Carrots and Green Beans YUM!

Well I'm suppose to be writing a couple of scripts for clients here at work but I can't seem to get the motivation to make it happen so I figured I would write about my first favorite subject in the world. ASHER!

So we started Asher with carrots on Saturday. Carrie made them herself, not the carrots mind you but the mushed up carrots that we fed Ash. On first tasting he wasn't so sure but on about the third try he was slamming them down as if he was starving! When I get home I will try and post some pictures of the first carrot experience. I will tell you I was worried about it since it was something new but the boy took to it like a fish to water and he loves him some carrots. No lie. He just devours them.

So last night Carrie made green bean mush for Ash and low and behold the kid likes those too. We gave him his first bite and he was kind of like, this is different, it's green but my is it delicious! So he threw the green beans down like a man on fire. Seriously he ate a giant bowl of them for supper last night. I again was worried since it was a whole new experience for him but he didn't even bat an eye at them and devoured the bowl. I'm so proud of my little guy. I also got pictures of the green bean eating and will try and post those tonight or this weekend, when ever I have a free few moments.

Ash has crossed the 20lbs threshold as of last Friday so we needed to get him a different car seat. We got him the Cosco Alpha Omega Elite Convertible Infant Car Seat from Toy's R Us last night. We are going to try and instal it tonight and then have Jason's wife Gabby make sure we did it correctly. Carrie's cousin Jenny also gave us a convertible infant seat that is going to go into my car so I will have something for Ash in my car as well! Can't wait to try this out and I'm hoping it's not a ton harder to get Ash in and out of my car and Carrie's car than the one we currently have.

As for other things that are happening, my physical therapy is going great. My therapist is a friend of mine. We met in Lamaze class before we had Ash and their soon Liam is just 9 days apart from Ash in age. It was actually pretty funny yesterday I was at therapy and Dan was on the phone to his wife who was heading over to our house to hang out with Carrie and Asher! I'm laying on the table getting electricity pumped through my screwed up back and he's talking to his wife who is on the way to my house. Strange how this world works out ya know? As far as my back goes, it's getting better. I have good days and bad days so hopefully one of these days I will be back to normal. My buddy Jason here at work made a comment the other day that once you have back pain you have it for the rest of your life and I'm really hoping that's not the case, it would really suck to have to live with this pain for the rest of my life.

As far as the weight loss goes it's going quite well. I'm now down about 12 lbs and I'm feeling great. The exercise is great for my back and the dieting has been difficult but rewarding. It's the hardest at 9:00 pm when all I really want is a bowl of ice cream, but I walk away from the fridge and remind myself that if I want to live to see Ash graduate college and start a family I'm going to have to make sacrifices now and get healthy and get in shape. So there I am 4 mornings a week up at 5:00 am sweating like crazy on our elliptical blasting the iPod. It is working though and I'm feeling much better all around. It's funny too about the working out thing, a couple of other blogs I read namely Chuck Hoffman's and Dave McAnally's talk a lot about getting into shape again too. I'm older than both of those guys but we all come from the same rock and roll background. Maybe we are taking a lot of the misplaced energy of our rock and roll days and throwing them head first into something else we can devote all of our time to? I don't know but it's making me feel better.

I really want to start doing some creative stuff again. I feel it in my soul wanting to pour out of me. It was great when Jill was home, Deb and Jill would come over on a Sunday and give me uninterrupted time alone with my music to fill the void of creativity. Now with Jill gone and Deb's broken arm I am without that very appreciated convenience. I've been thinking about writing a screenplay though, unfortunately I have no idea how to do that so I consulted with one of my old professors Jay Edelnant about any books that he could recommend to me to get started. I have all of these ideas floating around in my head and I just don't have the time to get them out. I would really would like to start a new band that would sound somewhere in the world between Neurosis, Godflesh, Love & Rockets, Eyes of Fire and The Jesus and Mary Chain circa "Honey's Dead" ear or even the "Munki" era. But until Ash is much older I think the band dreams are going to have to be put on hold, and probably by then I will either have lost interest or be so out of touch that all the young bucks won't want to jam with the old geezer, but I guess the Rolling Stones and Ozzy are still going so maybe there's hope?

Well I should wrap this up and actually get some work done today. So...

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