AfterVictory.comHard to believe its been two years since we left little Rhodey.
What a thing to do…. pack up and head off into the country with nothing more than a Craigslist handshake and a couple of disgruntled cats.
It’s been great, though. And sad sometimes. And awesome other times. However hard or silly or non-Yankee its been (and sometimes it was all three at once), it’s all been worth it.
This week went by ridiculously fast… probably due to the fact that we had mid-week visitors!
Gram and Pops arrived via Harley on Wednesday and snuggled Ted straight through Thursday and then continued on down the coast.
While they were here on Thursday Ted, Gram, Pops, and I stopped by Pat’s work to take him to lunch. We took the Celica, not the Harley, although that does give you an interesting Dr. Seuss-ish sort of picture in your head. We all walked over to the Carolina Cafe. Very tasty.
When we got home from lunch WSKate came over for a little visit.
Here is Ted playing his new piano.
And here are a couple more pictures of Ted, just because he is so adorable.
And who doesn’t like puppy pajamas?
This past weekend we were just sort of hanging around so we decided to drive up to New England and get our kid baptized. Good times hanging with the fam, and we’ll post up some photos when we get them back from the photomatt.
We also got to visit Erin and Jay who we hadn’t seen a while. They fed us, hooked Ted up with some cute welcome-to-existence prizes and then watched Ted for us while we go to drive their sweet new ride, a 2008 Honda FIt Sport.
So nice of them to let us take it for a quick spin. We each drove it around the neighborhood a bit.
The thing that stood out to me the most was the redunkulously tight turning radius. I was pretty sure that the back wheels were turning too. But this was no 1987 Honda Prelude with four-wheel steering. It was, in fact, the little hatchback that begged to do donuts. Around a single donut. (Note to Erin and Jay: We did not perform donuts in your nice new car. Just turned around in a cul-de-sac. Then we took it off a sweet jump. Twice.).
Besides driving in circles, I also used the paddle shifters located just behind the steering wheel. It’s an automatic, but the gears can be shifted manually and without a clutch. I thought it worked well (and better then the Mazda 3 paddle shifter I tried before), but its still a little confusing for me because I’m shifting gears and there is no clutch pedal on the floor. I think if I had a Fit, I would use the paddles.
The rest of the dash layout was clean and intuative. The speedometer and tach had a cool blue light around it which I thought was cool in a blue-lights-are-cool kind of way.
Acceleration was right about where I thought it would be - fairly quick but not quite neck-snapping. It’s 109 horsepower engine isn’t quite what you’d want in a top-fuel drag race, but the car is light and the driver will probably be rewarded with respectable fuel economy.
As far as exterior looks go, I like the Fit from most angles. Every once in a while it looks like a 2002 Civic SI. The tall windows make it look a little van-esque sometimes, but for the most part it feels very much like a hatchback.
The inside is giant and it’s seats fold in useful ways, just like every hatchback should. Jay gave us a full dealer salesman like-demo of all the seat modes.
Kate and I both agreed that we would buy a car from Jay. In fact, if he still had his giant Chevy Caprice battle cruiser, we would totally buy that from him.
This week we may not have taken any photos of Ted (Gasp)! It has been a crazy week. Ted has been very “busy” and very “fidgety” as well as super expressive. He’s definitely got the “ah goo” vocab word under his belt and has been humming and making all kinds of noises to express himself.
His new thing is to be happy and cooing at us or happy and kicking his legs while watching his mobile and then from out of nowhere -baby angst. Its hard to be a baby.
And since I didn’t take any photos this week and have a zillion from last week, here are some more from our trip.
Great Grammie spending some quality time with Ted.
Ted with Auntie Kim
Ted hanging out with Jenny.
What parties with babies are like:
The new dads
Great Nana getting to know Ted.
Great Grampa passing on some wisdom.
Ted’s seventh week-iversary took place during a whirlwind trip to New England to celebrate my birthday.
On Friday I got to eat at my two favorite restaurants, Firehouse Pizza and Jackie’s Galaxy. My Mom made my favorite kind of cake, chocolate with peppermint frosting!
On Saturday Ted’s aunts, cousin, and I went to my stepsister-in-law’s baby shower. Somehow I didn’t end up with any photos, but it was a lot of fun. Great food and an explosion of pink, very cute girly stuff.
After that we headed to Kim’s for a birthday party with friends from college and Victory.
It was so much fun. So good to see our friends that we just don’t see enough. And to meet their babies and see how much their kids have grown…
Here is the “email train” with significant others and babies.
Then on Sunday we headed to MA for another birthday/meet Ted event.
He got to meet Great Nana and Great Grampa, as well as Uncle John and Aunt Mary.
Here is Ted with aunts and cousin Jack.
And since Ted is now waking up, here is one last photo of him with his godfather and godmother.
Wow, here I am writing my first post on AfterVictory.com. Crazyness. I assume most people who read our site get the reference, but for those who don’t, Victory is the the supermarket where Pat and I first met. It no longer exists. Well the supermarket is still there, but different owners, different name.
So what’s new with me?
I am working less hours now. I told the store manager that I wouldn’t mind if he cut back my hours as long as I was still full-time. He decided to give me Fridays off! Now every weekend is a long weekend. It is super sweet.
On Sunday my co-workers threw me another baby shower. It was so nice. I couldn’t believe how many people came to celebrate with us! Its great to know that Ted has lots of local people who care about him! He got lots of handmade blankets, necessities, cute outfits, a diaper cake, and even another handmade sweater and cap set. Have I mentioned how lucky he is? And Pat and I too.
I haven’t decided when my last day at work will be. The idea of going into labor at work is as unappealing as going into labor home alone. I think I am leaning towards the home alone idea and therefore might leave work two weeks before my due date. I don’t know. Too many big decisions for me. Guess I am feeling overwhelmed in general these days.
As some of you may know, the Rockland-ave family of…. family members is set to expand by 1 in the next few months.
This is very exciting news, but it also presented us with a problem in regards to stuff. I have lots of stuff, Kate has lots of stuff, and the cats even have a lot of stuff, but very little of that stuff will be compatible with Ted. We also had a doctor check with his ultrasound machine and he confirmed that Ted is arriving without clothes or books or blankets or toys. What gives with that?
Lucky for us we’re related to some problem solvers. So last weekend we flew up to New England for a baby shower. We got to see lots of family members and friends (including blogrollers Kristen & Josh, my folks, Megan and Brett and crew, Jay & Erin, BSP and Tracy and lots of cool other people without blogs), which was cool on its own, and ate lots of good food and got tons of great stuff for Ted. So much stuff we filled a van with it to get it back home!
Here are some pics (I stole from Cheech) from the day:
Now Ted’s room totally looks like someone could move in there and bet set as a baby. Big-time thanks to all our families (especially the guest blogger) for putting this on and for all our friends and fam for coming to see us and give us cool stuff! It was a fun weekend.
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