3/22/2006 Today is Bryce's first birthday. It seems like such a long year but at the same time it has flown by. I enjoy myself more and more in my new occupation. Bryce has become much more interactive over the last couple months to the point where he is really fun to play with sometimes. I take him in a backpack when I go for walks for Romeo. He has started asking me to put him in the backpack. I took this a bit further by taking him hiking in the backpack a couple times. But he has more fun when romeo is along. When I let romi off leash Bryce jumps up and down and squeels in delight.
Last year about this time I had been waiting around expecting Dory to go into labor; during that waiting was our annual bonsai show. This year I had a little more free time; I spent two and a half days at the show plus a day for the setup. My mom came down for the week and took care of Bryce; she does a great job, and I love that she enjoys taking care of him, but I could see the fatigue in her by the end of her third day taking care of him. I think that the act of having and raising children truly ages a person. Bryce wakes Dory and I up every night, twice a night and has from the time he was born. I assume that sometime soon he will learn to sleep all the way through the night. But a full year without proper sleep has to have taken a toll on me and Dory.
The bonsai show was fantastic and fun. I sold about ten plants and bought one planting of three trees along with a couple orchids. I had been slightly interested in orchids after I saw so many great looking ones at Ron's house, so I decided to buy a couple small ones that I could use as accent plants for bonsai. Now I have to make pots for them and a tray for my windowsill to keep them in. I exhibited two pines, a small boxwood and a small juniper. The juniper was one that I got from my beginners bonsai class a couple years ago. The pines I have been working on for a few years also. My trees were mixed in with my teacher's, John Boyce; I considered this to be quite an honor. Our display seemed so rugged and high mountain-ish to me that I couldn't help but come to the conclusion that it was my favorite of the show.
3/22/2006 Today is Bryce's first birthday. It seems like such a long year but at the same time it has flown by. I enjoy myself more and more in my new occupation. Bryce has become much more interactive over the last couple months to the point where he is really fun to play with sometimes. I take him in a backpack when I go for walks for Romeo. He has started asking me to put him in the backpack. I took this a bit further by taking him hiking in the backpack a couple times. But he has more fun when romeo is along. When I let romi off leash Bryce jumps up and down and squeels in delight.