Oh boy, time flies when you most want to hold on to it.

Months after the start of this blog, and I’m just now getting back to it.  Huge changes.  Not unexpected, but huge.

Monkey #2 has arrived!  Yup, it’s been that long.  Monkey #1 is now a year and a half old.  He’s walking, stringing a couple of words together at a time, and discovered screaming in public places.  I used to really dislike it when kids did that.  Actually, I still do dislike it, but now I feel sorry for all the parents that I thought black things of way back then.  Monkey #1 is not terrible about it, but it happens often enough to raise my hackles and not enough for me to become used to it.  He’s also really into cars.  Any kind of car, but especially big semi trucks.  We like in an industrial area, so there are tons of these when we drive around, and he loves them.  We once drove around next to a cement truck for a little while, and he was just ecstatic about that.  Not even Yoko makes him as happy as that cement truck.  

Monkey #2 is one month old.  He’s as cute as his older brother was, dimples and maybe the long eye lashes, but a cleft chin and lighter hair.

The heart-breaking part is that my wife has to go back to work in two weeks.  Six weeks of maternity leave sounds like a long time, but it really isn’t at all.  How can anyone expect a new mother to abandon a six-week old baby to the care of strangers?  And yet people have to do it every day.  We’re luckier than most, since my Mother-in-Law volunteered to watch the new baby for 3 months, so he won’t have to go to day care until he’s a whole 4 months old.  Monkey #1 will continue to go to daycare, since we don’t think she can really cope with the two of them.  Well, she could cope, but it would probably involve Monkey #1 watching lot of TV, which I just don’t like.