Today I

• Steered the 4-, with breard, JJ, McHugh. I got us to relax our front end, place together, then push, and we basically beat everyone all day.  I got major kudos for the coaching/ coxing from the bow.
• I took little man to daycare, and did a quick hand off to Xana.
• Found out form work that Paul S may want to move the sales analyst staff to my team, finally.  Shocker.  I'll need to be gracious and good.
• Johann's PT came by for the first time today. She's largely assessing him.  she thinks a lot of it is core strength, and he needs to get some leg strength too.  We'll have to work with him every day. She'll send exercises.
• Johann's signing is coming along great. He does "flower" and "eat" very well.  He's enjoying being able to ask for what he wants.  It's great to see him connectin the dots.
• I worked late on an SQL problem.  It was tough, I didn't get much time with little man. I think I finally got it, though.  Will help me tomorrow.

Today I

• Woke up in the tent in the side yard with Johann.  I set it up yesterday, and showed it to him, and he was ok with it, but not super interested.  I put the air mattress, but also the orange mats, and then Kel put just about every pillow in the house around the air mattress.  When it was time to go in, all three of us went in, but once he got fussy and needed to settle in, Kel left us.  He kept crawling for the door, but then I told him we were sleeping there,and he followed my lead.  Eventually he drifted off to sleep, and so did I.  He woke up in the night crying, i think he was a bit cold, even though we dressed him in a pretty fleecy- sleepy suit. At first he didn't want to be covered with his blanket, but then he settled in on top of me, and fell asleep.  We slept like that a bit, him on my belly, me on my back.  Eventually he moved off, next to me, and i could cover him with my blanket, and he did fine.  He just slept perpendicular to me, which was tough, but I managed.  It was a successful night.  He really liked the head lamp.  Was super excited about the light.  This morning I bounced him on the air mattress.  
• Kel went to swim, so I took mini man to see about the beer judging.  Turns out it wasn't awards, but judging happening that day.  So I took him ot he farmer's market in the pack.  I think he got sunscreen in his eye, it was red and teary, poor guy.  We got a roasted chicken and potatoes, and KEl eventually found us over there, after missing finding us the first time.  I got two tomato plants, a black cherry and a pineapple.  WIll eb interested to see what I get.
• Johann fell asleep on the way hiome, and I managed to get him out of his seat while still asleep, and into his crib, where he slept for about 3 hours.  I'm guessing he didn't have the greatest night sleep last night.  Good to note for future camping.
• I packed up the tent this afternoon.  It was nearly 100 today. I also transferred all the medicinal plants to their final pots.  They seem to be doing OK.
• Kel made a Tahi curry with coconut rice for dinner, and it was good.  Johann inhaled his and wanted more.  His signing is getting better, and he's using "yes" more spontaneously, and seems to understand "flower" and can say where his head is when asked.  This is good.
• Kel announced that she needs more cookies so I baked a batch for her.
• Jon and ROmi came over to wath season 4, ep 9 of game of Thrones with us.  Jon brought a blackberry sour from Almanac.  SUPER sour.  Very tart. 

Today I

• Slightly late to the boat house for the weight circuit.  I started on station 3 with Tom Peters and Brian Kelly.  I managed to move though without too much trouble, but by the time I got to the front squats, my lower back- IT band area was pretty shot.  There's something I'm doing which wears it out, and then I'm just done for the circuit. I managed the pace, etc for everything else OK, but I need to drop my splits on the 30 second erg.
• Got home and munchie had been up with Kel since 6.  He wanted Oliver to go along in his daycare bag. He kept trying to put Oliver in there on the way out, and he looks for Oliver there when I pick him up.  He was a bit sad when I left him at daycare.
• My back was killing me, so I ended up napping accidentally after I lay down to rest it.
• I worked on helping Dina realize there was a problem with some tables, which is why her SQL wasn't working.  I felt useful, once more.
• I reviewed some designs for a mortgage calculator. And tried to write somemethodology stuff.
• I picked up Johann and tried to take him to the park.  Once more, he doesn't want to be down, he wants me to hold him, and he just kneels and cries that I don't hold him.  He doesn't want a hug, or to try to walk, he just wants me to hold him.  I almost left, but gave him a shot at the swings.  That didn't go too well, either.  I put him down in the grass with all the clovers, hoping the flowers would distract him.  It sort of half worked, he was interested in the kids playing on the big kid gear who had arrived in their dad's bike trailer.  It was enough to get him to stop grumping.  He played with a clover, and I made the mistake of taking out my camera to take pictures.  He saw it, and then wanted to get it from my cargo shorts pocket.  I tried to distract him with cheese stick, which worked a bit, but he wanted me to do something with the half eaten stick, and I had no idea what he wanted me to do.  He got frustrated, though, and so we left.  
• Back home, Kel had made his dinner, and she fed him.  It's hard to get him to not beg to be picked up and to also not sit on his MCLs, so we focus on one thing at a time.  He ate well while I tended to the garden a bit.  
• I talked with Jim on the phone about hotel bookings for IN. That seems mostly set.

