So today was my first day back at the office. It wasn’t a full day, just half days this week, but that’s still enough, when Daniel is only a month old, and gets up every 2 – 3 hours. I got up at 5am and feed Daniel, instead of going to bed, I figured I should clean bottles, and get ready for work. So I cleaned the bottles, showered, then sanitized the bottles and headed off to work. So far not bad, I got to the office around 6:50am so it was pretty productive hours, then a little after 8am I think I was hitting a wall, but luckily Paul brought me in a cup of coffee, and that helped me make it through the rest of the morning. I had a meeting, and just worked on getting in the groove of being back in the office.
We got even more snow today, and I think or is still snowing outside right now. Around noon today I went out and figured that I would shovel the driveway in stages, mainly so I would finish it and not get too tired. Papa helped which was great, we got the birm done out by the road and the turnaround area done, and decided we should take a little break. Before coming in I decided I should measure this new snow and we had a new 5 inches of snow. Which is totally crazy since we already had close to 10 inches. I finished shoveling the driveway right before dinner, and the snow was still falling, tonight we are supposed to get another 1 to 3 inches but we might get worse and the wing is picking up, so we might have some big drifts in the morning as well.
Sharmaine made the long journey down to visit us this weekend, dispute the snow. Unfornutately the normal 4hr trip took over 7, but she made it here safely. I spent a hunk of Sat morning shoveling her car out as she got a little stuck in the driveway when she pulled in Friday night. Later in the afternoon, I went out again to do more shoveling, and a guy who was plowing the church across the street, saw the work I had left and drove over and asked of I would like his help. Of course I said with very little hesitation and after like10 minutes he was done with what would jaw probably taken another 3 hours.
Thank you guy with the snow plow
So it is official, I am a dad. This picture below kind of sums up the past week. It included a lot of firsts, nights of minimal sleep, a whole lot of diapers, staying home for a whole week, only wearing shorts all day even though it is like 20 degrees outside…
This week has been a lot easier with Corrine’s parents here. They have helped with the transition, by helping with the day shift, so Corrine and I can nap from taking the night shift. We are starting to learn the different cries and what some of them mean. So we are getting a little better with that. The first few nights, we didn’t know the difference between a “I have gas”, “I have a dirty diaper” , & “I am hungry”. So we are learning, and I guess that is the first lesson of fatherhood, “Learn from your kids, they are trying to teach you something.”
So here are a few pics, and there are more in the photo gallery. The link to the photo gallery is to the right…
I know I will add more as time goes on, but this is what I have so far… 
Enjoy the pics…
