Flowers In His Hair

Come on everybody, sing along! "If you're going to San Francisco...be sure to wear some flowers in your hair!"

Well, between Loki & Whitebread, they'd be lucky to keep a flower behind their ear if they tried real hard - so I guess that I'll have to suck it up and wear the flowers for the whole family! The things I do for these boys...:)

I thought that I'd take a quick minute and talk about Loki's first West Coast Trip. (reference image to the left - taken in the grand tradition of Reagan's Airplane pictures!)

I would love to tell you how much Loki loved EVERY minute of his San Fran trip - but that might be a bit of an exaggeration. He didn't seem to mind it at all - but the reality of the situation is - he SLEPT through all the FUN stuff.

I don't think he ever even realized he was on an airplane because he slept through all four flights (much to the appreciation of the other passengers)!

I spent ALOT of time on this trip working - which was a HUGE wake up call for all of us. I'm not used to being away from the baby for so long and Whitebread isn't used to playing primary caregiver. We all survived - but not without a little threatening - Whitebread took Loki to Alcatraz to show him where bad babies go when they cause their father's too much trouble!

Turns out Loki helped WB score a few phone numbers. They were quite the chick magnets! Lucky for me - I kept all the airline tickets and credit cards - so they wouldn't be able to get home without me!

We had a GREAT time on the trip, but we didn't get to do hardly ANY of the fun things we had planned. I really wanted a picture of the baby in front of the bridge which just didn't happen and we didn't get to hit any of the restaurants we wanted. But we did get to take a Bay Quacker tour (you know the tours on those WWII amphibious mobiles - they go on land and water) - which Loki slept through! We were practically the only people on the tour.

We also got to try out the new Segway I2's!!! That was SUPER cool. They are WAY more intuitive than the old Segway's I used to tour on all day long.

And we did get to catch up with some of our friends, so that was nice. It just seemed like a whirlwind of a trip. More work than play. We're planning on going back in April - maybe we can make it a longer trip then.

April is really just around the corner - and it suddenly occurred to me that we'll have a ONE year old!!! WHOA! I'm not sure I'm ready for a toddler! Stace actually stressed me out the other day when she reminded me that Michael is coming up on his ONE year!!! I'm excited to hear about the party plans...

In other ODD news (not that anyone will be surprised - least of all - Scof), while we were in SF, my boss asked me if I wanted to run his company...A flattering offer, for sure! He's not really ready to make any sort of shift to that effect for atleast a year - but if I do accept, it will mean a move back to the Bay Area. I won't lie - there are certainly aspects of moving back to SF that are appealling - and just as many concerns and unappealling aspects. Luckily, no decisions have to be made in the too near future.

One decision that I did try to make yesterday, was to fire one of my assistants. She's just not working out. Some people are born telemarketers and she is more of a born barnacle. She's not getting us ANYWHERE. So, I tried to fire her yesterday and she started crying on me. I crumbled...so I told her that I'd try to find her something else to do....ACKKK - I don't know if I'm cut out for capitalism. SHEESH!

Kisses to everyone - we miss you all!!!