Catch All: Long time, no blog.

Well, in true Cook girl form, I started out with the flu, moved into a sinus infection, and ended (or so I thought) my reign of terror with bronchitis. I know, I know. Those of you that have known me since moving to Austin all know that anytime I get sick, it always ends in bronchitis. I should know this by now too but it seemed to have slipped my mind. Anyhow, I went back to the doctor Tuesday and he says bronchitis. He prescribed new meds. And, of course, I have a lovely little reaction to all this pill popping, a reaction that resulted in a full night of no sleep on top of all the other crap. Poor me. Poor Russ. I even feel sorry for our dogs who've had to put up with my vomitting, crying, moaning, groaning, and hacking cough. And now, I think it may be time for me to re-implement my mind over matter mantra. Let's just pray it works this time. (Yes, prayer is indeed in order here).

So, since I've not blogged in ages, let me catch you all up on what is going on, other than my sickness. You can see the Cook Clan News page for all family events of the month so I'll just focus on Russ and I (and the little Leech). We've both been pretty busy at work. Russ is just about to go into moratorium like they do every year around the holidays where no production changes are allowed until after the first of the year. Dell does this as a way of preventing any outages during the peak shopping season and while lots of people are out of the office for the holiday. So, this means that he's got projects galore making big changes. He's working long hours to keep up with the demand. I'm also busy at work with our flagship product releasing this month. Leechie is busy as well, growing and being very demanding with his/her food intake. This kid doesn't like meat much at all and is all the time "requesting" fruit (watermelon mostly) and veggies (cucumbers this week). The baby is 15 weeks old now.

In other news, Russ shaved his head last month a couple weeks before Halloween. I tried to get him to shave it last Halloween for his costume and he wouldn't do it but evidently, he made a promise to himself that when we got pregnant, he'd shave it. He even told some of his buddies that he was planning to do this. I had no idea! haha So, once the baby became public knowledge, he shaved his head. He let the boys help and boy did they have fun... first shaving his hair into a mohawk and then finishing it off. Here's a pic of Trenton (Jonson's friend) and Joseph with Mohawk Russ.



And here's a picture of Russ, freshly shorn.