As a further sign that things are getting back to normal, or pretty close to it - we were able to sit out in our hot tub tonight. Kathy needs it for therapy, and I need it to watch the sun set. We took Kole's digital video baby monitor, set up the camera fixed on him in his swing while he watched the Olympics, then took the receiver out to the hot tub. Not a bad system!**Update: there is not a US television station with the call letters KOLE, but there is a radio station in Port Arthur, Texas - KOLE-AM, it's a Fox radio affiliate that does news talk and carries Rush Limbaugh. Let me know if anyone has access to a t-shirt or bumper sticker to this station.
** Helpful parent tip #1: I haven't offered too many of these because frankly I feel we're steeped too far in the learning process to pass off to many ideas we didn't learn from others first. However, we found an impromptu form of audio baby monitoring using phones. We recently got new digital cordless phones from Panasonic. They're real nice with phone books, caller ID, speaker-phone, just like cell phones. They also can intercom one another. Kathy can take a phone with her to a bath (Bedroom Phone 3) and intercom me in the office (Phone 4) if she needs something, instead of trying to scream at the top of her lungs. Now when we need to monitor Kole and don't want to re-set the camera, we'll just put a phone right next to him, intercom that phone to another wherever we are (Kitchen Phone 1, for example), then put our phone on speaker. Boom. Instant baby monitor.
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