July 2007


dsc03154.JPGEvery year Andrej's company rents a deck at a Whitecaps baseball game for all the employees and their families. Last Thursday was this year's event and during the festivities Andrej won a $25 gift certificate to Dick's Sporting Goods. Later that night Andrej, Marina and I were talking about how we never win anything so that was pretty neat that Andrej won the gift certificate.

Two days later, Andrej was at a conference where yet again his name was chosen from a chance drawing. This time he won an iPod nano! I think it's time we use his luck for some things we really need like plane tickets, a digital camera and maybe even the Michigan lottery!

dsc03021.JPGUnbelievable! Where did June go? For me, June is one big blur of two to three hour intervals of feeding, burping, diapering, cleaning spit-up, rocking, shushing, diapering, cuddling, rocking and shushing some more. There was a little bit of sleep mixed in there somewhere, but I don't remember doing much of that. Our sweet Tobi basically slept through the first two and a half weeks of his life and then somewhere around the middle of June he suddenly woke up. He then spent the rest of June trying so very hard to get back to sleep. Unfortunately for us all he wasn't very successful. We had a couple of difficult weeks, but it seems that Tobi has recently accepted his new life outside of the womb and is thankfully adjusting. (Read more …)