{"id":60,"date":"2008-02-03T22:10:15","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T04:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/03\/five-week-old-on-monday\/"},"modified":"2008-02-26T09:52:57","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T15:52:57","slug":"five-week-old-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/03\/five-week-old-on-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Week Old on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2207\/2240385719_c6b85da3e0.jpg\" alt=\"5 weeks old\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Time is going by fast with these boys already and I can\u2019t express in words how much joy they bring me from just holding them and looking into their eyes. I just can\u2019t get enough of them. Even when I get home at 9pm I can\u2019t wait to hold them and feed them, even if I\u2019m tired. I normally try to take care of them until midnight or 1am so that Brenda can get some solid sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Not too much new going on, except that we\u2019re hoping to make some progress on the Nanny front. We\u2019re using an agency and have two selected for interviews sometime this week (I\u2019ll try to set it up tomorrow). We may interview more but we\u2019re just starting with two and will go from there. Both are very well qualified and it was exciting just looking at their resumes.<\/p>\n<p>Brenda is doing well and has lost all but 10 lbs. of her gained weight. She really looks like herself again and is starting to get her old energy back as well. She has her follow up appointment with the doctor in 2 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Today we spent the afternoon at Grandma Jane\u2019s house. The boys enjoyed the extra company, the new location (many new things to look at) and visiting with Grandma, Trina, Randi, Bridget, Emily and Kurt.<\/p>\n<p>I took some good video and will post a few short clips later in the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time is going by fast with these boys already and I can\u2019t express in words how much joy they bring me from just holding them and looking into their eyes. I just can\u2019t get enough of them. Even when I get home at 9pm I can\u2019t wait to hold them and feed them, even if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-text"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47XZT-Y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2071,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/29\/35-week-ultrasound-today\/","url_meta":{"origin":60,"position":0},"title":"35 Week Ultrasound Today","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"October 29, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"This morning we had our 35 week ultrasound, and all checked out perfectly. 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