What's been going on!

Wesley is now 4 weeks old and this month has gone by so quickly!   His sleeping has varied but it’s about 3 hours at a time, which is pretty good.  I realize that Kate is the one that is suffering the most sleep wise as I’m at work at night and when I get home she lets me sleep.  I’m sure once Kate goes back to work there will be further adjustments that will be necessary.

He’s such a handsome boy!  I love his facial expressions, yes I know they are mostly involuntary.  He has this one where he looks so concerned.  We’ve taken him a couple places he has been so good.  Kate’s friend Andrea came over the snag a couple photos and there was some really nice ones but the one above is my favorite!

In non-Wesley related news:

Canaan took 4^th place at the Boy Scout’s Pinewood Derby.  Not too shabby!  We found a car design on line and had it cut out at a pack meeting.  Bob helped hallowing out the bottom to make room for the weights and he cut the head off a large bolt that made up good portion of it.  Canaan painted the car himself.  I wasn’t able to go because Wesley was being born.  But I’m hoping to watch the video that Jessica recorded of it.

Canaan also just started his second year of Gardiner Cal Ripken Minor League Baseball, he’s on the blue team coached by CJ Elliott and they have adopted the nickname the Blue Diamonds.

Addison is doing well in dance.  Her recital is on May 16^th if anyone wants to go tickets are just $15, Money due by April 23^rd.

The three of us took a day trip on April 14^th to Marshall Point Light in Port Clyde.  It was such a beautiful day and the weather was just perfect.  It was nice walking on the rocky shore and I got some fantastic photos.  There was no one else there until it was time to leave.  So glad we went, Kate was itching to get out of the house and I was itching for a nice day drive.

We stopped for a slice of pie at Moody’s eating it in the van so as not to disturb the sleepy guy in the back.  A quick stop at Morse’s sauerkraut where we found the delicious 7 year aged Old Quebec cheese that we had on our honeymoon.  The $20 a pound price tag deterred us from buying it, but we at least know where we can get it now.   We got a pound of kraut for Kate’s mom and I got some sour mustard pickles.  Kate said it really reminded her of The Mouse Trap, a place she worked at in Kentucky.  I too was surprised what they offered inside, especially considering its location!

I recently submitted a story to Level Best Books for their annual anthology.  I also have one that I submitted last September to another anthology that I should be hearing from anytime now.  I’m not going to lie I’m getting a bit anxious having not heard from them in so long.  I’m really hoping one of these 2 stores gets accepted.

I have a new blog that I started, and I even paid the $12 to register the domain name.  It’s called the Wrestling Insomniac and it’s all about wrestling.  As you all know I love professional wrestling and I really want to be involved somehow.  Writing this blog entertains me and is fun for me.  If something comes it, then awesome, if it doesn’t then that’s cool too!  It’s been up and running since March 1^st and I’ve already gotten almost 1000 views so it’s a start.  www.thewrestlinginsomniac.com

 

and perhaps you could like the page on Facebook to increase my like count.  Thanks. 

If I haven’t mentioned it yet, let me please mention that I Fat Boy Drive In opened March 19^th and I had my first whoper burger of the season on the 22^nd.  I’m a magnet guy as far as I like to collect magnets of places that I have been, I don’t want people buying me magnets.  That way I can look at my fridge and me reminded of the fun places I’ve been. 

Not the current sign but the basis for the magnet, I like this sign better than the current

 Anyhow Fat Boy has never had a magnet, t-shirt, hats, bottle opener (I bought one), prints, a key chain flashlight this year, but never magnets.  While standing in line for my burger I posted a photo on Instagram and while exploring the hash tag fatboy I came across people holding these cool looking magnets of the Fat Boy sign. 

So I messaged on of the people who had one and long and the short is, turns out a local artist did a painting of the sign and then made the high quality magnets out of them.  Really professional and was selling them on her etsy page for $5, sold!  So right there in line I went to her page, ordered and paid for the magnet with pay pal.  It now adorns my fridge.  If you would like your own here is the link to her page.  Here's the link to her etsy page: Fat Boy Sign Magnet

Speaking of burgers, Elevation Burger has opened an Augusta location and even though I have yet to sample there delicious burgers, I will be soon, very soon 

That’s all for now, take care!

Later Readers!

 

Welcome Wesley!

Here's what you have all been waiting for it's the welcome to the world Wesley blog!

Kate acquired gestational hypertension which is just something that happens when you're pregnant no matter what you do.  Because of this Kate had to be induced, which is a long drawn out process that starts with the administration of an oral medicine, then cervidil which ripens everything up and to be ready for the pitocin which really gets things going.

The nurses said that back a long time ago they used to just pump the pitocin in at a high rate and they found it caused too much pain and discomfort.  Mom said that's what they did to her with Jason and it was agonizing.

