Brian is working on applying to post-docs and faculty positions in addition to working at his old lab as a post-doc. We recently started hiring a family friend to babysit Rosie for a few hours a week in-house so I can get a little more concentrated time to work on Renovation and some writing I'm doing. After I finish revising a couple of articles about how to edit and create articles on Wikipedia I hope to return to the TAFF report and get the next segment out for publication.
Tomorrow we go to the fourth gathering this year for friends who are moving out of Michigan in pursuit of better job opportunities (accounting for 7 friends who've moved or are moving). Presumably we'll join those ranks if one of Brian's applications pans out, but we're expecting to be here at least through June. I don't know to what extent we'll attend Penguicon. Brian probably won't, while Rosie and I might stop by.
I'm enjoying visits with old teachers and neighbors and classmates, coworkers, and other friends while we're in town. It's fun to show off the kiddo. Last Saturday we went to a gaming party over at
She continues to be a very happy kid, which I am cherishing. She's generally sleeping 4 to 6 hours in a row at night, plus a couple 2-hour blocks after that. Eating many solid foods but still breastfeeding regularly throughout the day. Baby cuddles are so nice! And I love how she giggles when I pretend to eat her up, "nom nom nom nom!" We had our second class in the pool with her this morning. I'm glad Brian and I are doing those together. Most of the kids in the class only have one parent in the water with them. I recently got a baby book called "Daddy kisses" out from the library and later really enjoyed watching Brian read it to Rosalind, pausing in all the right places to demonstrate how the daddy animals were kissing their little ones (on the ear, on the paw, etc).
We're still tired a lot, but this is generally a happy time. And the weather's getting warmer! Yay!
Yesterday Rosie and I went outside for a walk and some quiet reflective sitting after I read of Mike Glicksohn's passing. She got to sit in the grass for the first time in her life! And put some in her mouth, of course. I was gifted by a phone call from
It all goes too quickly. All of it.