blogs for the month of June, 2005
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13 June 2005
I'm back, after a long hiatus. As one might expect, a lot of things have taken place over the last eleven months (talk about lazy!). The biggest news is that our second daughter Mia was born on 20 March 2005. Unlike Amy, she's a hefty baby; she's not yet three months old, and already her weight is over half of Amy's (11.5 lbs vs 22 lbs). She had her first smile a few weeks ago (23 May) and since then is smiling regularly, usually in response to someone else smiling. Amy loves her sister dearly, but it was hard for her at first to get used to sharing Mommy. She's gotten more used to it now, although she still gets upset from time to time.
Meanwhile, Amy's speech has improved greatly. Although she's still behind for her age, she seems at least equal to some of the other kids in her Gymboree class. She's getting the hang of stringing together 4-5 word sentences, knows most of the alphabet (recognizes the letters), and can even count to ten.
Taking care of two kids is a lot harder than one. Mia doesn't get anywhere near the amount of attention that Amy did at that age, and Amy's not getting anywhere near the amount of attention that she's used to, and it's hard not to feel guilty about either of those, but what can you do.
The other big news is that after five long years, I've left Zentropy for a similar position much closer to home, at Homestore.com. Today is actually my first day and as might be expected, there isn't much for me to do, so here I am writing on the blog. It's a much larger company than ZP, with a really big tech department, so it's going to take a lot of getting used to being a small fish in a big pond. I'm also working on product development instead of client services, which is different, although code is essentially code, no matter where it goes.
