Precautionary ER visit

Last night we had a bit of an incident. I set Lauren down in her car seat on our kitchen table and then I stepped away. A couple minutes later Tracy and I were horrified to hear the crash of the car seat hitting the floor and Lauren fell out of it crying. She cried for several minutes and we were pretty scared. I decided we should take her to the ER just in case. She seemed fine, but there was no harm in taking her in anyways. As expected, they checked her out and everything was fine. It did take a while(about 4 hours total) between admitting, triage, seeing the resident, waiting for the attending and the discharge. I blame everything on my careless and my underestimating her mobility.

3 months already?

Tracy's 3 months of maternity leave is almost up, so that means Lauren will be headed to day care soon. The time has passed pretty quickly and our baby girl is growing up so fast. She's already outgrowing some of her 6 month outfits because she's over 90th% for height and weight for her age. We're happy that one of Lucas' favorite teachers at day care will also get to be Lauren's teacher too.

We've now gone to outsourcing, which is ironic given the current exchange rates. Although we're not exactly offshoring. I hired someone to do our taxes and someone to clean our house. Our tax guy seems good. Very experienced and reliable. We'll see how our new house cleaner does this weekend, but the rates are very reasonable. It's funny that we haven't done these before.

I've always done my own taxes because I didn't want to explain them to someone else, but it really wasn't that bad. The data collection is the hard part and I'd have to do that either way, and the explaining took only an hour or two. The thing that I'm buying with his services is peace of mind in knowing that things are done right and I'm not losing any big money due to missed deductions, credits or putting some item in the wrong line. Stupid complicated tax code.

Baby Day 4

We're home from the hospital. Tracy is doing well. Lauren seems to be a bigger and more consistent eater than Lucas was. This means she also sleeps more too. So far she's an easy baby to take care of, I hope this continues.

Baby pictures up

We've put up our first set of pictures of Lauren here