Hi. Big event in our life, as you can see from the title of the post. We've sold Anderson off to be used for scientific experimentation.
"What?"
I understand. It seems so sudden. And so heartless. But if we were heartless we would have sold him into the child slave market instead. And we're not bad people. With scientific experimentation, we know he'll get 3 square meals in his cage and all of the Mary Kay products (squirted in his eyes, of course) that he'd ever want.
Why our change of heart? Well, you'd think it would be changing poopy diapers or lack of sleep, but Anderson miraculously has decreased the frequency of his bowel movements to about 2 a day and is now sleeping 6-7 hours straight at night. Natalie and I are very happy with his progression. It's a shame it didn't happen before the scientists were scheduled to come.
The real reason? To be honest, we looked at the fact that we're sending Anderson to daycare. I know, you're thinking, "Jason and Natalie ... you *both* have careers and have worked long and hard to do what you do. You have responsiblities to your patients. And you'll still be able to spend a lot of time with him when he's not in daycare! *Lots* of kids are in daycare and do great! Why scientific experimentation? He'll be fine."
Well, you'd be wrong, I guess. We thought about it long and hard. Finally, we asked ourselves, "If we're sending Anderson to daycare at 7 weeks, why did we even have kids?" As much as we love him, we realized we must really not love him. So he'll be working for MaryKay now. Or Chanel. The highest bidder, really.
Anderson, it was nice knowing you.
