Jay McGavren's Journal

We're raising a young vampire...

Lenny bit me on the shoulder a couple days ago, then smiled as if it was a joke. A quick butt swat promptly informed him otherwise. When he was done wailing, I sat him down to talk about why biting was bad.

I guess it didn’t work. We got an incident report from the daycare last night that he bit another kid “while blowing bubbles”. And then in the evening, impatient because his grandmother couldn’t get a videotape playing, he smacked her in the hand.

Changes in staff at the daycare have left them short-handed, and Lenny also recently moved from the 1-year-olds’ room to the two-year-olds’. We figure both these things are causing stress. But I also have to wonder what those kids in the 2’s are teaching him.

My last theory is that it’s all a cry for attention; we’re simply not getting to spend much time with him at home. So after things were settled down last night, we turned the TV off, went to his room, and just played with his toys for a while. I intend to do more of the same whenever I can. We’ll see if that makes any improvment.

Finding middle ground is an important part of any relationship…

Diana has lost 60 pounds since I met her, and is now down to 210. And I have gained 30 pounds since I met her, and am now up to 210. :P

A Reuters poll released Monday shows Kerry with a three-point lead on Bush (finally). May the gap continue to widen!

Diana started clinicals today. She was up at 4:45 A.M, and out the door at 5:30. (After playing Fable until 11:30 last night, and then reading a novel until midnight. She’s a creature of habit.) Judy was afraid Diana would oversleep, so she got up as well, just in case.

All this blundering about woke Lenny up, of course. So although I’d been planning to sleep until the luxuriously late time of 6:15 AM, I instead had to rush through a shower while Judy kept an eye on him, then take over babysitting. He was in a good enough mood this morning, but I’m sure he’ll be a fussy wreck tonight from a lack of sleep. So will Diana and I. :(

Back to Sedona...

Diana was off school this week, so I took a couple days off as well, and we headed back to Sedona. We got some pretty good photos, and I experimented more with PT Assembler (the panorama software).

Most of them didn’t turn out so well (too many exposure differences), but this one’s nice: http://spook.myserver.org/images/jay_mcgavren/2004/sedona/sedona_1.jpg

Here’s the whole batch: http://spook.myserver.org/images/jay_mcgavren/2004/sedona