Busy few days!

Hi all, it has been a busy few days at the Senecal household! I have been working a lot. It all started when I went back to work on Tues after my day off. I worked 14 hours on Tuesday for the bookfair. Last night I had to stay late for POTUS escort, he had a dinner engagement at the Library of Congress. Today I am staying late for a demo and possibly the Iraq escort. Tomorrow (sun) I am working 6 hrs OT in morning for a footrace and then coming back at 7pm and working until 7am mon for a security detail.
Riley is doing great, however she has been a little fussy the last couple of days. With all the working I have had only a few moments with Riley and Lisa. Lisa has taken on the brunt of the work at home and most of the caring for Riley. She is a great Mom, but she is completly exhausted. I need to try to find a way to give her a good long break today or tomorrow. Riley is doing well with the transition to the bottle. She is taking one feeding a day from the bottle.
Tony

Smithsonian Castle

This is one of my favorite buildings in DC. It is called the Smithsonian Castle Building. Well I had to come into work early this morning for a little OT. I am working the setup for the bookfair this morning. The event is put on Mrs. Bush to promote reading. I think the event is this weekend on the Mall, they are setting up the tents today. I am getting paid OT to watch, I know it is a hard job but someone has to do it.
Riley got her first full bath yesterday. We had to wait for belly button to heal before she could be submersed in water. We thought she would cry the whole time. but she didn't. She was great the entire time and actually looked as though she was enjoying it. I fed her with the bottle again last night, I like doing it and it gives Lisa a break. Riley seems to grow more atentive everyday, she spends a lot of time awake looking around studying the world around her. She is also grabbing at more things now.
That is all for, got to work till 9pm tonite.
Tony

Dad's first feeding!

Riley took her first bottle today, so I got to feed her. She did great and took the whole bottle (2.5 ounces). Football day today and go Yanks, its 3 to 3 right now!

Working OT for the navy 5 miler!

Working overtime this morning, I am leading the Navy 5 miler foot race. This is a picture of the starting point about 5 minutes before the race started. This afternoon, will be time for Riley and football.

After leading the race, I was positioned near the exit when I seen a guy go down. He was a 46 year white male in good shape. Basically he collapsed about 100 yards from the finish line from heat exhaustion. When they took him to hospital, they stated it could be more, he had to stay overnight for testing. Its sounds like the guy pushed himself to hard and should have listened to his body and stopped running. He could have permanently damaged himself. Hopefully, he will be allright.

Well, I am home now and ready to hang out with family and watch some football games today. Yanks are also playing this afternoon, it is turning into quite the playoff race.

Tony

Back to work today

Today is my first day back to work, Lisa and Riley are home alone. I really did not want to go back to work, but I guess I had to go back sometime. I was able to spend a few hours with Riley this morning while Lisa caught up on her sleep. We had a great time together this morning. Not much has changed at work. I had to respond up to the white house today to make a closure for an event for a few hours. I have to stay late tonight for a VP escort, first day back and I am getting to take the VP to dinner.
Hopefully I do not get off too late. This a pic of the VP house
Tony

Doctor visits and tummy time

Today was Riley's 2 week checkup at the Dr office. She passed with flying colors gaining both weight and height. She now weighs 8 lbs 6 ounces and 21 inches long. We had another nice long walk today and the pic is from "tummy time".
Back to work tomorrow.
Tony

Daddy's little girls

Lisa left the house on her own today, this was the first time Riley and I were by ourselves. Lisa cried a little when she left, but then she was OK. Riley behaved really well for her Daddy. Not much else went on today, Lisa went and got her nails done, and went to the store. We have the two week Doctors appt tomorrow and I go back to work on Friday. Oh yeah, GO YANKEES!

Tony

Riley and her best friend the 'binky'

We all had a great day today, nice and relaxing. I did finish spraying the fence today. I forgot to mention that riley lost her umbilical cord the other day.

Riley and Mom

Here is a picture of Riley and her Mother. Both, very beautiful girls.

Watching football with Riley!

Riley and Daddy watching football! This was Riley's first Sunday watching football.

Riley and JT!

Riley and JT! Riley's new friend.

Riley and her Daddy!

Here is a pic of Riley and I.

Riley's big debut!

We have guests coming over today, so we dressed Riley up for her big debut! Yes Mom, Riley is wearing her bracelet!

Occoquan Park trip!

Today's walk we decided to go to the local park. The state park is called Occoquan Regional park. We had another great outing.

The angel is sleeping

Riley is getting better and better with sleeping. This is a pic of Riley and her Mom.

Riley's first walk!

Lisa, Riley, Jesse, Jake and I all went on a family walk today. We had a great time, Riley slept through most of the walk. I was able to get some things done around the house today.

Riley's first bath!

Riley had her first bird bath today, she was not happy about it. She is doing much better with the sleeping and starting to get use to her new home!

Dr's appt/ shopping

We went for our first doctor's appt today, Riley is in perfect health. We also took her out for first trip to the store,she did great.

Tony

Going Home!

Riley's ready to go home!

Riley playing!

Riley playing

The Riley bundle!

Riley all wrapped up!

Tony

Riley

Little Riley's first full day in the world!

Riley is here!

Riley Elizabeth was born 2215 hrs on 9-6-07. She was 19 1/2 inches long and weighed 8 lbs 3 ounces.

Hospital update

Midwife broke water. steady contractions. Lisa is doing great

Hospital update

Things got a little crazy, we opted for the epidural. It,s all gooood now! Strong contractions, 1 to 2 minutes apart

Tony

The proud grandparents!

The Grandparents have arrived

Hospital update

Contractions 3 to 4 minutes apart and steady. Lisa is doing great.

We are at the hospital and in the room.

We are in the room.

Lisa at hospital for appt.

Lisa on monitor at hospital

Lisa and I at the hospital for our appt.

Mobile posting

Here is a pic of Jake from my new mobile phone. Actually this entire post was done completely from my cellphone.

Here is a pic of Lisa, she is ready for Riley to come.

Sept 2

Today was a uneventful day, we went out to breakfast early this morning to IHOP. We also ran some errands. We were watching the Yankees game this afternoon waiting for Riley. She still has not come. I working on my Motorcycle yesterday (police motorcycle) , I ended up replacing the throttle cable and giving the bike a PM (replace all of the fluids). I enjoy working on the bike, it will help me work on my personal bike in the future.