Not much happened today. We had a normal day at work. Since we worked so hard to get the E3 build out, our Development Director let everyone go ahead and go home. I didn’t feel like I got that many bugs fixed today and I ended the day in double digit positive numbers, but if someone tells me to go home, I’m going home.
Jennifer found a solution to the sand in the car problem: go get the car cleaned and have them vacuum it out.
Here’s another picture from yesterday at the beach.
EA has finally revealed more features that are going to be in Madden 2005 this year. The ones that I worked on are: the newspaper, EA Sports Radio, and the e-mail system. All of these features help you keep track of things that are going on around the league while playing your franchise. I’m very proud of all the new features and I think that they are going to be well received. EA put out new screen shots which I’ve incorporated into my Madden 2005 web site.
Happy Mother’s Day. I would like to wish thanks to our moms: Nana (my mom) and Grandma (Jennifer’s mom), and, of course, Abby and Emily’s mom, Jennifer.
We gave Jennifer her gifts this morning. Abby had already told her what they were: a “vacuum” and “diamonds” (it was a diamond bracelet). So, there wasn’t much surprise. Jennifer had coached Abby to get diamonds. What Abby wanted to get her before the coaching was “an angel for the Christmas tree”. I had to tell her that because it wasn’t Christmas there probably wouldn’t be any angels for her to buy.
After church, we headed off to the beach. Since I had the day off, we figured this might be the last time that we could go to the beach before Jennifer and the kids left for Texas for three weeks. We all had a fun time and the girls had a great time playing the in sand. One problem we now face with going to the beach: how to get back into the car without getting sand everywhere.
Been working a lot this week in order to get our E3 build of Madden 2005 up and going. The game is shaping up great this year. We have to make it look good, since I’ve seen several articles about how Madden is one of the games that everyone looks for when they are at E3.
This morning I stayed with the girls while Jennifer went to a “Spring Fashion Show” with some of the women from church. This was a fund raiser for a church in downtown Orlando and Jennifer said that they were scoping it out to see if this type of fund raiser would go over in Winter Park. Jennifer won a free massage while at the show.
After school, Jennifer picked up Abby and they all went to the Alexan, the apartment complex we used to live in, to swim. Some of our friends that still live there invited them over. This was the first time for the year that they had been swimming in a pool (last week they went to the beach, but I don’t think there was much swimming going on).
After dinner, Abby went to one of our new neighbors to watch a movie. Jennifer went over as well to visit.
Today’s picture if from the girls playing around the house. They are hiding in the pillows that are on our bed.
Abby has been waking up super early so we decided to try and start cutting out her nap in the afternoon. Today was the first day of the experiment. It wasn’t a good idea. By dinner time, Abby was a wild child and you could tell in her eyes that she was tired.
The new chair is getting a workout. As seen in this picture, the one that we’ve gotten spends most of it’s time upside down. We just got to get Abby to stop dumping the chair over.
Nana and Poppy sent the girls chairs for their play room. One of them fully arrived today. We received the cushions yesterday and then received Abby’s chair cover today along with the cushions for Emily’s chair. They had fun sitting the new chair, as evident in today’s picture.
Today Emily fell off of a bench at church and got a big bump on her head. She shook it off and is running around okay.
Also today some of the neighborhood kids came around to play with Abby. Jennifer got to meet some of our neighbors including the ones that just moved in across the street.
Abby is showing more and more signs of understanding consequences of her actions. This morning while driving her to school, she mentioned to me that she “isn’t a good listener”. Yesterday, while Jennifer was taking the girls for a bike ride, Abby decided to take off her helmet and stand up in the buggy. Abby told me that she got in trouble and that they had to go straight home. She was sad because sometime she isn’t a good listener. I told her that when Mom tells her to do something she should do it because we don’t want her to get hurt. I think she’s starting to understand.
We had been waiting until the bonus came in to start pest control on the house. Today the pest control company that serviced the people who lived in the house before us showed up at the door. Jennifer figured, “perfect timing”, so we went ahead and went with them. The were giving us a deal for transferring the termite bond from the previous owners.
Another late night at work as we start preparing for E3.
Today we got our bonuses for the year at work, or as Jennifer calls it “her salary for the year”. It was really good like always. EA rewards their programmers with really nice bonuses each year.
While shopping at Target today, Jennifer bought some cabinet knobs for the kitchen. While in that isle, Abby found some butterfly knobs that she told Jennifer she wanted. Jennifer asked, “Why do you want these?” Abby’s reply, “I want them for the knobs on my closet.” Pretty good reasoning for a three-year-old, so she bought them.
Today’s picture is of myself getting a very big hug from Emily.
Jennifer arrived home at lunch time and the girls were happy to see her. While she was gone, Abby kept asking when she was going to be home. Saturday morning she said that it was time to “wake up mommie” like we always do every morning, but this time she wasn’t there. She asked where mom was and I told her she was at church. Her response, “Mommie slept at church?” It was pretty funny.
Emily’s top two teeth are starting to poke through now. Deciding to start early, today’s picture shows that Emily has already started brushing.
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