Caleb, Micah, and my projects

Micah is doing great...eating and sleeping like a champ, but he's a bit gassy at times which tends to unsettle him a bit. Caleb is also adjusting wonderfully...he likes to hold Micah in his lap while sitting on the sofa. His only struggle is that he sometimes wants Mommy's attention while she's trying to feed Micah, but luckily he's getting over that, plus Mikki's mom bought Caleb a wooden train set to help distract him, which he plays with for about 90% of his waking hours.





During my time off for paternity leave (2 weeks), I have this trend of using it as an opportunity to work on minor projects around the house. When Caleb was born, we had just moved into this house, and I worked on snaking the cables from the flat screen tv behind the wall into a corner where the electronics are tucked away. This time, I built a decorative platform in the corner of the stairs. Here is the before and after shot...



Also, I've been working in the basement to get the room setup for Papa's pool table! The carpet in the basement was an awful forest green, so before we could do anything we wanted to get new carpet down there. Then this past week, I was removing one of the permanent shelves (on the back wall in the picture below) and reinforcing the bottom shelf to hold the TV that we also got from Papa. Just this afternoon, we had some guys come out to re-felt and level the pool table. It's all set to go now!



Caleb really likes to put the ball in the far corner pocket, listen to it roll down to the end, and catch it when it comes out.