Wow, time flies.

'lil Q is now 6 and a half months old - gasp Mike finished his paternity leave and we have a nanny. I think the nanny tried out for Nanny 911 and was rejected as too over the top. First hour in the house she decided we weren't feed 'lil Q right. We had the order wrong - cereal then formula for breakfast and we didn't give her enough, etc. So basically we were idiots. Since I'm at work and Mike is home, I left it to him to deal with her. It took him almost a week before he set her straight. She's very nice, a bit quirky, but knowledgeable, maybe too knowledgeable. She thinks she has the only answer for how to raise the baby, but as those of you who've seen the her pictures can see, she is not under nourished or unhappy. Why change what's not broke?

What finally spurred my baby daddy into action was when the nanny informed us 'lil Q wouldn't eat any solid food. Well, no shit. Had she followed my instructions - I wrote out what I wanted and left her a note when Mike didn't address things - and given her the solid food first THEN the milk she'd have eaten both. Much to her chagrin Mike took control and 'showed' her how we wanted her to feed 'lil Q that seemed to annoy her but she got the message. She is OUR daughter and we decide what to do, not the nanny. Besides, the Doctor said she's doing great so again why change what's not broke?

On a better note, I love being a dad, it just makes my day, week, month, life when I come home and she smiles at me and holds out her arms for me to pick her up. She is such a good baby, rarely cries, always happy, etc, that I wonder what I did to deserve this. For those who said it would happen, you were right, she has me totally wrapped around her chubby little fingers and I couldn't be happier.

So am back to work, it sucks, but we got a new boss so that was better. I try to get home now in time to feed and bathe 'lil Q but some days I don't make it. THAT really sucks, but I'm working on it.

It's been hard to find time to write, as anyone who followed Purpose found out. But in addition, Anyta and I had a story picked up by a publisher so we had to do a bit of work on that. We're also working on another we hope they'll buy and I've been working with an editor on something else I finished - or so I thought before the editor got a hold of it. That would be the real reason I've been so silent. My free time has been taken up by other things. I won't say I'm back for good the way I used to be, but I'll give it a whirl. I've got a few more things to work on but no idea when I'll post anything other than an anthology. After the angst of not having Purpose finished before I started posting, I refuse to do that again. So it may be a while.

I'll try to post a few more pictures soon, I had to take down the others because they exceeded the size limit and i was trying to obey the limitations to keep GA working smoothly. I'll reformat things going forward to fit the limit. And I'll try to be a bit better about not waiting 3 months before I update.