but no worries, everything’s just fine. yesterday afternoon she was having some pain and called the doctor and told him just what was going on. so, we went to the hospital and they hooked some stuff up to her and determined that she was having premature labor. they gave her a bunch of water to drink because they thought that she was a little dehydrated. that didn’t help so they gave her some shots and that didn’t do it either. after that they decided to keep give her magnesium sulfate and keep her for 24 hours and see what happens. that seems to have done the trick, but now she’s on bed rest for the next two weeks. we’re both pretty bummed out about that. but, anyway, everything’s just fine and she should be coming home any minute now…
UPDATE:
jana’s home now and everything’s cool. they have her on modified bedrest which basically means that she can walk around and do stuff, just not for too long. she’s only supposed to go up and down the stairs once per day (like that’s going to happen) and try to stay down as much as possible., also, she can’t lift anything over 5 pounds. i have a feeling i’m going to a lot more busy…
…so i started to thinking, ‘how do they do those? i should try and do that.’ so i did. i’ll admit it’s a pretty weak counterfit, but this was just my experiment to see if i could even come close and i think i did. try and ignore the really bad music editing as i was kind of rushed. maybe i’ll try and do a better one. though this attempt, small as it was, was really tedious and took a couple of hours so, we’ll see. anyway, let me know what you think, or if any of you have any ideas on how to do it better.
p.s. – i was in my pajamas as i recorded this. they’re not some sort of gay pants.
okay, i don’t want to boast too highly of my child’s skillz but this one is off the charts. so lily has been hanging out with our friend’s kids on occasion and they’ve taught their kids some sign language so that they can communicate more effectively before they learn to speak. it’s pretty cool. well, the other day our friend dena had been watching lily and when jana picked her up she asked jana if we’ve been teaching lily sign language also.
being the lazy parents that we are, we haven’t seen the need to teach our child any “signing” other than the little bits that she picks up from me in my moments of road rage. jana told her that we had not and dena said that she thought lily had been signing “more” to her. sure enough, when jana was feeding her later, lily would say more (as best as she can), and do the sign for “more”. they came to the office today and i made lily do it several times just to make sure. i would say more and she would immediatly do the sign.
is that crazy or what?! i went online just to make sure that this was legit and according to www.signingbaby.com, this is the real deal. so lily just picked all of this up by watching other babies do it. i’m thinking about having her teach me.
here’s a certified pro showing us that she also wants more.
i know this took a while to get up here, but better late than never i guess. this video is pretty long (almost 5 minutes) so if you have a slow connection, i wouldn’t even try it.
here’s the documentation of lily’s first haircut. she tried to be brave. she really tried. but the whirling blades and liquids being sprayed at her face got the best of her. i hope you enjoy the show.
so, saturday september 3rd, i went to see a band that i’ve been eagerly anticipating for a while now. the retribution gospel choir is a musical surprise comprised of two men from bands that i’ve been heavily into for years. alan sparhawk from low and mark kozelek from red house painters. seperately these respective bands are the embodiment of mellowness, but when their forces are combined, the rockers buried deep within their hearts are set free and unleashed on the crowd.
this new side project is definitely still rough around the edges as they are themselves figuring out just where they want to go, but the spirit of it is there and resonates clearly. they played mostly obscure covers from bands like the rolling stones, and pink floyd and occasionally played a tune from their own catalogs. below are links to photos that i took as well as some videos that i shot. i hope you dig it.
our friends, brady and dena, had family in town and dena’s father is a photographer. well, he took some really great pictures of lily and brady and dena’s daughter, maddie. check them out.
if you want some music with soul, you want jeff buckley. if you’ve heard of jeff buckley then i’m sure you have heard the story by now: a mega-talented, one-in-a-million artist gets discovered and records a landmark debut album that is critically acclaimed by just about everyone. in the middle of recording his second album, he drowns and the world has lost a legend in the making. seriously tragic. well, luckily many live recordings of buckley exist. on of which is ‘jeff buckley live at sin-e’ which features 4 amazing songs. well, columbia released the legacy edition of ‘live at sin-e’ a couple of years ago. the legacy edition is pretty much everything they recorded during those two sessions. it includes 33 tracks on two discs and one dvd with four live songs. if you like what you hear at all here, go out and buy his first full length, ‘grace’ which you can pick up rediculously cheap. once you’ve got that down i recommend this legacy edition of ‘live at sin-e’. before he died, his second album was in the works and the bulk of the tracks were recorded. they mixed it post-mortum and released it as ‘sketches for my sweetheart the drunk’. i have to say that that album is really rough. the skeleton of the songs is in place but it’s really apparant that these songs are not the way that they were meant to be heard, so i would save this album until later on in your jeff buckley development.
…so i started to thinking, ‘how do they do those? i should try and do that.’ so i did. i’ll admit it’s a pretty weak counterfit, but this was just my experiment to see if i could even come close and i think i did. try and ignore the really bad music editing as i was kind of rushed. maybe i’ll try and do a better one. though this attempt, small as it was, was really tedious and took a couple of hours so, we’ll see. anyway, let me know what you think, or if any of you have any ideas on how to do it better.
okay, i don’t want to boast too highly of my child’s skillz but this one is off the charts. so lily has been hanging out with our friend’s kids on occasion and they’ve taught their kids some sign language so that they can communicate more effectively before they learn to speak. it’s pretty cool. well, the other day our friend dena had been watching lily and when jana picked her up she asked jana if we’ve been teaching lily sign language also.
so, saturday september 3rd, i went to see a band that i’ve been eagerly anticipating for a while now. the 
