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Yesterday we took Owen to the De Young museum to see the visiting exhibit of Dale Chihuly glass. He liked all the pretty colors! The pictures are not great (phone camera, low light, no flash allowed) but you get the idea. If this show comes to your area, it's well worth it. In other news... it's not easy to find time for blogging lately. Eric and I are both working like mad and mostly collapsing at the end of the day. Owen has had a cold for about a week now, which he gave to both of us, and we think he's teething - lots of fussiness and chewing. On a more positive note, he has mastered rolling back-to-front and can occasionally manage front-to-back. We need to go buy a high chair next so we can start him on solid food.

Some photos from the past month: 1. Chilling in his crib; 2. All the milk that we stored over the course of the summer to donate to the San Jose Mother's Milk Bank (approx. 1 gallon); 3. Owen's uncle Patrick; 4. Owen and his uncle Darren; 5. Owen in the Red Sox onesie Darren and Kate brought him from Boston. News: We have a rolling baby! Sometime in the night last Wednesday (or early Thursday a.m.), he got from his back to his tummy. Since then he has turned into a dedicated side sleeper.

Non-Owen-related post: If you, like myself, were once an avid reader of the comic strip For Better or For Worse , only to become disheartened and finally disgusted by the begging-for-deconstruction train wreck it became, yet unable to look away as Liz's sentencing, oops I mean "wedding," to the Most Boring Man Alive unfolded in excruciatingly slow motion all this summer, run don't walk to this blog .

We made it through the first week of classes. Owen continues to do very well in day care. I am somewhat amused when I drop him off in the morning because all the toddlers are crying and Owen is completely calm. I'm sure our turn will come in a few months, once he gets old enough to have separation anxiety. It's Owen's four-month birthday today. Here are some of the things he's been up to lately: 1. Hand control. He's made amazing progress in the last month with the use of his hands. It's basically no big deal to him anymore to see what he wants, reach out, and grab it. 2. Laughter. He's laughing every day now. The other night he actually cracked up. He was lying in his crib trying to convince me he wasn't tired (cooing, smiling adorably) and I was trying to keep my go-to-sleep "game face" (neutral expression, avoid eye contact). Eventually I just had to laugh, and then he started laughing, got completely carried away, and didn't stop for at...

The man hit the big 6-0 today, and he's on about four different painkillers for a herniated disc, so give him a psychic hug if you are reading this. In other news... I went back to work last week. Owen seems to be adapting to day care very well, and I got out of several boring pre-planning meetings to go over and nurse him, so that was not too bad. Classes start tomorrow. Our back-to-school week was completely tumultuous this year because someone decided to buy the entire faculty new tablet PCs for classroom use. Sounds like a good thing, right? Uh, except that: 1. Tech training sucked up a whole day of pre-planning week, and; 2. Everyone has to transfer all of her files to the new machine, and; 3. The PC users all had to learn Vista, and; 4. The Mac users all had to learn Windows, and; 5. This was all just dumped on us with no sense of buy-in whatsoever. Did I mention that practically my whole department were Mac users? Several of whom have NEVER used Windows?

AAAUGH I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S EVEN MORE F***ING BEACH VOLLEYBALL JUST SHOOT ME NOW....