Monkey House

Mama Monkey and I took the week off. Originally we were going to go camping at Silent Lake, but that fell through due to illness. Both monkey and his mom are sniffly with rounds of coughing. So it was partially the potentially cold, wet nights… and partially the thought of trying to bounce him back to sleep (after sniffles/coughs wake him up) in the tent. NO thanks.

So, the weekend and Monday were basically just normal days… went to parks, took the dogs for walks, ran some errands….
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So, I keep meaning to rewrite the code for the this blog’s theme. But I’m slow to get around to it. Over the next day or two I’m going to make some minimal effort to get it operating just a touch better, which probably won’t affect any readers. But if you have browsing habits that take you beyond the front page view or individual posts, you might find screw-ups that I won’t myself catch.

By all means, feel free to drop me a line using the contact form (or email me directly) if you see something screwey.

It might have an effect on the site’s responsiveness, too. If you notice it being noticeably (even a little bit… but noticeably) faster or slower, let me know.

If any of you have any interest in web development at all, I’ve started up a Drupal site over at gregpettit.ca … by all means, check it out. It’s a sandbox for me for now, so don’t expect anything interesting or family-related.

These two things are entirely unrelated. A round of Dad Negligence (in truth, actually more like Husband negligence) and a bit of the ol’ uplifting “So cool being a dad!”

Dad (Husband) Negligence

Last night Cole pulled one of his 2am wakeups. I slept a genuine sleep up to the point that he sat upright-ish and started to talk to whoever would listen. This kid just doesn’t like sleep. “Baw baw dit dit yamma rid did oh,” he told the world. “Cole,” said Alex, a bit exasperated. “Ha! Rimmum mmmmm!”

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At supper-time, Alex gave Cole some food in a bowl, and a spoon. He’s been messing around with utensils fairly often, and has even managed to get some food into his mouth sort of. But tonight he held it in a fairly correct way, and fed himself at least 2 good well-coordinated mouthfuls. He was REALLY using the spoon, and with full intention (and execution!) of eating the way mommy and daddy eat.

Was pretty awesome!

That is all.