My parents came to town last week (Grandma and Grandpa Hoskinson), and we were really grateful for the help. We showed them more of the area, and they got to spend some quality time with their newest granddaughter. It was a good week in terms of us needing help, but not a great week in terms of me being able to spend time with my parents, since I'm closing in on a big deadline for a project at work... That's kind of how things go in architecture, its either slow or a mad rush. I usually don't mind the mad rushes too much, but it definitely sucks when you're trying to be home to hang out with your newborn baby and have visitors in town..
My dad took care of some business while in town, and they actually drove all the way to Grand Junction and back in a day for a meeting... Gorgeous drive (all the way through the Rockies), but 8 hours of driving is a lot in one day...
My dad helped me get in gear with getting the sprinklers started up (you have to blow all the water out in the winter and restart the whole system in the spring) and the fountain working. He also convinced us that we should get a whole house fan (which didn't take much convincing), and proceeded to spring for one! So we should have a nice cool house all summer (at least in the evenings) without having to use AC or a swamp cooler. Basically, the way a whole house fan works, is that you open up a window down low in the house after the sun goes down and the air starts to cool off, then you crank on this big fan up to the attic. It sucks all the hot air out of the upper floor, and at the same time pulls cool air through the open window, and also creates a cooling breeze in the house. Then the air blows through the attic and out attic vents. So you get natural cooling and fresh air through the whole house. Its way cheaper to run than A/C, the only downside is its less convenient since it takes more effort.
We'll do an update on how well it works once we get it installed
We're on our own for a while now, and Laina's still having some rough nights, so this week could be interesting..
I got to spend some good quality time with her this weekend. I took her out in the backyard this morning, and it was one of those moments where the weather is absolutely perfect. Not hot, not cold, in the shade, and just chillin' with my daughter. I'm hoping for a lot more of those moments. I started showing her all the different plants in the backyard, and started to really appreciate how much we get to teach her about the world over the next 18+ years. So there is some good stuff that comes with this parenthood thing.
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Jay did forget to mention one disturbing thing about Laina - she is losing her hair! I know it's perfectly normal for newborns to loose their hair, but for some reason I just thought my baby would not become bald!
She won't, you'll just wish she had:) The patchy look is only in in punk circles. We can lament about thinning hair on our mom date later this week!!!
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