Elijah's Teeth

I worked this weekend so Jake was responsible for our little monkey on Saturday. Whenever I'm sleeping on Saturday it seems like he gets a great photo opportunity with Elijah and this weekend was no exception. Here's a couple really cute ones. You can actually see his little teeth! He may be getting his top ones in very shortly. He was very fussy for Jake and had a low fever and was tugging on the ears. I just had the practitioner look at them on Thursday and they were fine so I'm sure it's not an ear infection. He's fine now. He did that right before his other teeth came in too.

It's been kind of a rough week for us all at work. We have fallen victims to the economic lull as well and so 5 of our staff suffered lay offs as part of a company wide "cut back". We are all very shocked as in October they announced some major cutbacks in spending and took away some of our benefits..like the amount payed for short term disability. Now when Jake and I decide to have another I need a whole 7 days more personal time in order to take 12 weeks. It may not sound like much but it is when you're wanting to have more kids and you only accrue personal time so fast. In any event I'm just glad that I wasn't pregnant when they came out with that announcement like some of the people I work with. Anyways that said, those cutbacks were supposedly made so that people could keep their jobs. Now we all feel a bit deceived and quite frankly are wondering "who next?"We all miss our fellow workers and are sd that we weren't even able to say good-bye. With all of that we have been having some major changes in policy (to save money I suppose) and unfortunately they have not written anything down which causes confusion for everyone. On Sunday night we had such a rough night that 4 of us were in tears of frustration. Not very good employee moral overall and no "visits" from upper management is going to make us feel better. I think we all just want some open communication and not have to fear that we may lose our job if we open our mouth with comments or suggestions. I don't like labor unions b/c I think you can get lazy people, but I know at least I personally would be secure in my job right now. I'm not the low man or the high manand I can take any type of baby or position on my unit that is given to me, I guess I should stop blabbing and say that I am very thankful for having my job.
I need to get going. Elijah needs a bath and some playtime!