Ok, so I said I would update once a week, and I realize it has been a month (I can do the math), but I've been a smidge busy. This "Taking Over the World" thing has been keeping me pretty occupied.
Where to start? Since we last spoke I've spent two weeks traveling the great 2nd district. In the last month my ability the produce more children has been challenged. I toured a nuclear power plant (and have just recently stopped glowing), procured a Blackberry which seems to have a transmission strength just short of the infamous 400lbs microwave purchased in 1978 that is 3 days younger than me (which is still in use in my mother's classroom...apparently to shape the minds of the future you must first melt them with large doses of radiation), and to top it off I spent an afternoon with the VP. Dick Cheney is not as radioactive as a power plant, but we were on a military base...there are lots of guns...you do the math.
I've also have been busy on the campaign trail, raising money, kissing babies, and next Tuesday I have to debate our opponent at the KS Nurses Association meeting. Does anyone else think I should be getting paid more? At the end of the day, I don't get to be the Congressman but I'm willing to trade the title for compensation. We are closing in on the Majority Leader event which has broken all money records for a Topeka event...which basically means I'll have a job for another month or so. After the Kansas Relays event I was actually worried a little, but the money wasn't down just nobody showed up to eat the food they paid for.
Everyone else is doing well. El Prego Diablo is close to a full recovery from morning sickness (read all-day sickness) and has adjusted to her new pills nicely. We had an ultrasound last week. There is only one baby, that has two arms and two legs and apparently a good spine. It is too early to determine the sex, so we have to wait a few more weeks.
Sar anything to add? She says send chocolate.
We haven't really bought anything for the baby yet, other than the standard KSU garb. We got a grill instead. I figure we can just take out the grates and throw in a blanket, but Sarah insists that it is inappropriate. I challenged her to find another baby with a stainless steel crib and added how urban lofty it would make the baby's landing look. She wasn't buying it.
Satan (a.k.a. Alli the Super Puppy) has forced us to find the spray bottle. This horrible habit of barking at anything that moves will come to an end soon, whether she likes it or not. She turned 1 year old on the 28th and received a new kennel, t-shirt, chew toy, and a no-pull harness. That's right, my 10lbs dog has the pulling power suitable for the Iditarod.
It has been raining a lot here lately (so much that we had a mud slide yesterday) and Alli is terrified of thunder and shakes during storms, so we did what any good parent would do...we took her out and sat on the porch with her during a really bad hail storm. Now she shakes when it's just raining. I can't wait for November...screwing up a little human has to be more fun than screwing up a little dog :)
3 comments:
Good to hear from you.
Glad to hear things are going well. With all the guns and being around the VP where you worried????? FYI the number of "fun times" does increase there is light at the end
I thought about wearing a flak jacket, but it was 92 and I ended up getting dehydrated wearing a suit in the sun. I'm looking forward to some "funtimes" :) How is Kara doing? Is she showing much? You'll have to put some pictures online so we can see.
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