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Today Grandpa Rick told us he was going out for a pack of cigarettes and didn’t come back. Only later did we find out that he left us and went back home to Spokane. No, it’s okay, we’ll manage just fine without him. We don’t need that kind of drunk deadbeat around here anyway. It’s not like he did all of the laundry, cooked and cleaned up every meal, cleaned the house, stayed up with the babies until 4am every night, and brought good cheer to us all. We’re better off without him. Yeah, 12 days and nights on our own (well, except for when Tim comes) with me working all the time and two needy 7 week old babies. We don’t need him! And when he crawls back here again with Susan in just under two weeks, we won’t give him the time of day. That’ll teach him.

Wow, so it looks like it’s been over a week since I posted something. I don’t have any entertaining photos or videos this time – sorry to disappoint. It just wasn’t one of those weeks.

This past week we saw another changing of the guard when grandma Susan went home to Spokane and grandpa Rick came down to spend three weeks with his adoring grandchildren (and daughter and me too I guess). We had a two day period though before Rick got here that we were alone just the four of us and that was really hard. Taking care of two newborns is definitely a full-time two person job which Rachel and I could do, but it’s really hard considering that I have to work as well. That’s why the help from the family has been so amazing.

Jesse and Noah are now a month old, and while they’ve put on quite a bit of weight and length, they haven’t changed much. Jesse is still heartbreakingly and maddeningly fussy. We wish we could figure out what’s making him so uncomfortable. Noah has been much better although he’s been having some gastrointestinal distress too. Fortunately, it’s not making him too irritable. They still don’t track with their eyes or smile, but apparently that’s coming soon and they will be the first real developmental changes that we’ll see in them.

This weekend Rachel’s sister Bekah is in San Diego to compete in a physicians assistant conference and has been staying with us and helping out. It’s really great to see her and she’s been wonderful with Jesse, who always needs a little extra love. Yesterday our good friend Jamie came over and did our laundry, cooked for us, changed babies, and brought all around good cheer.