I’m sitting here, all of a sudden stunned 8-O by the fact that Zevan is going to be one year old a week from Monday. He took his first steps today! He actually took 2 steps, paused, kept his balance, and took 2 more.

I’ve got a lump in my throat, and my gut aches with this feeling that my two little boys are growing up so fast. It seems like yesterday when Zander took his first steps.

It’s such a cliche, but it is so true.

I just found myself going through Zander’s website, looking at pictures of him at nearly one year old. Then the tears came… Just then, Zevan woke up and fussed a bit, and I went to him and got him back to sleep. Zander stirred and rolled over on his daddy, and I marvelled at his size now, compared to when he was Zevan’s age. He has no baby fat now, and when he was a year, he had that round chubby face and that square stature. I got all choked up while watching the two of them sleep, wanting to hang on to this time for just a little bit longer. And vowing to remember to enjoy it while I can.

I haven’t had time to write. When Doug goes on a business trip, it’s 24/7 of the Z-boys. We always spend one night at grandma and grandpa’s when he goes away. Keeps me sane

Candy and Misha (and Mike)
I visited Candy several times over the past few days, and finally got to hold and meet the baby. Misha is so tiny. And she looks just like Mike! Candy is supposed to be discharged today, but the baby will be staying for an undetermined amount of time. I didn’t get a chance to talk to Candy today, but I hope that she was able to get a room at the hospital so she could be close to Misha. I can’t even imagine having to go home without my baby.

Struck by a virus
My computer is hosed. Looks like some kind of virus. At first, my Outlook just kept hanging up, which isn’t that unusual, but this time, it just never opened. After I restarted the computer, I got a message saying that Outlook couldn’t find my .pst file, and lo and behold : IT WAS GONE!

By the grace of God, I just happened to have backed up the .pst file on Tuesday, and waited the 35 minutes for it to transfer over to the laptop (I almost didn’t!) before we headed over to Doug’s parents house. Of course, I never opened the laptop while I was there.

It’s so weird. I turned off all the computers when I left on Tuesday. I can’t figure out how this all went wrong. The new guy from PC Onsite is coming over to work on it tomorrow, and also take a look at our home network.