Update

Update for anyone that cares.

1. I defended my thesis about a month ago. Passed, so now I guess I have a PhD (I guess officially it will be at the end of the summer semester in August for me to get the diploma). It went well, a lot of nervous energy followed by me trying to clean up 5 years of junk in my lab. Now I guess I need to find a job...

2. j has her boards tomorrow. She's been studying like mad, while I've been trying not to bother her.

3. j, cmb, and I are moving to Memphis is a couple weeks. j starts her fellowhip in August. I have been floating my resume/cv around looking for a job, but nothing yet. Until then, cmb and I will be hanging out.

4. Speaking of young cmb, apparently he likes saag paneer.



He's already a less picky eater than I am.

PS with nothing else to do, I hope to post more often in the coming weeks.

Baby Laughter

CMB has discovered the cat, and he thinks he's hysterical.



Sorry about the heavy mouth-breathing, I'm trying not to laugh myself.

Snowed in...

Well, we were planning on going up to NYC this weekend, but there was the threat of snow. After talking about it, we decided that it was best not to travel on the roads. As of 9pm tonight, here's my back porch:

From the kitchen window, here is the table again. It looks like it's about 18 inches (that's what she said...).

Anyway, we probably made the right decision by staying in Philly. We'll have to make a special trip to NYC during Christmas time sometime in the future. We will definitely take more pics with CMB tomorrow in the snow, but I'll leave you with a picture of CMB and me at j's work Holiday Party.

Benefits...

As with any job, sometimes you can benefit from the hobbies of your coworkers. Someone in the lab the floor below ours likes to bake. So when I returned from lunch today, she had left this on my desk:

I don't know if I'm more excited about the cupcake, or the fact that it says 'Science!' on it. I will let my belly have the final say. Yes, I am a nerd.

Sleeping through the night...

So, I've always the problem with newborns are that they don't sleep through the night. Therefore, you don't sleep through the night. And that's why Mom and Dad walk like drones through the day because of lack of sleep.

Well, I'll have to say that cmb has been pretty easy on us. He usually only wakes up once around 2:30ish to eat, then doesn't wake up again until close to 6, when we are getting up for work anyway. We've been pretty fortunate this way.

The other night, he slept (or at least didn't cry) from 11-5:30, beating his previous record by 2.5 hours. The thing is, Jen woke up at 3 to pump, and then I woke up about every half hour after expecting him to cry and hoping to hear him breathing. I even got up once to make sure he was okay. Felt pretty paranoid. Maybe that's parenthood.

Anyway, last night, he woke up 3 times... so much for sleeping through the night.

4 week update...

So CMB turned 4 weeks yesterday. He's been more than fair to us so far. Largely sleeping for 3-4 hours at a time at night and agreeable most of the time that he's awake. He's starting to smirk a little (not quite a full smile yet) and he'll follow toys with his head and eyes. I claimed that he was playing with some toy keys, just because I put them on him like a bracelet. He was playing rather he knew it or not...





Big day today. j went back to work this morning, so her parents are watching him this (short) week. First time home alone without the Mom and Dad. Then his aunts and his cousin, i, are coming in for Thanksgiving. Should be lots of fun.

Just Pics

I've shrunk these for convenience, higher quality is available if you want. Just email me.