Surfergeeks

I found the coolest extension for firefox. If you use firefox, you will probably know what an extension is, if you don’t you will have no idea what I am talking about.

For me, when I go on the internet, I like to find random pages and just check them out, this is part of the reason I read fark. Well, the extension I found happens to make this easier and finds a lot more sites I like. It’s almost like a focused google search which only pulls up links on topics I am interested in. It’s called StumbleUpon. There are additional features, such as adding friends, so you can share webpages and even your own blog page. I’ve been fiddling with it for the past two days and I definitely think I’m going to keep it.

Yeah, so I found out yesterday that my brother hurt himself at work the other day. He’s now on workers comp for four weeks and the injury is pretty serious. He’s alive and he can still walk, but in a technical sense, he’s kinda an amputee.

I won’t go into the gory details, but I guess he was using one of his tools that is like a rotating belt (no idea what it was, I know nothing about being a mechanic), his index finger got caught in it and now it’s a little shorter after surgery.

He was over yesterday and I could see the bandages, it looked pretty bad, and I sure as hell don’t want to see underneath them until it’s all healed.

On the bright side of things, I think he’s got a new girlfriend (she came over to the house with him). Which is a really good thing. He was obsessing over his ex way too much. I never liked her anyway and the way she broke up with my brother made me want to kill her. Travis did not deserve that or someone like her.

So, next update on weight and length, as Alex and I were at the Baby Wellness Clinic today.

Weight: 14 lbs. (This may be off a little bit, Alex was moving so much the scale kept changing, so the nurse and I decided 14 was a good median)
Height: 25 1/4 in.

Yup, Nancy, I think I will have to send Rob over soon to get the next size car seat from you. I think Alex will be almost grown out of the one he uses now. And I can tell, he doesn’t fit into any clothes that are for 0-3 months and he is almost too big for clothes that are for 3-6 months.

I don’t know if she even ever visits my site, but I’d like to wish a belated (by one day) Happy Birthday to Chris! Some of you have met her, the rest of you have probably heard me speak of her. Yesterday was her 34th birthday. If you read this Chris, I was thinking about you yesterday but never got near my computer to post this!

Hey all. I’m two months old today. Wow, it just seems like yesterday my mom and I were still in the hospital. Here is how I should be developing for the second month (note that a lot repeat from last month or have moved up a stage, but I’m going to go over them again anyway).

By the end of this month, I SHOULD be able to:

*smile in response to someone’s smile – I smile, but it’s still random.
*follow an object in an arc about 6 inches above the face to the midline (straight ahead) – yup.
*respond to a bell in some way, such as startling, crying or quieting – yup, if you’ve been reading the site, you know how long I’ve been doing this for.
*vocalize in ways other than crying (e.g cooing) – yup, mom wasn’t sure if it was cooing, but I’m not crying and sometimes, I’m having fun.

…will PROBABLY be able to:

*on stomach, lift head 45 degrees - yup.
*follow an object in an arc about 6 inches above the face past the midline – yup.

…may even be able to:

*hold head steady when upright – yup, been doing this for a while too. I actually like to sit up like this, and sometimes I will cry until mommy or daddy sit me up this way.
*roll over – nope, can’t do that yet but I’ve been trying.
*grasp a rattle held to backs or tips of fingers – yup, it’s fun making mommy and daddy give me the rattle, it’s easier than getting it myself.
*pay attention to a raisin or other very small object - hmmm…mommy hasn’t tried this one with me yet.
*reach for an object – nope, not ready for that one yet.
*say ah-goo or similar vowel-constonant combination – nope, I’ve got a lot of practice yet before I start that for mommy.

…may POSSIBLY even be able to:

*smile spontaneously - hmm, appartenly I’m doing things backwards. I won’t smile if you smile, but I will smile randomly.
*bring both hands together - yup this was covered by my mom last month.
*laugh out loud - nope not yet.
*squeal in delight – not yet, but I’m close, a lot of my cooing is when I’m extra happy.
*follow an object in an arc about 6 inches above the face for 180 degrees (from one side to the other) - yup, been doing this for a while too, but it has to be a toy, I won’t follow mommy or daddy’s fingers.