Today I

• Up to row.  4- with Alan, (dude from Saugatuct) me in 3, and Noah stroking.  We did ok.  Lots on 1' on, 1' off stuff.  By the end our on @ 30 was decent.
• Gave Mike Stralka the dry hopped saison.
• John Zorn gave me a kid carrier backpack suitable for a larger child.  This will be great for Johann.
• I hustled home, got Bug up.  I made the first squash flower of the year and gave it to him, along with some leftover batter pancakes.  He ate them all. I put him in a dark blue shirt and some corduroy.
• I got online and helped set up the framework for agent-facing development projects to get done.
• I booked my London trip for post-Indiana.  I feel a bit nervous about Kel going home solo.
• I got little man from daycare.  He had a hard time again tonight with me not picking him up on demand.  But after a big stand off, he settled down, and then got down to playing, and it was pretty good.  I offer him hugs, but I won't pick him up, so he's got all the comfort and snuggling he could want. I don't want him to feel abandoned.
• Kel fed him some of the chicken and corn from Sunday, and then later he had some of my spinacha nd eggs and mushroom scramble.  He really liked it.
• I saw him climb up onto the grey couch for the first time.  He's really good at it.
• I mae butternut squash soup.  Didn't get to eat any, but that'll be for later.
• Kel got news on her knee.  Meniscus tear that may be fine on its own, so will wait it out.  But she also got news that she'll probably need kneecap replacement at some point, because there's so much wrong with her knee. She had a scotch when she got home.  I think in the future, she'll have better knees than now.  Just need to find the right surgery.  She wants to get a bit lighter still, which is probably safe to do and could make it a bit easier on her knees, for sure.

Today I

• Slept with Kel for the first time in a while last night.  She's back to sleeping well enough in the night that it's not disruptive for me to be with her.
• Up for Kel to go swim. Fed little man "life" cereal which he liked to dip in yogurt. He fed himself OK with it.
• While Kel was out he did manage to sign for "flower" with a small prompt and then nodded "yes" t confirm.  So we went over to the flowers and he got to touch them.  I never know if he got lucky, or if he means it.  I hope it's progress. 
• I set up the brown tent yesterday for Johann to experience so we could possibly try some camping.  He was mildly interested.  Didn't hate it, but it wasn't the most astounding thing, either.
• Kel fed him lunch of some synthetic kids pasta, which he soundly rejected.  Thank goodness.  He napped, Kel napped.  
• Skyped with Jenni Dearlove. Ceci did some solo standing.  It's hard to watch kids developing at a normal pace, who are 6 months younger and doing things Johann can't do.  It's making me really nervous.  People say he'll catch up, and I think that he will,I just worry there's something wrong that we don't understand yet.  I hope there's not, but it's really hard not to worry.
• Kel watched munchie while I did a 20 min "aggressive" piece.  managed 5477m, or 1:49.5 average,  i was aiming for 1:50, and it was pretty hard, especially the last 4 minutes or so.  I reminded myself that I go faster than this for 10k when I'm trained up for it, so I held on.  I'll need to start working if I want to be compelling for HOCR.
• Tyler & Rebecca and Family came over for dinner.  SO good to see them all again.  I cut up pineapple and grilled dinner.  Chicken thighs, which I had to try not to catch on fire, but still tried to get cooked, and mushrooms and asparagus and corn.  Good stuff.  Tyler still assumes I know more than I do.  He's kind and clever.  I kind of which I had stayed in school longer, done the Dr of something.  But nothing interested me enough for that, I don't think.
• Little man just woke up at 11.  I think he had a bad dream. I gave him some milk and some snuggles and let him go back to sleep.