New Pictures

Starting Daycare

After all the panic and worry, the infection on Jacob's head ended up not being an infection at all. It seems that he (and all the other babys at Children's daycare) had an adverse reaction to some of the cleaning agents used in their room. He's completely healed and is doing great. He started at the church daycare last Monday, and he seems to really enjoy it there. There are two really nice ladies that care for Jacob and five others in his class. Right now it's only him and two others, so he's getting a lot of attention. They take him for a stroll every day, and they say he sleeps most of the day in his swing. Here he is all pimped out for his first day at "school":

 

Jacob's favorite part of the day at home seems to be when he is getting a bath. He just lies back and plays with the rubber duck.

 

"GQ" pose:

 

More random pics:

 

Dressed up for another day at daycare. (Anybody else noticing a theme with the color of his outfits?)

 

Waiting for us to get ready for work in the morning: (The mits are because he's starting gnawing on his knuckles and making them raw.)

Here's an outfit Kristine picked out for him. It reminds me of Ralphy in "A Christmas Story" when he's wearing the pink bunny costume.

Poor little buddy

Jacob has been staying at the daycare at Kristine's work for the past week and a half. It was very convenient because she got to see him a couple of times during the day as well as feed him during her lunch. Unfortunately, he picked up some sort of infection during his stay. Monday and Tuesday we noticed the back of his head and elbows were red and rashy. Wednesday morning, the area on the back of his head now had blisters and felt like there was pus under the skin. So Kristine took him to the doctor that morning to have him checked out. They mashed all the goo out of the blisters and gave him some antibiotic shots. They took a sample of the goo stuff, but we haven't heard back from the lab on the results. We've been applying a topical antibiotic on his head and giving him an oral antibiotic. It's healing nicely, but the back of his little noggin' is a bit ashy. Needless to say, he won't be going back to the daycare at Children's any time soon. Thank goodness the daycare we signed him up for at the church starts Monday. Here's some pics of him with some of Kristine's handy-work using gauze:

 

  

EDIT: We didn't get the pictures made at Portrait Innovations this weekend. Kristine was afraid they would think she was a bad mother if someone saw the back of his head.

 

Speaking of handy-work, I've been keeping myself busy with a couple of little projects around the house. I was talking to a guy at work a few weeks ago about HDTV, and he said you could build an antenna using wire coat hangars to receive over-the-air HD broadcasts. I was skeptical, so I did a little research on the internet. You know, you can believe anything that's on the internet, right? I found a video on YouTube that showed how to make the antenna, so I got to building. All I had to buy was a $6 transformer from Radio Shack. I hooked it up to the TV, and I couldn't believe it. I was getting Fox, NBC, and CBS just by placing it behind the TV. I couldn't get ABC, so I figured if I could get the antenna higher it might work better. So I ran coaxial cable to the attic and attached the antenna to a board up there. Now we're getting Fox, NBC, CBS, NBC, NBC-Weather, WB, and some other channels I don't recognize. Here's a pic of my masterpiece hanging in the attic:

Free HD! No more satellite outages during storms!

We've also been looking into getting a baby monitor. These things are pricey, so I decided to get a bit more creative. You can get a wireless camera from Best Buy for a little over $100. It uses my wireless network to send audio and video to any computer on my network, or I can watch by going to a webpage using the device's IP address. Pretty cool I thought, and much cheaper than that crap they sell at Babies R Us. It can even start recording when detecting motion, and email the video to me. This may get some use when (or if) we're ever away for a few days since I can move it anywhere as long as it has reception and a plug. Here it is temporarily sitting on Jacob's crib:

 

Not exactly high quality, but here's a low-light snapshot from the camera:

It's been a busy couple of weeks....

With Kristine going back to work, we've been pretty busy. It seems there's hardly any time to do anything other than go to work, come home, cook dinner while trying to keep Jacob from having a fit, and go to bed. All of this at the same time we're trying to keep Jacob on a somewhat regular feeding schedule so we can get to bed before midnight. Thankfully, he's actually started to make it until about 4am every night. But it sure is hard to get back up at 6 when you just lied back down at 4:30.
I haven't had as much time to take as many pictures lately, but here's a few and a video of Jacob "dancing" on his play mat. You might notice that he's actually starting to outgrow some of his outfits (the dinosaur onesie). Kristine is planning on taking him to Portrait Innovations next weekend for his 3 month pictures, so we should have plenty of new pics next week.
(I have updated the pics so they are no longer linked from Photobucket. They should be better quality now, and you can click on them to enlarge. I couldn't upload directly to the blog last night for some reason.)