Trick or treat!

I'll send out more pictures of our haunted house when I get back
inside (I'm currently outside handing out candy).

Another shot...

Of Ethan in his favorite swing.

Now that's a baby having fun!

Daddy put together this portable swing that aunt Sue and Em got for
little Ethan. He LOVES it! He has probably already spent 4 hours
sleeping in it.

I love halloween!!!

I'm sitting here glued to my computer listening to Allison Dubois on KISS FM. Wow, this is good stuff. Some of these people that are calling in seem pretty goofy. I don't know if you guys believe in this stuff but I really do. I pulled the picture tothe right from here: http://www.knbc.com/slideshow/entertainment/14378935/detail.html?source=rss_offbeat

I'm going to go up in the atic and pull down a bunch of our Halloween stuff to set up the outside of the house for tonight with the Trick or Treaters. Tonight I'm also going to be handing out sheets for the neighborhood block watch for people to sign up to be street capitans as well as give the block watch information in case anyone sees something that is happening to or near somone's house we can then let them know.

Happy munchkin

Bruce Cork

Wow.... I was just going through Wikipedia looking for names to use for another blog that i want to start that talks about things I'm buying, using, techniques I use at work... basically the stuff I like. I typed in Cork in wikipedia and it came up with the following text:

"Cork (surname)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cork is a surname.
People
named Cork include:
Bruce Cork (died 1994),
American physicist "

Clicking on the link for uncle Bruce took me to a stub on him:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Cork

I was thinking about talking to Grandma and Grandpa and documenting more on his life here in Wikipedia. Post a comment and let me know what you think about me doing that.

I thought I would post the article here in case it gets taken off the public site where I found this:

Bruce Cork

Bruce Cork, a former high-energy physicist in LBL's Accelerator and Fusion Research Division, died on October 7 after a lengthy illness. He was 78.

Cork came to LBL as a graduate student and research assistant in 1946, joining the group working with Luis Alvarez on the linear accelerator project. He had previously worked with Alvarez on secret radar research at MIT.

A native of Peck, Mich., Cork had attended the University of Michigan, Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, Columbia University, and MIT before his education was interrupted by the war. He completed the work towards his doctorate at UC Berkeley, and received a Ph.D. in physics in 1960. He became a member of Fred Lofgren's physics group, and participated in the group's experiments on scattering of strongly interacting particles, discovery of production of antineutrons, and measurement of nonconservation of parity in the decay of strange particles. He spent a year at CERN, Geneva.

In 1968 Cork and colleagues, working at a high-altitude laboratory on Mount Evans, Col., completed a search for quarks in cosmic rays. No quarks were found, but a new upper limit of the cross section was determined.

From 1968 to 1973, Cork was associate laboratory directory for high energy physics at Argonne National Laboratory. In September 1973, he returned to LBL, where he resumed his research with the Lofgren physics group. He initiated an LBL collaboration with the PEP-12 experiment at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, where Argonne Laboratory's large diameter superconducting magnet was transported cross country to become the foundation for the collaboration's High Resolution Spectrometer.

Cork retired from LBL in 1986. He is survived by his wife, Sue, four children, and 11 grandchildren. Memorial gifts may be made to Hospice of Northern California, Parkinson Foundation East Bay Chapter of A.P.D.A., or the Nature Conservancy.

Where does time go???

Wow, time flies when you have a baby!

Not only has it already been two weeks... but I don't know where our days go! I had great intentions of getting tons of stuff done today... like putting a few decorations outside for the trick or treaters, bringing a "boo" package over to a couple neighbor's house, shipping out some ebay items i sold, etc...

But just like that it's 5:20pm and I've not done hardly anything that i want to do today. Leann and I did get in a nap, we watched some of 50 first dates, and some of Bruce Almighty. On the serious side I did meet with a landscaper about putting in a winter lawn and I did take Riley to the vet's office to find out that he is perfectly okay. :)

Ethan and I had a great time today hanging out. I kept him busy for a bit so mom could shower and have some time for herself. We also called the Dr's office today because he has been throwing up about every other day and soaking his shirt with it... the Dr. said it's pretty normal and to try to get that last birp out of him before he goes to sleep after feeding.

