I meant to post this earlier, but I kept forgetting….

Monday, which many of you may remember as Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, also happened to have been the 197th birthday of General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War. Ironic, no?

Sorry I haven’t posted any new pictures in a while. I’ve been pretty busy with Lockheed Martin installs and the baby and whatnot, but I promise there are more pictures and I will put up a few soon. In the interest of new information, however, I have discovered that my child is quite fond of Gershwin. I played Rhapsody in Blue for her and she loved it, so I gave her an entire CD of Gershwin piano music and she’s really enjoying that.

I just got confirmation from the drama director at Princeton Day School that I will not be doing the sound for their musical this year. While this doesn’t come as a surprise to me, it is disappointing. I really did enjoy working at that school with those kids. I was finally starting to really understand how to work in that space and how to make things really good. I was getting the hang of doing the cast recordings for them. Now they’re using someone else’s services. Apparently this someone else is a friend of the lighting designer who was hired last year, and I was told that the lighting designer “seems pretty keen on working with him” so they’re going to go with him. That sounds like an excuse to me, but if it was true, that would also be disappointing, since it would feel like the lighting designer was stabbing me in the back. More likely, though, is that the drama director asked the lighting designer if he knew anyone, and this person being someone that the lighting designer had worked with before, he was recommended.

Anyway, I hope things work out for them. I hope this person provides the same services that I did, and that they still get the cast recordings. I know that was something that the students and parents really appreciated having, and it would be unfortunate if they lost that.

Cindi spent her first night at home last night, and it went surprisingly well. She was fussy from around 11 pm until 1 am, and after trying several things, I figured it was close enough to her feeding time that I would give her a bottle. Sure enough, once she finished that, she passed out. Ali told me not to bother setting an alarm for her next feeding since she’d probably wake me up with her crying. Well, the next time I woke up was around 5 am, and sure enough she was crying. But I didn’t hear her through the monitor…I heard her in her room. I bolted up, and looked around, thinking that maybe the monitor had fallen on the floor. How long had she been crying? Did I not hear it? Then I rolled over and noticed that Ali was also missing from the room. That’s when I realized that Ali had taken the monitor and gone to feed the baby. I went back to sleep, and was woken up again around 8 am with similar results. Ali told me when I woke up that Cindi had not, in fact, woken up at all until she had gone into Cindi’s room to feed her. Now, I don’t harbor any illusions about it always being like this, but I think we’re off to a good start.

Now, the part that you all really came to this site for….more pictures!

It’s a girl!!!!

Cindi Linelle Sussman, born 6:15 (ish) pm, January 6th. 9 pounds, 15 ounces! Pictures coming soon….