Category Archives: Abby

Back to Work

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Back to work today. George left around noon and I was off to work. Jennifer is shopping around trying to get the perfect fabric for our new sofas that were are going to be buying for our living room. She’s purchased an area rug and now she’s trying to match the fabric of the sofas with the fabric of the rug. The big debate now is whether or not to get a sleeper-sofa. We already have a futon upstairs in the office, but we are trying to make sure we have enough room for people to come and visit or, for the long term, if we eventually get rid of the futon.

Jennifer and the kids went to the park today, too.

Water Day

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Today was “water day” at Abby’s school. She got to go to school in her bathing suit. She said there was a water slide and a bounce house to jump in. Next week is Abby’s last week of pre-school. Next year we are going to be moving her to a school closer to us. She will also be going three days a week for 5 hours. She currently only goes two days a week of 3 hours.

George came by work and I showed him the current state of Madden. I left work early to show George the new house. We ordered in food and got caught up with his move closer into downtown Houston and other mutual friends from school. George and I usually play NCAA football or a baseball league computer game and pass the files back and forth. I felt like we needed to start up another one while he was here, but we just came to the realization that we are both way too busy now a days that we just don’t have time. Hopefully we can both settle down and get back to playing another league in the near future.

Today’s picture is from the Easter Egg Hunt a few months ago.

Vacuum Return

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I met the girls at Chucky Cheese for dinner today. We had a fun time of eating pizza and winning tickets. I was amazed that Abby could actually work this machine where air blows around some ping pong balls and you take this net on a stick and collect the balls and put this in this bucket. I was impressed.

I bought Jennifer a new vacuum for Mother’s Day which was lighter and more compact for easier clean up of things that get on the floor. After all, Abby’s Barbie vacuum can only pick up so much. We needed something more powerful. Unfortunately when she opened it, it was busted. I also thought it was cordless. The pictures of the vacuum on the outside of the box showed no cords. Anyway, she returned it to Target today and got one she wanted. It was cordless and it allows her to quickly get all those crumbs off the floor that are generated by the girls. It’s times like these when we miss our beagles, Sam and Sierra. Today’s picture is of Abby and Emily making more messes on the floor.

Going Home Early

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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.

Day of Swimming

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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.

No Nap Experiment

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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.

One Chair Arrives

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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.

Not a Good Listener

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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.

Bonus Day

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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.

Monster Jammies

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My duty of watching the kids this weekend has begun. I left work early to let Jennifer head off for her church retreat. After I got Emily off to bed, but Abby wanted to pop popcorn and so we watched the Disney movie Brother Bear while eating popcorn. We only lasted an hour before Abby started falling asleep. Since I’ve been working so much, I’m finally am getting a chance to catch up on all of my TV viewing this evening.

Today’s picture is from a couple of months ago. Both of the girls in their matching “monster jammies”.