First Trip

This weekend is the first time our child has been out of the state or on vacation. We're in Sevannah, GA for a family reunion. True he / she won't be seeing much this time around, but I think it's pretty cool to have the first trip be to the place the Pruitts are from (at least in recent history) and the place my Dad grew up.

A new look for Pruittville

Today we updated Pruittville.com with a new look. I wanted to say thanks to Gedy Rivera for dropping one of her unused templates my way as a starting point and saving me a lot of time. With so much to do lately, it's nice to skip a few steps here and there. We've got a photo update planned but there's still a good six and a half months until that's important.

Important: If you happen to be using Internet Explorer 6 (still) you might see a few problems. I'll get around to fixing that, but IE6 is a really bad browser and upgrading to IE7 is probably worth the trouble. Or, better yet, switch to Firefox, which really is a much better browser. Trust me on that.

Lovenox (Part III)

For about a week now I've been giving Danielle her injections of Lovenox (blood thinner). She still doesn't like it very much but apparently it feels better to have me do it for her. I'm not a huge fan of doing it, but I'm happy to do what I can to make it easier for her. Really the biggest problem is that I try not to hurt her so I don't try to jab her hard enough. Trying to be "gentle" seems to make the needle go in slower and those are usually the times it hurts her. When I really stick her (you know... pretend I'm aiming for a kidney or something) it seems to be OK.

Fun Facts:

For Danielle injections hurt worse on her right side

They hurt least closer to the front

Syringes still work when you pull the cap off badly and bend the needle

Inserting a needle half way and pulling out because you thought you missed is not the start of a romantic evening

Pregnancy is exciting in some ways and quite a strain in others. Right now, Danielle is sleeping on the couch with a heating pack on her face. Something started making her tooth hurt very badly at church this morning. Because of the pregnancy she can't take anything but Tylenol (which is basically a placebo). I end up feeling guilty because she seems to always be the one hurting.

At least as we sit down each night to give Danielle her injection, we can find joy in the fact that we're doing it together, and that there's a little love in every dose of Lovenox. (Barf.)

The stork came early… And tried to eat me

So with all this baby talk going on lately imagine my interest last Friday as a large wood stork came to the front door of my office and proceeded to attack it. I don't mean "walk into it out of confusion". I mean repeatedly try to injure the front glass door by biting and trying to impale. One of my coworkers chased it off, but it came back for round two. Oddly enough, Jonny was able to get rid of it by trying to feed it a fried plaintain from the cuban place down the street. Apparently this bird has a thing against fried fruit.

Given the rather violent nature of these birds I'm wondering how they ever got the reputation for delivering babies? They're mean and ugly and decidedly non-parental in nature. Needless to say I'm glad Danielle is taking this job into her own hands, as I don't trust this beast anywhere near my child. Danielle and I looked it up today and apparently these things are pretty closely related to vultures (which eat the dead). Figures.