Week 27 - Sitting up

Week 27 Picture

It's amazing how much things change in the life of an infant over the course of a week. You miss a day or two and you may miss a dramatic developmental milestone. For example, I came up to Denver early last week to take care of a few things. During that time I was separated from my wife and little boy while she took care of business down in Pueblo. It wasn't too long, just a few days, but even in that short period of time, Jay's motor-skills had developed dramatically. When I left him, he was not sitting up on his own. When I next saw him, he was using his new sitting up skills to allow him to better manipulate and interact with the world around him. It's hard for me to believe sometimes that this little ball of energy and personality was once a little ball of helpless flesh that just about fit in the palm of my hand.

Although it's been nice having some time off and being around our families, this has been a really weird transition for Kimbre and me. On my part, I feel stuck in a weird in-between situation where I don't really quite belong in Denver anymore yet I also don't really quite belong at OSU. Things will get better once we get settled in and Oregon and all the moving parts fall into place, but by and large this drawn out move has been a good lesson in the value of having a home base - a place that you call your own. Still, I'm grateful that we have the luxury of imposing on our families like this to make an already stressful situation a whole lot less stressful. Not everyone has access to such a great support network and for that, we count ourselves lucky.