Feb 192012

We got enough rain yesterday and the previous night to make up for several of the dry months last year. Hopefully, our aquifers are filling back up. Of course, it won’t help the grass much, unless it gets warm soon (and it might).

The thunder woke Rebecca a few times during the night, and during her daytime nap. At night, my wife has returned to sleeping in our bed. We tried different variations, and found no difference to Rebecca’s sleep habits (or lack thereof) if my wife is in Rebecca’s room or not. Now when Rebecca wakes up at night, she walks to our room and gets Mommy.

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Feb 162012

Since getting her KitchenAid mixer (blog entry) and food processor (blog entry) last week, my wife has already put them to good use.

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Feb. 14, 2012

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Feb 152012

The last few days, Rebecca did something to her sleeping pattern that we can’t figure out. She’d almost settled into a one-nap per day rhythm and was waking up only once or twice at night. Then on Sunday she began switching it around. Her nap moved earlier, which meant she needed another one really late. Which meant she was wide awake at bed time.

By Monday, she’d returned to two naps a day, and did it again yesterday. But now her night sleep is all messed up. If we’ve learned anything with Rebecca over the past 16 months, it’s that you can put her in bed but you can’t make her sleep. And the problem isn’t whether she’s in bed, it’s how much sleep she needs versus how much she gets…

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Feb 122012

I was beginning to wonder if it would get cold this winter. Aside from a couple of 32°F nights in December, it’s been mild — if not outright warm (up to 83°F a couple of times in January!). But yesterday’s low was in the upper 20s, and this morning we’re at 25 degrees so far. It’s supposed to rain later today, but we’ll be in the upper 30s by then.

(And two days from now, it’ll be 70°F again.)

[Edited 6:17 a.m. to correct this morning's temperature to 25°F.]

Feb 112012

So, I figured out a video problem I was having, and Rebecca has taken a few more steps away from babyhood and toward childhood.

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My wife’s first present was her mixer (mentioned here). The next day (yesterday), she got her KitchenAid 13-cup food processor.

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Feb 082012

My Christmas gift (from tax refund) was my camera, as previously mentioned. At the very end of another entry, I said my wife would likely get a mixer. She did. Today.

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Feb 072012

Below is my first video with the new Canon 60D camera. Video isn’t a feature I was looking for in a DSLR, but since it’s there I figured I would try it. Without reading the manual, I couldn’t figure out how to start a video… Even in video mode, pressing the shutter just recorded still images. I let my wife play with it a few minutes, and she began taking a video almost immediately.

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Feb 062012

(First impressions of Canon 60D)

As is our custom, my wife and I got token gifts for each other during actual Christmas, and bought ourselves very nice things in February when we file for our income tax refund. My gift came today — a Canon EOS 60D.

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Feb 062012

Being with Rebecca was like a dream. She was in a good mood the entire day, napped late (she wasn’t going to nap, but fell asleep as soon as I rocked her), talked more, played hard, communicated…

Watched Super Bowl XLVI.

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