of milk (and maybe more.)  The new bottles Heidi bought are great in that Logan seems to like eating from them, but they don't have much capacity.  And Logan is a hungry boy.  I had to feed him one bottle, run downstairs for a refill and then feed him the second.  He probably could have used a third.  He woke up at 2:30 a.m., which he doesn't do much these days.  

His cranky time is fading into a memory.  He has been getting cranky at the start of his evening walk, but then he calms down.  Usually after one or two blocks of complaining.

It's been really warm the past couple of days, with daytime high temperatures up into the 90s.  I don't think Logan enjoyed the heat.  He drinks a lot in the warm weather - we assume it's due to dehydration.  Logan doesn't seem fussier than normal.  I think I'm the one who worries about the heat.  I imagine that he's dying of heat stroke, that he's slowly becoming exhausted, that he needs to be cooled down immediately!!!!

6/22/06

I went out to Tangletown last night at 7:30 with the ski group: Greg, Roy, Brandon, Jens and Brandt.  Logan and Heidi showed up after about an hour or so.  I talked to Brandon about Shanna's illness and about his business.  I think Shanna may retire soon - it sounds like the stress of working is too much for her.