Subject: Training, Orientation, Catching Up and Happiness
To: The Binkomonster VP
From: The Binkomonster CTO
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Mister VeePee.
This past Sunday marked the anniversary of your third week here on Planet Earth and with us, the Binkomonster Executive staff. It has been quite an experience. This whole getting to know you, getting to know us, figuring out the daily routine thing is an unexpected adventure. Some assessments we have made thus far? You are cuter than a button, incredibly soft and cuddly, and you always smell great. If soft had a smell, we'd have to say that you are it. You are also quite the fussy little crankpot. You like to protest at very high decibels, and your cry is so pitiful that it breaks my heart (and makes it difficult to try and let you be on your own). I can see you and I are going to have some battles of will in the future, but that's ok. Bring it on. Even when I am tired, and it is 3 in the morning, and I want nothing more than to just be sound asleep and comfortably nestled among the pillows, your cries don't jar me. I know that one day, I will miss this. I will miss being up at all hours of the night ensuring that your nutritional and deficational needs are being met. And I will probably have a tear or two to shed for missing those moments. So that's why I am treasuring them as fully as I can now. It's funny, this past week, as I was tidying up the castle, and putting various paperwork into filing and away, I looked back on the past 9 months with both happiness, but sadness too. For as much as I carped about the discomfort, I miss the whole just you and I thing. Having you safe and sound with your requirements being taken care of by my system unconsciously. I miss feeling you kick around, and the sensation of you shoving your feet into my ribcage. 9 months went by so quickly. Where did it go? And here we are today, at 3 weeks already! You are already growing. Your hands are filling out (no longer as super tiny as they were that night the doctors brought you to us after the surgery). You have chubby cheeks and a nice round tummy, and your eyes are now wide open, and taking everything in. The CEO and I are still waiting for that real first big smile (we've seen sort of tiny ones, we think). And I am waiting for the day when you start to babble at me instead of crying all the time. Right now, it is I who is constantly yammering away at you. And if Im not doing that then I am most likely cuddling you or showering you with kisses. I admit I cannot help myself. I am powerless against your cuteness.
Being castle-bound for the past few weeks has been interesting. At this point, I am convinced I know every crevice and imperfection in every wood floor plank in our castle. Dust has no home here since my OCD ensures that every speck of it is wiped away on a daily basis. And getting all of the home projects done before you arrived? As the Mastercard commercial suggests: priceless.
The rest of the tribe have for the most part adjusted to your arrival. Booboo is now making tentative friendship gestures (like trying to rub against your head in affectionate greeting). Binky doesn't know what to make of you, and Boingy? Boingy is just doing what he knows best, peeing where he should not. Wooby on the other hand, has now gone to live at one of our satellite offices with a Binkomonster partner. The fighting, and her peeing on the bed finally drew things to a pinnacle. Happy to report however that she is thriving in her new digs, living like a queen, eating when she wants and getting showered with affection from no less than three humans. We miss her very much, but sometimes, hard decisions have to be made that are in the best interest of a critter, and this was one such example. And speaking of critters, it is with great and deep sadness that I note the passing of Rusty, fuzzy tribe member of the Binkomonster East Coast satellite office. He was a truly wonderful, and irreplaceable dog, that gave 9 years of joy, cuddles, wet dog kisses and the best companionship. He is missed greatly, and very much in our thoughts these past few weeks. Sniff.
Finally, with some cheer, I report a busy month ahead for the Binkomonster staff. We should be getting a visit from family members from both sides (CTO and CEO), and are very much looking forward to some extended family time. Mr. VeePee gets to meet everyone and voice his protests to a wider audience, which should provide for some entertainment.
Here's hoping the summer is going well for the Internets. Happy end-of-July. And happy three weeks Lucian! (Mom and Dad love you).
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