Category Archives: Emily

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.

Baseball Day

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Day off from work today as George was in town visiting. We didn’t do much. We scoured the Internet to find a minor league baseball game to go to. Unfortunately the Orlando minor league baseball team moved to Montgomery Alabama last year and they were renamed the “Biscuits“. All the other games were too far away. We thought about going to an Orlando Predators Arena Football game, but ironically, they were playing in Austin today.

Instead, we stayed home and played MVP Baseball all day. I finally hit my first home run. I really hope I had more time to play MVP more often, but work is currently cutting into all my free time right now. Perhaps in July once our busy time is over with. It’s a pretty addictive game.

The kids jumped around the house all day today. They were even more rambunctious since we had company. Today’s picture was taken while Emily was in the bath tub.

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.

One Month of Entries

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One full month of web log entries. It’s a pretty big accomplishment with how busy I’ve been at work. I’ve found it only really takes about fifteen minutes of my time each day to write something here. I feel I probably have at least that much time per day to spare.

Today’s my father’s birthday. Happy Birthday Poppy! The girls miss you and can’t wait to see you next month. Today’s picture is from this winter when my parents came up to visit and we all went to Mickey’s Christmas.

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.

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.

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.

Mommie’s Home

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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.

Alone with the Kids

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Abby and Emily are still alive. Everything went quite smoothly watching the kids all by myself. But we didn’t just stay at home. No, that would make the day quite easy. We went shopping for Mother’s Day gifts for Jennifer. That was quite an adventure. We took the double stroller up to the mall and we were off and running. I’ve found as long as you can keep them distracted with food and drink, they will stay in the stroller, but once they are done or if you stop at any time, they start getting restless and then it’s time to go. This particular mall has a merry-go-round in it and so, of coarse, we had to ride the horses. We stopped for a cookie which just ended up as a mess by the time we were done.

On the way out, I bought the movie School of Rock. I’m a Jack Black fan and Tom, from work, suggested that if I’m “such a fan”, I should just buy the movie instead of waiting until it’s available to rent from work. It was quite a cute movie and JB was quite good in it. I definitely recommend it.

Emily has started doing something that Abby always did at her age. If the refrigerator door opens, Emily is instantly under your feet sitting on the little area at the bottom of the fridge. This is depicted in today’s picture.