Anywho, that's the skinny... I'm sure I'm supposed to be downstairs helping Leann out right now. Laters.

Just Hangin with daddy!

Little Ethan and I are just hanging out while mom gets in some much
needed mommy time!

Stuffed up nosey.

So we had a bit of a rough night with little Ethan last night. Hid
little nostrils kept getting plugged up which made it hard for him to
eat and sleep. We have been using these saline nose drops and a
suction device to help him out. Leann took the brunt of it not waking
me much the whole night.

Sleeping buddies!

Confessions of a Rookie Dad....

So I thought I would post this note that I sent myself from my iPhone the night before we left the hospital. It's a pretty funny story and had the nurses the next morning in stitches from laughing so hard at what had happened. I'm going to put this one in his baby book. Check it out and let me know what you think!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Joshua Cork
Date: Oct 17, 2007 1:20 AM
Subject: Confessions of a Rookie Dad
To: Joshua Cork

Baby notes
Holy crap - literary!
Wow, so the veteran nurse just left the room at midnight after there was a very audible poop. She placed the baby on Leann's chest and said something like "he may need to be changed" :) and then quickly exited the room.

Well mom quickly turned hat responsibility to me. So I took on the task by placing him on the end of Leann's bed and taking him out of not one but two swaddle blankets that he was in (he was cold so we used two blankets - this important later). So now Ethan is on top of his two receiving blankets and at the bottom of moms bed. I begin to change the diaper, by taking off the old one that i knew was soiled -
rookie mistake number one - I didn't get the other diaper ready. So here I am opening the diaper when I realize that, good lord, this is the poop of the century! I see what appears to be black lava flowing
from the rear of the cutest little tush you have eve seen! At this point I'm a bit she'll shocked, you know... A bit of deer in the headlights look from me. There is so much black lava everywhere that
I don't know where to start wiping. I take clean diaper number one (on yes there will be more than one clean diaper in this story) and place it under Ethan placing the lava filled diaper number one on the
floor. I begin to wipe down said lava flowing bum when I realize that I will need to get another diaper because clean diaper Buber one has now become lava filled diaper number two/changing mat. I turn around to get diaper number two and release Ethan's legs - rookie mistake number two. I turn back around to find his heel now covered in black lava! So I ask Leann, whom up until this point has been a passive observer, to get in the game and grab a leg while I wrangle the poop covered leg and wipe it down. Finally I get the poop off of little Ethan's heel and I turn around to throw the wide on top of the diaper which is on the ground when I turn back around I'm stunned to see a jet of liquid flying just past my face and over my left shoulder…. Apparently my son also had to pee… a lot! I grab the only other thing I have in my hand (a cold wet wipe) and proceed to cover his peeper. Being that the device I choose to cover it was both cold and wet scared him a bit I think and really helped move along the emptying of the bladder! Remember how I said that he was swaddled in two blankets? Well Mr. Ethan pee'd so much that it soaked through not one, but both of the blankets that he was swaddled in… along with Leann's top blanket on her bed, her sheet, and her fitted sheet… right down to the plastic covered mattress of the bed she was sleeping in! Leann and I had to then push the little emergency button on her bedside controller to call in the nurses…. Yup, nurses plural… two of them had to come in and completely strip the bed and remake it…. At 1am!

Sent from my iPhone.

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So that's my story... hope you enjoyed it!

Baby Feet

Trying Blogger Again...

It's been a long, long time. I used to be very frustrated by the photo upload tools and getting half way through a post and uploading photos only to have it hang on me and ultimately lose the work I had done. Well, we shall see if that is still the case. I've also created a new blogger address so lets see how this work shall we?