McKenna is officially 20 weeks old as of tomorrow, man how time flies, seems like just yesterday I was grounding her for life for the grief she caused me during childbirth! She has officially rolled over, although she is not yet an ambi-turner (that is to say she cannot turn both left and right only right at this point) and she had her very first taste of juice two weeks ago which was an experiance in itself. Her facial expressions were adorable when she figured out it wasn't milk! Right now I am working nights at Plywood Supply which has turned out to be wonderful. I love how fast I can get my work done without interruptions....it is a bit scary at times thought to be the only person in a giant lumber company working, I am definetly interrupting the rat parties at night time....I have a feeling the are going to surround me and nibble on my legs until the are only little nubbins one of these nights.
The best news I have to report is that I have had nearly 3 whole nights of 6 hours of sleep! McKenna has been sleeping until 5-5:30 am the last few days....and I am in heaven. It was really strange the first night to get that much sleep, I found myself wandering into her room like 5 times to make sure she was still ok. Hopefully she will keep up the lenghtly sleep times and I can reteach myself what a "nights rest" should be like.
Well, I am getting word from Mark that it's time to attempt another nights rest so until later.
J

It's amazing how much little stuff you have to do to start a home based daycare! Jaime and I attended the required orientation last week (an 8 hour class). Although we thought we had most everything done in order to get licensed, it turns out we still have quite a bit left to do. It's all good though because it'll make our house safer for McKenna and any other kids we might have in the future no matter what happens with the daycare.

I've almost got my router fence built in my shop. I took a few hours on Sunday while Jaime and McKenna were taking a nap and got quite a bit done on it. I haven't had any time what so ever to do anything in the shop lately. I still have 2 projects in the works left to finish (McKenna'sToybox/bookcase and the Dining Bench/storage).

McKenna is a little a little over 4 months old now! Crazy, huh? Time flies. McKenna is in the 90th percentile for her height now at 26-1/2" and 13 lbs +/-. Yeah, She's advanced.
We've all been pretty sick lately still. A long lingering cold left over from the flu we had (and caught from McKenna's daycare) in February.

Jaime is enjoying working only a few hours at night (not to say she doesn't work at home during the day, but she actually gets paid at night). She gets a lot done and doesn't have to deal with many interuptions. I'm enjoying my one on one time with McKenna during that period also. We play and dance and rest and I'm able to feed her every night as well. We're still trying to work out the car scenario, it's a hassle putting McKenna in and out of the car seat and running to and from work every couple of hours to drop off or pickup people. I drive to work in the morning at 6:30am, come home from lunch at 11:30 and Jaime & McKenna drive me back to work at 12:15 and go back home. Jaime returns with McKenna at 5pm to swap and I drive back home w/ McKenna and return to pick Jaime up at 8pm. It's quite a bit of driving in a short amount of time and really adds up on the mileage. We used to go through a tank of gas every 1-1/2 to 2 weeks, now it's one every 4 days or so, although we only live about 10 miles from work. I need to get my truck into the shop to get it more reliable, or get a second car I guess!

Well, I hope all is well with you and yours!
Until next time.....