Mia in Oregon
Many thanks to Elaine Davies, the
Paternal Grandmother, out in Frenchglen, OR. Elaine has consented to share with
the readership, her updates on Mia’s growth, during Mia’s stay with the Davies’
clan. It was Elaine and Grandpa Stacy who took the hand off of Mia out in
Boise, ID back on the 19’th of February.
Thanks Elaine for being a
contributor to “The Rooster Crows”.
Mia’s father, Zed Davies is one of,
and the oldest of six boys Elaine has raised. So, this five week bonding
session with Mia is a whole new experience for Elaine.
Below is Elaine’s first update received by the Eastern Shore
contingent.
Mia and Grandpa Stacy, with the cattle watching her drive.
By the way, Happy Birthday Grandpa, February 28'th, ????
Week
1 of Mia is complete. The hand-off went better than expected as has our
transition here in Oregon. Mia kept us laughing and loving her for over
an hour in the truck on the way home from the Airport as we fully comprehended
she was really here, after all the anxious anticipation and preparation...then
she slept for the final 2.5 hours home.
Our biggest challenges as a family is
remembering that there's a baby in the house. Our boys are the youngest
and totally not accustomed to being somewhat quiet and just bust into rooms
talking loudly and that usually surprises Mia awake. At first we thought
she would never sleep a full stretch of time before getting woke up.
Mia was on marathon awake mode for about four
days - never sleeping more than 1 hour during the day and 4 hours at night at a
time. At day five, the East/West coast time adjustment hit her and she
decided sleep was OK. She has since slept all night -going to sleep
at 8:00 and only fussing once around 4:00 am and sleeping
until 7:00 - 7:30 each night. She plays for a few hours after
morning bath and naps around 10:00 a.m. She sometimes dozes off for 1/2 hour or so in the afternoon and the boys play
hard with her in the evenings.
Mia has been to high school basketball games -
she prefers the sound of Pep Band to dribbling basketball and immediately finds
the mascot to introduce herself to. The wrestling tournament was exciting
to watch until a dad in the crowd decided to coach his boy very loudly in the
audience behind us and Mia thought he was mad at her. After getting over
being offended and upset, she realized that it's totally OK to yell and clap at
these events and not to take it personally.
She visited Grandmas Seminary
class one day to meet the kids, has helped Grandma in the office a few times,
mostly to help redecorate and clean off all flat surfaces for us. We took her to a feedlot to check cattle and
when pointing to cows and saying "MOO" over and over for inspiration,
we realized she wanted to watch the small Chihuahua dog following us along as
security. She did get to help grandpa drive the truck and helped back the
trailer into a pen to unload some calves we hauled there.
Her birthday was a bit uneventful because it was
on the day of Scott's final basketball game being played 6 hours away
at 3:00. We spent that day on the road. She loves meeting other small people her size
and always steals their pacifier, even though she has NO interest in hers.
She is about 50/50 on regular milk and cow’s
milk now. We hope to have that change complete in 4 weeks. We hope
to have her totally not waking up at night and her to have a larger vocabulary. Her skin remains baby soft but I'm watching it
constantly and applying the medications as noted. She's just so busy! She never - hardly ever crawls anymore, choosing
walking everywhere and running if she thinks I'm chasing her like she's done
something bad. Pretty cute!
All the boys adore her and she loves them but
she seems to be drawn to Scott the most. Only half of the clothes she has fit her, but
that's OK, her closets are full in Mississippi and she will be there before we
know it.
Face Time and Google Hangouts are a part of her
life and she enjoys them as long as they don't interfere with her games and
business. She's adorable and we all are loving this
experience totally.
This week is super busy, and we'll see how she
does when she meets some new family members and tries new foods.
Elaine
Where in the World is
Jeff Berthiaume?
If all goes well Jeff
will be in Las Vegas as we read this edition. Jeff’s Fire Alarm training and
certifications come under the auspices’ of the NFPA.
Jeff is providing input to future testing measures the Association uses to certify
Fire Protection Technicians and Engineers.
With Jeff spending a
fair amount of time in the Desert, I thought I'd include a link to one of the
Embassy sites over there. Just click ( Here) find
out what the U.S. is doing with your money $$$ over yonder. Robert S
Beecraft is the current Ambassador.
If you'd like to bond
with Mia, just head north Jeff. I'm sure Stacy could find a nice steak for you,
should you come by.
Frenchglen, OR
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The Weather on the Shore
We had a bit of a break
in our winter freeze last week, it actually up to 72 deg. Last Friday. However,
that Polar Vortex thing is returning and tonight’s (02/26) expected low is 9
deg. The people way up north in Vermont have
a saying about winter, ”It ain’t over till mud season starts”. My
grandson David is up there in Vermont, do you hear that David? A good thing
Grannie made you a Quilt for graduation. We sure won’t see mud way down here
for a while either. At least the snow has stayed north of us. They're looking
for another storm to move in on Sunday, March 2'nd.
Who’s Pulling the Wagon?
The Socratic
Club of Oregon State University in 2012 presented two views on
the Affordable Care Act, AKA, Obama Care. The Socratic Club has had a number of
their Philosophical debates come out on You Tube. “Who’s Pulling theWagon” is one of them.
It's a philosophical discussion of the "Affordable Care Act". I’m
sure some of the readership here will not take the time to watch the video,
then again, some of you will. I’m always searching for answers to just about
everything. For leading me to this web site, a big thank you to my very
dear friend Amal. Should you find this interesting, go to the Socratic Club web
site to learn more.
TILoL
So what the heck is
Tilol? Tilol is, Things I Like on Line. Does anyone care,
doesn’t really matter, my Blog, my content. If anyone ever reads
this and they choose to check out the site and try something they
find here worthwhile, I’ve contributed something to someone.
So, number one is the Search Engine DuckDuckGo, check it out, check out the
reasons not to use some of the other sites and make your own decisions. This
article from Brockpress appeared
on February 26’th. DuckDuckGo competing with Google? The
Brockpress is the school paper for Brock University in Canada. That’s the
country north of us, some call it “America's Attic”.
Number two is a weather related site, I’m a Weather Junkie in case you didn’t
know. The site is Weatherspark.com. It
has what I consider some really good offerings for the weather junkie.
The Weather Channel offers a lot of different facts and recently
they had
Just as a side note, do any of you out there have Directv for a TV
source? If so, are you upset
with the Weather Channel controversy? Directv TV has dropped the
Weather Channel and
now uses Weather Nation, a 2'nd rate program at best. Personally I
don't miss it.
I have more than enough resources here on the Internet. Since
we live a remote area, with lousy reception and no cable, Directv is one of the few
options for our viewing pleasures.
Oh, did I mention old Copper phone lines also? Our NBC feed just happens to
come out of Philadelphia and they (Channel 10) are a great weather source, even being 139 miles
away. Has anyone ever seen Glenn Hurricane Schwartz? Glenn is a unique individual who's always sporting a Bow tie.
To all of you out there in readership land, I
bid you farewell for this edition.
Be Safe, Be
Kind and Semper Fi from The Rooster Crows.