In the end Kate was in labor for 31 hours but when it was time for Wesley to come out, he did in a hurry!  At 2pm she was dilated  3cm's, three horrendous hours later at 5pm she was at 9.5cm's. It was a scramble by the midwife and nurses to get everything in order because 18 minutes and 3 pushes later Wesley was with us! 

I can't say enough good about the staff and midwives at Mid-Coast Hospital.  They were all so wonderful and made the experience that much better that they were there.

It's been a week now since he was born and we've had him home since Monday.  It's been going very well, of course a few fussy moments, but all and all quite smooth.  The nights that Canaan and Addison stayed with us were great!

The kids are very happy to have a baby brother.  Addison was the most vocal leading up to his birth so excited to be a big sister.  Canaan has been playing it cool but has confided in me that he is quite excited about Wesley, and that Wesley isn't cute, he's just awesome.

I don't go back to work until Friday April 3rd so there will be another adjustment period then, but I feel it will go just as smooth as it has so far.

We haven't been able to figure out just who Wesley looks like, the general consensus is that he doesn't really look like either one of us.  We have determined though that he has my nose and the Mueller bow furrow.

At night when Kate is sleeping and I'm feeding or holding Wesley I've been catching up on Clash of the Champions on WWE Network.  Good Stuff!

Later Readers!

It's been a long winter so far

We’ve now had our second blizzard of 2015 and our area was spared the snow, but we did suffer the high winds and low, low temperatures.  We got about 1.5 inches of snow whereas York county and Downeast Maine were besieged with two feet of snow. 

The last two weeks were quite hectic as I was on my two weeks of 10 hour shifts, not to mention I was also working 16 days straight.  Add that to a seemingly endless number of appointments, the endless shoveling, and the fact we had the kids for the second week of my 10’s I just wasn’t getting any sleep. 

We had to go to Portland for an Ultra Sound because the tech at Mid-Coast felt that the umbilical cord might not being doing its job.  This we were told the day after being told, he looks great, he’s the right size, you are right where you should be.  So we go to Portland this past Friday for the appointment and at the end the doctor says that we never should have come down, that based on the ultra-sound we had at Mid-Coast he wouldn’t have recommended this scan. 

Kate was very pleased and felt vindicated that she knew everything was fine.  What made her the happiest is she can now say “I told you so” to her doctors.  My thought is he could have taken a look before they did this one though to save us the trip and the out of pocket expense.

Canaan finished the basketball season with his team going undefeated.  They don’t have a championship at this level of play but everyone is issued a participation medal.  I’m very proud of Canaan because he seems to have embodied my mantra of do your best, play hard, and have fun.  He does just that I am so proud of him.  He is very excited for baseball to start, thankfully that’s not until the end of March. 

Only a couple weeks until the Boston Pro Wrestling Marathon!  So looking forward to that!

Later Readers!

It's a new blog coming

Greetings,

Man I am sick of shoveling snow!  I like the winter and I don’t mind snow, but let’s space the storms out a bit more than a few days apart.  My neck and shoulders are spent from throwing all this snow.  I’m not sure what Monday’s going to bring my I’m thankful that the blizzard and Friday’s/Saturday’s storm was the fluffy blowing snow and not heavy wet snow. 

Grampa Hobart passed away on January 7^th.  I think ultimately he died because he missed Grammie Connie who passed away last September. He didn’t want a funeral but my Mom flew out there to attend to everything.  Like Grammie Connie he was cremated and his ashes interned with hers in Pahrump.  I wasn’t close to Grampa Hobart because he lived out in Nevada and Arizona my whole life.  The last time I saw him was in May 2007 in Pahrump on Vacation.  I used to enjoy his visits and the time that I would be able to spend with him.  He was a very unique person with his mannerism and how he spoke and that will be how I remember him the most. 

We celebrated Canaan’s 9^th birthday party with a social gathering at our place.  Mama Mueller made a wonderful Seattle Seahawks helmet cake that Canaan had requested.  He scored a big haul too with some nice presents, gift cards, and some cash! 

I am just over a month out from the Boston Pro Wrestling Marathon, a three day, two night wrestling extravaganza featuring 4 full wrestling cards, a Colt Cabana Art of Wrestling podcast recording and on Sunday a meet and greet luncheon.  So excited about this!

Just about two months out from the big day!  I’m wicked excited and a bit nervous as well. 

My brother-in-law Caleb is doing a project this year where he releases a new song every week, he’s calling it his Thing-A-Weekend, you can find more as well as the songs he released so far here;

http://music.caleborion.com/album/thing-a-weekend-vol-1

Also tune in every Thursday Night on WRFR to hear the new weekly song as well as some other great tunes spun by Seth Meyers.

That’s all for now, later Readers!